From applesurf at myapplemenu.com Sat Aug 1 18:59:00 2009 From: applesurf at myapplemenu.com (applesurf at myapplemenu.com) Date: 1 Aug 2009 22:59:00 -0000 Subject: [MyAppleMenu] Aug 1, 2009 Message-ID: <20090801225900.98174.qmail@voot.pair.com> MyAppleMenu ==================================== **** Life On The Internet, Aiding And Abetting With An iPhone by The Mac Observer **** Apple, The App Store Just Isn't You by Dan Moren, Macworld The company's latest moves stifle innovation, and consumers will be the ones who get hurt. **** iPhone OS 3.0.1 Already Released, Addresses SMS Flaw by Jacqui Cheng, Ars Technica You know that SMS vulnerability that was revealed at the Black Hat conference this week? Apple has now released an update that patches the flaw in the iPhone OS. At 230MB though, this update seems a bit hefty. **** Farewell, Shake by Gary Adcock, Macworld Shake has been a solid partner that offered me high-end tools when nothing else in the Apple realm did???until the latest release of Final Cut Studio. While I lament Shake???s passing, Apple has finally brought into Final Cut the last few things that I used Shake for on a regular basis, so hopefully all is not lost with this long-neglected flagship tool. **** New NetNewsWire Sync Option Isn't For Everyone by Rob Griffiths, Macworld Why dropping MobileMe Sync for Google Reader is a fatal error. **** FCC Questions Apple Over Google Voice by Stephen Lawson, IDG News Service The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has written to Apple, AT&T and Google questioning the rejection of Google Voice and related applications from the App Store. **** Apple: Secrecy Does Not Scale by Anil Dash The element of secrecy that's been required to maintain Apple's mystique has incurred an increasingly costly price. Apple must transform itself and leave its history of secrecy behind, not just to continue being innovative and to protect the fundamentals of its business, but because the cost of keeping these secrets has become morally and ethically untenable. MyAppleMenu Reader ==================================== **** Groove Is In The Heart by Cathy Alter, Washington Post Dancing was once my raison d'??tre. So why had I stopped? SingaporeSurf ==================================== **** Analysts Say SIA Has To Relook Business Model To Turn Around Losses by Asha Popatial, Channel NewsAsia **** Worst Not Over by Sue-Ann Chia, Straits Times Both manpower minister Gan Kim Yong and labour chief Lim Swee Say, in their comments on the latest job figures on Friday, said it was still too early to celebrate. **** On Another Headhunt by Seah Chiang Nee, The Star The Goodyear story has highlighted a fundamental weakness in Singapore ??? particularly in the government ??? as it becomes a global player: a dire paucity of local entrepreneurs. After 44 years, this trading hub has failed to produce an entrepreneurial class that can keep up with its world ambitions. **** 48 Hours In: Singapore by Sophie Lam, Independent **** Govt Says Intervening Singapore's Judiciary Impossible by Jakarta Post Foreign minister Hassan Wirajuda said Friday it was impossible for the government to press the Singaporean government over the country's coroner's inquest into the death of Indonesian student, David Hartanto Wijaya. **** Just 'Beat It'! by Straits Times It is a promotional stunt for Golden Village to mark the screening of the movie 'Moonwalker'. **** ???????????????????????????????????? by ????????? ?????????2009????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????15???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? **** ??????????????? by ???????????? ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? **** David's Family To Present New Evidence To A Higher Court by Jarkata Post David's family and lawyers believe they are facing a massive wall of conspiracy in court proceedings in Singapore. From applesurf at myapplemenu.com Sun Aug 2 18:59:00 2009 From: applesurf at myapplemenu.com (applesurf at myapplemenu.com) Date: 2 Aug 2009 22:59:00 -0000 Subject: [MyAppleMenu] Aug 2, 2009 Message-ID: <20090802225900.53235.qmail@voot.pair.com> MyAppleMenu ==================================== **** Apple Vs My Preconceived Notions by Rafe Colburn, rc3.org In one scenario, this is a bubble of sorts. Apple may be doing OK now, but they???re headed for a big crash when people get sick of their behavior. In another scenario ??? one that I think is, sadly, more likely, Apple continues as they are, adjusting when it must to address reality, but only in the most minimal way. **** Hey Mike, I Told You So by Dave Winer, Scripting News The only platform that really works is a platform with no platform vendor, and that's the Internet. Steve Jobs is the anti-Internet. **** Re: An Observation About Apples Claims On Jamming by Ronald Lachman, IP Corporations rarely defend their positions in court primarily by saying "we do this so we have better odds of making more money". Apple doesn't deny they do this to preserve their relationship with the carriers, they are merely adding additional "technical reasons" for their position. **** AT&T: App Store Rejections Are All Apple's Fault by Pete Cashmore, Mashable The short of it: AT&T is claiming no direct involvement with App Store rejections. **** Apple Finally Gives iPhone Devs Estimated App Approval Time by The Loop It???s not much, but it???s something. iPhone app developers on Saturday got a little gift from Apple when they logged into their accounts ??? estimated approval times. **** City's Apple Stores Become Second Office And Tourist Attraction by New York Daily News New York's Apple stores - which first debuted in the city in 2002 - have become more than just a place to buy the latest iPhone. They are now uber-cool destinations of choice where everyone from the ultra-chic to techie geeks flock day and night. **** How Apple Can Mess With Your Life by Chris Matyszczyk, CNET News The Tomorrow Weblog ==================================== **** Game Utilizes Human Intuition To Help Computers Solve Complex Problems by University Of Michigan News Service A new computer game prototype combines work and play to help solve a fundamental problem underlying many computer hardware design tasks. MyAppleMenu Reader ==================================== **** Appointments With Death by Stephen White, New York Times ???You know about them, right???? She allowed me barely a second to reply before she added, ???Come on.??? She punctuated the plea with a hurried sigh, a little huff that I found more plaintive than insistent. ???Don???t play opaque shrink with me, please. I don???t have ... time. Just tell me you know about them.??? SingaporeSurf ==================================== **** George Yeo???s Meet The People Session At McDonald???s by Ravi Philemon, The Online Citizen **** Foreigners Compete With Locals For Dealers??? Job At Marina Bay Sands by The Temasek Review The competition for limited vacancies also helps to depress the wages of unskilled blue collar workers. The median salary for the low-income group has remained stagnant for the last decade. **** Making The Impossible Possible by The Hindu In Singapore, the celebration and promotion of the arts has always moved in tandem with the socio-economic development of the country and its focus on nation building. This connection is pronounced in the metamorphosis of the arts festival. **** An Amusing Paradox: Hanging National Flags In HDB Estates by The Temasek Review We started out as a nation of immigrants and now we are being flooded by new migrants. The British colonial government is replaced by another nanny state run by a small exclusive group of elites disconnected with the suffering of the masses. Singapore is still far away from attaining real nationhood. **** Unemployment ??? Important Statistics Missing From Media Reports by The Online Citizen **** What An Elaborate Way To Keep Us In The Dark, Temasek by Gangasudhan, The Temasek Review **** Woman With No Underlying Medical Conditions Dies In 6th H1N1-related ... by Channel NewsAsia **** Films Act Shenanigans Are Pitiful And Pathetic by Sgpolitics.net Clearly the law applies to some and not to all. **** SDP's Vision And Values: Full Text Of Chee's Party Address by Singapore Democrats We have laid the foundation and it is sound. We must continue to strengthen this foundation while simultaneously erect the pillars that will allow us to build a party based on our vision and our values, one that Singaporeans will come to respect and cherish. From applesurf at myapplemenu.com Mon Aug 3 18:59:01 2009 From: applesurf at myapplemenu.com (applesurf at myapplemenu.com) Date: 3 Aug 2009 22:59:01 -0000 Subject: [MyAppleMenu] Aug 3, 2009 Message-ID: <20090803225901.91304.qmail@voot.pair.com> MyAppleMenu ==================================== **** Apple Tries To Silence Owner Of Exploding iPod by The Times **** Apple Blossoms Because Its Tribe Spreads The Word by The Irish Times The renewed success of Apple has not just been down to management or even creating new products with funky colours and cool designs. It is also because many of its most devoted customers think of themselves as more than mere consumers. They are citizens of a kind of Apple nation, whose loyalty to the brand is about more than owning the best gadgets; it is about being part of a tribe and spreading the word. **** Eric Schmidt Resigns From Apple Board by Caroline McCarthy, CNET News.com Apple Inc. announced Monday in a release that Google CEO Eric Schmidt is resigning from its board of directors. This is not a surprising move.. MyAppleMenu Reader ==================================== **** The Courthouse Ring by Malcolm Gladwell, New Yorker Atticus Finch and the limits of Southern liberalism. **** Ghosts by David Harsent, New Yorker **** Fool???s Errands by Kay Ryan, New Yorker **** Q by Sharon Olds, New Yorker **** War Dances by Sherman Alexie, New Yorker SingaporeSurf ==================================== **** United Against Terror: Divided By Defence? by Military Life: Memoirs of a Conscript in the Lion City The more the ministers talk about social cohesion and integrating foreigners into the warm embrace of Singapore Inc, the more I find their statements contradicting because their words do not match the implementation by Singapore (Govt) Inc. **** Botanic Gardens To Be Expanded With New Parkland by Channel NewsAsia **** ??????????????????????????? ???????????????????????????????????? by ????????? **** Women Account For Only 30% Of ICT Workforce In Singapore by Valarie Tan, Channel NewsAsia Acting minister for information, communications and the arts, Lui Tuck Yew, said on Monday women accounted for only 32 per cent of the university intake and 41 per cent of the polytechnic intake for IT courses, based on 2007 figures. Speaking at the APEC Digital Economy Forum for Women, he said the group makes up only a third of the country's infocomm manpower and the figure has not improved in the past decade. From applesurf at myapplemenu.com Tue Aug 4 18:59:00 2009 From: applesurf at myapplemenu.com (applesurf at myapplemenu.com) Date: 4 Aug 2009 22:59:00 -0000 Subject: [MyAppleMenu] Aug 4, 2009 Message-ID: <20090804225900.76672.qmail@voot.pair.com> MyAppleMenu ==================================== **** Mac 911 And The Summer Vacation by Christopher Breen, Macworld Just when I think I???ve got this summer-vacation-and-technology thing down, new lessons present themselves. **** Ten Essential Back-to-school iPhone Apps by Jeff Phillips, Macworld Getting ready for classes to start? Make sure these apps are on your iPhone. **** Schmidt's Exit From Apple Board Benefits Consumers by Todd R. Weiss, PC World For consumers, Schmidt???s resignation won???t have a direct impact, certainly, but it could be a harbinger of new cool things coming from both companies in the future. **** FTC Still Probing Google And Apple After Schmidt Resignation by Jacqui Cheng, Ars Technica Apple's Board of Directors and Google CEO Eric Schmidt have parted ways, but Genentech CEO Arthur Levinson still sits on both boards. Because of this, the Federal Trade Commission has confirmed that it's still investigating the companies for anticompetitive behavior while a watchdog group calls for Levinson's resignation. **** Apple???s Coming Radio Shack Problem by PixoBebo Like Radio Shack, Apple???s iTunes Store needs a new name and more than a paint job. **** Give The Apple Board Seat To Tim Cook by Dan Frommer, Business Insider Now that Apple has its Eric Schmidt problem solved -- the Google CEO stepped down from Apple's board today -- it's a perfect opportunity to appoint Apple chief operating office Tim Cook to the board of directors. **** Re: Keyboard Hack Could Leave Your Mac Completely Vulnerable by Jeff Porten, IP In short -- Ou is a known yahoo, and this strikes me as more FUD. I'll believe this when I see confirmation from a respectable source. **** Apple Releases GarageBand 5.1 Update by Jonathan Seff, Macworld The 139MB update to Apple???s consumer audio creation application includes several changes. You can now add GarageBand track effects and Audio Units to a guitar track; there???s improved support for Apogee audio interfaces and access to audio monitoring settings; and the program offers faster switching to full screen in Magic GarageBand. **** Apple Bans App Store???s 3rd-most Prolific Developer by Gagan Biyani, MobileCrunch Whoa. Wait a second. Over the course of 9 months, Apple has accepted 900 applications submitted by Khalid Shaikh and his team of developers. Then, realizing their mistake months later, Apple tells Khalid he has to delete all of his apps? I???m not going to say that Khalid???s apps aren???t useless (more on that later), nor would I argue that they are providing any value to the App Store (they aren???t). Yet, there are obviously some major inconsistencies when Apple lets hundreds of applications through the App Store, all from one developer, and then suddenly revokes the developer???s license to do business altogether. **** Schmidt Resignation: Is Apple Building Apple Search Service? by Tom Foremski, Silicon Valley Watcher **** The Google Vs. Apple War Begins by Sascha Segan, PC Magazine Is Google using the government to show Apple who's boss? **** Review: SpamSweep 1.6.1 by Rob Griffiths, Macworld If you???re looking for an easy-to-use antispam program, and don???t mind using two applications to handle your e-mail, SpamSweep 1.6.1 is a reasonable alternative. If you prefer a more integrated approach or you???d like more control over the filters used to sort your e-mail, you???ll want to look elsewhere. **** A Bruising Experience For Apple by The Guardian **** Apple Vs. Google: Tech's Newest Rivalry? by Peter Burrows, BusinessWeek The Valley giants both want to determine how users access the mobile Web. Eric Schmidt's exit from Apple's board may be the shot that starts the race in earnest. **** Play Internet Radio In The Background by Jason Snell, Macworld It turns out that, thanks to the iPhone 3.0 software update, the iPhone is finally capable of playing back streaming audio in the background. You can???t do it with a third-party app, of course, but you can do it with Safari. **** New iPhone Ad Shows Off Sharing Features by The Mac Observer Apple released a new iPhone commercial Monday evening that shows off the device's ability to share data through third party applications. **** NewsGator Switches Users To Google Reader For Sync, Online RSS by Doug McLean, TidBITS NewsGator made a kind of promise when it took a popular software category and made it impossible for a commercial application to survive: that the firm was committed to this for the long haul. Business exigencies may have changed that commitment, but the firm has done a poor job communicating about the situation and offering users a smooth transition. The Tomorrow Weblog ==================================== **** WebGL Promises To Bring Hardware-accelerated Graphics To The Web by Peter Cohen, Macworld The Khronos Group, the same industry consortium that on Monday released the OpenGL 3.2 specification, on Tuesday announced WebGL, a new initiative that its proponents hope will drive a standard for the display of hardware-accelerated 3D graphics on the Web. MyAppleMenu Reader ==================================== **** At Louvre, Many Stop To Snap But Few Stay To Focus by Michael Kimmelman, New York Times Spending an idle morning watching people look at art is hardly a scientific experiment, but it rekindles a perennial question: What exactly are we looking for when we roam as tourists around museums? As with so many things right in front of us, the answer may be no less useful for being familiar. **** Same-Old, Same-Old by Robert Pinsky, Slate Alexander Pope's "Epistle" and the art of making poetry from normal, banal, petty life. SingaporeSurf ==================================== **** Singapore: 10 Things To Do In 24 Hours by Daven Wu, Time Singaporeans moan that besides shopping, dining and the movies, there's not a lot you can do here. Ignore them. The must-see list for the one-day visitor to Singapore, especially the first-timer, is absorbingly long. **** George Yeo Is Mistaken About Burma???s History by John Moe, The Online Citizen Mr Yeo is thoroughly mistaken. **** Singapore Foreign Minister Challenged Over Burma Remarks by Wai Moe, The Irrawaddy Remarks on Burma by Singapore???s Foreign Minister George Yeo have raised eyebrows in Burmese exile circles. In an interview with Singapore???s Online Citizen, Yeo made several wrong statements on Burma, leading to questions about the depth of his knowledge of that country. **** ???????????????????????? ??????????????????????????? by ?????????, ???????????? ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? **** ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? by ??????????????????????????? ?????????????????????,????????????????????????????????????????????????.????????????????????????,?????????????????????????????????,????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????. **** Reforming The Obsolete Political System Remains A Key Challenge For The Next Generation by The Temasek Review To reform the obsolete political system which has made us a laughing stock of modern democracies in the free world, we must first boot out the ruling party through the general elections, but without a credible alternative waiting in place, we may have to put up with the status quo for many more years to come. **** New Security Command by Kimberly Spykerman, Straits Times The Police MRT unit (PMU) will be beefed up to become the public transport security command, deputy prime minister Wong Kan Seng announced on Tuesday morning. It will work closely with land transport authority and public transport operators to formulate and implement security policies and measures to enhance safety and security of public transport network, he said. **** 44 Years After Split, Singapore, Malaysia Seek Better Terms by DPA **** Genting Singapore Resort May Open Earlier by Business Times **** Seagate To Close Singapore Plant, To Lay Off 2000 by Nopporn Wong-Anan, Reuters **** 'Early Opening' Report Untrue by Straits Times Resorts World at Sentosa on Tuesday refuted a report by an investment bank about a possible early opening. **** Is Wong Kan Seng Feeling Vulnerable? by Singapore Democrats Given all that has happened in the last year with and to Mr Wong, perhaps it is not entirely surprising that the minister seems to be adopting a lower profile. From applesurf at myapplemenu.com Wed Aug 5 18:59:01 2009 From: applesurf at myapplemenu.com (applesurf at myapplemenu.com) Date: 5 Aug 2009 22:59:01 -0000 Subject: [MyAppleMenu] Aug 5, 2009 Message-ID: <20090805225901.4846.qmail@voot.pair.com> MyAppleMenu ==================================== **** NeXTStep Icons Still in OSX Leopard by James Little, Robojamie.net I???ve always liked the design of the NeXT icons even if they appear slightly dated. **** iTunes Store Finally Touches Down On Mexican Soil by Jacqui Cheng, Ars Technica Music fans in Mexico can now purchase DRM-free tracks from their own localized version of the iTunes Store, as well as music videos and iPhone apps. No more annoying gift card workarounds! **** Ulysses 2 Lives Up To Its Name by John Martellaro, The Mac Observer Ulysses 2 is the next generation of the well-known writing tool developed by Blue Technologies in Leipzig, Germany. Now, Ulysses 2 has been revamped, simplified slightly, made more robust, and gained added features. The developer has also re-imagined itself and has been reborn as The Soulmen. Ulysses 2 is now a worthy competitor to the other novel writing programs. **** Play .wma, Ogg, And FLAC Files In iTunes by Christopher Breen, Macworld With a little conversion magic and the proper add-ons, the audio contained within them will soon pour through your Mac???s speakers. **** Review: Firefox 3.5 by Nathan Alderman, Macworld If you have the need for speed above all else, Firefox 3.5 can???t hold a candle to Safari???s raw power. But for most users, the difference will be negligible. Firefox has evolved into a beautiful, polished program that???s a pleasure to use. When it comes to customization and flexibility, it???s light-years beyond any other browser on the market. **** MenuMinder: Simple Is Better by NoodleMac **** Will Apple Ever Support Blu-ray? by Chris Ryan, Fortune What a lot of people fail to realize when considering why Apple hasn???t made a huge foray into the Blu-ray world, is just how different Blu-rays are from DVDs (in terms of functionality). **** The GigaOM Interview: FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski On Mobile, Broadband, iPhone & Innovation by Om Malik, GigaOM **** Generate Google Voice Speed Dial Bookmarks For Your iPhone by Adam Pash, Lifehacker **** Ninjawords: iPhone Dictionary, Censored By Apple by John Gruber, Daring Fireball Apple censored an English dictionary. **** What Your 5 Most Used iPhone Apps Say About You by Tom