[MyAppleMenu] Aug 5, 2005

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MyAppleMenu
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Mac news for Mac people

[News]

*** Steve Jobs To Keynote Apple Expo Paris
<http://www.appleinsider.com/article.php?id=1222>
Kasper Jade, AppleInsider

*** Copy-Protected CDs iPod-Incompatible But Sell Well
<http://today.reuters.co.uk/News/newsArticle.aspx?type=entertainmentNews&storyID=2005-08-04T175744Z_01_SCH464610_RTRUKOC_0_MEDIA-COPYPROTECTION.xml>
Sue Zeidler, Reuters

Recent CDs by Foo Fighters and Dave Matthews Band containing new anti-privacy technology are selling well despite a backlash among some fans angry that the discs are incompatible with iPods, experts said on Thurday.

*** Apple's New Mouse: Mighty Or Meek?
<http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/aug2005/tc2005084_0906_tc024.htm>
Arik Hesseldahl, BusinessWeek

Apple was once again in the middle of a philosophical row, the likes of which its faithful are famous for.

*** iPod Mini With Color Screen Would Be 'Home-Run Product'
<http://www.forbes.com/business/manufacturing/2005/08/04/apple-ipod-mini-0804markets01.html?partner=topix>
Forbes

Piper Jaffray maintained an "outperform" rating and $52 price target on Apple, expecting the company to launch a number of new products by the end of 2005.

[Opinion]

*** Why Classical Music Is Out Of Tune With The iPod
<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2005/08/04/bmipod04.xml&sSheet=/arts/2005/08/04/ixartright.html>
Ivan Hewett, Telegraph

Classical music doesn't belong in a private mobile space.

*** Bad UI In OS X -- Spotlight
<http://www.thinkmac.co.uk/blog/2005/08/bad-ui-in-os-x-spotlight.html>
ThinkMac

It doesn't need to make the kind of compromises a web designer does, it shouldn't be throwing out 20 odd years of well-established behavior for basic controls just because it looks cool.

[Review]

*** Apple's New Mouse Is Not As Mighty As Rival's Magnifier
<http://ptech.wsj.com/archive/ptech-20050804.html>
Walter S. Mossberg, Wall Street Journal

The design makes right-clicking slower and clumsier than on typical Microsoft or Logitech mouse with real buttons.

*** iBook G4 Benchmarks: New Models Fare Well
<http://www.macworld.com/news/2005/08/04/ibookbenchmarks/index.php?lsrc=mwrss>
James Galbraith, Macworld

A processor bump and new graphics hardware made all the difference for the latest iBook configurations.

[Wintel]

*** First Family Of Windows Vista Viruses Unleashed
<http://www.macworld.com/news/2005/08/04/vistaviruses/index.php?lsrc=mwrss>
Robert McMillan, IDG News Service

The Tomorrow Weblog
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Emerging Technologies. Innovative Applications. New Economy

[News]

*** Yahoo Hears Call Of Audio Search
<http://news.com.com/Yahoo+hears+call+of+audio+search/2100-1026_3-5818480.html?part=rss&tag=5818480&subj=news>
Dawn Kawamoto, CNET News.com

Yahoo introduced on Thursday an audio search beta to help people track down music downloads, podcasts, newscasts, speeches and interviews.

MyAppleMenu Reader
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The other things in life

[World]

*** The Birth Of 'Mere Terror'
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/secondworldwar/story/0,14058,1543124,00.html>
Geoffrey Wheatcroft, The Guardian

Hiroshima wasn't uniquely wicked. It was part of a policy for the mass killing of civilians.

[Life]

*** Cat-And-Mouse Game, With Spray Paint
<http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/05/nyregion/05graffiti.html?8hpib>
Shadi Rahimi, New York Times

Graffiti writers and the Police Department's new antigraffiti unit are battling at the intersection of art and crime.

SingaporeSurf
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Life in the city

[News]

*** SPH Makes Fresh Request For Access To Detained Journalist
<http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/161643/1/.html>
Walter Fernadez, Channel NewsAsia

*** Singapore's Anti-Death Penalty Concert To Go Ahead
<http://www.eians.com/stories/2005/08/05/05sin.shtml>
DPA

Police have approved Singapore's first convert against the death penalty but demanded that no posters bearing the face of a recently hanged Indian origin drug trafficker would be displayed, organisers said.

*** China Arrests Hong Kong Reporter For Spying For Taiwan
<http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2005/8/5/worldupdates/2005-08-05t114304z_01_nootr_rtrjonc_0_-211671-1&sec=worldupdates>
Benjamin Kang Lim, Reuters

China formally arrested Hong Kong journalist Ching Cheong on Friday on a charge of spying for rival Taiwan, the official Xinhua news agency said. This is an indication that the 55-year-old China chief correspondent for Singapore's Straits Times could be indicted soon.

*** Potential Presidential Candidate Andrew Kuan Submits Application Form
<http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/161645/1/.html>
May Wong, Channel NewsAsia

Andrew Kuan is former chief financial officer of Jurong Town Corporation.

*** It's Not A Waste Of Money
<http://www.todayonline.com/articles/65053.asp>
Lee U-Wen, Today

Marina Bay rebranding went beyond choice of name: URA.

*** Singapore Rebel Urges Free-Speech Podcasting
<http://www.forbes.com/2005/08/04/sirius-podcasting-wireless-cx_gl_0804autofacescan11.html>
Greg Levine, Forbes

The Singapore Democratic Party, an opposite party, tested the city-state's authoritarianism by launching a podcast on its web site that denounces the ruling People's Action Party ahead of the country's 40th anniversary independence day celebrations.

*** Possibly The First Singaporean Political Podcast
<http://atypicalsingaporean.blogspot.com/2005/08/possibly-first-singaporean-political.html>
Atypical Singaporean

Chee Soon Juan talks about what his platform for the coming election is.

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

[Tunes]

*** The FCC Song
<http://www.pythonline.com/plugs/idle/index.shtml>
Eric Idle
<http://www.pythonline.com/plugs/idle/FCCSong.mp3>

*** On A Podcast
<http://audiopium.typepad.com/thatpodcastsong/>
Cruisebox
<http://audiopium.typepad.com/OnAPodcastFullMixExplicitFINAL.mp3>

*** Down The Other Side
<http://www.fiftyfiftymusic.com/annie.htm>
Annie Gallup
<http://fiftyfiftymusic.com/html/mp3/Down%20The%20Other%20Side.mp3>