[MyAppleMenu] Aug 4, 2005

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Mac news for Mac people

[Top Stories]

*** Apple Opens iTunes Music Store In Japan
<http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D8BONLBO3.htm?campaign_id=apn_tech_down&chan=tc>
Yuri Kageyama, BusinessWeek

Apple launched its music download service, the iTunes Music Store, in Japan on Thursday, and most of the 1 million songs will be available for about 150 yen (US$1.35; euro1.10) a tune, the maker of the hit iPod portable player said.

[News]

*** Apple 10-Q Reveals New Lawsuit, Three Settlements
<http://www.thinksecret.com/news/0508sec10q.html>
Ryan Katz, Think Secret

*** Start Me Up -- iTunes Signs The Rolling Stones
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/index.cfm?RSS&NewsID=12259>
Jonny Evans, Macworld UK

Apple has achieved a major coup against its rivals, signing the complete digital music catalogue of the Rolling Stones as part of a new deal with Abkco.

*** The Cult Of Mac
<http://www.techworld.com/opsys/features/index.cfm?featureid=1649>
John E. Dunn, Techworld

Beautiful, cool, utopian. And that's only the box it comes in.

*** Henricoans Get First Shot At iBooks
<http://www.timesdispatch.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=RTD/MGArticle/RTD_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1031784240045>
Olympia Meola, Richmond Times-Dispatch

Henrico supervisors voted 4-0 yesterday in a special session to change the county code in time for the laptop sale, which has drawn internaitonal interest and spurred people from California and beyond to plan a trip to Richmond.

*** iTunes Answers A New Calling
<http://www.theage.com.au/news/macman/itunes-answers-a-new-calling/2005/08/02/1122748642687.html>
Garry Barker, The Age

Expect to see the iTunes mobile phone from Motorola before the end of September.

*** Apple Will Target Tiger's Networking Glitches
<http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,1843336,00.asp>
John Rizzo, PC Magazine

*** Nouchine Hadjikhani
<http://www.apple.com/science/profiles/hadjikhani/>
Dustin Driver, Apple

Hadjikhani, a long time Mac user, was thriled when she learned that she could use her Mac for more than just word processing and internet research.

[Opinion]

*** A Theory On Apple's 'Mactel' Business Model
<http://www.macsimumnews.com/index.php/archive/a_theory_on_apples_mactel_business_model/>
Dennis Sellers, Macsimum

"The ability to run Windows apps on Mac hardware will make the iPod phenomenon seem tame."

*** Palladium Not In Apple Dev Kits
<http://www.ofb.biz/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=380&mode=&order=0&thold=0>
Timothy R. Butler, Open For Business

"Because they are developer kits only, future functionality of boot protection are emulated and do not reflect a production environment."

*** Wake Up And Try An Apple! It's Safer
<http://www.syracuse.com/news/poststandard/index.ssf?/base/news-0/1122971748240330.xml&coll=1>
Al Fasoldt, The Post-Standard

Windows is so pervasive that many of us, institutions and individuals alike, assign some sort of vital force to it. It doesn't matter that Windows is badly designed from the standpoint of safety. All too often, the alternatives to Windows are simply dismissed.

[Review]

*** Take Photos To A New Dimension
<http://www.macworld.com/weblogs/editors/2005/08/3dphoto/index.php?lsrc=editorsblog>
Kelly Lunsford, Macworld

*** Dissecting Mighty Mouse
<http://arstechnica.com/articles/paedia/hardware/dissect.ars>
Jacqui Cheng and Clint Ecker, Ars Technica

We all knew it was going to happen eventually, so we decided to beat our crazy, Domokun-loving friends across the pond to the punch and perform invasive surgery on our brand-new Apple Mighty Mouse.

*** How To Shift iTunes Libraries
<http://playlistmag.com/features/2005/08/shiftitunes/index.php?lsrc=mwrss>
Christopher Breen, Playlist

Steps for coalescing your msuic collection on a roomier hard drive.

The Tomorrow Weblog
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Emerging Technologies. Innovative Applications. New Economy

[News]

*** Boston Airport Tries To Kill Free Wi-Fi Node
<http://news.com.com/Boston+airport+tries+to+kill+free+WiFi+node/2100-7351_3-5817482.html?part=rss&tag=5817482&subj=news>
Declan McCullagh, CNET News.com

Boston's Logan International Airport is attempting to pull the plug on Continental Airlines' free Wi-Fi node, which competes with the airport's $7.95 a-day pay service.

*** New York Times Merges Staffs
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/02/AR2005080201967.html?nav=rss_technology>
Justin Gillis, Washington Post

The New York Times said yesterday it would combine the news staffs of its print and digital arms, a significant step in an industry struggling with big changes in the way people get their news.

*** Mozilla Creates Money-Making Subsidiary
<http://www.infoworld.com/article/05/08/03/HNmozillamoney_1.html>
James Niccolai, IDG News Service

The Mozilla Foundation, which distributes the open source Firefox web browser, has created a corporate subsidiary to support its money-making activites and help widen the use of its products, it announced on Wednesday.

MyAppleMenu Reader
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The other things in life

[Life]

*** Teaching Teenagers To Take Orders
<http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/03/dining/03wait.html?>
Dana Bowen, New York Times

Yes, there is a textbook for waiting tables and this summer 22 food-obsessed high school students have been committing its napkin folds and fish forks to memory.

SingaporeSurf
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Life in the city

[News]

*** Korea And Singapore Sign FTA In Seoul
<http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200508/200508040005.html>
Digital Chousunilbo

*** Contest Sitll Possible For Singapore's Presidential Election
<http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/161368/1/.html>
S Ramesh, Channel NewsAsia

*** Singapore To Hold Presidential Election On Aug 27
<http://thestaronline.com/news/story.asp?file=/2005/8/3/worldupdates/2005-08-03T165819Z_01_NOOTR_RTRJONC_0_-211445-1&sec=Worldupdates>
Doug Young, Reuters

The incumbent, S.R. Nathan, a former ambassador to Washington and internal security chief, said on July 12 he would run for a second term, and the 81-year-old is unlikely to face opposition.

[Opinion]

*** Night Life Of A Different Sort In Singapore
<http://www.nst.com.my/Current_News/NST/Thursday/Columns/20050804080354/Article/indexb_html>
Syed Nadzri, New Straits Times

It was quite an eye-opener actually to see how Malays, as a minority group, organise themselves and take care of their own welfare.

The Shuffle by MyAppleMenu
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Life is random. More tunes, less talk.

[Tunes]

*** Dark Paradise
<http://www.richmedia.com.hk/NewRm/SoundbandMain.asp?songNo=3728&bandID=3484#songdetail>
Ashley
<http://www.richmedia.com.hk/AllmemberData/song/3484/3728.mp3>

*** Plan To Stay Awake
<http://www.glurp.com/mp3.html>
The Deathray Davies
<http://www.glurp.com/The%20Deathray%20Davies%20-%20Plan%20To%20Stay%20Awake.mp3>