From applesurf at myapplemenu.com Thu May 1 13:15:00 2008 From: applesurf at myapplemenu.com (applesurf at myapplemenu.com) Date: 1 May 2008 17:15:00 -0000 Subject: [MyAppleMenu] May 1, 2008 Message-ID: <20080501171500.29965.qmail@voot.pair.com> MyAppleMenu ==================================== **** Adobe Finally Takes On Apple, Google In Mobile by Hank WIlliams, Silicon Alley Insider **** Apple Seeking NYC Office Space by Jonny Evans, Macworld UK **** Safari For Windows Market Share Triples Following SW Update Push by AppleInsider Apple saw its share of the Windows browser market triple immediately after it began encouraging users of the Microsoft operating system to download and install its Safari web browser through the widely deployed Apple Software Update mechanism, according to a new report. **** Why I Switched To A Mac After 20 Years Of Windows PC by Greg Wilson **** Scaring Intel? by Hoovenson Haw, Pressure Release Valve **** The iPhone: Apple's Magic Wand by Brian Caulfield and Elizabeth Woyke, Forbes Apple is knitting together a broad coalition of companies around a vision of computing that goes far beyond today's hot-selling iPhone and toward a future that combines wireless broadband and touch-sensitive interfaces with built-in motion sensors. **** Mozy Launches Online Backup Tool For Apple Macs by Brian Fonseca, Computerworld **** Apple's iTunes To Sell Movies Same Day As DVD Release by MacNN **** Apple Committed To Final Cut by Jonny Evans, Macworld UK Apple has moved to dismiss rumours that it plans to abandon its video products. **** OmniFocus Willing, But Not Quite Ready, To Help You Get Things Done by Matt Neuburg, TidBITS **** ScreenFlow: Screencasting On Steroids by Matt Neuburg, TidBITS ScreenFlow is a stunning, clean, clear, beautifully designed application. **** Extended II by Sven-S. Prost, Quarter Life Crisis It dragged me down again to think that companies like Apple — and aparently pretty much most other people making keyboards as well — have given up even trying to make a good keyboard. The Tomorrow Weblog ==================================== **** Microsoft Helps Law Enforcement Get Around Encryption by Nancy Gohring, IDG News Service **** Architecture Astronauts Take Over by Joel Spolsky, Joel On Software It's Groove, rewritten from scratch, one more time. Ray Ozzie just can't stop rewriting this damn app, again and again and again, and taking 5-7 years each time. MyAppleMenu Reader ==================================== **** It's Funny How Funny Just The Facts Can Be by Paul Farhi, Washington Post Adam Chodikoff, 37, doesn't perform on the Daily Show or write the gags that pepper Stewart's take on the day's news. But as the show's chief researcher and video wiz, he's the vitl link in the program's comedic ecosystem. SingaporeSurf ==================================== **** SDP Marks May Day By Distributing Flyers In Toa Payoh by Asha Popatlal, Channel NewsAsia The opposition Singapore Democratic Party marked May Day by distributing flyers and getting SIngaporeans to sign two petitions. **** Foreigners Do Not Take Jobs Away From Locals: PM by Sue-Ann Chia, Straits Times /Lee Hisen Loong, and his party, has missed the problem, in my opinion. In this particular case of the coffee shop, the local worker cannot even earn a decent living with one job: rather, she has to do two jobs to get a decent living wage. What happens to a decent day of work for a decent day of wage?/ **** Why Social Media Struggles In Singapore by Unique-Frequency **** Cleanest City In The World by George Thomas, CBN News Singapore is one of the cleanest places in the world — where you can be fined or arrested just for spitting, littering or selling chewing gum. As CBN News discovered, Singaporeans don't mind the strict laws one bit. **** Tough Times Call For Flexi Wages by Today Both workers and employers have to take into account the uncertain economic outlook when negotiating their wages this year, said prime minister Lee Hsien Loong in his May Day Message yesterday. **** May Day by A Singaporean **** Filmmaker Submits Six Videos Featuring Political Protests by Martyn See, No Political Films Please, We're Singaporeans Six video documenting a recent spate of public protests in Singapore were submitted to the Board of Film Censors yesterday by filmmaker Ho Choon Hiong. **** Questions About The Reserves by The Kway Teow Man Just look across the causeway and see what happens when you subsidize necessities. /And take a look down south too./ **** Government Babymakers by Tim Hooker, Sushi Tuesday **** Workers' Party Says Singapore Workers Disadvantaged by Channel NewsAsia **** Mas Selamat's 2001 Escape, 17 Tonnes And Preaching To The Converted by Singapore Angle **** ST In The Flesh! by Joel Tan, Daily Backtrack The two journos sought to clarify the 'myth' surrounding the ST as a sycophantic mouthpiece of the government. Though their largely sterile, uninformative and sometimes condescending waffling, I think they merely reinforced it, and also explained the paper's institutional arrogance - it is staffed by many highly-educated, bright young minds, the type of minds, as we know, most likely to be impatient and adverse to the swarm of middle-class sensibility. **** Freedom House Press Freedom Report On Singapore by Gerald Giam, SIngapore Patriot **** Mas Selamat Has Completely Disappeared!!!! by Diary Of A Singaporean Mind Mas Selamat has decided to move on from our newspapers... From applesurf at myapplemenu.com Fri May 2 13:15:01 2008 From: applesurf at myapplemenu.com (applesurf at myapplemenu.com) Date: 2 May 2008 17:15:01 -0000 Subject: [MyAppleMenu] May 2, 2008 Message-ID: <20080502171501.11943.qmail@voot.pair.com> MyAppleMenu ==================================== **** Apple, And The Death Of DVDs by Jemima Kiss, Guardian **** Apple Updates Windows iPod Reset Tool by Jonny Evans, Macworld UK **** AppMenuBoy 1.0.0 by Dan Frakes, Macworld **** Studios Selling Movie Downloads And DVDs At The Same TIme by Saul Hansell, New York Times **** Now We Know Why Apple Rejected Flash by Mike Cane I can envision Steve Jobs himself telling Adobe: /You need us/, we're doing just fine without you. If you want Flash on the iPhone, /we want it for free/. Faced with that, remembering what happened with TrueType, Adobe had no choice but to make a daring move. **** Apple Keyboard by Christopher Turner, ATPM I like the reclaimed desktop space due to its smaller size, and the fact that my finger don't have to work as hard as before. **** Apple's Hard PUsh Of Safari Hits Firefox Market Share by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, ZDNet.com **** Apple iMac (24-Inch Penryn) by Joel Santo Domingo, PC Magazine Even though there are a slew of new competitors to the iMac, none of them have quite enoug innovation or execution to dethrone the king of the all-in-one desktops. **** FIrst Look: 1Password, Password Manager by MacNN **** The Mac In The Gray Flannel Suit by Peter Burrows, BusinessWeek More office workers infatuated with iPods and iPhones are demanding Macs. Is business ready? Is Apple? The Tomorrow Weblog ==================================== **** Data Centers Are Becoming Big Polluters, Study Finds by Steve Lohr, New York Times The world's data centers are projected to surpass the airline industry as a greenhouse gas polluter by 2020, according to a new study by McKinsey & Co. MyAppleMenu Reader ==================================== **** The World Of The Senses by Franz Wright, New Yorker **** Bullfighting by Roddy Doyle, New Yorker **** You Are Not Your Bookcase by Megan Hustad, Salon Online profiles are painfully constructed "faves lists" have turned us into a bunch of unwitting snobs. Enough already. **** Who Needs Trendy? by Charles Perry, Los Angeles Times One day, people will look through our cookbooks and wonder what sun-dried tomatoes, carpaccio and tiramisu were. Just like us, they'll have to try the antique recipes out—no doubt reluctantly; the names will be as puzzling and frumpy-sounding to them as viaunde despyne is to us—before they'll finally be able to decide whether these 20th-century foods were as boring or bizarre as they'll sound. SingaporeSurf ==================================== **** SDP's May Day Message by Gandhi Ambalam, Singapore Democratic Party, theonlinecitizen Our workers became victims of big business, including govenment and Temasek-linked companies. **** CASE Survey Lists Cheapest Supermarkets, 160 Budget Items by Lynda Hong, Channel NewsAsia **** Response To Mr Seng Han Thong by Yaw Shin Leong, The Workers' Party For the record, the staff of HGTC are all Singaporeans. However WP recognizes the contribution of foreign workers and is not against their employment. FOr instance, HGTC does not object to its contractors deploying foreign workers in the estate. The issue here is not of foreign workers' employment per se but rather how the Singapore government ahd the labour union will ensure that the dignity and societal position of Singaporeans workers are not compromised in view of globalization and labour mobility. **** Free On-The-Go Wireless Access For StarHub Broadband Users by Alfred Siew, Straits Times Starhub raised the bar on Friday on internet deals by giving its home broadband subscribers free wireless access on the go as well. **** Singapore's PM Lee Misses The News by Blowin' In The Wind I know the Straits Times means well and didn't want to spoil the holiday mood, but does it have to look only on the bright side? It's a newspaper after all, not a get-well card! **** You Lost That Loving Feelin' by Daniel's Adventures In Adultland Singapore might not be the most complicated country in the world but it's certainly not the land of simpletons New York Times like to believe it is. **** Singapore And Me by Faith's Transient Life **** Singapore Affirmed At 'AAA' On Enduring Fiscal, External Strength - S&P by THomson Financial Standard & Poor's Ratings Services affirmed its 'AAA/A-1+' sovereign credit ratings on the Republic of Singaore, to reflect its enduring fiscal and external strengths and competitive economy, while factoring in the challenges it faces as a small open economy. **** Rice, Rice Everywhere by theonlinecitizen Without a more progressive agenda to alleviate inequality, lower-income groups are likely to languish despite Singapore's continued growth. **** Is Social Media Really Struggling In Singapore? I Don't Think So. by Ian On The Red Dot **** Why So Serious? by Aidil Omar, Sheep City **** M1 Broadband And Blur Images by SGFRAC **** Social Media In Singapore - Sizzle Or Fizzle? by Walter Lim, Cooler Insights **** Bloggers Heat Up Food Content Market In Singapore by Presenting The(new)mediaslut! **** Strengthening Ties With Southeast Asia by New York Times It's a welcome sign that Washington is committed to playing a sustained and constructive role in a vital and cmpetitive region where China is determinedly cultivating a growing influence. **** NSP Hands Out Groceries To Low-Income Families by Zul Othman, Today Nearly $2,000 worth of groceries were given away to about 780 one- and two-room homes during the three-hour exercise, which was co-organised with charity group Red Star Community Service. **** Union Leader Challenges Workers' Party To Hire Only Singaporeans by Lin Yanqin, Today Yesterday, Mr Seng Han Thong, National Trades Union Congress (NTUC) assistant secretary-general, challenged the WP to set an example on the issue of foreign workers. "According to their statements, I propose that they start with their Hougang Town Council by ensuring that all their workers and employees are Singaporeans only. That's the best way to start." /Sure, why not. In fact, Hougang Town Council should even go one step further: hire Hougang residents first./ **** Singaporeans Now Highly Dependent On Foreigners! by Diary Of A Singaporean Mind **** 'Asian Values'? In East Or West, People Want More Media Freedom by Journalism.sg **** 5 Minutes With... Leong Sze Hian On NTUC Discounts by theonlinecitizen From applesurf at myapplemenu.com Sat May 3 13:15:00 2008 From: applesurf at myapplemenu.com (applesurf at myapplemenu.com) Date: 3 May 2008 17:15:00 -0000 Subject: [MyAppleMenu] May 3, 2008 Message-ID: <20080503171500.27735.qmail@voot.pair.com> MyAppleMenu ==================================== **** In Pictures: 10 Years Of iMac by Simon Jary, PC Advisor It was 10 years ago - on May 6, 1998 - that Apple unveiled the computer that revolutionised the company and marked the end of the beige box computer forever. **** DVDs Come Under Pressure From The Same-Day iTunes Digital Releases by Christian Zibreg, TG Daily **** Apple Leopard Server by Oliver Rist, PC Magazine Apple's put a load of work into Leopard Server, and it shows. What was mainly a niche back-end platform for Mac users has evolved into a slick server that caters to a general small-business audience. **** Apple Gets Top Marks For Tech Support by Antone Gonsalves, InformationWeek Apple is much better than other computer makers at solving customers' tecnical problems, /Consumer Reports/ found in a subscriber survey. **** Would Apple Buy Adobe? I Doubt It. by Eric Savitz, Barrons Such a move would be hugely out of character for Apple, which has done very few substantial acquisitions over the years. **** Apple Backpedals On 10M iTunes Song Claim by MacNN **** Amazing Brain Train Game Released by Peter Cohen, Macworld The Amazing Brain Train features fifteen different mini-games in five categories — tests of your mental skill, in categories like search, planning, spatial awareness, memory and numbers. **** Apple On MacBook Air, Jobs' Plane, Leases, R&D, NAND Flash, More... by Katie Marsal, AppleInsider **** SOHO Notes 7 For Mac Is A Strong Evolution In Probudcitivity by David Chartier, Ars Technica **** 1,000 Renals? iTunes Finally Makes It by Christopher Breen, Macworld **** I Think Cringely Is Off His Meds Again by John Gruber, Daring Fireball Even if Apple were to buy Adobe (a big /if/), and if that acquisition raised anti-trust concerns, Apple would sell the competing Adobe apps, not their own current ones. **** Starbucks Rolling Out Free Wi-Fi For iPhones, Slowly by Dan Moren, Macworld **** MediaStorm: Visionary Journalism by Dustin Driver, Apple Every one of the MediaStorm stories was produced on a Mac using Apple apps. "The Mac is just a magic box," says Storm. "It allows us to do so many amazing things. It's a seamless visual environment that keeps the creative juices flowing. And Macs just flat-out work. Our Macs are always running; they're always working. W're a total Mac shop." **** Iron Man: Steve Jobs Is Even Tougher Than You Think. by Robert X. Cringely, PBS It seems obvious to me that there is only one real reason why Apple would sell off its professional applications and that's to avoid antitrust problems when/if Apple buys Adobe Systems. The Tomorrow Weblog ==================================== **** Higher Offer By Microsoft Brings Yahoo To Table by Andrew Ross Sorkin and Miguel Helft, New York Times After a three-month standoff, Microsoft was in active merger talk swith Yahoo on Friday, several people involved in the discussions said. **** Pursuing The Next Level Of Aritificial Intelligence by John Markoff, New York Times **** Is Office The New Netscape? by Nicholas Carr, Rought Type **** Meetup.com: Just Don't Call It Dating by Amy Albert, Los Angeles Times Meetup brings together people with similar interests, such as hiking, wine-tasting—even Dumpster-diving. MyAppleMenu Reader ==================================== **** The Bohr Paradox by Robert P Crease, Physics World Niels Bohr's towering role in the history of physics can be difficult to appreciate. **** Born Again by Jonathan Spence, New York Times At one level, "Life and Death" is a kind of documentary, carrying the reader across the time from the land reform at the end of the Chiense Civil War, through the establishment of mutual-aid teams and lower-level cooperatives in the early and mid-1950s, into the extreme years of the Great Leap Forward and hte famine of the late '50s and early '60s, and on to the steady erosion of the collective economy in the new era of largely unregulated "capitalism with socialist characteristics." Yet although one can say that the political dramas narrated by Mo Yan are historically faithful to the currently known record, "Life and Death" remains a wildly visionary and creative novel, constantly mocking and rearranging itself and jolting the reader with its own internal commentary. **** Post Codes by John Mullan, Guardian The strangest thing about Lionel Shriver's We Need to Talk About Kevin is that this thoroughly contemporary tale employs n old-fashioned fictional form. SingaporeSurf ==================================== **** Rights Activists Observe World Press Freedom Day Outside SPH by Journalism.sg **** Homophobia Part 2: Under Attack From The Police by Ng Yi-Sheng, theonlinecitizen Minister of home affairs Mr Wong Kan Seng, do please keep your boys and girls in blue focused on important affairs like missing alleged terrorists and rapists and murderers and, oh, maybe even a little effort on petty crime would be a good idea. Why send them over to rough up a sauna? Let them behave with a little dignity. **** Homophobia Part 1: The MDA Censors The Family by Ng Yi-Sheng, theonlinecitizen WHat the show revealed was that gay families exist, which they patently do. For MDA to manically hide such facts from your average viewer is tantamount to fraud: a policy of lying. For its own reasons, the group wants Singapore audiences to be innocent and ignorant - in a word, stupid. **** Packable Politics And Its Press by Au Waipang, Yawning Bread Dangers lurk when a government begins to rely on their ability to get the media dog to jump at their bidding. Instead of doing right, it may at times become more tempting for those in power to do quiet. Today, it's a detainee's escape that is "no longer topical", tomorrow it might be a bread-and-butter issue that resonates more widely with ordinary voters. Would the government bulldoze its way through and rely on its editors to ignore popular feeling and "move on"? **** Is An Incompetent Cabinet What We Have? by Under The Willow Tree There are direct links between ministerial responsibility and the recapture of Mas Selamat. Netizens, bloggers, MPs and the opposition would do well to focus on these links. **** Please Have Your Service Staff Speak English by Wooden Dino **** Coping With Rising Prices And High Cost Of Living by Seah Chiang Nee, The Star The republic is paying a high price for becoming a global city of fine living comparable to the likes of Paris, New York or Tokyo. It has created something more than high inflation: A permanent high-cost structure — from property to taxi fares and restaurants. **** Social Media In Singapore - The Complete Failure Model by The Biz Walk **** Ren Ci's New Hospital: No Tax Break For Donors by Straits Times **** Essentially, It's The Same Wherever You Go by Bryan Murphy, Daily Campus **** Singapore's Lee Says Asia's Buffered From Rice Price by Haslinda Amin and Liza Lin, Bloomberg Soaring rice prices are less likely to cause instability in China, India and other major Asian economies because they are buffered by domestic production of hte cereal, Singapore's minister mentor Lee Kuan Yew said. **** WP: Only Singaporeans Work At Hougang Town Council by Neo Chai Chin, Today **** Do We Really Need More People? by Richard Hartung, Today Instead of size, developing a welcoming environment that nurtures talent and enables it to flourish seems more likely to drive growth than just pouplation increases. **** Shouldn't Singapore Have Time Limit For Criminal Cases? by Anrul John, New Paper Having such a statute ensures that the accused person's right to a fair trial is not undermined because of loss of evidence or gaps in the memory of witnesses. **** What I Meant By My Silence: Low by Loh Chee Kong, Today "The question by the prime minister is an unnecessary question. I have not called for the resignation of the minister. Is that not an obvious answer to you?" he told /Weekend Today/. **** To Regulate (And How) Or Not To Regulate? by he Kway Teow Man If the government tired to regulate, it's probably going to scew it up - because MAS won't be able to do it right. **** What's Wrong With Having Foreign Workers? by Ian Tan, Empty Vesel Xenophobia's been around for a long time but to need to have the Gahmen constantly telling us to stop fretting about foreign workers in our midst? C'mon people. We're made of tougher stock than that. From applesurf at myapplemenu.com Sun May 4 13:15:00 2008 From: applesurf at myapplemenu.com (applesurf at myapplemenu.com) Date: 4 May 2008 17:15:00 -0000 Subject: [MyAppleMenu] May 4, 2008 Message-ID: <20080504171500.52108.qmail@voot.pair.com> MyAppleMenu ==================================== **** About That "Apple Is Selling Its Pro Apps" Rumor by Thomas Fitzgerald **** The Air Really Is Thinner Here by Simon Tsang, Sydney Morning Herald All the criticisms remain and,sure, it would have made more economical sense to buy the regular MacBook (which has more for less) but the Air is just something else altogether when you use it. Comparing price and specification charts simply doesn't do it justice. /I wonder how many of these "price and specification charts" have items like thinness and joyfulness./ **** AT&T Disables Free iPhone Wi-Fi (For Now) by Arnold Kim, MacRumors.com **** XP On An iPhone by Heng-Cheong Leong, MyAppleMenu Good news, folks. Microsoft has signed up for the iPhone SDK, and will be porting Windows XP onto everyone's favorite smart phone. On second thought... never mind.

Permanent Link to This Post **** 5 (More) Areas Where Apple's iPhone Falls Short; Readers Weigh In by Alexander Wolfe, InformationWeek The Tomorrow Weblog ==================================== **** Microsoft Says Proxy Battle Not Worth It by Ina Fried, CNET News.com Microsoft officially pulled its offer for Yahoo on Saturday. Steve Ballmer said in a statement that Microsoft would pursue its own strategy. "After careful consideration, we believe the economics demanded by Yahoo do not make sense for us, and it is in the best interests of Microsoft stockholders, employees and other stakeholders to withdraw our proposal." **** Intel: "Web 2.0"-Style Cloud Computing Just A Passing Vapor by Jon Stokes, Ars Technica **** Internet Law Prof Spells Doomsday For Web Innovation by Paul Glazowski, Mashable I will agree very much with any statement that pegs some technology giants of the world as uncompetitive, to varying degrees. Several much more so than others. But looking at the progress made within, say, the past 5-10 years among internet developments, new and old, there's little evidence, if any, that innovation hasn't been delivered in abundance, even with closed systems playing champions in various markets. MyAppleMenu Reader ==================================== **** What I Can Tell You About Seattle Based On The People I've Met Who Are From There by Tao Lin, The Stranger (I live in Brooklyn.) **** The Secret Life Of Words: How English Became English, By Henry Hitchings by John Morrish, The Independent The history of the English language is the history of our place in the world. SingaporeSurf ==================================== **** Chee Soon Juan And Other Illegal Hawkers by Mr Wang Says So It seems that the police authorities want the NEA to take on an additional role - deal with opposition politicians who cannot be prosecuted for unlawful assembly or illegal outdoor demonstrations. **** Guilty Until Proven Innocent: The Case Of William Ding by Au Waipang, Yawning Bread At least Ding was vindicated on appeal. But it has been a long-drawn and expensive trial for him. He has to pay his own legal costs; the state is not going to compensate him for the homophobic panic of its officers. This is another example of how the state wrongs its own citizens through a homophobic climate in the very corridors of power. **** Three Questions by he Kway Teow Man **** NTUC Fairprice Profitability And The Limits Of Corporate Social Responsibility by Singapore Angle **** Free Meals Salvation For Poor In Wealthy Singapore by AFP Singapore may be one of Asia's wealthiest nations but soaring food prices have hit its poor hard, as can be seen by the queues at the Singapore Buddhist Lodge, which serves daily free vegetarian meals. With inflation at a 26-year high, charities say more people are joining queues for free meals. **** Little Greens by Faizis **** What Stories Will You Tell? by Insane Polygons There was a time when our leaders was truly worthy of emulation and admiration. These days in return for a couple of million dollars, all we get are a bunch of middle managers with delusions of grandeur and a diminised sense of responsibility. Who when push comes to shove would have the lapdog media do the dirty work for them rather than own up to their mistkes and shortcomings. **** Social Media In Singapore - My Ideal Model by The Biz Walk **** Chinese And Vietnamese Turn To Hawking Bootleg Cigarettes by DPA Peddlers from China and Vietnam are hawking bootleg cigarettes openly in Singapore and even stopping cars to sell their stash, /The Sunday Times/ said. The cigarettes are smuggled in on board cargo ships which dock at Jurong Port. **** A Magical Little Film From Singapore by Tara Tan, The Star It is a tiny film from a tiny island. But it has made the big time. Singapore film /My Magic/ is competing with the world's biggest names in film-making for the prestigious Palme d'Or (Golden Palm), the highest accolade at the coming Cannes Film Festival. Days after the news, director Eric Khoo was still pinching himself. **** Stop The Press by Ho Choon Hiong, Bishan Busy Body **** No Junk Food In School Canteen? We'll Buy From Minimart Next Door by Shuli Sudderuddin and Samantha Eng, Straits Times Experts say outright ban may have effect of making unhealthy food more desirable to pupils. **** Typically Singapore? by Queer Rant Despite being a developed country and having one of the highest concentration of queers in the region, are the people so this closed minded about things like this? **** Singapore Buggery by Bright Lights **** How Good Leaders Manage Failure by Gerald Giam, Singapore Patriot When some amoeba civil servant comes up with a great idea, the government mouthpieces boast that "minister Cin Tua Liap /mooted/ the idea". But if a disgraceful prison break occurs, the blame is contained within the detention centre and no higher. **** Dogma by Joel Tan, Daily Backtrack The government has