[MyAppleMenu] May 8, 2008

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**** Review: Default Folder X 4.0.5 <http://cultofmac.com/review-default-folder-x-405/1956>
by Craig Grannell, Cult Of Mac

**** Comic Life Magiq Debuts <http://www.macworld.com/article/133367/2008/05/magiq.html>
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 <http://www.macworld.co.uk/macsoftware/news/index.cfm?RSS&NewsID=21247>
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 <http://www.macworld.com/article/133150/2008/05/macbuying.html>
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? <http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=1814>
by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, ZDNet.com

**** TextMate <http://earthlingsoft.net/ssp/blog/2008/05/textmate>
by Sven-S. Prost, Quarter Life Crisis

**** Leopard At Six Months: Does It Live Up To The Early Hype? <http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9082998&source=rss_topic123>
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 <http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5ib_mby2IMFOPdMOn0_qVZodMoDVQD90H4RGG0>
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 <http://www.thestandard.com/news/2008/05/07/nbc-and-apple-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 <http://www.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9938880-16.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1001_3-0-5>
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? <http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/may2008/tc2008056_305255.htm>
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? <http://www.mactropolis.com/iphone/apple-planning-huge-international-launch-of-iphone-20/>
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? <http://gizmodo.com/388190/seriously-wheres-the-zune-support-for-mac>
by Gizmodo

**** A Short Review Of Times For Mac <http://beckism.com/2008/05/times_review/>
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
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**** Web 2.0, Please Meet Your Host, The Internet <http://gigaom.com/2008/05/07/web-20-please-meet-your-host-the-internet/>
by Allan Leinwand, GigaOM

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**** Buried Prejudice: The Bigot In Your Brain <http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=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 <http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121020764914275539.html?mod=rss_Books>
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.

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**** Inflation To Hit Singapore Harder Than US Economic Slowdown <http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporebusinessnews/view/346442/1/.html>
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 <http://www.straitstimes.com/Latest%2BNews/Singapore/STIStory_235388.html>
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 <http://clessthanthreec.blogspot.com/2008/05/irresponsible-duo-glenn-ong-and-flying.html>
by CLessThanThreeC

**** Singapore's Constraint Of The Press <http://globalnews420.blogspot.com/2008/05/singapores-constraint-of-press.html>
by Global News

**** Singapore's Half Price Surprise Is Back <http://thestar.com.my/metro/story.asp?file=/2008/5/8/southneast/21155582&sec=southneast>
by Gladys Tay, The Star
/Invite your Malaysian friends over./

**** A Game Of Bluff? <http://aaron-ng.info/blog/a-game-of-bluff.html>
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 <http://www.straitstimes.com/ST%2BForum/Story/STIStory_235098.html>
by Vincent Su, Straits Times

**** Give All Who Qualify A Place In A Local Varsity <http://www.straitstimes.com/ST%2BForum/Story/STIStory_235105.html>
by Alicia Phua, Straits Times

**** From Light To Lighter: Government Signals Direction Of Net Regulation <http://journalism.sg/2008/05/08/from-light-to-lighter-government-signals-direction-of-net-regulation/>
by Cherian George, Journalism.sg

**** Why Wait When You Can Take Action? <http://www.todayonline.com/articles/252592.asp>
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 <http://magnezium.blogspot.com/2008/05/maintaining-racial-and-religious_08.html>
by Musings
There are miles to go before we sleep.

**** The Unions, The Press And The People <http://theonlinecitizen.com/2008/05/08/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 <http://ramblinglibrarian.blogspot.com/2008/05/singapore-police-force-in-youtube-or_9319.html>
by Ivan Chew, Rambling Librarian

**** How Will I Feel After I Leave Singapore? <http://blog.simplyjean.com/2008/05/07/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.