[MyAppleMenu] Dec 6, 2006

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Mac news for Mac people

[News]

*** Apple Expanding Into The Enterprise, Back Office
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/index.cfm?RSS&newsID=16672>
Jonny Evans, Macworld UK

Apple's server products and acquisitions point toward enterprise expansion.

*** Apple Wins Design Patent For Mac Mini And/Or iTV Variant
<http://www.macnn.com/blogs/?p=206>
MacNN

*** MySpace To Apple: Fix That Worm
<http://news.com.com/2100-7349_3-6141031.html?part=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-20&subj=news>
Joris Evers, CNET News.com

MySpace.com wants Apple to update its QuickTime media player software so it can't be used in attacks on the social-networking site.

*** New Office File Formats Could Cause Headaches
<http://news.com.com/New+Office+file+formats+could+cause+headaches/2100-1012_3-6141121.html>
Ina Fried, CNET News.com

Although the company already has converters available for older PC versions of Office, the Mac translation tools are still in development. Microsoft now doesn't expect to have the tools available until late March or April, the company said Tuesday.

*** Analyst: Apple 'Almost Certain' To Start iPhone Production In Jan
<http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2068343,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03119TX1K0000594>
Scott Ferguson, eWeek

It is "almost certain" that Apple will begin production of its long-anticipated iPhone in January, and the company will unveil improvements to its iTV and the iPod at the same time, according to one Wall Street analyst.

*** Projecting Apple's Future Beyond MWSF
<http://www.macnn.com/articles/06/12/05/projecting.apples.future/>
MacNN

Industry watchers are likely to shift their focus to potential new product announcements at Macworld during the final stretch of the busy holiday shopping season.

*** The Year In Mac Games: Seven Trends For '06
<http://www.macworld.com/2006/12/features/gaming06rev/index.php?lsrc=mwrss>
Peter Cohen, Macworld

Casual games, Windows on the Mac among the year's top developments.

*** Apple Launches iTunes And Online Apple Stores In New Zealand
<http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2006/dec/06itunes.html>
Apple

[Opinion]

*** Why "I'm A PC" Works
<http://www.urbanhonking.com/ideasfordozens/archives/2006/12/why_im_a_pc_wor.html>
Ideas For Dozens

It's an amazing tightrope act of significantion the ad team's pulled off here and so it's not surprising that many commentators missed it.

*** The Pointless Converter Scandal
<http://www.microsoft-watch.com/content/business_applications/the_pointless_converter_scandal.html?kc=MWRSS02129TX1K0000535>
Joe Wilcox, Microsoft Watch

This is one of those something made-out-of-nothing situations.

*** If Apple Has The Slighest Sense...
<http://www.etrigan.org:16080/weblog/af/MacsandOSX/?permalink=If_Apple_has_the_slightest_sense.txt>
Alan Fleming

Then the forthcoming iWork '07 will natively support the Microsoft Office 2007 document formats.

*** Office Mac "Lockout"? Not So Fast
<http://arstechnica.com/journals/apple.ars/2006/12/5/6175>
Jacqui Cheng, Ars Technica

*** The Great iPhone Debate
<http://www.thomas-fitzgerald.net/2006/12/04/the-great-iphone-debate/>
Thomas Fitzgerald

The Tomorrow Weblog
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Emerging Technologies. Innovative Applications. New Economy

[News]

*** The Demise Of The Professional Photojournalist
<http://www.citmedia.org/blog/2006/12/04/the-demise-of-the-professional-photojournalist/>
Dan Gillmor, Center For Citizen Media

The photojournalists's job may be history before long. But photojournalism has never been more important, or more widespread.

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The other things in life

[Life]

*** When Science Sniffs Around The Kitchen
<http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/06/dining/06curi.html?ex=1323061200&en=f8709a62012421c5&ei=5088partner=rssnyt&emc=rss>
Harold McGee, New York Times

I'm confident that never before in history have so many peole in so many corners of the world used so many powerful instruments to peer into food -- and into people as they consume food.

*** The Wall Street Journal Gets Small
<http://www.slate.com/id/2154880>
Jack Shafer, Slate

Making sense of the publisher's preview of the redesigned paper.

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Life in the city

[News]

*** Why Chee Is In Hospital: Ministry Of Home Affairs
<http://www.todayonline.com/articles/158984.asp>
Loh Chee Kong, Today

*** Jailed Singapore Opposition Leader Hospitalised
<http://sg.news.yahoo.com/061205/3/45a0n.html>
Reuters

Chee Soon Juan, who is serving a five-week prison sentence for speaking in public, has been hospitalised following complaints of nausea after eating prison food.

[Opinion]

*** Taking A Train? Wait! Take This With You!
<http://tan-melvin.blogspot.com/2006/12/taking-train-wait-take-this-with-you.html>
Melvin Tan

Out of all the things I can rant about the train system, one thing stands out. Commuters who do not have a backbone and loves to lean on the standing pole.

*** Is Self Regulation Of THe Singapore Blogosphere Possilbe?
<http://bleongcw.typepad.com/simple_is_the_reason_of_m/2006/12/is_self_regulat.html>
Simple Is The Reason Of My Heart

The idea is interesting but the implementation of the idea will be tricky and virtually impossible.