[MyAppleMenu] Sep 1, 2006

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Mac news for Mac people

[News]

*** The Passing Of Apple Regional Liaison Jim Foster
<http://www.mugcenter.com/news/2006/082006/0831foster.html>
The MUG Center

*** Apple Planning Event In SF On September 12th?
<http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/31/apple-planning-event-in-sf-on-september-12th/>
Ryan Block, Engadget

*** Saying No To School Laptops
<http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06243/717868-298.stm>
Jessica E. Vascellaro, Wall Street Journal

Some parents and educators are having second thoughts over higher-than-anticipated costs and the potential for inappropriate use by kids. At the same time, there is a sense that the vaunted benefits of constant computer access remain unproven.

*** CrossOver Mac Beta Released: Run Windows Apps In OS X
<http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/31/crossover-mac-beta-released-run-windows-apps-in-os-x/>
Ryan Block, Engadget

*** Dell, Apple Recalls Seem To Go Smoothly
<http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D8JRJ2C80.htm?sub=apn_tech_down&chan=tc>
Donna Fuscaldo, Dow Jones Newswires

No news is good news. That's what industry watchers are saying about the progress of Dell and Apple's laptop battery recalls.

*** An Apple-Google Friendship, And A Common Enemy
<http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/31/technology/31valley.html?ex=1314676800&en=a59bf2145085c374&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss>
John Markoff, New York Times

When Eric E. Schmidt, Google's chief executive, was named to Apple Computer's board this week, it did more than signal a potential alliance between powerful companies. It touched off a wave of speculation about the motives of the man behind the move: Apple's co-founder, Steven P. Jobs.

[Opinion]

*** Apple, Google And Schmidt - Chill Out!
<http://www.rogerehrenberg.com/2006/08/apple_google_an.html>
Information Arbitrage

It just seemd to me that most of the commentary was around the "Woo hoo, what a big deal!" when there are both strategic and legal issues that argue for an interpretation more akin to "Whoopty doo, big deal?"

*** The Apple-Google Alliance: A Collective Yawn From Redmond
<http://blog.eweek.com/blogs/bizbytes/archive/2006/08/31/12907.aspx>
Dan Briody, eWeek

Normally, news of a board appointment causes nary a ripple in the business pages.

*** Apple Sends A NastyGram
<http://www.crunchnotes.com/?p=268>
CrunchNotes

*** Google's Inconvenient Truth
<http://www.fool.com/News/mft/2006/mft06083115.htm>
Jack Uldrich, Motley Fool

Call me a conspiracy theorist, but I see a link here, in the person of former Vice Presient Al Gore.

*** Irrational Google Exuberance
<http://www.macworld.com/weblogs/macword/2006/08/google/index.php?lsrc=mwrss>
Rick Lepage, Macworld

After all, Intuit's Bill Campbell has been on Apple's board for more than seven years, and that fact still hasn't gotten us a version of QuickBooks or Quicken that are at the level of functionality of their Windows counterparts.

*** Apple Opens Up
<http://www.oreillynet.com/mac/blog/2006/08/apple_opens_up.html>
Jeremiah Foster, O'Reilly Network

[Review]

*** iBank 2.1: Financial Management App Offers Ease Of Use, Powerful Features
<http://www.macworld.com/2006/08/reviews/ibank214/index.php?lsrc=mwrss>
Chris Barylick, Macworld

iBank 2.1.4 doesn't completely take down the Quicken 800-pound gorilla, but it provides a comprehensive set of financial tools with an elegant Mac look and feel.

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The other things in life

[World]

*** Where's Mao? Chinese Revise History Books
<http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/01/world/asia/01china.html?_r=1&ref=todayspaper&oref=slogin>
Joseph Kahn, New York Times

Nearly overnight the country's most prosperous schools have shelved the Marxist template that had dominated standard history texts since the 1950s.

[Life]

*** Remembrance Of Downtown Past
<http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/01/arts/design/01city.html?ex=1314763200&en=a9354285e5f6aaba&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss>
Holland Cotter, New York Times

A Times reporter remembers a time when, in the shadow of the Twin Towers, art, creativity and open space flourished.

*** Expensive Care
<http://www.seattleweekly.com/news/0635/swedish.php>
Roger Downey, Seattle Weekly

How to run up a $17,000 hospital tab without actually being sick.

*** Lost, Again, In Seattle
<http://www.seattleweekly.com/news/0635/bus-map.php>
Jonathan Kauffman, Seattle Weekly

Can I just get a proper bus map?

[Expressions]

*** Little Sister The Sky Is Falling
<http://www.laweekly.com/general/features/little-sister-the-sky-is-falling/14331/>
Amra Brooks, LA Weekly

Stories from a California girl.

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Life in the city

[News]

*** Singapore Companies Making More Acquisitions In China
<http://rawstory.com/news/2006/Singapore_companies_making_more_acq_09012006.html>
DPA

*** Testing The Limits In Singapore
<http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Southeast_Asia/HI01Ae01.html>
Alex Au, Asia Times

The conflicting positions of the World Bank and Singapore on freedom of assembly have led to some speculation about what implicit or explicit promises Singapore may have offered when pitching to serve as the event's host, which the government later possibly reneged upon after securing the contract.

[Opinion]

*** Police Looking Into Istana Incident
<http://straitstimes.asiaone.com/portal/site/STI/menuitem.c2aef3d65baca16abb31f610a06310a0/?vgnextoid=7532758920e39010VgnVCM1000000a35010aRCRD&vgnextfmt=vgnartid:8316d085ca46d010VgnVCM100000430a0a0aRCRD>
Audrey Ang, Singapore Police Force, Straits Times

On the incident date provided by Ms Lee, we have no records of the group of three persons who had submitted their names to the Istana for clearance beforehand but were subsequently turned away.

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[Tunes]

*** The Purple Cow
<http://librivox.org/the-purple-cow-by-gelett-burgess/>
Gelett Burgess (Read By Annie Coleman)
<http://ia310116.us.archive.org/0/items/purple_cow_librivox/purple_cow_burgess_apc.mp3>

*** The Purple Cow
<http://librivox.org/the-purple-cow-by-gelett-burgess?1>
Gelett Burgess (Read By Catharine Eastman)
<http://ia310117.us.archive.org/0/items/purple_cow_librivox/purple_cow_burgess_ce.mp3>

*** The Purple Cow
<http://librivox.org/the-purple-cow-by-gelett-burgess?2>
Gelett Burgess (Read By Laura Fox)
<http://ia310117.us.archive.org/0/items/purple_cow_librivox/purple_cow_burgess_lf.mp3>