to learn that the sentiment of 377A is not politically expedient anymore, that it is one part of the caustic erosion of the wall between the state and those who wish to exert their dogma on it. **** Why Are Straits Times Reporters Better At FInding Criminals Than The Singapore Police? by Urbanrant So what do I expect from our police? Not much, but they are pretty good at showing up whenever Chee Soon Juan turns up. From applesurf at myapplemenu.com Mon May 5 13:15:00 2008 From: applesurf at myapplemenu.com (applesurf at myapplemenu.com) Date: 5 May 2008 17:15:00 -0000 Subject: [MyAppleMenu] May 5, 2008 Message-ID: <20080505171500.52763.qmail@voot.pair.com> MyAppleMenu ==================================== **** From Win32 To Cocoa: A Windows User's Conversion To Mac OS X - Part II by Peter Bright, Ars Technica The confusion of UIs in Windows mirrors the confusion of development within Microsoft. **** The Best Way To Enjoy An iTunes Movie Rental by Terry White When you rent a movie on your computer and "move" it to your iPhone or iPod you only need to be connected to the internet at the start of the transfer. Once it's on your iPhone or iPod you still have 30 days to start watching it. **** Non-US Devs Now Being Accepted Into iPhone Developer Program by Justin Berka, Ars Technica **** Apple's Steve Jobs: A Good Act To Copy by Harvey Schachter, Globe And Mail **** Switching From Linux To Mac by Greg Detre **** Steve Jobs Stakes Out The TV Den by David Carr, New York Times It will take some time. Many homes are still not ready to share digital files; download speeds are sporadic; and the DVD remains the format of choice. But going forward, everything is up for grabs. And when it comes to a jump ball, best to put your money on Apple. The Tomorrow Weblog ==================================== **** Publisher Tested The Waters Onlne, Then Dove In by Steve Lohr, New York Times It may be a niche publisher, but the International Data Group has been working out the answers to some big mainstream questions. The biggest one: Can print media survive the transition to the internet? **** Yahoo Must Now Decide On Google Outsourcing Deal by Dow Jones **** A Step Back For Microsoft by Steve Lohr, New York Times **** Will Microsoft Really Walk? by New York Times MyAppleMenu Reader ==================================== **** One Can Miss Mountains by Todd Boss, New Yorker **** A Man Like Him by Yiyun Li, New Yorker The girl, unlike most people photographed for fashion magazines, was not beautiful. Moreover, she had no desire to appear beautiful, as anyone looking at her could tell, and for that reason Teacher Fei stopped turning the pages and studied her. She had short, unruly hair and wide-set eyes that glared at the camera in a closeup shot. In another photo, she stood in front of a bedroom door, her back to the camera, her hand pushing the door ajar. A bed and its pink sheet were artfully blurred. Her black T-shirt, in sharp focus, displayed a line of white printed characters: "My father is less of a creature than a pig or a dog because he is an adulterer." **** A Man Of Taste by D. T. Max, New Yorker A chef with cancer fights to save his tongue. SingaporeSurf ==================================== **** An Incredible Lack Of Credibility by Insane Polygons I ended my subscription to The Straits Times. If I was going to have shit shoveled into my face, then goddamnit I should be at least be paid. **** If Bloggers Are Not Influencers... by The Biz Walk **** Vote For Lee Kuan Yew The Thinker by Blowin' In The Wind Is Lee Kuan Yew one of the foremost thinkers of our time? He is among the top 100 public intellectuals listed by Foreign Policy magazine. It is asking people people to choose the world's five foremost thinkers. **** Singaporeans Want More Consultation On Government Policies: Survey by Ian Lim, Straits Times Singaproeans want the government to take a more proactive and consultative approach to setting priorities and making decisions, and be accountable for public spending, according to a survey released on Monday. **** Health Science Authority Questioning Integrity Of Singapore Media? by Presenting The(new)mediaslut! I was wondering if Madam C. Suwarin, HSA deputy director, could share any evidence that these drug companies are "paying for editorial coverage in the newspapers, magazines or radio". Such sweeping statements, not only affect the integrity of the publication, but that of the journalist too. **** Strapped For Life by Singapore Life And Times **** Subscribe To SingaporeSurf Today by Heng-Cheong Leong, MyAppleMenu Do you know that you can subscribe to SingaporeSurf via this URL http://www.myapplemenu.com/singapore/rss.xml in your favorite news aggregator such as Google Reader and Bloglines ? :-)

Permanent Link to This Post **** Re-Reading Joel Tan Via Archetypal Literary Theory by I Have Succumbed To Peer Pressure Assuming that the ST will never regain its credibility until an overhaul takes lace first at the level of the state, I think the onus is now on the Singaporean New Media to build up its credibility in terms of discussion and debate. **** That 'Foreign Object' by Melvin Tan, A Sampan On Singapore Soil Why a PAP MP couldn't fathom a Workers' Party statement. **** Who Will Tell The People? by Thomas L. Friedman, New York Times How could this be? We are a great power. How could we be borrowing money from Singapore? **** Labour Day Round Up: Who Did What, Who Said What by Sgpolitics.net **** Freedom From An Oppressive Government by M. Bakri Musa Oppression is still oppression no matter ow seemingly sophisticated the guises and excuses. Singapore effectively controls its citizens through inane and intrusive rules as well as punitive laws like its libel statutes. South Korea's General Park justified his on the pretext of economic efficiency and national security. It worked only temporarily in South Korea; it will be the same with Singapore. Sooner or later citizens' yearning for freedom will emerge. Once the flame of freedom is lighted, it can be doused only temporarily. **** Asian Nations Agree To Set Up Crisis Fund by AFP Finance mnisters of 13 Asian nations agreed on Sunday to set up a foreign exchange pool of at least 80 billion dollars to be used in the event of another regional financial crisis. China, Japan and South Korea will provide 80 percet of the funds, with the rest coming from the 10 members of ASEAN. **** It's Hardly PC, But It Works A Treat In Singapore by Rob McKay, New Zealand Herald Singapore is full of novel ideas that make the city so safe and prosperous. The place is run like an efficient organisation. Why? Because Singapore has an over-riding policy of "zero tolerance for poor performance and bad behaviour". **** Kiwi Film-Makers Seek More Collaboration With Singapore by Lincoln Tan, New Zealand Herald **** Singapore's Lee Says Southeast Asia Will Be Like European Union by Douglas Wong and Haslinda Amin, Bloomberg Lee Kuan Yew, the founding father of Singapore, predicted that the Association of Southeast Asian Nations eventually will allow people and money to move freely within the region like the European Union. **** Are Costs The Only Concern? by Lai Yew Chan, Today It must remain our long-term goal to empower Singaporeans with the comparative advantage when seeking a service job, or any job for that matter. **** A Loaf Of Bread A Day To Feed 4 by Loh Chee Kong, Today **** Cyber Bender by Ng Jing Yng, Today Gaming cafes register as clubs to get around rules restricting entry for young patrons. /And this is different from students skipping school to go to the nearby long kang to catch fish, how?/ **** Why My $600 'Windfall' Is Not Really Free by SM Ong, New Paper $200 is supposed to help me cope with the 2 per cent GST increase in July last year. Now, a mere 10 months later, we seem to need mor than a GST Offset Package. From applesurf at myapplemenu.com Tue May 6 13:15:01 2008 From: applesurf at myapplemenu.com (applesurf at myapplemenu.com) Date: 6 May 2008 17:15:01 -0000 Subject: [MyAppleMenu] May 6, 2008 Message-ID: <20080506171501.56711.qmail@voot.pair.com> MyAppleMenu ==================================== **** Review: Return To Dark Castle by Peter Cohen, Macworld Return to Dark Castle is a lot of fun for gamers who remember this series from their younger days, but may not appeal to newer gamers who have grown up with more sophisticated gaming expectations. Now get off my lawn you young punks, before I call the cops. **** Apple, In First, To Use Two Networks To Sell iPhone by Steve Goldstein, MarketWatch In an unusual shift, Telecom Italia also said it's going to sell Apple's iPhone in Italy. Like Vodafone, Telecom Italia didn't provide many details. **** A Bridge To The Future Of The iPod by Tom Krazit, CNET News.com While Apple is taking sure steps toward evolving the upper echelon of its iPod product line, what should it do to keep its iPod cash cow going into the next decade? /I definitely see the iPod classic and nano lines gaining touch's functionalities in the near future./ **** Vodafone Inks Deal With Apple To Sell iPhone In Ten Countries by AppleInsider Vodafone, the world's largest mobile phone company in dollar sales, announced Tuesday that it has reached an agreement with Apple to sell the iPhone in ten of its markets beginning sometime this year. /Looked like the rumor of Optus getting the iPhone in Australia turned out not to be true. Which may imply that the rumor of SingTel, the parent company of Optus, getting the iPhone in Singapore is not true either./ **** Fun With My New MacBook... by JessPDX My favorite things are video Skyping and Photo Booth. **** EarthBrowser 3.0: Doppler, Browser, Norhtern Lights by MacNN Lunar Software has released EarthBrowser 3.0, an update to the real-time three dimensional model of the earth that offers continuously updated global information. **** The Dawn Of The Apple Office by CIO The real obstacle for many IT departments lies in the way Apple does business, not the core technologies they use. But to the extend that corporate IT is starting to simply not care what users run personally, and decreasing their bubble of responsibility to core services, Apple will increasingly be used for business purposes as it expands in the consumer market, by dint of the simple fact that users will use their personal devices to the greatest extent possible for work. **** Regarding The iPhone Keyboard by John Gruber, Daring Fireball Here's the rub:if it takes a week of use to get the hang of the iPhone keyboard and a month to get good at it, how does Apple convince a current BlackBerry/Tero/Sidekick/BlackJack/whatever mowner who is particularly skeptical about the keyboard? **** Is It Time To Switch To A Mac? by Alan Freedman, PC Magazine **** I Stink At Typing On The iPhone by Eric Zeman, InformationWeek **** Times: The Newspaper Newsreader For Mac by Jason Parker, CNET Download Blog With all of it's flexibility, Times might be worth the extra money. **** Review: Roxio Toast 9 Titanium by Bob Kaneko, O'Grady's PowerPage If you have a desire to create high definition discs, integrate your TiVo with your Mac, or convert video for use in different environments, Toast 9 Titanium is about as good as it gets. **** What If Apple Did Buy Adobe? by Thomas Fitzgerald Of course all this is just complete fantasy. Yet the sheer excitement of the potential for such a huge eruption to take place in the technology industry is worth a ltitle idle speculation. **** Apple Denies Rumors Of Selling Off Pro Apps by Arnold Kim, MacRumors.com **** Apple Blossoms With Growing Cash Balance by Todd Bishop, Seattle Post-Intelligencer The biggest cash pile in the technology industry has historically belonged to Microsoft, but now it has some company, and it's a familiar name: Apple. **** Traveling Light While Staying In Touch by Jim Dalrymple, Macworld I came up with what proved to be a workable solution for staying in touch during our vacation: a MacBook Air and a pair of iPhones. **** Do We Really Want Our Cult To Go Mainstream? by Leigh McMullen, Cult Of Mac The Tomorrow Weblog ==================================== **** Yahoo CEO Says Still Open To Microsoft Talks by Michele Gershberg, Reuters **** Yahoo Faces Critics Over Failed Microsoft Bid by Dan Nystedt, Macworld UK Yahoo shareholders are suing the company over the failure of the Microsoft deal. **** Better Reading On The Small Screen by Kate Greene, MIT Technology Review A research project could help people transfer paper documents to their phones and read them more easily. **** How Google's Checkbook Stymied Microsoft by Saul Hansell, New York Times It is a rare company that will help its biggest rival this way. And Google's offer is all the more unusual because it does not neutralize Yahoo as a potential future competitor, at least explicitly. MyAppleMenu Reader ==================================== **** A Place In Maine by Sherod Santos, Slate **** The New Paternalism by Evan R. Goldstein, Chronicle Of Higher Education An economist and a legal scholar argue that policy makers should nudge people into making good decisions. SingaporeSurf ==================================== **** Locals Cannot Salary Adjustment. Foreigners Can. by DK **** GIC Won't Move To Temasek Level Disclosure - Singapore PM by Reuters Singapore's prime minister said on Tuesday that its sovereign wealth fund GIC will not move to the same level of financial disclosure as its sister fund Temasek. "We do not want to tell people exactly how much we have, so people can take a run on the Singapore dollar." **** The Pigeons Are Among Us Already by Au Waipang, Yawning Bread We are already living the reality of a digital space that is borderless. /Fitna/ is easily accessible, and there is more porn available from a two-click websearch than any of us have time to watch. The pigeons are among us. Why do we still want to undermine respect for the law by using it as a shaggy scarecrow? **** Why Wong Kan Seng Should Be Fired... by The Moley Prophet **** Waiting For Godot by theonlinecitizen The opposition needs someone who combines the ruthlessness and iron-will of Margaret Thatcher and with the kind of clear, sweeping vision that Franklin Rosevelt brought to an America in crisis. **** The News At Their Doorsteps That Wasn't Worth Reporting by Presenting The(new)mediaslut! **** Address Workers' Party Query by Nicholas Loh, Straits Times I am disappointed that MP Seng Han Thong, assistant secretary-general of the National Trades Union Congress (NTUC)), responded by challenging the WP to 'not allow its contractors to employ foreigners', instead of addressing the issues raised. **** Cooperative Advantage by Yeo Khee Quan, Straits Times FairPrice, being a cooperative, pays no corporate taxes and is under no obligation to show a profit. **** Singapore Water Makes Global Waves by Jorn Madslein, BBC News Water shortages are making waves all over the world, with supplies increasingly seen as an issue of national security. In Singapore, they have boiled it down to economics. **** Singapore Model Appeals To Ram by The Fiji Times Public Service Commission chairman Rishi Ram says the civil service in Singapore, though small in size, is efficient. Mr Ram says the commissiion feels that model would be beneficial for Fiji's civil service. **** Why Must CDC Staff 'Shout At Needy Customers'? by Zubaidah Nazeer, New Paper Customer service officers at a social services centre have come under fire for allegedly raising their voices at those who approach them, and for exhibiting what appeared to be unprofessional behaviour. Residents who have been to a branch of the North West community development council (CDC) at Woodlands Civic Centre were observed to have been rudely served. **** Aljunied Town Council And A Matter Of Principle by Mr Wang Says So In 2006/2007, Aljunied Town Council could have spent /double/ the amount they actually did, on cleaning works, and still have money left over. **** Lee Kuan Yew Vs Warren Buffett - Round 2 by Under The Willow Tree I seriously think there's no debate. **** Backwater by My Very Own Glob What happened to the "Swiss Standard of Living" Goh Chok Tong talked about in the 90s? Left it in Switzerland? From applesurf at myapplemenu.com Wed May 7 13:15:00 2008 From: applesurf at myapplemenu.com (applesurf at myapplemenu.com) Date: 7 May 2008 17:15:00 -0000 Subject: [MyAppleMenu] May 7, 2008 Message-ID: <20080507171500.15316.qmail@voot.pair.com> MyAppleMenu ==================================== **** Opacity Adds SVG Support by Peter Cohen, Macworld Opacity helps users generate resolution-independent graphic images and icons for use on the web and in applications. **** Can Apple Buck The Trend? by Todd Benjamin, CNN **** Review: 20- And 24-Inch Aluminum iMacs (2008 Edition) by Roman Loyola, Macworld Under the hood, the new iMacs differ significantly from the original aluminum iMac, and those differences result in speed increases. **** A Decade Of I by Lunar Obverse **** Is Mac OS X Leopard, Safari 3.X Too Dark? by David Morgenstern, ZDNet.com At one time, Mac OS X's Aqua interface was light and colorful. Now it's taken a darker turn, and at times, in some applications, on some displays and for some eyes, much darker. **** The Philosophy Of iMac by Erica Sadun, The Unofficial Apple Weblog **** Jolt 1.0 by Dan Frakes, Macworld Drifting Light's Jolt 1.0 provides a systemwide menu-bar icon that lets you temporarily disable display sleep. **** AT&T: No Vacation Around The iPhone Anniversary by Tom Krazit, CNET News.com **** NBC Cozies Up To iTunes UK And Zune, But Not iTunes US by David Chartier, Ars Technica **** The iMac Turns 10 by Jason Snell, Macworld Those were funny days, the days before the coverage of every Apple new-product announcement. The Tomorrow Weblog ==================================== **** Why Yahoo Shares Lost Only 15% by Robert Hof, BusinessWeek **** Have We Crossed The Chasm? by Leigh's Blitherings MyAppleMenu Reader ==================================== **** Hillary And Bill: The Movie by Roger Ebert, Chicaco Sun-Times I woke up at about 3:30 a.m. and went online to see if Obama had pulled a victory out of Indiana. He had narrowed Clinton's head to two points by midnight and later added a few more votes, but the story was basically the same: Clinton's winning margin was so small that it didn't much count, and Obama would be hte likely presidential nominee. Then I started wondering, in the vaporous midnight hours, about how you could make a ovie of this primary campaign. **** Where Are They? by Nick Bostrom, MIT Technology Review Why I hope the search for extraterrestrial life finds nothing. **** Blood On The Tracks by Jennifer Gonnerman, New York Magazine Every time a trackworker goes into the tunnels, there's a chance he won't come back out. What the world looks like when a 400-ton train is barreling toward you at 30 miles per hour. **** It's The Adultery, Stupid by Michael Wolff, Vanity Fair Politics is now about sex. Not just scandalous sex, not jsut who is having what kind of sex, but what we think about the sex each politician is having, or not having. Sex (/sex/, not gender) in politics is as significant a subtext as race. SingaporeSurf ==================================== **** Mica Studying 'Lighter Touch' On Internet Controls by Zakir Hussain, Straits Times A group of bloggers has submitted 20 pages of propsals on internet freedom to the government, which says it will consider their ideas. **** Singapore Bak Earnings Slow; U.S. Clouds Outlook by Saeed Azhar and Kevin Lim, Reuters **** Transcript Of Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew's Interview With Haslinda Amin Of Bloomberg News On 29 April 2008 At Istana by Singapore Government **** Aljunied Town Council - Taking Te Easy Way Out? by Leong Sze Hian and Andrew Loh, theonlinecitizen Instead of charging more, how about reducing S & CC for the cleaner precincts instead? **** Labrador Villa Food Centre: Food Centres Should Have World Heritage Status! by ieatishootipost I just wish that some of the good old hawker centres can be put on the heritage list so that they can be preserved for our future generations. **** The Maid Trade - Singapore: "And Then, No Boyfriend! This One's Very Important, Okay?" by Anonymous_X **** Singapore In Maps, 1819-1954 by Yesterday.sg **** Le Big Bake Off by secretsatsixth Basically, the competition had a bake theme... to bake anything that has a green ingredient. I did a green bean tea-ramisu and a creamed spinach quiche. **** Meet The New Cast Member Of Avenue Q Manila & Singapore by TheBachelorGirl.com **** Singapore Police Force In YouTube (Or "Should Our SPF Have A Blog?") - Part 2 by Ivan Chew, Rambling Librarian **** Irresponsible Speech & The Right To Forgiveness by Mollymeek **** Letter From Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong To General Thein Sein, Prime Minister, Union Of Myanmar by Singapore Government On behalf of the government and people of Singapore, I would like to extend our condolences to the families and friends of the victims, with the hope that they will find the strength to recover from their grief and loss. (Note: PDF document.) **** 40% Of Singapore Households Will Be Millionaires By 2017, Forecasts Wealth Manager by Jinny Koh, Today **** ERP Woes: What's To Blame - CashCard, IU Or Gantry? by Ng Jing Yng, Today **** Singapore Police Force In YouTube (Or "Should Our SPF Have A Blog?") - Part 1 by Ivan Chew, Rambling Librarian **** Golden Age Or Hungry Years? If Singapore Is So Rich, Why Am I Poor? by Feed Me To The Fish **** More And More Enigmatic by Melvin Tan, A Sampan On Singapore Soil Singaporeans would not wish to pay the government higher salaries to think of new ways to make more money from them. From applesurf at myapplemenu.com Thu May 8 13:15:01 2008 From: applesurf at myapplemenu.com (applesurf at myapplemenu.com) Date: 8 May 2008 17:15:01 -0000 Subject: [MyAppleMenu] May 8, 2008 Message-ID: <20080508171501.53860.qmail@voot.pair.com> MyAppleMenu ==================================== **** Review: Default Folder X 4.0.5 by Craig Grannell, Cult Of Mac **** Comic Life Magiq Debuts by Peter Cohen, Macworld The original Comic Life took your photos and let you put them into panels that looked like comic books, complete with captions, dialog bubbles and other effects. Comic Life Magiq builds on that functionality with pre-built templates, "props," balloons and spraycans to help you tell a story using your own pictures. **** Mac Home Control Software Updated by Jonny Evans, Macworld UK Perceptive Automation has introduced Indigo 3.0, a major update to its home control and automation server for Mac OS X. **** The New Rules For Buying A Mac by Jonathan Seff and Jason Snell, Macworld We bust the most common Mac shopping myths. **** iTunes FairPlay DRM - Protecting Artists And Labels, Or Helping Apple Sell More iPods? by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, ZDNet.com **** TextMate by Sven-S. Prost, Quarter Life Crisis **** Leopard At Six Months: Does It Live Up To The Early Hype? by Michael DeAgonia, Computerworld Though some thought it was released too soon, Mac OS X 10.5 has matured into a solid operating system. **** Apple Inks Latin American Deal For iPhone by Jordan Robertson, Associated Press In another step in the worldwide march of Apple's iPhone, the top mobile phone operator in Latin America said Wednesday that it has inkced a deal to bring the multimedia gadget to more than a dozen countries later this year. **** NBC And Apple, The Tease Continues by MG Siegler, The Industry Standard Perhaps NBC is waiting to see how successful the Apple TV device will be with Apple's new movie studio deals in place. Or perhaps Zucker just wants to make Apple chief executive Steve Jobs squirm a little more as the Hulu's positive reviews keep coming in. /My guess is that NBC really have no idea and no plans on how to deal with Apple./ **** Why Apple And Google Are Winning by Matt Asay, CNET News.com Focusing on adoption helps a company to fixate on how to make software (or hardware) enjoyable, and not necessarily what will make it sell better. The sales follow the adoption. **** Apple's Board: Still Room For Schmidt? by Arik Hesseldahl, BusinessWeek Google is increasingly becoming a would-be Apple competitor, making Schmidt's membership on Apple's board awkward, if not ultimately untenable. Concerns over a potential conflict of interest have surfaced in the tech blogosphere in the past, but the potential for rivairy takes on added urgency as Apple prepares to launch the next version of its iPhone while Google partners ready cell phones that run Google's operating system. **** Apple Planning Huge International Launch Of iPhone 2.0? by Mactropolis.com It would seem that all signs are pointing to a large itnernational rol-out of the much ballyhooed iPhone 2.0. **** Seriously, Where's The Zune Support For Mac? by Gizmodo **** A Short Review Of Times For Mac by Ian Beck I highly recommend Times for anyone who wants an elegant way to track a small number of feeds they care about. This is certainly not a progam for everyone, but if its presentation of news makes sense to you, I doubt you'll look back. The Tomorrow Weblog ==================================== **** Web 2.0, Please Meet Your Host, The Internet by Allan Leinwand, GigaOM MyAppleMenu Reader ==================================== **** Buried Prejudice: The Bigot In Your Brain by Siri Carpenter, Scientific American Deep within our subconscious, all of us harbor biases that we consciously abhor. And the worst part is: we act on them. **** Decline And The Falls by Bill Kauffman, Wall Street Journal "I went to Niagara Falls because I wanted to laugh at it," confesses Ginger Strand in "Inventing Niagara." She doesn't mean the waterfalls, which awe even the most jaded MP3-zombie, but the tawdry environs and tumbledown American city that border them. Whereas the city of Niagara Falls once evolved the hymeneal and sexual - honeymooners and Marilyn Monroe - today the cataracts are a mere cloud in the eye of the slot players at the nearby casinos. SingaporeSurf ==================================== **** Inflation To Hit Singapore Harder Than US Economic Slowdown by Rachel Kelly and Jonathan Peeris, Channel NewsAsia Inflation is a more serious problem for Singapore and other Asian economies than an economic slowdown in the United States, according to HSBC's senior Asian economist, Robert Prior-Wandesforde. **** Higher Oil Prices Seeping Into Your Electricity Bills by Yang Huiwen, Straits Times If your latest power bill gave you a jolt, you'd better get