[MyAppleMenu] May 27, 2005

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Mac news for Mac people

[News]

*** Podcasters Tune Into Apple
<http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/05/05/wo/wo_052605hellweg.asp>
Eric Hellweg, MIT Technology Review

Apple's announced support of podcasting will be a signal event for the technology, propelling it from a hobbyist's pursuit to a medium that less tech-savvy people might explore and enjoy.

*** FileMaker Wins Three Codies
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/index.cfm?RSS&NewsID=11690>
Macworld UK

*** The Mac Startup Sound
<http://musicthing.blogspot.com/2005/05/tiny-music-makers-pt-4-mac-startup.html>
Music Thing

The Mac startup sound wasn't a marketing exercise. It was a hack that was quietly dropped into the machine by an engineer with a home studio.

*** Tiger Bits: Autocomplete In Cocoa Applications
<http://www.tuaw.com/2005/05/26/autocomplete-in-cocoa-applications/>
Scott McNulty, Unofficial Apple Weblog

If you jus tdon't fee like typing the rest of the word you are in the middle of, just hit the 'Esc' key.

*** Apple's Business Solid In A Seasonally Slow Period
<http://www.forbes.com/markets/2005/05/26/0526automarketscan07.html>
Forbes

"Apple's business appears to be solid in what is typically a seasonally slower period."

*** Apple To Open New Los Angeles Retail Store June 4
<http://www.macsimumnews.com/index.php/archive/apple_to_open_new_los_angeles_retail_store_june_4/>
Dennis Sellers, Macsimum

*** Speck Gives iPod A Leg Up
<http://news.com.com/2061-10801_3-5721595.html?part=rss&tag=5721595&subj=news>
Ina Fried, CNET News.com

iGuy is a silicone case, similar to other iPod jackets, but it adds bendable arms and legs to the typical design.

[Opinion]

*** OS X Tiger, Skinned
<http://weblog.infoworld.com/yager/2005/05/18.html#a54>
Tom Yager, InfoWorld

*** OS X User Interface Trend: Goodbye Stripes
<http://inessential.com/?comments=1&postid=3098>
Brent Simmons, inessential.com

OS X has gone from very stripy to moderately stripy to not very stripy.

*** Ground Rules For The Windows-Macintosh War
<http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/26/technology/circuits/26POGUE-EMAIL.html?oref=login>
David Pogue, New York Times

The Mac-Windows war is especially pointless, protracted, and winnerless. Still, I'd like to suggest, as a starting point of civility, a few pointers for participants in the O.S. war.

*** Steve Jobs: Souping Up Macs?
<http://www.fortune.com/fortune/fastforward/0,15704,1066257,00.html>
David Kirkpatrick, Fortune

Jobs may be thinking that Apple can win over even more converts if Macs were powered with Intel chips.

*** Don't Sweat The Small Stuff
<http://blog.informationweek.com/002895.html>
Patricia Keefe, InformationWeek

Apple's time, energy, resources and considerable determination would be best directed toward tightening up software quality-control processes and making sure the paths Apple blazed into personal and entertainment technology are not overrun and overtaken by the barbarians on the horizon, gearing up to storm Apple's gates.

[Review]

*** OSS On OS X
<http://os.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/05/19/1946219>
Mitchell Cohen, NewsForge

[Sidetrack]

*** An Apple A Day
Heng-Cheong Leong

Shufflehacks <http://shufflehacks.blogspot.com/>: Dedicated to hacking, modding, and pimping the hoo-ha out of the iPod shuffle.

*** Let's Go Break Scroll Bar Next
Heng-Cheong Leong

Honestly, I don't really understand why Microsoft's web rendering engine -- part of the OS -- can be broken by a third-party application <http://www.infoworld.com/article/05/05/26/HNnetscapebreak_1.html> that easily.

What's next? Scroll bars in Windows stop working after installing iTunes? :-)

[Wintel]

*** The Scobleizer Bunny
<http://blogs.zdnet.com/Gillmor/?p=103>
Steve Gillmor, ZDNet

The Tomorrow Weblog
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Emerging Technologies. Innovative Applications. New Economy

[News]

*** The Citywide Wi-Fi Reality Check
<http://news.com.com/The+citywide+Wi-Fi+reality+check/2100-7351_3-5722150.html?part=rss&tag=5722150&subj=news>
Marguerite Reardon, CNET News.com

Philadelphia is venturing into the Wi-Fi frontier and liking what it sees. The big question is,. will it feel the same way two years from now?

*** Wireless Standards Are 'A Complete And Utter Mess'
<http://news.zdnet.co.uk/communications/wireless/0,39020348,39200351,00.htm>
Andrew Donoghue, ZDNet UK

Industry groups backing competing wireless standards have admitted that they must start cooperating more for users' sake.

*** The Incredible Shrinking IT Staff?
<http://news.com.com/The+incredible+shrinking+IT+staff/2100-1022_3-5722019.html?part=rss&tag=5722019&subj=news>
Ed Fraueheim, CNET News.com

Under pressure from ever-more capable outsourcers, information technology departments are poised for serious staff reductions over the next several years, according to a new report from research firm Gartner.

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The other things in life

[Life]

*** A Crescent Of Water Is Slowing Sinking Into The Desert
<http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/27/international/asia/27lake.html>
Jim yardley, New York Times

In this desert oasis where East once met West and that is home to one of the world's greatest shrines to Buddhism, the water is dissapearing.

*** James Dean: What Would He Have Grown Up To Be?
<http://slate.msn.com/id/2119164>
John Swansburg, Slate

Morbidity has always been at the heart of the James Dean cult.

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Life in the city

[News]

*** Media Development Authority To Review Controversial Hindi Movie
<http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/149565/1/.html>
Patwant Singh, Channel NewsAsia

The local distributors said they had not received any complaints, but admit attendance has gone up some 10 percent since the controversy erupted in India.

*** Green Bags At NTUC FairPrice
<http://www.todayonline.com/articles/52677.asp>
Lee U-Wen, Today

NTUC FairPrice is launching a Green Bag, to encourage the use of fewer platstic bags.

[Opinion]

*** Singapore -- Are The Cracks Beginning To Show?
<http://kalgoorlie.yourguide.com.au/detail.asp?class=news&subclass=local&category=general%20news&story_id=396653&m=12&y=2005>
Doug Daws, Yourguide.com.au

I can't help but think that there are cracks appearing in the finely tuned social fabric of this wonderful piece of socially engineered serendipity.

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[Tunes]

*** Now it's A Year (Going on Six Years)
<http://www.invisible-music.com/index_2.htm>
Invisible
<http://www.invisible-music.com/audio/02%20now%20it%27s%20a%20year%20(going%20on%20six%20years).mp3>