[MyAppleMenu] Oct 18, 2005

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[News]

*** Ripped Off?
<http://www.boston.com/news/globe/living/articles/2005/10/18/ripped_off/>
Renee Graham, Boston Globe

As record firms and Apple fight over iPod downloads, music lovers lose out.

*** Hollywood Holds Its Breath
<http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/05_43/b3956053.htm>
Peter Burrows, Cliff Edwards and Ronald Grover, BusinessWeek

*** Police Report Increase In iPod Thefts
<http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/5111133/detail.html>
NBC San Diego

*** Video iPod's Effect On Cable Uncertain
<http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story.asp?guid=%7BDA11A08E-117C-487D-9E8D-9EECF0DF0520%7D&siteid=google>
David B. Wilkerson, MarketWatch

If it becomes popular enough, the video iPod could begin to "raise the value of television programming in the mind of the consumer."

*** New 'Guilding Light' Podcasts Aim For A Younger Audience
<http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB112956084439070707-M6of_5eQeH2SKowTn5cYBJITg4U_20061017.html?mod=rss_free>
Vauhini Vara, Wall Street Journal

As its audience shrinks, "Guilding Light" is making a sales pitch to a new generation of viewers: If you can't spend an hour watching a soap opera every afternoon, how about listening to a shorter version on your iPod during the morning commute?

*** Apple Faces Hard Time Wooing Hollywood To New Video iPod
<http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1872268,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03119TX1K0000594>
Kenneth Li and Bob Tourtellotte, Reuters

Apple chief Steve Jobs faces a far tougher task wooing film and television producers to create shows for the new video iPod than he did in the music industry as many questions remain over content and pricing, industry executives say.

*** Apple Reposts Eminem iPod+iTunes Ad Online
<http://macdailynews.com/index.php/weblog/comments/apple_reposts_eminem_ipoditunes_ad_online/>
MacDailyNews

[Opinion]

*** Et Tu, Video iPod?
<http://msnbc.msn.com/id/9730815/>
Gary Krakow, MSNBC

The new video iPod so far doesn't seem different enough from many similar past devices that underestimated the public's willingness to embrace a portable unit that requires a home computer.

*** Devices In Place: Waiting For Vodcasts
<http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20051017113918949>
Ralph Risch, MacFixIt

*** Mobile TV, The New 'Recipe Solution'
<http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,,1872241,00.asp>
Guy Kewney, eWeek

There's a huge future market for mobile video, but it will be a limited market until wireless technology evolves.

*** Steve Jobs, iPods And TV In The Bathroom
<http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/archives/2005/10/18/opinion/13499.shtml>
Tom Knight, Daily Princetonian

"I'd imagine that you saw the press conference today. Let this be a lesson to you, don't mess with Apple."

*** Apple's Backup App Is Shit
<http://nslog.com/archives/2005/10/17/apples_backup_app_is_shit.php>
NSLog();

You read right: there's no way to actually use backups made with Backup in any sane fashion.

*** The Day The Earth Shook
<http://www.macworld.com/weblogs/editors/2005/10/quake/index.php?lsrc=mwrss>
Jason Snell, Macworld

For the Mac community, the Loma Prieta quake took two victims in particular.

*** Why It's Wrong To Predict Failure For The Video iPod
<http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2005/10/why_its_wrong_t.html%3bjsessionid=NGZ4TSIU1KOV2QSNDBNSKHSCJUMEKJVN>
Mitch Wagner, InformationWeek

The introduction of a video iPod marks the dawn of an exciting time in the evolution of popular art.

[Review]

*** Dreamweaver 8: Solid Web-Authoring Program Features Greater Stability, Faster Performance, And New Design Tools
<http://www.macworld.com/2005/10/reviews/dreamweaver8/index.php?lsrc=mwrss>
David Swayer McFarland, Macworld

It is the best Dreamweaver version I've seen so far, and I highly recommend it.

*** Hands-On With iTunes 6: Explore The Music Player's New Features
<http://playlistmag.com/features/2005/10/ituneshandson/index.php?lsrc=mwrss>
Cyrus Farivar and Philip Michaels, Playlist

*** iPod-Ready Videos? Not So Fast, And Not So Clear
<http://ilounge.com/index.php/articles/comments/ipod-ready-videos-not-so-fast-and-not-so-clear/>
Jeremy Horwitz, iLounge

Think twice about transferring full-length movies to the iPod.

[Sidetrack]

*** Yes sir, We Are Apple Fan Boys
Heng-Cheong Leong

A Boy And His Computer <http://www.aboyandhiscomputer.com/show.php?ItemID=2204>: Announcing the Apple iProduct. You'll buy it. And you'll like it.

*** View Full-screen? Don't I Need The Pro Version?
Heng-Cheong Leong

This can probably be considered an urban legend, but, yes, you do can watch QuickTime movies in full-screen <http://www.macintouch.com/quicktime7pt3.html#oct17> without paying Apple to upgrade your QuickTime Player to the pro version.