used to it because there is more to come. **** Irresponsible Duo: Glenn Ong And The Flying Dutchman by CLessThanThreeC **** Singapore's Constraint Of The Press by Global News **** Singapore's Half Price Surprise Is Back by Gladys Tay, The Star /Invite your Malaysian friends over./ **** A Game Of Bluff? by Aaron Ng, Hear Ye! Hear Ye! Just as currency speculators are clueless as to how much money the Singapore government has, Singapore citizens are just about as clueless. **** Yes, Catch Fare Cheats, But Stop Overcharging by Vincent Su, Straits Times **** Give All Who Qualify A Place In A Local Varsity by Alicia Phua, Straits Times **** From Light To Lighter: Government Signals Direction Of Net Regulation by Cherian George, Journalism.sg **** Why Wait When You Can Take Action? by Angelne Lee, Today This more benign approach of waiting for the LTA to create competition rather than taking independent pre-emptive action may be instructive of its policy approach as competiition regulator in Singapore. **** Maintaining Racial And Relgious Harmony Through Criminal Law by Musings There are miles to go before we sleep. **** The Unions, The Press And The People by Leong Sze Hian and Choo Zheng Xi, theonlinecitizen Why are we being constantly told that Fairprice is the cheapest, when even Case's surveys seem to indicate otherwise? **** Singapore Police Fore In YouTube (Or "Should Our SPF Have A Blog?") - Part 3 by Ivan Chew, Rambling Librarian **** How Will I Feel After I Leave Singapore? by Simply Jean Retrun to Singapore after graduating from a GMS overseas probabl meant that I'd be treated as a 3rd class citizen and 3rc class doctor anyway. From applesurf at myapplemenu.com Fri May 9 13:15:01 2008 From: applesurf at myapplemenu.com (applesurf at myapplemenu.com) Date: 9 May 2008 17:15:01 -0000 Subject: [MyAppleMenu] May 9, 2008 Message-ID: <20080509171501.48123.qmail@voot.pair.com> MyAppleMenu ==================================== **** Can Apple Dance With Third-Party Retailers Again? by David Chartier, Ars Technica **** Apple To Pay Refunds For Powerbook Adapters by The Morning Call **** EyeTV Update Supports H.264 Broadcasts by Peter Cohen, Macworld **** Mac Shopping Advice by Christopher Breen, Macworld What to consider after deciding which Mac to buy. **** Used iPhones Worth $1,000 In Ukraine by Leander Kahney, Cult Of Mac **** Times: Not Quite Ready For Prime Time by Weblog Of A "Switcher" I suspect that when 2.0 comes out, Times will be a very cool program. Good luck Acrylic, keep up the great work with such a unique interface. **** Mac OS X Gets First Open-Source Virtualisation Tool by Matthew Broersma, ZDNet UK Sun has released a major update to its open-source desktop virtualisation tool xVM VirtualBox, adding support for Apple's Mac OS X and Solaris host operating systems, in addition to other improvements. **** Apple A Laggard In Climate-Change Plans, Report Says by Martin LaMonica, CNET News.com **** Improved iMac Graphics Won't Matter To Gamers by Peter Cohen, Macworld At the end of the day, the iMac's refresh reiterates one thing: Just adjusting one variable in this equation doesn't fix what's wrong with Mac games. **** Apple iPhone: More Powerful Than 1998 iMac, Way More Powerful Than 1984 Macintosh by Dan Frommer, Silicon Alley Insider **** Save Parents' Digital Heirlooms With A Time Capsule by Eric M. Strauss, ABC News **** Apple Ramping Up iPhone 2008 Rollout: 26 Countries And Counting by David Zeiler, Baltimore Sun What we do know is that Apple's global iPhone strategy has kicked in to high gear. **** Back-Up Your Mac, Effortlessly by David Pogue, New York Times There are, of course, other network-attached hard drives, many with more features. But none seem to have the Time Capsule's combo of capacity and wirelessness. This is a classic case of Apple's insistence on simplicity taking its own version of the network hard drive into a higher realm. The Tomorrow Weblog ==================================== **** Does The GPL Still Matter? by Tom Lee, TechDirt **** Archiving E-Mail Effectively by Erica Naone, MIT Technology Review The White House's recent problems archiving e-mail could be solved by emerging technologies. **** Microsoft Move Suggests Not Reversing Yahoo Decision by Jessica E. Vascellaro and Robert A. Guth, Wall Street Journal Microsoft released potential proxy board member from their agreements to serve in the event it made a hostile bid for Yahoo, following the software giant's decision last weekend to end its effort to buy the internet company. The move is a clear sign that Microsoft isn't planning a sudden reversal of its decision. **** The New Hacker Economics by Steve Lohr, New York Times To make money, you have to move up the economic food chain into higher-value, more profitable work and markets. That economic fact of life applies to nations, companies and individuals. A study released this week shows how this natural law is being applied in the subculture of criminal computer hackers. MyAppleMenu Reader ==================================== **** In A Changing World, An Ever-Evolving Terrorism by Edward Rothstein, New York Times Philip Bobbitt's powerful, dense and brilliant new book argues that the nature of terrorism has changed as nationhood has evolved. **** Am I Man Enough? by Paul Constant, The Stranger I'm a straight guy with no interest in sports and almost no body hair. What makes a man masculine? The question led me to a doctor's office, a therapist's couch, and a drag bar in Tacoma. **** Sunday by Joe Donnelly, LA Weekly Laura Branigan, Old Milwaukee and a tough angle on the eight ball: A short story. **** Bimbo-Proof The Nursery by Steve Almond, Best Life Magazine How to be sure your daughter doesn't turn out like Lindsay Lohan. **** Is Everything We Know About American History Wrong? by Louis Bayard, Salon Tony Horwitz's fascinating new book takes us on a journey across the continent to prove that our nation's founding legends are built on lies. **** The Wisdom Of Whores, By Elizabeth Pisani by Jeremy Laurance, The Independent There are many things to like about this book, beginning with the title. SingaporeSurf ==================================== **** Management Of Foreign Reserves Likely To Be More Difficult In Future by Glenda Chong, Channel NewsAsia The Government of Singapore Investment Corporation (GIC) expects the management of foreign exchange reserves to be more difficult in the coming years due to economic uncertainties and market volatility. /Is this an admission that GIC had made a few bad investment lately?/ **** Give Credit Where Credit Is Due, Andy by Andrew Loh, theonlinecitizen **** Letter From CO by Trash Served Fresh You know what, pui! **** Singapore's GIC Warns Global Economic Risks May Rise by Jan Dahinten, Reuters Singapore's sovereign fund GIC, one of the world's biggest state-owned investors, warned on Friday that risks to the global economy could rise in the next 12 months due to falling house prices and a spike in energy costs. **** ST Telemedia Says To Challenge Indonesia Ruling by Jennifer Tan, Reuters Singapore Technologies Telemedia (ST Telemedia), a unit of state investor Temasek Holdings, said on Friday it would challenge an Indonesian court's decision to uphold the anti-trust ruling on its parent. **** FairPrice Discourages Buying More Than 5 Packets Of 10Kg Rice by Lynda Hong, Channel NewsAsia A shopper at a FairPrice supermarkt told Channel NewsAsia he was not allowed to buy more than three packets of rice. FairPrice said the restriction is to protect consumer interest. /Hmmm... there are two numbers thrown out in the article: 3 packets and 5 packets./ **** PM, MM Expected To Appear In Court For Damages Hearing Against SDP by S Ramesh, Channel NewsAsia **** Jakarta Court Rejects Temasek's Appeal On Indonesian Telco Stakes by Channel NewsAsia A Jakarta court has turned down an appeal by Temasek Holdings and ruled that the Singapore investment company must sell or reduce its stakes in two Indonesian telcom companies. **** Here's Proof: Section 377A Being Enforced by Au Waipang, Yawning Bread Fairness is a discipline. No matter how monstrous we think a person is, morality demands that we treat him fairly. Tacking on an additional charge under Section 377A of the Penal Code is an act of discrmination. **** This Is What Happens When You Cultivate A Culture Based On Possession... by The Musings Of An Opinionated Sod **** One-Price Policy: Some Do, Some Don't by Jessica Lim, Straits Times Shop N Save, Giant and FairPrice ensure items are priced the same at all outlets. /I wonder, though, that when I purchase stuff from the neighbourhood supermarket, which happens to be a FairPrice store, by the way, am I "subsidizing" part of the higher rental of a supermarket in a shopping mall or MRT? Why is this one-price policy a good thing?/ **** Card In Cashcards by Singapore Life And Times When competition truly does comes, then the CCS ceases to be relevant.So why isn't it doing anything when it is relevant today? **** Converging Parallels - Burma & Singapore by Chia Ti Lik **** The Best Ever... Chili Crab: Some Like It Hot by Sudi Piggott, Time Chili crab, Singapore's unofficial national dish, is not meant to be consumed politely — covered in a gloopy sauce, the crab is usually served whole and eaten with your hands. But with gastronomic trendspotters declaring utensil-less dining the next big thing, I sought out the best of these tasty crustaceans on a recent trip to Singapore. **** The Dead Getting Welfare? by Teo Xuanwei, Today **** A Kilo Of Rice For Tua Pek Kong by A Xeno Boy In Sg There is something fundamentally wrong in Singapore if we have to standin line for a kilo of rice from Tua Pek Kong while 30% of the conservancy charges we pay every month feeds nobody. From applesurf at myapplemenu.com Sat May 10 13:15:00 2008 From: applesurf at myapplemenu.com (applesurf at myapplemenu.com) Date: 10 May 2008 17:15:00 -0000 Subject: [MyAppleMenu] May 10, 2008 Message-ID: <20080510171500.76147.qmail@voot.pair.com> MyAppleMenu ==================================== **** Elements For Mac Is The Picture Of Simplicity by Glenn Fleishman, Seattle Times **** Apple MacBook Air User Review by NotebookReview.com **** All USB Ports Aren't Created Equal by Jason D. O'Grady, ZDNet.com It seems that only the front USB port on the MacBook offers a full powered, full speed bus. /This seems to explain why my USB hard drive can only operate from one of the two USB ports on my MacBook. **** The Real Upgrade Apple Should Make To .Mac: Set It Free by Dan Frommer, Silicon Alley Insider With .Mac and the iPhone, Steve Jobs has a chance to get people even more tied in to Apple servics. Which is what Apple is all about. But until .Mac is free — at least the mainstream stuff like email, calendar synching, photo galleries, etc. — we think it will continue to be a small, niche service at best. **** TapeDeck Audio Recorder Debuts by Peter Cohen, Macworld TapeDeck carries with it some retro charm — it's designed to look like a cassette tape deck, and even operates like one. It's designed to quickly capture recordings, stored as "tapes," recorded directly to MP4-AAC audio. **** Apple Settles Two Canadian iPod Lawsuits by Jim Dalrymple, Macworld **** AppMenuBoy Returns Hierarchical Menus To Leopard by MacNN **** Quay 1.1 Extends Leopard Dock by MacNN The Tomorrow Weblog ==================================== **** Google Cofirms Plans To Put Display Ads On Google.com by Henry Blodget, Silicon Alley Insider MyAppleMenu Reader ==================================== **** Poetry And Our Age: Adam Kirsch's 'Invasions' by Wes Davis, New York Sun Rene Wellek once warned that "the union of poet and critic is not necessarily good for either poetry or criticism." But Adam Kirsch's career suggests that it can be very good for both. **** At The Bar With The Hate Camel by Shalom Auslander, TheDrawbridge Anger literature beats the shit out of love literature. **** Little Girl Lost, Little Girl Found by Ann Hood, Salon I never thought I'd be able to enjoy Mother's Day again. Then, life brought me Annabelle. SingaporeSurf ==================================== **** Broadcasting Gay Content: Singapore Vs. HK by Musings Should Channel 5 have challenged MDA's fine in court? **** Films That You Won't See In Your National Education Classes by Mr Wang Says So **** You Serious? by Ian Tan, Empty Vesel It's basically a rewritten version of an old official response, but it's positioned in a way that pushes all the wrong buttons in our battered Singaporean male psyche. **** Lee Kuan Yew Wrong Again! This TIme, It's Oil. by Under The Willow Tree Not only are the industry's most respected analysts holding diametric opinions to you, the world's most respected investors have also made the opposite investment decisions compared to you. **** City-State A Role Model For The World by Seah Chiang Nee, The Star Despite a growing disenchantment at home, tiny Singapore has attracted scattered admiration in countries keen to follow its way of solving problems. Those involve mostly economic and management systems that were well crafted and implemented by a purposeful and hard-working population — rather than its form of politics. **** Shark's Fin: Singapore Takes A Much Bigger Bite by Jermyn Chow, Straits Times After four years of decline, the consumption of shark's fin spiked last year, with more than 470 tonnes eaten despite pleas from environmental groups for consumers to cut down. See Also: The Brutal Business Of Shark Finning , by Sea Shepherd Conservation Society. **** Broken Promises Part II: HIV Positive Man Prosecuted For S377A (SIngapore) by Sayoni Speak **** Singapore Culture Etc. Whatever by Kiapura At least they get the food right. Damn do they get ghe food right. **** Starting A Party, And Hoping To Crash Singapore's Parliament Again by Seth Mydans, New York Times It miht seem late for a fresh start, but that is the story of J. B. Jeyaretnam's life, a political intruder who refuses to stay away. Last month he was back again after six years of political banishment, the grand old man of political opposition ready to joust again with Singapore's immovable political establishment. From applesurf at myapplemenu.com Sun May 11 13:15:01 2008 From: applesurf at myapplemenu.com (applesurf at myapplemenu.com) Date: 11 May 2008 17:15:01 -0000 Subject: [MyAppleMenu] May 11, 2008 Message-ID: <20080511171501.98868.qmail@voot.pair.com> MyAppleMenu ==================================== **** .Mac And Live Mesh Show Promise by Tom Yager, Computerworld New Zealand Microsoft is floating a closed trial of Live Mesh, which, on paper at least, looks like .Mac for the 21st century. **** Opening Day by Jenn Abelson, Boston Globe After what some consider a long snub, Apple finally arrives in Boston. And its Back Bay store, set to welcome customers on Thursday, was worth the wait. **** How AT&T Spilled The Starbucks Bean by Philip Elmer-DeWitt, Fortune Here's one thing the folks at Apple could teach their friends at AT&T: how to parcel out the good news. Case in point: the Starbucks-iPhone-Wi-Fi deal that's been on and off all week and geerating all the wrong kind of headlines. **** Stolen Laptop Helps Turn Tables On Suspects by Lisa W. Foderaro, New York Times **** US, UK Apple Stores Halt iPhone Orders by MacNN Both 8GB and 16GB versions are listed as "currently unavailable" and are not given estimates for when they should return to the ordering system. The Tomorrow Weblog ==================================== **** Google-Yahoo: Deal Or No Deal? by Miguel Helft, New York Times A person with knowledge of the discussions said Google has been thinking about a conundrum: deal or no deal, the company could end up with something of a public relations black eye. **** Security Flaw Turns Gmail Into Open-Relay Server by Joel Hruska, Ars Technica MyAppleMenu Reader ==================================== **** Churchill And His Myths by Geoffrey Wheatcroft, New York Review Of Books There is another story, of the degree to which Churchill divided opinion, in his lifetime and—as these book show—to this day. SingaporeSurf ==================================== **** ERP Cuts Traffic While Keeping Orchard Buzz by Maria Almenoar, Straits Times Five new gantries to go up in Singapore River area, but retailers should not worry, says Ministry. /And the rest of the article does not even tell us where the five new gantries will be./ **** What Does Malaysia And Singapore Have In Common? by Songs Of Innocence And Experience **** Hong Kong Broadcasting Regulator's Decision Overturned By Court by Au Waipang, Yawning Bread **** Two Stories - The Hut And Water by Goh Meng Seng, Singapore Alternatives **** Millions By The Dozens by Singapore Life And Times **** Seat Belts In School Bus: LTA Deems It Necessary To Spend More Time To Study Issue by Urbanrant Why is the matter so difficult? **** Lee Kuan Yew Tells China How To Play The Western Media Rules by Sun Bin **** Oh Wait, I Forget This Is Singapore by My Very Own Glob **** Kiasu, Kiasi, Kiam-SIap, Chui Kong Lampar Song! by Feed Me To The Fish **** Where's The Crowd? by Zaihan Mohamed Yusof, New Paper It's never been this bad, said stallholders at the food centre near the Causeway. From applesurf at myapplemenu.com Mon May 12 13:15:00 2008 From: applesurf at myapplemenu.com (applesurf at myapplemenu.com) Date: 12 May 2008 17:15:00 -0000 Subject: [MyAppleMenu] May 12, 2008 Message-ID: <20080512171500.6658.qmail@voot.pair.com> MyAppleMenu ==================================== **** AT&T Now Showing "iPhone Black" Model In Device Listing by Katie Marsal, AppleInsider **** Apple To Take iPhone Nonexclusive In Australia And India by Sumner Lemon, IDG News Service Apple's iPhone will be available from more than one mobile operator in Australia and India later this year, further signs tat Apple is breaking with its history of exclusive iPhone distribution agreements with operators in other markets. **** SingTel, Bharti, Airtel, Globe And Optus To Offer iPhone In Region by Channel NewsAsia Singapore Telecommunications (SingTel), Bharti Airtel, Globe Telecom and Optus announced on Monday that they have signed an agreement with Apple to bring the iPhone to Singapore, India, the Philippines and Australia later this year. SingTel holds a 30.5% stake in India's Bharti and 44.5% in the Philippines' Globe. It owns Optus, a telecommunications operator in Australia. /More countries are now going to have multiple telcos offering iPhones./ **** Apple Threatens European iPhone Knockoff Reseller by MacNN Apple is going after the sellers of at least one iPhone knockoff, delivering a cease & desist to a HiPhone reseller in Europe. **** Second Gen iPhone: 3-G When You Want It, EDGE When You Don't by Bryan Gardiner, Wired For those concerned about the battery taxing tendencies of 3-G chipsets, there's new evidence that Apple may be planning to include a 3-G kill switch of sorts in its forthcoming second-gen iPhone. **** Why I Chose Mac As A Freelace Photographer And Video Producer by Jarrod Tully, Mactropolis.com It does what I need it to do and I'm geared up to fend off my next looming deadline with poise and determination. The Tomorrow Weblog ==================================== **** Twitter And The China Earthquake by Rory Cellan-Jones, BBC **** Craig (Of The List) Looks Beyond The Web by Noam Cohen, New York Times **** Why PR Folks Should Blacklist Bloggers by Jason Falls, Social Media Explorer **** LEDs Could Light Up Our Future by Tom Abate, San Francisco Chroncile The same innovation that makes laptop screens thinner turns out to be one of the best energy-saving technologies on Earth — and it's all thanks to new tricks that make it possible to create more illumination using the humblest member of the semiconductor family, the light-emitting diode, or LED. **** Why Dell Will Not Bounce Back by Daniel Lyons, The Secret Diary Of Steve Jobs What people overlook is that the advantages that allowed Dell to prosper for about a decade were all fleeting advantages. **** The Blood Brain Barrier by Steve Gillmor, TechCrunch.com MyAppleMenu Reader ==================================== **** Pondering Fermi by Jamais Cascio, Open The Future I suspect that the "where are they?" query has a serious flaw: it makes assumptions about the behavior of an interstellar-capable culture based on what we, a pre-interstellar society, might do. **** The Blog Of War by Anne Applebaum, The New Republic While the book has a chronological order, it has nothing resembling a narrative. **** Bird-Watcher by David Remnick, New Yorker Every weekday for the past twenty-seven years, a long-in-the-tooth history major named Phil Schaap has hosted a morning program on WKCR, Columbia University's radio station, called "Bird Flight," which places a degree of attention on the music of the bebop saxophonist Charlie Parker that is so obsesive, so ardent and detailed, that Schaap frequently sounds like a mad Talmudic scholar who has decided that the laws of humankind reside not in the ancient Babylonian tractates but in alternate takes of "Moose the Mooche" and "Swedish Schnapps." **** East Wind by Julian Barnes, New Yorker **** A Primer by Bob Hicok, New Yorker SingaporeSurf ==================================== **** Court Hearing On Defamation Award Adjourned by S Ramesh, Channel NewsAsia On Monday, the High Court adjourned the hearing to give SDP and its lawyers more time to prepare their arguments. **** SingTel, Bharti, Airtel, Globe And Optus To Offer iPhone In Region by Channel NewsAsia Singapore Telecomunications (SingTel), Bharti Airtel, Globe Telecom, and Optus announced on Monday that they have signed an agreement with Apple to bring the iPhone to Singapore, India, the Philippines and Australia later this year. **** Thank You For Reading My Blog, Aljunied Town Council Members by Mr Wang Says So As I see it, either the Aljunied Town Council has suddenly changed its plans about the index, or the Straits Times made a big error in reporting the story the first time around. **** Prof Jayakumar 'Quietly Confident' Of Pedra Branca Verdict by Lydia Lim, Straits Times Officials from Singaproe and Malayisa met recently ahead of next week's verdict on the sovereignty dispute over Pedra Branca, to discuss ways to ensure a 'smooth and problem-free' enforcement of the judgement to be handed down by the world court, deputy prime minister S Jayakumar said on Monday. **** Walking In Changi by Itchy Traveller Here is a walk where I can guarantee that you will experience one of the most memorable nature adventures by the eastern shoreline. **** The Unions, The Press, And The People - Part II by Leong Sze Hian, theonlinecitizen It is preplexing for CASE's executive director to explain the disparity by saying that "only NTUC FairPrice had told the consumer watchdog of its uniform pricing." This is esepcially bewildering because CASE was supposed to have done a survey of all the supermarkets - instead of waiting for the supermarket chains to tell it about their uniform pricing. **** Rents Go Up, Shops Move by Hedy Khoo, New Paper Forget the red-light district. The way rents are going, Geylang is now the red-hot district. The demand for properties between Lorong 1 and 25 is so hot that rents have shot up, and some long-time businesses are being forced to move out. **** Malay Movies Receive Overwhelming Response In Singapore by Bernama **** Do SMU Fresh Grads Really Make $4K To $10K A Month? by Cowboy Caleb **** More Gantries, Fewer Taxis? by Jinny Koh, Today The LTA is in discussions with cab companies to see if they can provide rebates for their cabbies, even as it considers extensions to the operating hours of existing ERP gantries. **** Not Enough Locals Visit Museums, Says Outgoing Asian Civilisations Museum Director by Margaret Perry, Channel NewsAsia From applesurf at myapplemenu.com Tue May 13 13:15:01 2008 From: applesurf at myapplemenu.com (applesurf at myapplemenu.com) Date: 13 May 2008 17:15:01 -0000 Subject: [MyAppleMenu] May 13, 2008 Message-ID: <20080513171501.30587.qmail@voot.pair.com> MyAppleMenu ==================================== **** Checkout Sales Software Speeds Up by Peter Cohen, Macworld MYOB US has announced the release of Checkout 2.1, an update to its point of sale software for Mac OS X. **** From Windows To Mac, Stuff That May Trip You Up by Dwight Silverman, Houston Chronicle Any time you make a major change, even with an operating system known for its user-friendliness, there is a learning curve. Here are six common items that regularly flummox Mac newbies. **** Penumbra: Black Plague Game Released by Peter Cohen, Macworld **** Compass Archives E-Mail by Peter Cohen, Macworld Hendrickson Software Components on Tuesday announced the release of Compass 1.0, a new utility that archives e-mail. **** Sex And The iTunes Store by Philip Elmer-DeWitt, Fortune For Apple, it's a strong signal that Steve Jobs has backed away from his stubborn insistence on flat-rate pricing and is ready to start a new round of deal making in Hollywood. **** Two New Apple Spots Take Aim At Education And Vista by Jeff Smykil, Ars Technica **** Jobs, Apple Execs To Present WWDC Keynote by MacNN Apple has confirmed that CEO Steve Jobs, along with a "team of Apple executives," will deliver the keynote at this year's WWDC conference. **** Movie Magic Screenwriter 6.0 by Tim Haddock, Macworld Pros willwelcome Movie Magic Screenwriter 6.0.3.111's everything-but-the-kitchen-sink feature set and fully customizable outlining abilities, but Writers Guild wannabes may want to think twice before they cough up cash for features they'll never use. **** Basic Lesson: Microsoft Listens To Its Users by Rob Griffiths, Macworld Thanks, Microsoft, for listening to your customers. It's always pleasing to know that the voice of the user does matter in determining the future direction of a product. **** Neighbor Plants Reminder Of Its Connection With Apple by Jenn Abelson, Boston Globe Inspired by the Red Sox fan who buried a David Ortiz jersey under the new Yankee Stadium, Apple reseller Tech Superpowers decided to leave its own subversive treasure under the competition moving in directly behind them on Boylston Street - the massive new Apple store set to open Thursday. **** Microsoft Releases Service Pack 1 For Office 2008 by Jonathan Seff, Macworld On Tuesday, Microsoft released Service Pack 1 (SP1) for Office 2008 for Mac, designed to add stability, security, and performance enhancements to the suite of office applications. **** Microsoft To Bring Back Visual Basic In Office For Mac by Jonathan Seff, Macworld Microsoft on Tuesday