[MyAppleMenu] May 29, 2006

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Mac news for Mac people

[News]

*** Apple's iTunes Solo Act Is Getting Competition
<http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/business/technology/personal_technology/14692913.htm>
Mike Langberg, San Jose Mercury News

Apple can't be expected to think of every bright new idea in digital music, and won't change its ways unless there's a real threat that customers will go elsewhere.

*** Port Everything! More On Apeiron
<http://www.oreillynet.com/mac/blog/2006/05/port_everything_more_on_apeiro_1.html>
Joshua Scott Emons, O'Reilly Network

Getting better is certainly something all platforms should strive towards. But to me, the most amazing feat is that an 11-year-old game like Apeiron, thanks to the efforts of people like Matt Slot, is still exactly as great as it ever was.

[Opinion]

*** Apple Store: Family Unfriendly?
<http://www.nationalcenter.org/2006/05/apple-store-family-unfriendly.html>
Amy Ridenour, National Center Blog

The Apple Computer "Apple Store" webpage says 'Apple is committed to providing assistance to its customers with special needs,' but don't believe a word of it -- at least, not if you're short.

[Review]

*** Mac Still King For Editing Digital Movies
<http://www.shns.com/shns/g_index2.cfm?action=detail&pk=SOUNDADVICE-05-29-06>
Don Lindich, Scripps Howard News Service

If home moviemaking is important to you, it may be worth it to include a new Mac mini (at the least) in your budget when shopping for your camcorder outfit.

[Sidetrack]

*** Sucky Monday
Heng-Cheong Leong

This is a story <http://chris.pirillo.com/2006/05/28/why-drm-sucks/> about why DRM sucks -- which we all know. But, more importantly, this is also a story about why Microsoft's horizontal integration of the music business sucks even more with DRM thrown in.

*** Five O'Clock World
Heng-Cheong Leong

'Cause it's a five o'clock world when the whistle blowsNo one owns a piece of my time, andThere's a long-haired girl who waits, I knowTo ease my troubled mind.

-- The Vogues, "Five O'Clock World"

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The other things in life

[Life]

*** Save These Books!
<http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/28/books/review/28outofprintcookbks.html?_r=1&oref=slogin>
New York Times

What's your favorite out-of-print cookbooks? We asked chefs, restaurant owners, writers, scholars, publishers and just plain foodies. Here's what they said.

*** Full House
<http://www.boston.com/news/globe/magazine/articles/2006/05/28/full_house/>
Neil Swidey, Boston Globe

Three is the new two. And in some towns -- especially affluent ones -- four or more is the new three. Educated moms who once managed budgets and schedules at work are now doing the same in their homes teeming with kids.

*** Why Cigs? Why Not Beef?
<http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1148681737269&call_pageid=1105528093962&col=1105528093790>
Christine Sismondo, Toronto Star

The difference in our approach to dangerous products speaks to a greater cultural divide between us and nos amis across the Atlantic.

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Life in the city

[Ramblings]

*** KABOOM!
Heng-Cheong Leong

You know what, the first thing that came to my mind when I first saw the proposed design of the Marina Bay casino are nuclear power plants...

[News]

*** Genting's Odds Stronger For Singapore's Next Casino
<http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=reutersEdge&storyID=2006-05-29T083514Z_01_SIN213985_RTRUKOC_0_US-LEISURE-SINGAPORE-CASINOS.xml>
Sebastian Tong, Reuters

Singapore's decision last week to award its first casino to outsider contender Las Vegas Sands Corp. has raised the odds for Malaysia's Genting group as the winner for its second casino license.

*** Singapore Turns To Creativity During Time Of Rapid Transition
<http://www.mysanantonio.com/salife/travel/stories/MYSA052806.1Q.singapore.1f196690.html>
L.A. Lorek, San Antonio Express-News

Singapore has prospered, but its critics ask: At what cost? Yet like most of the so-called Asian Tigers, it is a country now in transition.

*** Output Falls In Singapore
<http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/05/28/bloomberg/sxsing.php>
Bloomberg

Singapore's manufacturing fel in April as orders for drug production and production of disk drives dropped.

*** Changi To Become More Taxi-Friendly
<http://www.todayonline.com/articles/121105.asp>
Cheow Xin Yi, Today

New taxi management system to be launched next year to cut down queues and waiting times for taxi.

[Opinion]

*** Singapore Opposition's Loyalists
<http://www.malaysiakini.com/letters/51718>
Abdul Latiff Salleh, Malaysiakini

Yes, we are lonely sometimes. Yes, we do fight, like all families do. But there is always time to heal the wounds and move on.

*** Cost Of Leaving In Singapore
<http://xenoboysg.blogspot.com/2006/05/cost-of-leaving-in-singapore.html>
A Xeno Boy In Sg

The cost of leaving Singapore must be getting lower.

*** So Do I Exist Or Not?
<http://timorsunshine.blogspot.com/2006/05/so-do-i-exist-or-not.html>
Tumbleweed In Timor Lorosae

My question is to whom did MFA issue this advisory to? Cos' I surely did not receive one phone call or SMS from MFA officials sitting in their cushy offices at Minden Road.

*** Bank Cleared Three Cheques With Someone Else's Signature
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/portal/site/STI/menuitem.c2aef3d65baca16abb31f610a06310a0/?vgnextoid=f832758920e39010VgnVCM1000000a35010aRCRD&vgnextfmt=vgnartid:a10695aa35b7b010VgnVCM100000430a0a0aRCRD>
Goh Tjung Seng, Straits Times

*** A Waste That Public Cannot View Original WWII Murals
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/portal/site/STI/menuitem.c2aef3d65baca16abb31f610a06310a0/?vgnextoid=7532758920e39010VgnVCM1000000a35010aRCRD&vgnextfmt=vgnartid:9699ca4b74c7b010VgnVCM100000430a0a0aRCRD>
Tan Chin Aik, Straits Times

*** Paltry $20-Fine Is Insufficient To Deter Cycling On Pavements
<http://www.todayonline.com/articles/121148.asp>
Leong Lip Wee, Today

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*** 1969: A Stooges Cover
<http://www.solex.net/>
Solex
<http://www.xs4all.nl/%7Esolex//SOLEX-1969-stooges.mp3>