Kaneshige, CIO **** Report: iPhone Grabs 32% Of Global Handset Profits by AppleInsider Apple's iPhone now accounts for 8% of all mobile phone revenue and a whopping 32% of the industry's handset profits, according to figures published by Bernstein Research analyst Toni Sacconaghi. **** The iPhone Gets Easier To Dislike by Rob Pegoraro, Washington Post After spending two years as a darling of the digerati, Apple's iPhone has started getting some hate mail. And it's not coming from people happy with other devices who resent the fuss over this one gadget, but from folks who had until recently used or admired the iPhone. **** Goodbye iPod, Hello iPhone by Philip Elmer-DeWitt, CNNMoney.com Apple passed an important milestone last quarter that nobody on Wall Street seems to have noticed: the iPod, once Apple???s No. 1 source of revenue, fell into third place after the Mac (No. 1) and the iPhone (No. 2). **** iPhone A Hit With Consumer Companies by InformationWeek Pizza Hut, Kraft, and Whole Foods are looking to iPhone apps to grow revenues in a tough economy. MyAppleMenu Reader ==================================== **** Make That a Double Shot by Michael Idov, Slate I turned my disastrous experience of opening a cafe into a novel. **** Inside The Mayor's Studio: NYC-TV's Secrets Of New York by Tom Robbins, Village Voice The many scams of Bloomberg's hip TV execs. **** How God Propelled Stephen Hawking Into The Bestsellers Lists by Tim Radford, Guardian There, that's my thesis. Profound theme, good narrative style, great title and accidentally perfect timing, plus a bit of divine help and of course a lot of media attention. Those are the initial conditions for a bestseller, certainly, but nine million copies? That's the real puzzle. Anyone got a better idea? SingaporeSurf ==================================== **** Guest Piece On Blogtv.sg: Speaker's Corner CCTV Cameras by Siew Kum Hong My own suspicion is that the cameras were installed in advance of the upcoming APEC meeting in Singapore. During the IMF-World Bank meeting in Singapore in 2006, there was a public protest at Speaker???s Corner, as well as an attempt to march to the venue of the meeting. The film Speakers Cornered captured the events of that day. I can only surmise that the CCTV cameras are in anticipation of similar incidents. But at what cost to Singapore? **** Where Are The Singaporeans Left? by Oikono Will Singapore???s income inequality reach South American standards someday? **** David's Death And Singapore by L. Tan, Jakarta Post On this case, David's family has every right to seek closure and recourse for themselves by requesting for a full and complete investigation into their son's tragedy. However in doing so, they have to adhere to the laws of the land, in this case Singaporean law. They shouldn't do so by going public based on allegations and unverified evidence or hearsay from David's friends in the institution. **** To Be Good Singapore DJ, You Must Have American Accent, Issit? by Mrbrown: L'infantile terrible of Singapore In this day and age when you can turn to the internet and listen to any radio podcast from any where in the world, why would you want to listen to a local DJ trying to sound like an American? Pick up an iPod and check out the thousands (millions?) of podcasts from all over the world via iTunes. The local FM dial is almost useless. **** George Yeo's Response To My Article On Facebook by Singapore Social Activist **** How Switzerland And Singapore Celebrate Their National Days by The Temasek Review **** ??????????????????????????????????????????????????? by ?????????, ???????????? ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? **** Time For A Long, Hard Look by Kelvin Chow, Today While the news is a blow economically and in terms of sentiment, it also raises the question of the kinds of jobs that Singapore wants to attract and keep - an issue for the high-level Economic Strategies Committee to mull over. **** The Temasek Debacle And The Failure Of One-party Rule by The Temasek Review As public servants, both the Temasek Board and the Ministry of Finance are expected to be subjected to public scrutiny. The continuous passing of the ???hot potato??? from one side to another is making a mockery out of our public institutions. The buck has to stop somewhere. **** Will I Vote For PAP? by Singapore Social And Political Thoughts **** First High-speed Internet Services Expected In First Half Of 2010 by Valarie Tan, Channel NewsAsia Some 32,000 houses in Singapore will soon be getting installations of fibre-to-the-home in the next few months, which will enable them to get ready for the ultra-high speed broadband network, capable of delivering speeds of one Gigabyte per second and above. **** Singapore Airlines A380 Suites ??? A Class Beyond First Or A First Class Branding Debacle? by Shashank Nigam, SimpliFlying Alienating your First Class passengers should be the last thing any premium airline should aim to do, and it is a pity that SIA has done just that. **** It's Appalling by New Paper That is the verdict of the Consumers Association of Singapore (Case) after a recent random test by The New Paper revealed shocking lapses at stores. At four out of the five retail outlets, no one bothered to check the signatures on the bills. No one asked why two Chinese women were charging expenses to a credit card bearing an Indian name. From applesurf at myapplemenu.com Thu Aug 6 18:59:00 2009 From: applesurf at myapplemenu.com (applesurf at myapplemenu.com) Date: 6 Aug 2009 22:59:00 -0000 Subject: [MyAppleMenu] Aug 6, 2009 Message-ID: <20090806225900.49751.qmail@voot.pair.com> MyAppleMenu ==================================== **** The Inhospitable Land Of The App Store David Weiss, Unweary What frustrates me most about the approval process is actually not that it is so opaque, but that it does nothing truly positive for customers. It doesn't help quality. It doesn't help customers find the right solutions. It doesn't protect customers. **** Interview: Brent Simmons On Ads And Google Reader Sync In NetNewsWire Giles Turnbull, Cult of Mac "It???s five-year-old code, and it was the first time I ever tried syncing. I???ve learned a ton about syncing since then. I???ve also learned that if I want to fix the bugs in the FTP (and MobileMe) syncing, I???d have to start over completely. It???s not just that it???s buggy ??? the model is flawed, top-to-bottom. The entire thing is a giant bug." **** Apple Keyboard Firmware Vulnerability Demonstrated Dan Moren, Macworld As it turns out, Apple???s keyboards (both the laptop and external USB versions) include both a small amount of RAM and flash memory???plenty of room to run a simple keylogging program. **** News: Apple, Psystar Settlement Conference Pushed To October Jeff Gamet, The Mac Observer The motion to postpone the meeting was jointly filed by Apple and Psystar so that it would fall after the August 21st fact discovery deadline, and because Psystar's new legal team was still familiarizing itself with the case. **** The End Of The Road For A Favored Text Editor Rob Griffiths, Macworld **** Five Parent-Proof Reasons You Need An iPhone Dan Moren, Macworld Going off to college can be scary, especially if it???s your first time on your own. But you know what makes it less scary? Getting your own iPhone. So, kids, here are five great reasons you can use to convince your folks that the one thing you absolutely need when going off to college isn???t a laundry bag or clean towels, but the most advanced smart phone on the face of the earth. **** Mac OS X 10.5.8 Chock Full Of Security, Reliability Fixes Jacqui Cheng, Ars Technica Apple has released Mac OS X 10.5.8 via Software Update with plenty of reliability and security fixes to go around. Leopard users will want to update, even if they're just biding time until Snow Leopard is released this fall. **** The Great iPhone Lockdown: Should The FCC Force Apple To Sell Google's iPhone Apps? Farhad Manjoo, Slate The iPhone runs on public networks and therefore falls under government jurisdiction. At the very least, the regulators have a duty to ensure fair competition on wireless networks???and by arbitrarily blocking rivals from its device, the iPhone's software platform simply isn't fair. **** 1Password, 1Password Pro Updated With Quick Copy/Paste And More Tyler Tschida, App Advice **** Like Many Relationships, iPhone Love Can Sour Daniel Harrison, MSNBC Gadget can do no wrong at first ??? but then the faults appear and annoy. **** Final Cut Pro Gets New Metadata Workflow Tools MacNN **** A Not-so-deeper Look At OS X 10.5.8 Rob Griffiths, Macworld Apple???s own notes do a good job at covering the big details of the items it updated this time out. **** Small But Mighty Chong Jinn Xiung, Malaysia Star The most notable overall improvement to the new Macbook Pro is its long-lasting battery life, which significantly increases its usability when you???re out travelling and saves you the trouble of having to charge every so often. **** Software Pricing: Are We Doing It Wrong? Jeff Atwood, Coding Horror I love buying software, and I know I buy a heck of a lot more of it when it's priced right. So why not? The Tomorrow Weblog ==================================== **** Has Unified Mobile Management For Business Arrived? Galen Gruman, InfoWorld New MobileIron platform for BlackBerry, iPhone, and others promises to make smartphone management enterprise-class. MyAppleMenu Reader ==================================== **** Wilder Women Judith Thurman, New Yorker The mother and daughter behind the Little House stories. **** The Secret Is Out: We Can See Your Feet Catherine Saint Louis, New York Times A midsummer's confession: when it comes to skin, I discriminate. I wish I treated my feet with the same tender loving care as I do my face. But I don???t. Not even close. SingaporeSurf ==================================== **** We Want Deeds, Not Words Gandhi Ambalam, Singapore Democrats The Jobs Credit scheme obviously cannot help those who are retrenched. For these people how do they survive without income? **** Teens Having Sex Earlier Leow Si Wan, Straits Times Crime statistics issued on Wednesday for the first half of the year showed that the number of statutory rape cases involving girls under 14 jumped more than 70 per cent, to 37 cases, compared to the same period last year. **** Sovereign Wealth Funds: Goodyear Retreat Raises Strategic Issues For Temasek Euromoney Having announced change and seen it reversed, the net effect on perception of Temasek is likely to be worse than if it had never announced a change at all. **** Enforce Passenger Limits On Trains And Public Buses Too Chua Peck Lan, Straits Times While action is being taken against vehicles carrying more passengers than legally allowed, why is it that buses and trains seem packed, especially during peak hours? It does not seem to matter to the authorities - perhaps until an accident results in casualties. Yes, it's insanely packed, but I don't think the load has exceeded "legal" limits. It will probably be better to argue to lower the legal limits. **** The First Question Mr Wang Says So **** Haze Is Back In Singapore Ess Aubrey Gabrelyn, Straits Times It's back. Smoke haze shrouded Singapore on Thursday morning, with an acrid burning smell hanging in the air. The Pollutant Standards Index (PSI) hit its first moderate level since February on Wednesday. **** Singapore Trade Min: Too Early To Say Exports Stable Nopporn Wong-Anan, Reuters It is too early to say Singapore is seeing a strong, sustained economic recovery, the country's trade minister Lim Hng Kiang said on Thursday. **** Buffett Vindicated! Diary of A Singaporean Mind MM Lee got it wrong. **** Two More H1N1-related Deaths In Singapore Channel NewsAsia **** Cheeky Chocolates An American girl in Singapore We walked in the door and saw chocolate everywhere. Seriously. Everywhere. **** PM Lee Looking For Successor In His 30s To Be Fielded In Next GE Imelda Saad, Channel NewsAsia Singapore's fourth prime minister could be among the new faces fielded in the next general election due by early 2012, said senior minister Goh Chok Tong on Thursday. However, he added that prime minister Lee Hsien Loong is now having a more difficult time looking for suitable candidates in their 30s. PAP would do well to start looking outside their own echo chamber. **** Re-Tune Foreign Worker Policy Kor Kian Beng, Straits Times Labour leader Josephine Teo wants the government to 're-tune' its foreign worker policy to arrest the declining productivity of Singapore workers. From applesurf at myapplemenu.com Fri Aug 7 18:59:01 2009 From: applesurf at myapplemenu.com (applesurf at myapplemenu.com) Date: 7 Aug 2009 22:59:01 -0000 Subject: [MyAppleMenu] Aug 7, 2009 Message-ID: <20090807225901.50715.qmail@voot.pair.com> MyAppleMenu ==================================== **** Phil Schiller Responds Regarding Ninjawords And The App Store John Gruber, Daring Fireball After going back to Ninjawords???s developers and conferring with some trusted sources within Apple, I believe what Schiller says here is genuinely the case ??? that what the App Store reviewers wanted for Ninjawords was a 17+ rating, not for Matchstick Software to filter its dictionary listings. In particular, it seems like it really came down to bad timing around the launch of parental controls. Matchstick Software initially submitted the app on May 13. The response from the App Store was that Apple wouldn???t publish it with those words without a 17+ parental control rating. But parental controls ??? the preferences that specify the age rating limits for apps ??? debuted in iPhone OS 3.0, which was not released until June 17. And, it???s worth noting, the June 17 release date wasn???t announced until the WWDC keynote address on June 8. Back in May, Matchstick Software knew only that OS 3.0 was coming in the near future. **** Apple's High-end Strategy Paying Off In The Mobile Market Chris Foresman, Ars Technica Apple has long pointed out that its strategy isn't to focus on quantity, but quality. That strategy is paying of for its mobile platform just as well as it has for the Mac, garnering the company a third of the profits generated in the mobile handset market despite its tiny market share. **** App Store Rejections Tied To Third Party Rights Infringements Erica Sadun, TUAW "We have not stopped approving ebook readers and ebooks in fact we've approved 221 new ebooks to the App Store since 7/30/09." **** Product News: Secret Folder 7 Improves Finder Support The Mac Observer **** MyFi Plus iPod Touch (Almost) Equals iPhone Charlie Sorrel, Wired The real point is that if you have a mobile Wi-Fi hotspot in your pocket, it is going to be cheaper than an iPhone contract pretty much anywhere, and can not only enable your iPod Touch to have an always on connection, but let you make Skype calls and stream music without having to worry about the usual iPhone size limits, as you???re on Wi-Fi. You can also share the connection with five machines in total, including a netbook for true on the go video calls and (gasp) Spotify. **** Analysis: Why Apple Owns The High-end Tom Kaneshige, CIO So why is Apple successful on the high-end, high-margins of the market? Good technology is one reason, for sure. Another reason: it???s much easier to capture the highpoint in a market you???ve reinvented. Put another way, Sacconaghi credits Apple???s first mover advantage to its success. **** Dealing With Podcast Glut Christopher Breen, Macworld There are steps you can take to prevent being overwhelmed with podcasts and their episodes. **** Apple Reverses iPhone Developer Program Limit Policy MacNN **** Top 10 Reader iPhone Annoyances (And How To Fix Them) Jared Newman, PC World The iPhone is far from perfect. Readers contribute their top iPhone annoyances to the discussion, and we offer solutions. **** Apple???s Phil Schiller Speaks On Censored iPhone Dictionaries, But Ignores The Bigger Issues Jason Kincaid, TechCrunch I realize that Schiller probably has his hands tied to some extent, though he is obviously quite high up on the Apple food chain. And his letter to Gruber is really a breath of fresh air after many months of near-silence from Apple. But at the same time, his statement that Apple???s efforts are always made with the best intentions with hopes of improving quickly are hard to take at face value. Apple has remained mum on these problems for so long now, it???s hard not to think that they???re only beginning to address them publicly after the flurries of bad press have turned into a persistent raging storm. I wouldn???t be at all surprised if Apple really has been working hard behind the scenes, but they???ve done nothing to show that that???s the case. **** As Apple Starts Talking About App Rejections, Another Popular One Is Pulled MG Siegler, TechCrunch Sex Offender, an app to locate sexual predators in your area, had been consistently in the top 10 paid apps for weeks. And now it???s gone ??? not just off of the list, but off of the store. **** Why Both Kids & Parents Love The iPhone Jennifer Martinez, GigaOM If you???re a parent with an iPhone or iPod touch, chances are your kids are dying to play with it. And a majority of parents who own such devices let their kids do just that, at least once a week, a study conducted by MTV???s Nickelodeon has found. The motivation for parents? They see it as a source of entertainment, education ??? and plain ole distraction. **** Rejected By Apple, iPhone Developers Go Underground Brian X. Chen, Wired Apple is the exclusive gatekeeper to its iPhone App Store, able to reject apps at will ??? as it did July 28 with Google Voice. But some developers aren???t taking the rejection lying down: They???re turning instead to an unauthorized app store called Cydia, where forbidden wares continue to exist ??? and even earn developers some money. **** Realizations Of Rounded Rectangles Keith Lang, UI&Us Steve took Bill on a walk, pointing out the ubiquity of rounded rectangles in the world around them. Eventually a rounded rectangular No Parking sign convinced Bill. **** Is Google Voice A Threat To AT&T? David Pogue, New York Times In short, what Apple and AT&T have accomplished with their heavy-handed, Soviet information-control style is not to bury these useful apps. Instead, Apple/AT&T have elevated them to martyr status???and, in effect, thrown down a worldwide challenge to programmers everywhere. **** Apple Demonstrates The Need For Net Neutrality -- Now Neil Mcallister, InfoWorld Recent moves to block apps from the iPhone show why legislation to preserve equal access to the internet is needed now more than ever. **** Microsoft Office Update For Mac Adds Compatibility MacNN Microsoft has released v12.2.1 of its Office application suite for Mac, aiming to fix an issue that prevents users from opening various types of documents. **** How Apple Offered An Olive Branch Over iPhone Apps Bobbie Johnson, The Guardian A rare public statement from senior Apple man Phil Schiller won't end developer frustrations with the iPhone - but it could be the first sign of a thaw. **** Apple???s Curious PR Problem Philip Elmer-DeWitt, Fortune **** Google's Chief Accepted Gear But No Pay As Apple Board Member AppleInsider The Tomorrow Weblog ==================================== **** Fabless And Fearless Economist How a Taiwanese firm became one of the world???s fastest-growing chipmakers. MyAppleMenu Reader ==================================== **** Will Marcus Brauchli Please Grow A Spine? Jack Shafer, Slate Magazine The Washington Post executive editor grovels before the paper's critics in the Mad Bitch controversy. **** The Gathering Dark Age Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times Some weeks ago I went so far as to suggest the gap between some critics and some moviegoers may be because the critics are more "evolved." Man, did the wrath hit the fan. I was clearly an elitist snob. But think about it. Wouldn't you expect a critic to be more highly evolved in taste than a fanboy zealot? **** Sincerely, John Hughes Alison Byrne Fields, We'll Know When We Get There Thank you, John Hughes. I love you for what you did to make me who I am. SingaporeSurf ==================================== **** Mr Yeh Siang Hui???s ST Letter On Protection For Pregnant Women Misses Several Critical Points Ng E-Jay, Sgpolitics.net It is highly unfortunate that in defending the interests of employers, Mr Yeh has adopted the PAP mindset of regarding Singaporeans as mere economic digits, to be rudely shunted aside and left out in the cold as and when it fits their purposes. We don't need any government at all if all we are are simply economic digits. **** REACH Survey Shows Singaporeans Worried About Rising Costs Of Living Satish Cheney, Channel NewsAsia A survey has shown that more than one in three Singaporeans are dissatisfied with job opportunities for older workers. Other concerns Singaporeans have include housing affordability as well as health costs. **** A Quiet Rebel Called Goh Chok Tong P N Balji, Today His most notable achievement as prime minister was his ability to move Singapore away from one of the most-jealously guarded philosophies of Mr Lee Kuan Yew and his "Old Order" welfarism. **** Policing Express Bus Fares May Lead To Safety Issues And Monopoly Tan Pang Soon, Straits Times Although I do not agree with price fixing, I prefer a stable market to an evil business cycle. But, there are other ways to regulate for a stable market besides price fixing. **** Who's To Blame In The Credit Card Game? New Paper When credit card fraud takes place, the finger-pointing game begins. Who is to blame? Banks, consumers, or retailers? Not us, says the Singapore Retailers Association. Its executive director, Ms Lau Chuen Wei, said: 'The job of a retailer, especially the one at the front line, is indeed onerous. **** Temasek???s Big Blunder As BOA And Barclays Rebound The Temasek Review Temasek???s recent gain in its portfolio is due largely to the rebound in the global economy and should not be used to vindicate its over-exposure in the financial markets. Furthermore, it should not be used to excuse the Temasek???s Board for blunders such as the ill-timed purchase and sale of BOA and Barclays, the dissolution of Australia???s ABC Learning and the investment in the much maligned Shin Corp, none of which it has been held accountable for so far. **** ??????????? ??????, ???????????? ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? **** The Second Question: Homes For Singaporeans Mr Wang Says So **** New Concept Plan For S'pore Straits Times **** Ministers Urge Caution Sue-Ann Chia, Straits Times Two ministers on Friday cautioned against calls to reduce employers' access to foreign workers as a way to improve the productivity of the Singapore worker. **** No More Battle Of The Logos Straits Times From applesurf at myapplemenu.com Sat Aug 8 18:59:00 2009 From: applesurf at myapplemenu.com (applesurf at myapplemenu.com) Date: 8 Aug 2009 22:59:00 -0000 Subject: [MyAppleMenu] Aug 8, 2009 Message-ID: <20090808225900.91905.qmail@voot.pair.com> MyAppleMenu ==================================== **** Virtual Keyboards On iPhone And Android Lukas Mathis, Ignore The Code A virtual keyboard lives and dies by the details. It???s not that there???s a single feature which makes the iPhone???s virtual keyboard better than Android???s; it???s death by a thousand cuts. A number of small differences end up making a huge difference. **** On Phil Schiller's Credibility MacJournals We do not offer an opinion as to whether Schiller is being truthful in the App Store censorship matter. We only point out that his past statements when Apple was under fire mean that he does not get the benefit of our doubt. If Apple???s policy truly is not to censor applications for ???including references to common swear words??? (or ask their developers to do so to gain approval, either explicitly or implicitly), we???ll see the results in the App Store, and Schiller will have won back some credibility. If he is dissembling, we???ll continue to hear stories from developers whose software was rejected because of such references, and it will be clear to anyone paying attention that Schiller???s press statements about how Apple didn???t do awful or stupid things simply cannot be trusted. **** Hoyle Puzzle & Board Games 2009 Charlie Fletcher, Inside Mac Games It???s a great set of games with enduring replay value. However, if you already have last year???s version and don???t care to play on the net, it???s not worth the upgrade. **** The iPhone's SMS Vulnerability: What We Learned Rich Mogull, Macworld Now-patched vulnerability highlights interesting issues about today???s smartphones. **** The Problem With My Self-imposed iPhone Boycott Is I???m Not Sure How I Know When It... stevenf.com MyAppleMenu Reader ==================================== **** What???s A Big City Without A Newspaper? Michael Sokolove, New York Times On a recent trip into Philadelphia, after I exited the Interstate and coasted to a stop at the first traffic light, a man walked up to my car. He wore a black apron with a change pouch and held aloft a copy of The Philadelphia Daily News, the city???s tart, irreverent tabloid. It gave me a warm feeling. Of course it did! I???m a newspaper guy. I worked as a reporter for The Daily News in the 1980s, and later for what we called ???big sister,??? the sober, broadsheet Philadelphia Inquirer. Even in better times, I would have been happy to see the product being hawked, but these days any small sign of life in the newspaper industry, even just the sight of someone reading a paper, feels positively uplifting. I handed over 75 cents for my Daily News, then drove on toward the center of the city ??? and U.S. Bankruptcy Court, where a hearing was soon to begin, part of an ongoing process that will determine the fate of the city???s newspapers. SingaporeSurf ==================================== **** Sense Of Belonging Lacking Among The Young Seah Chiang Nee, The Star For a large segment that has been badly affected or who is unhappy with unpopular government policies, the enthusiasm has been rather muted. They associate the festivities with the ruling People???s Action Party (PAP), and even refuse to put up flags. **** Singapore Says Economy Stronger After Shrinking 6.5% Shamim Adam, Bloomberg Singapore???s economy is recovering after contracting 6.5 percent in the first half of 2009 from a year earlier, prime minister Lee Hsien Loong said. ???We are now in a stronger position,??? Lee said in a televised National Day message today. The decline in the first six months was ???less bad than we had feared??? after an easing in the global recession and government measures helped Singapore???s economy ???bounce back??? last quarter, he said. From applesurf at myapplemenu.com Sun Aug 9 18:59:00 2009 From: applesurf at myapplemenu.com (applesurf at myapplemenu.com) Date: 9 Aug 2009 22:59:00 -0000 Subject: [MyAppleMenu] Aug 9, 2009 Message-ID: <20090809225900.61140.qmail@voot.pair.com> MyAppleMenu ==================================== **** The Case Against Apple Jason Calacanis, Fortune Apple will face a user revolt in the coming years based upon Microsoft, Google and other yet-to-be-formed companies, undercutting their core markets with cheap, stable and open devices. Apple's legendary comeback ability will be for naught if they don't deeply examine their anti-competitive nature. The Tomorrow Weblog ==================================== **** As Classrooms Go Digital, Textbooks Are History Tamar Lewin, New York Times Textbooks have not gone the way of the scroll yet, but many educators say that it will not be long before they are replaced by digital versions ??? or supplanted altogether by lessons assembled from the wealth of free courseware, educational games, videos and projects on the Web. SingaporeSurf ==================================== **** No To Rape: Towards Criminalising Marital Rape Mathia Lee ~ Plans and Preoccupations **** Time To Look Past Motherhood Sentiments And Start Asking The Hard Questions Ng E-Jay, Sgpolitics.net Today, Singapore citizens have to be sure what exactly is it they are defending. We have to know that we are defending a place that we can call our home, and not some hotel that has been sold out to foreigners in the name of economic growth. **** Indonesia's Cooperation Is Necessary To Tackle Haze, Says Dr Yaacob Cheryl Lim, Channel NewsAsia Singapore's environment and water resources minister Yaacob Ibrahim said on Saturday Indonesia needs to do more to tackle the haze problem. Speaking at a charity event, Dr Yaacob said he is disappointed with some of Indonesia's responses to the recent haze. **** S'pore Has 9th H1N1 Death Straits Times From applesurf at myapplemenu.com Mon Aug 10 18:59:00 2009 From: applesurf at myapplemenu.com (applesurf at myapplemenu.com) Date: 10 Aug 2009 22:59:00 -0000 Subject: [MyAppleMenu] Aug 10, 2009 Message-ID: <20090810225900.45568.qmail@voot.pair.com> MyAppleMenu ==================================== **** The Case Against Apple Is Just As Much A Case For Apple MG Siegler, TechCrunch Many of the problems Calacanis talks about simply aren???t seen as problems by Apple, and more importantly, by the public at large. Until that changes, there is no real risk to Apple. **** Media Companies Navigate Smart Phone Apps Stephanie Clifford, New York Times Media brands are jumping onto the iPhone. USA Today? There???s an app for that. ???The Rachel Maddow Show???? ???Entertainment Tonight???? Public radio? Yes, yes and yes, there are apps for those. Now, if only there were an app that showed media companies how to make money on the iPhone. **** Planet Calacanis Marco Arment He has some good points, but they???re buried in so much off-base ranting and misplaced frustration that it???s difficult to take any of it seriously. **** An Apple Board Of Directors For The 2010s Arik Hesseldahl, BusinessWeek Eric Schmidt's exit creates an opening for Apple to make COO Tim Cook a director. Next it needs members to help face the challenges of its fourth decade. **** Re: The Case Against Apple Tom Goltz, IP I agree with the author that both the public AND Apple would benefit from the iPhone becoming a much more open platform, but he needs to be careful to confine his proposed solutions to the technically possible. **** The Case Against [For] Apple Nic Pottier, IP First off, one has to realize that Apple is vastly more open and provides far more opportunity to individual developers than any other platform. Although they weren't the first to have an on device app store, they are the first really popular phone to have one, and the first to exercise very little control over the content of said store. Yes, a few things are off limits, but name me another platform that has near the number of apps. **** Major Educational E-book Publisher Targets iPhone MacNN The Tomorrow Weblog ==================================== **** An Operating System For The Cloud G. Pascal Zachary, MIT Technology Review Google is developing a new computing platform equal to the Internet era. Should Microsoft be worried? MyAppleMenu Reader ==================================== **** Breakfast Can Wait. The Day???s First Stop Is Online. Brad Stone, New York Times Karl and Dorsey Gude of East Lansing, Mich., can remember simpler mornings, not too long ago. They sat together and chatted as they ate breakfast. They read the newspaper and competed only with the television for the attention of their two teenage sons. That was so last century. SingaporeSurf ==================================== **** PSI Reading Stays Above 55 Today **** Yes, That's My Grandpa Buried Under The Pavement Crystal Chan, New Paper Mr Koh said: 'We often dreamt of our grandfather and he kept telling us that people were walking all over him in the park. We took the dream as a sign that we had to act on his last rites.' **** Singapore Surrenders On US Route Matt O'Sullivan, The Age Singapore Airlines has long had ambitions to fly between Australia and the US but has recently resisted lobbying aggressively for authorities to open the route further amid a severe downturn in travel. It has little interest - in the short-term, at least - in entering a market that has gone from a cosy duopoly to an aggressive four-airline contest in less than a year. **** Singapore's Prime Minister Claims Credit For ???Stronger Economic Position" The Temasek Review The Singapore government has always proclaimed itself to be the chief architect of the nation???s economic growth, having pegged a portion of their salaries to the yearly GDP growth. However, when Singapore became the first Asian country to fall into a recession last year, it claimed that it is an ???inevitable??? consequence of the global financial crisis of which it has ???no control??? over. From applesurf at myapplemenu.com Tue Aug 11 18:59:01 2009 From: applesurf at myapplemenu.com (applesurf at myapplemenu.com) Date: 11 Aug 2009 22:59:01 -0000 Subject: [MyAppleMenu] Aug 11, 2009 Message-ID: <20090811225901.74437.qmail@voot.pair.com> MyAppleMenu ==================================== **** Apple Store Set To Replace Art Deco Landmark Leander Kahney, Cult of Mac Preservationists in Melbourne, Australia, are up in arms about the imminent destruction of a historic art deco building in favor of a new Apple store. **** Review: Evernote 1.4 Jeffery Battersby, Macworld Evernote 1.4.7 is a versatile tool for capturing a wide variety of information and syncing that information among a variety of platforms. While there are some odd feature differences between the iPhone app and its desktop corollary, especially when it comes to adding audio notes, there???s also quite a bit of power in Evernote???s Web back end. The program???s text recognition and search capabilities are unique and powerful and it???s features like these that make Evernote a real standout. **** Bend Code To Your Will With SubEthaEdit Update Philip Michaels, Macworld The marquee addition to SubEthaEdit 3.5 appears to be code folding???a new feature that lets you hide text or source code in a document. Doing so should let you focus on the task at hand. **** Apple's Master Plan (Even Fanboys Should Be Scared) Jason Calacanis, IP Freedom for our generation starts at our keyboards, flows through our computers and phones, and then on to the internet. Anyone who tries to limit your freedoms in that process is the enemy--even if they produce the best products available right now. **** "Evil Steve" Drives Apple's Problems David Coursey, PC World Steve Jobs is to blame. For, behind the genius, is the ruthlessness and single-mindedness that has gotten to company into this mess. But, if "Evil Steve" caused the problem, "Nice Steve" can solve them. People want to love Steve Jobs, he just needs to make it easier. **** Apple's Duty (And How It's Failing) Mark Murphy, NetworkWorld What is happening right now is the formation of a meme: that Apple is closed and closed is bad. It's not that Apple's tactics changed, but that Apple's tactics resulted in a bunch of negative public events, from the big-ticket Google Voice brouhaha to the less-publicized bits about how Apple wants jailbreaking to be made illegal. This appears to have been a "tipping point" that led to the formation of this meme. **** Majority Of CIOs Still Reject The iPhone, But Resistance Is Weakening Jason Hiner, TechRepublic **** King Of The Apple Geeks Dan Frommer, Business Insider Indeed, Gruber has effectively created a job as one of the few self-sustaining, solo Web "columnists" out there -- a job that didn't exist five years ago. **** iPhone 3GS Hardware Encryption Easy To Circumvent Rich Mogull, TidBITS Jailbreaking the iPhone appears to allow access to the memory location that stores either the passcode, or the setting to use the passcode. With this removed, you gain full access to the iPhone. **** Apple Reinstates Matte Display Option On 15-inch MacBook Pro, Charges $50 For It Darren Murph, Engadget **** BBC Hovers On iPhone Apps Due To Apple Terms Robert Andrews, PaidContent.org While BBC Worldwide debuted Radio Times and Lonely Planet apps, and Livestation is distribution a BBC World News app, the public service broadcaster is still missing. PaidContent:UK understands this is due to BBC anxieties over Apple???s terms and conditions - in particular, a concern that it would be left open to ???unlimited liability???. **** Multiwinia Susie Ochs, Mac Life Multiwinia???s short matches are packed with strategy fun, with simple controls, endless replayability (especially for $19!), and tons of multiplayer potential. The sound effects bored us, but the Tron-ish vector graphics and glowing, geometric shapes are the perfect backdrop for these space-age skirmishes. We???ll never look at innocent stick figures the same way again. **** Stream Music From iTunes Kirk McElhearn, Macworld The Tomorrow Weblog ==================================== **** Robots To Get Their Own Operating System MacGregor Campbell, New Scientist Roboticists have begun to think about what robots have in common and what aspects of their construction can be standardised, hopefully resulting in a basic operating system everyone can use. This would let roboticists focus their attention on taking the technology forward. MyAppleMenu Reader ==================================== **** Reviving The Lost Art Of Naming The World Carol Kaesuk Yoon, New York Times Outside taxonomy, no one is much up in arms about this, but perhaps we should be, because the ordering and naming of life is no esoteric science. **** The Lost Art Of Reading David L. Ulin, Los Angeles Times The relentless cacophony that is life in the 21st century can make settling in with a book difficult even for lifelong readers and those who are paid to do it. **** At The Dance Louise Gl??ck, Slate Magazine SingaporeSurf ==================================== **** Chee And Yeo Cross Swords Again Khairulanwar Zaini / Andrew Loh, The Online Citizen **** One-year Contract For Bus-stop Ads Unfair Lee Yan Kit, Straits Times **** Singapore???s Limits: The Curse Of The GDP Eugene Yeo, The Temasek Review **** Singapore???s Economy Expanded More Than Expected Last Quarter Shamim Adam, Bloomberg Singapore???s economy expanded more than initially estimated last quarter as manufacturing and services improved, reinforcing the nation???s emergence from its worst recession since independence 44 years ago. Singapore???s gross domestic product gained an annualized 20.7 percent last quarter from the previous three months, after shrinking a revised 12.2 percent between January and March, the trade ministry said in a statement today. Second-quarter growth was more than a July 14 estimate of a 20.4 percent expansion, and compares with the median forecast for a 19.2 percent gain in a Bloomberg survey. **** Adventures In Ill-Advised Graphic Design: Singapore Anti-Sex Trafficking Poster Xeni Jardin, Boing Boing The best intentions appear to have gone horribly, double-entendre-ly wrong in a Singapore public service ad campaign which proposes that citizens use hand lotion as a weapon against child sex trafficking. **** AirAsia turns Singapore into a virtual hub Luc Citrinot, eTurboNews.com Despite the fact that AirAsia does not have an airline based in Singapore, the City State is turning now into one of the busiest gateways for the red-and-white, low-cost carrier. **** NS For Adult New Citizens Not Practical (You Sure Or Not?) Military Life: Memoirs of a Conscript in the Lion City What planet is Xiao FuChun from? **** Singapore Won???t ???Turn Back,??? Will License New Foreign Law Firms Andrea Tan, Bloomberg Singapore, which allowed six foreign law firms to practice local corporate law in December, will award more licenses as soon as next year if that would help the economy, Law Minister K. Shanmugam said. ???The direction has been set and we don???t intend to turn back,??? he said in an interview. The government will review the progress of its liberalization program in the first six months of 2010 and could award more licenses then if the market can ???digest them,??? he said. **** S'pore Disappointed With Aung San Suu Kyi's Trial Verdict Valarie Tan, Channel NewsAsia Singapore's foreign ministry said Ms Suu Kyi did not plan to violate the terms of her house arrest, and the intruder into her house was a person who appears to be of unsound mind. **** Singapore GDP Up, But Almost All Indicators Down Blowin' In The Wind In fact, Singapore is not doing well at all by any measure if one looks at the full report on the Economic Survey of Singapore for the second quarter. From applesurf at myapplemenu.com Wed Aug 12 18:59:00 2009 From: applesurf at myapplemenu.com (applesurf at myapplemenu.com) Date: 12 Aug 2009 22:59:00 -0000 Subject: [MyAppleMenu] Aug 12, 2009 Message-ID: <20090812225900.44330.qmail@voot.pair.com> MyAppleMenu ==================================== **** On Saturday Night, We Drove Up To Seattle To Attend A Memorial Service For My Wife???s... stevenf.com On Saturday night, we drove up to Seattle to attend a memorial service for my wife???s grandmother. Shortly after checking into the hotel, I checked the inbox on my Android phone and found myself staring at the words ???Philip Schiller???. **** The App Store And The Long Tail Part 2: The Real "DRM" At Stake Andrew Savikas, O'Reilly Media Perhaps the most important "digital rights management" at stake right now is that of the rights to sell digital content globally. **** Tweetie For Mac Brings Excellent iPhone App To The Desktop Dan Moren, Macworld Tweetie is an excellent, easy-to-use Twitter client that will especially appeal to those who have to manage multiple accounts. **** Review: Mophie Juice Pack For iPhone 3GS Jason D. O'Grady, ZDNet **** App Store Approval Process Update Capen Karr, App Advice **** Apple Updates Safari To 4.0.3 Dan Moren, Macworld According to Apple???s download page, Safari 4.0.3 is as stable as a barn full of horses, improving reliability for Web pages that use the HTML 5 video tag, third-party plug-ins, and Top Sites. It also fixes an issue that prevented some poor users from logging into iWork.com (as well as reminding the rest of us that iWork.com actually exists) and a problem that could cause Web content to be displayed in grayscale instead of color???shades of 1984! **** The Science Behind Apple's Magic BNet A steady stream of revolutionary products. Swarms of devoted fans. Advertising that laughs at the competition. How does Apple do it? We???ll show you. **** ATT Vs. Telefonica The Long Tail Effect Of Apple's App Store Carl Ford , TMC Net So if the apps are so kewl why is Telefonica not enjoying the same results. **** Apple TV Keeps Getting Worse Dan Frommer, Business Insider It's surprising that Apple, which has had so much success with its iPhone App Store, hasn't yet brought a similar framework to the Apple TV. **** Five Ways To Become A Mac Minimalist David Klein, The Apple Blog My interpretation of minimalism in the home office is removing all distracting items that are not constantly utilized. For software, this is both easy and cheap. **** The Closing Of The American iPhone Timothy B. Lee, Bottom-up The iPhone is a hit because it???s a brilliant product, with excellent software and brilliant industrial design. Its popularity has little or nothing to do with the fact that it???s a closed platform operating on a closed network. **** DVD Jon Subpoenaed In Apple Anti-trust Lawsuit Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, ZDNet **** News: Apple Addresses 10.5.8 AirPort Issues With Software Update Jeff Gamet, The Mac Observer Apple released AirPort Client Update for MacBook and MacBook Pro 1.0 late on Tuesday to address Wi-Fi reliability issues some users were experiencing after installing the Mac OS X 10.5.8 update. **** The 10 Most Expensive iPhone Apps Dan Frommer, Alley Insider iPhone App Store is most popular