[MyAppleMenu] Dec 13, 2008

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**** Hack Of The Clones: Why Apple Can't Stop The Copies <http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2008/12/hackers-start-u.html>
by Brian X. Chen, Wired
Just hours after announcing plans to sell a high-end Mac clone, niche electronics reseller EFI-X changed course in order to avoid a nasty legal confrontation with Apple.

**** Apple: "The iPhone Is A Gaming Console" <http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/12/apple-the-iphone-is-a-gaming-console/>
by Joshua Topolsky, Engadget

**** How Many U.S. Jobs Does The Apple iPod Create? <http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/economicsunbound/archives/2008/12/how_many_us_job.html?campaign_id=rss_blog_economicsunbound>
by Michael Mandel, BusinessWeek
The answer: 13,920, including engineering and retail. But there are 27,250 iPod-related jobs created outside the U.S.

**** The Digital Home Hub Is Finally Happening <http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/dec/12/apple-digital-hub-reality>
by Charles Arthur, The Guardian
It's taken a long time - seven years to be precise - but the promises of Steve Jobs and Bill Gates from 2001 are finally coming true.

**** Review: World Of Goo <http://www.macworld.com/article/137463/worldofgoo.html>
by Chris Holt, Macworld
World of Goo is a trippy puzzle game that pushes your knowledge of physics to its gooey limits in a post-modernistic setting. Fun, quirky, and highly-addictive, World of Goo is one of the most entertaining puzzle games to come to the Mac in years.

**** No Jobs At Macworld? <http://blogs.oreilly.com/digitalmedia/2008/12/no-jobs-at-macworld.html>
by Daniel H. Steinberg, O'Reilly Digital Media Blog
Is there no Apple keynote at Macworld?

**** Apple Adds New Genre As PullMyFinger Makes It To App Store <http://arstechnica.com/journals/apple.ars/2008/12/12/apple-adds-new-genre-as-pullmyfinger-makes-it-to-app-store>
by Jacqui Cheng, Ars Technica

**** Amju Pet Zoo Released For Mac <http://www.macworld.com/article/137519/2008/12/amjupetzoo.html?lsrc=rss_main>
by Peter Cohen, Macworld
In Amju Pet Zoo, you find eggs and hatch them to make your own zoo of little animals. You can feed them and watch them grow, and when they grow up, they make more eggs, which you can also care for.

**** App Store Tweaks Give Paid Apps More Exposure <http://arstechnica.com/journals/apple.ars/2008/12/12/app-store-tweaks-give-paid-apps-more-exposure>
by Chris Foresman, Ars Technica
Apple has added sidebars that highlight the top 20 paid and free apps separately.

**** Converting From Now Up-To-Date To iCal And BusySync <http://db.tidbits.com/article/9936>
by Adam C. Engst, TidBITS

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**** Choosing Not To Choose <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/05/AR2008120501806.html?wprss=rss_print/washpostmagazine>
by T.M. Shine, Washington Post
Ever feel lost in a maze of too many options? Here's how one man let indecision be his friend.

**** Don't Say The D Word <http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1865962,00.html>
by Justin Fox, Time
"Shall we call it a depression now?"

**** Salad Days <http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/14/magazine/14food-t-000.html?_r=1>
by Nick Laird, New York Times
It was on the volcanic island of Santorini, in a whitewashed restaurant perched on the clifftop with views across the lagoon and out to the vast horizon, that I encountered a Roquefort salad.

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**** Time To Lift Singapore-Malaysia Newspaper Ban <http://www.straitstimes.com/ST%2BForum/Story/STIStory_313713.html>
by Raymond Lo, Straits Times
In this globalised and digital age, the ban on Malaysian papers in Singapore and Singapore newspapers in Malaysia makes no sense.

**** Social Mores Online Creating Ripples <http://thestar.com.my/columnists/story.asp?col=insightdownsouth&file=/2008/12/13/columnists/insightdownsouth/2786063&sec=Insight%20Down%20South>
by Seah Chiang Nee, The Star
There is no doubt that the level of permissiveness has risen &mdash; and will continue to rise &mdash; throughout the island, with youths the most affected.

**** He Refuses To Pay, Faces Cut-Off Of Water Supply <http://tnp.sg/news/story/0,4136,186561,00.html?>
by Amanda Yong and Lediati Tan, New Paper

**** PAP Engagement In The Internet: Beyond Coutner-Insurgency <http://www.thevoiddeck.org/index.php?itemid=424>
by The Void Deck
Despite the shift in styles of engagement, the internet constituency will largely remain sceptical of the substance the PAP swirls around in the blogs, social media networks etc.

**** Enough Is Enough <http://yawshinleong.blogspot.com/2008/12/enough-is-enough.html>
by Yaw Shin Leong

**** Smoking Ban To Be Extended To All Indoor Public Places By Jan 2009 <http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/395949/1/.html>
by Lynda Hong, Channel NewsAsia