[MyAppleMenu] Aug 12, 2005

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Mac news for Mac people

[News]

*** Hot, Steamy And Now Downloadable: Aural Sex Shimmies Into The Podcast As 'Podnography' Tend Takes Off
<http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/08/11/DDGIHE5CTJ1.DTL>
Daniel King, San Francisco Chronicle

It didn't take long for sex to rear its heavy-breathing head in the nascent world of podcasting.

*** Apple Releases QuickTime 7 For Windows Public Preview 3
<http://macdailynews.com/index.php/weblog/comments/apple_releases_quicktime_7_for_windows_public_preview_3/>
MacDailyNews

*** Apple PowerBook G4 Graphics Updater 1.0 Released
<http://www.macminute.com/2005/08/11/powerbook-graphics-updater/>
MacMinute

[Opinion]

*** The Paradox Of Podcasting
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/11/AR2005081100695.html?nav=rss_technology>
Robert MacMillan, Washington Post

Podcasting has done what no new technology that I'm aware of has ever accomplished: It's gone mainstream and underground at the same time.

[Review]

*** The iPod Travel Kit
<http://playlistmag.com/weblogs/todayatplaylist/2005/08/travelkit/index.php?lsrc=plrss>
Christopher Breen, Playlist

[Sidetrack]

*** Spoken By The Pro
Heng-Cheong Leong

Roger Ebert <http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050811/REVIEWS/50725001>: Mr Schneider, your movie sucks.

*** Rumor Today: Final Curtain Call For PowerPC-Based PowerBooks?
Heng-Cheong Leong

>From AppleInsider <http://www.appleinsider.com/article.php?id=1229> comes the latest rumors about Apple's PowerBook line. Stay tuned for the Paris Expo.

*** Rumor Today: Apple Cans New Errol Morris iPod Switch Campaign
Heng-Cheong Leong

Think Secret is reporitng <http://www.thinksecret.com/news/0508switch.html> that Apple has canceled the latest advertising campaign that is supposed to feature a whole new bunch of switchers bought about by the iPod halo effect.

Maybe one of the swticher's iPod crashed and restarted while being filmed. :-)

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The other things in life

[Life]

*** Just How Big Is 600 Trillion?
<http://online.wsj.com/public/article/0,,SB112369415847509906-iigvYDyzyGzPoXOvE88KeW_W2T8_20060811,00.html?mod=rss_free>
Carl Bialik, Wall Street Journal

The plausibility of 600 trillion trips illustrates just how complex air travel is.

*** Feeling Cooped Up
<http://www.calendarlive.com/printedition/calendar/cl-wk-here11aug11,0,5458110.story?coll=cl-calendar>
Kathleen Clary Miller, Los Angeles Times

Is "chick lit" really the label this writer wants as she pitches her manuscript to publishers? What would Jane Austen do?

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Life in the city

[News]

*** Rare Protest In Singapore
<http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/D939D1FD-3FC9-4644-8A28-A8E4F835AAF9.htm>
AFP

Riot police have broken up a rare demonstration in Singapore of four people demanding greater transparency and accountability in the state-managed pension fund and other government-linked agencies.

*** Singapore Airlines Becomes Major Foreign Carrier In China
<http://english.people.com.cn/200508/12/eng20050812_201797.html>
Xinhua

By increasing its daily flights from Singapore to Beijing, Singapore Airlines has become one of the msot important airline companies in China.

*** Singapore's SPH To Cut 72 Long-Serving Staff
<http://sg.biz.yahoo.com/050812/15/3u6qr.html>
Dow Jones

*** Porperty Owners Shocked At Short Quit Notice
<http://www.asia1.com.sg/st/st_20050812_334086.html>
Tan Hui Yee, Straits Times

Owners of homes and businesses who have been given one month to vacate their five-storey Hock Kee House in Paya Lebar Road were shocked when they were told the news last night.

*** JTC Was Not Satisfied With Kuan's Work
<http://www.asia1.com.sg/st/st_20050812_334170.html>
Straits Times

Ex-bosses say they let him stay despite performance as JTC is employer with "heart."

*** Protesters Sent Packing
<http://www.todayonline.com/articles/66315.asp>
Ansley Ng, Today

The group were protesting against a lack of transparenc and accountability in three government organisations.

*** Circle Line Fears Force Demolition
<http://www.todayonline.com/articles/66351.asp>
Ansley Ng and Loh Chee Kong, Today

*** Kuan's Appraisal Ghosts
<http://www.todayonline.com/articles/66297.asp>
Lee U-Wen, Today

[Opinion]

*** I Love Singapore
<http://www.toomanythoughts.org/blog/2005/08/i-love-singapore.html>
Tym Blogs Too

Happy National Day, Hock Kee House.

*** I'm Wondering...
<http://atypicalsingaporean.blogspot.com/2005/08/im-wondering.html>
Atypical Singaporean

All these does not reflect well on the president-hopeful. And it sure as hell reflects much worse on the organisations that hired him.

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Life is random. More tunes, less talk.

[Tunes]

*** The Girl I Never Seen
<http://www.bulletcalledlife.com/music.html>
The Bullet Called Life
<http://www.bulletcalledlife.com/The%20Girl%20I've%20Never%20Seen.mp3>

*** What You Really Know
<http://www.bulletcalledlife.com/music.html?>
The Bullet Called Life
<http://www.bulletcalledlife.com/What%20You%20Really%20Know.mp3>