[MyAppleMenu] Nov 21, 2005

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Mac news for Mac people

[News]

*** Nano, Video Both Likely Winners
<http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/rss/13223025.htm?source=rss&channel=siliconvalley_rss>
John Boudreau, San Jose Mercury News

'Tis the season when holiday shoppers face choice between iPod nano and video.

*** Mac OS X For Intel Cracked Again?
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/index.cfm?RSS&NewsID=13180>
Macworld UK

Hackers have already managed to crack Mac OS X 10.4.3 for Intel to work on non-Apple computers.

*** Patent Action Hits Apple
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/index.cfm?RSS&NewsID=13179>
Macworld UK

*** iTunes Seizes 54% UK Online Music Sales
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/index.cfm?RSS&NewsID=13173>
Jonny Evans, Macworld UK

Research from XTN Data declares that iTunes accounts for 54 per cent of UK digital music sales -- five times its closest competitor, Napster.

*** Microsoft Disavows Internet Explorer
<http://cultofmac.com/index.php/2005/11/20/microsoft_disavows_own_software>
Cult Of Mac

Microsoft's MSN site suggests websurfers using Microsoft's Internet Explorer for the Mac switch to another browser.

*** TiVo To Expand Portable Features
<http://www.latimes.com/business/custom/cotown/la-fi-tivo21nov21,0,1589292.story?coll=la-tot-promo&track=morenews>
Julie Tamaki, Los Angeles Times

TiVo is expected to announce a service that allows its digital video recorders to save programs to iPods and PlayStation Portables, further untethering television from time and place.

*** Professor In Your Pocket
<http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10117475/site/newsweek/>
Peg Tyre, Newsweek

Now couse casting lets college student skip classes and download lectures onto their iPods. Biology rocks! But some parents just don't understand.

*** Harvey Norman Complains To Apple
<http://www.smarthouse.com.au/Entertainment/MP3/?article=/Entertainment/MP3/News/T4F5N5M9>
David Richards, Smarthouse

Harvey Norman has complained to Apple that they have not been allocated enough iPod stock to meet the expected Christmas rush.

[Opinion]

*** The Ringtone Riddle
<http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB113199653761196701-dj6iAi9UQT4ti5gEDwwscCoaKX8_20061120.html?mod=rss_free>
Jason Fry, Wall Street Journal

How ringtones' success has led labels to verge of a misstep on music pricing.

*** Mac OS X On Intel: Could It Knock Off Windows & Office?
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/8525?CMP=OTC-13IV03560550>
Tom Adelstein, O'Reilly Network

In the age of commodity hardware, Apple can adapt and win big.

*** iPod Exposes Lame Japanese Competitors
<http://japantoday.com/e/?content=comment&id=866>
Terrie Lloyd, Japan Today

Not just Sony, but all the Japanese manufacturers have been caught flat-footed by the sudden explosion in music players and online entertainment.

[Sidetrack]

*** DRM: Dead?
Heng-Cheong Leong

It is probably wishful thinking that all DRMs will be dead following Sony's fiasco, but Coy Doctorow is reporting <http://www.boingboing.net/2005/11/20/sony_insider_drm_is_.html> that the artists are revoking.

[Wintel]

*** New Xbox Goes On Sale At Midnight. Good Luck.
<http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/21/business/21xbox.html?ex=1290229200&en=d81a7ca85b4b2f4d&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss>
Matt Richtel, New York Times

The Tomorrow Weblog
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Emerging Technologies. Innovative Applications. New Economy

[News]

*** Say Sayonara To Blurry Pics
<http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,69594,00.html?tw=rss.TOP>
Rachel Metz, Wired News

A prototype camera made by a Stanford University graduate student could herald the end of fuzzy, poorly lit photos.

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The other things in life

[Tech & Science]

*** Charles Darwin: Evolution Of A Scientist
<http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10118787/site/newsweek/>
Jerry Adler, Newsweek

He had planned to enter the ministry, but his discoveries on a fateful voyage 170 years ago shook his faith and changed our conception of the origins of life.

[Life]

*** Looking Abroad For A Few Good Teachers
<http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1132834,00.html>
Ta-Nehisi Paul Coates, Time

Foreign educators are filling a need in one city's classrooms -- and getting a crash course in cultural diversity.

*** Puny Headline Score Can't Top Scrabble Kings
<http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/21/international/21scrabble.html?hp&oref=login>
Alan Cowell, New York Times

In the end, the zobo and the ogive could not quite triumph over theqanat and the euripi on Sunday, and thus the contender was brisled -- Scottish dialect for scorched or toasted.

*** Brazil's First Black Television Channel Tackles Legacy Of 300 Years Of Slavery
<http://media.guardian.co.uk/site/story/0,14173,1647205,00.html>
Tom Philips, The Guardian

With non-white faces a rarity in media and politics, a new station aims to bridge racial divide.

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Life in the city

[Ramblings]

*** Why We Should Abolish Death Penalty
Heng-Cheong Leong

Because no one, not even Lee Kwan Yew, Lee Hsien Loong, the Queen, or the Pope, can guarantee that there will not be mistakes <http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/11/20/texas.execution.ap/index.html?section=cnn_topstories> in the courts.

This is not about kowtowing to the "west", or aligning with international standards. This is not about sympathy, or religion, or morality.

This is simply about being human, and being human beings we err.

