[MyAppleMenu] Oct 18, 2006

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Mac news for Mac people

[News]

*** Apple At Neuroscience 2006
<http://www.macwork.com/2006/10/17/apple-at-neuroscience-2006/>
Mac Work

Where can you meet a professor who figured out how to use 2 Mac optical mice and a ping-pong ball to record and measure the direction and velocity of insects as they respond, and don't respond, to sounds?

*** Apple Granted Three Patents: Speaker Equalization, Speech Recognition, More
<http://www.macnn.com/blogs/?p=123>
MacNN

*** Scientists Suggest iPod Safe Volume Levels
<http://news.monstersandcritics.com/lifestyle/consumerhealth/article_1212044.php/Scientists_suggest_iPod_safe_volume_levels>
UPI

Estimation is that a typical person could safely listen to the iPod for 4.6 hours at 70 percent of full volume using the supplied earphones without greatly increasing the risk of hearing loss.

*** Is Steve Jobs Safe?
<http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/rss/15779505.htm?source=rss&channel=siliconvalley_rss>
Mark Schwanhausser, San Jose Mercury News

Apple's terse and vague disclosure left many unanswered questions about Jobs' role and the tainted options he received.

*** Some Video iPods Shipped With Windows Virus
<http://playlistmag.com/news/2006/10/17/virus/index.php?lsrc=mwrss>
Jim Dalrymple, Playlist

Apple on Tuesday said that some video iPods that shipped after September 12, 2006 contained a known Windows virus. Apple recommends attaching the video iPod to your computer and running the anti-virus software and then restore the iPod using iTunes 7.

[Opinion]

*** The Art Of Business Vs. The Business Of Art
<http://www.itgarage.com/node/787>
Doc Searls, IT Garage

Why is Apple sitting on a problem that will surely launch the company's ass when it finally blows up in the mainstream media (which it surely will)?

*** Not So Mighty
<http://www.iand.net/archives/2006/10/17/not-so-mighty/>
iand.net

*** Why Do I Use A Mac?
<http://kastorff.blogspot.com/2006/10/why-do-i-use-mac.html>
Keith Kastorff, KeithWeblog

*** New Battery Life For Old 5G iPods
<http://playlistmag.com/weblogs/ipodblog/2006/10/5gbattery/index.php?lsrc=todayatpl>
Jason Snell, Playlist

One of the update's most unheralded features is actually the one that impresses me most: a huge improvement in iPod battery life.

*** Addition Through Acquisition
<http://www.macworld.com/weblogs/editors/2006/10/finalcutacquisition/index.php?lsrc=mwrss>
Jonathan Seff, Macworld

[Review]

*** Hands On With Apple's Intel MacPro
<http://www.pdnonline.com/pdn/prodtech/reviews/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003283042>
David Schloss, PDN Online

The Intel MacPro is a great first-version of a new technology. We're excited to see where the lineup goes next.

*** Contribute 4.0: Web Page Editor Adds Blogging Capabilities
<http://www.macworld.com/2006/10/reviews/contribute4/index.php?lsrc=mwrss>
Tom Negrino, Macworld

[Sidetrack]

*** An iPod For My Birthday?
Heng-Cheong Leong

I will be really surprised if Apple didn't come out with a new iPod before Microsoft's Zune launches.

Steve Jobs, I believe, will like to steal Zune's thunder.

The Tomorrow Weblog
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Emerging Technologies. Innovative Applications. New Economy

[News]

*** For India's Traditional Fishermen, Cellphones Deliver A Sea Change
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/14/AR2006101400342.html?nav=rss_technology>
Kevin Sullivan, Washington Post

*** Grids Get A Grip On Your Brain
<http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2032619,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03119TX1K0000594>
Peter Coffee, eWeek

Massive grids and fast network processors redraw IT road maps.

[Internet]

*** Web Numbers: What's Real?
<http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/06_43/b4006095.htm>
BusinessWeek

Competing methods of measuring traffic online leave advertisers, investors, and even net companies almost flying blind.

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The other things in life

[World]

*** Comedy To The Rescue
<http://arts.guardian.co.uk/features/story/0,,1924846,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=1>
Armando Iannucci, The Guardian

Want to know what's going on in politics? Forget the news. Comedians are filling the gap where serious debate used to be.

[Life]

*** The San Francisco Paradox
<http://www.slate.com/id/2151655/>
Witold Rybczynski, Slate

When good cities have bad architecture.

[Expressions]

*** April 26, 2006
<http://www.slate.com/id/2149125/>
Barry Goldensohn, Slate

SingaporeSurf
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Life in the city

[Ramblings]

*** Can SBS And SMRT Really Compete?
Heng-Cheong Leong

Until recently, the setup by the Ministry of Transport with regards to the public bus and rail network is to have indirect competition between the two major players, SBS Transit and SMRT.

Let's see now if there is really any form of competition: will competition pressure <http://straitstimes.asiaone.com/portal/site/STI/menuitem.c2aef3d65baca16abb31f610a06310a0/?vgnextoid=f832758920e39010VgnVCM1000000a35010aRCRD&vgnextfmt=vgnartid:93bbea683555e010VgnVCM100000430a0a0aRCRD> from SMRT force SBS to also engage additionally in some form of social work?

