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[Top Stories]

*** Hide Your iPod, Here Comes Bill
<http://www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125,66460,00.html?tw=rss.TOP>
Leander Kahney, Wired News

To the growing frustration and annoyance of Microsoft's management, Apple's iPod is wildly popular among Microsoft's workers. So popular is the iPod, executives are increasingly sending out memos frowning on its use.

[News]

*** Apple Europe Notebook Repaikr Partner Firm Bust
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/index.cfm?RSS&NewsID=10758>
Jonny Evans, Macworld UK

Apple's European notebook repair partner company ADT has "gone bust", sources told Macworld.

*** Apple Releases Financial Details In SEC Form 10-Q
<http://www.macnn.com/articles/05/02/01/apple.sec.form.10.q/>
MacNN

*** Schools Making Grades Available Online
<http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctimes/10790840.htm?1c>
Anick Jesdanun, Associated Press

Gone are the days when parents would find out how their kids were doing in schools only when report cards came home or during parent-teacher conferences.

*** Apple Stock Sets New 52-Week High
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/index.cfm?NewsID=10745&Page=1&pagePos=2>
Macworld UK

*** Apple On G5 PowerBook: Not So Fast
<http://news.com.com/Apple+on+G5+PowerBook+Not+so+fast/2100-1044_3-5559311.html>
John G. Spooner and David Becker, CNET News.com

For Apple, releasing a G5 PowerBook continues to be a weighty issue.

*** University Of Illinois To Launch 640-Node Xserve Cluster
<http://www.macminute.com/2005/02/01/univ-illinois-cluster/>
MacMinute

*** Apple's Mac Mini Gets Maximum Attention
<http://www.thestreet.com/_tscfoc/stocks/troywolverton/10206714.html>
Troy Wolverton, The Street

"We believe initial demand for the Mac mini and the iPod shuffle has exceeded what Apple had been expecting."

*** Small Business: Wise Counsel
<http://www.apple.com/business/profiles/sgrk/>
David Levy, Apple

"I can't imagine that our firm would have made its strides without Apple's products -- and philosophy -- being fundamental to our culture. In hundreds of ways, large and small, the Mac helps us forcus on the intimate needs of our clients, not the intricacies of technology."

*** iPodder X Adds AAC Format, Bookmark Support
<http://www.macworld.com/news/2005/02/01/ipodderx/index.php?lsrc=mcrss-0205>
Brad Cook, MacCentral

[Opinion]

*** Apple Restricting DVD Region-Changes -- Voluntarily!
<http://www.boingboing.net/2005/02/01/apple_restricting_dv.html>
Cory Doctorow, Boing Bong

I've just discovered, to my amazement, that Apple imposes its very own restrictions on its DVD players over and above those imposed by the studios: that's right, Apple voluntarily treats its customers worse than the studios say it has to.

[Review]

*** Output Like A Pro With iPhoto 5
<http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2005/02/01/iphoto.html>
Derrick Story, O'Reilly Network

I'm going to show you some of my tricks for creating standout slideshows in iPhoto 5 -- regardless if you shoot JPEG or RAW. I'll then show you how to export your slideshows to QuickTime.

*** Protecting Your iPod
<http://playlistmag.com/weblogs/todayatplaylist/2005/02/protectipod/index.php>
Christopher Breen, Playlist

With such protections in place I might have a better chance of recovering my iPod or, at leas, protecting the data I've stored on it.

*** Top Ten AppleScript Tips
<http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2005/02/01/applscrpt_mm.html>
Adam Goldstein, O'Reilly Network

If you think of AppleScript as only a nerdy, workflow-automation tool, you're missing out on a lot of power.

*** Mac Mini To The Max
<http://www.computerworld.com/hardwaretopics/hardware/story/0,10801,99405,00.html>
Ken Mingis, Computerworld

Maybe, for those enterprising IT folks out there, [the Mac mini is] meant to give them a chance to try out a Mac at work to see whether it has a place there. My hunch is that it does.

[Sidetrack]

*** First, We Ignroe History. Then, We Ignroe Science.
Heng-Cheong Leong

New York Times <http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/01/science/01evo.html?ex=1265086800&en=6a4ca1d7981b4e55&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt>: In districts around the country, even when evolution is in the curriculum it may not be in the classroom, according to researchers who follow the issue.

