[MyAppleMenu] Sep 13, 2004

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MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Monday, September 13, 2004

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Mac News for Mac Users

[Top Stories]

*** Musical Shares
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/news/0,12597,1303369,00.html>
by Guy Clapperton, The Guardian
Apple's supremacy in the digital music market will be challenged by a joint launch this month by Microsoft and Napster.

[News]

*** FileMaker Offers New Volume Licensing Bundles
<http://www.macworld.com/news/2004/09/13/filemaker/index.php/?lsrc=mcrss-0904>
by Peter Cohen, MacCentral

*** Non-iPods Get 'Legal' iTunes Solution
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/index.cfm?NewsID=9619>
by Macworld UK
A German company is offering what it claims is a legal method of making iTunes Music Store music playable on devices other than the iPod. The Tunebit software re-records tracks purchased from the iTunes Music Store.

*** Music Everywhere
<http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/WEBONLY/publicfeature/sep04/0904audio.html>
by Thomas Mock, IEEE Spectrum
It's all about the algorithm -- but which one will win?

[Review]

*** iPod Revolution
<http://www.mb.com.ph/TECH2004091318374.html>
by Joyce Ramirez, Manila Bulletin
A five-star player! The iPod mini is a must-have for any mobile music aficionado.

*** A Simple Guide To Macintosh Security
<http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=335882>
by Larry Loeb, InformIT
Macintosh security is built in, not added as an afterthought. The design of Mac OS X made security a top priority and achieved it in many different ways.

*** An Aquarium Full Of Fish Without The Fuss
<http://www.theledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20040912/COLUMNISTS0203/409120328/1089/BUSINESS>
by Lonnie Brown, Florida Ledger
Put the aquarium on the monitor screen of an office computer, and I'd wager you'd have an audience of mesmerized coworkers standing in front of it.

[Sidetrack]

*** Rumor Of The Day: New iSights 
<http://www.myapplemenu.com/2004/09/13/#20040913bg000001>
by Heng-Cheong Leong
O'Grady's PowerPage<http://www.powerpage.org/cgi-bin/WebObjects/powerpage.woa/wa/story?newsID=12367>: Details are sketchy, but one can assume that the new iSight camera will have more features to better work with the H.264/AVC video technology coming in Mac OS 10.4.

In related news, Apple is also secretly working on successors to the PowerBook, iBook, Power Mac, and iMac. Some will have modest upgrades, while others will be more "exciting." Apple intends to release new versions some time in the future, on a date which we have yet to be confirm. :-)

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Emerging Technology. Innovative Applications. New Economy.

[News]

*** Interventional Innovation
<http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/04/09/schrage0904.asp?trk=top>
by Michael Schrage, MIT Technology Review
Concern for loved ones can be a powerful innovation tool.

*** Pentagon Revives Memory Project
<http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,64911,00.html?tw=rss.TOP>
by Noah Shachtman, Wired News
It's been seven months since the Pentagon pulled the plug on LifeLog, its controversial project to archive almost everything about a person. But now, the Defense Department seems ready to revive large portions of the program under a new name.

*** Let A Thousand Ideas Flower: China Is A New Hotbed Of Research
<http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/13/technology/13china.html?ex=1252728000&#38;en=c97bdf0738ebba94&#38;ei=5088&#38;partner=rssnyt>
by Chris Buckley, New York Times
The labs vary in size and ambition, but as they multiply and expand they may help China grow from mostly a user and copier of advanced technologies developed elsewhere into a powerful incubator of its own.

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The other things in life

[World]

*** The End Of 'Network News'
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13017-2004Sep10.html>
by Tom Rosenstiel, Washington Post
What happened this summer, and particularly last week, is likely to be recalled as the end of the era of network news. At the very least, mark this as the moment when the networks abdicated their authority with the American public.

[Life]

*** Three Cheers For Reality TV
<http://www.salon.com/ent/feature/2004/09/13/reality/index_np.html>
by Heather Havrilesky, Salon
Pundits can tut-tut all they want, but reality shows rule television for a simple reason: The best of them are far more compelling than the worn-out sitcoms and crime dramas the networks keep churning out.

[Expressions]

*** Spider Boy
<http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/content/?040920fi_fiction>
by Joyce Carol Oates, New Yorker
"There are places in the world where people vanish." His father had said this. His father had spoken flatly, without an air of mystery or threat.

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Life in the city

[News]

*** Plenty Of Cinderellas Still Live In Singapore
<http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_13-9-2004_pg9_8>
by Daily Times
Absurd demands imposed on foreign maids by their employers include killing a cockroach before going to bed at night and hiding in the kitchen when the husband returns from work, a check of maid agencies in Singapore found.