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Mac news for Mac people

[News]

*** Apple Unable To Meet Rising MacBook Demand
<http://www.appleinsider.com/article.php?id=1984>
Katie Marsal, AppleInsider

*** Apple Settles Creative Lawsuits For $100M
<http://playlistmag.com/news/2006/08/23/creative/index.php?lsrc=mwrss>
Peter Cohen, Playlist

Apple announced Wednesday it has settled its legal dispute with Creative Technology to the tune of $100 million. Steve Jobs called Creative "very fortunate to have been granted this early patent" in a statement announcing the settlement, and added, "This settlement resolves all of our differences with Creative, including the five lawsuits currently pending between the companies, and removes the uncertainty and distraction of prolonged litigation."

[Opinion]

*** Apple And Creative
<http://hobcot.blogspot.com/2006/08/apple-and-creative.html>
Ian Hobson, Hob's Blog

*** Daddy Got A New Mac..
<http://www.aldavis.org/?p=5>
Sidewalk Chalk Drawings

I love it.

*** Mac Pro Pricing:Where Did Apple's Edge Go?
<http://blogs.zdnet.com/Murphy/?p=672>
Paul Murphy, ZDNet

How do you lose competitive advantage on price and performance while everyone's component prices are going down at about the same rate and you're using the same manufacturing services everybody else is? MacTel.

*** MacBook Resolution
<http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/index.php/id;1550288444;fp;2;fpid;3>
Harry McCracken, PC World

I hope that Apple voluntarily giving me a new computer after I'd agreed to send the old one back to the shop is simply an example of the kind of service they'd give anyone in my situation.

*** My Dream App
<http://davidweiss.blogspot.com/2006/08/my-dream-app.html>
David Weiss

Great ideas are not the limiting factor in software development. It's so much more about execution.

*** .Mac's Slow Death
<http://www.tuaw.com/2006/08/23/macs-slow-death/>
Dave Caolo, Unofficial Apple Weblog

.Mac is dying... and Google is the assassin (with a little help from his sidekick Firefox).

*** What .Mac Needs To Become
<http://www.oreillynet.com/mac/blog/2006/08/what_mac_needs_to_become.html>
Giles Turnbull, O'Reilly Network

I want .Mac to be my hosting supplier. I want the kind of deal most hosting companies are falling over themselves to offer.

[Review]

*** Laptop Of The Pops
<http://www.metro.co.uk/yourmetro/article.html?in_article_id=18847&in_page_id=6>
Jack Brown, Metro

GarageBand is a fun, surprisingly versatile package and, of course, great value for money.

*** Mac Pro Beats Dell On Price
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/23/AR2006082301226.html>
Robert Weston, Associated Press

The Mac Pro workstation is not only competitively priced, it's fast, too.

*** Merlin 1.3.11: No Need For Wizards With This Striaghtforward Project Management Software
<http://www.macworld.com/2006/08/reviews/merlin1311/index.php?lsrc=mwrss>
Jason Cranford Teague, Macworld

Despite a few shortcomings in its iCal and Address Book integration, Merlin delivers everything you need with the style and finesse you'd expect from an application built exclusively for the Mac.

[Wintel]

*** Singapore Creative's Prospects Still Shaky Despite Patent Victory
<http://www.forbes.com/home/feeds/afx/2006/08/24/afx2969880.html>
AFX

"The settlement does not change our negative view of [Creative's] core business."

*** Creative Shares Surge On $100 Million Apple Payment
<http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aDBadIj2sjgE&refer=home>
Andrea Tan, Bloomberg

The Tomorrow Weblog
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Emerging Technologies. Innovative Applications. New Economy

[News]

*** Can You Outsource Innovation?
<http://www.forbes.com/home/innovation/2006/08/23/leadership-innovation-outsourcing-cx_hc_0824infosys.html>
Hannah Clark, Forbes

*** The Ethics Of Using AOL Search Data
<http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060823-7578.html>
Nate Anderson, Ars Technica

*** How Google Can Make - Or Break - Your Company
<http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fsb/fsb_archive/2006/09/01/8384907/>
Justin Martin, FSB Magazine

Smart entrepreneurs are learning the best ways to deal with the online Goliath.

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The other things in life

[Life]

*** Back To School: Students Will See A Food Makeover
<http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/food/chi-0608230007aug23,1,3657192.story?coll=chi-leisuregoodeating-hed>
Janet Helm, Chicago Tribune

Our nation's schools have emerged as a primary battlefield in the fight against childhood obesity.

