[MyAppleMenu] Jan 31, 2006

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Mac news for Mac people

[News]

*** Marketers Aim New Ads At Video iPod Users
<http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB113867199829460498-WaJOHmnjYhCMZ85nZHMQSdMPuI4_20070131.html?mod=rss_free>
Suzanne Vranica, Wall Street Journal

Advertisers are scrambling for a way to subvert the sleek device for their own purposes.

*** Apple's Secret Hiding Place
<http://www.thestreet.com/tech/gamesandgadgets/10264883.html>
Troy Wolverton, TheStreet.com

For many of Apple's recent products and services, such as the iPod shuffle and nano lines and the Aperture photo-editing program, the company had filed a related trademark in locales far from its Cupertino, Calif., headquarters months before they were launched.

*** Mastering The Art Of Disruption
<http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2006/02/06/8367925/index.htm>
Fred Vogelstein, Fortune

Move over, Jack Welch. From Apple to Pixar, Steve Jobs is showing why he's the model CEO for the 21st century.

[Opinion]

*** Smart Crash Reports
<http://daringfireball.net/2006/01/smart_crash_reports>
John Gruber, Daring Fireball

No app should silently install system-wide hacks, period.

*** Re-Branding The Mac
<http://applexnet.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1718>
AppleXnet

*** Satisfied Dot Mac Customer
<http://www.thoughtmechanics.com/2006/01/30/satisfied-dot-mac-customer/>
theron Parlin, Thought Mechanics

*** Move To Intel A Security Non-Issue For Apple
<http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1916535,00.asp>
Larry Seltzer, eWeek

OS vulnerabilities are a result of OS characteristics, and the CPU they run on is pretty much irrelevant.

*** The Digital Classroom
<http://www.macworld.com/weblogs/editors/2006/01/digclassrm/index.php?lsrc=mwrss>
Scholle Sawyer McFarland, Macworld

[Review]

*** Let Yojimbo Guard Your Information Castle
<http://db.tidbits.com/getbits.acgi?tbart=08407>
Matt Neuburg, TidBITS

The Tomorrow Weblog
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Emerging Technologies. Innovative Applications. New Economy

[News]

*** We're Most Social Because Of The Internet, Study Says
<http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/business/13746169.htm>
Anick Jesdanun, Associated Press

Alone on the internet? Hardly.

*** Would You Buy A Used Dotcom From This Man?
<http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.02/mayfield.html>
Josh McHugh, Wired News

With venture capital stirring again, the Mayfield Fund's Allen Morgan says the best place to find the next big thing is in the dust of the bust.

*** DRM: Media Companies' Next Flop?
<http://news.com.com/2030-1069_3-6032936.html?part=rss&tag=6032936&subj=news>
Knowledge at Wharton, CNET News.com

*** $100 PC Project Will 'Invigorate Linux Desktop Push'
<http://news.zdnet.co.uk/0,39020330,39249670,00.htm>
Andrew Donoghue, ZDNet UK

Putting an open source-based laptop in the hands of millions of users around the world will help drive home the importance of non-proprietary development and applications, says Red Hat.

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The other things in life

[Life]

*** The New Magic Man
<http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11078874/site/newsweek/>
David J. Jefferson, Newsweek

John Lasseter, Pixar's wacky genius, is hoping to bring the magic back to the Mouse's animation studio.

[Expressions]

*** The Deposition
<http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/content/articles/060206fi_fiction>
Tobias Wolff, New Yorker

SingaporeSurf
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Life in the city

[News]

*** Singapore Sends Note To KL, Seeks Clarification On Bridge Reports
<http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/190749/1/.html>
S. Ramesh, Channel NewsAsia

Singapore's Foreign Ministry spokesman says the Republic's doing this before deciding on its response.

*** 'Singapore Aware Of Reasons For Bridge'
<http://www.nst.com.my/Current_News/nst/Tuesday/National/20060131082210/Article/index_html>
New Straits Times

Singapore is well aware why Malaysia wants to go ahead with the construction of a bridge across its half of the Johor Strait, said Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi. He said the bridge was part of the Federal and Johor governments' plans to develop the state as a "mega hub" by 2008.

[Opinion]

*** High-Tech Library Needs More Tables And Chairs
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/forum/story/0,5562,368102,00.html?>
Choi Kuan Meng, Straits Times

*** The Perfect City...
<http://the-secret-place.blog.com/532386/>
Beautifully Broken

The Shuffle by MyAppleMenu
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Life is random. More tunes, less talk.

[Tunes]

*** Jane Is Fat
<http://www.thejollyrogers.org/>
The Jolly Rogers
<http://www.thejollyrogers.org/janeisfat.mp3>