announced it wold restore support for Visual Basic for Application (VBA) to Microsoft Office for Mac, a direct result of complaints from uses about the removal of the suite's cross-platform automation functionality. Although Microsoft offered no specific date when users could expect the next version of Office for Mac, the company said the product is typically revised every two to three years. **** Analysts: New International Deals Mean Apple Will Exceed Its 10M iPhone Goal by Bryan Gardiner, Wired With these new non-exclusive deals, some analysts say Apple is finally realizing its traditional business model just won't work on a global scale. Moreover, there are actually benefits to being doing away with exclusively. **** How To Beat The Apple iPhone by Philip Berne, infoSync World The lesson is that companies who try to blatantly defeat the iPhone will probably fail, because their goal is suspect. Better to try to make the best phone possible. /And this lesson can easily be applied to other products, from iPod-killer, to Microsoft-Office-killer./ **** Black iPhone Is An Urban Legend by John Biggs, CrunchGear Clearly this is a shopping cart glitch. **** Why Doesn't Apple Face The Innovator's Dilemma? by Charlie Wood, Moonwatcher By choosing to compete on design instead of technology alone, Apple seems to have found a loophole in the Innovator's Dilemma. **** Google Offers YouTube Video Software For Macs by Stephen Shankland, CNET News.com Google ahs released basic software called Vidnik that lets Mac OS X users record video with a webcam or built-in camera, trim its length, add tags and a title, then upload it to YouTube. **** iPhone Security Tips by Rich Mogull, TidBITS We iPhone users check email and browse the web on our iPhones as much as on our Macs, but there's on key difference: the iPhone is always in a pocket and always on the network. While there isn't a lot you need to do from a security standpoint, I do have a few recommendations that stem from how we use iPhones differently than other devices. **** Essentials 2 For iPhoto Improves Digital Photos by Peter Cohen, Macworld Essentials 2 for iPhoto includes "Make It Better," a tool that lets you compare color, contrast and brightness adjustments side-by-side. You can then pick the best-looking images, and adjust your picture accordingly. **** Pixelmator 1.2 Adds Rulers Tool by Peter Cohen, Macworld Pixelmator is an image editing application that incorporates selection tools, painting tools, retouching tools, layers and color correction capabilities, typography elements and filter-based effects. The Tomorrow Weblog ==================================== **** Microsoft's Telescope For Everyone by Heather Green, BusinessWeek For people who have gazed up at the night sky in wonder and wished they had someone there to identify what they were looking at, Microsoft's Worldwide Telescope is coming to the rescue. **** In The Age Of TiVo And Web Video, What Is Prime Time? by Brian Stelter, New York Times **** Welcome To The Social Mess? by Caroline McCarthy, CNET News.com One prominent data portability evangelist hinted that we're at an inflection point where the social web could either become more connected or just more confusing. MyAppleMenu Reader ==================================== **** The Story Of The Father by Tony Hoagland, Slate **** Procrastination Lit by Jessica Winter, Slate Great novels about wasting time. **** Lollygagging Through Life by Emily Yoffe, Slate I'm joining procrastinators anonymous — can I get past step one? **** In 'Cannery Row,' A Preserved Simplicity by Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post Not many books of our youth survive unscathed into what passes for our maturity, and many other books await that maturity before we are ready to appreciate and understand them. For me, Steinbeck eventually gave way to William Faulkner, but I decline, now, to thumb my nose at my old friend as I bid him farewell. SingaporeSurf ==================================== **** "Mediocre" Governments, Happiest Nations by Insane Polygons **** Does Singapore Deserve Its Press Freedom Ranking? by Terence Lee, theonlinecitizen **** Court Ruling On Temasek Reveals Government Mismanagement by Vincent Lingga, Jakarta Post To the laymen, the Cenral Jakarta District Cout's ruling Friday that the Singapore government-owned Temasek holdings and its subsidiaries breached anti-competition laws through minority cross-ownerships in PT Indosat and PT Telkomsel is both a worrisome and confusing logic. **** Coffee In Singapore! Ah... Heaven! by Bamboo Rain:Through His Eyes In flavor, I think that in many cases the local coffee is better than a Starbucks, especially in the price. **** Singapore Is Making Some Of The Mistakes That Led Empires To Ruin. by Ian On The Red Dot History is filled with cautionary tales about empires that expand beyond their means and who rely on foreign talents/labour to sustain the expansion. **** Stop Demolishing, Start Integrating by Tan Mingjuan, Yawning Bread If Singapore wants both to retain and attract talent, it must give its people a say in how our country is going to be developed. **** Problem? Let Us Test CashCard by Suman Balani, Nets Singapore, Today We discovered that the number of complaints have risen in tandem with the growth in the ERP gantries and extended hours of ERP operations. /That is the wrong metrics to measure, I believe. It should be the number of ERP users that Nets should be benchmarked against, not the number of ERP use./ **** Shaw House, Shaw Centre May Undergo Major Revamp Next Year by Timothy Ouyang, Channel NewsAsia Another landmark near Orchad Road may soon get a facelift. Channel NewsAsia understands that Shaw Organisation is considering a major redevelopment of Shaw House and its neighbouring Shaw Centre. According to sources, plans are in the pipeline to expand Shaw Organisation's Lido Cineplex, and to add more retail space. From applesurf at myapplemenu.com Wed May 14 13:15:00 2008 From: applesurf at myapplemenu.com (applesurf at myapplemenu.com) Date: 14 May 2008 17:15:00 -0000 Subject: [MyAppleMenu] May 14, 2008 Message-ID: <20080514171500.79529.qmail@voot.pair.com> MyAppleMenu ==================================== **** Zip. Nada. by Heng-Cheong Leong, MyAppleMenu The Day There Was No News .

Permanent Link to This Post **** SwisscomTo Launch Apple's iPhone In Switzerland by Thomson Financial News **** One Thing About Apple by Dori Smith, Backup Brain Does buying Adobe's applications help Apple sell more hardware? Nope? Then it ain't gonna happen. **** Leopard Tamers: 9 Terrific Interface Tweaks by Ryan Faas, Computerworld With a host of new tools and add-ons available, changing the look and feel of Mac OS X 'Leopard' is easy. **** It's Quiet, It's Green, It's The Rack O' My Dreams by Tom Yager, InfoWorld **** Why Apple Won't Buy Adobe by John Gruber, Daring Fireball Adobe is a good company with good products, but they don't fit into Apple's focus at all. **** Kiwi Airliners Converted Into Giant iPod Docks by Lewis Page, The Register Air New Zealand will equip eighteen of its airliners with in-flight entertainment rigs allowing iPod users to play their video on seatback screens, listen to audio through the aircraft system, and control their device via the plane's interface. **** The MS Office 2008 For Mac Scandal Continues by David Morgenstern, ZDNet.com **** iTunes Show Innovation Is About Imagination, Not Dollars by Tom Koulopulos, Wisconsin Technology Network The greatest innovators today aren't product innovators, they're companies and people who build new business models. /Of couse, regardless whatever business model you have, your product must also be good./ **** OS X Security: How I Became A Spam Kingpin, Went Legit And Turned Detective by Tom Yager, InfoWorld **** Saying Hello (Again) To Visual Basic by Erik Schwiebert, Schwieb When we came to the realization in 2006 that there was no way for us to keep VB in the product and still ship Office 2008 on any semblance of the schedule we wanted, we announced its removal, but kept looking at how to bring it back into the suite even before we shipped. **** Boston's New Apple Store Unveiled by Leander Kahney, Cult Of Mac "They were pulling down the green monster covering." **** OS X Security: Diary Of An OS X Leopard Server Root Exploit by Tom Yager, InfoWorld **** Apple Deal Links Custom Radio Storefronts To iTunes by Jim Dalrymple, Macworld Apple has entered into an agreement with Emmis Interactive that will give radio listeners in the U.S. the ability to buy the songs they hear on the air using their iTunes account. The Tomorrow Weblog ==================================== **** EarthLink Notifies Philly Subscribers Of Network Shutdown by MuniWireless **** Google Search To Surpass Size Of Microsoft Windows In 2009 by Henry Blodget, Silicon Alley Insider Why is Microsoft so concerned about Google? Lots of reasons, one of which is this: By this time next year, Google's search business will be larger and more profitable than the most profitable and legendary monopoly in history—Microsoft Windows. MyAppleMenu Reader ==================================== **** Solitaire-y Confinement by Josh Levin, Slate Why we can't stop playing a cmputerized card game. **** Cookbook Publishers Try To Think Small by Kim Severson, New York Times At a time when 2-year-olds take cooking classes, trick-or-treaters turn up in chef's whites and a personalized child's size spatula costs $20, it is no surprise that the children's cookbook genre is enjoying a new life. Not that it had much of a life before. **** For Meat-Eating Authors, A More Tender Approach by Jane Black, Washington Post Pained by her failure, Susan Bourette decided to come to terms with her carnivorous ways. If she could understand why she craved meat, she reasoned, perhaps she would get over the guilt of enjoying it. Her new book, "Meat: A Love Story" chronicles Bourette's travels, from a New York butcher shop to an Inuit whale hunt, to discover the roots of humans' love affair with meat — the average American eats 220 pounds of it annually — and to decide how to conduct that affair responsibly. **** An Industry Gets Animated by Paul Boutin, Wall Street Journal Redemption, after all, is essential to any story well told. **** The Mysteries Of The Suicide Tourist by Phil Zabriskie, New York Magazine Why the same things that attract millions of happy visitors to New York—the glamour, the skyline, the anonymity—also draw people from around the world to kill themselves here. SingaporeSurf ==================================== **** Five Magistrates Appointed To Preside Over New Neighbourhood Court by S Ramesh, Channel NewsAsia **** Unlocked 3G iPhone Coming To Three Singaporean Operators By Christmas? by UnwiredView.com A recent comment from a StarHub spokesperson in Singapore indicates that the iPhone could arrive but not on an exclusive deal with any of the telcos. **** Abdullah Meets Singapore DPM For Talks On Issues Of Mutual Concern by Bernama **** Seventy-Seven Days Of Nothing by Sheep City 77 days of unsuccessful recapture, 77 days of excuses and 77 days of failure. **** More Reasons For Leaving Singapore by This Lush Garden Within Many of us never had the opportunity to choose our leaders before... maybe even for the rest of our lives we will continue to see 'walkovers' in our own constituencies. However, we can choose to leave for somewhere else, where citizens are treated with more respect, somewhere where the political scene is healthier, where the grass is greener. **** Reducing Commuting Time - National Effort Needed by Tan Kin Lian, theonlinecitizen We need a coordinated national effort to implement the "work from home" or "work near home" idea. **** Racial Politics And Brain Drain by Hsu Dar Ren It is the sense of being wanted and being appreciated that make these people stay overseas. **** Chances Are That Illegal Hawker Is A Foreigner by Lim Heng Liang, Straits Times Foreigners are hawking food in ever increasing numbers at places where crowds throng, such as outside MRT stations and temples. The National Environment Agency said that so far this year, 800 illegal hawkers have been caught, and 650 of them were from China, Bangladesh, Mongolia, India and Indonesia. **** Queenstown by Green W Tah Chung Emporium - one of those department stores that any person living in Queenstown would remember. /My memories of Queenstown include the public library, where an old librarian will walk around and telling people to "shhh!", and the dim sum restaruant on the third floor which was narrow and crowded./ **** Singapore Sports Council: Chicken & Egg Edition by The Tom! **** Singapore: An Emerging Destination For Indian Students by Kaustubh Kulkarni, Business Standard Singapore is trying to position itself as the destination of choice for Indian students. The country wants Indian students to enrol in its institutes, from the higher secondary or the junior college level onwards. **** Telco Sector In Singapore Poised For Greater Competition by Aaron Khoo, Channel NewsAsia Industry watchers said the telco sector is poised for greater competition, following SingTel's announcement that it has signed an agreement to bring the iPhone into Singapore. They said the timing is crucial as mobile number portability is set to kick in next month, allowing subscribers to keep their numbers even when switching service operators. From applesurf at myapplemenu.com Thu May 15 13:15:01 2008 From: applesurf at myapplemenu.com (applesurf at myapplemenu.com) Date: 15 May 2008 17:15:01 -0000 Subject: [MyAppleMenu] May 15, 2008 Message-ID: <20080515171501.84803.qmail@voot.pair.com> MyAppleMenu ==================================== **** Intel Disclaims ZDNet Report Over Larger iPhone Or Internet Tablet by Jack Schofield, Guardian Rumours that Apple is about to launch an ultramobile tablet have not been confirmed by Intel. **** Microsoft To Deliver Mac Office File Converters In June by Gregg Keizer, Computerworld Microsoft will deliver its delay-plauged Open XML file converters for Office 2004 for Mac next month, the company reaffirmed Tuesday. **** 12 Effective Strategies Apple Uses To Create Loyal Customers by Inside CRM Complete solutions, familiar formats and "the cool factor" keep customers coming back. **** How Apple Is Changing DRM by Tim Anderson, The Guardian DRM might not stop pirates, but it does rivals. And in business, the later can be a greater threat than the former. **** Can Apple Advertise The Mac Like The iPhone? No. by The Small Wave There's really nothing Apple could show that Microsoft (if they desired) couldn't easily conter with an ad of their own. **** iPhone Shortage, Deliberately Designed by Andy Space, 9 To 5 Mac Apple is stimulating demand for the new device when it ships by making it hard to get hold of the current edition. **** Press Gets Sneak Peek At Apple Store by Hiawatha Bray, Boston Globe Time and again, Apple serves up features like touch-screen controls that seem unnecessary, irrelevant — until you try them. Apple vice president Ron Johnson says the new store's "green roof" is that kind of innovation. A rectangle of lush grass surrounds the skylight. This lucky reporter was taken up to see it; store customers never will, unless they look down at it from a room in one of the nearby hotels. **** O2 Hints At 3G iPhone Launch Date by Richard Wray, The Guardian The 3G version of the iPhone will be unveiled "in the coming weeks", the boss of Apple's exclusive mobile phone partner in the UK and Ireland hinted today. **** Intel Germany Executive Reportedly Confirms Atom-Based iPhone by Tom Krazit, CNET News.com In what might be a high-profile case of career suicide, an Intel Germany executive has reportedly confirmed that Apple plans to use Intel's Atom processor in a future iPhone. **** The Apple Tease by Maggie Shiels, BBC Apple media figures are stonewalling on whether or not Mr Jobs will actually be taking the wraps off a new 3G smartphone at the WWDC event. **** Is Apple Eating Into Vista? by Zack Urlocker, InfoWorld **** Another Get A Mac Ad Surfaces by Aayush Arya, MacUser This one, titled "Sad Song", has John Hodgman donning a hat, carryng a guitar, and singing "Vista Blues" in tandem with a dog. **** Apple Shows Off New Flagship Boston Store by Dan Moren, Macworld Apple has big plans for its latest retail store and its first in downtown Boston—literally. The new brick-and-mortar outlet, opening Thursday on Boston's tony Boylston Street, will be the largest Apple Store in the United States with three floors of retail space. /After so many years and so many stores, new stores still carry an air of excitement./ **** Report: Time Capsule Sales Strong, Not Hurting AirPort by Jim Dalrymple, Macworld All indications are that Time Capsule has a bright future. /When will Apple have one single set-top box to do it all? Apple TV for video, Time Capsule for networking and backup, and iPod dock for charging - is it time to merge them all up into one single device?/ **** From The Lab: Comparing New iMacs To Older Models by James Galbraith, Macworld Real performance progress has been made at each iteration of the iMac. So when does an upgrade make sense? That is entirely based on who you are and what you use your Mac for. **** Apple's Developer Conference Sold Out by Jim Dalrymple, Macworld Apple confirmed on Wedneday that its Worldwide Developer Conference, being held June 9-13 in San Francisco, has sold out for the first time in the history of the annual event. /This is indeed good news for both the iPhone and Mac platform. Existing Mac developers: watch out for the incoming competition./ **** GhostReader Assistive Software Adds New Voices by Peter Cohen, Macworld GhostReader converts text to speech and works in PDF, Word and other documents, and can speak any selected text in any application. **** BurnAgain FS Enables Multisession Disc Burning by Peter Cohen, Macworld The Tomorrow Weblog ==================================== **** CBS Buying CNET For $1.8 Billion by Peter Kafka, Silicon Alley Insider CBS will pay $11.50 a share for CNET. The all-cash deal represents a premium of 44% over above the $7.95 CNET closed at yesterday. **** The Microsoft Effect: An Outfit Some Love To Hate by Matt Hartley, Globe And Mail Just because you're arguably the most influential technology company on the planet doesn't mean everyone's going to add you to their friends list. **** NBC-Vista Copy-Protection Snafu Reminds Us Why DRM Stinks by Jacqui Cheng, Ars Technica Handfuls of Windows Vista Media Center users found themselves blocked from making recordings of their favorite TV shows this week when a broadcast flag triggered the software's built-in copy protection measures. **** 'Grand Theft Auto' Helps U.S. Xbox Sales Top 10 Million by Antone Gonsalves, InformationWeek MyAppleMenu Reader ==================================== **** Forget Armageddon - We Need To Imagine Now by James Meek, Guardian To counter the dangerous fantasies of Bush, Blair and Bin Laden, we must learn to imagein the present in all its complexity. **** Because No Man Should Feel The Agony Of This FIlm by John Kass, Chicago Tribune It is the never-ending question to the never-ending story, why men would rather chop their toes off with a rusty hoe than walk across the street to see "Sex and the City." **** A 30,000-Volume Window On The World by Alberto Manguel, New York Times For the last seven years, I've lived in an old stone presbytery in France, south of the Loire Valley, in a village of fewer than 10 houses. I chose the place because next to the 15th-century house itself was a barn, partly torn down centuries ago, alrge enough to accommodate my library of some 30,000 books, assembled over six itinerant decades. I knew that once the book found their place, I would find mine. **** 'A Freewheelin' Life' By Suze Rotolo by Kristina Lindgren, Los Angeles Times This memoir is more — and in some way less —- than a full accounting of life with the man she calls "the mover and shaper of the cutlure of that era." It is a vivid insider's portrait of Greenwich Village, ground zero at the cusp of a new era, a place "people like me went — people who knew in their souls that they didn't belong where they came from." **** It's All In My Head by Jessica Winter, Slate Did Truman Capote and Ralph Ellison have writer's block—or were they just chronic procrastinators? SingaporeSurf ==================================== **** Failed Asia Campus Cost $47M by Harriet Alexander and Brian Robins, Sydney Morning Herald The University of NSW lost $47.6 million through the closure of its Singapore campus, the first official figures to disclose the extent of the financial fallout over the controversial enterprise show. The Singapore government had contributed nearly $26 million in loans and grants towards its establishment, resulting in an ugly dispute over liability of costs when the university pulled out. An audit raised concerns about a possible conflict of interest when the campus was terminated. THe university's Asia president, Greg Whittred, was also a member of Singapore's Economic Development Board, the main creditor when the campus collapsed. **** China Eastern Says Singapore Air Deal Very Likely by Hua Zhongwei and Fang Yan, Reuters China Eastern Airlines is still in talks to sell a stake to Singapore Airlines, and it is very likely the two carriers will complete a deal, China Eastern chairman Li Fenghua said on Thursday. **** Full-Day Bus Lanes Extended To 11 CBD Locations From June 2 by Asha Popatlal, Channel NewsAsia Driving in the Central Business District will be a different experience from June 2. That's when full-day bus lanes will be extended to 11 new locations. The extension is in addition to such lanes already in operation along six stretches of roads, like Orchard Road and Eu Tong Sen Street. See Also: LTA Extends Bus Lane Scheme To Improve Travel Experience For Bus Commuters , by Land Transport Authority, Singapore Government. **** A Psychological Perspective by Anthony Yeo, theonlinecitizen **** Pulau Batu Puteh: Past, Present And Future by Rais Yatim, New Straits Times In the end, it is what Malaysia and Singapore do after May 23 that will decide whether we canbring closure to a bilateral issue that has besieged us for more than three decades. Whatever the final outcome, Malaysia and Singapore will remain steadfast as friends and neighbours bound by understanding and harmony. **** Singapore's GIC Says Subprime Crisis Hurting Asia by Daryl Loo and Kevin Lim, Reuters The real estate arm of the Government of Singapore Investment Corp (GIC) said on Thursday that the credit crunch arising from the U.S. subprime crisis is being felt in Asian property markets. **** Eight Appeals And MP's Help Later, Still No Go by Samuel Tang, Straits Times We are faced with the sole option of hiring a maid based on ministry's policy, rather than our needs. **** Same Brand Of Rice, Very Different Prices by Alicia Wong and Ng Jing Yng, Today Checking on the regular price — before any discounts — of fragrant rice at supermarkets/hypermarts over May 6 and 7, the Consumers Association of Singapore (Case) found some huge price differences. From applesurf at myapplemenu.com Fri May 16 13:15:01 2008 From: applesurf at myapplemenu.com (applesurf at myapplemenu.com) Date: 16 May 2008 17:15:01 -0000 Subject: [MyAppleMenu] May 16, 2008 Message-ID: <20080516171501.40319.qmail@voot.pair.com> MyAppleMenu ==================================== **** Apple Dismisses Safari Vulnerability Claims by Elinor Mills, CNET News.com "Please note that we ar enot treating this as a securty issue, but a further measure to raise the bar against unwanted downloads," the Apple representative wrote in an email. **** iPhone Expands Its Empire, Once Again by Natalie Weinstein, CNET News.com Orange, France Telecom's mobile provider, will whisk the iPhone ito at least 10 more European, Middle Eastern, and African countries. **** Review: TapeDeck 1.0 by Craig Grannell, Cult Of Mac Where TapeDeck excels is in making the audio-recording process totally idiot-proof and fun. **** Using Apple TV As A Sales Tool by Joe McManus, redOrbit **** AT&T Reverses Course On iPhone Sales Limit by Antone Gonsalves, InformationWeek After only one day with a limit of one iPhone per customer, AT&T, the exclusive iPhone seller outside of Apple in the United States, said Thursday the restriction has ended. **** Anatomy Of A Rumor: The Atom-Powered Newton iPhone by Philip Elmer-DeWitt, Fortune **** Why Telstra Can't Afford To Offer The iPhone by David Braue, ZDNet Australia It's hard to imagine Telstra kowtowing to Apple by entering into a partnership that would devalue its own investments in content. **** Top 10 Things You Forgot Your Mac Can Do by Lifehacker >From pure eye candy to outright productivity-boosters, read on to get reminded of some of the more obscure things you can do with your Mac, fresh out of the box. **** First Look: Cyberduck 3 Is A Great, Free FTP Client For Mac by Chris Foresman, Ars Technica **** Review: Pixelmator 1.2 by Craig Grannell, Cult Of Mac Photoshop Elements 6 is only 20 bucks more than Pixelmator when grabbed from Amazon, and, when the current state of both applications is considered, Adobe's effort is about 20 times better. **** Apple's Boylston Street Store: Before And After by Cult Of Mac **** For Google, iPhone Remains A Key Platform by Philip Michaels, Macworld The way Google's vice president of engineering Vic Gundotra sees it, the entire mobile industry stands to benefit from what Apple has done with the iPhone. **** Google's Mac Efforts Begin To Bear Fruit by Philip Michaels, Macworld Web giant's company culture critical to stepped-up Mac development. **** Singapore Airlines Offers iPod, iPhone Integration by iPodNN iPods and iPhones are now supported on some flights out of the US, Sinapore Airlines has announced. The Tomorrow Weblog ==================================== **** Network 2.0 by James Ledbetter, Slate CBS's purchase of Cnet is pricey and tricky, but it might just work. MyAppleMenu Reader ==================================== **** The Future Of Reading by Ezra Klein, Columbia Journalism Review So I consulted my conscience, which is as much gadget-head as bookworm, and quickly came to a decision: I would simultaneously support reading /and/ the introduction of expensive new electronic devices by buying a Kindle and proudly toting it around town for a month. That would give me time to determine whether this really was the future of reading, or whether the nation remained threatened by grave and unnamed consequences. SingaporeSurf ==================================== **** Singapore-KL Shuttle Deal Ends In June But Frequency Of Flights Unchanged by Asha Popatlal, Channel NewsAsia **** National Wages Council (NWC) Guidelines For 2008/2009 by Singapore Government (Note: PDF document.) See Also: Government Accepts National Wages Council's Guidelines For 2008/2009 , by Singapore Government. (Note: PDF document.) **** Sometimes Only A Mac Will Do by London, Lanka And Drums In Orchard Road, in Singapore where I coul dhave got almost anything I wanted to eat within a short walk I headed for the easy win, the quick get back on the first rung of the ladder place. **** Real Wages Growth Outpaced Productivity In 2007 For 2Nd Straight Year by S Ramesh, Channel NewsAsia Growth in Singapore's real basic wages last year outpaced productivity for the second consecutive year. That is the conclusion of the tripartite National Wages Council (NWC). **** Sydney Campus Finds Potential Conflict Of Interest In The UNSW Campus Project In Singapore by Urbanrant If the EDB is found to be lacking in its process when reviewing investments and granting incentives to foreigners, Singaporeans would want the EDB to tighten its process. **** WP Candidate Publicized On His Blgo That He Voted For PAP, Draws Flak On The Internet. My Personal Take. by Sgpolitics.net **** Chef Chan's Restaurant @ National Museum Of Singapore by His Food Blog For such a price and /Straits Times/ claiming that it deserved at least one Michelin star, expectations were high and I expected more. However, only the roast chicken made it for me that night, that one is definitely better off having the rest of the dishes at some tze char stall elsewhere. **** Unpacking Yaw Shin Leong's Choice - Treading The Collaboration Line by The Anti Neo-Democracy Theorist **** NWC Recommends Special One-Off Payment For Workers by S Ramesh, Channel NewsAsia The National Wage Council (NWC) has asked for a one-off payment to low-wage workers to help them cope with the impact of higher inflation. **** Rais: Verdict Over Pualu Batu Puteh Will Be In Our Favour by New Straits Times Asked about Singapore deputy prime minister Prof S. Jayakumar's statement on Singapore winning the case, foreigner minister Datuk Seri Dr Rais Yatim said that the republic might feel they too had submitted strong evidence. "We cannot stop them from expressing their confidence." **** The Anorexic State by The Online Citizen **** Leadership Lessons From A Sub-Contractor by Lim Chih Yang, The Onlien Citizen **** Lawyers For PM, MM Apply For Summary Judgment by Ansley Ng, Today Lawyers for the Far Eastern Economic Review (Feer) will present their case in court today, to fight off an application for a summary judgment made by lawyers for prime minister Lee Hisen Loong and minister mentor Lee Kuan Yew. **** 16, 18, 21 - What's Behind An Age? by Derrick A Paulo, Today There are questions to be answered before we even start considering what the voting age should be. Above all, are we doing enough in our schools to prepare our youth to make all-important political judgments? /To me, things are quite clear. Youths, in general, tend to be liberal. The existing government is more conservative than liberal. Why, then, will the government want to lower the voting age to get in more voters that, likely, will not vote for the current government?