[MyAppleMenu] May 3, 2008

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**** In Pictures: 10 Years Of iMac <http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/news/index.cfm?newsid=12904&>
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 <http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/37250/128/>
by Christian Zibreg, TG Daily

**** Apple Leopard Server <http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2291329,00.asp>
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 <http://www.informationweek.com/news/hardware/mac/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=FBCTECCO0MEOOQSNDLOSKHSCJUNN2JVN?articleID=207500319>
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. <http://blogs.barrons.com/techtraderdaily/2008/05/02/would-apple-buy-adobe-i-doubt-it/?mod=BOLBlog?mod=yahoobarrons>
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 <http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/05/02/only.6m.songs.on.itunes/>
by MacNN

**** Amazing Brain Train Game Released <http://www.macworld.com/article/133278/2008/05/tabt.html>
by Peter Cohen, Macworld
The Amazing Brain Train features fifteen different mini-games in five categories &mdash; tests of your mental skill, in categories like search, planning, spatial awareness, memory and numbers.

**** Apple On MacBook Air, Jobs' Plane, Leases, R&amp;D, NAND Flash, More... <http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/08/05/01/apple_on_macbook_air_jobs_plane_leases_rd_nand_flash_more___.html>
by Katie Marsal, AppleInsider

**** SOHO Notes 7 For Mac Is A Strong Evolution In Probudcitivity <http://arstechnica.com/journals/apple.ars/2008/05/02/soho-notes-7-for-mac-is-a-strong-evolution-in-productivity>
by David Chartier, Ars Technica

**** 1,000 Renals? iTunes Finally Makes It <http://www.macworld.com/article/133280/2008/05/1000rentalsatlast.html>
by Christopher Breen, Macworld

**** I Think Cringely Is Off His Meds Again <http://daringfireball.net/linked/2008/may#fri-02-cringely>
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 <http://www.macworld.com/article/133282/2008/05/attstarbucks.html>
by Dan Moren, Macworld

**** MediaStorm: Visionary Journalism <http://www.apple.com/pro/profiles/mediastorm/?sr=hotnews.rss>
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. <http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2008/pulpit_20080502_004815.html>
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.

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**** Higher Offer By Microsoft Brings Yahoo To Table <http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/03/technology/03soft.html>
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 <http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/03/technology/03koller.html?_r=1&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&oref=slogin>
by John Markoff, New York Times

**** Is Office The New Netscape? <http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2008/05/one_of_the_corn.php>
by Nicholas Carr, Rought Type

**** Meetup.com: Just Don't Call It Dating <http://www.latimes.com/features/magazine/la-tm-meetup4may04,0,1581168.story?track=rss>
by Amy Albert, Los Angeles Times
Meetup brings together people with similar interests, such as hiking, wine-tasting&mdash;even Dumpster-diving.

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**** The Bohr Paradox <http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/print/33963;jsessionid=6671E6098FAC407D8E92BB965EE4D174>
by Robert P Crease, Physics World
Niels Bohr's towering role in the history of physics can be difficult to appreciate.

**** Born Again <http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/04/books/review/Spence-t.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss>
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 <http://books.guardian.co.uk/bookclub/story/0,,2277649,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=10>
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.

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**** Rights Activists Observe World Press Freedom Day Outside SPH <http://journalism.sg/2008/05/03/rights-activists-observe-world-press-freedom-day-outside-sph/>
by Journalism.sg

**** Homophobia Part 2: Under Attack From The Police <http://theonlinecitizen.com/2008/05/03/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 <http://theonlinecitizen.com/2008/05/03/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 <http://www.yawningbread.org/arch_2008/yax-873.htm>
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? <http://utwt.blogspot.com/2008/05/is-incompetent-cabinet-what-we-have.html>
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 <http://woodendino.blogspot.com/2008/05/please-have-your-service-staff-speak.html>
by Wooden Dino

**** Coping With Rising Prices And High Cost Of Living <http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2008/5/3/focus/21127641&sec=focus>
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 &mdash; from property to taxi fares and restaurants.

**** Social Media In Singapore - The Complete Failure Model <http://www.thebizwalk.com/marketing/social-media-in-singapore-the-complete-failure-model/>
by The Biz Walk

**** Ren Ci's New Hospital: No Tax Break For Donors <http://www.straitstimes.com/Free/Story/STIStory_233573.html>
by Straits Times

**** Essentially, It's The Same Wherever You Go <http://media.www.dailycampus.com/media/storage/paper340/news/2008/05/02/Commentary/Essentially.Its.The.Same.Wherever.You.Go-3362730.shtml>
by Bryan Murphy, Daily Campus

**** Singapore's Lee Says Asia's Buffered From Rice Price <http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=a0.Bz_KZsEH8&refer=home>
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 <http://www.todayonline.com/articles/251775.asp>
by Neo Chai Chin, Today

**** Do We Really Need More People? <http://www.todayonline.com/articles/251750.asp>
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? <http://tnp.sg/news/story/0,4136,163742,00.html?>
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 <http://www.todayonline.com/articles/251735.asp>
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? <http://kwayteowman.blogspot.com/2008/05/to-regulate-or-not-to-regulate.html>
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? <http://iantan.org/?p=886>
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.