[MyAppleMenu] Jan 11, 2005

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[Top Stories]

*** Flash iPod New, Exclusive Details
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/index.cfm?home&NewsID=10570>
Macworld UK

The micro iPod is white, and will hold 240 songs -- but has no screen so will play the unlisted tracks in a set order or in random fashion. Apple's slogan for the iPod is "240 songs a million ways."

*** Apple Suit Tests First Amendment
<http://news.com.com/Apple+suit+tests+First+Amendment/2100-1047_3-5519311.html>
Ina Fried, CNET News.com

Apple's lawsuit against a web site that published details of forthcoming Mac products raises troubling First Amendment questions, media experts say.

[News]

*** How The Mac Was Born, And Other Tales
<http://news.com.com/How+the+Mac+was+born%2C+and+other+tales/2100-1082_3-5521058.html?part=rss&tag=5521058&subj=news.1082.20>
Scott Ard, CNET News.com

Steve Jobs will be the star attraction when the Macworld Conference and Expo opens to the public Tuesday, but many Mac fans might be just as interested in hearing from one of the Mac's original creators.

*** Environmentalists March Against Apple
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/index.cfm?RSS&NewsID=10581>
Macworld UK

Apple's waste recycling policy was put in the picture yesterday when 20 safety-suit wearning protesters staged a noon demonstration outside the companys Cupertino HQ.

*** iPod Demand Strips Supply
<http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,11909761%255E421,00.html>
News.com.au

Apple iPods are selling faster than they can be shipped to Australia.

*** Apple's iPod Rocks Car-Stereo Makers
<http://www.azcentral.com/business/articles/0110ipodcars10-ON.html>
Chris Woodyard, USA Today

Looking to capitalize on the digital music player's sales success over the holidays, auto electronics makers are rushing to develop plug-in adapters that let drivers pick tunes from their iPods using the controls of their car stereos.

*** Scoop: Here It Is, The New iPod
<http://www.macitynet.it/english/aA20182/>
Fabio M. Zambelli, MacityNet

"Life is random!". Plus the number [of songs]: 240.

*** Fans Thinking Of iPod More As A Handheld Computer Or PDA
<http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/newse/20050111wo63.htm>
John Jerney, Daily Yomiuri

iPods are beginning to appear in schools, in hospitals and in the hands of Linux geeks, of all people.

*** Apple Looks For The Halo
<http://money.cnn.com/2005/01/10/technology/techinvestor/hellweg/index.htm>
Eric Hellweg, CNN/Money

As to the halo effect, it's a nice theory. But so far, that hasn't happened.

*** Apple Launches IT Pro Web Site
<http://www.macminute.com/2005/01/10/apple-it-pro/>
MacMinute

Apple today launched its new IT Pro Web site, which provides a wide variety of information and resources for IT professionals.

*** iPod Spawns An Ecosystem Of Products
<http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/10609306.htm>
Dawn C. Chmielewski, San Jose Mercury News

The show, which starts today at the Moscone Center, is ostensibly about the Macintosh. But it's Apple's other product, the iPod digital music player, that's creating the biggest buzz.

*** HP To Launch iPod Photo
<http://networks.silicon.com/mobile/0,39024665,39126919,00.htm>
Michael Kanellos, Silicon.com

[Opinion]

*** Macs Could Infiltrate The Enterprise
<http://www.computerworld.com/hardwaretopics/hardware/story/0,10801,98779,00.html>
Dan Gillmor, Computerworld

Apple makes its strongest enterprise case on a higher level, with its Xserve G5 servers and Xserve RAID storage systems.

*** Will Microsoft's Monoculture Take The 'Pod' Out Of Podcasting?
<http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-5519810.html>
David Berlind, ZDNet

Had I been Steve Jobs, I would have marshaled every engineer needed to produce the GarageBand equivalent of a podcast authoring tool for the Mac and to turn the iPod into the ultimate podcast endpoint.

*** Whatever Happened To... The Apple Mac?
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/01/11/macworld_preview/>
Andrew Orlowski, The Register

Does Apple have what it takes to expand this market share, and can it afford it?

*** Can The Mac Do Without Microsoft Office?
<http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1749959,00.asp>
David Coursey, eWeek

It would not surprise me if Apple decided it could live without Microsoft Office.

*** Mac Envy
<http://michaelhyatt.blogs.com/workingsmart/2005/01/mac_envy.html>
Michael Hyatt, Working Smart

[KeyNote] is the first software that has made me seriously consider buying a Mac for myself.

*** Apple As Big Brother
<http://weblog.infoworld.com/foster/2005/01/10.html#a201>
Ed Foster, InfoWorld

It's not the publication's job to determine whether a source is violating confidentiality agreements.

*** Found On Usenet: First Mac Rumor Ever!
<http://wiredblogs.tripod.com/cultofmac/index.blog?entry_id=588652>
Leander Kahney, Cult Of Mac

A mystery machine being developed at Apple resembling "a stripped down Lisa built for home use."