/ From applesurf at myapplemenu.com Sat May 17 13:15:01 2008 From: applesurf at myapplemenu.com (applesurf at myapplemenu.com) Date: 17 May 2008 17:15:01 -0000 Subject: [MyAppleMenu] May 17, 2008 Message-ID: <20080517171501.98468.qmail@voot.pair.com> MyAppleMenu ==================================== **** The iPhone Connection by Grace Chng, Straits Times A vibrant ecosystem of hackers, software developers and accessor retailers has sprung up to support a growing Apple iPhone user base in Singapore. This is amazing, given that the most talked-about cellphone is not even officially available here yet. **** Will A 3G iPhone Really Be That Much Better? by Ennui **** Macs Defy WIndows' Gravity by Joe Wilcox, eWeek Consider this: Apple's retail market share is 14 percent, and two-thirds for PCs costing $1,000 or more. **** Studios, Networks Ally With Apple by Ben Fritz and Diane Garrett, Variety For years, Steve Jobs had a simple message for Hollywood: It's my way or the highway. But in recent weeks, he seems to have adopted Burger King's mantra: Have it your way. **** Apple's Largest U.S. Store Highlights Growth Plan by Jason Szep, Reuters Apple unveiled its largest U.S. store on Wednesday, a glass-facade building sheathed in steel that a senior company official said reflects Apple's plans to expand retail ventures at home and abroad. **** Is Bento The Solution For Your Personal Database And Organizer Needs? by Charles W. Moore, Applelinks If you're looking for an application to help organize your life, but don't want to climb the learning curve (or pay the cost of admission to the FileMaker world) and are familiar with the way iTunes and iPhoto work, Bento is well worth checking out. **** Apple Store Boston - Boylston Street Grand Opening Reflection by Adam Epstein, The iLife **** Don't Kid Yourself - Apple Is A Software Company by Don Reisinger, ITworld.com Could the company have the kind of success it does today without the software it provides on all of its products? I don't think so. /WIll the iPhone be a success if it is thick as a phone book? Of course not. Will the Macintosh be a success (today) if all the hardware looks like an IBM XT? Of course not./ /Apple is not a hardware nor a software company. As Steve Jobs said, Apple today is a Macintosh company, an iPod company, and an iPhone company./ **** Apple Files First Lawsuit In Defense Of "Made For iPod" Licensing by Aidan Malley, AppleInsider The first test of Apple's licensing system for iPod accessories has come with the launch of a complaint by the company against Atico International, whose speakers allegedly infringe on patents behind the "Made for iPod" label. **** Office 2008 For Mac: The Straw That Broke The Backs Of Microsoft's Windows Developers? by David Morgenstern, ZDNet.com The issue isn't the talent or commitment of the programmin by Microsoft's team. It's the on-again, off-again strategy. **** TapDex 3.3.2 by Dan Frakes, Macworld It's a simple and easy-to-use way to access your contact data without having to open Address Book. The Tomorrow Weblog ==================================== **** How Open Is Microsoft? by J Nicholas Hoover, InformationWeek Our survey shows that business technology pros aren't convinced that Microsoft is doing enough to shed its old proprietary habits. **** Conde Nast/Wired Acquires Ars Technica by Michael Arrington, TechCrunch **** Cellphone Innovations Rival Web by Brian Bergstein, Associated Press **** OLPC Laptop Gets Windows by David Talbot, MIT Technology Review **** HisSpace by Marc Ambinder, The Atlantic How would Obama's success in online compaigning translate into governing? **** Taking Your Laptop Into The US? Be Sure To Hide All Your Data First by Bruce Schneier, The Guardian I know this all sounds like work, and that it's easier to just ignore everything here and hope you don't get searched. Today, the odds are in your favour. But new forensic tools are making automatic searches easier and easier, and the recent US court ruling is likely to embolden other countries. It's better to be safe than sorry. MyAppleMenu Reader ==================================== **** The Story Of William McGonagall, The Worst Poet In The History Of The English Language by Andy McSmith, The Independent It is not the quality of his poetry that has immortalised McGonagall, but rather the British love of heroic failures. **** Can Money Buy Happiness? by Arthur C. Brooks, The American Money doesn't buy happiness, but success does. Capitalism, moored in values of hard work, honesty, and fairness, is key. **** In The Basement Of The Ivory Tower by Professor X, The Atlantic Sending everyone under the sun to college is a noble initiative. To oppose such a scheme of inclusion would be positively churlish. But one piece of the puzzle hasn't been figured into the equation, to use the sort of phrase I encounter in the papers submitted by my English 101 students. The zeitgeist of academic possibility is a great inverted pyramid, and its rather sharp point is poking, uncomfortably, a spot just about midway betwen my shoulder blades. **** Teddy Stole My Panties by Gene Weingarten, Washington Post And other hot news tips from The Post's 'in' basket. SingaporeSurf ==================================== **** The iPhone Connection by Grace Chng, Straits Times A vibrant ecosystem of hackers, software developers and accessor retailers has sprung up to support a growing Apple iPhone user base in Singapore. This is amazing, given that the most talked-about cellphone is not even officially available here yet. **** Countries Must Accept Autonomy Of Myanmar, China When Extending Helping Hand by Maria Siow, Channel NewsAsia Singapore foreign minister George Yeo has said that even as regional countries extend a helping hand to Myanmar and China, they have to accept the autonomy of these countries. That is because only they know their internal situations better. **** SMRT - The Best Passenger Experience Award - My Experience by Aaron Peng, A New Beginning **** OFWs In Singapore by Romeo V. Pefianco, Manila Bulletin **** Film On Lee Kuan Yew Seized By MDA by Andrew Loh, The Online Citizen **** Censors And Police Seize Video At Private Screening by Martyn See, No Political Films Please, We're Singaporeans **** Wearing Of Seat Belts On Small School Buses To Be Made Mandatory by Asha Popatlal, Channel NewsAsia The wearing of seat belts on small school buses is to be made mandatory. Transport minister Raymond Lim revealed this on Saturday, saying the Land Transport Authority (LTA) is currently working out how best to do this. **** The Ugly SIngaporean by Seah Chiang Nee, The Star Have affluent, educated Singaporeans become too self-centred and insensitive to other people's plights? Can Singapore be considered a First World city with such boorishness? A mature, developed country isn't defined only by wealth and education; it is also about humanity and concern for others. **** Singapore Redux by Liam Fitpatrick, Time These days, Singaporean film relishes the themes of alienation, sexuality and dysfunctionality, challenging viewers to see beyond the city-state's straitlaced stereotypes, and exploiting to the full a more relaxed attitude among Singapore's censors. Time's Liam Fitzpatrick spoke to Khoo (whose last feature, /My Magic/, has just been accepted into the main competition at Cannes), as well as to Ekachai Uekrongtham (the only other Singaporean director to have shown at Cannes) and one of the city-state's most promising young directors, Brian Gothong Tan. **** Singapore's Nondisclosure On UNSW: Fail by Elia Diodati, E Pur Si Muove Shortcircuiting the checks and balances in democratic institutions for whatever reason, including "efficiency", represents a blatant violation of the fundamental tenets of democracy and a failure to appreciate the distinction between a functioning democratic society and the populist tyranny of the majority. **** Number Of Burmese - It's Top Secret, Silly by Selene Cheng, The Online Citizen The number of Burmese, though, is not the real issue. THe real issue really is this: there's a lack of transparency from the bureaucracy. **** HDB Also Wants To Do A Rap Video, Just Like MDA by DK **** Fare Cheat Figures: A Poser by Chan Whye Chuen, Straits Times **** Guit And Innocence: Ask The Right Questions by Cheung Phei Chiet, Straits Times Should we even have different shades of innocence (or guilt)? /Innocence and guilt must be binary description, otherwise, the idea of "innocence until proven guilty" doesn't work. But it must work./ **** Pulau Batu Putih Judgement Will Be Carried 'Live' By RTM by Bernama Viewers can catch the 'live' telecast on RTM1 at 4 pm, a Broadcasting Department statement said Friday. **** The World's Most Competitive Countries by Jennifer Fishbein, BusinessWeek The U.S. is still No. 1, but not for long, according to IMD's annual list. With Singapore leading the way, Asia looks like an unstoppable force. **** A Vote On The Wild Side by Sheep City Who is Shin Leong trying to kid? **** Yaw Shin Leong Is Right! by The Kway Teow Man The fundamental reason why Yaw Shin Leong is right is: nation before party, principles before dogma. **** Singapore Has Few Avenues For Whistleblowers: Survey by Esther Fung, Today Singapore ranks little better than Russia when it comes to the number of companies with measures in place to protect corporate whistleblowers. **** SMRT To Run 700 More Train Trips From Tuesday by Maria Almenoar, Straits Times **** LTA To Roll Out 4 New Road Safety Initiatives by Maria Almenoar, Straits Times This includes an electronic signboard to tell motorists their speeds, lane markings to indicate an upcoming pedestrian crossing, triangular lane markings to get motorists to slow down and dotted lines at pedestrian light crossings. **** Predictions Of The iPhone's Impact In Singapore by Brian Koh, Harmless? Bananas! From applesurf at myapplemenu.com Mon May 19 13:15:01 2008 From: applesurf at myapplemenu.com (applesurf at myapplemenu.com) Date: 19 May 2008 17:15:01 -0000 Subject: [MyAppleMenu] May 19, 2008 Message-ID: <20080519171501.9872.qmail@voot.pair.com> MyAppleMenu ==================================== **** Apple Wants More Mobile Music From Labels by Saul Hansell, New York Times **** Outspring Mail 1.0 by Nathan Alderman, Macworld Outspring Mail 1.0.4, a brand new competitor in the e-mail landscape, attempts a radically different and immensely promising approach to e-mail management. But in this early version of the program, its good intentions seem to exceed its actual abilities. The Tomorrow Weblog ==================================== **** Microsoft Puts New Yahoo Deal On The Table by James Niccolai, Macworld UK Microsoft said on Sunday that it has raised the possibility of a new deal with Yahoo, one that may involve buying a part of the company but not all of it. MyAppleMenu Reader ==================================== **** Rain by Don Paterson, New Yorker **** Neck by Sarah Arvio, New Yorker **** The China Syndrome by Andrew Leonard, Salon Eccentric scholar Joseph Needham devoted his life to documenting the brilliant innovations of Chinese civilization — and the mystery of why the West eclipsed it. SingaporeSurf ==================================== **** Videos: Censors And Police Disrupt Private Screening by Martyn See, No Political Films Please, We're Singaporeans **** The Rise And Fall Of Rice by Leong Sze Hian, The Online Citizen From applesurf at myapplemenu.com Tue May 20 13:15:01 2008 From: applesurf at myapplemenu.com (applesurf at myapplemenu.com) Date: 20 May 2008 17:15:01 -0000 Subject: [MyAppleMenu] May 20, 2008 Message-ID: <20080520171501.72921.qmail@voot.pair.com> MyAppleMenu ==================================== **** Easy To Set Up AirPort Express by Bob LeVitus, Houston Chronicle Apple's AirPort Express has been one of my favorite wireless gadgets since its introduction in 2004. And what's even better is that the new model, introduced last March, is even better, faster and cheaper. **** Apple Dominating The $1,000+ PC Market Because, Well, It Doesn't Really Offer A Cheaper One by MG Siegler, The Industry Standard These numbers make it pretty clear that Apple is winning at least part of the market share war — and making a ton of money — its own way. **** Apple Playing Catch-Up On iPhone Music, Says Analyst by Gregg Keizer, Computerworld An analyst said the negotiations, if true, are "last year's news" and illustrate how Apple is playing catch-up with other handset makers. /You don't play 'catch-up' when there is no industry, no market, yet./ **** AT&T: With Partners Like This... by Philip Michaels, Macworld Surely, Apple realizes that a partnership is only as strong as its weakest link. And after the past couple weeks, one half of the Apple-AT&T relationship is looking fairly weak indeed. **** Best Of Both Worlds: OS X And Windows by Rob Griffiths, Macworld How to make two operating systems live in perfect harmony. The Tomorrow Weblog ==================================== **** What Microsoft Really Needs From Yahoo! by Brian Caulfield, Forbes **** Look Out, Apple TV: The $100 Netflix Player Has Arrived by John P. Falcone, CNET News.com **** Pursuing Yahoo, Microsoft Shows Need For Web Franchise by Andrew Ross Sorkin and Steve Lohr, New York Times Two weeks after walking away from takeover talks with Yahoo. Microsoft has made it clear that it still needs to create an internet powerhouse that could rival Google — and that its interest in Yahoo has not waned. MyAppleMenu Reader ==================================== **** Just A Tranquil Darker by John Hodgen, Slate **** Author Chuck Palahniuk Pushes The Envelope Again In 'Snuff' by Scott Timberg, Los Angeles Times At the very least, "Snuff" is a difficult book to discuss over dinner. With its assemblage of nasty fluids — bodily and otherwise — and its over-the-hill-porn-star heroine who plans to copulate literally to death by taking on 600 men in quick succession, it's also nearly impossible to describe without squirming. SingaporeSurf ==================================== **** Singapore Needs To Ease Controls To Remain Competitive, Says World Bank by Associated Press World Bank managing director Juan Jose Daboub praised the tiny Southeast Asian nation for its economic success but said it needs to strike a right balance between social order and stability to allow more innovation and creativity to product high-value goods and services. "At a time of increasing chanllegnes," he warned, "the margin for error for a small country like Singapore is small, despite the sucess to date." **** The Iron Fist Behind Soft Authoritarianism by Mollymeek Are non-PAP politicians obliged to be anti-PAP and only anti-PAP? **** Educate, Castigate But Not Regulate by Chemical Generation Singapore **** Wage Rises To Lag Inflation: Survey by Today Salary increments in Singapore for the next 12 months will lag inflation, according to the results of a survey by global management consultancy Hay Group released at the weekend. **** The Screening Of "One Nation Under Lee" - The Authorities Were Restrained. by Ian On The Red Dot Control is going to be hard to maintain. **** Causeway Din Vexes Marsiling Residents by Chen Meiyue, Straits Times Residents of Marsiling Causeway View estate near the Causeway are being driven up the wall by the incessant blaring of horns and revving of motorcycle engines. **** Getting Food Delivered To Your Home? It'll Cost More by Jamie Ee Wen Wei, Carmen Onggo and Terence Lee, Straits Times A numebr of food-delivery services - having to cope with higher food and transport costs - have upped their delivery fees or menu prices, or both. **** Indonesian Investment Chief Defends Temasek Ruling by Antara News Indonesia's investment agency chief on Monday rejected suggestions that a court ruling against Singapore's Temasek Holdings for alleged breach of anti-monopoly laws would deter foreign investors. "Decisions were made by two different institutions and both found Temasek guilty," Muhammad Lutfi told AFP. **** Long Term Investments Or Long Shots? by Au Waipang, Yawning Bread With things still in flux — and the legal case charging Surin Upatkoon of Kularb Kaew for acting as Temasek's nominee is still pending — two and a half years after the controversial purchase, we might want to ask, when will we know whether it was a good investment or not? **** Won't Pay TV Licence? by Chua Hian Hou, Straits Times The annual crackdown on people who have not paid their $110 TV licence is underway. **** Anlene Orchard Mile 2008 Protest by Ephraim Loy, A Writer's Blog The law is a more often a painful experience than a pleasant one. **** Southern Ridges Is Crowded! by Otterman Speaks... It was inevitable after the recent announcement about the trail that the public holiday would draw in the crowds. **** Robertson Quay Restaurants Raise A Stink by Jinny Koh, Today Stench from river affecting business, they claim. **** Turned Off By Bad Service by DPA A majority of Singapore consumers have stopped doing business with at least one firm in the last year due to poor service, a survey said yesterday. From applesurf at myapplemenu.com Wed May 21 13:15:00 2008 From: applesurf at myapplemenu.com (applesurf at myapplemenu.com) Date: 21 May 2008 17:15:00 -0000 Subject: [MyAppleMenu] May 21, 2008 Message-ID: <20080521171500.55481.qmail@voot.pair.com> MyAppleMenu ==================================== **** Apple's 'Might Mouse' Violates Trademark, M&M Says by Erik Larson, Bloomberg Apple, along with CBS, was sued for trademark infringement by a closely held computer-accessory firm over the name of its wireless "Might Mouse" device, whose name evokes the cartoon superhero. **** Apple Missing Golden .Mac Opportunity by Tom Krazit, CNET News.com Grocery stores sell basic items like tuna fish and bread at razor-thin margins, because they know people are likely to pick up a few other things while they're at the market for the basics. Apple has an opportunity to do the same thing with .Mac, and it won't have to give away the store to make it happen. **** One-In-Ten iPlayer Users Are On Mac by Jonny Evans, Macworld UK **** Logic Pro Updated With Over 100 FIxes by Jim Dalrymple, Macworld **** Review: Modbook Mac-Based Tablet Shows Promise, But Limited Appeal by Ken Mingis, Computerworld Although the Modbook is undoubtedly a cool concept, the reality for day-to-day use makes it a device aimed at a few narrow niche markets. **** Steve Jobs: "Design Is How It Works." by Dave Gustafson, Unpressable Buttons **** Phishers Point Scam At iTunes Users by Gregg Keizer, Computerworld Phishers have targeted users of Apple's iTunes music store with sophisticated identity theft attacks for the first time, a security company said Tuesday. **** 5 Realms Of Cards by Michael Yanovich, Inside Mac Games 5 Realms of Cards is a decent enough casual card game, but it didn't excite me and won't have me coming back for more now that the review is done. **** Apple Under Pressure To Fix Safari 'Carpet Bomb' Flaw by Ryan Naraine, ZDNet.com **** Apple Vs. Netflix: How Do They Stack Up? by Philip Elmer-DeWitt, Fortune **** TextExpander 2.2 Adds CSS Snippets, Dictate Support by Jeff Gamet, Mac Observer **** iPhone 3G Launch Date Confirmed by Gizmodo Someone very, very close to the 3G iPhone launch has told me that Apple will announce their new model at the WWDC Keynote on June 9th. The second-generation iPhone will be available worldwide right after the launch. **** SheepShaver Brings Classic Mac OS To Intel Macs And Leopard by Alan Zisman, Low End Mac **** Analyst: 1 In 4 Postponing iPhone Buy For New Tech by MacNN Almost a quarter of Americans currently interested in buying an iPhone are waiting on an annoncement, according to a research director from ChangeWave. **** PosteRazor 1.5 by Dan Frakes, Macworld **** The End Of The World by John Moltz, Macworld Apparently some of you think that Apple's about to go out of business; that its very existence is threatened; that fire, plague, and pestilence lie just around the corner for our favorite fruit-themed computer and consumer-electronics company. To which I say: What fight are you watching? The Tomorrow Weblog ==================================== **** $100 Laptop Gets Redesigned by David Talbot, MIT Technology Review **** Google Offers Personal Health Records On The Web by Steve Lohr, New York Times **** Why The Roku Netflix Player Is The First Shot Of The Revolution by Saul Hansell, New York Times The Netflix player contains most of the interface ideas and technology needed to revolutionize how we get television in our house. MyAppleMenu Reader ==================================== **** The Affairs Of Men by Philip Weiss, New York Magazine The trouble with sex and marriage. **** Top Cat: How 'Hello Kitty' Conquered The World by Esther Walker, The Independent The little half-Japanese, half-English cat has become so globally recognisable that it is, perhaps, inevitable that the Japanese board of tourism has appointed her their official tourism ambassador to China and Hong Kong. **** June 5, 1968: The Last Hours Of RFK by Pete Hamill, New York Magazine A rememberance of that awful night—and a brief, powerful friendship. SingaporeSurf ==================================== **** SDP Chief, Supporter Guilty Of Speaking In Public Without Permit by Keith Lin, Straits Times Singapore Democratic Party (SDP) chief Chee Soon Juan and party supporter Yap Keng Ho were found guilty on Wednesday of speaking in public without a permit in the run-up to the 2006 general election. **** 4 Possible Outcomes When ICJ Delivers Decision On Pedra Branca On Friday by Asha Popatlal, Channel NewsAsia Singapore's Agent to the Court, Professor Tommy Koh said, "being a natural born optimist, I am optimistic but I am not arrogant or presumptuous because the court could decide in any one of the four ways. I hope no matter what the outcome is, that both sides will take inspiration from this process and will see this as a possible precedent which could be used to settle bilateral disputes." **** Singapore Probes Political Film On Lee Kuan Yew by Reuters Singapore's media regulator is investigating the screening of a political film that an opposition party said critically examines the city-state's first prime minister, Lee Kuan Yew. The film, "One Nation Under Lee", was made by a group of political activists and looks at the rise of Lee and his relationship with the media, Chee Siok Chin, a senior member of the opposition Singapore Democratic Party (SDP), told Reuters. **** 6-Months Trial To Allow Foldable Bicycles On Trains, Buses by Ian Lim, Straits Times **** Where Has The Voices Gone? by The Maxima **** Loosen Up A Little, PAP by Aaron Ng, Hear Ye! Hear Ye! I disagree with many of the methods employed by the SDP but the act of seizing a film screened for a small group of people isn't going to make me like the PAP. The Worker's Party suddenly seem like a nice in-between. **** Cringeworthy Moments Of The Finals Of Miss Singapore Universe by Nadelicious Till De Very Last Drop! **** Racist Bloggers: Then & Now (Why It Affects Me) by Movign Higher In Souped-Up Heeeuristically Agon Moment **** Singapore Government's (MINDEF) Policies To Tackle Peak Oil by Singapore Peak Oil: Energy, Entropy, Economics, Ecology **** Dr M's Pleasure: Souring Bilateral Ties by Jeffrey Law, Straits Times **** Abused Pictures by Pkchukiss My guess is that the designer was probably in a hurry and simply dumped the first image he found in the clip art gallery. **** It Will Be A Cold Day In Singapore... by NTT's Core Dump 2.0.... I liked the idea for its freshness and its tongue-in-cheek artistic sense. I mean after all it is a kind of performance art, but something different. **** Art And Soul: Powerful And Powerless Art In Singapore by T C Chang, Environment And Planning A The power and powerlessness of public art in Singapore are not unlike those encountered in other cities where artful planning has taken centre stage in contemporary urban redevelopment. (Note: PDF document.) **** Gone In 11 Minutes Flat by William J. Dobson, Newsweek As much as the government is trying to spin the prison break as a cautionary tale, the episode is revealing shortcomings in Singapore's nanny state. Singapore does an excellent job mobilizing its resources and directing them at recognized problems, a Western diplomat said. But there are few external or independent checks on the system — and this lack of scrutiny, combined with the government's generally successful record, has produced serious blind spots. **** Link Pay Of Leaders To Happiness Index by Tan Kin Lian, The Online Citizen The key performance indicator of a government should go beyond economic growth. /Personally, I'd rather not have the pay of ministers linked to any indices. I would like to have the prime minister go to the parliament and the people regularly to justify why he is paying how much to his cabinet./ **** Arrested For Racist Blog by Today Police have arrested a 24-year-old man for posting contents in his blog that could "wound the racial feelings of another', according to their statement. From applesurf at myapplemenu.com Thu May 22 13:15:00 2008 From: applesurf at myapplemenu.com (applesurf at myapplemenu.com) Date: 22 May 2008 17:15:00 -0000 Subject: [MyAppleMenu] May 22, 2008 Message-ID: <20080522171500.50219.qmail@voot.pair.com> MyAppleMenu ==================================== **** Bright Future Predicted For Apple by Darren Waters, BBC **** Okay, Apple, So What About The Sub-$1,000 Desktop Market? by Dennis Sellers, Macsimum News If Apple is going to compete in the low (or at least lower) end market, it's going to have to beef up its Mac mini offerings. **** How An Apple Store Was Transformed Into A Best Buy In 10 Minutes by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, ZDNet.com Don't be fooled into thinking that Apple customers are any different to anybody else's customers. **** I'm A Switcher by Ricky Kiau **** Apple Daydreaming: Report Predicts Move Toward Home Devices by Nick Wingfield, AllThingsD Forget next month, it's more fun thinking about hwat digital toys Apple might be making in five year. Forrester Research is the latest to look into the crystal ball in a new report that imagines the Apple products of 2013. But rather than predict Apple jet packs or other outlandish new directions, the research firm uses the company's recent history as a guide to forecasting. **** Screenflick 1.6 Adds 30 New Features, Fixes by MacNN Araelium Group on Wednesday unveiled Screenflick 1.6, an update to the company's screen recording program, which intorudces over 30 new features and improvements. **** Here's How Apple Wins The Enterprise by Tim Beyers, Motley Fool If Apple /really/ wants to win the corporate market, it needs to keep winning consumers. And those consumers, in turn, have to sway IT managers to make room for their gears. Gear like, you know, the iPhone. **** Bugs Bite Apple iCal Application by Brian Prince, eWeek Researchers at Core Security Technologies have uncovered three vulnerabilities in Apple's iCal application that hackers can exploit to take over vulnerable machines or launch denial-of-service attacks. **** Review: Times, The Mac-Based Newspaper For Your RSS Feeds by David Chartier, Ars Technica This is a really successful app for the general RSS use. Times excels at bringing some great ideas to the RSS table, wrapped up in a refreshing UI that offers a bird's-eye view of what's going on. **** Anti-Malware Group Scolds Apple Over Safari 'Carpet Bomb' by Gregg Keizer, Computerworld StopBadware.org, a group founded by Google, Lenovo, and Sun, on Monday asked Apple to reconsider its refusal to address the flaw as a security problem. **** Soaring Mac Market Share Means More Headaches For Microsoft by David Zeiler, Baltimore Sun The Mac's gains so far already have destroyed the psychology that developed in the 1990s that Windows is the only reasonable choice for the average PC buyer. **** iPhone Proves To Be Good Busienss For AT&T by Chris Foresman, Ars Technica Rubicon Consulting has released the results of a recent survey of US iPhone users and found that nearly half had switched from their previous carrier to use the device. **** Should Apple Fear The Netflix Player? by Jason D. O'Grady, ZDNet.com **** All Apple MacBooks To Use LED Backlighting By 2009 by Katie Marsal, AppleInsider Apple plans for all of its MacBooks to use LED-backlit displays by 2009, completing a transition across its notebook lines away from mercury-laden panels that began last year with an upgrade to its MacBook Pro. **** iBank 3.1 Adds Download Previews by Jim Darlymple, Macworld **** CopyPaste Pro 1.0.2 Released by Jim Dalrymple, Macworld The Tomorrow Weblog ==================================== **** 20 Seconds, And A Movie Has Arrived by David Pogue, New York Times For mvoie lovers who already subscribe to Netflix, this one-time $100 expenditure is practically a no-brainer. **** Open-Source File Format Is To Be A Part Of Microsoft Office by Kevin J. O'Brien, New York Times Microsoft, under pressure from European regulators, national standards organizations and its own government clients, said it planned to give customers the ability to open, edit and save documents in Open Document Format — the main competitor to the Microsoft Word format — through a free update. **** Earth To Corel: Open Your Office, Or Give It Up by Fernando Cassia, The Inquirer Why an 'expensive wannabe' if there's 'OK and free'? **** Explaining The Workings Of Live Search Cashback by Ina Fried, CNET News.com I'm not sure how much Microsoft's Live Search Cashback program will help Microsoft take share from Google, but I do find my brain grinding over the business model implications. **** Design Will Define You (Whether You Embrace It Or Not) by Jashua Blankenship, So Serious Good design is not a slick add-on or an optional extra. Good design is an essential part of every interaction, every touchponit, every service opportunity, every creative endeavor, and every communication between your organization and your customers/guests. MyAppleMenu Reader ==================================== **** Exposed by Emily Gould, New York Times What I gained — and lost — by writing about my intimate life online. **** Beyond A Boundary by James Wood, New Yorker In a masterly new novel, two emigres find a home in post-9/11 New York. SingaporeSurf ==================================== **** Sexy Fragrance Prince's Unsexy Arrest by Chemical Generation Singapore Ideally, the law should not be brought in at all. **** Dispute Over Rock Could Add Pressure To Malaysia PM by Jalil Hamid and Neil Chatterjee, Reuters Johor officials said privately that the Johor state government could be forced to turn its back on Singapore if Kuala Lumpur loses the case, with the southern state's hereditary ruler losing face. "The Sultan may freak out and make it diffcult for Johor state officials to have direct dealings with the Singapore government," said one. "There's also the possibility of ruling party politicians staging anti-Singapore demonstrations." **** Close Call Likely In ICJ Verdict by Choi Tuck Wo, The Star Expectations are high that the 17-member bench headed by vice-president judge Awn Shawkat Al-Khasawneh will rule in favour of Malaysia. The source added that Malaysia had presented a compelling case to the court during the hearing between Nov 16 and 23 last year. **** Pulau Batu Puteh: Reflection Of Malaysia's Adherence To Peaceful Settlement by Bernama The settlement of the overlapping claims between Malaysia and Singapore on the sovereignty over Pulau Batu Puteh, Middle Rocks and SOuth Ledge thorugh a judgement by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague Friday demonstrates Malaysia's steadfast adherence to the fundamental principles governing interstate relations in her foreign policy. **** HDB Revises Flat Application Rules by Hoe Yeen Nie, Channel NewsAsia The Housing & Development Board (HDB) has revisd the application process for its Build-to-Order and Balloting Exercise modes of sale to address recent increases in non-selection of new HDB flats. **** The Unnatural Afterlife Of The Section 377A Debate by Au Waipang, Yawning Bread The obvious absurdity of all this tilting at windmills and the ultimate ineffectualness of it must eventually strike someone with that rare ounce of common sense as pointless, in fact, damaging. **** Pulau Batu Puteh by Yusho Ahmad, The Ancient Mariner Datuk Shabery believes that whatever the outcome, Singaproeans in general will not be overly concerned because they consider this more of a "government to government" issue. For Malaysians on the other hand, it is more of an emotive "people to people" issue. Win or lose, it may lead to some negative repercussions. **** Uncle Sha's Question To Me: Was The Post By Frangrance Prince Offending? by Ian On The Red Dot **** Haze May Hit In 2 Weeks - It All Depends On The Wind by Tania Tan, Straits Times **** Trash And Burn: Singapore's Waste Problem by Gillian Murdoch, Reuters For critics, Singapore's set-up is a dirty mess. "Waste incineration sounds like a pretty good idea if you don't really look into it too deeply," said Neil Tangri, of the International Global Anti-incinerator Alliance. **** Bloggers Should Be Allowed To Be As Racist As Possible by Ian On The Red Dot The best way to remove racism is to put it out in the light nad let it wither and die under the glaring heat of public scrutiny. **** Malaysia, Singapore Promise Not To Cause Trouble, Says Rais by Bernama Foreign minister Datuk Seri Dr Rais Yatim said a technical committee will "administer and carry out the decision according to international administrative principles." The committee would determine matters, among others, as to who should be on the island after the decision was made and also questions on fishery areas. **** Batu Puteh Verdict To Be Telecast Live On TV1 by B. Suresh Ram, New Straits Times Information minister Datuk Ahmad Shabery Cheek urged Malaysians to accept the decision and not to get too emotional if the court ruled in Singapore's favour. **** Great Singapore Squeeze by Singapore Life And Times Well, what to do? **** Political Suicide Or Political Maturity? by Andrew Loh, The Online Citizen Has Yaw Shin Leong committed political suicide, for himself and his party? **** Comcast, StarHub Throttling BitTorrrent To Over Half Their Subscribers, Claims Expert by TelecomTV **** I'm Shocked That People Read My Blog by Liew Hanqing, New Paper He claims he wrote only for friends, but says he will apologise online. **** Temasek Files Appeal Against Indonesia Anti-Competitive Ruling by Sujadi Siswo, Channel NewsAsia This is the last available legal recourse in Indonesia to have the decisions against Temasek Holdings overturned. From applesurf at myapplemenu.com Fri May 23 13:15:00 2008 From: applesurf at myapplemenu.com (applesurf at myapplemenu.com) Date: 23 May 2008 17:15:00 -0000 Subject: [MyAppleMenu] May 23, 2008 Message-ID: <20080523171500.92433.qmail@voot.pair.com> MyAppleMenu ==================================== **** Review: The New 17-In. MacBook Pro Wins Over A Skeptic by Ryan Faas, Computerworld If you are someone who works with video, graphics or music for a living and you need a portable workspace, thenyou have to check out this laptop. Even if media work is something you only do as a hobby or if you're just eyeing a portable with an amazing display for movies or games, this machine is well worth a look. You may decide that it's still bigger than you need. Or you may find, as I did, that your assumptions about size and weight pale in comparison to the solid design, stunning screen and ample processing power available on Apple's biggest laptop. **** Dear Steve Jobs, Thanks For The Magnets! by Black, Alligator So, basically, there is a magnet inside the earbuds and inside the screen of my macbok... **** Judge Says N.Y. Pension Fund Can't Sue Apple by Joseph Goldstein, New York Sun **** Five Reasons Why An Apple Tablet Makes Sense Now by Christian Zibreg, TG Daily **** Apple iPhone: Data Fears Over Second-Hand iPhones by Telegraph iPhone owners who are considering selling their handsets through auction sites sucha s eBay have been warned that their phones may still contain personal information. Carryng out a full "restore" of the iPhone through iTunes is not enough, according to security experts. **** Apple Slides On Vague Rumors Of 3G iPhone Delay by Eric Savitz, Barrons One trading source tells me there are "rumors of a rumor" of a 3G delay. /You know, Apple had been so good in shutting down leaks that we don't get decent rumors anymore./ **** iPhone Survivor: Traveling Without A Laptop by Rich Mogull, TidBITS If I truly wanted to challenge myself I'd keep the laptop and try to survive without the iPhone. **** Following Death Of Founder, MacMinute Calls It Quits by Chris Foresman, Ars Technica **** Macbook Air by David Schloss, PDN Gear Guide It won't be my main photographic tool as the horsepower isn't quite there for the demands of high-end editing work, but it's handy to have for simpler tasks, and I predict it's going to become a constant companion on future flights. **** Psystar Skates On Thin Ice by Rob Griffiths, Macworld By distributing Apple's own software on their site, Psystar has stepped over a large legal line—one that it really should have done its best to stay well away from. The Tomorrow Weblog ==================================== **** The Library In The New Age by Robert Darnton, New York Review Of Books Information is exploding so furiously around us and information technology is changing at such bewildering speed that we face a fundamental problem: How to orient ourselves in the new landscape? What, for example, will become of research libraries in the face of technological marvels such as Google? MyAppleMenu Reader ==================================== **** Her Father, His Secrets, Herself by Jennifer Schuessler, New York Times Listening to his impassioned sermon at an AIDS memorial service, Ms. Moore, then unaware of his secret life, recalls thinking: "Here is where I can come to find my father's love." This brave book is a testament to her own love for him. **** The Question Of Global Warming by Freeman Dyson, New York Review Of Books This fact, that the exchange of carbon between atmosphere and vegetation is rapid, is of fundamental importance to the long-range future of global warmin, as will become clear in what follows. Neither of the books under review mentions it. **** Coming Down From The Trees by The Economist Appearances in the branches notwithstanding, Berkeley has changed. SingaporeSurf ==================================== **** Singapore Delegates Pleased With World Court Ruling On Pedra Branca by May Wong, Channel NewsAsia Prof Jayakumar said: "I think Malaysia and Singapore, by resolving this dispute in an amicable manner by recourse to the ICJ, or third-party dispute settlement, have in fact shown our peoples as well as the region that this is a way of resolving intractable issues, and I think it's a model for resolving other issues." **** MFA Says ICJ's Judgement On Pedra Branca Brings Closure by Valarie Tan, Channel NewsAsia Sigapore's Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) said it is pleased with the judgement of the International Court of Justice (ICJ), which awarded sovereignty of the Pedra Branca island to Singapore on Friday. But the minstry said the judgement is not totally in SIngapore's favour as the court has awarded Middle Rocks to Malaysia. Even though Singapore had argued that these features are part of Pedra Branca, MFA said it accepts the court's decision. **** ICJ Verdict A Win-Win Outcome For Malaysia And Singapore, Says Rais by Bernama "This morning's decision is a 'win-win' outcome to both sides. The ICJ decided based on historical facts and international law as well as administrative implications and other related matters. "... the court decided to award sovereignty to Singapore but at the same time awarded sovereignty over Middle Rocks to Malaysia. This is a victory for Malaysia as well," foreign minister Datuk Seri Dr Rais Yatim said. **** ICJ Rules For Singapore On Islet Dispute With Malaysia by AFP The International Court of Justice ruled Friday in favour of Singapore in a 28-year sovereignty dispute with Malaysia over a tiny but strategic uninhabited island the size of half a football field. The granite island is considered important for its strategic position and impact on territorial marine boundaries. **** ICJ Awards Pedra Branca's Sovereignty To Singapore by Channel NewsAsia The International Court of Justice (ICJ) at The Hague in the Netherlands has awarded sovereignty over Pedra Branca island to Singapore, while the sovereignty of Middle Rocks has been awarded to Malaysia. As for the island's other maritime feature, South Ledge, Awn Shawkat Al-Khasawneh, the acting president of International Court of Justice, said: "The Court has not been mandated by the parties to draw the line of delimitation with respect to the territorial waters of Malaysia and Singapore in the area in question. In these circumstances, the court concludes that for the reasons explained above, sovereignty over South Ledge, as a low tide elevation, belongs to the State in the territorial waters of which it is located." See Also: Case Concerning Sovereignty Over Pedra Branca/Pulau Batu Puteh, Middle Rocks And South Ledge (Malaysia/Singapore): Judgment , by International Court of Justice. (Note: PDF document.) **** We're Prepared To Listen, Says Government by Au Waipang, Yawning Bread The subliminal message is this: The government wants you to open your mouth, but when you do, they will wave a big stick over your head. They also reserve the right to dismiss your ideas with contempt as soon as they have made a moral judgement about your honesty and sincerity. **** Singapore Property Prices Have Peaked - Government by Jan Dahinten and Saeed Azhar, Reuters Singapore's booming property market has peaked and will continue to moderate over the next two years, the country's trade ministry said on Friday. **** Caning As A Form Of Punishment by Mr Wang Says So **** The Charge Of The Chee Brigade by The Online Citizen **** Singapore's Waste Problem by One Less Car I doubt that a substantial proportion of Singaporeans 'understand and accept' the incineration situation. Most of them just consume and throw their waste without a thought to how it is being disposed of. **** Singaproe's GDP Grows Less Than Estimated; CPI Jumps by Shamim Adam and Jean Chua, Bloomberg Singapore's economy expanded less than initially estimated in the first quarter, adding to concerns growth may ease in the coming months as global demand weakens and inflation accelerates. Gross domestic product increased 6.7 percent in the first three months of the year from a year earlier, less than the gvoernment's April 10 estimate of 7.2 percent, the trade ministry said in a statement today. Inflation soared to a 26-year high of 7.5 percent last month, a separate report showed. **** MDA Bans Two Video-Sharing Porn Sites by Chua Hian Hou, Straits Times Singapore's two most popular pornographic websites, both of which allow users to uplaod porn videos for others to watch, have been banned here. MDA restricts access to 100 'mass-impact objectionable websites as a symbolic statement of our core societal values', MDA senior assistant director for media policy Jason Hoong said in an e-mail reply to The Straits Times. **** Seagrasses On The East Coast? by Wildfilms **** Singapore's Economy Grows At Fastest Since 2005 by Reuters **** Singapore's Q1 GDP Grows At Annualized 14.6% by Channel NewsAsia Singapore's economy expanded at a slower-than-expected annualised rate of 14.6 per cent in the first quarter from the fourth in a seasonally adjusted and annualised basis. **** Be Calm And Mature In Accepting ICJ Decision, Says Rais by Bernama "(There is) the need for our Malaysian society to be calm and mature about it so as not to translate this into a political upheaveal either way," foreign minister Datuk Seri Rais Yatim told journalists. "This is very important." **** Long Wait For Verdict On Island by Gladys Tay, The Star Fishermen in Pengerang are keeping their fingers crossed that the Pulau Batu Puteh verdict will be in Malaysia's favour. They have been prevented from fishing in the area for the past 20 years due to Malaysia and Singapore's overlapping claims on the island. **** U Of I Creating Singapore Research Center by Associated Press The University of Illinois plans to expand its reach in Asia with a new digital-science research center in Singapore. **** 'Be Strict Like Singapore' by Roslina Mohamad, The Star "In Malaysia, we just let them be and due to some bloggers, people tend to believe unfounded articles as the truth," said mentri besar Datuk Seri Adnan Yaakob. **** Campaign The Singapore Government To Stop Producing Cluster Bombs by The Online Citizen Singapore remains not having subscribed to the Wllington Declaration which affirms the countries' "objective of concluding the negotiation of such an instrument prohibiting cluster munitions that cuase unacceptable harm to civilians'. See Also: Cluster Munitions And International Humanitarian Law , by International Committee of the Red Cross. 'Circle Of Impact', Report On The Human Impact Of Cluster Bombs , by Handicap International. **** From Singapore To HK Disneyland by Karen Wong, New Paper Disneyland Hong Kong has cast its net in Singapore for drama and dance graduates to star in its stage shows. **** Chee's 'Delaying Tactics' Under Fire by Today Opposition politician Chee Soon Juan is employing delaying tactics to avoid the assessment of damages hearing next week, said minister mentor Lee Kuan Yew's press secretary yesterday. From applesurf at myapplemenu.com Sat May 24 13:15:01 2008 From: applesurf at myapplemenu.com (applesurf at myapplemenu.com) Date: 24 May 2008 17:15:01 -0000 Subject: [MyAppleMenu] May 24, 2008 Message-ID: <20080524171501.96347.qmail@voot.pair.com> MyAppleMenu ==================================== **** Free Software: Better On OS X? by Mike Gunderloy, OStatic **** Five Reasons Not To Switch To Mac And The Five Reasons Why I Finally Did Switch To Mac by Will Hinton, Good Will Hinton So how did I overcome my objections? **** The Obvious Difference Between Mac And Windows Applications by Goobimama's Soggy Blog Developers of Mac applications generally pay a lot of attention to the design and aesthetics of the application. Whereas in the Windows world, it is features, features, features. A feature is not a feature until and unless you can use it. **** New 3G Apple iPhone Arrives In North America by ImportGenius Data from U.S. customs records now seem to confirm this prediction. **** Improving The iPod's Click Wheel by Rob Pegoraro, Washington Post How could you revise the software behind the click wheel without altering its elegant hardware? **** The Apple Of The Future by Dan Moren, Macworld Don't be too surprised when the next big thing out of Apple is something that nobody predicted. After all, that's just the way we like it. **** Espy 1.0 Adds Pictres To Contacts by MacNN **** What ToDo 1.3.2 by Jackie Dove, Macworld WHat ToDo 1.3.2 is a clean, mnimalist calendar, organizer, and to-do program that takes a more iterative approach to task management than iCal—an approach that may work better for some people. It's missing some core functionality, however, and its price is rather high for such a minimal feature set. **** Apple Only Has Eyes For Consumers by Nick Wingfield, Wall Street Journal The Tomorrow Weblog ==================================== **** Yahoo Buy Not A Strategy In Itself: Microsoft CEO by Reuters Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer said on Friday that buying Yahoo was not a strategy in itself, and dropping the bid meant it now had $50 billion to spend on other acquisitions. **** Intimations Of Mortality by Joanne Lee, Straits Times He deleted his profile before he took his life. **** Shutterfly: It's PIcture Perfect by Andrew Murr, Newsweek Shutterfly is the little Silicon Valley company that could. It survived the dotcom bust and now competes with two behemoths in the online photo industry. **** Down On The Server Farm by The Economist The real-world implications of the rise of internet computing. MyAppleMenu Reader ==================================== **** The Alpha Geeks by David Brooks, New York Times The future historians of the nerd ascendancy will likely note that the great empowerment phase began in the 1980s with the rise of Microsoft and the digital economy. **** Does Time Run Backward In Other Universes? by Sean M. Carroll, Scientific American One of the most basic facts of life is that the future looks different from the past. But on a grand cosmological scale, they may look the same. SingaporeSurf ==================================== **** Middle Rocks Now Happy Hunting Ground For Johor Fishermen by Nor Faridah A. Rashid, Bernama **** Singapore Urged To Consider Fishermen At Pulau Batu Puteh by Bernama The Singapore government has been urged to consider that Johoreans, especially fishermen, have been using Pulau Batu Puteh for generations for transportation and fishing. International trade and industry minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin said the Malaysian government hoped Singapore would take note of this and not jeopardise the livelihood of the fishermen. **** Chee Should Quit Politics And Start An Activist Group by Gerald Giam, Singapore Patriot That is what they are best suited for. They can still get their foreign funding (in fact it will be easier as they will not be subjected to the Political Donations Act) and the prickly Lees won't see them as a political threat (although I don't see why they do