[MyAppleMenu] Aug 1, 2006

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Mac news for Mac people

[News]

*** Apple Signs Up For Phone Standards
<http://www.t3.co.uk/news/247/communications/mobile_phone/apple_signs_up_for_phone_standards>
T3

Joining the Khronos Group is an interesting move from Apple, as the last time it joined a body with no direct relationship to its current products, it was BAPCo, a Windows benchmarking consortium. That move was followed just nine days later by the release of Boot Camp.

*** Brand Appeal Keeps iPod Sales Surging
<http://www.digitmag.co.uk/news/index.cfm?NewsID=5969>
Digit

Apple's iPod line has gone months without an update. And yet, iPods continue to fly off the shelves just as fast as Apple can make them.

*** Apple Responds To Nordic iTunes Complaints
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/index.cfm?NewsID=15415&Page=1&pagePos=1>
Nancy Gohring, Macworld UK

The Norwegian council is still reviewing the letter, and hasn't yet released it to the public, said Torgeir Waterhouse, senior advisor to the Consumer Council of Norway.

*** .Mac Users Mock Apple Slogan During Outage
<http://news.com.com/2100-1041_3-6100426.html>
Dawn Kawamoto, CNET News.com

Web publishing service .Mac just works, sort of...

*** Apple Eliminates Forum Mods; Quality Drops, Rudeness & Piracy Increases
<http://www.macobserver.com/article/2006/07/28.10.shtml>
Bryan Chaffin, Mac Observer

Apple has termined its Apple Discussions hosts, the forum moderators that monitor and moderate the company's user discussion boards.

*** Verizon's Chocolate Cell Phone To Challenge iPod
<http://playlistmag.com/news/2006/07/31/chocolate/index.php>
Ben Arnes, IDG News Service

*** Apple Raised To Buy At Bank Of America
<http://www.thestreet.com/_dm/newsanalysis/techhardware/10300476.html>
TheStreet.com

Apple is selling more notebooks than Wall Street realizes and should beat earnings estimates next year, Bank of America said in upgrading the stock to buy Monday.

*** Audible Keeps Share Of Apple Pie
<http://www.thestreet.com/_yahoo/newsanalysis/technet/10300628.html>
Katie Dean, TheStreet.com

Audible shares inched up slightly Monday after the compnay said it will extend its exclusive deal with Apple for an additional three years.

[Opinion]

*** Microsoft And THe Mac - Sleepless In Seattle
<http://www.it-director.com/article.php?articleid=13401>
Robin Bloor, IT-Director.com

*** Why Apple Will Release A Cell Phone
<http://jaxn.org/articles/2006/07/31/why-apple-will-release-a-cell-phone>
Jackson Miller

*** The Best Deal No One's Talking About
<http://www.macworld.com/weblogs/editors/2006/07/procare/index.php?lsrc=mwrss>
Peter Cohen, Macworld

Apple's ProCare plan is a great deal. So how come nobody ever talks about it?

[Review]

*** Baby Button Bashing
<http://www.macworld.com/weblogs/macgems/2006/07/alphababy/index.php?lsrc=mwrss>
Dan Frakes, Macworld

In short, AlphaBaby make it safe (for your files) and fun (for your baby) to bang away on the keyboard.

[Sidetrack]

*** New Beings
Heng-Cheong Leong

People everywhere is asking for the truth to be revealed!

No, this is not about the new stuff Steve Jobs will reveal next week. After all, we know that it's gonna be Mac Pro, iPod Phone, and Mac Mini Media Center.

No, what everyone demanding to know: has some alien lifeform <http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/07/31/signals_seti/> contacted us? Is there a cover-up by SETI? Is it because those alien lifeforms are just meat, and we all don't want to talk to meat?

Er... wait a minute...

:-)

The Tomorrow Weblog
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Emerging Technologies. Innovative Applications. New Economy

[News]

*** Company Laptops, Privacy And You
<http://news.com.com/2010-1022_3-6100542.html?part=rss&tag=6100542&subj=news>
Eric J. Sinrod, CNET News.com

*** Amateur Hour
<http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/060807fa_fact1>
Nicholas Lemann, New Yorker

Journalism without journalists.

*** Who Will Make Money WIth User-Generated Online Video?
<http://publishing2.com/2006/07/31/who-will-make-money-with-user-generated-online-video/>
Publishing 2.0

The business of content will be democratized as well.

MyAppleMenu Reader
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The other things in life

[World]

*** Two Chinese Villages, Two Views Of Rural Poverty
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/31/AR2006073101399.html>
Maureen Fan, Washington Post

Women on their own and men who sit idle.

