[MyAppleMenu] May 8, 2006

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Mac news for Mac people

[News]

*** Apple Computer Wins In Apple V. Apple Case
<http://www.macworld.com/news/2006/05/08/apple/index.php?lsrc=mwrss>
Karen Haslam and Jonny Evans, Macworld UK

The association between the logo use and the download service is a "proper one," and that the logo was clealry used in relation to the service, not to the music.

*** Students Love Laptop Lesson Plan
<http://www.sgvtribune.com/news/ci_3797009>
Esther Chou, San Gabriel Valley Tribune

Would you trust a teenager with a $2,000 laptop computer? How about 80 teenagers? Covina High School gave 80 freshmen and sophomores Apple iBooks to use as their own at home and at school as an experiment in how technology can change -- and perhaps improve -- education.

*** Beatles And Apple Computer Await Court Decision
<http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=entertainmentNews&storyID=2006-05-07T234331Z_01_L07774176_RTRUKOC_0_US-LEISURE-BRITAIN-BEATLES.xml&archived=False>
Reuters

Judgment is due on Monday in a High Court battle between the Beatles' record company Apple Corps and Apple Computer Inc.

*** Local Students Use iPods For More Than Just Music
<http://www.dailyprogress.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=CDP%2FMGArticle%2FCDP_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1137835916434&path=!news>
Sarah Barry, Daily Progress

A group of master teachers known as the Curriculum Technology Integration Partners formed an iPod professional development group to come up with ways to use iPods in the classroom and then test those ideas.

*** "I Bought My First Mac Because Of Boot Camp"
<http://channels.lockergnome.com/osx/archives/20060507_i_bought_my_first_mac_because_of_boot_camp.phtml>
GnomeREPORT

[Opinion]

*** NewsGator Is Making Me Cranky
<http://www.macuser.com/internet/newsgator_is_making_me_cranky.php>
Derik DeLong, MacUser

I'm beginning to miss the idea of NNW syncing that happened over Apple's Sync Services and still downloaded feeds straight from the source.

*** The Coming Apple Revolution
<http://www.lostremote.com/archives/008363.html>
Cory Bergman, Lost Remote

While Microsoft holds a firm hand on the corporate market, Apple is fueling the creative engine of a new generation of people who will produce their own media. And they'll crave the gear to get it done.

*** Steve Jobs: Master Manipulator
<http://jay-photo.com/blog/2006/05/07/steve-jobs-master-manipulator/>
Picture My World

[Review]

*** When To Use Core Data?
<http://www.oreillynet.com/mac/blog/2006/05/when_to_use_core_data_1.html>
Joshua Scott Emmons, O'Reilly Network

When should I use Core Data in my application?

[Sidetrack]

*** Making The Whole Widget
Heng-Cheong Leong

The philosophy of the Macintosh? Apple makes the whole widget, and makes sure that everything simply work together.

However, it seems that even though NewsGator and NetNewsWire is now one single widget, things are not working well <http://www.macuser.com/internet/newsgator_is_making_me_cranky.php> at all.

I've a NetNewsWire license, and was looking forward to the sync. service across Mac, Windows, and the web. However, both NewsGator online and FeedDemon (the Windows desktop client) left me disappointed. Both looked, to me, Windows-y: "packed" with features while lacking in the usability department. I didn't understand half of FeedDemon, it seems, while NewsGator online didn't even allow me to sort feeds the way I wanted them to be sorted.

NetNewsWire is still a great product -- and it's not even out of beta yet. But the other parts of the widget left me cold.

[Wintel]

*** Will SanDisk Sour Apple's Tune?
<http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/may2006/tc20060508_706500.htm>
Arik Hesseldahl, BusinessWeek

The outfit's flash-memory factories and penchant for feature-packed, low-cost players may help its fight against the iPod juggernaut.

The Tomorrow Weblog
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Emerging Technologies. Innovative Applications. New Economy

[News]

*** The Next Tech Battle: Internet Searches On Cellphones
<http://online.wsj.com/article/SB114704408802546163.html?mod=googlenews_wsj>
Cassell Bryan-Low And Kevin J. Delaney, Wall Street Journal

The push by the world's biggest internet search firms to dominate what customers see when they turn on their cellphones has accelerated in recent months with Google, Yahoo and Microsoft all striking deals with service providers and others in the cellphone industry.

*** China Sees 60 Million Bloggers By Year's End
<http://news.com.com/2100-1040_3-6069387.html>
Reuters

*** Q. What Could A Borading Pass Tell An Indentity Fraudster About You? A. Way Too Much
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/idcards/story/0,,1766266,00.html>
Steve Boggan, The Guardian

This is the story of a piece of paper no bigger than a credit card, thrown away in a dustbin on the Heathrow Express to Paddington station.

*** Microsoft Racing Ahead In Consoles War
<http://news.ft.com/cms/s/077e0ddc-ddef-11da-af29-0000779e2340.html>
Chris Nuttall, Financial Times

*** Someone Has To Pay For TV. But Who? And How?
<http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/07/business/yourmoney/07digi.html?ex=1304654400&en=776d2dbf915ec2e6&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss>
Randall Stross, New York Times

The digital video recorder is slowly, but surely, tunneling throught eh television industry's foundation.

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The other things in life

[Life]

*** How To Sell Books By Really Trying
<http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/07/books/review/07alford.html>
Henry Alford, New York Times

Bookselling, it's said in the publishing industry, is a matter of "hand selling."

*** Tokyo Bars With Standing Room Only
<http://travel2.nytimes.com/2006/05/07/travel/07surf.html>
James Brooke, New York Times

In Tokyo, where cafe floor space is at a premium, some bars are abolishing tables and chairs altogether and stacking customers vertically along a bar.