now). **** A Nest Of Our Own by Singapore Life And Times **** More Work In Store For Singapore, Malaysia After ICJ Ruling by Hasnita A Majid, Channel NewsAsia Sovereignty over South Ledge was left to eb determined later between the countries when they sort out their territorial waters, the ruling said. So more work is in store for SIngapore and Malaysia. Associate professor Robert Beckman from the NUS Faculty of Law said: "Indonesia may have to intervene in this case if the boundary is to be determined because their interest will be affected as well." **** Stormy Waters Ahead For Singapore by Seah Chiang Nee, The Star The island-state, once a mere 'sampan' tossing about in a turbulent South-East Asia, is today a large ship cruising international waters. However, its dependency on the world for its daily necessities makes it vulnerable to any global economic downturn. **** Singapore Economy Faces Triple Threat by Nicholas Fang and Alvin Foo, Straits Times SIngaore is facing a triple whammy of economic threats in the form of surging inflation, slower-than-expected growth and weaker exports, the government has warned. **** Expert: Natural Resources In Territorial Waters Now Singapore's by The Star The International Court of Justice decision on Pulau Batu Puteh means that all natural resources and minerals in the territorial waters wil now belong to Singpore. Maritime Institute of Malaysia director-general Datuk Cheah Kong Wai said under the Law of hte Sea, a country's erritorial waters stretched 12 nautical miles from its shores or any piece of land. **** A Sad Abdullah Accepts ICJ Ruling by The Star **** Malaysians Can Now Go Fishing Off Middle Rocks by The Star For the first time in decades, Malaysian fishermen will be able to fish off Middle Rocks, which are just 0.6 nautical miles south of Pulau Batu Puteh (or Pedra Branca), which now officially belongs to Singapore. **** Singapore Wins Pedra Branca - Malaysia Wins Middle Rocks by Endoh's Dungeon **** Libel Case Shows Singapore's Limits by Hamish McDonald, Sydney Morning Herald **** ICJ Decision Shows Singapore Cannot Act Unilaterally by Bernama The decision of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague to give Malaysia sovereignty over Middle Rocks proves that Singapore cannot act unilaterally, including in activities involving land reclamation, says deputy prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak. **** Muhyiddin Asks The People To Accept ICJ's Decision by Bernama International trade and industry minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin calls on the people to accept the split decision by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) Friday which gave sovereignty over Pulau Batu Puteh to SIngapore. "Hopefully, Singapore will not be arrogant over the latest decision on Pulau Batu Puteh," he said. **** Pulau Batu Puteh Issue, Malaysia Priased For SOlving It Amicably by Bernama Despite being a country very much larger than Singapore, Malaysia had been sincere from the beginning to solve hte issue peacefully and amicably, head of the Department of Political Science, International Islamic University Malaysia assistant professor Dr Wahabuddin Ra'ees said. "I hope that the SIngapore government will not regard the decision on Batu Puteh as an opening for them to ride rough shot over Malaysia's sovereign rights on other bilateral issues," said president of the INternational Movement for a Just World, Dr Chandra Muzaffar. **** Pengerang Fishermen Will Abide By Decision On Pulau Batu Puteh by Bernama The Pengerang Fishermen's Association will abide by the decision of the International Court of Justice that gave Singapore sovereignty over Pulau Batu Puteh. Its chairman Abu Bakar Mohamad said the fishermen would go on with their lives as usual and would respect Singapore's ownership of the island although they were rather disappointed with the decision. **** Malaysia Loses Pulau Batu Puteh Not Due To Weak Arguments, Says Rais by Nor Faridah A. Rashid, Bernama "The fact that we have lost Pulau Batu Puteh is not due to the weakness of our arguments but to the lack of exercise by the authorities (on that island) for some 100 years," foreign minister Datuk Seri Rais Yatim told Malaysian journalists. Rais said that while Pulau Batu Puteh was the significant material where the HOrsburgh Lighthouse had been built and the administration done by Singaore, "we should also tell the publi cin Malaysia that we also won Middle Rocks which is so close." "Of course in terms of area we have less than what it is compared to Pulau Batu Puteh but nonetheless, because of the adjacent position of these two units neither party can do any exercise of reclamation for anything without consultation," he said. **** Victory???? by White-Analyst Malaysia is not behaving like a big country, they are trying to destroy Singapore... Let us remember that today as the most humiliating day of the Republic of Singapore, the day we fail to protect our land despite overseeing them for 130 years. **** We Get Pedra, You Get The Middle... by Unabridged Excerpts **** Pulau Batu Puteh A.K.A. Horsburgh by Borneo Tips With Singapore cointinuing to manage the island, one can be assured that it will be well maintained and security around the area be assured. **** We Lost Our Sovereignty by Malaysia's Chromosome **** Condolences To BN Federal Government Of Malaysia! by Mahaguru58 Our foreign minister tries to paint the picture as a 'win win' situation. Hahahahahahahaha!!! **** Goodbye Pulau Batu Putih... by Rocky's Bru **** Pedra Branca: Malaysia Won 2 Piece Of Land, Singapore Only 1 Tiny Portion by Cakap Tak Serupa Bikin Two is surely more than one! Positive thinking! Positive belief! Positive writing! Constructive and motivating journalism! Positive Message! Malaysian values! From applesurf at myapplemenu.com Sun May 25 13:15:00 2008 From: applesurf at myapplemenu.com (applesurf at myapplemenu.com) Date: 25 May 2008 17:15:00 -0000 Subject: [MyAppleMenu] May 25, 2008 Message-ID: <20080525171500.13870.qmail@voot.pair.com> MyAppleMenu ==================================== **** Microsoft's Office 2008 Has A Flavor Of Apple by James Derk, Scripps Howard News Service The most striking thing to me is how much Office 2008 has adopted the look and feel of OS X and how much it feels like an Apple product instead of a Microsoft product ported to Apple hardware. **** MediaCentral 2.8 Now Supports Live TV by MacNN **** The Next Three Points About MacBook Air by James Fallows, THe Atlantic **** The Road To TapeDeck 1.0 by SUperMegaUltraGroovy The Tomorrow Weblog ==================================== **** Web Users 'Getting More Selfish' by BBC News MyAppleMenu Reader ==================================== **** Witness For The Transit by Stephen Burt, New York Times Many poets try to sound tough, or masculine, or self-conscious about manhood, and fail miserably: what qualities let Kleinzahler succeed? **** Pot Luck by Lara Vapnyar, New York Times What I still really wanted was a magic pot that could produce any food I fantasized about. SingaporeSurf ==================================== **** Malay VIllage's Demise: 'It's Time' by Tan Dawn Wei and Nur Dianah Suhaimi, Straits Times After years of being branded a 'white elephant', the death knell has finally sounded for the Malay VIllage in Geylang Serai. **** English Test For Foreign Front-Line Staff? Bosses Say 'No' by Jamie Ee Wen Wei and Dhany Osman, Straits Times **** Politicians And Activists Both Have A Role In Singapore by Gerald Giam, Singapore Patriot It would be much less distracting if Chee didn't appear to be doing that to win votes at the polls. **** Pedra Branca Is Useless by Infernal Ramblings If you ask me, Malaysians are far too obsessed with petty and irrelevant things like Singapore. **** Singapore Prime Minister Expected To Testify In High Court Case by DPA It will mark the first time any leader of the ruling People's Action Party has been cross-examined by a political opponent in open court, political analysts noted. **** After 18 Years, Kadir's Search For Letter Still Goes On by Choi Tuck Wo, The Star It's been 18 years, and ambassador-at-large Tan Sri Abdul Kadir Mohamad is still searching for a crucial letter that could have helped to shed light on sovereignty involving Pulau Batu Puteh. **** Doing It The Asean Way by New Straits Times Singapore's foreign ministry said the country would "put this issue behind us and move on to strenghten our bilateral and regional co-operation." This is the Asean way to solving disputes, with respect for international law and a commitment to settling disagreements in an amicable manner. **** Johor Wants Maritime Boundaries Drawn Up Fast by New Straits Times DAP chairman Karpal Singh qustioned how Pulau Batu Puteh could be awarded to Singapore when it was much nearer to the tip of Johor compared with Singapore. "Malaysia should not have been judged by the ICJ unless it was confident of a win. The decision may lead to other disputes of a maritime nature between Malaysia and Singapore." **** SM Goh Commends Calm Reaction Over Pedra Branca Judgement by Imelda Saad, Channel NewsAsia Goh Chok Tong said the calm reaction shows a level of maturity in relations between Malaysia and Singapore and that augurs well for the future. **** Don't Go To Middle Rocks Yet, Police Warn Malaysians by The Star Federal marine police commander senior asst comm II Isa Munir said the decision whether to allow people to go there had yet to be made. He added that Malaysia and Singpaore had to several issues over Middle Rocks before people could have access there. **** Folding Bikes On MRT And Buses: Trial Begins by mrbrown The hours that foldies are allowed under the current trial means people who go to work and og home at regular office hours will not be able to take advantage of the changes. **** Where Are We Now With Stem Cell Research? by Au Waipang, Yawning Bread With stem cell research in Singapore now becoming virtually all government-funded, and after spending S$500 million in building Biopolis, the science park dedicated to biomedical sciences, with millions more on personnel and operating costs, the question of accountability to the public takes on greater importance. **** Review: A Nation Under Lee by No Buns No Life **** Pedra Branca Stays With Singapore And Its Implication by What Is Blog? What is does do is merely confirmed that Singapore can push forward its plan to do what she knows best - reclamation! From applesurf at myapplemenu.com Mon May 26 13:15:00 2008 From: applesurf at myapplemenu.com (applesurf at myapplemenu.com) Date: 26 May 2008 17:15:00 -0000 Subject: [MyAppleMenu] May 26, 2008 Message-ID: <20080526171500.9737.qmail@voot.pair.com> MyAppleMenu ==================================== **** MP3 Players Losing Muscle by Troy Wolverton, San Jose Mercury News The MP3 player industry - otherwise known as the iPod market - seems about to go from being a rock star to a has-been. While still strong, sales have slowed and even begun to decline in some markets. Prices, particularly on the low end, are plunging, typically an indicator of slacking demand. /And by MP3 player, San Jose Mercury News doesn't count iPhone, possibily the next great platform from Apple./ **** Apple Says 'Drop In Soon' To Sydney Store by Stephen Hutcheon, Sydney Morning Herald The countdown to the opening of the first Apple Store in the southern hemisphere has begun with the unveiling of a "coming soon" sign across the facade of a nearly-completed office complex int he heart of the Sydney CBD. **** Don't Expect A Flood Of Mac Open Source by Dana Blankenhorn, ZDNet.com The installed base remains too small to deliver the support revenues necessary for success. And the Mac's own software bundle leaves few basic niches. **** From Under The DRM Cloud by Rixstep Music subscriptions don't work. That's what the market says. Which basically proves Apple were right all along. But even if DRM works it doesn't work as well as DRM free. Which basically leaves Apple as the odd ones out. /The jury is still out, I believe, on what works and what doesn't work. It may well be that what didn't work was non-iPod-compability./ **** Apple Mac Popular by Greg Gordon, Sunday Times **** Banner Unfurled At Sydney Apple Store Site But It's Not Yet Open by Alex Zaharov-Reutt, iTWire The Tomorrow Weblog ==================================== **** Browsers Are A Battleround Once Again by Brad Stone, New York Times **** Social Networks' Sway May Be Underestimated by Rob Stein, Washington Post The studies and others are fueling a growing recognition that many behaviors are swayed by social networks in ways that have not been fully understood. MyAppleMenu Reader ==================================== **** Wine Drinkers Of The World, Unite by Christopher Hitchens, Slate You have nothing to lose but inflated bills and interrupted anecdotes. **** In Murderous Pursuit Of Esintein's Secrets by Janet Maslin, New York Times "Final Theory" is the work of two Mark Alperts: the one who is readily conversant with science and the one who had to cook up a cinematic action story. **** Murder, She Once Wrote by Gregory Beyer, New York Times As New York celebrates the sharp decline in crime, the crime writer may be the only New yorker for whom that drop is not an unequivocal blessing. Just as the breakup of the Soviet Union caused problems for writes whose plots hinged on the dark doings of the cold war, so New York's crime writers are wondering where to find grist in a far safer city. **** Low by Arda Collins, New Yorker **** A Night At The Opera by Janet Frame, New Yorker SingaporeSurf ==================================== **** DPM Wong On Why ISD Director Not Held Accountable by Li Xueying, Straits Times The director of the Internal Security Department holds broad responsibility for the entire organisation. And to blame him for the Mas Selamat Kastari ecape is to place an 'unreasonable and overly onerous burden' on him, said deputy prime minister Wong Kan Seng. **** Malay Village Area Set For A Revamp Under URA Draft Masterplan 2008 by Imedla Saad, Channel NewsAsia National devleopment minister Mah Bow Tan said a substantial portion of the Malay Village site will be reserved for a new civic bilding, housing a commuity club, the community development council office, and possibly a community library. **** Call For Joint Maritime Patrols by New Straits Times Maritime patrols around Pedra Branca and Middle Rocks should be conducted jointly with Singapore as the two features were close to each other, home minister Datuk Seri Syed Hamid Albar said. **** Pedra Branca: SIngapore And Malaysia Relaxed About Safeguarding Their Claims by Zakaria Abdul Wahab, Bernama "We should be more relaxed now about safeguarding our claims, about the intensity of our patrols and so on," local media today quoted Singapore's foreign affairs minister George Yeo as saying in Yangon, Myanmar yesterday. **** PAS Unhappy With 'Weak' Arguments In Batu Putih Case by SIm Leoi Leoi, The Star Pontian MP Ahmad Maslan urged the government to move into Pulau Pisang, where Singapore still maintains a lighthouse, and develop it. "Why should Singapore be allowed to keep the lighthouse there? WIsma Putra told me that under the present agreement, Singapore is allowed to maintain the lighthouse as long as it is still being used and for as long as there are stars and a moon. But in this day and age, no ship uses a lighthouse and all of them now rely on global positioning system and radar to guide them. So what's the use of the lighthouse?" **** 90 Days Since Escape... No More Information? by Andrew Loh, The Online Citizen The minister has had 90 days already - to capture a limping terrorist, with the entire security force at his disposal, in this tiny island. The buck, surely, must stop somewhere. **** PM Lee Takes Stand In High Court To Defend Claims Against SDP by S Ramesh, Channel NewsAsia In court on Monday, PM Lee said all he is seeking is to establish that the article had published lies. Mr Lee said the article had implied that the mistake made by the NKF epitomised what the whole government had stood for. THis was a very grave charge and action had to be taken to defend the entire system. **** No Evidence Of Singapore Involvement In Weapons Exported To Myanmar by Imelda Saad, Channel NewsAsia Foreign minister George Yeo has said there is no evidence of any Singaporean company being involved in the export of weapons to Myanmar, nor is there evidence that such a transaction has occurred. **** Trade Minister Lim Says Not Useful To Tweak GST Rate In Short Term by Wong Siew Ying, Channel NewsAsia Singapore's exchange rate policy has helped dampen the effects of inflation while providing support for sustainable economic growth, according to trade and industry minister, Lm Hng Kiang. /This cannot lah, that cannot lah. Meanwhile, poor families will have to hope that their employer gives one-off inflation bonus, and wait for economy to get better and inflation to go back down./ **** Why NS Didn't Make Me Patriotic by Eddie Choo, The Online Citizen When something becomes a ritual, it loses its meaning, and whatever pasion there was is lost, and what you get ar ethe tired faces and the bad-ass attitudes that are commonplace among the guys serving. **** The Rush For Seatbelts by Hard Hitting In The Lion City Let some time pass, some heads to cool and then decide. **** Southern Ridges Singaproe: Canopy Walk Near Kent Ridge Park by Seen This Scene That **** School Holidays? What School Holidays?! An Interesting Look Into My Past by Simply Jean It's probably things like this that made me feel "Singaporean". **** SUperintendent Of Detention Centre Sacked Over Mas Selamat's Escape by Channel NewsAsia The superintendent of the Whitley Road Detention Centre has been sacked over secruity lapses that led to the escape of Jemaah Islamiyah detainee Mas Selemat Kastari. His deputy has also been demoted in rank, with a corresponding pay cut. **** Singapore's April Manufacturing Otuput Dips 5.7% On-Year by Channel NewsAsia Singapore's manufacturing output declined 5.7 percent in April, worse than analysts' expectations, due to a contraction in electronics and pharmaceuticals production, the government said Monday. **** (Some) Subsidies Are Bad (, While Others Are Necessary To Help Us Win Votes) by BothSidesOfTheJohorStraits Perhaps cheap healthcare and education are not only vote-winning gestures for the government, they are also necessary a healthy and smart workforce to power our ever-growing economy? **** School Holiday? What Holiday? by Jane Ng and Yen Feng, Straits Times A check with 25 primary and secondary schools showed that almost all have some form of classes,mostly for graduating batches of students - primary 6s and secondary 4s and 5s. **** Ahoy! New Water Taxis To Cruise Singapore River Soon by Hong Xinyi, Straits Times **** Singpaore - Just Overcrowded by Authority Sites Directory Blog These are of course introduced by our country's elite who benefits greatly from such foreigner influx into our job market since they are the biggest employers. The simple reason is to suppress overall workers' salaries. **** Don't Blame Current Government Of Malaysia Because Losing Pulau Batu Puteh by Mohd Afiq **** Our Sovereignty Under Threat From Singapore - Failure By Our Barisan Nasional Government To Protect & Uphold Its Territories by Mohd Kamal Abdullah, Kamal-talks Since Pulau Batu Puteh is so close to Johor, Singapore's ownership will be very detriment to Malaysia since the territorial waters of Singapore once realigned would enhance Singapore's marine supremacy since Singapore has always been noted for their stubborn and uncaring attitude towards its neighbours although it may speak otherwise. **** Pulau Batu Puteh by ABGDARK **** My Lighthouse, My Playground by Ng Tze Yong, New Paper **** Compensate Drivers With Faulty Cashcard/IU by The Moley Prophet **** When The PAP Is The Opposition by Ephraim Loy, A Writer's Blog The PAP will be seen as the party that just appears before the elections online just like how they attacked the opposition in real life. **** With String Attached, Or Not At All by Esther Fung, Today All 13 companies taht Today surveyed last week had no plans to give out the one-off special lump-sum payment the National Wages Council (NWC) had urged for. **** New Workgroup To Promote Harmonious Living Among Neighbours by Lynda Hong, Channel NewsAsia From applesurf at myapplemenu.com Tue May 27 13:15:01 2008 From: applesurf at myapplemenu.com (applesurf at myapplemenu.com) Date: 27 May 2008 17:15:01 -0000 Subject: [MyAppleMenu] May 27, 2008 Message-ID: <20080527171501.57691.qmail@voot.pair.com> MyAppleMenu ==================================== **** Living With: The MacBook Air by Gizmodo Australia The more I use the Air, the more I need to own it. This laptop isn't for everyone. But if you have a desktop and need a laptop to compliment it when you're out on the road, then this is a superior piece of kit. **** Roadtest: Mac Windows Software by David Flynn, Sydney Morning Herald **** Do Not Adjust Your Browser: Delicious Library 2 Is Out by David Chartier, Ars Technica At the top of the new feature list is the ability to catalog far more than just media like DVDs and books; users can now keep track of their gadgets, toys, tools, and just about anything else that Amazon carries. **** Can Apple Teach Us A Thing Or Two About Convenience, Convergence And Customer Service? by What Hi-Fi? **** MacHEADS: The Movie (The Interview) by Gizmodo We had a chance to ask director/writer/editor Kobi Shely about his first movie. And he had some interesting things to say about Apple and the people who really, really love them. **** Did China Just Open The Door For Apple's iPhone? by Philip Elmer-DeWitt, Fortune **** Aluminum Keyboard Loses Its Luster by Jonathan Seff, Macworld MyAppleMenu Reader ==================================== **** 'Standard Operating Procedure' By Philip Gourevitch And Errol Morris by Michael S. Roth, Los Angeles Times Errol Morris is interested int he reconsruction and reenactment of past events, and he provocatively blurs the boundaries between history and fiction, truth and fantasy. Philip Gourevitch is interested in the aftermath of events in how people deal with overwhelming occurences that have come to define their present and future. In "Standard Operating Procedure," he weaves Morris' interviews, court transcripts and journalists' accounts into a compelling story of a prison plan gone wrong. **** Armageddon In Retrospect, By Kurt Vonnegut by Roz Kaveney, The Independent Vonnegut's last works remind us that we can always simply say no to the whole horrible business. SingaporeSurf ==================================== **** PUB Clears River Sludge Along Robertson Quay by Jinny Koh, Today The air along Robertson Quay has finally been cleared. And the source of the offending stench a 1m-thick layer of sludge lining the bed of the Singapore River has been removed, giving the area a breath of fresh air. **** A Rock-Solid Judgment For Malaysia by Mohamaed Jawhar Hassan, New Straits Times The judgment at The Hague has advanced Malaysia's interests far beyond what it would have, or more accurately what it did not have, if the original status quo had remained. **** Zero ERP Glitches? 'Impossible - Error Rate Now Just 0.003%' by Maria Almenoar, Straits Times **** 'Libel Was Part Of Strategy To Gain Political Mileage' by Zakir Hussain, Straits Times Singapore Democratic Party (SDP) chief Chee Soon Juan and his sister Chee Siok Chin did not just repeat 'false and malicious attacks' against prime minister Lee Hsien Loong and minister mentor Lee Kuan Yew, lawyers for both men told the High Court. They had timed their libel as 'part of a premeditated and planned strategy to gain political mileage' in the 2006 General Election, they said in a statement at the start of a hearing yesterday. **** Singapoe Refuses To Grant Maids Mandatory Days Off by AFP Singapore on Monday maintained its stand against legislating mandatory rest days for foreign domestic helpers, saying they were adequately protected by existing measures. Advocacy groups joined forces last month to launch a campaign to provide foreign maids with rest days, citing a poll showing only about 50 percent of the 170,000 FDWs are given a regular day off. **** Singapore Still Insensitive To Helpers by An OFW Living In Hong Kong There are those who take advantage of the laxity of the laws and thus able to maintain their modern age slaves. The Singaproe government is guilty of abetting in this terrible practice. **** It's Hard To Understand Political Leaders Sometimes by Anthony Chua, Fence In Was it really the harsh realities of extremist activism that caused the reversal of stance? Perhaps that's really what being a politician is like? **** Oppositions Are Out Of Touch! by Regathering Thoughts, Redefining Meanings Pontian MP, please check your facts before commenting as it would only bring embarassment and confusion to the people who has chosen you. **** Ghani: Malaysia Has Proof Of Pulau Pisang Ownership by The Star There is no danger of losing Pulau Pisang to Singapore as Malaysia clearly has sovereignty over the island. Johor mentri besar Datuk Abdul Ghani Othman said that this was despite Singapore operating a lighthouse on the 154ha island. **** No Need To Legislate Mandatory Day Off For FDWs For Now by Margaret Perry, Channel NewsAsia Households that have disabled family members who require constant attention, acting manpower minister Gan Kim Yong said, may find it difficult to release their FDWs for a prescribed period every month. /So, if you work for a disabled person, you cannot rest? Are there really any scenarios in the entire world that made just one day off impossible? Slavery?