[Tech & Science]

*** Dr. Good Has Left The Building
<http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/01/health/01essa.html>
Abigail Zuger, New York Times

Doctors without patients: can such creatures really exist?

*** It's Like This, You See
<http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1154082909559&call_pageid=1105528093962&col=1105528093790>
Siobhan Roberts, Toronto Star

The ability to think metaphorically isn't reserved for poets. Scientists do it too, using everyday analogies to expand their understanding of the physical world and share their knowledge with peers.

[Life]

*** The Ever-Changing Eternal Youth Of MTV, Now 25 Going On 11
<http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/01/arts/television/01mtv.html>
Virginia Heffernan, New York Times

There's still something marvelous about MTV's continual reinterpretation of domesticity, from te confing teenage bedrooms of the 80's to the "Real World" party palaces to Lauren and Heidi's rich-girl condo on "The Hills."

*** The First In The Family To Be Supersized
<http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14096474/site/newsweek/>
Jennifer Tang, Newsweek

My immigrant mother's infatuation with fast food made me fat. She couldn't have been prouder.

*** Late Works
<http://www.newyorker.com/critics/atlarge/articles/060807crat_atlarge>
John Updike, New Yorker

Writers and artists confronting the end.

*** Dancing In The Dark
<http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2006/08/01/blind_sex/index_np.html>
Ryan Knighton, Salon

I was going blind bu thought I could still tell who turned me on. That was until I took home a Bettie Page look-alike who turned out not to be the pinup I'd envisioned.

[Expressions]

*** Bad Neighbors
<http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/content/articles/060807fi_fiction>
Edward P. Jones, New Yorker

SingaporeSurf
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Life in the city

[News]

*** Who Are We Kidding?
<http://www.mmail.com.my/Current_News/mm/Tuesday/Frontpage/20060801104614/Article/index_html>
Najiah Najib, Malay Mail

Many felt that stopping teens from having sex would be close to a 'Mission: Impossible'.

*** Death Penalty: African Executions Go Unnoticed
<http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=279324&area=/insight/insight__africa/>
Sam Olukoya, Mail & Guardian

When Uzonna Tochi picked up the phone last week, he heard the most chilling words of his life. "Please do something fast to save my life; they might execute me anytime now," Uzonna's older brother, Iwuchukwu Amara Tochi, pleaded from Singapore.

*** AirAsia In Fresh Bid To Fly To Singapore
<http://www.btimes.com.my/Current_News/BT/Tuesday/Frontpage/BT579602.txt/Article/>
Anna Maria Samsudin, Malaysia Business Times

Budget airline AirAsia is making a fresh attempt to secure landing rights in Singapore, this time with the support of the Malaysian government.

*** Helping Singaporeans Save For Retirement A Concern For MPs
<http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/222288/1/.html>
May Wong, Channel NewsAsia

[Opinion]

*** Come See Singapore's Justice System At Work On 3 Aug
<http://singabloodypore.blogspot.com/2006/08/come-see-singapores-justice-system-at.html>
Singapore Democratic Party, Singabloodypore

*** On Being A Clueless Journalist
<http://ballsy.wordpress.com/2006/08/01/on-being-a-clueless-journalist/>
Confessions Of A Critic

*** World Bank Cmapaigning For Self-Criticism
<http://i-speak.blogdrive.com/archive/201.html>
Gayle Goh, i-speak

All eyes are on Singapore. This will determine whether or not Singapore is suited to host other important international events in the future, or if countries and organizations will start to shy away from using our country as a venue for discussion, meeting and debate.

*** Who Shut The Dogs Up?
<http://www.singaporeangle.com/2006/07/who-shut-dogs-up.html>
Singaporeangle.com

*** Isn't Life Stressful In Singapore?
<http://theboeing.blogspot.com/2006/08/isnt-life-stressful-in-singapore.html>
Maple Dreams

People say there isn't any free thing in SIngapore except dream.

[Technology]

*** MediaRing To Roll Out Prefix-3 VoIP Numbers In Q3
<http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporebusinessnews/view/222467/1/.html>
Farah Abdul Rahim, Channel NewsAsia

The service is fully interconnected to the local telecoms operators.

[Entertainment]

*** Cabbages And Condoms, In Singapore
<http://e.sinchew-i.com/content.phtml?sec=31&artid=200607300000>
Guang Ming Daily

Thailand's Condom King is interested in opening a "Cabbages and Condoms" restaurant in Singapore. Every year, his restaurants give away 6 million, 570 thousand condoms.

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The Ends
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