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Emerging Technologies. Innovative Applications. New Economy

[News]

*** The Death Of Television
<http://www.slate.com/id/2128201/>
Adam L. Penenberg, Slate

Will the internet replace the boob tube?

*** Ink And Paper Or 1s And 0s?
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/14/AR2005101402033.html>
Frank Ahrens, Washington Post

Nervous, newspapers look to technology for alternate ways to put the news in your hands.

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The other things in life

[Tech & Science]

*** Can Brain Scans See Depression?
<http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/18/health/psychology/18imag.html>
Benedict Carey, New York Times

After almost 30 years, researchers have not developed any standardized tool for diagnosing or treating psychiatric disorders based on imaging studies.

[Life]

*** How To End Airplane Boarding Bottlenecks
<http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/18/business/18soff.html?ex=1287288000&en=1bb969eb8b31859b&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss>
Christopher Elliott, New York Times

"These initiatives sound good, until it becomes clear that you are boarding humans, and not cattle. The cattle will line up and get into a pen. People won't."

*** Between Math And Writing -- All Things Being Equal
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/16/AR2005101600886.html>
Janice Lynch Schuster, Washington Post

The degree in math was simply stubbornness and a desire to prove something to myself, although I am not sure what. It seems to reflect my lifelong habit of pursuing the wrong thing: wrong boyfriend, wrong husband, wrong diet.

*** Lingerie Moves Further Into The Light Of Day
<http://www.calendarlive.com/printedition/calendar/cl-et-lingerie17oct17,0,2381497.story?coll=cl-calendar>
Valli Herman, Los Angeles Times

Lingerie is multitasking so much (Is it a blouse? A camisole? Shorts? Underwear?) that it's outgrown its label.

*** Cheers For Tears
<http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2005/10/18/cry/index.html>
Cecelie S. Berry, Salon

Why women should feel free to cry in the workplace -- and anywhere else they damn well please.

*** The Trouble With Hypotheticals
<http://chronicle.com/temp/reprint.php?%20id=mf49lqj6fkk9r6o6ndnvfbfieif0nvh8>
Carlin Romano, Chronicle Of Higher Education

Given that philosophers not only launch hypotheticals, but have long puzzled over them, might these folks offer any insight into the latest blowup?

*** The City That Ate The World
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldbriefing/0,15204,1324846,00.html>
Deyan Sudjic, The Observer

It's goodbye to mao and hello to Europe's top architects, all Australia's iron ore... and half the world's concrete. With its sights set on Olympic gold, Beijing is being rebuilt round the clock.

*** Who's In Charge?
<http://ajr.org/Article.asp?id=3988>
Rem Rieder, American Journalism Review

The Miller affair, like previous Times fiascoes, raises questions about the paper's editing and decision-making.

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*** Judging A Magazine By Its Cover: The Top 40 From 40 Years
<http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/17/arts/design/17cnd-magcovers.html?ex=1287201600&en=54db7dfc17832a4b&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss>
Katharine Q. Seelye, New York Times

The best magazine cover of the last 40 years was Rolling Stone's January 1981 cover photograph of a naked John Lennon curled up in a fetal position around his wife, Yoko Ono. That is the judgment of editors and art directors from about 50 of the nation's top magazines.

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Life in the city

[News]

*** Singapore And Malaysia Still Working To Resolve Outstanding Bilateral Issues
<http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/173896/1/.html>
Farah Abdul Rahim, Channel NewsAsia

Singapore's bilateral relations with Malaysia and Indonesia are going well with a series of high-level visits and economic cooperation this year. But Singapore and Malaysia are still working to resolve outstanding bilateral issues, Foreign Minister George Yeo told Parliament on Monday.

*** Heftier Penalty For Fare Offenders
<http://www.todayonline.com/articles/78864.asp>
Derrick A Paulo, Today

*** Dubai Among Rivals To Singapore As Major Air Hub
<http://theseoultimes.com/ST/?url=/ST/db/read.php?idx=2229>
WAM

*** Singapore Says Ready To Tackle Birdflu Pandemic
<http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=globalNews&storyID=2005-10-17T131021Z_01_MCC747395_RTRUKOC_0_US-BIRDFLU-SINGAPORE.xml>
Reuters

Singapore is preparing isolation wards in hospitals and stockpiling medicines to tackle a possible outbreak of bird flu, Health Minister Khaw Boon Wan said on Monday. He said the government had stepped up preparations by planning possible outbreak sceanrios and response exercises, as well as increasing stocks of anti-viral medication.

[Opinion]

*** Cooking...
<http://worldofwati.blogspot.com/2005/10/cooking.html>
World Of Wati

Now, after five and half years of marriage, and living in Japan, I learn to concoct my own recipes, aid with teh memory of Mum's techniques and the ingredients she sent from Singapore.

*** Causeway Jams Could Have Been Eased
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/forum/story/0,5562,347337,00.html?>
Tay Seng Huat, Straits Times

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*** My Monkey
<http://www.jonathancoulton.com/2005/09/23/my-monkey/>
Jonathan Coulton
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