You know what, this reminds me of Japan, and the ignorance of World War II hidstory.

[Wintel]

*** Microsoft Introduces Its Own Search Service
<http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/01/technology/01search.html?ex=1265086800&en=eb052f6408514f4b&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt>
Saul Hansell, New York Times

Two years after saying it planned to enter the battle of Internet search engines, Microsoft is introducing its homegrown search technology to the users of its MSN service and Internet Explorer browser.

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[Top Stories]

*** Supermarket: Let Your Fingers Do The Paying
<http://news.com.com/Supermarket+Let+your+fingers+do+the+paying/2100-1029_3-5559074.html>
Jo Best, CNET News.com

A supermarket has given its customers the choice of paying by fingerprint at a store in the state of Washington -- and has found them surprisingly willing to use the biometric system.

[News]

*** Blackberry Use 'Can Damage Thumb'
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4222365.stm>
BBC News

Trendy handheld Blackberry devices could cause damage to users' thumbs, doctors are warning.

[Internet]

*** No, It's Not Dot-Com Redux
<http://news.com.com/No%2C+its+not+dot-com+redux/2061-12_3-5559377.html?part=rss&tag=5559377&subj=news.12.20>
Charles Cooper, CNET News.com

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[Tech & Science]

*** Evolution Takes A Back Seat In U.S. Classes
<http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/01/science/01evo.html?ex=1265086800&en=6a4ca1d7981b4e55&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt>
Cornelia Dean, New York Times

In districts around the country, even when evolution is in the curriculum it may not be in the classroom, according to researchers who follow the issue.

[Life]

*** Carson's Long Late-Night Shadow
<http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/02/arts/television/02watc.html?ex=1265086800&en=e9c4b43391d94ade&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt>
Alessandra Stanley, New York Times

It would be nice if the late Johnny Carson could be remembered a little less reverently; then perhaps some other talk-show host could shake up a format that has not been altered or improved upon since Mr. Carson retired.

*** Promied Seat On Air Shuttle Is Perk Of Past
<http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/02/nyregion/02shuttle.html?ex=1265000400&en=f8337dc7c934d45b&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt>
Patrick McGreehan, New York Times

Generations of East Coast travelers have been comforted by a reliable guarantee that dnagled at the other end of a harried cab ride: there would always be enough seats on the hourly shuttles connecting New York to Boston and Washington, even if another plane had to be rolled out to accommodate them. Starting yesterday, the era has ended.

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Life in the city

[News]

*** Don't Forget Asia, Singapore Says
<http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,12120128%255E2702,00.html>
Kimina Lyall, The Australian

Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong yesterday warned Australia not to leapfrog over Asia in an effort to build relationships with Europe and the US, in a swipe at John Howard's pro-US foreign policy.

*** Acquisition Trail Leads Temasek To Russia
<http://biz.thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2005/2/2/business/10059209&sec=business>
Reuters

*** AirAsia Hits Out At Singapore
<http://news.ft.com/cms/s/d5772c66-74c1-11d9-a769-00000e2511c8.html>
Jake Lloyd-Smith, Financial Times

The head of Asia's largest low-cost airline has accused Singapore's aviation authorities of being protectionist, alleging they are preventing AirAsia's Indonesian affiliate, Awair, from serving Changi Airport in a bid to safeguard local no-frills carriers.

*** Why Nation Doesn't Have A 2-Party System
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/sub/singapore/story/0,5562,298909,00.html?>
Straits Times

Constitutional theory teaches that a two-party system can come about if there are two parties with a lot in common, said Lee Kuan Yew. But in Singapore, the political parties fighting for power in the 1950s and 1960s were a motley group with nothing in common.

*** Cashback? No Problem
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/sub/singapore/story/0,5562,298862,00.html?>
Tanya Fong and Tan Hui Yee, Straits Times

All 7 agents contacted dangled sums of up to $20,000 to 'buyers'.

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*** Pride And Joy
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Rick Derringer, Live From Cheney Hall
<http://www.rickderringer.com/Pride_Joy.mp3>