for its free and cheap apps. As a result, most apps and casual games are available for 99 cents or less. But there are plenty of expensive apps in the App Store, too, and people do buy them. **** The Fallout On The iPhone From The Google-Apple Divorce Tom Yager, InfoWorld Apple's gazillions of Developer Program participants, most of them working in native code, give Apple an advantage that other platforms can't match, even with a push from Google. If Google envy strikes in the form of some future feature denied to iPhone users, the App Store is likely to fill in the gap. **** Five Favorite PowerPoint Tips Tom Negrino, Macworld **** Review: Drive Genius 2.2 MacNN The Tomorrow Weblog ==================================== **** Delicious Creator Quietly Launches Threaded Twitter Conversations MG Siegler, TechCrunch The idea is simple, take tweets and thread them together to form conversations, adding context. This works by using the a tiny thread site to both start new conversation threads, and add your comments to old ones. MyAppleMenu Reader ==================================== **** Bringing Down The Dogmen Skip Hollandsworth, Texas Monthly How a pair of undercover cops infiltrated the secret world of Houston dogfighting. **** Julie, Julia And Me: Now It Can Be Told Russ Parsons, Los Angeles Times At a certain point in the wonderful new movie "Julie & Julia," there is a plot twist so shocking the audience gasps. Julia Child does something that seems so totally out of character that even on the way out, people were still shaking their heads. "How could she?" Well, that's one mystery I can solve. I was right there in the middle of it. SingaporeSurf ==================================== **** The Fine Art Of Cherry Picking Ng E-Jay, Sgpolitics.net When it comes to politics, the mainstream press often loves to use the technique of cherry picking to distract readers from the main issues and focus their minds on the nitty gritty details that paint the opposition in a bad light. **** Temasek And Transparency: Lim Hwee Hua Today "It is reasonable for people to ask questions, but ultimately the government holds the responsibility for deciding how much to reveal in our best interests." **** 'I Became Political Fodder' Today Her defeat at the 1991 General Election went down as one of the major electoral upsets. And 18 years later, in a rare and candid interview with the latest issue of Petir, a publication of the People's Action Party, it was apparent her "darkest moment in politics" has not left Dr Seet Ai Mee. **** JB Umno Youth Pours Cold Water On Singapore Proposal To Expand Causeway Bernama Johor Baharu Umno youth division has opposed a Singapore proposal to expand the Johor Causeway as it will not solve the pollution problem in the Johor Straits. **** Singapore Confers Medal To Malaysia's Special Branch Director Zakaria Abdul Wahab, Bernama Malaysian police Special Branch (SB) director Datuk Seri Ramli Sha'ari has been conferred Singapore's Meritorious Service Medal (Pingat Jasa Gemilang) by the republic's president for his role in establishing stronger ties between the SB and the Internal Security Department of Singapore (ISD). **** 'Severe Asset Inflation' Melissa Tan, Straits Times Singapore risks 'severe asset inflation' during the economic recovery, a local economist has warned. **** Straits Times Cherrypicks Economic Survey Findings Blowin' In The Wind Singapore's leading newspaper, The Straits Times, has taken to cherrypicking even what the government says about the economy. **** The Race To Engage Singaporeans The Online Citizen **** Half-height Screen Doors On Elevated MRT Stations To Be Installed By 2012 Channel NewsAsia Half-height platform screen doors will go up at three MRT stations by the end of this year. The first sets of doors were installed at Pasir Ris station on Wednesday. **** The 9th Question - On Singaporean Students Mr Wang Says So **** Typhoon Slows Down Internet Serene Luo, Straits Times Some Singapore Internet users may be experiencing slowdowns on the Information Superhighway, especially when trying to access websites hosted in the United States and Taiwan. We are still using the term 'Information Superhighway'? **** Than Shwe Vindicated Again Aung Zaw, The Irraawaddy The Philippines, Malaysia and Indonesia condemned the verdict, but Singapore, haven of the Than Shwe family and shopping hub for generals??? wives and cronies, took a somewhat hypocritical stance. The island state actually praised the regime for being lenient with Suu Kyi as opposed to decrying the bizarre trial and entire charade in the first place. **** S'pore Has 10th H1N1 Death Straits Times **** 2.5% A Year On CPF Savings Dennis Chan, Straits Times Central Provident Fund members will continue to receive 2.5 per cent a year on the savings in their ordinary account for the next three months. **** Warning On Ghost & History Straits Times Two plays this month have received unusual advisories from the Media Development Authority (MDA). From applesurf at myapplemenu.com Thu Aug 13 18:59:00 2009 From: applesurf at myapplemenu.com (applesurf at myapplemenu.com) Date: 13 Aug 2009 22:59:00 -0000 Subject: [MyAppleMenu] Aug 13, 2009 Message-ID: <20090813225900.83183.qmail@voot.pair.com> MyAppleMenu ==================================== **** MobileMe Subscribers Encounter SMTP Problems MacNN At least some MobileMe subscribers have been experiencing problems with Apple's SMTP servers, according to forum discussion. In attempting to send out e-mails, the subscribers have been running into timeouts, at which point they have been prompted to pick another SMTP server. **** Adobe Bids Farewell To PowerPC Users Kelly Turner, Macworld Adobe today put PowerPC users on notice: in a newly published FAQ, the company confirms that future versions of the Creative Suite will run only on Intel-based Macs. **** Disabling Safari 4's Image Cache Christopher Breen, Macworld **** Starting Out In College, The Mac Way Blair Hanley Frank, Macworld For the past few months, I???ve been working as an intern in Macworld???s San Francisco office, testing products, camping out for the iPhone 3GS, and engaging in a little cubicle warfare. Now I???m heading off to Whitman College for the first year of my undergraduate education. In addition to the usual accoutrements, like sheets (twin extra long, of course), a trash can, books, pens, paper, and the rest, I???m also packing some of my most important supplies: gadgets. After spending my summer surrounded by the latest hardware and software, whittling down my list of essential Mac gear hasn???t been easy. Here???s what???s on my back-to-school list. **** Apple Releases DNS Security Update For Mac OS X AppleInsider A new update from Apple for numerous versions of Mac OS X is designed to protect systems against remote attacks that could cause DNS servers to unexpectedly terminate. **** Fan Boys Fuel The Flames Between Apple And Google Preston Gralla, Computerworld Increasingly, Apple and Google are becoming business rivals rather than partners. One of the more intriguing battles to come may be between the cultists who worship at the feet of each technology company. **** Apple TV Is A Lemon Nick Farrell, The Inquirer Apple has been so confident that its Apple TV has reached a state of perfection that it has not bothered to update the box for 18 months. As a result sales are extremely low. Normally Apple releases a new one and encourages everyone to buy it, but rumours suggest that even Jobs thinks the Apple TV is a bit of a turkey. **** Apple Time Machine Users Hit With Mozy Backup Errors Lucas Mearian, Computerworld Decho Corp. today acknowledged that its popular Mozy online backup service is having problems saving backups sent to it by Apple Inc.'s Time Machine backup tool, which works with Apple's Time Capsule network-attached storage device. **** Will HTML 5 Break Apple's Stranglehold On Apps? Alistair Croll, GigaOM It???s no secret that the iPhone App Store is a walled garden. Mobile platform developers like Apple have several ways to control what can run on their devices: Prohibit plug-ins like Flash, cripple the Java they run, or simply limit the installation process. But HTML 5, the next big standard for the web, will dramatically reduce this control by creating a new generation of web sites that look and feel like they???re iPhone apps. **** Five Apple Retail Flops Chris Ryan, The Apple Blog With Microsoft???s first retail stores right around the corner, I wanted to look at some instances in Apple???s retail history where it, for better or for worse, missed the mark. **** E-Mail From Apple: So? Jared Newman, PC World I understand this looks like a turning point in Apple policy, as if the company is abandoning its secretive ways and moving toward open communication with its consumers. It's not. It's just two e-mail messages. **** The Real Issue Between Apple And Google Darcy Travlos, Forbes As Apple and Google's businesses converge, Apple's ability to create different experiences for the mobile user is standing out. **** French Teenager Hurt By Shattering iPhone AFP A French teenager suffered an eye injury when his girlfriend's iPhone shattered, a few weeks after a similar incident involving an iPod in Britain, his mother said Wednesday. **** Philip Schiller: Apple's Fireman (And Perhaps Most Valuable Exec) Larry Dignan, ZDNet Schiller is fulfilling a big need at Apple???he???s putting a face on the company. Apple has a face???Steve Jobs???but the genius at the helm doesn???t come off as approachable. **** Interview: How Apple Wins By Coming Second Leander Kahney, Cult of Mac Apple figures large in Secondonomics. Bower argues that Apple has gotten a lot of passes because of its underdog status. **** Delicious Library 2.2 Adds New Amazon API Requirements Jeff Gamet, The Mac Observer MyAppleMenu Reader ==================================== **** The Mars Menu: This Is Not Buzz Aldrin's Astronaut Food Karen Kaplan, Los Angeles Times NASA must provide the crew with some 20,000 meals -- light, with a shelf life of five years. Scientists are experimenting with packaging and preservation, but so far, mac and cheese is out. **** A Decade Later, The Iron Giant???s Weaponized Soul Still Stirs Scott Thill, Wired So happy birthday, Iron Giant. Thanks for reminding us that heroism comes in many forms. And that it doesn???t come from a gun at all, but instead from a machine with its synthetic brain and heart fully charged. SingaporeSurf ==================================== **** No More 'future MRT Stations' Christopher Tan, Straits Times Two developers which included unconfirmed locations of future MRT stations in their condo advertisements have stopped using the information as a selling point. **** Tipping Must Be Voluntary, Says Case Seah Seng Choon, Case, Straits Times If tipping is required, tour agents should state it clearly in tour packages. **** Bottled Newater, New Thinking Needed Ong Dai Lin, Today The Public Utilities Board (PUB) said it is re-examining the ways it distributes Newater in order to reduce its use of plastic bottles. **** Integrated Public Transport Hub At Boon Lay To Open In Dec Channel NewsAsia **** H1N1 Passed Peak Jessica Jaganathan, Straits Times The outbreak of Influenza A (H1N1) appears to have peaked, with attendances at clinics dropping off for the first time in weeks. **** George Yeo Replies To Chee: Temasek Has Done ???Well??? The Temasek Review Though Yeo has been quite disappointing in his carefully drafted replies to Chee, it is a positive development in Singapore???s conservative, if not dour political landscape. **** NDP Exco Turns A Deaf Ear On Environment Hazard Warning Dee Kay Dot As Gee Can someone from NDP creative department explain to me why you guys die die must release balloon for National Day? **** More On The 9th Question Mr Wang Says So Why should we be surprised then, that some of these individuals will choose to stay on in those foreign countries? After all, Singapore failed to provide for them what these foreign countries were able, and willing, to provide. **** Nod To 9 GST Suggestions Straits Times The Ministry of Finance (MOF) has accepted for implementation nine out of the 16 suggestions received on the draft Goods and Services Tax (Amendment) Bill 2009 during the public consultation exercise held in June. **** Singapore Sounds A Note Of Caution Mohammed Hadi, Wall Street Journal Singapore can sometimes go overboard when sounding the alarm bell. It did, after all, stage an imaginary terrorist attack as part of its National Day parade on Sunday. Still, the latest word of caution from the government should give investors across Asia pause. When reporting a second-quarter rebound in economic growth, the Ministry of Trade and Industry on Tuesday said there were "few signs of a decisive turnaround in final demand in Singapore's key export markets." **** Singapore Censors Cut Scenes Of Comedy Bruno DPA Singapore's film censors cut some scenes from Sacha Baron Cohen's comedy Bruno and restricted it to viewers 21 years old and above (R21), as the film is to hit the cinema screens in the city-state next Thursday. **** More Accurate Bus Arrival Time Straits Times The Land Transport Authority (LTA) on Thursday said it is now working with IBM Research to tweak the system to enable it to predict traffic flow. Combine bus and taxi data, and you'd have a pretty good picture. **** The Agenda Singapore Democrats **** Bus, Train Information Now Accessible Via Mobile Phones Channel NewsAsia **** Firefly Puts Singapore-Malacca Route On Hold New Straits Times From applesurf at myapplemenu.com Fri Aug 14 18:59:01 2009 From: applesurf at myapplemenu.com (applesurf at myapplemenu.com) Date: 14 Aug 2009 22:59:01 -0000 Subject: [MyAppleMenu] Aug 14, 2009 Message-ID: <20090814225901.18473.qmail@voot.pair.com> MyAppleMenu ==================================== **** Laying It All Out Jettison Canopy So if you???re after a page-layout tool and don???t want to pony-up for InDesign and do the learning that it requires, but you know you need something more than simply a word processor, what are the options? How do they compare, and is one better than another? **** Cultivating Digital Simplicity Chris Bowler, The Weekly Review There are two tools which I use regularly to keep my screen clean and clutter free. They are Hazel and Witch???I???ve talked about them before, but not in the sense of simplicity. How do I use them? Hazel allows me to keep my desktop free of clutter and Witch keeps my screen clean with minimal windows in view. **** Why I Always Disable ???Wake On Lid Open??? On My MacBooks Andy Ihnatko's Celestial Waste of Bandwidth Ideally, ???Disable Wake On Lid Open??? would be a system pref instead of something that can only be done via the command line. But if this were an ideal world, the normal bumps and jostles that a notebook experiences in transit wouldn???t be enough to wake the machine. **** Next Mac Office, Due By 2010's End, Gets Outlook Ina Fried, CNET News.com Microsoft on Thursday said the next version of Office for Mac will arrive by the 2010 holiday buying season, and it added that the new version will include a version of Outlook. Outlook for Mac will replace Entourage, the current e-mail and calendar program in the Mac Office suite. Although it will still differ from the Windows version of Outlook, it will add support for more Exchange features, such as public folders and rights management features. **** Under The Gavel: Close A Door, Open A Window Dan Moren, Macworld Just goes to show you that when one class action door closes, the universe opens a litigious window. That???s what???s going on this week in the world of Apple???s legal forays. **** Microsoft Ships Entourage Web Services Edition Philip Michaels, Macworld Entourage 2008, Web Services Edition means the Mac e-mail client will stop using the WebDAV protocol in favor of Exchange Web Services. **** Apple's Board To Meet To Discuss Replacements for Google's Schmidt Yukari Iwatani Kane and Joann S. Lublin, Wall Street Journal Apple Inc.'s directors are planning to meet next Tuesday and plan to discuss possible replacements to the board seat recently vacated by Google Inc. chief executive Eric Schmidt, said a person familiar with the matter. **** OverSite 3.1 Adds HTML Rendering Within Wireframes MacNN **** Whither Apple TV? Charles Jade, The Apple Blog **** Has Phil Schiller Become Steve Jobs' "Good Twin"? David Coursey, PCWorld Phil Schiller, whom I haven't spoken to in several years, has a reputation as a bit of a fixer and nice guy inside Apple. If you have a problem that isn???t finance or engineering and is important enough, go see Phil. He settles battles between warring factions in the oh-so-political culture down in Cupertino. My hope is that Schiller is on a mission-from-Steve to mend a few fences and improve some internal processes, most notably its App Store approval maze. My other hope is that Schiller would have been a voice against the banning of Google Voice applications, making him more than another Steve flunky. **** Five Little Apple Annoyances TheDigitalLifestyle.tv No, we're not talking about the app store approval process, or the high priced RAM options. Today we look at five minor Apple annoyances, most of which could be fixed quickly/easily. **** Qik Goes Official, Comes To The App Store Jeff Gamet, The iPod Observer Qik requires an iPhone 3GS and supports video with audio capture, along with uploading and sharing videos to an online Qik account. **** Nintendo DS Lookalike App Hits The App Store Don Reisinger, CNET News.com Apple might have let one slip by. An app that looks awfully similar to the Nintendo DS is now available in its App Store. **** Adam Savage Interview -- Have Mac, Will Bust Myths Leslie Ayers, Mac Life How--and why--one of TV's most charismatic geeks has used Macs for years, can't live without his iPhone, and has never regretted it. **** Review: IBiz 4.0 Jeffery Battersby, Macworld Small business time tracking application offers versatile tools. **** Psystar To Depose Numerous Apple Executives In Lawsuit AppleInsider Clone Mac creator Psystar announced this week that it will conduct depositions of numerous high-ranking Apple officials as it prepares its defense against the company's lawsuit. **** Apple???s Cash Hoard: It Just Keeps On Growing Don Clark, Wall Street Journal Remember when Wall Street was obsessed with Microsoft???s bulging bank account? Now it???s Apple that is awash in cash, the latest symbol of the company???s stunning ascendance over the past decade. **** Have Mac, Will Open-source Matt Asay , CNET News.com Life is too short to use a given application simply because it's open source (or Microsoft, or whatever). Use what works. Increasingly, this will lead you to use open source. But for me, the Mac is still the best desktop platform available, period. I'm therefore loving the combination of Mac OS X and a variety of open-source applications. **** Create Unique Margins And Text Flows In Pages Rob Griffiths, Macworld Have you ever wanted to create a document where the margins follow graceful curves, or the text is broken up by a wandering invisible line that meanders down the page? If so, and if you use Pages, here???s a really simple way to create those effects. The Tomorrow Weblog ==================================== **** How Long Is Long-term Storage? John Webster, CNET News.com There is a big disconnect between how long people think they should be storing data and how long they actual can. One group of vendors and academics is trying to change that. MyAppleMenu Reader ==================================== **** Whose Side Of The Road Are You On? Tom Vanderbilt, Salon For the first time in ages, a country is switching to driving on the left. Should we all drive on the same side? SingaporeSurf ==================================== **** English Still 1st Language Clarissa Oon & Goh Chin Lian, Straits Times English will remain Singapore's master language even as the country nurtures more bilingual talents who can do business with China, minister mentor Lee Kuan Yew said on Thursday. 'The command of English is a decisive factor for the career path and promotion prospects of all Singaporeans. **** MM: Foreign Talent Is Vital Clarissa Oon & Goh Chin Lian, Straits Times Minister mentor Lee Kuan Yew on Thursday warned Singaporeans of the dangers of closing the country's door to foreign talent. Without educated foreign residents, Singapore faces the threat of a declining economy with a shrinking labour force, he said in a speech stressing the importance of accepting and embracing them. **** MM : Singapore Now Highly Dependent On Foreigners.... Diary of A Singaporean Mind MM Lee is wrong. Why? He uses the fertility rate today (1.28) to explain why we need so many foreign workers in Singapore today. The Singapore workforce today is not build (born) today but more than 30 years ago. You cannot use our low fertility rate today to argue that we need so many workers now because our workforce is today is dependent on the fertility rate 30-40 years ago! **** Why More Expensive In Singapore Than In Taipei? Here's My Guess Heng-Cheong Leong, MyAppleMenu Sgpolitics.net [http://www.sgpolitics.net/?p=3516] asked: Why the large discrepancy in value of contracts awarded to ST Electronics for installation of platform doors at SMRT stations and at Taiwan's Neihu Line? Here are some guesses that I can put forward to explain the difference, in order of significance: 1. Singapore's platforms have more doors. (Singapore: 4 doors per car, 6 cars per station; Taipei: 2 doors per car, 4 cars per station) (300% difference) 2. Singapore's work is to be performed on existing operating stations, while Taipei's work was performed on not-yet operating, still under construction stations. 