*** Do What I Say, Not What I Do
Heng-Cheong Leong

Cool, let's ban Singaporeans <http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/forum/story/0,5562,353551,00.html?> from seeking medical treatment abroad, while at the same time promote Singapore as a medical tourism destination.

This call is as hyprotrical as MediaCorp exporting Singapore television programme via a satellite channel while Singapore itself bans satellite receivers.

(Note: the satellite channel is now dead, as far as I can tell; I mean, who in the right mind thinks that Taiwanese want to watch MediaCorp programming?)

[News]

*** Singapore Won't Relent In Applying Law: Expert
<http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/singapore-wont-relent-in-applying-law-expert/2005/11/21/1132421603765.html>
Connie Levett, Sydney Morning Herald

Singapore will never allow the International Court of Justice to rule on the case of the death penalty imposed on Tuong Van Nguyen, says an Australian academic who closely follows the city state's politics.

*** Numbers Add Up For Singapore Air
<http://www.smh.com.au/news/xchange/numbers-add-up-for-singapore-air/2005/11/21/1132421602462.html>
Sydney Morning Herald

If there are tourists not flying here because they can't get a seat, Singapore Air has an answer.

*** Singapore Prepared To Allow More Carriers On Singapore-KL Route
<http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporebusinessnews/view/179812/1/.html>
Derek Cher, Channel NewsAsia

"The solution is not to re-allocate the air-rights, but to seek greater air rights so that we can cater to the underlying demand that is currently not satisfied."

*** Reasons For Disallowing Satellite TV In Homes Still Valid: Lee Boon Yang
<http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/179789/1/.html>
May Wong, Channel NewsAsia

"The reason why we have to prevent the undeisrable content from easy entry to the homes of Singaporeans through satellite dishes remains valid and important in the face of increasing security challenges worldwide today."

*** Sex Guru Flies In For Baby Crisis
<http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/tm_objectid=16393947&method=full&siteid=94762&headline=sex-guru-flies-in-for-baby-crisis--name_page.html>
Andy Lines, Mirror.co.uk

One of Britain's top dating gurus has been recruited by Singapore to encourage its people to have more babies.

*** Tiny Singapore Stands Firm Despite International Pressure To Stop Execution
<http://www.macleans.ca/topstories/news/shownews.jsp?content=w112067A>
En-Lai Yeoh, Associated Press

The United Nations has joined the Australian government and human rights groups in a last-ditch effort to save an Australian man sentenced to death in Singapore for drug trafficking.

*** PM Rejects Calls For Singapore Boycott
<http://seven.com.au/news/worldnews/122878>
Sandra O'Malley, 7news

"As a instrument of policy, I certainly am opposed to saying well, because the Singaporean government is going ahead with this execution, we are going to take such and such a position on a trade issue. You don't trade these things off one against the other."

*** Downer Dismisses UN Hopes
<http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,17309431-28698,00.html>
News.com.au

The United Nations International Court of Justice could do little to stop the Singaporean government executing an Australian man, Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said today.

*** No Hugs But Mum Flies In
<http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,17309853-28698,00.html>
News.com.au

Nguyen will be allowed to spend time with his family in the days before his execution, but they will be separated by glass and will not be allowed to hug or kiss him.

*** Lawyers Try To Halt Australia's Hanging
<http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=worldNews&storyID=2005-11-21T004933Z_01_ARM102921_RTRUKOC_0_US-CRIME-SINGAPORE-AUSTRALIA.xml&archived=False>
Reuters

Lawyers for an Australian drug smuggler who is to be hanged in Singapore in less than two weeks asked the Asutralian government on Monday to take the case to an international court in a last-ditch bid to stop the execution.

*** Stem Cell Researchers Choose Singapore Over Stanford
<http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/breaking_news/13219957.htm>
Associated Press

Two government biologists heavily recruited by Stanford University have decided to work in Singapore, saying they will face fewer restrictions on stem cell research overseas.

*** Australia Says Singapore Unlikely To Agree To Nguyen Challenge
<http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000081&sid=aHDWJS28580c&refer=australia>
Bloomberg

*** Discount Rates For Charity Show
<http://www.todayonline.com/articles/85607.asp>
Channel NewsAsia

MediaCorp refutes suggestions that it profitted from NKF Cancer Show.

*** Court Action To Save Nguyen 'Unlikely'
<http://www.thecouriermail.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,17312434%255E1702,00.html>
The Courier-Mail

Lawyers for a condemned Austrlaian on death row in Singapore admit the case is unlikely to proceed to the United Nations International Court of Justice.

[Opinion]

*** Why Handcutt When There Are Other Options?
<http://www.todayonline.com/articles/85572.asp>
Chiang Ming Yu, Today

Can't the Singapore Customs send a summons to appear in court, like what other government departments do?

*** Don't Make ECP An Entertainment Centre
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/forum/story/0,5562,354061,00.html?>
Wong Wai Han, Straits Times

It is hard enough to find a quiet spot in land-scarce Singapore. Let's preserve ECP as a park and not turn it into another entertainment center.

*** Blogging About National Service Is OK
<http://miyagi.sg/?p=193>
Mr Miyagi, My Very Own Glob

What kind of pictures, you may well ask?

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*** Turkey In The Straw
<http://traditionaltunes.tripod.com/>
Doyle Adkins
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