[MyAppleMenu] Aug 9, 2008

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**** Control Everything On Your Mac With Your Keyboard Using Quicksilver <http://www.openmediaboston.org/node/276>
by Jesse Kirdahy-Scalia, Open Media Boston
OS X's Spotlight feature is a great search tool, and is fast enough to use as a keyboard-based application launcher, but that's about where its usefulness ends. Quicksilver picks up the slack by allowing users to control nearly every aspect of their computer without ever touching their mouse. Once you use it, you'll wonder what you did without it.

**** Apple Reviews NetShare; Permanent Ban Likely <http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2008/08/netshares-retur.html>
by Brian X. Chen, Wired
Nullriver's short-lived iPhone application NetShare, which turns your iPhone into a wireless modem for your laptop, might not be returning to the App Store after all.
/Can Nullriver sell the privelige, at a probably-rather-higher-price to U.S. iPhone customers, of being a "beta tester" for Netshare?/

**** Sour Apple: How An Apple Ad Sets The Wrong Expectations <http://www.37signals.com/svn/posts/1190-sour-apple-how-an-apple-ad-sets-the-wrong-expectations>
by Jason Fried, 37signals
Unslow is about selling speed. Speed that isn't for sale at any price. It sets the wrong expectations.

**** ScreenFlow 1.2 Improves Copy/Paste, Adds Fixes <http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/08/08/screenflow.12.shipping/>
by MacNN
Vara has released a v1.2 update to ScreenFlow, its screencast creation and editing program.

**** Another iPhone Application Slashed From App Store <http://www.macworld.com/article/134914/2008/08/slasher_app.html?lsrc=rss_main>
by Dan Moren, Macworld

**** Moneydance 2008R2 Finance Software Released <http://www.macworld.com/article/134908/2008/08/moneydance.html?lsrc=rss_main>
by Peter Cohen, Macworld
Moneydance features online banking support and online bill payment, investment management, budget tracking, transaction scheduling, check printing, graphics, reports and other capabilities.

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**** Paris Match <http://www.vanityfair.com/style/features/2008/09/bruni200809?printable=true&currentPage=all>
by Maureen Orth, Vanity Fair
Just months after his May 2007 election, French president Nicolas Sarkozy faced growing criticism over his stalled reforms, flashy style, and stormy divorce. The last straw should have been his whirlwind remarriage, to an Italian heiress, ex-model, and singer who had past liaisons with Mick Jagger and Eric Clapton, among others, and nude photos all over the internet. But the lady in question, Carla Bruni, is proviing an unexpected asset.

**** Clarke And Pohl's 'The Last Theorem' <http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/08/08/RVC411T7N3.DTL&feed=rss.books>
by Michael Berry, San Francisco Chronicle
Completed only a few days before the death of Arthur C. Clarke, "The Last Theorem" is a paean to the elegance of mathematics and th epower of the scientific method.

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**** Straits Times Redesigned <http://www.yawningbread.org/arch_2008/yax-917.htm>
by Au Waipang, Yawning Bread
After all the thought that went into the redesign of the print version, the management seemed to have let the internet boys do whaever they wanted. The result is something like what your home will look like after you have permitted your teenage sons to host a party.
/Straits Times' online revamp is now in a horrible mess. Navigational and content architectural nightmare. Rather evolve from its previous version, the online team seemed to have re-done everything from scratch &mdash; without any evidence of usability and technical testing at all./

**** Hard Time Making Ends Meet <http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2008/8/9/focus/22033583&sec=focus>
by Seah Chiang Nee, The Star
Few Singaporeans take pride at the republic being ranked Asia's fifth-most expensive city. And don't even talk about The Singapore Dream to the deprived, for they are finding it tougher to cope with the higher costs of living.

**** Singapore Cuts GDP Forecast S Asian Nations Face Slower Growth <http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601080&sid=aKI_88gWn_uU&refer=asia>
by Shamim Adam, Bloomberg
Singapore cut its 2008 growth forecast for a second time this year, joining its Asian neighbors in signaling a deeper slowdown.
The island's economy will expand between 4 percent and 5 percent, from an earlier estimate of 4 percent to 6 percent, prime minister Lee Hsien Loong said yesterday. Growth was 7.7 percent in 2007.