*** More Scandals, Please, We're British
<http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/07/weekinreview/07lyall.html>
Sarah Lyall, New York Times

With three political scandals to choose from -- one involving criminal justice, one involving health care spending, and the third involving raunchy illicit sex in the upper echelons of government -- which would most Britons rather read about?

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Life in the city

[Ramblings]

*** Capable? I Laugh In Your Face
Heng-Cheong Leong

Oh, ha ha, Today <http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/207147/1/.html>. You have to have a quotation mark around the word "capable" when you are describing the WP candidates, eh?

[News]

*** Police Say No Arrest So Far Over Elections Department's Complaint
<http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/207258/1/.html>
Wong Siew Ying, Channel NewsAsia

*** Board Of Film Censors Gives 'The Da Vinci Code' A Rating Of NC16
<http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/207269/1/.html>
Channel NewsAsia

Members of the Board of Film Censors agreed that the film can be shown, but at a higher rating as only a mature audience will be able to discrern and differentiate between fact and fiction.

*** Elections Department Offers NCMP Seat To Top Performing Loser In GE
<http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/207271/1/.html>
May Wong, Channel NewsAsia

The Elections Department did not want to reveal which party received the offer. Looking at the election results, the offer would most likely have gone to the Workers' Party.

*** Opposition Politician Freed But Barred From Leaving Singapore
<http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060508/wl_asia_afp/singaporepolitics_060508055247>
AFP

An opposition candidate defeated in Singapore's weekend election says he has been freed from detention, but his passport was seized as police investigate a poll-linked complaint againast him. James Gomez said he was not sure when the investigation would be completed and declined to comment further on accusations by the PAP's founder, former prime minister Lee Kuan Yew, that he was a liar.

*** Lee May Heed Singapoe's 'Wake-Up Call' As Opponents Gain Votes
<http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000080&sid=a_qaYoKFlcy0&refer=asia>
Bloomberg

Singaproe Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong may increase efforts to help the country's poorest citizens after opposition groups increased their share of the vote at weekend elections, political analysts said.

*** Singapore Moving With The Times
<http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2006/5/8/nation/14176879&sec=nation>
Joceline Tan, The Star

It was an election quite unlike what Singaporeans had seen before and the results reflected the generational-shift in the city-state.

*** Young Candidates A 'Breakthrough' For WP
<http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/207147/1/.html>
Ansley Ng and lee Ching Wern, Today

Workers' Party secretary-general Loh Thia Khiang said that the WP's ability to find enough 'capable' young candidates had been the key to the party's performance in the General Election.

*** Margin At Aljunied Was Decisive, Says PM Lee
<http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/207144/1/.html>
Christie Loh, Today

"In any other country, this would be a landslide. In Singapore, because we've got 66.6 nationwide, so you say, 'Well it's only 56.' But it's quite decisive. Not a one-, two-hundred votes, or down to counting chads."

[Opinion]

*** Rules Of The Game
<http://hutdugaikarsui.blogspot.com/2006/05/rules-of-game.html>
Bounce Back To Life

*** Singapore Gets More Audacious
<http://www.crikey.com.au/articles/2006/05/08-1651-9538.html>
Stephen Mayne, Crikey

Should we let the Van Nguyen slayers control our ports?

*** Eating Air And 15
<http://comeandeat.blogspot.com/2006/05/eating-air-and-15.html>
Tables For Truth And For Eating

*** The Price Of Opposition
<http://e.sinchew-i.com/content.phtml?sec=2&artid=200605080001>
Sumiko Tan, Straits Times

To join the opposition cause, one must be either very brave or fool-hardy, and a thin line separates the two.

*** Lights Out
<http://mozzie.livejournal.com/129916.html>
Mozzie

I honestly very nearly wanted to vomit.

*** Art Museum Should Make It Easy For Budding Artists To Copy Exhibits. Don't Be A Killjoy
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/forum/story/0,5562,390845,00.html?>
Christopher Ledesma Choo Weisen, Straits Times

*** Mature Opposition Better For The Nation
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/forum/story/0,5562,391566,00.html?>
Gilbert Goh Keow Wah, Straits Times

For once, I felt the WP has got its act together and emerged from mediocrity with its many young and qualified candidates.

*** Three Different Styles In PAP Campaign
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/free/story/0,6418,391571,00.html?>
Chua Mui Hoong, Straits Times

When the dust settles, will the PAP takes a good hard look at voters' verdicts on each, and adjust its strategy accordingly?

*** Politics Never Ends: Free James Gomez!
<http://uselesstree.typepad.com/useless_tree/2006/05/politics_never_.html>
The Useless Tree

*** Don't Let This Happen To Our Citizens Again!
<http://singaporeelection.blogspot.com/2006/05/dont-let-this-happen-to-our-citizens.html>
Singapore Election Watch

Mr Lee Hsien Loong can have a silp of tongue regarding his intentions to 'fix' the opposition MPs and 'buy' votes. Yet, when it comes to Mr James Gomez, the PAP is undertaking criminal charges against him.

[Entertainment]

*** Hog's Breath Cafe -- Slow Cooking, Redefined
<http://peebrain.blogspot.com/2006/05/hogs-breath-cafe-slow-cooking.html>
"Faarrgh!" The Nanchaku-Slinging Girzilla

Our dining experience was egregiously ruined. With a capital R.

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Life is random. More tunes, less talk.

[Tunes]

*** Code Monkey
<http://www.jonathancoulton.com/2006/04/14/thing-a-week-29-code-monkey/>
Jonathan Coulton
<http://www.jonathancoulton.com/mp3/Code%20Monkey.mp3>