/ From applesurf at myapplemenu.com Wed May 28 13:15:01 2008 From: applesurf at myapplemenu.com (applesurf at myapplemenu.com) Date: 28 May 2008 17:15:01 -0000 Subject: [MyAppleMenu] May 28, 2008 Message-ID: <20080528171501.67490.qmail@voot.pair.com> MyAppleMenu ==================================== **** Check Point Offers First Full Disk Encryption For Mac by Chris Foresman, Ars Technica **** Bento: A Database App For The Rest Of Us by David Zeiler, Baltimore Sun FileMaker has created an exceptionally Mac-friendly, easy-to-use database program for regular folk, and just in the nick of time. **** So What Do Teachers Really Want In A Computer? by Christopher Dawson, ZDNet.com **** One Switcher's Tale: Once You Go iMac, You Never Go Back by Tom Yager, InfoWorld **** Apple Lines Up 7 More iPhone Markets by Gregg Keizer, Computerworld Swedish telecommunication scompany TeliaSonera AB today added its name to the list to mobile carriers set to sell Apple's iPhone this year. **** Sixty-Six by John Gruber, Daring Fireball The striking thing about this report is n't that the number makes Apple look good, it's how much better Apple is doing than just two year ago. **** Suspects & Clues Game Released by Peter Cohen, Macworld **** European iPod, Mac Tax Threat by Jonny Evans, Macworld UK Nokia, Apple and others agree to discuss European levy on iPods and other devices. The Tomorrow Weblog ==================================== **** Gates And Ballmer To Show A Little Windows 7 Skin At D6 by Dan Farber, CNET News.com **** Storm Warning For Cloud Computing by Bill Thompson, BBC News MyAppleMenu Reader ==================================== **** 'I Used To Feel Like People Were Trampling Over Me To Get To My Husband. I Had Print Marks On My Body' by Rachel Cooke, Guardian Siri Hustvedt, one half of New York's most cultish literary couple, talks about marrying Paul Auster, voting for Barack Obama, and why she still feels like an outsider. **** The 25Th Hour Of Florent Morellet by David Amsden, New York Magazine As his legendary 24-hour French diner closes for the first time, it is being mourned as the sad passing of an era. But Morellet regrets nothing. **** The Unraveling by Peter Bergen and Paul Cruickshank, The New Republic The jihadist revolt against bin Laden. **** Memory by Judith Harris, Slate **** Starting Salaries But New York Tastes by Cara Buckley, New York Times Every year around this time, tens of thousands of postcollegiate people in their 20s flood the city despite its soaring expenses. They are high on ambition, meager of budget and endlessly creative when it comes to making ends meet. SingaporeSurf ==================================== **** Court Hearing On Defamation Damages Against SDP Ends by Wong Siew Ying, Channel NewsAsia **** Letter To The Straits Times On The Mas Selamat Scandal by Catherine Lim I was ashamed and angry that in a society that prides itself on the highest standards of accountability and fairness, the entire blame seems to have been laid squarely on the shoulders of the 'little people' who, we are told, can appeal, but who, we all know, will have neither the courage nor the resources to do so. **** Civil Servants To Get Mid-Year Bonus Of 0.5 Month Plus At Least $100 by Channel NewsAsia Civil servants will get mid-year bonus of 0.5 month plus between $100 and $300, with lower division officers getting more. **** Whack First, Ask Questions Later by Malaysia-Finance Blogspot **** The Singapore Model by Rowan Callick, The American Singaporeans are considerably healthier than Americans, yet pay, per person, about one-fifth of what Americans pay for their healthcare. A major reason is that Singapore's system does not focus on the question that seems to preoccupy both Europe and America: who pays? Ultimately, woever signs the checks, the money comes out of the pockets of individuals. Singapore takes a different tack. **** Sichuan Charity Show: Singtel Explains Why It Charges Admin Fee by Stomp **** More See Gambling As Leisure, More Start Gambling Younger: Survey by Straits Times **** Mas Selamat: Shocked And Disappointed by Catherine Lim, Straits Times I wish to express deep disappointment, shock and pain that in a national scandal of unprecendented maginitude and public outrage, it is only the little people who are held accountable and punished. **** Mas Selamat's Escape: Closure And Managing Public Expectations by The Sun Shines On Singapore **** Malaysia, Singapore And Indonesia Implement Cooperative Mechanism To Safeguard Straits by Bernama **** Call To Reconsider Ban On Sale Of Petrol To Foreigners by Bernama Any decision to ban the sale of petrol to foreign registered cars in border states should not be done too hastily, said Johor's former tourism executive councillor Datuk Jimmy Low. **** Singapore's Temasek Eyes Investments In Mexico, Brazil by Saeed Azhar, Reuters Singapore state investor Temasek early on Wednesday announced plans to boost its presnece in Braizl and Mexico to tap growth in Latin America's powerful emerging economies. **** A Compassionate "Fine" System by Tan Kin Lian, The Online Citizen **** Singapore Politicians Hurl Insults In Court by Melanie Lee, Reuters Singapore politicians hurled insults and clashed over transparency in the city-state in a court case on Tuesday. **** Mas Selamat, Where Are You? by Lee Lilian, The Itch To Write **** What Is Useful Then? by Yaw Shin Leong We cannot merely attribute rising food and oil prices as 'short-term phenomena'? **** NTUC Income Web Protest Off by Cheow Xin Yi, Today Industry veteran Tan Kin Lian has called off his high-profile web protest against his former employer NTUC Income over its move to restructure bonus payouts on its life insurance policies. Mr Tan told Today: "I'm satisfied that they told me that they are going to take the best interests of policyholders into account." **** PM Lee, MM Lee Face Chee In Defamation Suit Against SDP by S Ramesh and Wong Siew Ying, Channel NewsAsia The High Court on Tuesday set time limits on the cross-examination of prime minister Lee Hisen Loong and minister mentor Lee Kuan Yew during the hearing to assess the amount of damages to be awarded to the two Singapore leaders in their defamation suit against the Singapore Democratic Party (SDP). **** Singaporeans Likely To Cut Down On Trips To Malaysia Once Petrol Sale Ban Starts by Asha Popatlal, Channel NewsAsia **** Minister Balakrishnan Cautions Against Promoting Use Of Singlish by Channel NewsAsia Dr Blakrishnan said the move to promote the lingo is a "pet project" by "linguistic elites" that can cause more harm than good. From applesurf at myapplemenu.com Thu May 29 13:15:01 2008 From: applesurf at myapplemenu.com (applesurf at myapplemenu.com) Date: 29 May 2008 17:15:01 -0000 Subject: [MyAppleMenu] May 29, 2008 Message-ID: <20080529171501.25484.qmail@voot.pair.com> MyAppleMenu ==================================== **** MacBook Air: User Review by Noetbooks.com **** 3 To Carry iPhone In Hong Kong, Macau by Electronista /3 is the name of the telco; it's not the case that Apple had signed up with 3 telcos in one city./ **** Apple Ships Massive Mac OS X 10.4 Security Upgrade by Jonny Evans, Macworld UK **** Apple Cures iCal Ills by Brian Prince, eWeek Apple has patched bugs in its iCal calendar application a week after security researcher disclosed them. **** Getting The Most Out Of WWDC by Brad Will, TinyPlanet Software Blog First and foremost, you really need to work out your schedule ahead of time. **** Another Reason I Love Apple by Scott Meade, Synap Software The Blog Apple is simply following well-proven best practices of customer services and being rewarded with loyal consumers. **** Traveling With A MacBook Air, Part 1 by James A. Martin, PC World The answer? I love the Air and I think many other mobile professionals will too, though it's not for everyone. **** Apple Silently Rolls Out French iTunes Video Store by MacNN **** Yahoo BrowserPlus Aims For Better Surfing by Stephen Shankland, CNET News.com **** Apple To Make Major Studios' Films Available For Download by Dan Sabbagh, The Times Apple is poised to announce it will start selling films from four major Hollywood studios for download in the UK as part of its iTunes internet serivice at prices on a par with DVDs. **** Mac OS 10.5.3 Update Resolves Numerous Issues by Adam C. Engst, TidBITS **** 10.5.3 Brings Gmail/Address Book Sync... For iPhone Users by David Chartier, Ars Technica **** Sorting Through The Mac OS X 10.5.3 Update by Rob Griffiths, Macworld **** Why Apple Will Sell 10 Million iPhones by Jason Snell, Macworld **** Apple Releases Mac OS X 10.5.3 by MacNN This relatively major release addreses a number of issues extant in previous editions of Mac OS X 10.5.x, including problems with AirPort, Time Capsule, Mail, iChat, iCal and more. The Tomorrow Weblog ==================================== **** A Shortcut To Mobile TV by Tarmo Virki, Reuters The long-running debate over how mobile network operators would make money by providing television programs for cellphones has taken a fresh twist - a new breed of devices is threatening to strip them out of the action. MyAppleMenu Reader ==================================== **** Truth And Consequences by Lee Siegel, Guardian For a true critic, judgment is the burden you start out with. **** Rage Against The Machines by Tom Chatfield, Prospect Modern video games mean big business, and big controversy. Yet most of the charges levelled against games—that they stunt minds and spark addiction—are based on an outdated understanding of what gamers do when they sit down to play. SingaporeSurf ==================================== **** Resorts World Says No To Shark's Fin Soup by CSR Asia **** Singaporeans Are Foreign Smugglers, So Says Yakcop by Endoh's Dungeon **** 20 Firms Pledge To Give One-Off Payout To Help Workers Cope With Inflation by Wong Siew Ying, Channel NewsAsia About 20 companies have decided to adopt the National Wage Council's recommendation to give their rank-and-file employees a one-off lump sum payment to help them cope with inflation. /The companies are not named in this report, and there's no mention where this figure of "20 companies" came from./ **** Singapore's StarHub Says Pay TV Subscribers To Grow 5 To 10 Percent A Year by Thomson Financial StarHub has not seen a drop in subscribers since rival Singpapore Telecommunications Ltd (SingTel) launched its pay TV services last year, cable TV head Patrick Lim said. **** Singapore Is 9Th Most Expensive Office Market by Straits Times Singapore has emerged as the ninth most expensive office market in CB Richard Ellis's (CBRE) lastest semi-annual Global Market Rents survey. Singapore was ranked 11th int eh last survey in November last year and 24th in the May 2007 survey, The Business Times reported on Thursday. **** East Meets West by Endoh's Dungeon **** What Does It Take For A Singaporean Minister To Be Sacked? by Aaron Ng, Hear Ye! Hear Ye! I wish I had such a diamond rice bowl. **** Singapore Military Copters In Burma Airspace by The Nation Singapore appeared to be the only country that Burma has given permission to enter its territorial water and air space as the unta continue to deny permission to foreign naval ships and military helicopters and cargo plane from entering Burma's territory. **** You Pay What You Bring by Absolutjoiz Then do we call them budget airlines anymore? Probably not anymore if things continue like that! **** What's On Dr. Mahathir's Mind? by Endoh's Dungeon **** Chee's Last Stand by Chemical Generation Singapore A stalemate has been reached and the only people who benefit from this Chee-Lee feud are opposition parties like WP, who are sitting quietly and smartly on the sidelines. **** The Power Of Effective English by Ian Tan, Empty Vesel MM Lee's two labels for CSJ are truly impressive - they are simple to understand, yet ar eloaded with meanings, and immediately carved out a public persona for people to frame CSJ into. **** Things I Learned Riding Every Day To Work For A Year In Singapore by mrbrown The Airzounds air horn rules. The look on a driver's face when a bicycle horns back as loudly is priceless. /You know what, as a pedestrian, I wish I have one too. The look on a cyclist's face when I horn back is going to be priceless./ **** Barred Last Year, Back This Year by Loh Chee Kong, Today Responding to Today's queries, a Ministry of Home Affairs spokesman explained that NUS, along with the other two public-funded universities, are exempt from the Public Entertainment and Meetings Act. **** Change Policy, NTUC by Tan Kin Lian, Today You carried a statement from NTUC Income that the old bonus declared was unsustainable. I disagree. From applesurf at myapplemenu.com Fri May 30 13:15:00 2008 From: applesurf at myapplemenu.com (applesurf at myapplemenu.com) Date: 30 May 2008 17:15:00 -0000 Subject: [MyAppleMenu] May 30, 2008 Message-ID: <20080530171500.61850.qmail@voot.pair.com> MyAppleMenu ==================================== **** Why Macs Still Aren't Right For Most Businesses by Jonathan Blum, Fortune Small Business Yes, more businesses can now go to Macs. But for the rest of us - particularly those that need basic computing and basic features - Apple is still more expensive and simply not worth the integration headaches for the average small shop. /To me, this is more like: I have no idea how to integrate Macs into our workflow, and I bet that if I can't do it, no one else can./ **** Essentials 2 For Apple iPhoto by Bakari Chavanu, Apple Matters **** Mobile Me? by John Gruber, Daring Fireball Sounds a bit like the description of a revamped .Mac geared toward over-the-network synching to iPhones, no? /Don't forget Safari for Windows. There got to be some deeper strategy to porting Safari to Windows besides earning some extra Google cash, shouldn't it?/ **** Tue Ultimate Guide To Mac Keyboard Shortcuts by Brendon Chase, CNET.com.au Whether you're a newbie or an experienced Apple user, this guide wil show you how to let your fingers do the walking around your Mac. **** Bad Apples? by Kristina Peterson, Inside Bay Area To four Palo Alto teenagers raised in the heart of Silicon Valley, the penalty came as a crushing blow — banishment from all Apple stores worldwide for life. Their crime, the teens said, was downloading a third-party car-racing game onto iPhones at Apple's University Avenue store last weekend. **** Review: Apple's Newest iMac Packs Wallop by Scot Finnie, Computerworld Sure, you can buy a less expensive Windows machine for home or office desktop, but as Macs go, the new iMac is a great deal. **** RapidWeaver 4 Lands With Better Integration, Publishing, More by David Chartier, Ars Technica Beyond the pretty new UI that feels right at home on Leopard, there ar enew theme maangement features like folder organization, filtering, searching, and tags. **** Apple Offers Logic Express, Raw, Security Updates by Peter Cohen, Macworld **** Revisiting The 10.5.3 Update by Rob Griffiths, Macworld In the interest of setting the record straight, here are the corrections to my original article based on the actual 10.5.3 update file. The Tomorrow Weblog ==================================== **** Serving Those Who Don't Read The Print Edition by Steve Outing, Editor And Publisher There are those of us who no longer read a newspaper's print edition, and we're not coming back. It's now time to consider some options to keep web readers on the hook — and to even turn them into profits. MyAppleMenu Reader ==================================== **** Antiquities, The World Is Your Homeland by Edward Rothstein, New York Times To what culture does the concept of "cultural property" belong? Who owns this idea? SingaporeSurf ==================================== **** Singapore's Wish List For The New U.S. President by Zakaria Abdul Wahab, Bernama Singapore hopes whoever becomes the next president of the United States will continue to uphold America's commitment to globalisation, free trade, and international rules. This is important as the criitcal issues of war and peace, and of prosperity and scarcity in Asia, all hinged on its outcome, according to the republic's prime minister Lee Hsien Loong. **** SDP Chief Chee Soon Juan's Sister Held In Contempt Of Court by Imelda Saad, Channel NewsAsia Justice Ang cited 15 incidences which she said had scandalised the court and impunged its dignity and authority. Ms Chee's lawyer, M. avi said that nothing was done till the end of the hearing, likening it to a "football referee issuing a player with a red card after the game has ended." **** 'Guest Workers' Or Modern Slavery? by Peter Boyle, Green Left Weekly A pile of bags and clothing on an old shop front verandah on Cuff Road in Singapore's Little India is "home" to a group of about 50 migrant workers who have been spat out by an economy that relies heavily on so-called "guest workers." **** The Courtroom As Theatre by The Online Citizen Better to liberalise freedom of expression rather than to allow SIngapore's public institutions to continue on this degenerate path. **** Ex-NKF Chief Durai Loses Appeal Against Corruption Sentence by Selina Lum, Straits Times Durai will begin serving his three-month jail term on June 10, after he asked to defer the sentence as his elderl mother was going for eye surgery next Tuesday. **** Responses And Clarifications To My Letter On The Mas Selamat Scandarl by Catherine Lim My intention in the use of the word 'little' was purely to emphasize the numble, low-ranking position of most of the nine people being punished; if the word carried any emotions at all, they were chiefly those of sympathy and compassion. **** ... Brainwashed By Chee by Right Now... We are successful because of capable leadership. We enjoy peace and stability. Can Dr Chee promise us that, especially when he's probably gonna legalise protests when he's in office? /Security and economy success is not on the opposition end of the spectrum to freedom. You don't need to sacrifice one to achieve the other./ **** Court Fines Bankrupt Singapore Opposition Leader by AFP A Singapore judge on Friday fined a bankrupt opposition party leader for speaking in public without a permit, hours before the politician was due in court in a contempt case. Chee Soon Juan will be jailed for five weeks if he does not pay the 5,000-dollar fine, judge Jasvender Kaur ruled. **** The Tragedy Of The Dragon Voter by Sam's Thoughts My parents taught me important things, like "don't talk to strangers" and "don't go into politics; politics is very dirty." **** The States' Times Versus IHT by Aaron Ng, Hear Ye! Hear Ye! I must say I enjoyed the IHT piece alot more than the two Straits Times pieces. I think it does more justice to Chee Soon Juan. **** 'Eco-City' To Reclaim Wasted Land, Water by China Daily Forty km from Tianjin city and 150 km from Beijing, the eco-city will be located alon the Jiyun River in Hangu District of Tianjin Municipality, the largest northern port city of China. When finishd in 10 to 15 years, the Sino-Singaporean Tianjin Eco-city demonstration project will include residences, commercial space and factories meeting high international standards for energy use and environmental protection. **** Critic Confronts Lee In Singapore Court by Seth Mydans, International Herald Tribune It was an extraordinary confrontation between the country's most dominant figure and a powerless but insistent critic. **** The Displacement Of Reason by Au Waipang, Yawning Bread The problem is not one of lack of information, but a resistance to reflection. **** Why SM Goh Said Khaw Was The Best by Tan Hui Leng, Today Described as the "best health minister Singapore has ever had" by Mr Goh, Mr Khaw, 56, is unlikely to get any bigger bouquet than this in his role as the head of the health ministry. From applesurf at myapplemenu.com Sat May 31 13:15:00 2008 From: applesurf at myapplemenu.com (applesurf at myapplemenu.com) Date: 31 May 2008 17:15:00 -0000 Subject: [MyAppleMenu] May 31, 2008 Message-ID: <20080531171500.75521.qmail@voot.pair.com> MyAppleMenu ==================================== **** The Evolving World Of Mac Backup Software by Joe Kissell, TidBITS I'm all in favor of choice, but seriously... Mac users do not need /this/ many backup options! What we need is a small number of excellent options. And yet, although my list of 60 programs includes some that are very good, there isn't a single one to which I'd give a perfect 10-out-of-10 rating, or even 9 out of 10. **** Apple: Teens Not Banned From Stores by UPI An Apple Inc. spokesman has denied that four teenagers were permanently banishd from all the company's stores by a Palo Alto, Calif., manager. **** Would We Hate Microsoft If It Were Apple? by Matt Asay, CNET News.com Microsoft makes products that people /have/ to use. Apple makes products that people /want/ to use. That's why we love Apple and deride Microsoft. It's as simple as that. **** Triple Threa: Parallels Vs. VMware Fusion Vs. Boot Camp by Samara Lynn, ChannelWeb The secret has been out for a while. Vista runs better in many insances on Apple Mac's hardware than on other PCs. But figuring out the /best/ way to run Vista on a Mac is an entirely different story. **** Microsoft Warns Of Security Vulnerability Arising From Apple's Safari by Thomas Claburn, InformationWeek Unless the default Safari download location is changed, an attacker could exploit the vulnerability by tricking a user into visiting a maliciously crafted web site, Microsoft said. **** Spaces In 10.5.3 by John Gruber, Daring Fireball Once you're in a space, you stay there until you explicitly switch /spaces/, not just switch /apps/. This makes all the difference in the world for the way I, and others, want to use Spaces. **** Apple Is Music Industry's Public Enemy No. 1 by Dan Moren, Macworld Now there's only really one question left: will Apple manage to destroy the record labels before the record labels manage to destroy themselves? **** A Year After iTunes Plus, Apple Faces Stepped-Up Competition by Dan Moren, Macworld It would seem that Steve Jobs's proposed future of DRM-free music has quickly become a reality—if not in quite the way he envisioned. **** Bugs & Fixes: Fixes In 10.5.3 Go Beyond Apple's Software by Ted Landau, Macworld **** SuperSync iTunes Library Manager Enhances Filtering by Peter Cohen, Macworld SuperSync simplifies the process of synchronizing iTunes libraries between Macs, PCs and iPods. It transfers music files and their accompanying metadata, so information on genre, artist, album and track number stays consistent from machine to machine. MyAppleMenu Reader ==================================== **** FIction And Political Fact by Morris Dickstein, Bookforum.com The political novel has always been an odd hybrid of fact and fiction. **** Sex And The City (Circa 1840) by Nicholson Baker, New York Times For nearly 150 years, the flash press was all but forgotten by historians — before it was rediscovered by Patricia Cline Cohen. **** Romance Languages by Liesl Schillinger, New York Times Does the word "spinster" — calling to ind a bony, stoop-shouldered figure in a cardigan — still apply today? Or have the kittenish, tomcatting bacheloretts of Sx and the City" reset the sereotype, transforming the mopey Mildreds of yesteryear into sensual Samathans? It's a subject that can't be broached without giving offense. **** Jumbo Lit by Joe Queenan, New York Times I'm not suggestig that gigantic books are useful only as an excuse for avoiding responsibility. No, those who read them also reap the psychic benfits of being admitted to an exclusive club, like Icelandic rodeo queens or American presidents whose administrations did not end in disaster. THose who have read the unabridged "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" and "Remembrance of Things Past" and "Man Without Qualities" belong to a very special group because at any given time there are n more than a few hundred such people on the face of the earth, and none of them live in Tarrytown. **** Improbable Paradise by Krista Mahr, Time In 2007, a record 2 million tourists visited Cambodia, signaling that the country was beginning to shake its killing fields image as an improverished backwater where wandering off the beaten path could mean finding yourself astride an unexploded land mine. **** The Reflection Reflex by Christopher F. Chabris, Wall Street Journal How brain researchers pinpointed the inextricable link between seeing and doing. SingaporeSurf ==================================== **** Chiam Fulfils Walkway Promise Made At 2006 Polls by Keith Lin, Straits Times On Saturday, the oppostion MP 'opened' the walkway which links the MRT station to the town centre, amid a shower of colurful confetti and a rousing lion dance. **** How Singapore's Courts Hold Up To Rawl's 'Justice As First Virtue Of Social Institutions' by Readings From A Political Duo-ble The Singapore courts have seriously compromised itself by allowing itself to be used as a political instrument thereby delegitising itself as an institution of and for justice. **** Singapore Attorney Warns Of Rights "Fanatics": Paper by Jan Dahinten, Reuters Singapore's attorney general warned that the concept of human righs must not be allowed to become a religion for fanatics to achieve political goals such as gay marriage, the Straits Times reported on Saturday. The newspaper quoted attorney-general Walter Woon as saying that it would be "hypocrisy" for such activists to decide what is acceptable for the rest of society. /So, the rest of the society is going to decide what an individual can or cannot do? Must I get permission from the rest of the society whether I should wear a blue shirt or a white shirt today?/ **** Police Move In After Angry Crowds Demand Refund For Cancelled Sentosa Show by Stomp "We've went through many, many campaigns to bring good service in Singapore, and we could not even fulfill a simple task of refunding cash when goods are not delivered... WHat kind of image are we projecting to these visitors?" /Sentosa, this is a disgrace./ **** Speaking Out For The Silent Majority by Seah Chiang Nee, The Star All these years the ruling People's Action Party and the civil service have laid claims — through super high salaries — to some of the state's best educated. The majority settle into their careers without wanting to rock the boat, even when they disagree with a government policy. In the course of the years, however, there had been a few exceptions of outspoken government people. **** Problem Is With The Cashcard by Maria Almenoar, Straits Times Now tests on 171 affected cars this week point to what may be the problem: the CashCard, not the in-vehicle unit (IU) - the electronic devices placed ont he dashboard and used to deduct payment from the CashCards. **** Causeway Woes: Kudos To SBS, But Not SMRT by K Rajamanikam, Straits Times The SMRT appears to have come up with a brilliant way of solving the problem by diverting its feeder services away from the jam bottlenecks, and returning them to the safety of the bus interchange. **** 'Singapore A Good Destination For Bangladeshi Workers' by The Daily Star **** 'Singaporeans Come For More Than Just Fuel' by New Straits Times A proposed ban on the sale of subsidised fuel to Singapore-registered vehicles may have an effect on petrol stations operating near the Causeway, but operators are not worried.