[News]

*** Kasikorn Bank Willing To Buy Shin Shares
<http://nationmultimedia.com/breakingnews/read.php?newsid=30016505>
The Nation

*** Maids, Day-Care Hurt Singapore Kids' Mental Health - Study
<http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/SIN186182.htm>
Weei Sui Lee, Reuters

Children who are cared for at day-care centres, by foster parents or maids are twice as likely to develop mental health problems than those cared for by their parents, researchers in Singapore said.

*** Temasek May Lose Heavily On Sale
<http://nationmultimedia.com/2006/10/18/headlines/headlines_30016475.php>
Siriporn Chanjindamanee and Petchanet Pratruangkrai, The Nation

*** 25 Music File-Sharing Cases Reported To Police
<http://straitstimes.asiaone.com/portal/site/STI/menuitem.c2aef3d65baca16abb31f610a06310a0/?vgnextoid=6fadbe120b93a010VgnVCM1000000a35010aRCRD&vgnextfmt=vgnartid:426dcd07f775e010VgnVCM100000430a0a0aRCRD>
Serene Luo, Straits Times

[Opinion]

*** Feel The Heat
<http://mydouble-entendre.blogspot.com/2006/10/singapura-my-homeland.html>
Summer Bliss

If only Singapore's a bit luan. Then there would be more life in us.

*** S2006 A Success, No Matter What The Foreign Media Says: PM Lee
<http://mediawatchsg.blogspot.com/2006/10/s2006-success-no-matter-what-foreign.html>
Singapore Media Watch

*** Racism In Singapore
<http://aaron-ng.info/blog/racism-in-singapore.html>
Hear Ye! Hear Ye!

*** Reading Between The Lines Of The Temasek Letter Reveals It's Just Damage Control
<http://www.nationmultimedia.com/2006/10/18/letters/letters_30016459.php>
The Nation

Temasek is "a responsible investor", meaning: "We took a chance when an amenable ruler was in power, and we lost."

*** Asians May Win English Awards But 'Natives' Get Teaching Jobs
<http://www.bruneitimes.com.bn/details.php?shape_ID=7838>
Brunei Times

In Asia is the English langauge becoming a new tool of 'cultural colonialism'?

*** Singapore Is Simply A Neighbour Too Far
<http://www.nst.com.my/Current_News/nst/Wednesday/Columns/20061018083901/Article/index_html>
Tunku Abdul Aziz, New Straits Times

Singapre has every right to pursue her own agenda as she sees fit. We only hope that she will grant us a similar right to follow ours without screaming foul play at every opportunity and imputing improper motives.

*** The Singapore Taxi
<http://4taxhero.com/blog/2006/10/18/the-singapore-taxi-tax-attorney-3/>
Ieuan Dolby, 4taxhero.com Blog

*** Tunnel Vision
<http://www.todayonline.com/articles/149272.asp>
Chan Chin Keong, Today

Public areas should have underground barrier-free network.

*** Protect, Don't Stifle
<http://www.todayonline.com/articles/149284.asp>
Siew Kum Hong, Today

Laws safeguarding intellectual property should not obstruct the creation of new ideas.

*** Clear Up The Investment Muddle
<http://nationmultimedia.com/2006/10/18/opinion/opinion_30016460.php>
The Nation

Government must abandon its ambiguous policy on foreign ownership and end spotty enforcement of nominee rules.

*** But Who Is Likely To Buy Into Shin?
<http://nationmultimedia.com/2006/10/18/business/business_30016429.php>
Jiwamol Kanoksilp, The Nation

Hard to see who will risk snapping up part of Temasek stake.

*** Linkway A Mock-Up, But Someone Still Has To Pay For It
<http://straitstimes.asiaone.com/portal/site/STI/menuitem.c2aef3d65baca16abb31f610a06310a0/?vgnextoid=f832758920e39010VgnVCM1000000a35010aRCRD&vgnextfmt=vgnartid:f699ea683555e010VgnVCM100000430a0a0aRCRD>
Fok Kar Kee, Straits Times

*** SBS Should Also Allow 'Missing Persons' Posters At Bus Stops
<http://straitstimes.asiaone.com/portal/site/STI/menuitem.c2aef3d65baca16abb31f610a06310a0/?vgnextoid=f832758920e39010VgnVCM1000000a35010aRCRD&vgnextfmt=vgnartid:93bbea683555e010VgnVCM100000430a0a0aRCRD>
Humaize Karamah Bajrai, Straits Times

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[Tunes]

*** Songs That No One Will Hear
<http://www.wearesoldiers.net/music.htm>
We Are Soldiers We Have Guns
<http://www.wearesoldiers.net/we_are_soldiers-songs_that_no_one_will_hear.mp3>

*** I Miss October
<http://ceruleanmusic.com/music_brighter.htm>
Cerulean
<http://ceruleanmusic.com/sounds/Cerulean%20-%20I%20Miss%20October.mp3>