[MyAppleMenu] Feb 2, 2006

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Mac news for Mac people

[News]

*** Adobe Offers Further Details On Intel Plans
<http://www.macworld.com/news/2006/02/01/adobeplans/index.php?lsrc=mwrss>
Jim Dalrymple, Macworld

*** British Warships Get iPod Docks, Surround Sound
<http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/01/british-warships-get-ipod-docks-surround-sound/>
Evan Blass, Engadget

*** Adobe May Not Deliver Native Intel Mac Support Until 2007
<http://www.appleinsider.com/article.php?id=1507>
Kasper Jade, AppleInsider

Adobe on Wednesday said it has no plans to re-release its current applications as Universal binaries that can run natively on both Intel- and PowerPC-based systems, and instead will focus on delivering native support for Intel Macs along with the next major versions of its software.

*** Music Firms Hit Pause Button Over New Tax
<http://www.swissinfo.org/sen/swissinfo.html?siteSect=161&sid=6430274>
Swiss Business

*** Apple Sued By iPod User Over Hearing Loss
<http://www.kesq.com/Global/story.asp?S=4441773&nav=9qrx>
Associated Press

*** Apple Media Player By April
<http://www.smarthouse.com.au/Entertainment/Industry/?article=/Entertainment/Industry/News/C9L2P7L7>
David Richards, Smarthouse

Analysts for UBS Investment Research this week emphasised confidence in Apple's long term strategy and updated their predictions on forthcoming products to include the possiiblity of a 1GB iPod nano and a brand new Intel powered Apple media player that will go up against Microsoft's Media Centre.

[Opinion]

*** It's iMac On Steroids
<http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/feb2006/tc20060202_517143.htm>
Stephen H. Wildstrom, BusinessWeek

The real payback of the new Intel-based Mac will be down the road when software developers have time to catch up.

*** Apple And AMD: A Match Not Meant To Be
<http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=29420>
Doug Mohney, The Inquirier

A conservative choice, Intel was.

*** The iTunes Effect
<http://www.digitalhomemag.com/news/default.asp?pagetypeid=2&articleid=43041&subsectionid=1308>
Digital Home Magazine

iTunes will ultimately be software than runs in your living room. We don't doubt that. But the internet-based music and video delivery that iTunes provides is only one small facet of a much bigger digital home idea.

*** 5 Things Steve Jobs Has Misled Us About In The last 30 Years
<http://jackwhispers.blogspot.com/2006/02/5-things-steve-jobs-has-misled-us.html>
Jackwhispers

*** Pixar, Disney, And Apple, Oh, My!
<http://news.designtechnica.com/talkback99.html>
Rob Enderle, Design Technica

This deal has all of the earmarks of brilliance. But brilliance has as much to do with execution as it does with concept.

[Review]

*** Apple iPod Radio Remote
<http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,1917744,00.asp>
Mike Kobrin, PC Magazine

The remote couldn't be easier to use, and it's very compact.

*** iDVD 6: Magic iDVD Highlights Several Core Improvements To DVD-Authoring Software
<http://www.macworld.com/2006/02/reviews/idvd6/index.php?lsrc=mwrss>
Jeff Carlson, Macworld

The Tomorrow Weblog
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Emerging Technologies. Innovative Applications. New Economy

[News]

*** Era Ends: Western Union Stops Sending Telegrams
<http://www.livescience.com/technology/060131_western_union.html>
Robert Roy Britt, LiveScience.com

*** The Next Battleground For VoIP
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/etel/2006/02/01/the-next-battleground-for-voip.html>
Andrew Sheppard, O'Reilly Network

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The other things in life

[Expressions]

*** From The Wave, The Shortcut
<http://www.poetrylondon.co.uk/index.htm?poems/vmejer.htm>
Valerie Mejer, Poetry London

SingaporeSurf
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Life in the city

[News]

*** Malaysia Seeks Chance To Seal Bridge Deal With Singapore
<http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2006/2/2/nation/13279239&sec=nation>
The Star

Foreign Minister Datuk Seri Syed Hamid Albar said there should be another opportunity for discussions, adding that if this failed it would be time to "think of something else."

*** Give KL-Singapore Talks A Chance, Says Syed Hamid
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/free/story/0,6418,368497,00.html?>
Bernama

The Malaysian Foreign Minister yesterday urged people to give the talks on outstanding issues with Singapore a chance, but said negotiations could not go on forever.

[Opinion]

*** The Bad News About Good Journalism
<http://e.sinchew-i.com/content.phtml?sec=2&artid=200602020002>
Cheong Yip Seng, Straits Times

The future of news is not a matter for editors and journalists alone to ponder.

*** No Justification For Singapore's Mandatory Death Penalty
<http://www.hrdc.net/sahrdc/hrfeatures/HRF135.htm>
Asia-Pacific Human Rights Network

*** Shit Statistics
<http://atypicalsingaporean.blogspot.com/2006/02/shit-statistics.html>
Atypical Singaporean

So what if the unemployment rate is the lowest in the last four years, if you change the basis of measurement? So what if you win the match, if you shift the goalpost midway through?

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[Tunes]

*** Ave Verum Corpus
<http://choeurdesmarais.free.fr/disques.html>
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Choeur des Marais
<http://choeurdesmarais.free.fr/mp3/CDM-Mozart-Ave%20Verum%20Corpus.mp3>