[MyAppleMenu] Feb 5, 2007

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Mac news for Mac people

[News]

*** Sony Joins iPod Accessory Market
<http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/news/index.cfm?newsid=8291>
Martyn Williams, PC Advisor

Sony is getting into the iPod accessory market with the US launch of an iPod docking station.

[Opinion]

*** An Extended Conversation With Bill Gates
<http://blogs.zdnet.com/Murphy/?p=790>
Paul Murphy, ZDNet

"I don't even get that." "Me neither, Bill, me neither."

*** Jim Allchin To Bill Gates: I Would Buy A Mac Today
<http://www.realitywired.com/2007/02/04/jim-allchin-to-bill-gates-i-would-buy-a-mac-today/>
Reality Wired

So tell e, oh ye of the PC world. Am I wrong in my thinking? Is the whole basis for which Windows is now built over-complicated? Is a Mac the answer or should Microsoft embrace a more simplified approach?

*** MacBook Pro: Now Or Wait?
<http://jorgeq.com/photopost/macbook-pro-now-or-wait/>
Jorge Quinteros

With Apple, it has become increasingly difficult to pinpoint when is the most ideal time to purchase a new machine.

*** I Hate Macs
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,2006031,00.html>
Charlie Brooker, The Guardian

Ultimately the campaign's biggest flaw is that it perpetuates the notion that onsumers somehow "define themselves" with the technology they choose.

[Review]

*** iClip 4 For Mac
<http://arstechnica.com/journals/apple.ars/2007/2/4/6884>
Charles Jade, Ars Technica

It seems so simple, and yet I have found iClip has become an irreplaceable part of my workflow.

[Wintel]

*** Uninspiring Vista
<http://www.technologyreview.com/Infotech/17992/>
Erika Jonietz, MIT Technology Review

For me, if the choice is between struggling to configure every feature and being able to boot up and get to work, at long last I choose the Mac.

The Tomorrow Weblog
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Emerging Technologies. Innovative Applications. New Economy

[News]

*** Programmers Don't Like To Code
<http://rentzsch.com/notes/programmersDontLikeToCode>
rentzsch.com

Programmers don't like to code, we like to solve problems. Coding is not problem solving, but software problem solving usually involves some coding.

MyAppleMenu Reader
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The other things in life

[Life]

*** The Unsinkable Suzanne Somers
<http://www.latimes.com/features/magazine/west/la-tm-somers05feb04,1,324500.story?coll=la-headlines-west&ctrack=1&cset=true>
Gina Piccalo, Los Angeles Times

How a 'dumb blond' turned her life crises into a commercial juggernaut.

*** Orwell's "Catalonia" Revisited
<http://www.newcriterion.com/archives/25/02/orwells-catalonia-revisited>
Anthony Daniels, The New Criterion

Now that Marxist Communism as a ruling doctrine has all but disappeared from the face of earth (though its effects certainly live on), Orwell's most celebrated books have lost some of their urgency. It is even possible that generations to come, historically uninformed and uninterested, will wonder what on earth they were all about. By then, of course, Newspeak will have become so deeply entrenched that no one will realize that he is talking it, for it is the fate of satire in the modern world to become prophecy.

*** Applauding The Relaxing Of Rules Of Clapping In Classical Concerns
<http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07035/758706-42.stm>
Andrew Druckenbrod, Pittsburg Post-Gazette

As concert-hall etiquette evolves, many musicians say they don't mind premature clapping.

SingaporeSurf
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Life in the city

[News]

*** Small Start Proposed For Education Accounts
<http://www.straitstimes.com/portal/site/STI/menuitem.c2aef3d65baca16abb31f610a06310a0/?vgnextoid=6fadbe120b93a010VgnVCM1000000a35010aRCRD&vgnextfmt=vgnartid:825a1412bed80110VgnVCM100000430a0a0aRCRD>
Sandra Davie, Straits Times

Dr Tony Tan has said that if the government were to give money to every Singaporean to take his education beyond secondary school, it should be a modest sum. The people should also have to pay a portion of the cost of this further education, so the money is wisely spent.

*** Singapore Turning Into Sin City
<http://www.bangkokpost.com/Business/05Feb2007_biz38.php>
Bangkok Post

Developers of the Marina Sands Bay integrated resort here are deflecting criticism that there is nothing Asian about the US$3.6-billion project and that it is just another transplant of a Las Vegas monolith.

[Opinion]

*** Are We Afraid Of Political Diversity?
<http://perspectives.singaporeangle.com/2007/02/are_we_afraid_of_political_div.html>
Singapore Angle

We should not be afraid of political diversity.

*** Freedom Of Expression As Applied To Everyone!
<http://kitana.wordpress.com/2007/02/04/freedom-of-expression-as-applied-to-everyone/>
Coffee And Cigarettes

This exercise has to be conducted with honesty, and without the existing barriers on speech for party members, and the purpose of this exercise has to be for engagement, and not merely for counter-insurgance or thought policing.

*** PAP's Internet Offensive
<http://singaporealternatives.blogspot.com/2007/02/paps-internet-offensive.html>
Goh Meng Seng, Singapore Alternatives

Hey, c'mon, as the largest and powerful ruling party that has dominated Singapore's political scene, its members do not dare to identify themselves as PAP members when communicating with other Singaporeans on the internet platform? Are they ashame or too afraid to be identified with PAP or what?