*** Strangers At The table
<http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/foodwine/2003218366_communaldining23.html>
Providence Cicero, Seattle Times

Dining with those you don't know isn't everyone's idea of fun, but an increasing number of local restaurants are encouraging customers to do just that by offering seats at communal tables.

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Life in the city

[Ramblings]

*** Profit/Loss Versus Bus/MRT Fares
Heng-Cheong Leong

Let's play a little game. Let's say SBS Transit invested money in publishing commuter newspaper, and lost a lot of money. Or maybe SMRT Corp invested money in setting up an advertising agency, and lost a lot of money. Let's say the loss is so significant that the entire company combined is now not making any profits. Can SBS Transit or SMRT Corp justify raising bus and MRT fares because they've lost money on publishing and advertising?

I hope it's obvious that the answer is a resounding No.

Now let's reverse the game. Does the fact that SBS Transit and SMRT Corp are making profit justifies not raising bus and MRT fares?

[News]

*** Anti-IMF Protestors To Shun Singapore For Indonesia
<http://www.antara.co.id/en/seenws/?id=18784>
Antara

Over 2,000 activists who plan protests at the IMF and World Bank conference in Singapore next month said they will hold their rallies on a nearby Indonesian island because of Singapore's ban on demonstrations.

*** Singapore Casino Plans Could Spark Casino Boom Across Asia
<http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2006/8/24/apworld/20060824153316&sec=apworld>
Associated Press

"Other countries will say: 'If it's good enough for wholesome Singapore, it's good enough for us.'"

*** Time Not Ripe For Dual Citizenship
<http://www.todayonline.com/articles/138233.asp>
Derrick A Paulo, Today

*** Rules Eased As Part Of Efforts To Woo Immigrants
<http://straitstimes.asiaone.com/portal/site/STI/menuitem.c2aef3d65baca16abb31f610a06310a0/?vgnextoid=6fadbe120b93a010VgnVCM1000000a35010aRCRD&vgnextfmt=vgnartid:27543930a7b3d010VgnVCM100000430a0a0aRCRD>
Li Xueying, Straits Times

Rules will be streamlined to make it easier for suitable foreigners to stay and work here. There will be a new category of 'personalised employment passes' tied to person rather than the employer.

*** We Are Public Servants -- And We Blog Too
<http://www.asiamedia.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=51437>
Lynn Lee, Straits Times

Government workers band together to form Gahmen Bloggers, but Official Secrets Act prevents them from disclosing office happenings.

[Opinion]

*** The PAP's Disconnect
<http://asiapundit.com/2006/08/24/the-paps-disconnect/>
Asia Pundit

*** Fare Hike - Fair?
<http://singaporealternatives.blogspot.com/2006/08/fare-hike-fair.html>
Goh Meng Seng, Singapore Alternatives

*** V For Vendetta DVD Banned In Singapore?
<http://deadpoetscave.com/2006/08/v-for-vendetta-dvd-banned-in-singapore/>
Dead Poets Cave

A check with Media Development Authority's Film Classification Database only lists the film ratings for the theatre version.

*** The Lavish Biopolis Of Singapore
<http://moroundtable.com/2006/08/23/the-lavish-biopolis-of-singapore/>
Missouri Roundtable For Life

It is clear that Singapore is becoming the choice retirement venu for pedigreed and perhaps now less productive bioscientists.

*** The Strategic Uses Of "The Population Problem"
<http://mollymeek.livejournal.com/122120.html>
mollymeek

The rhetoric of blamelessness is once again at work.

*** Immigration, Public Opinion And Seizable Offences
<http://www.yawningbread.org/arch_2006/yax-639.htm>
Yawningbread.org

We will be prepared to teach Hindi, Russian and Turkish, but we will not teach our young people to see fellow Singaporeans who happent o be lesbian or gay in a better light.

*** Singapore Can Avoid Europe's Immigration Pitfalls
<http://straitstimes.asiaone.com/portal/site/STI/menuitem.c2aef3d65baca16abb31f610a06310a0/?vgnextoid=6fadbe120b93a010VgnVCM1000000a35010aRCRD&vgnextfmt=vgnartid:675858f283c3d010VgnVCM100000430a0a0aRCRD>
Jonathan Eyal, Straits Times

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Life is random. More tunes, less talk.

[Tunes]

*** Spending Time
<http://www.ozmaonline.com/>
Ozma
<http://www.copticrecords.com/mp3/ozma/ozma_spendingtime.mp3>