3. Singapore's platforms are longer in length. (Singapore: about 140m; Neihu: about 90m) (150% difference) 4. Singapore's work is to be performed on older stations, possibly with older existing technologies. Given all these, it is not surprising to me that Singapore's work is more expensive. If you count the number of doors per station, it worked out roughly to be equivalent to the difference in cost. **** A People United By Apathy And Ruled By Fear The Temasek Review A nation united by apathy and ruled by fear has not achieved Merdeka yet. We have merely exchanged the British colonizers with our own local-bred pests and leeches. **** George Yeo: Minister Salaries Has Secret Component Singapore Democrats **** Singapore MFA Press Statement On Daw Aung San Suu Kyi???s Verdict Dee Kay Dot As Gee I actually find myself ashamed as a Singaporean after reading Singapore Foreign Affairs Ministry comments on Daw Aung San Suu Kyi???s verdict. **** Ministers??? Salaries Include A ???confidential Discretionary Component???, Says George Yeo Andrew Loh, The Online Citizen **** MOH Says Tamiflu-resistant H1N1 Patient Is An Isolated Case Channel NewsAsia The health ministry (MOH) said the case of a Tamiflu-resistant H1N1 patient is an isolated case. From applesurf at myapplemenu.com Sat Aug 15 18:59:00 2009 From: applesurf at myapplemenu.com (applesurf at myapplemenu.com) Date: 15 Aug 2009 22:59:00 -0000 Subject: [MyAppleMenu] Aug 15, 2009 Message-ID: <20090815225900.30723.qmail@voot.pair.com> MyAppleMenu ==================================== **** China Unicom Denies Placing iPhone Order MacNN **** Apple's Snow Leopard: A Flurry Of Changes Erica Ogg, CNET News.com What's the difference between Snow Leopard and Leopard? **** Underwater Puzzler Jewel Of Atlantis Comes To Macs MacNN **** Outlook On The Mac: And They Lived Happily Ever After? John C. Welch, Macworld Outlook???s upcoming Mac version raises more questions than it answers. **** New Office 2010 Is Proof Microsoft Sabotaged Macintosh DavI'd Coursey, PC World Microsoft finally releasing a new Outlook for Macintosh next year is about 10 years too late and only underscores the real malice Redmond has towards Mac. **** Phil Schiller Is A Man On A Mission: To Save The App Store MG Siegler, TechCrunch As Apple???s senior vice president of worldwide product marketing, you???d have to imagine that Phil Schiller is a pretty busy guy. He???s also been moonlighting as Apple???s keynote speaker during Steve Jobs??? medical leave of absence. But now it???s really starting to look as if Schiller has taken on another task: App Store savior. **** The Right And Wrong Way To Do Tech Dave Winer, Scripting News Apple would do well to throw in the towel on this system, they're in a no-win situation. They're spending money to lose money. MyAppleMenu Reader ==================================== **** It's Time To Hand Out Emergency Poetry Relief Nicholas Lezard, Guardian University Challenge shows British literacy is in critical condition. But Hugo Ch??vez has an idea that could help us. **** To Be Old And In Woodstock Gail Collins, New York Times The lesson I took away from it is that whenever anybody asks you to do something off the wall, you should really try to do it ??? unless it involves being unethical or a two-plane connection. You might not enjoy it while it???s going on, but somewhere down the line the anecdotes will always come in handy. SingaporeSurf ==================================== **** SIA Offers Early Retirement Straits Times Singapore Airlines is offering older staff the option to retire early - the latest in a slew of measures to trim excess manpower and costs. **** Change A Big Let-down Choo Zheng Xi, Straits Times It is disappointing that after 21/2 years of poor readership, the P65 Members of Parliament have chosen to cut their losses and minimise their presence on the website they started to engage the public. An integral part of any public engagement strategy is flexibility. I am surprised that such a large group of MPs was unable to commit more time and effort to generate meaningful online debate. **** Record Bonus, Little Impact Radha Basu, Straits Times A record $230 million was given out by the Government in baby bonus payments last year, up from $55 million just five years earlier. But there was no corresponding increase in the number of Singaporean babies born. **** Coping With A Sexual Revolution Seah Chiang Nee, The Star Conservative in upbringing and conditioned by strict laws, Singaporeans are moving into a sexual revolution that was unimaginable two decades ago. **** 'Tanjong Rhu' And 'Threshold' Cut From Short Film Sylvia Tan, Fridae Two short films, both of which are partially funded by Fridae and loosely based on true life incidents of police entrapment of a gay man in one film and 12 gay men in another, have been pulled from??the 6th annual Singapore Short Cuts festival which begins tomorrow.?? **** Singapore Property Market Booms Despite Recession Roberto Coloma, AFP Despite Singapore's worst economic slump since independence, the residential property sector is in the midst of a new boom reminiscent of 2007, when the city-state was known as the world's hottest real estate market. Greed and its twin brother fear are back in play as punters stake out condo launches days before sales open, with some offering blank cheques to pre-book flats, prompting the government to hint it may have to cool things down. **** Singapore Farmers See Green Shoots In New Food Policy Bernice Han, AFP Wong Kok Fah, one of Singapore's last remaining farmers, can finally see a future for his vegetable business after 30 years of back-breaking work. Plans by the industrialised city-state to set aside more land for farming to boost food security have given him hope that the fourth generation of the Wong family can continue the business started by his grandfather. **** Word Of Caution: Don't Export Singapore Model Wholesale Business Times In exporting urban solutions, Singapore companies must not make the mistake of transplanting wholesale the Singapore model. That word of caution comes indirectly from Low Sin Leng, executive chairman of Sembcorp Industrial Parks. What she says of her company's experience in Vietnam applies to other Singapore companies in other markets. **** My Personal Memories Of Rape Mr Wang Says So The tough part is to convince Parliament. As you might have noticed, Parliament can sometimes be both very slow to act, and also quite stupid. **** Babies Are Wonderful, But... Aileen Chua, Being a Working Mother I am not surprised that our baby bonus has little impact so far. **** I Bet The Trains Run On Time As Well... Ministry Of Truth Even those who commend Singapore???s health care system as a model from which other governments could learn concede that it would be very difficult to replicate elsewhere in the world because its a system that has been developed concurrently with the development of the country over a significant period of years against a backdrop of political ???stability??? which is derived, in the main, from a culture of enforced political and social conformity to a degree that would be unthinkable in a Western liberal democracy such as the UK. The price of an efficient healthcare system in Singapore is a corporatist state that would have fair warmed the cockles of Mussolini???s heart and level of political and social quietism that would have had the pre-Glasnost Kremlin swooning with envy. From applesurf at myapplemenu.com Sun Aug 16 18:59:00 2009 From: applesurf at myapplemenu.com (applesurf at myapplemenu.com) Date: 16 Aug 2009 22:59:00 -0000 Subject: [MyAppleMenu] Aug 16, 2009 Message-ID: <20090816225900.35225.qmail@voot.pair.com> MyAppleMenu ==================================== **** Steve Jobs: The Man Who Polished Apple Byran Appleyard, The Times Chief executive of Apple Inc and owner of Jackling House changed the world and cheated death. So why the paranoia? **** Apple Targeted In Fox News Ad Boycott Philip Elmer-DeWitt, Fortune **** Streaming Video From Your iPhone? They Crippled The App For That. TUAW It still grates that the phone that is helping to save AT&T financially has its users abused by having lesser services than other phones that are allowed on the same network. **** China Risks Apple???s Reputation ArabianBusiness.com **** MyAppleMenu Goes Dark Heng-Cheong Leong, MyAppleMenu I'm on reservist duties for the next 2 weeks, which means that there will be minimal updates on this website until 30th August, 2009. The Tomorrow Weblog ==================================== **** The Corporate Lab As Ringmaster Steve Lohr, New York Times The internet has changed many things, of course, but one of its more far-reaching effects has been to transform the economics of innovation. MyAppleMenu Reader ==================================== **** They Seem To Find The Happiness They Seek Alastair Macaulay, New York Times When people fall in love, they opt for an experience that others have had before. Very often that???s what they have in mind: they would like to share some of what happened to Romeo and Juliet, or Lizzy and Darcy or maybe just their parents. One of those archetypes of romance was born 75 years ago, with the release of ???The Gay Divorcee,??? starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. **** Poetry In Motion Danny Heitman, New York Times It seems that we???ve done just about everything to get the American auto industry out of the doldrums. We???ve forced bankruptcies. We???ve exchanged cash for clunkers. But have we tried poetry? SingaporeSurf ==================================== **** Burma Issue: PAP Devoid Of Sense Of Right And Wrong Singapore Democrats The PAP government is devoid of any sense of right or wrong. The moral compass of our nation is tragically lost. Apparently, our stance on Burma is motivated by greed. It is widely documented that Burmese druglords and the corrupt generals continue to launder their loot in Singapore. Many of them come to Singapore's hospitals for treatment. **** Malls Raise Parking Fees Marvis Toh, Straits Times A Sunday Times check with six malls surrounding the new Ion Orchard showed that two have jacked up their parking fees this month. **** PAP Member: Democracy Need Not Involve Presence Of Opposition The Temasek Review It appears that in the minds of PAP members, only their party has the ???divine right??? to govern Singapore. **** Cyber Warriors Trawl Web For Extremist Threats Martin Abbugao, AFP **** Engage Other Races: PM Judith Tan, Straits Times As the Malay-Muslim community builds itself up to overcome the economic downturn, it must remain engaged with the other races. This reminder came from prime minister Lee Hsien Loong in his Malay speech at the National Day Rally at the University Cultural Centre on Sunday evening. **** Be Prudent In Spending Judith Tan, Straits Times Prime minister Lee Hsien Loong urged Singaporeans to be prudent in their spending, noting that more have been turning to their MPs for help. 'Some have fallen on tough times, but others have over-stretched themselves,' he said. **** Policy And Economy: Why Singapore's Health Care System Beats ObamaCare Policy and Economy The reason health savings accounts are so successful is because they get supply and demand working the way they should. This doesn't occur when someone else (e.g. an insurance company or the government) pays the bill. **** SingaporeSurf Goes Dark Heng-Cheong Leong, MyAppleMenu Hi there. I'm going back for reservist for the next two weeks. Hence, there will be minimal updates on this website until 30th August, 2009. **** PM On Aware Saga Zakir Hussain, Straits Times The saga, he declared, was 'an attempt by a religiously motivated group, who shared a strong religious fervour, to enter civil space, take over an NGO it disapproved of, and impose their agenda'. The government frowned on this as such as action 'was bound to provoke a push back from groups who held the opposite view, as indeed happened, vocally and stridently.' **** Ramping Up Step-down Care Judith Tan, Straits Times The government will ramp up resources to develop an integrated, step-down care system to prepare for a rapidly ageing population. This was the main thrust of prime minister Lee Hsien Loong's address on healthcare, one of four key issues in his National Day Rally speech at the University Cultural Centre on Sunday night. **** Singapore Won't Need Another Stimulus: Lee The Age Singapore's fiscal stimulus package unveiled earlier in 2009 is working and the government won't need to inject additional funds into the economy this year, prime minister Lee Hsien Loong said. **** Who Says Baby Bonus Scheme Is Not A Success? Nicholas Lim, Straits Times In my opinion, a key point was missed. The Baby Bonus scheme is a success as it has stemmed the decline in the number of new births. From applesurf at myapplemenu.com Mon Aug 17 18:59:00 2009 From: applesurf at myapplemenu.com (applesurf at myapplemenu.com) Date: 17 Aug 2009 22:59:00 -0000 Subject: [MyAppleMenu] Aug 17, 2009 Message-ID: <20090817225900.87376.qmail@voot.pair.com> MyAppleMenu ==================================== **** From The Apple Of My Ear To The Core Of Cacophony The Australian I love my iPod. My friends love theirs. We're not alone. The things are everywhere. But there is just one problem with the iPod's ubiquity: iPod earphones are everywhere, too. **** Beautiful And Rich Tiernan Ray, Barron's Why, then, spend the extra bucks on an Apple? Sure, it's chic, but it also has a more powerful processor than most cheaper machines, as well as a stunning display and excellent keyboard. That adds up to a superior computing experience. **** Five Favorite Word Tips Kirk McElhearn, Macworld Get more out of the word-processing standard with these time-saving tricks. **** Google's GMail Push App Arrives On App Store MacNN The app enables instant notification of new messages that arrive in a GMail inbox. Users can configure a variety of alert methods such as vibrate, ring, automatic presentation of the e-mail on the standby screen, or a count of new messages displayed on the GPush icon. The Tomorrow Weblog ==================================== **** Twitter-scanning Robot Wants Hugs, High-fives Tim Hornyak, CNET News.com A tiny robot made of cardboard and $100 of electronics can monitor your Twitter feed and help spread good karma. MyAppleMenu Reader ==================================== **** If A Clown Stephen Dunn, New Yorker **** The Wind Blows Through The Doors Of My Heart Deborah Digges, New Yorker **** Epithalamium NYC Anne Carson, New Yorker **** Is It Time To Burn This Book? Sarah Boxer, Slate Magazine When Fahrenheit 451 becomes a comic book, it's time to worry. SingaporeSurf ==================================== **** PM???s Negative Example Of Insensitivity? Gerald Giam By citing this example, what kind of message is PM Lee inadvertently sending? The message I got was that when interests collide, the minorities inevitably end up being the ones who give in. **** Questions On Goodyear Leaving Temasek To Be Asked In Parliament Asha Popatlal, Channel NewsAsia **** Circle Line: The Longest Dig Christopher Tan, Straits Times After seven-and-the-half years of excavation, interrupted by a tragic collapse in 2004, tunnelling of the 33.3km Circle Line has finished. **** P65 Blogger Reveals He Is Young PAP Member The Online Citizen A week ago, reports in the mainstream media about the newly-revamped and newly-staffed P65 blog said that ???none of the [the writers] are affiliated to the Young PAP???. However, it now surfaces that one of the writers on the blog is a indeed a Young PAP member. **** Reduce The Duration Of National Service And Reservist The Temasek Review **** Actually, We Should Not Hope Or Wish Malaysia To Become The Next Singapore Malaysia Star **** S'pore Based Jetstar Wants To Fly To More M'sian Towns B.K. Sidhu, Malaysia Star If Jetstar Asia gets more air planes this year it will like to fly to Ipoh, Sandakan and Tawau from Singapore, says chief executive officer Chong Phit Lian. **** Singapore's Drop In Exports Slows In July Associated Press **** PM Lee's Strangely Empty Rally Speech Mr Wang Says So I have no comments on what the PM actually said, because he hardly said anything at all. **** What PM Lee Did Not Address In His NDR Speech... Goh Meng Seng, Singapore Alternatives While Mr. Lee Kuan Yew tried his very best to address this touchy issue of Foreign Talent Policy which drew many sarcastic and even talk back remarks in the internet forums (of course SPH would not report on such responses), his son, prime minister Lee, chose to skip this issue altogether. From applesurf at myapplemenu.com Tue Aug 18 18:59:00 2009 From: applesurf at myapplemenu.com (applesurf at myapplemenu.com) Date: 18 Aug 2009 22:59:00 -0000 Subject: [MyAppleMenu] Aug 18, 2009 Message-ID: <20090818225900.24355.qmail@voot.pair.com> MyAppleMenu ==================================== **** Apple's Buzz Engine Fueled By More Than Jobs Jim Dalrymple, CNET News.com While Jobs is certainly the driving force behind the company, he doesn't spend all night dreaming up products, then sitting in his garage soldering chips and components together so he can walk into the engineering team and say, "This is what I want." **** Apple Tops PC Industry In Consumer Satisfaction John Boudreau, San Jose Mercury News When it comes to feeling the love from consumers, Apple remains atop the PC heap, while Detroit is pleasing more customers with its cars, according to the American Customer Satisfaction Index, which is being released today. **** Apple And Me: An Imperfect Union Wendy Sheehan Donnell, PC Magazine Draconian. Monopolistic. Hypocritical. Call the company and its policies what you will, but I'm sticking with Apple. **** Review: Gorilla 4.5.5 Mike Curtis, Macworld Considering the complexity of trying to keep track of this much information manually, the high cost of film production compared to the cost of the software, Gorilla 4.5.5 is a no brainer. For small independent production companies with one person handling budgets and perhaps another handling scheduling, if you don't already have a very tight, elegant solution in place for tracking these kinds of things, buy yourself a this package. You'll be glad you did, but don't expect it to solve all your problems. **** Beyond HandBrake's Defaults Christopher Breen, Macworld **** Exploding iPhones Are 'Isolated Cases', Apple Tells The EU DPA Apple has told the European Commission that widely reported cases of exploding iPhones should be treated as "isolated incidents", officials in Brussels said Tuesday. Apple is investigating possible causes but insists that there are no general problems with its best-selling product, said a commission spokeswoman, Helen Kearns. **** Apple Releases IPhoto 8.1 Update Kelly Turner, Macworld The newest version of iPhoto ???09 primarily adds new project templates, including a larger hard-cover book that measures 13 inches by 10 inches. **** Super Get Info Axed, Mailsmith Becomes Freeware Peter Cohen, Macworld Bare Bones Software on Tuesday announced the discontinuation of its Super Get Info utility and noted that Mailsmith, its e-mail client, has become freeware, with a new firm supporting the software. **** Nintendo DS Lookalike Disappears From App Store Don Reisinger, CNET News.com MyAppleMenu Reader ==================================== **** To Read Michael McFee, Slate SingaporeSurf ==================================== **** Social Cohesion And Religious Harmony: Look Who???s The Complacent One Ng E-Jay, Sgpolitics.net Until our Government realizes that many of its policies may actually work to the detriment of social cohesion, it will not be able to build a strong foundation for social cohesion to grow. **** PRs Given Equal Chance In Primary 1 Admission A Sore Point Among Singaporeans The Temasek Review **** Interactive Map Of Singapore Chua Hian Hou, Straits Times The government will pump in $27 million over the next five years to create a super-accurate interactive map of Singapore. When complete, the SG-Space (Singapore Geospatial Collaborative Environment) project will provide authorised users with all kinds of geographical information, from weather forecasts to the location of underground utility pipes to building layouts, senior minister of state for law and home affairs Assoc Prof Ho Peng Kee announced at the Map Asia conference on Tuesday. What I hope is that the majority of information will be open-source. Unfortunately, I believe this government will charge people money to use this data. **** Singapore Says Temasek Has No Deadline To Find CEO Kevin Lim and Nopporn Wong-Anan, Reuters Singapore state investor Temasek Holdings has set no deadline to find a candidate to replace former CEO-designate Charles "Chip" Goodyear, finance minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam said on Tuesday. **** ????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????(???)(2) ?????????????????????, ??????????????? **** No Goodwill For Goodyear Robin Chan, Straits Times Former chief executive-to-be Mr Charles Goodyear received no goodwill payment for his four months' work at Temasek Holdings the finance minister revealed in Parliament. But after 25 minutes of grilling, the House emerged none the wiser over what exactly the strategic differences were that led to his sudden departure. **** 1 In 3 Govt Tenders Not Awarded To Lowest Bidder, Says Lim Hwee Hua Jonathan Peeris, Channel NewsAsia About one in three government tenders are not awarded to the lowest bidders. Second minister for finance Lim Hwee Hua told Parliament on Tuesday that a similar approach is taken in the Best Sourcing Initiative which was launched in 2004. **** Temasek CEO 'Ideally' Singaporean, Government Says Netty Ismail and Joyce Koh, Bloomberg Temasek Holdings Pte???s chief executive officer should ???ideally??? be Singaporean, the city-state???s finance minister said after the departure last month of U.S.