[MyAppleMenu] May 1, 2005

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Mac news for Mac people

[News]

*** Me, Myself And iPod
<http://www.courierpostonline.com/news/living/f050105a.htm>
Chuck Darrow, Courier-Post

The latest craze in music-listening technology offers new territory for self expression.

*** Give The Listeners What They Want
<http://www.chicagotribune.com/technology/reviews/chi-0505010463may01,1,36787.story?coll=chi-technologyreviews-hed&ctrack=2&cset=true>
Bob Gendron, Chicago Tribune

Apple's iTunes Music Store is changing the way labels and artists sell their songs by both increasing exposure and focusing on specialized audiences.

*** They Love Their Macs But Want Free Upgrades
<http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05119/496204.stm>
Corilyn Shropshire, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Computer programmer Sean Bamforth is among many loyal Apple customers who recently purchased new Macs and feel they deserve a free -- or at least discounted -- upgrade to the new Tiger operating system that hits store shelves this evening at a list price of $129.

*** Tiger's Core Data Draws Developers
<http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,,1791111,00.asp>
Daniel Drew Turner, eWeek

[Opinion]

*** Some More Thoughts On The Tiger Delay
<http://bryanschwegler.com/index.php/blue/some-more-thoughts-on-the-tiger-delay/>
Bryan Schwegler

Apple can blame the shippers, but that is absolute nonsense.

*** Guest Blogger: Context And Reader Bias Matter
<http://dangillmor.typepad.com/dan_gillmor_on_grassroots/2005/04/guest_blogger_c.html>
Dan Gillmor, Grassroots Journalism

"I believe that Steve has earned a permanent spot in the esteem of his colleagues and that he's been so successful that he's earned the right to do what he wants in his businesses with their products, strategies and offerings."

[Review]

*** More Tiger Notes
<http://www.bythebayou.com/2005/04/more-tiger-notes.html>
By The Bayou

After seeing how RSS was implemented in Firefox I had pretty much rejected whole idea of RSS in a browser. The Firefox implementation is just nasty. Apple got it right.

*** Mac's Tiger Gives Panther Owners Little Reason To Pounce
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/04/30/AR2005043000166.html>
Rob Pegoraro, Washington Post

Panther is already very good on its own, while this release exhibits a few rough patches -- meaning Tiger doesn't quite have an immediate, must-buy-now appeal.

*** A Little About Safari RSS
<http://rain.xidus.net/?p=137>
Rain from vermont

Bloglines (and NetNews Wire and Pulp Fiction and all the other fantastic RSS readers for OS X) doesn't have anything to fear from Safari RSS.

[Sidetrack]

*** Spotlight Truly Finds Everything
Heng-Cheong Leong

Try looking for crap <http://chucker.mystfans.com/2005/04/30/spotlight-truly-finds-everything.entry> in your Mac, and see what turns up...

The Tomorrow Weblog
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Emerging Technologies. Innovative Applications. New Economy

[Top Stories]

*** The Birth Of Wikinews
<http://citizenskane.blogspot.com/>
Matthew Yeomans, Citizens Kane

Mainstream media is at its lowest point in over three decades, forced to fend off charges of plagiarism, cronyism, fabrication and political bias. Can anything be done to stop the rot? The folks behind Wikipedia think they have the answer.

[News]

*** Quantum Leap In Secure Web Video
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4496893.stm>
BBC News

Voice and vido files steamed over the net could be made untappable and ultra-secure in the next few years thanks to a breakthrough by Toshiba.

MyAppleMenu Reader
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The other things in life

[World]

*** At Los Alamos, Blogging Their Discontent
<http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/01/national/01alamos.html?ex=1272600000&en=f4b75e1f23ff887b&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss>
William J. Broad, New York Times

A blog rebellion among scientists and engineers at Los Alamos, the federal government's premier nuclear weapons laboratory, is threatening to end the tenure of its director, G. Peter Nanos.

[Life]

*** Vaudeville's Brief, Shining Moment
<http://www.city-journal.org/html/15_2_urbanities-vaudeville.html>
Stefan Kanfer, City Journal

It was the most democratic popular art in American history. To get onstage, all you needed was chutzpah and moxie. If you had the right stuff, you picked up the dance steps, the vocak style, the comic timing that coud make you a star -- maybe even one of the Marx Brothers.

*** Display It, Don't Spray It
<http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/01/magazine/01PERFUME.html>
Chandler Burr, New York Times

Japan is the world's second-largest market for cosmetics but one of the smallest for perfume; what is more, on  fundamental cultural level, the Japanese have been known to go out of their way to avoid the stuff.

SingaporeSurf
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Life in the city

[News]

*** Singapore Falun Gong Practitioners On Huger Strike Face Prison Punishment
<http://english.epochtimes.com/news/5-5-1/28339.html>
Epoch Times

Two Falun Gong practitioners who are on a hunger strike in prison to protest their court sentence may be given a written warning or placed in a punishment cell.

*** SMRT Submits Application To Raise Bus, MRT And LRT Fares
<http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/145439/1/.html>
Yvonne Cheong, Channel NewsAsia

Transport Minister Yeo Cheow Tong has said that any increase in public transport fares would work out to be about 2 cents more per ride.

*** SingTel Gets It Right In Asia
<http://www.smh.com.au/news/Business/SingTel-gets-it-right-in-Asia/2005/05/01/1114886252332.html>
Malcolm Maiden, Sydney Morning Herald

While Optus and Telstra face similar growth problems in the domestic market, Optus is only part of the larger, listed SingTel group, and SingTel has better growth prospects than telstra because it expanded more cleverly in Asia several years ago.

[Opinion]

*** Am I An Automaton?
<http://offkilter.blogsome.com/2005/04/29/am-i-an-automaton/>
23 Degrees Off-Kilter

The Singaporean government may have actually created in my generation the perfect singaporean automaton.

[Entertainment]

*** Illusions Of Grandeur
<http://hungryhungryhungry.blogspot.com/2005/05/illusions-of-grandeur_01.html>
Chubby Hubby

To insult return customers is simply inexcusable. I, for one, will never go back to La Fiandra. Nor will my friends, whom I'm happy to say walked out and ate somewhere else.