[MyAppleMenu] Mar 2, 2007

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Mac news for Mac people

[News]

*** DVD Studio Pro 4.1.2 Improves HD DVD Support
<http://www.macobserver.com/article/2007/03/02.3.shtml>
Jeff Gamet, Mac Observer

*** Rivals Launch Dueling Virtualization Products
<http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/03/02/HNduelingvirtualization_1.html>
Robert Mullins, IDG News Service

Two makers of virtualization software for running the Windows operating system on Apple's computers have issued dueling upgrades this week.

*** "Get A Mac" Ads Generating Mixed Reactions In Japan As Well
<http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/03/01/telling-your-computer-what-to-do/>
Jacqui Cheng, Ars Technica

Apple seems to be learning the hard way (again?) that what might be funny to American consumers may not be quite so funny to consumers overseas.

*** Mac TV Gets Cheaper With Equinux Tuner
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/mac/news/index.cfm?newsid=17372&pagtype=allchandate>
Jonny Evans, Macworld UK

MediaCentral developer releases its own USB tuner device for Macs.

*** EA Sells Music From Video Games Via Apple's iTunes
<http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=technologyNews&storyid=2007-03-01T201124Z_01_N31383541_RTRUKOC_0_US-ELECTRONICARTS-ITUNES.xml&src=rss>
Reuters

*** Apple To Hold Special Event At NAB
<http://www.macworld.com/news/2007/03/01/nabevent/index.php?lsrc=mwrss>
Jim Dalrymple, Macworld

Apple will hold a special event at the National Association of Broadcaster (NAB) trade show on Sunday, April 15.

[Opinion]

*** Giving In To iPod
<http://www.thesunchronicle.com/articles/2007/03/01/columns/columns95.txt>
Lauren Carter, The Sun Chronicle

Part of it is that when it comes to music, a big part of me doesn't want to keep up with the times.

*** Mac OS X 'An Ideal Platform' For SMBs
<http://www.macworld.com/news/2007/03/01/smbs/index.php?lsrc=mwrss>
Ryan Faas, Computerworld

In many ways, Mac OS X is an ideal platform for small businesses and offices.

*** What To Do With Apple's Cash
<http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/mar2007/tc20070301_402290.htm?campaign_id=yhoo>
Arik Hesseldahl, BusinessWeek

Launching a venture capital fund would allow Apple to fund its vision for the future without making awkward acquisitions.

*** Maynor Confirms Last Summer's Native Mac OS X Exploit
<http://wifinetnews.com/archives/007442.html>
Glenn Fleishman, Wi-Fi Networking News

[Review]

*** PDFpenPro 3.1
<http://www.macobserver.com/review/2007/03/01.1.shtml>
Jeff Gamet, Mac Observer

When I need to complete a form or add a signature in a PDF, I always start with PDFpenPro.

*** Cinematize Pro 2: Pro Version Of DVD Extractor Offers More Power And Flexibility
<http://www.macworld.com/2007/03/reviews/cinematicpro2/index.php?lsrc=mwrss>
Jeff Carlson, Macworld

Video editors who need access to all the content on their DVDs can more than justify the cost considering the time they'd save with batch extraction and various output options.

[Wintel]

*** Choosing Anti-Anti-Virus Software
<http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000803.html>
Jeff Atwood, Coding Horring

No matter how much security software you install, nagging users with dozens of securit dialogs clearly doesn't make users any safer.

The Tomorrow Weblog
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Emerging Technologies. Innovative Applications. New Economy

[News]

*** Out Of The Dusty Labs
<http://www.economist.com/science/displaystory.cfm?story_id=8769863>
The Economist

Technology firms have left the big corporate R&D laboratory behind, shifting the emphasis from research to development. Does it matter?

*** Preserving Ideas
<http://stories.scripting.com/2007/03/01/preservingIdeas.html>
Dave Winer, Scripting News

Suppose there's a James Thurber, Mark Twain or Truman Capote or George Harrison among us, wouldn't that person likely be creating on the web, and shouldn't their work last longer than their own lives?

*** Berners-Lee: Congress Should Consider Net Neutrality
<http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/03/01/HNcongressnetneutrality_1.html>
Grant Gross, IDG News Service

Timothy Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, advocated that the U.S. congress protect net neutrality and questioned the value of DRM (digital rights management) Thursday.

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The other things in life

[Tech & Science]

*** Fact Or Fiction?: Living People Outnumber The Dead
<http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa004&articleID=09E07C6F-E7F2-99DF-3AD087F0DA77D94F&ref=rss>
Ciara Curtin, Scientific American

For this myth ever to be valid there would have to be more than 100 billion people living on Earth.

