[MyAppleMenu] Mar 22, 2008

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**** The Risk For iPhone Users: They Know Too Much <http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/front/la-fi-iphone22mar22,1,5866342.story>
by Michelle Quinn, Los Angeles Times
The device makes it easy to search for data on the run. That can quickly turn a casual conversation into the Pursuit of Truth.

**** Mac Buyer's Guide: Which Apple Should You Pick? <http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=206902894>
by Richard Hoffman, InformationWeek
We've tested the Mac Pro, MacBook, MacBook Pro, MacBook Air, the iMac, the Mac Mini, and the XServe. There's not a bad Apple among the bunch, and some are truly superb. We'll help you choose one that's right for you.

**** Safari 3.1 For Windows <http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2278164,00.asp>
by Michael Muchmore, PC Magazine
The browser boasts some industry-leading speed and standards support, and has a few clever browsing tricks up its sleeve as well. For most everyday browsing, Safari will get the job done elegantly and swiftly.

**** Schools Respond To iPhone's Popularity <http://www.eschoolnews.com/news/top-news/news-by-subject/technologies/?i=53170%3b_hbguid=3105ad73-79ea-4f2f-96fc-66fa7dc83048>
by Cara Branigan, eSchool News
Responding to the iPhone's popularity among students, many universities now are rolling out initiatives that aim to take advantage of its potential as a converged, mobile learning device.

**** Taking The Mac Plunge <http://lostvalleygardens.com/gardenblog/2008/03/21/taking-the-mac-plunge/>
by Lost Valley

**** Apple Settles "Millions Of Colors" Lawsuit <http://featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com/eric2_0/2008/03/apple-settles-m.html>
by Eric Gwinn, Chicago Tribune
Apple has settled out of court a 10-month-old lawsuit over its displays. Two California professional photographers filed a class-action suit last May, saying they were duped into buying MacBook Pro notebooks by Apple's claim that the MacBook and MacBook Pro could display millions of colors.

**** Switch To Safari: A Look At Safari For Windows <http://goobimama.blogspot.com/2008/03/switch-to-safari-look-at-safari-for.html>
by Goobimama's Soggy Blog
The browser is stable, super fast, extremely standards compliant, and I can finally say, you gotta switch to Safari.

**** Guy Aitchison And Michele Wortman: Apple Ink <http://www.apple.com/pro/profiles/guy_aitchison/?sr=hotnews?sr=hotnews.rss>
by Elise Malmberg, Apple

**** Apple Moves First China Store Down The Road, Opens In Summer <http://arstechnica.com/journals/apple.ars/2008/03/21/apple-moves-first-china-store-down-the-road-opens-in-summer>
by Chris Foresman, Ars Technica

**** Today's Whiny MacMeme Is... <http://www.theangrydrunk.com/2008/03/21/todays-whiny-macmeme-is/>
by The Angry Drunk
Software UPdate allows one to skip updates. And the argument that "anyone who just selects the defaults will be "forced" into installing Safari merely reinforces the time honored perception that Windows users are, in fact, mouth breathing morons.

**** Mozilla CEO: Apple Wrong 'Pushing' Safari To WIndows Users <http://www.macworld.com/article/132646/2008/03/mozilla.html>
by Jim Dalrymple, Macworld
Apple updated its Safari web browser for Mac and Windows on Tuesday and offered the new version for download from its web site. The company also began pushing the browser to Windows users &mdash; whether it was previously installed or not &mdash; via the Apple Software Update, a practice Mozilla CEO John Lilly said is just "wrong."
"It undermines the trust relationship great companies have with their customers, and that's bad &mdash; not just for Apple, but for the security of the whole Web," said Lilly in a post on his blog.

**** Podcasts Are Officially Better Than Radio, Thanks To User Experience <http://a.wholelottanothing.org/2008/03/21/podcasts-are-officially-better-than-radio-thanks-to-user-experience/>
by Matt Haughey, A Whole Lotta Nothing

**** Time Capsule <http://www.macworld.com/article/132627/2008/03/timecapsule.html>
by Glenn Fleishman, Macworld

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**** Hopes For Wireless Cities Are Fading <http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/22/us/22wireless.html?_r=1&ex=1363838400&en=bf9b948d31cd4df4&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&pagewanted=all&oref=slogin>
by Ian Urbina, New York Times

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**** A Building Tells A Million Stories <http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/bcb0101e-f626-11dc-8d3d-000077b07658.html?nclick_check=1>
by Edwin Heathcote, Financial Times
If you approach Renzo Piano's Paris office from the Seine, it looks like just another bourgeois entranc &mdash; simple name-plate, passage, bell, metal door. If you approach it from the north, though, you immediately see why the sign reads not "Renzo Piano Architect" but "Renzo Piano Building Workshop".

**** A Night On The Streets <http://nymag.com/news/features/45103/>
by Robert Kolker, New York Magazine
Homelessness is the single biggest failure of the Bloomberg administration, which has tried a radcial new policy that's made an interactable problem worse. Thee are ovrer 35,000 homeless now in the city. On a single cold night in February, we met six of them.

**** The Book Of The Undead <http://www.slate.com/id/2187035/?from=rss>
by Paul Collins, Slate
Why won't phone books die?

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**** JI Leader's Escape A Big Blow <http://www.thestar.com.my/columnists/story.asp?file=/2008/3/22/columnists/insightdownsouth/20714118&sec=Insight%20Down%20South>
by Seah Chiang Nee, The Star

**** Can Singapore Find A Fare Solution <http://tnp.sg/news/story/0,4136,159809,00.html?>
by Arul John, New Paper
Melbourne tries free ride scheme. We ask experts if this could work for our MRT system.

**** Revealed: How Sovereign Wealth Funds Were Left Nursing Multibillion Losses <http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/mar/22/banking.investmentfunds>
by Richard Wray, The Guardian
The financial crisis enveloping the world banking sector has left the sovereign wealth funds, controlled by governments from Singaore and China to Abu Dhabi and Kuwait, nursing multibillion-dollar losses after helping to bail out major western banks.

**** Temasek Says It Is Not A Sovereign Wealth Fund <http://www.straitstimes.com/Free/Story/STIStory_219340.html>
by Bloomberg
Temasek Holdings said that it is not affected by an agreement by Singapore, Abu Dhabi and the United States on principles to increase the transparency of sovereign wealth funds.
"Temasek is not a sovereign wealth fund," its spokesman Mark Lee said in a telephone interview yesterday. "Temasek has to sell assets to raise cash for new investments and doesn't require the government to give approvals."

**** Why Not More Welfare For The Poor? <http://www.straitstimes.com/Free/Story/STIStory_219178.html>
by Lydia Lim, Straits Times
The government has funds to spare, and yet there are poor folk who struggle to get by. This combination is one that a growing number of better-off Singaporeans seem to find discomfiting.

**** Tell Public When Life Will Return To Normal <http://www.straitstimes.com/ST%2BForum/Story/STIStory_219246.html>
by Arthur Lim Teck Meng, Straits Times
The longer Mas Selamat remains uncaught, the more we must face up to the possibility that he has already left the country, although I really hope I am wrong.