-born Charles ???Chip??? Goodyear. Temasek???s board of directors must remain in the control of Singaporeans, Tharman Shanmugaratnam said in Parliament today, adding that the government ???would prefer not to restrict??? the investment company in its choice of CEO candidate. Goodyear, who would???ve been the first foreign-born CEO of the state-owned investor, quit five months after Temasek named him to take the helm from current chief Ho Ching. **** Government Continues To Evade Revealing Ministers' Pay Singapore Democrats **** Expats Live The High Life In Singapore Investment International Despite the high cost of living for expatriates in Singapore, and cutbacks in luxury spending due to the recession, most expats want to stay put, the latest international survey from HSBC has found. **** Finance Minister Remains Evasive On Temasek Holdings And Former CEO Charles Goodyear Ng E-Jay, Sgpolitics.net **** Tighter Measures For Companies Who Transport Workers In Lorries Cheryl Lim, Channel NewsAsia The Land Transport Authority (LTA) is putting in place more stringent control measures to ensure the safety of such workers. **** Cut Net Access For Online Pirates Straits Times The authorities are studying a new way to pull the plug on unauthorised downloads: terminating Internet access of hardcore pirates who refuse to quit despite repeat warnings. **** Initiatives Like Shorter Work Weeks Have Affected Workers' CPF Contributions May Wong, Channel NewsAsia **** NMP: Stick To Pledge Straits Times Nominated Member of Parliament Viswa Sadasivan wants Parliament to reaffirm its commitment to the principles enshrined in the National Pledge. In his view, this entails strengthening Singaporeans' sense of citizenship, the fundamentals of democracy and racial and religious unity. He tabled a motion on Tuesday for the House to take into account such principles when debating economic and other national policies. From applesurf at myapplemenu.com Wed Aug 19 18:59:00 2009 From: applesurf at myapplemenu.com (applesurf at myapplemenu.com) Date: 19 Aug 2009 22:59:00 -0000 Subject: [MyAppleMenu] Aug 19, 2009 Message-ID: <20090819225900.87776.qmail@voot.pair.com> MyAppleMenu ==================================== **** Apple Releases MacBook Pro Hard Drive Firmware Update AppleInsider A new firmware fix for some MacBook Pro hard drives aims to stop random noises, perhaps bringing relief to some who have been plagued by clicking and beeping internal drives. SingaporeSurf ==================================== **** You Can't Handle The Truth! (Uniquely Singapore) Military Life: Memoirs of a Conscript in the Lion City I fear that minister Tharman is telling us we can't handle the truth, and thus it continues to be withheld from us. **** The Short Supply Of Empathy In Singapore Aaron Ng, Hear Ye! Hear Ye! The justice system worked flawlessly in this case, but what this person needs is not a fine nor jailing; what he needs is social assistance to deal with the source of his transgression of the law. The justice system is not the antidote to this problem. **** The Temasek Problem Is Not A Temasek Problem (Why Tharman Shanmugaratnam Is Ho Ching's Best Friend) Under the Willow Tree If Singaporeans want transparency and accountability about Temasek's investments and policy decisions, they have to first demand transparency and accountability from the Singapore government. **** A Mockery Of Parliament The Online Citizen **** The Failure Of Past Success - HDB Goh Meng Seng, Singapore Alternatives **** Government Accountable In Actions, Has Worked Towards Non-discrimination May Wong, Channel NewsAsia Minister mentor Lee Kuan Yew said on Wednesday the government has been accountable in its actions and has worked towards ensuring that no race is discriminated against in Singapore. He added that what the country has achieved so far is evidence of that. **** PAP Upholds Pledge Ideals Lee Siew Hua, Straits Times Education minister Ng Eng Hen responded in detail to Nominated MP Viswa Sadasivan's motion that the House stay mindful of tenets in Singapore's Pledge when it debates national policies. From applesurf at myapplemenu.com Thu Aug 20 18:59:00 2009 From: applesurf at myapplemenu.com (applesurf at myapplemenu.com) Date: 20 Aug 2009 22:59:00 -0000 Subject: [MyAppleMenu] Aug 20, 2009 Message-ID: <20090820225900.40066.qmail@voot.pair.com> MyAppleMenu ==================================== **** Apple Releases Bluetooth, Hard Drive Firmware Updates Jonathan Seff, Macworld Bluetooth Firmware Update 2.0.1 provides bug fixes and better compatibility with the Apple Wireless Mighty Mouse and Wireless Keyboard. **** What's "64-bit" On Snow Leopard? Jason Snell, Macworld If you???re running a Mac powered by an Intel Core 2 Duo processor or an Intel Xeon processor, your Mac is 64-bit capable. And Snow Leopard runs 64-bit applications regardless of whether it???s booting into a 64-bit or 32-bit kernel. **** Buy A Used Mac (Without Getting Burned) Cyrus Farivar, Macworld Sure, it doesn???t have all the glitz of a shiny new unibody MacBook, but an older-generation MacBook might just do the trick for a lot less money. Heck, you???d be surprised at how well an older iBook G4 can still handle just about everything that you might want to do. Here???s how to make sure your money is well spent. **** Preserve Your Mac's Resale Value Dan Frakes, Macworld Save money and keep current by selling recent-vintage models. **** Why AT&T Killed Google Voice Andy Kessler, Wall Street Journal What this episode really uncovers is that AT&T is dying. AT&T is dragging down the rest of us by overcharging us for voice calls and stifling innovation in a mobile data market critical to the U.S. economy. **** Nintendo: We Killed The DS Lookalike App Don Reisinger, CNET News.com In response to a request for comment, Nintendo spokesman Charlie Scibetta wrote that his company felt it needed to protect its intellectual property. MyAppleMenu Reader ==================================== **** Blood, Sweat, And Words Joseph Epstein, In Character To be able to sit home and put words together in what one hopes are charming or otherwise striking sentences is, no matter how much tussle may be involved, lucky work, a privileged job. The only true grit connected with it ought to arrive when, thinking to complain about how hard it is to write, one is smart enough to shut up and silently grit one???s teeth. SingaporeSurf ==================================== **** Education, And Even More Discrimination Against Citizens Mr Wang Says So PRs in Singapore can send their young children to a local primary school, or to an international school. The PRs have the right to choose. If they choose a local primary school, then they enjoy the same priority as Singaporean citizens, in the admissions process. Alternatively, PRs can send their children to an international school in Singapore. However, Singaporean citizens do not have that option. They are not allowed to send their young children to international schools. **** System To Curb Jail Abuse Zakir Hussain, Straits Times The prisoner who was beaten and sodomised by his cellmates last year had many opportunities during the period of assault to report them, said senior minister of state (home affairs and law) Ho Peng Kee on Wednesday. 'Unfortunately, for reasons best known to him, he chose to remain silent,' Associate Professor Ho said in Parliament when replying to three MPs who had asked about prison abuse. Stop blaming the victim, Ho. **** The Real ???strategic Purpose??? Of Tharman The Temasek Review Mr Tharman has indeed served his ???strategic purpose??? well by acting as a shield to block the arrows on behalf of his boss who was the preceding finance minister. **** PAP ND Message ??? Words Are Hollow Without Moral Leadership Khairulanwar Zaini, The Online Citizen **** ??????????????????????????????????????????????????? ???????????? ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????80??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? **** ?????????????????????????????????????????? ???????????? ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? **** ????????????????????????????????? ???????????? ?????????10??????????????????8?????????8000???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????8000??????????????????????????????????????? **** Where???s The Compassion In Our ???Fine City???? Leong Sze Hian , The Online Citizen Why are our judges making callous and unfeeling remarks towards people who???re down and out? **** Temasek And Transparency???III Wall Street Journal Temasek has taken baby steps toward more transparency under Ms. Ho. The questions raised in parliament Tuesday show the Singaporean people support those efforts, and want more. **** Tharman???s ???public Interest??? Remark Removed By Straits Times The Online Citizen The Straits Times published an ad verbatim transcript of the exchanges in Parliament betwen Mr Tharman and MPs. So, why was Mr Tharman???s ???public interest??? remark edited out of the transcript? **** Truth Hurts! Feed Me To The Fish So the National Pledge is nothing more than a high faluting - pompous; bombastic; haughty; pretentious "aspiration". **** Equality For All? Not In Singapore Blowin' In The Wind **** Our Ministers Say The Darndest Things Singapore Democrats Our leaders can say the darnedest things and they often do. In just the last few days, some gems have fallen from the mouths of our mighty and ministerial. If they had been in a democratic society, they would have been given a good political spanking by the public. But, of course, this is Singapore - land of low falutin ideas where people are seen (working, of course) and not heard. **** P65 MPs Will Be Blogging On Teo Ser Luck, on behalf of P65 MPs, Straits Times The beauty of the new media is that it promotes diverse views and interests. Accordingly, tools of engagement must also evolve. From applesurf at myapplemenu.com Fri Aug 21 18:59:00 2009 From: applesurf at myapplemenu.com (applesurf at myapplemenu.com) Date: 21 Aug 2009 22:59:00 -0000 Subject: [MyAppleMenu] Aug 21, 2009 Message-ID: <20090821225900.24593.qmail@voot.pair.com> MyAppleMenu ==================================== **** Pimp My Code, Part 16: On Heuristics And Human Factors Wil Shipley, Call Me Fishmeal. Life isn't fair, and programming is even less fair. Programming is all about picking a certain class of users with a certain specific class of problems, and making their lives much much better. **** DateLine Keeps You On Schedule Scott McNulty, Macworld This tiny utility only does one thing: displays the days of the current month in a line. **** Apple Updates Remote Desktop Admin, Client Software Jonathan Seff, Macworld **** Apple Continues To Right App Store Wrongs. Obama ???Hope??? App Is Go. MG Siegler, TechCrunch After months of ridiculous rejection after ridiculous rejection, Apple has seemingly been on a mission get clean up its act. **** iPhone Configuration Utility 2.0 John C. Welch, Macworld In the hands of an IT administrator, Apple???s iPhone Configuration Utility becomes an important security tool for iPhones on his network. The new 2.0 release sports some welcome improvements, though it could use better documentation and still falls flat in some areas. **** OmniOutliner 3.9 Adds Auto-save, More Jeff Gamet, The Mac Observer The OmniGroup's OmniOutliner Pro 3.9 rolled out on Thursday with support for Apple's auto-save feature and the ability to export to Microsoft's Open XML format. **** Jobs Liver Transplant Lets Memphis Cancer Doctor Be Like Apple John Lauerman and Connie Guglielmo, Bloomberg **** Apple Releases Logic Express 9 With New Instruments, Effects AppleInsider On the heels of the debut of the new Logic Pro suite, Apple this week began shipping the new $199 Logic Express, featuring many of the new capabilities found in Logic Pro 9. SingaporeSurf ==================================== **** No Change To Income Tax Framework For Individuals Who Sell Properties Channel NewsAsia The Ministry of Finance (MOF) said it has decided not to change the income tax framework with regard to individuals who sell their properties. **** Singapore Reports 12th H1N1-related Death Channel NewsAsia **** Teo Ser Luck: Online Space ???abuzz??? With PAP And YPAP Websites The Temasek Review Nothing can be further from the truth. From applesurf at myapplemenu.com Sat Aug 22 18:59:01 2009 From: applesurf at myapplemenu.com (applesurf at myapplemenu.com) Date: 22 Aug 2009 22:59:01 -0000 Subject: [MyAppleMenu] Aug 22, 2009 Message-ID: <20090822225901.74628.qmail@voot.pair.com> MyAppleMenu ==================================== **** Choice Nuggets From Apple???s Response To The FCC???s Inquiry Regarding The Rejection And Removal Of Google Voice Apps From The App Store John Gruber, Daring Fireball Apple???s response is worth reading in its entirety; it is written in clear, plain language, and gives straight answers to nearly all questions. **** Apple Answers The FCC???s Questions Apple Contrary to published reports, Apple has not rejected the Google Voice application, and continues to study it. The application has not been approved because, as submitted for review, it appears to alter the iPhone???s distinctive user experience by replacing the iPhone???s core mobile telephone functionality and Apple user interface with its own user interface for telephone calls, text messaging and voicemail. Apple spent a lot of time and effort developing this distinct and innovative way to seamlessly deliver core functionality of the iPhone. **** AT&T Denies Squelching Google Voice For iPhone Tom Krazit, CNET News.com AT&T told federal regulators on Friday that it played no part in Apple's decision to keep the Google Voice application from the App Store, while Apple said it never actually rejected the application. **** Reading Between The Lines Of Apple???s FCC Reply Mike Ash, Under The Microscope **** Apple, Google And AT&T Letters To FCC: The Reactions, And Why Google's Letter Is Redacted Arik Hesseldahl, BusinessWeek **** Apple Retail Deconstructed: Reports & Figures Chris Ryan, GigaOM It seems like Apple???s retail initiatives are always shrouded in a dark veil of secrecy. Though we often hear how well they???re doing financially, what do those numbers look like on the inside? What figures does a typical Apple store track? Straight from the horse???s mouth, here???s a breakdown of a typical financial report that shows what metrics are important in Cupertino. **** Apple Sued For Infringing '1000 TVs' Copyright Reuters Apple Inc was sued by a Colorado resident who accused it of misappropriating an "iconic" photo he possesses for the company's popular iPhone. **** A Steve Jobs Confession, A Fanboy Shock Ryan Tate, Gizmodo Now matter how Apple's defenders were rallied this time around ??? we suspect, as a rule, that it had more to do with anti-AT&T bias than some pro-Apple whisper campaign ??? one can only hope this incident will further erode the myth that Apple is fundamentally any less inclined toward spiteful self-defeating authoritarianism than any other corporation of its size, be it AT&T, Google or, only slightly larger these days, Microsoft. **** AT&T Statement On Letter To The FCC Regarding Apple App Store AT&T To that end, let me state unequivocally, AT&T had no role in any decision by Apple to not accept the Google Voice application for inclusion in the Apple App Store. AT&T was not asked about the matter by Apple at any time, nor did we offer any view one way or the other. **** Google???s Response To The FCC TechCrunch The Tomorrow Weblog ==================================== **** Antivirus Protection Gets Social Robert Lemos, Technology Review Can cloud computing and social networking improve security software? MyAppleMenu Reader ==================================== **** Dream of a Common Language. Sue??o de un Idioma Com??n. Nate Blakeslee, Texas Monthly The graduates of a radical bilingual education program at Alicia R. Chac??n International, in El Paso, would have no trouble reading either of these headlines. What can they teach the rest of us about the future of Texas? SingaporeSurf ==================================== **** Stop Nannying Malay-Muslims And Discard Old Suspicions Abdul Gafoor, The Online Citizen **** Adopt Swiss Model For NS Exemption Tan Kin Lian, Straits Times After 44 years of independence and prosperity, it is time to review the role of NS. Perhaps we should have a professional army to defend our nation. **** Town Councils To Be Judged On Five KPIs Esther Ng, Today Indicators may include amount of litter, number of lift breakdowns and defects. **** Swiss Banking Secrecy Crackdown: Singapore Next Diane Francis, National Post The Swiss have been targeted for some time and now Singapore plus others must become the focus. Ending bank secrecy will reap many benefits for the world such as finding out if public officials and politicans are on the take. **** PAP Pondering How Best To Fight To Stay In Power Seah Chiang Nee, The Star The government appears to be telling young Singaporeans that if they want debate, the government will give it to them and if the youngsters want parliamentary democracy, they can have it too ??? but not necessarily through elections or a two-party system. **** Letter From Singapore Boon Kiat Yeow, Asia Sentinel Singapore's prosperity and economic progress could not change my feeling that it was a city without a mother tongue or a cultural soul. Perhaps this was the reason why many talented expatriates both from the East and the West come and go, for there is no position that suits them best in terms of cultural soul in Singapore, which belongs neither to East nor West. **** Singapore: A Model Of Judgment For The United States? Tom Davenport, Harvard Business Singapore is tiny compared to the United States (and most other countries, for that matter), but that doesn't mean it can't be a model. Barack Obama keeps saying that we need to buckle down and work hard to build an economy based on real production, not hollow financial chicanery. We need a little more social order, and a little less individualism. Singapore has already pulled off both objectives, and continues to provide a good example of good judgment for the United States and the rest of the world. **** A New Cuisine Style Is Transforming Singapore Shoba Narayan, Financial Times Quietly and without much fanfare, Singapore has experienced a culinary renaissance of sorts. Gifted Singaporean chefs ??? such as Galvin Lim at Au Jardin, Christina Ee at Broth, Yong Bing Ngen of The Majestic, Jusman So at Sage, Sebastian Ng at Ember, Michael Han of 53, or Devagi Sanmugam at Spice Queen ??? have blossomed on their own turf. **** Regulator Did Not Overpay For MRT Doors Straits Times Recent online gripes that the Land Transport Authority (LTA) overspent on new platform screen doors for its MRT stations have proven to be far off track. Checks by The Straits Times show that the prices of similar doors overseas are comparable with what the LTA has paid. **** Urban Agriculture And Singapore's Unexpected Activist Celsias Nestled in this green corner of the country is a place known as Bollywood Veggies . If you???ve heard of the place, you know of its owner Ivy Singh-Lim. And if you???ve heard of Ivy, you know she???s a firecracker-- a local legend. **** The Cost Of The Gift Of Life An American girl in Singapore Having to get the government involved so that your children will take care of you just seems to be a giant red flag on his or her parenting skills. **** Minibond Rally: ???Justice For Hong Kong, Wayang For Singapore??? The Temasek Review **** Seeking A Fair Settlement Andrew Loh, The Online Citizen Led by the former chief executive of NTUC Income, Mr Tan Kin Lian, the investors were upset that the Singapore authorities were not as effective as the regulators in Hong Kong. ???Justice in Hong Kong. Wayang in Singapore???, one of the placards read. ???Protect Singaporeans, not banks???, said another. From applesurf at myapplemenu.com Sun Aug 23 18:59:00 2009 From: applesurf at myapplemenu.com (applesurf at myapplemenu.com) Date: 23 Aug 2009 22:59:00 -0000 Subject: [MyAppleMenu] Aug 23, 2009 Message-ID: <20090823225900.62923.qmail@voot.pair.com> MyAppleMenu ==================================== **** How To Take Great Action Photos With Your iPhone 3GS Giles Turnbull, Cult of Mac **** The Real Truth About Apple And Google And Arrington Steve Gillmor, TechCrunch IT Apple is conspiring with Google to force the FCC to ???force??? Apple to, regrettably, open the door to VoIP and the Universal Inbox. **** Distinctions Without Differences: Apple's Inconsistent App Store Rejection Policies Sang Tang, TUAW MyAppleMenu Reader ==================================== **** Finally ???Thirtysomething???? Porochista Khakpour, New York Times In this second-chance viewing as a thirtysomething, I am amazed and inspired by all the everything-in-between, all the nothing-happening, all the ambivalence and the stagnation. SingaporeSurf ==================================== **** ???????????????????????????????????? ???????????? **** Two Minds, One Theory Butterflies Of Singapore **** Botak Jones To Be Singaporean Straits Times He is the tall 'botak' (bald) ang moh famously known as Botak Jones. Come this Friday, he will proudly become a Singaporean. **** Singapore Prime Minister: Religion Threatens Stability Associated Press Singapore???s prime minister said in his National Day speech that ???aggressive preaching??? by religious groups and evangelizing threaten the tiny city-state???s stability. Lee Hsien Loong, a Buddhist by birth, said his education at the island???s Roman Catholic High School was an example of how different religions can coexist peacefully. **** Property Gains Tax Proposed Because Of Earlier Feedback Channel NewsAsia The finance ministry said the property gains tax was proposed because of earlier feedback. Speaking at a community event on Sunday, second finance minister Lim Hwee Hua said certain property investors had wanted more certainty regarding the current rules. **** ?????????????????? ?????????, ???????????? ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????26??