[Life]

*** A Date With Destiny
<http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/02/travel/escapes/02seven.html?ex=1330491600&en=985cdb8d2cb890d3&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss>
Michelle Higgins, New York Times

The date -- the almost numerically perfect 7/7/07 -- is being sought after by couples around the country as the ideal day for a wedding.

*** The Fine Art Of Dying Well
<http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1595226,00.html>
Charles Krauthammer, Time

Dying well is a matter of luck. Timing is everything.

*** My Search For The Perfect Apple
<http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1595245,00.html>
John Cloud, Time

I know I've been listening to too much NPR because I started wondering: How much Middle Eastern oil did it take to get that California apple to me? Which farmer should I support -- the one who rejected pesticides in Califronia or the one who was, in some romatnic sense, a neighbor? Most important, didn't the aple's taste suffer after the fruit crated and refrigerated and jostled for thousands of miles?

*** Whose Bed Is It Anyway?
<http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/01/garden/01bed.html?ex=1330405200&en=0d03b3529f759b2e&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss>
Penelope Green, New York Times

In the fight over co-sleeping, the children seem to be winning.

*** Authors Find Their Voices, And Audience, In Podcasts
<http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/01/books/01podb.html?_r=1&ref=arts&oref=slogin>
Andrew Adam Newman, New York Times

Writers sturggling to find a publisher are taking the high-tech, grass-roots approach.

*** Dead Heads
<http://www.slate.com/id/2160940/fr/rss/>
Kent Sepkowitz, Slate

Why doctors are bad at mortality.

[Expressions]

*** One Hundred Percent
<http://www.laweekly.com/general/features/one-hundred-percent/15773/>
Etgar Keret, LA Weekly

Etgar Keret is the author of The Bus Driver Who Wanted To Be God & Other Stories and The Nimrod Flip-Out,. This story is from his new collection, Missing Kissinger, which will be published this month by Chatto & Windus. Translated from the Hebrew by Sondra Silverstone.

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Life in the city

[News]

*** DPM Wong Warns Of Radical Ideas Being Spread Through Internet
<http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/261659/1/.html>
Noor Mohd Aziz, Channel NewsAsia

The minister revealed that the Internal Security Department has investigated a few Singaporeans, who had been attracted to radical ideas, via the net.

*** Singapore Couples Urged To Rush Home Early
<http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticleNew.asp?xfile=data/theworld/2007/March/theworld_March33.xml&section=theworld&col=>
DPA

Married couples were urged by Singapore's parliament on Friday to go on love holidays to set a romantic mood for making babies.

*** Singapore's Compulsory Organ Transplants
<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/03/02/worgans02.xml>
Sebastien Berger, Telegraph

The spectacle of a distraught family abasing themselves in a futile attempt to win an extra day's grace for their son and brother has triggered a rare debate in the city-state, with the letters pages of its newspapers filled with comments for and against.

*** Chee Overruled In Law Conference Decision
<http://www.todayonline.com/articles/174928.asp>
Derrick A Paulo, Today

Today has learnt that, for the first time in the history of the conference, an entire day will be dedicated to the rule of law.

*** Second Link To Sentosa
<http://www.todayonline.com/articles/174906.asp>
Tor Ching Li, Today

Resorts World to build 3-lane bridge to Sentosa IR.

*** One Singaporean Says: I Opted Out Because... I Wanted To Send Message
<http://tnp.sg/news/story/0,4136,124040,00.html?>
Ng Wan Ching, New Paper

Ms See Siew Boon says she opted out to send a message to the authorities that this was not the way to do things.

[Opinion]

*** National Service Hurts Singaporean Males?
<http://onthereddot.com/ian/2007/03/02/national-service-hurts-singaporean-males/>
Wanderings, Musings And Happens From Ian On Singapore

It is not ok to ask me to go back to camp so I can take part in a range with other first-timers just because you failed to manage the relevant data properly.

*** Needed: Hard Look At Taxi Efficiency
<http://www.todayonline.com/articles/174845.asp>
Paul Chan Poh Hoi, Today

Singapore's taxi service is far less efficient than that of Hong Kong.

*** What's Workfare Worth?
<http://www.todayonline.com/articles/174849.asp>
Thomas Koshy, Today

Not a lot to the self-employed, but the scheme could lower the number of unemployed significantly.

*** Singaporean Men: Discriminated Against Or Disadvantaged Institutionally?
<http://mollymeek.livejournal.com/142853.html>
Mollymeek

If you clip the wings of a bird, then please don't tell the bird to blame someone else for not letting it fly.