[MyAppleMenu] Sep 10, 2004

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MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Friday, September 10, 2004

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Mac News for Mac Users

[News]

*** People's Republic Of Mac
<http://www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125,64899,00.html?tw=rss.TOP>
by Hector Mackenzie, Wired News
Yan Feng, president of the Beijing Macintosh User Group, was just 9 when he first laid eyes on the now positively prehistoric Mac classic. It was love at first sight.

*** The Continuing Renaissance Of Apple
<http://www.it-director.com/article.php?articleid=12226&msu=rss>
by Robin Bloor, IT-Director.com
The IT industry and the PC industry, in particular, needs Apple to succeed.

*** Nisus Software Releases Nisus Writer Express 2.0
<http://www.macminute.com/2004/09/10/nisus/>
by MacMinute
Version 2.0 offers over 30 new features including easy to use tables and styles, footnotes, smart quotes and more.

*** .Mac Members Save $50 On Contribute 3
<http://www.macminute.com/2004/09/10/dotmacspecial/>
by MacMinute
Up for grabs is a US$50 discount on Contribute 3, Macromedia's Web publishing and editing software.

*** Apple Remote Desktop 2: An Inside Look
<http://www.macnewsworld.com/story/36487.html>
by Blane Warrene, MacNewsWorld
The release of Apple Remote Desktop 2 was yet another sign that Apple is building an increasingly enterprise-centric portfolio.

*** New Nokia Phone Bundles Mac-Compatible Sync Software
<http://www.macnn.com/news/26187>
by MacNN

*** Apple The Most Innovative Comapny In Past 75 Years
<http://www.macminute.com/2004/09/09/innovators/>
by MacMinute
Apple is viewed as the most innovative company of the past 75 years, according to a recent survey conducted by BusinessWeek.

*** Bear Stearns Downgrades Apple Stock
<http://www.macminute.com/2004/09/09/bearsterns/>
by MacMinute
The stock has already reached the year-end price target set by the firm's analysts.

*** Apple Disputes Real's Market Share Numbers
<http://www.macminute.com/2004/09/09/real/>
by Larry Angell, MacMinute
"During the last 3 weeks we did not see any drop in our market share, and our sales grew each week."

[Opinion]

*** Open Or Closed? Apple's Real Battle With Microsoft Over Standards
<http://www.mac360.com/index.php/mac360/more/open_or_closed_apples_real_battle_with_microsoft_over_standards/>
by Alex Kayhill, Mac360
The first thing we can do as users, Mac or Windows, is not worry too much about the so-called standards, but adopt that which works well for us.

[Review]

*** ProofMaster Adesso: Utility Delivers Easy, Accurate Color Proofing
<http://www.macworld.com/2004/08/reviews/proofmasteradesso/index.php>
by Bruce Fraser, Macworld
For small design shops looking for precise in-house proofing, or photographers looking for more out of a printer than its native drivers can deliver, ProofMaster Adesso is a very good deal.

*** iPod Voice Recorders
<http://www.macworld.com/2004/08/reviews/ipodvoicerecorders/index.php>
by Cyrus Farivar, Macworld
Griffin iTalk takes the lead in sound-quality race with Belkin Voice Recorder.

*** iBook G4s: Latest Update Frees Memory Slot And Boosts CPU
<http://www.macworld.com/2004/09/reviews/ibookg4s/index.php/?lsrc=mcrss-0904>
by Henry Norr, Macworld
The current iBook lineup offers an excellent combination of performance, features, and affordability.

[Sidetrack]

*** Sell Your Tunes 
<http://www.myapplemenu.com/2004/09/10/#20040910bg000003>
by Heng-Cheong Leong
1 Year Ago: Apple Customer Resells iTunes Song<http://news.com.com/2100-1027_3-5074086.html>.

Has anything changed for the better one year later? Sadly, not much.

*** Hot, Hot, Tip 
<http://www.myapplemenu.com/2004/09/10/#20040910bg000002>
by Heng-Cheong Leong
The folks at Gizmodo have discovered an image on Apple's iTunes web site that is, well, less than family-friendly<http://www.gizmodo.com/archives/apples-hot-tips-indeed-021011.php>.

Either the image over at Apple's web site has since been taken down, or Gizmodo is making all these up. :-)

*** Innovation Missed Out On The iPods? 
<http://www.myapplemenu.com/2004/09/10/#20040910bg000001>
by Heng-Cheong Leong
By not licensing FairPlay far and wide, does Apple missed out on innovations by other third parties?

For example, here's a radio show for MP3 players<http://news.com.com/Almost+retro%3F+It%27s+radio+for+MP3+players/2100-1027_3-5359763.html> that will only work best with Microsoft's Windows Media technology, even though "a slimmed-down version of the service for the iPod" will be available. (Read: crippled.)

[Wintel]

*** The Long March To Longhorn
<http://news.com.com/The+long+march+to+Longhorn/2010-1016_3-5360695.html?part=rss&tag=5360695&subj=news.1016.20>
by Mike Ricciuti, CNET News.com
The grand vision of a unified and simplified search tool for Windows once again has been delayed. Next year, Apple plans to launch new search tools as part of the Tiger release of OS X. And the Linux camp isn't far behind: Novell says it's retooling its iFolder software to give its SuSE Linux unified search capabilities.

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Emerging Technology. Innovative Applications. New Economy.

[News]

*** Is That A Hard Drive In Your Pocket?
<http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/04/09/wo_hellweg091004.asp?trk=top>
by Eric Hellweg, MIT Technology Review
The next big thing in cell phones has arrived. Now you'll just have to figure out what to do with a 1.5-gigabyte handheld.

*** Some Technology Isn't Worth The Trouble
<http://www.freep.com/money/tech/mwendland9e_20040909.htm>
by Mike Wendland, Detroit Free Press
This week, I rediscovered the best tools of all: paper and pencil.

*** On Becoming An Open Source Person
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/5560>
by William Grosso, O'Reilly Network
I am an open-source person. While I work on closed source applications, there's another question: in terms of mindshare, who sets the agenda in the technological part of my brain?

*** DVR Makers Bow To Hollywood
<http://weblog.siliconvalley.com/column/dangillmor/archives/010781.shtml>
by Dan Gillmor, San Jose Mercury News
The pay-per-view approaches more quickly than you think -- if the entertainment cartel gets its way.

*** Digital Cinema Moves Closer To Local Multiplex
<http://news.com.com/Digital+cinema+moves+closer+to+local+multiplex/2100-1013_3-5359662.html?part=rss&tag=5359662&subj=news.1013.20>
by Dawn Kawamoto, CNET News.com
A coalition of major movie studios announced Wednesday that it has completed specifications and standards needed to create digital cinema, which could drastically reduce the enormous cost of distributing film rolls to movie theaters.

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The other things in life

[Tech & Science]

*** Baked Alaska
<http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2004/09/10/toolik/index_np.html>
by Rebecca Clarren, Salon
In the Arctic, where flowers are madly blooming, trees are growing to mutant sizes and the snowpack is thinning, researchers are getting an incontrovertible view of global warming.

[Life]

*** The New Trend In Spending
<http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/09/business/09scene.html?pagewanted=all&position=>
by Virginia Postrel, New York Times
Listen to the jobs debate carefully, and you might get the idea that the problem with the economy is that Americans just are not materialistic enough.

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Life in the city

[Opinion]

*** Want To Hear The Silent Majority? Let Them Assemble
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/forum/story/0,4386,271850,00.html?>
by David Lok Seow Kang, Straits Times
If you want to hear the silent majority, you have to let them assemble, or at least switch on the microphone.