*** Apple Can't Strongarm Bloggers
<http://www.eff.org/news/archives/2005_01.php#002190>
Kurt Opsahl, EFF

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is representing the publishers to protect their right to keep confidential the identities of the people who supplied them with the [product] information.

[Sidetrack]

*** See You Tomorrow
Heng-Cheong Leong

Well, it's 11 pm here in Singapore as I am typing this... 2 more hours to go before the start of the keynote.

But I'm off to sleep now, as I dream about headless iMacs and screenless iPods. Enjoy the live coverage by the Mac Web, and I'll see you tomorrow.

*** What Are podSites?
Heng-Cheong Leong

podSites.com <http://www.podsites.com/>: A slice of the web to go.

"A podSite is our name for a collection of text files, with links to other text files, and possibly sound files and image files stored, and accessibleon an iPod."

"Think of it as a website for your iPod."

[Wintel]

*** Hackers Tune In To Windows Media Player
<http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1749948,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03119TX1K0000594>
Ryan Naraine, eWeek

Hackers are using the newest DRM technology in Microsoft's Windows Media Player to install spyware, adware, dailers and computer viruses on unspsecting PC users.

*** Microsoft Gets Anti-Spyware Right -- Sort Of
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/6177>
Preston Gralla, O'Reilly Network

Microsoft has released a great anti-spyware tool. Now, if the company would only devote itself to underlying Windows security, it wouldn't have to spend so much time and money on anti-spyware software, and we'd all be better off.

The Tomorrow Weblog
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Emerging Technologies. Innovative Applications. New Economy

[News]

*** Google Riches Outed On The Web
<http://news.com.com/Google+riches+outed+on+the+Web/2100-1030_3-5514016.html?part=rss&tag=5514016&subj=news.1030.20>
Stefanie Olsen and Michael Kanellos, CNET News.com

Google's clubby campus has been hit with an embarrassment of riches -- literally -- thanks to a rarely invoked securities law requiring the company to report stock sales of hundreds of employess, rather than just top executives and shareholders.

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The other things in life

[Life]

*** The Newspaper Appreciation As Death Kit
<http://chronicle.com/temp/reprint.php?id=xgsjdfvbajtbjo6m2g6e3xs6s3ky1v>
Carlin Romano, Chronicle Of Higher Education

The instant journalistic "appreciations" of Susan Sontag after her death last month at 71 emphasized, as quick pieces must when knocked out in a race with the obituary writers, the feats that made her famous rather than the characteristics that made her Susan Sontag.

*** The Secret Lives Of Just About Everybody
<http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/11/health/psychology/11secr.html?ex=1263186000&en=de0f408327a7ba10&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt>
Benedict Carey, New York Times

Psychologists say that most normal adults are well equipped to start a secret life, if not to sustain it. The ability to hold a secret is fundamental to healthy social development, they say, and the desire to sample other identities -- to reinvent oneself, to pretend -- can last well into adulthood.

*** Playing The Old Blame Game
<http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/050117/opinion/17john.htm>
John Leo, U.S. News

Almost everyone is a victim now, but some are more newsworthy than others. Here are the best of last year's victims.

*** Does God Want Us To Be Happy?
<http://www.time.com/time/2005/happiness/does_god_want_us_to_be_02a.html>
David Van Biema, Time

How American believers allowed themselves everyday joy.

*** Thank God It's Monday!
<http://www.time.com/time/2005/happiness/thank_god_it_s_monday__14a.html>
Jyoti Thottam, Time

If workers feel engaged and content at work, they're more productive. How to make jobs so satisfying that employees want to say...

*** Write Till You Drop
<http://www.nytimes.com/books/99/03/28/specials/dillard-drop.html?oref=login>
Annie Dillard, New York Times

Write as if you were dying. At the same time, assume you write for an audience consisting solely of terminal patients.

[Expressions]

*** The Island
<http://slate.msn.com/id/2112143/fr/rss/>
Phillip Levine, Slate

*** The Juniper Tree
<http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/content/?050117fi_fiction>
Lorrie Moore, New Yorker

*** The People Who Owned The Bible -- A Story
<http://shetterly.blogspot.com/2005/01/people-who-owned-bible-story.html>
Will Shetterly

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Life in the city

[News]

*** Singapore Aims To Double Visitors' Numbers By 2015
<http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2005/1/11/latest/20652Singapore&sec=latest>
Associated Press

Singapore on Tuesday announced plans to double tourist arrivals and increase tourism revenues threefold by 2015 amid stiff competition in Asia for travelers from fast-developing China and India.

*** Punggol LRT Set To Roll
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/sub/singapore/story/0,5562,294942,00.html?>
Christopher Tan, Straits Times

The Punggol LRT will start rolling on Jan 29, but trains will ply on only the eastern loop and stop at just five out of seven stations deemed to have enough commuter traffic.

[Opinion]

*** Sorry, My Farder Say I Cannot Play Your Taupok
<http://www.mrbrown.com/blog/2005/01/sorry_my_farder.html>
Mr Brown