[MyAppleMenu] Jun 1, 2005

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Mac news for Mac people

[News]

*** Adobe Sees Video, Mobile Imaging As Key To Industry's Future
<http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/11778828.htm>
John Boudreau, San Jose Mercury News

"We are everywhere you look. Whether it's a logo on a bottle label, an effect in a movie, a TV commercial, an image on a Web site, a layout in a newspaper or a picture in a magazine -- there is a high probability that the content was touched by Adobe."

*** Analyst Keeps 'Hold' On AAPL, Cites Slowing Growth, High Expectations
<http://www.macobserver.com/article/2005/05/31.8.shtml>
Brad Cook, Mac Observer

"We find its shares fairly valued at these levles and remains concerned with slowing growth and high investor expectations."

*** London Uni Makes Music With Macs
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/index.cfm?RSS&NewsID=11719>
Macworld UK

The music department of Thames Valley Univversity is almsot exclusively Mac based.

*** Free Summer Camp Workshops At Apple Store
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/index.cfm?RSS&NewsID=11715>
Macworld UK

Apple is bringing one of the America's best-loved institutions to the UK. Summer Camp.

*** Quicktime 7.01
<http://www.tuaw.com/2005/05/31/quicktime-7-01/>
Scott McNulty, Unofficial Apple Weblog

"Several important bug fixes, a security enhancement, and improved compatibility with Final Cut Studio."

[Opinion]

*** The Mac UI Question
<http://michael-mccracken.net/blog/blosxom.pl/computers/mac/TheUIQuestion.html>
Michael McCracken

Unfortunately, we're not only talking about style, we're also talking about fashion.

*** Hypertext Links As Native UI
<http://michael-mccracken.net/blog/blosxom.pl/computers/mac/hypertextLinksAsNativeUI.html>
Michael McCracken

[Review]

*** Everything You Wanted To Know About Safari RSS, Part 1
<http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2005/05/31/safari_rss.html>
Francois Joseph de Kermadec, O'Reilly Network

Over these next few installments, I'm going to show you what can and cannot be done with Safari RSS, what to expect from it, and how to take these capabilities as far as possible so that your foray into the world of RSS goes as smoothly as possible.

*** QuickTime 7 And DivX 5 Don't Mix
<http://www.macworld.com/weblogs/mac911/2005/05/qtdivx/index.php?lsrc=mac911blog>
Christopher Breen, Macworld

*** Reason 3: Virtual Rack Of Music Gear Gets Sweeter Sounding
<http://www.macworld.com/2005/05/reviews/reason3/index.php?lsrc=mwrss>
Peter Kirn, Macworld

There's nothing else on the market that offers this kind of simple, powerful routing and hardware-style control, or that packs this many instruments into one box at this price.

[Sidetrack]

*** Rumor Today: Apple's Becomig Major Game Publisher On One Particular Platform?
Heng-Cheong Leong

Tired of the music quiz on your iPod, because you now know every single piece of tune? Bored no more. Everyone's favorite game (in the 80's, i.e.), Tetris, will be making an appearance on the iPod photo, according to AppleInsider <http://www.appleinsider.com/article.php?id=1101>.

*** The First Popular Wireless Communication
Heng-Cheong Leong

No, Apple wasn't really the first enterprise <http://accordionguy.blogware.com/blog/_archives/2005/6/1/899908.html> that popularized the wireless communication when Steve Jobs made his "look-ma, no cables" AirPort demonstration.

*** Shame Shame
Heng-Cheong Leong

The people that bought you the Luxpro Super tangent -- the iPod shuffle clone -- not only have no sense of pride and no sense of taste, they are also technically incompetent. A reader over at iPodlounge <http://ipodlounge.com/index.php/news/comments/ipod-shuffle-clone-worse-than-you-could-believe/> bought one of these clones, and discoverd that "nothing that works even close to right."

Update: On the other hand, Phillip Torrone of Make found some features that he liked about the clone.

The Tomorrow Weblog
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Emerging Technologies. Innovative Applications. New Economy

[News]

*** Do Maps Have Morals?
<http://www.techreview.com/articles/05/06/issue/review_maps.asp>
Daniel Charles, MIT Technology Review

Welcome to the astonishing world of modern mapmaking -- what insiders call geographic information systems, or GIS.

*** After High, Low, Silicon Valley Takes A Pragmatic Path
<http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2005/06/01/after_high_low_silicon_valleytakes_a_pragmatic_path/>
Robert Weisman, Boston Globe

New ventures look beyond tech realm.

*** Japan Aims For World's Fastest Supercomputer
<http://www.infoworld.com/article/05/05/31/HNjapansupercomputer_1.html>
Paul Kallender, IDG News Service

Country to begin research for system that it hopes will be 30 times faster than IBM's Blue Gene/L.

*** A Look At Google Web Accelerator
<http://www.windowsdevcenter.com/pub/a/windows/2005/05/24/google_accelerator.html>
Jake Ludington, O'Reilly Network

Speeding up web browsing may be the goal of this new free Google tool, but it's also stirred up some controversy over what Google may be doing with the data it collects in the process.

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The other things in life

[World]

*** FBI's No. 2 Was 'Deep Throat'
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/31/AR2005053100655.html>
David Von Drehle, Washington Post

For once, real life was as rich as the Hollywood imagination.

*** The Illuminating Experience Of being Kept In The Dark
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/31/AR2005053101587.html>
Hank Stuever, Washington Post

Perhaps Deep Throat's lovely (and daring) parting gift to Washington, especially to reporters, is simple: He actually exists. He is not fabrication or composite. He is one man, a fact not easily proved had he taken his secret to the grave. That in itself, in anera where trust has been shredded beyond recognition, is something to behold.

[Tech & Science]

*** You've Got One Of Those Four-Hour Erections...
<http://slate.msn.com/id/2119865/fr/rss/>
Daniel Engber, Slate

Now what?

SingaporeSurf
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Life in the city

[News]

*** Civil Servants To Get 0.4 Month AVC, $200 In July
<http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/150529/1/.html>
S Ramesh, Channel NewsAsia

Singapore's civil servants will get a mid-year Annual Variable Component (AVC) of 0.4 month and an additional one-off payment of $200 in July.

[Opinion]

*** 10 Bus Travel Annoyances
<http://fugs.blogspot.com/2005/05/10-bus-travel-annoyances.html>
Fugs

*** Alternative Viewpoints On Singapore
<http://www.malaysiakini.com/letters/36593>
Malaysiakini

Singaporeans should welcome Malaysians to join in on their debates on the republic's politics.

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

[Tunes]

*** She
<http://www.round2music.com/music/>
Lights On
<http://www.round2music.com/music/sofar/sofar2.mp3>