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? **** An Afterthought: The Prime Minister???s National Day Message 2009 Bhaskaran Kunju, The Temasek Review **** Minimum Wage And Not "Handouts" Is The Answer Gandhi Ambalam, Singapore Democrats What we are advocating is a rational and sustainable policy where we strike a balance between having guest workers in Singapore and at the same ensure that our people earn enough to lead meaningful lives so that the benefits of economic grwoth is shared by all. **** Is Religion A Threat To Singapore? Tales Over Coffee Race and religion are major contention points everywhere. There is always some religious persecution and tension. **** Religion And Politics Blogpastor But I do wonder about the rightness of taking things further in situations of great oppression and injustice that impoverishes and tramples the general population? **** Defendimg Our Nation's Core Values - Democracy, Peace, Progress, Justice And Equality Goh Meng Seng, Singapore Alternatives The PAP refuses to acknowledge that these founding principles and spirit are the key guiding stars of our nation's development. The reason is simple, they could not answer for their deeds for the past 44 years that have deviated away from these core values. **** P65 Bloggers Keen To Engage In Meaningful Debate - No Party Line To Toe Khartini Khalid, on behalf of the P65 bloggers, Straits Times There is no official party line to toe, and none of us has to seek clearance from any individual before putting up a post on the blogsite. But is it just an echo chamber? (Or an empty chamber?) We'll be able to tell soon enough. **** Lauding Nation's Achievements And Criticising Deficiencies Not Mutually Exclusive Loh Choong Chiat, Straits Times Being appreciative of Singapore's achievements and being critical of the deficiencies are not mutually exclusive. From applesurf at myapplemenu.com Mon Aug 24 18:59:00 2009 From: applesurf at myapplemenu.com (applesurf at myapplemenu.com) Date: 24 Aug 2009 22:59:00 -0000 Subject: [MyAppleMenu] Aug 24, 2009 Message-ID: <20090824225900.16106.qmail@voot.pair.com> MyAppleMenu ==================================== **** My Evil iPhone Amanda Fortini, Salon The iPhone was supposed to revolutionize our lives. Why is it ruining mine? **** Apple???s Retail Stores Continue To Boom, With Fifth Avenue Location In NYC Earning $35,000 Per Square Foot EdibleApple **** Apple Blogger Legally Unlocks iPhone Register An iPhone blogger has revealed a way of legally unlocking the device after paying off his mobile contract. **** Will Apple Approve Rhapsody???s Music Application? Saul Hansell, New York Times While this application might drive some sales for Apple, the company might also see it as direct competition to iTunes. After all, if you like streaming on demand, you may not need to buy as much music. **** Apple To Release Snow Leopard On August 28 Dan Moren, Macworld The wait for Snow Leopard is over: on Monday, Apple announced that the latest version of its Mac OS X operating system would be available starting Friday, August 28. **** Five Ways Your iPhone Can Save You Money Tony Craine, Macworld Great apps help you pinch pennies on-the-go. **** Five Favorite Excel Tips Sharon Zardetto, Macworld Whether you???re using Microsoft Excel 2008 or 2004, you need some tricks up your sleeve for easing day-to-day tasks, such as entering data or custom sorting, as well as for special situations, such as using colors not included on the Standard palette. Here are my five favorite Excel tips for everyday use and beyond. **** iPod Nano 4G 1.0.4 Update Fixes DST Issue MacNN The Tomorrow Weblog ==================================== **** Mining The Web For Feelings, Not Facts Alex Wright, New York Times An emerging field known as sentiment analysis is taking shape around one of the computer world???s unexplored frontiers: translating the vagaries of human emotion into hard data. MyAppleMenu Reader ==================================== **** The Fountain House Ludmilla Petrushevskaya, New Yorker There once lived a girl who was killed, then brought back to life. That is, her parents were told that she was dead, but they weren???t allowed to keep her body. (The family had been riding the bus together; the girl was standing up front at the time of the explosion, and her parents were sitting behind her.) The girl was just fifteen, and she was thrown backward by the blast. **** A Reckoning Richard Wilbur, New Yorker **** Flying Richard Wilbur, New Yorker **** The House Richard Wilbur, New Yorker SingaporeSurf ==================================== **** The Pledge Is Not An Aspiration Or Ideology ??? It???s A Promise Gerald Giam The Pledge is neither an aspiration nor an ideology. It is a promise made by all Singaporeans, to their fellow Singaporeans. **** Is Our Pledge An Aspiration Leading To Expiration? Feed Me To The Fish In 1965, Lee Kuan Yew cried when a Malaysian Malaysia could not be a reality. In 2009, a 58-year-old Singaporean choked when he heard that a Singaporean Singapore is just an Aspiration. **** July Inflation Rises 1.1% Straits Times Singapore's inflation rose 1.1 per cent in July from June due mainly to higher housing, transport and communication costs. But compared to a year ago, the consumer price index (CPI) was lower by 0.5 per cent, said the Department of Statistics in a statement on Monday. **** P65 Bloggers Fail To Address The Issue Of Site Ownership The Temasek Review The dubious backgrounds of the p65 bloggers has cast doubts on the legitimacy and credibility of the site. **** No 'Three Strikes' Law Planned For Singapore, Agency Says IDG News Service There are no immediate plans to propose a law that would cut off Internet access for Singaporean users who receive repeated warnings from their Internet service providers for downloading pirated music and videos, according to the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore (IPOS). From applesurf at myapplemenu.com Tue Aug 25 18:59:00 2009 From: applesurf at myapplemenu.com (applesurf at myapplemenu.com) Date: 25 Aug 2009 22:59:00 -0000 Subject: [MyAppleMenu] Aug 25, 2009 Message-ID: <20090825225900.38325.qmail@voot.pair.com> MyAppleMenu ==================================== **** Apple, The FCC, And The Sideloading Solution Nilay Patel, Engadget I want to talk about technology, not paperwork -- apps, not policy. **** Apple's Latest Ads Continue To Respond To Microsoft's Campaign MacRumors **** Discontent Rising Over Apple's App Store Tim Barribeau, Sydney Morning Herald Much of the controversy stems from the App Store's inconsistent manner of dealing with content. A number of times an application has made it through to the store, and then been pulled when outrage is sufficient. **** Apple's Animal Farm Jon Fortt, Fortune Apple???s technology is gorgeous all right. But as Apple gets more power, a funny thing is happening on the farm. Innovation and expression on Apple???s iPhone platform are beginning to suffer, even as Apple insists that its restrictions are for our own good. And as we gaze out at the titans of the tech landscape, it???s getting difficult to tell which are the humans and which are the pigs. **** Apple App Store Approvals: The Perception Game Playbook Emerges Larry Dignan, ZDNet The Apple App Store playbook is starting to come into view. The game appears to revolve around managing perception and backing Apple into a corner if you???re a developer on the fence. Apple has its own playbook to play defense. **** Apple's Snow Leopard: Same Great UI, Refinements Under The Hood Dan Turner, Computerworld Most of what's new in Mac OS X 10.6 won't be obvious to users. **** Snow Leopard Upgrade For Mac More Of A Marketing Than Tech Tool? John Boudreau, San Jose Mercury News **** 10 Reasons Why Snow Leopard Is An Essential Upgrade Pete Mortensen, Cult of Mac Three days from the next great version of the best great thing, here are 10 reasons why you should upgrade to Snow Leopard. **** Innocent Until Proven Guilty Joe Hewitt I shouldn't have to argue for why it is better to assume people are innocent until proven guilty. There are plenty of successful platforms out there which free developers to publish anything, but punish them if they do something harmful. This allows developers to move fast, fix bugs immediately, get feedback from users at a very low cost. Any bug that Apple finds after their two week delay would have been found by users on day one, and fixed on day two. I'd rather have a bug in the wild for one day than have an app in the review queue for two weeks. MyAppleMenu Reader ==================================== **** Laugh, Kookaburra David Sedaris, New Yorker A day in the bush, a night at home. **** Santiago, Pluperfect Lance Larsen, Slate SingaporeSurf ==================================== **** Pricier Pills At Hospitals Judith Tan, Straits Times Public hospitals have raised the prices of some generic drugs - including some which treat chronic conditions like diabetes - by as much as 25 per cent a tablet. **** Singaporeans Urged To ???Embrace??? Foreigners The Temasek Review **** ???????????????????????????????????? ???????????????????????????????????? ?????????, ???????????? ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? **** Still Can't Swim At Pasir Ris Ess Aubrey Gabrelyn, Straits Times The water quality of Singapore's five recreational beaches have stayed 'very good' or 'Good' for whole-body contact activities since the last review, but swimming is still not advised at the Pasir Ris beach. **** Temasek To Take Active Role In Investments After Assets Drop Joyce Koh and Netty Ismail, Bloomberg Temasek Holdings Pte said it will take a more active role in managing investments as it increases overseas holdings after the value of assets slumped by S$40 billion ($27 billion) last fiscal year. The review of Temasek???s seven-year-old charter reflects the transformation of the fund from a passive holder of stakes in government-controlled companies to an international investor in companies including Merrill Lynch & Co. and Barclays Plc. **** Temasek's Revised Charter Downplays Singapore Links Kevin Lim and Neil Chatterjee, Reuters Singapore state investor Temasek Holdings on Tuesday issued an updated charter that described the fund as an investment firm managed on commercial principles, dropping a reference to its role to improve the city-state's economic base. **** ??????????????? ?????????, ???????????? ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? **** ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? ?????????, ???????????? **** Temasek CEO: Open To Investing In Western Banks P.R. Venkat and Coastas Paris, Wall Street Journal Singapore state-owned investment company Temasek Holdings Pte Ltd. remains open to investing in Western banks and may divest from some Singapore companies, senior executives said Tuesday. **** Singapore Government Takes Notice Of Christian Extremists Yawning Bread Indeed, the only two Christian leaders who were in the photo were the head of the mainstream Anglican Church and a representative of the Roman Catholic Church. In other words, the real trouble-makers effectively snubbed the council and the meeting with Lee. Thus, instead of demonstrating that all religions bought into his message, the photo showed all too clearly how the most troublesome ones would still challenge the secular state and its tolerance-promoting message. **** 13th H1N1 Flu Victim Dies Judith Tan, Straits Times **** Green Shoots In Tourism Lim Wei Chean, Straits Times Some 881,000 visitors came last month, representing a 4.5 per cent drop from the same period a year ago. But this is the 'smallest year-on-year decline this year', said the Singapore Tourism Board on Tuesday. **** Singapore Demand And Phony Contracts Sustain Booming Mekong Sand Exports Tuoi Tre, VietNamNet Bridge The volume of sand exported to Singapore from Vietnam???s Mekong Delta in the first half of 2009 was equivalent to the total exports of the last ten years. Ironically, most of it is shipped under falsely backdated contracts. From applesurf at myapplemenu.com Wed Aug 26 18:59:00 2009 From: applesurf at myapplemenu.com (applesurf at myapplemenu.com) Date: 26 Aug 2009 22:59:00 -0000 Subject: [MyAppleMenu] Aug 26, 2009 Message-ID: <20090826225900.88326.qmail@voot.pair.com> MyAppleMenu ==================================== **** Snow Leopard`s Timing Is Extremely Important For Apple Don Reisinger, eWeek Snow Leopard's release on Aug. 28 ensures that Apple will have all the time it needs to differentiate itself against the Windows juggernaut, especially as Microsoft gears up to offer Windows 7 in October. Apple, once again, made a bold, yet smart move. **** Can A Mac Lover Go PC? Paul McKenzie, Independent One thing that I've learnt is that, although Apple has only a 10 per cent share of the market, more PC users wish they owned a Mac than vice-versa. I think I can see why. Having used a Mac for all of my journalistic life, I've seen nothing on the other side that could make me switch ??? although the Dell Studio 1555 gave me reason to think. I also feel that too much is made of the "Macs are expensive" argument ??? given the relative high cost of some high-end PCs. In both cases, you get what you pay for. So I'm going to treat myself to a MacBook Pro. Why? Because I'm worth it. SingaporeSurf ==================================== **** Jamie's To Open Here Straits Times British celebrity chef Jamie Oliver is looking to open two of his casual Jamie's Italian eateries here, with the first expected by the end of next year. **** ????????????????????? ????????????????????? ?????????, ???????????? ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? **** Tan Kin Lian Sets Up Consumer Association To Educate Public On Investment The Temasek Review Ex-NTUC Income CEO Mr Tan Kin Lian has set up a new consumer association - Financial Services Consumers Association (Fisca) to educate retail investors on saving and investment. **** Singapore's Production Unexpectedly Climbs On Drug Shamim Adam, Bloomberg Singapore???s industrial production unexpectedly surged the most in 16 months in July as pharmaceuticals output jumped and the electronics slump eased, heralding a sustained economic recovery. **** Singapore Faces A 'Silver Tsunami' Megawati Wijaya, Asia Times In a departure from the usual state-sponsored message urging Singaporean couples to have more children, this year's National Day rally addressed the island state's rapidly graying population. As rising health and living costs emerge as a threat to social stability and economic growth, a dramatic demographic shift is driving the government to re-examine its past anti-welfare stance. From applesurf at myapplemenu.com Thu Aug 27 18:59:00 2009 From: applesurf at myapplemenu.com (applesurf at myapplemenu.com) Date: 27 Aug 2009 22:59:00 -0000 Subject: [MyAppleMenu] Aug 27, 2009 Message-ID: <20090827225900.37027.qmail@voot.pair.com> MyAppleMenu ==================================== **** Adobe Creative Suite 3 Unsupported On OS X Snow Leopard MacRumors Adobe Principal Product Manager for Photoshop John Nack reports that the company has put together a Snow Leopard FAQ (PDF) notifying customers that while its Creative Suite 4 package is compatible with Apple's forthcoming Mac OS X Snow Leopard, Creative Suite 3 and other earlier versions have not been tested for compatibility and will not be updated if found to be incompatible. **** Snow Leopard Includes Rudimentary Malware Protection Chris Foresman, Ars Technica The malware threat on Mac OS X is infinitesimally small, but it does exist. The biggest threat so far seems to come from trojans that attempt to disguise themselves as legitimate software updates or installers. Though it's not mentioned anywhere in the extensive list of enhancements and refinements on Apple's website, it turns out that Snow Leopard does have some level of protection against such malware. **** The Secret To Apple's Success Daniel Indiviglio, The Atlantic Apple's marriage of form and function also helps to justify its price tags. The result: despite the deep recession, people are still spending money on items like the iPhone. And that's why, even at a time like this, the Fifth Avenue Apple Store is pure mayhem. **** Sorry, But Apple Doesn't Give A Crap About Chinese iPhone Knockoffs Dan Frommer, Business Insider The reality is that Apple likely has much bigger concerns in China than crappy iPhone knockoffs. In fact, it's probably the least of its worries. **** Snow Leopard: The In-depth Review Jason Snell, Macworld The result is a Mac OS X update unlike any in recent memory, one that boosts speeds, reclaims disk space, tweaks dozens of features, and lays the groundwork for a new generation of computers that feature 64-bit multicore microprocessors, ultra-powerful graphics processors, and massive amounts of memory. These features, combined with the low upgrade price of $29, make Snow Leopard the biggest no-brainer of an upgrade since Mac OS X 10.1. **** iPhone App Review Process: Fix It, Don't Kill It Sam Diaz, ZDNet You know what happens when you let anyone develop software for your platform and then consumers install it without knowing whether it???s safe or not? You become Microsoft Windows - and the next thing you know, you???re installing and updating anti-virus software, you???re trying to block pop-ups and scanning the system to see if your files have been compromised. **** Apple???s Sleek Upgrade David Pogue, New York Times If you???re already running Leopard, paying the $30 for Snow Leopard is a no-brainer. You???ll feel the leap forward in speed polish, and you???ll keep experiencing those ???oh, that???s nice??? moments for weeks to come. **** Apple Changes Leopard???s Spots Walter S. Mossberg, Wall Street Journal Apple already had the best computer operating system in Leopard, and Snow Leopard makes it a little better. But it isn???t a big breakthrough for average users, and, even at $29, it isn???t a typical Apple lust-provoking product. **** Gauging Snow Leopard's Speed Boosts James Galbraith, Macworld Half of our tests showed improvement right out of the gate and only a couple showed any backwards progress. Apple will, no doubt, continue to refine and improve performance of the OS in the weeks and months to come. And applications, including Apple???s own, will be optimized to take advantage of Snow Leopard???s processor technologies like Grand Central Dispatch and Open CL. **** Review: Apple's Snow Leopard Opens Door To A Fab Future Michael DeAgonia, Computerworld Mac OS X Snow Leopard offers a slew of hidden features and lays the groundwork for big advances to come. **** What's Wrong With Mac OS X Snow Leopard Galen Gruman, Computerworld some of the more welcome additions to Snow Leopard also house some of the bigger disappointments. By not going far enough, Snow Leopard's support for Exchange 2007 and Cisco's VPN protocol are chief among them. **** Upgrading To Apple's Snow Leopard OS: What You Need To Know (Ryan Faas), Computerworld Before you can appreciate Snow Leopard's performance, user interface refinements, and technology tweaks, you have to get it installed. Here's what you need to know about the upgrade process -- which in itself illustrates both UI improvements and under-the-hood advances over past versions of Mac OS X. **** ??????????????????????????? ?????????, ???????????? ?????????????????????????????????????????????Mac OS X 10.6????????????Snow Leopard????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? **** 'Exploding iPhones': More French Cases As Apple Faces Inquiry AFP Half a dozen new cases of "exploding iPhones" have emerged in France, as Apple faced an official inquiry and calls to come clean over possible risks linked to its wildly popular smartphone. **** Apple Snow Leopard A Speedy No-Brainer Upgrade Andy Ihnatko, Chicago Sun Times Impressive and important, it???s an update that will revitalize your existing Mac even though you???ll be stumped for a quick five-minute demo that convinces the people around you that much of anything has changed at all. **** $30 Snow Leopard Disc Can Upgrade Tiger Pete Mortensen, Cult of Mac What do you think, Tiger users? Will you abide by formal ethics or just buy the cheapest upgrade path ever? And will your Leopard-buying friends hate you for it? **** Snow Leopard Review Joshua Topolsky, Engadget In a way that means the pressure's on even more: Apple took the unusual and somewhat daring step of slowing feature creep in a major OS to focus on speed, reliability, and stability, and if Snow Leopard doesn't deliver on those fronts, it's not worth $30... it's not worth anything. So did Apple pull it off? **** Snow Leopard Could Level Security Playing Field Elinor Mills, CNET News.com Friday's release of the new version of the Mac OS, dubbed Snow Leopard, could include some security features that would make it secure, or at least push it closer to the level of security that Vista and Windows 7 have, experts said this week. **** A Brief History Of iPhones In China Juliet Ye, Wall Street Journal For nearly two years, Apple has reportedly been engaged in negotiations to sell the iPhone in China. The company???s notorious secrecy about its plans is perhaps matched only by the lack of transparency at China???s state-owned telecom carriers ??? a combination that has led to years of speculation, rumor, gray markets and occasionally conflicting media reports on when the popular handset might debut in the world???s biggest cellphone market. **** Apple Gets Higher Profile In HTML Standardization Stephen Shankland, CNET News.com An Apple manager has become a co-chairman of the group standardizing HTML, giving the company a higher-profile role in a crucial time for development of the language used to build Web pages. **** Apple Snow Leopard Used As Lure For Trojan Brian Prince, eWeek Trend Micro finds a malware campaign that ropes in victims by offering free copies of Mac OS X 10.6, aka Snow Leopard. What users really get is a DNS-changer Trojan. **** Relax: Photoshop CS3 Works On Snow Leopard Stephen Shankland, CNET News.com An Adobe Systems executive is trying to calm Photoshop users who were alarmed to hear an earlier but still widely used version of Photoshop isn't supported on Snow Leopard, the new Apple operating system arriving Friday. MyAppleMenu Reader ==================================== **** The Unlikely Writer Elizabeth Gudrais, Harvard Magazine Atul Gawande, ???slightly bewildered??? surgeon and health-policy scholar???and a literary voice of medicine. **** Literature Is Due A New Era Of Sexual Modesty Alan Bissett, Guardian After Wetlands and Snuff, there are no boundaries left to push. Time to head in the opposite direction? SingaporeSurf ==================================== **** Film Censors Behaving Like Bullies Yawning Bread Frankly, that action can be reduced to a simple point: The censors want to be able to act in secret. They do not want film viewers to know what scenes or how many minutes have been cut from a film. These public servants do not wish to be transparent and accountable to the public. **** $30b In Taxes Collected Francis Chan, Straits Times According to its latest annual report, the Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore (Iras) received $29.8 billion in tax for the period April 1 2008 to March 31 this year - a 2.4 per cent rise on the previous financial year. The lion's share came from corporate income tax, which was up 14.3 per cent to $10.6 billion. **** A Long Wait For The Trains Shahid Khan, Today Why doesn't the SMRT increase the frequency of trains between Tanah Merah and Singapore Expo during peak hours or, better still, allow certain trains on the East-West Line to go straight through to the Expo and on to Changi Airport during the morning peak hours? **** ?????????????????????????????? ???????????? ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? **** Dr M: Kuan Yew Did Not Threaten To Go To War Bernama Former prime minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad said today that former Singapore premier Lee Kuan Yew did not threaten to go to war if Malaysia did not supply water to the republic. "If he had done that, I think I would have stopped any further supply," Dr Mahathir said in an article posted in his blog today. **** ?????????????????????????????????????????? ???????????? 8???9??????????????????23???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? **** Larger And More Frequent NS Rank Allowance Increments Proposed Channel NewsAsia More frequent and larger increments in the rank allowance for NSmen is among the recommendations put up by the fifth committee set up to Recognise the Contributions of Operationally Ready National Servicemen to Total Defence or RECORD V (Five). **** Temasek Updates Its Charter, But Any Difference In Accountability And Transparency? Sgpolitics.net Amidst all these cosmetic changes, we should ask: Will there any difference in Temasek???s level of accountability and transparency? **** Illegal Subletting In Private Residences On The Rise Ng Lian Cheong, Channel NewsAsia The Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) has investigated over 500 cases of illegal subletting at private residences so far this year. That's 25 per cent more than the whole of 2008. From applesurf at myapplemenu.com Fri Aug 28 18:59:01 2009 From: applesurf at myapplemenu.com (applesurf at myapplemenu.com) Date: 28 Aug 2009 22:59:01 -0000 Subject: [MyAppleMenu] Aug 28, 2009 Message-ID: <20090828225901.8998.qmail@voot.pair.com> MyAppleMenu ==================================== **** Apple Approves iPhone Music App Nancy Gohring, IDG News Service Apple has approved a streaming music application from Spotify for use on the iPhone, even though the program will compete with Apple's own iTunes service. **** Yelp Brings First US Augmented Reality App To iPhone Store Marshall Kirkpatrick, ReadWriteWeb Social review service Yelp has snuck the first Augmented Reality (AR) iPhone app specifically for the US into the iTunes App Store. The undisclosed new feature allows iPhone 3Gs owners to shake their phones three times to turn on a view called "the Monocle." This view uses the phone's GPS and compass to display markers for restaurants, bars and other nearby businesses on top of the camera's view. **** China Unicom Strikes iPhone Deal Lorraine Luk and Aaron Back, Wall Street Journal China Unicom Ltd. said Friday it signed a three-year agreement with Apple Inc. to sell the iPhone in China, with an official initial launch likely in the fourth quarter. China Unicom didn't elaborate on its iPhone plans in a statement, but investors are eagerly anticipating details on pricing, the service package, and the extent of handset subsidies. It is also unclear whether the device's Wi-Fi Internet function will have to be disabled to comply with Chinese regulations. Apple spokesman Alan Hely confirmed the deal with China Unicom, but declined to give further details. **** Mac OS X Snow Leopard: Perfection, Refined Tom Yager, InfoWorld Owners of Intel Macs should consider Snow Leopard a must-have because it's optimized for their hardware to an extreme that Apple could not approach before. **** Installing Snow Leopard: What You Need To Know Dan Frakes, Macworld **** Wake On Demand Lets Snow Leopard Sleep With One Eye Open Glenn Fleishman, Macworld Wake on Demand is a useful feature for Mac users who share resources between multiple machines, but it comes with some notable provisos. The first is the type of equipment you???ll need. **** Apple's Growing Role In WebKit Development, And What It Means For Flash Edible Apple **** Snow Leopard's Old And New Annoyances Rob Griffiths, Macworld Overall, I have to say that many of the problems things that annoyed me in OS X 10.5 are still there in 10.6. And I found a couple of new ones. The Tomorrow Weblog ==================================== **** Six Reasons Why Microsoft Struggles With Innovation Julie Bort, Network World Me-too thinking and an inability to partner for great technology are just two of the reasons why Microsoft struggles mightily with innovation. MyAppleMenu Reader ==================================== **** The Status Of The P Versus NP Problem Lance Fortnow, Communications Of The ACM It's one of the fundamental mathematical problems of our time, and its importance grows with the rise of powerful computers. SingaporeSurf ==================================== **** Chiam See Tong And Kenneth Jeyaretnam To Form GRC Team? The Temasek Review Veteran opposition leader Mr Chiam See Tong has sounded the Secretary-General of the Reform Party, Mr Kenneth Jeyaretnam out for forming a joint GRC team to compete in the next general election due by early 2012. **** Sports Hub Delayed Again Leonard Lim, Straits Times Delays continue to dog the Sports Hub, with the earliest completion date for the troubled $1.87 billion project at Kallang now understood to be 2013. This has put Singapore's hosting of the 2013 South-east Asia Games in jeopardy. **** Services Sector Slump Alvin Foo, Straits Times Manufacturing may be on the mend, but Singapore's key services sector still seems sluggish despite the recent stock market rally and property boom. **** Singapore Airlines Remains Atop the List In A Tough Year Cris Prystay, Wall Street Journal Singapore Airlines dominates the survey each year because the company consistently delivers on its brand promise: the airline boasts top-tier service, the latest in-flight entertainment and amenities, and one of the youngest fleets in the sky. **** Service Sector Cries Out For Foreigners: State Media Blames Locals For Being Selective The Temasek Review The state media has once again blamed Singaporeans for being selective about jobs in another biased and one-sided article. **** Parliament Sits On Sept 14 Straits Times **** When The Economy Dives, The GST Must Too Imran Ahmed, The Online Citizen It is time for the government to consider lowering the GST rate in light of how it hurts the poor more than the rich. **** MIT Partners With Island Nation To Build New Technology School MIT The Tech In line with its mission to advance scientific knowledge ???that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century,??? MIT is working on a new international collaboration that will include aid in overseeing the opening of a new design-based university and an international design center which will both be located in Singapore. From applesurf at myapplemenu.com Sat Aug 29 18:59:01 2009 From: applesurf at myapplemenu.com (applesurf at myapplemenu.com) Date: 29 Aug 2009 22:59:01 -0000 Subject: [MyAppleMenu] Aug 29, 2009 Message-ID: <20090829225901.72506.qmail@voot.pair.com> MyAppleMenu ==================================== **** Apple Lists Software Known To Be Janky With Snow Leopard Jacqui Cheng, Ars Technica Forget Adobe CS3. There's a whole swath of software applications that won't work well (or at all) with Snow Leopard, and Apple has listed out a handful of them for your convenience. Some will be prevented from loading, so check out the list before you install. **** Will Apple Stumble With Snow Leopard? Daniel Lyons, Newsweek The good news is, whether you live in the world of Mac, or the world of Windows???or if, like me, you spend time in both???by the end of this year, you're going to be running a better operating system than you were last year. And that's most definitely a good thing, even if Snow Leopard isn't up to Steve Jobs's exacting standards. **** Strange Symbiosis Among Apple, Microsoft, And Open Source Matt Asay , CNET News.com On the ground, there are ideological skirmishes between rival camps of customers. In the boardroom, plots are hatched to ridicule the competition. But in reality, Microsoft needs Apple needs open source needs Google needs....You get the picture. **** Snow Leopard Doesn't Sync With Palm OS Devices Matt Hamblen, InfoWorld Some users of Palm smartphones are upset that the new Snow Leopard operating system won't sync Apple computers with Palm OS devices, calling it Apple's payback for the Palm's sync of iTunes to the Palm Pre. Write your own sync plug-in, Palm. If Apple can create iTunes for Windows, so can anyone else. :-) **** OpenCL: Parallel Programmers' New Best Friend Peter Glaskowsky, CNET News.com All this support for OpenCL means that it should become the first choice of academic and commercial developers who want a good cross-platform way to develop parallel code. Expect to see OpenCL used in software for audio and video processing, cryptography, medical imaging, and many other applications--including, of course, gaming. **** Snow Leopard: Five Reasons To Upgrade Now Tom Kaneshige, CIO Though it's billed as an under-the-hood upgrade, Apple's newest OS offers plenty of features to entice users. **** Missing Sync Helps Palm OS Users With Snow Leopard Transition Peter Cohen, Macworld If you???re using a Palm OS-based PDA or smartphone and you plan to upgrade to Snow Leopard, you???re going to need third-party software if you plan to synchronize your Mac data to the device. Snow Leopard breaks compatibility with Palm???s moribund Palm Desktop software once and for all. Fortunately, Mark/Space says that its Missing Sync for Palm OS has been tested to work with the operating system. **** Snow Leopard: An Upgrade In Camouflage Stephen H. Wildstrom, BusinessWeek The power of Apple's new Mac operating system is mostly under the hood. **** Create Smart Burn Folders Rob Griffiths, Macworld **** The Impact Of Installing Rosetta On Snow Leopard (Spoiler: None) Jason D. O'Grady, The Apple Core **** Sources: Current iPod SKUs Discontinued, Hinting At Refresh Jacqui Cheng, Ars Technica Sources from Apple Authorized Resellers have confirmed to Ars that current stock is dwindling (if not completely gone in some cases) and that no more of the current models are coming in. Additionally, all current SKUs are being discontinued, with no word on when new models may arrive. **** What's The Real Deal With 64-bit Computing In Snow Leopard? Ryan Faas, Computerworld This is true: The kernel in Snow Leopard is designed to load in 32-bit operation by default on most Mac systems. However, focusing on the kernel, which facilitates very low-level functions that generally don't benefit from 64-bit operation, is missing the real point of 64-bit computing in Snow Leopard. **** Apple's China iPhone Deal A Good Start Yinka Adegoke, Reuters The three-year deal with China Unicom, the country's second-largest carrier with more than 14O million customers, is not exclusive, in sharp contrast to its U.S. arrangement with AT&T Inc. **** How Yelp May Have Further Harmed The App Store Approval Process With Its Easter Egg Matt Galligan, TechCrunch Call it sneaky, call it clever, but I call it deceit. Apple has put forth specific guidelines, and ???rules??? around their app development, and while I don???t always agree, it???s the reality of how we must work with them for now. **** The App Store Goes To China Brian Caulfield, Forbes A deal with China Unicom is good news for Apple--and better news for developers. MyAppleMenu Reader ==================================== **** Death Of A Ladies Man Darran Anderson, 3 AM Brighton???s West Pier is burning down. A sex offender dressed as Satan is on the loose. Kylie Minogue???s gold hot-pants are insured for more than the Turin shroud. The end, my friends, is nigh. **** Don't Buy Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking Regina Schrambling, Slate You will never cook from it. **** Reading By The Numbers Susan Straight, New York Times That constant drive for data is all too typical in the age of No Child Left Behind, helping to replace a freely discovered love of language and story with a more rigid way of reading. SingaporeSurf ==================================== **** Sentosa Family Scheme Includes Maids But Not Grandparents Tina Lim, Straits Times Classifying them as "less-immediate" family than domestic helpers is robbing them of the respect they deserve. **** The Word 'Breastfeeding' Okay In Headlines But Not On TV? James Hosking, Straits Times Only a week ago, I was watching a light-hearted comedy series, Suburban Shootout, on one of the BBC television channels, when the word "breastfeeding" was clearly beeped out. I am suspecting BBC was not censored by Singapore censor; it's probably the same feed to multiple countries, some of which have a more stringent censorship requirements than Singapore's. **** NEA Praised Itself For Raising Hygiene Standards In Aftermath Of Indian Rojak Food Poisoning Disaster The Temasek Review The temporary market committee which was supposed to oversee the cleanliness of the site was not taken to task. **** A Nation Run By Scholars Tan Kin Lian This lack of practical experience applies not only to the senior levels of the civil service, but higher up in the chain of command. We have to move away from writing papers to the real issues faced by the people in Singapore. **** Sex Education As Reformative Training Yawning Bread it seemed to me that in our educators??? minds, sex ???education??? is not education, but a form of morality instruction or reformative training. **** Race And Religion: A Convenient Smoke-screen To Divert Attention From More Important Issues? The Temasek Review Instead of the double threat posed by race and religion, a majority of the students polled cited the current economic downturn as having the greatest potential to cause a rift in society. **** Cash Rebates, Unrestricted Use On Sat To Get Motorists To Switch To Off-peak Cars Channel NewsAsia The Land Transport Authority (LTA) is dangling more carrots to encourage more motorists to switch to off-peak cars. By the end of January next year, motorists can use their off-peak cars on Saturdays and the eves of the five main public holidays. From applesurf at myapplemenu.com Sun Aug 30 18:59:00 2009 From: applesurf at myapplemenu.com (applesurf at myapplemenu.com) Date: 30 Aug 2009 22:59:00 -0000 Subject: [MyAppleMenu] Aug 30, 2009 Message-ID: <20090830225900.86598.qmail@voot.pair.com> MyAppleMenu ==================================== **** Snow Leopard's System Preferences Shuffle Dan Frakes, Macworld As it does in every major upgrade to Mac OS X, Apple has renovated System Preferences in Snow Leopard, reorganizing individual panes and changing the layout of settings within panes. You???ll also find new settings and wonder where some old ones went. Here are some of the most notable changes. **** Snow Leopard: What's Gone Where Rob Griffiths, Macworld When you first take a look around OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard), you might think Apple has done away with some of OS X 10.5???s applications and utilities. What, for instance, happened to the Expos?? application? It used to be in the Applications folder. Is it really gone? **** Don't Dare Take Your iPhone Abroad Before Reading This Karen Torme Olson, Chicago Tribune By then, I had been in Europe for a month and realized that my next AT&T bill would be astronomical. I had been taking and sending photos, reading and writing e-mails, surfing the Internet, downloading digital newspapers and watching mindless YouTube footage with abandon. **** Can Apple Sustain Its Run? John C. Dvorak, MarketWatch CEO Steve Jobs at least is looking to be innovative and aggressive. **** Apple's Snow Leopard Puts The Industry To Shame Christopher Saunders, InternetNews.com The company's superior approach to the OS can't be denied. We have another example of how Apple's is unique in the realm of mainstream consumer operating systems: OS X gets faster and more powerful each time without significantly upping its hardware requirements. **** iPhone Competition With Nintendo DS And Sony PSP Makes Companies Rethink Approach To Game Apps Patrick Huguenin, New York Daily News As the game offerings for the iPhone grow in numbers and sophistication, the touch-screen gadget has emerged as a competitor to hand-held gaming devices such as the Nintendo DS and the Sony PSP. The result: Major game companies are rethinking how they handle the market. The Tomorrow Weblog ==================================== **** Using ???Free??? To Turn A Profit Damon Darlin, New York Times Evernote, of course, is free. That???s important because the company, which does no advertising, needs to acquire customers as cheaply as possible. ???Our product is our marketing,??? Mr. Libin says. **** Coupons You Don???t Clip, Sent To Your Cellphone Jenna Wortham, New York Times Mobile coupons ??? usually text messages with discount codes sent to a cellphone ??? are becoming the blue-light specials for the digital age, promoting last-minute clothing sales, two-for-one entrees and cheap tickets to the theater. MyAppleMenu Reader ==================================== **** Good Books Don't Have to Be Hard Lev Grossman, Wall Street Journal Where did this conspiracy come from in the first place???the plot against plot? I blame the Modernists. Who were, I grant you, the single greatest crop of writers the novel has ever seen. **** A Family's Hold On Our Landscape Joel Achenbach, Washington Post Younger people might not understand why such a fuss has been made over a man who ran for president 30 years ago. It is hard to explain the Kennedy mystique to anyone who never experienced the tumult of the 1960s. **** So You Want To Write A Presidential Biography Ben Schwartz, The Atlantic The easy path to fame and riches as an author. Just follow my formula. **** Eyes Wide Open Jonathan Lethem, New York Times If American fiction writers largely find themselves sorted tediously into the category of ???natural??? at either the short or the long form, regardless of the extent of their commitment to both, then Lorrie Moore ??? justly celebrated for her three story collections ??? has surely been counted as a miniaturist. This book should spell the end of that. SingaporeSurf ==================================== **** One Local Production Gets Legal Help To Ensure The Laughs Don't Backfire Channel NewsAsia **** Mum's Demand For More Money From Son Rejected Crystal Chan, New Paper Counsellors told The New Paper that while the majority of parents who go to the tribunal have been abandoned by their children, there is a minority who just want more money. **** Chek Jawa At High Tide With The Naked Hermit Crabs Wild Shores Of Singapore **** Justice For All Today In Singapore Since the eradication of the jury system in Singapore (David Marshall???s prophetic: ???The last nail is driven into the coffin of justice???), the defacto position in Singapore courts seems to be that one is guilty until proven innocent, and solicitors appear to be resigned to as much. **** Temasek: One Step Closer To Accountability? Imran Ahmed, The Temasek Review It???s been a slow and somewhat painful process, but the doors surrounding Temasek???s investment performance are gradually being pried open. **** From Beer To Banks, Singapore Inc. Expands Across Asia Bernice Han, AFP Next time you stay in a luxury resort, buy a loaf of bread, open a bank account, sit on a massage chair, grab a sushi or sip a beer anywhere in Asia, check the company's country of origin. Chances are you are dealing with a brand based in Singapore, the affluent city-state that has broken beyond its compact size to become a regional economic powerhouse. **** When One Day Is Not Enough Kathy Petite, Jakarta Post Like people say, "too much fun, too little time". That's how it feels when one spends a day on Sentosa Island, Singapore's most-visited playground. And that has nothing to do with age, no. From racing to flying to the top of the highest mountain, it's a fun for all. **** Stages 1 & 2 Of Circle Line To Open In First Half Of 2010 Asha Popatlal, Channel NewsAsia The next phase of the Circle Line ??? Stages 1 and 2 ??? will start operations in the first half of 2010. Transport Minister Raymond Lim revealed this at a dialogue session in Bukit Panjang on Sunday. Its exact opening date, however, will only be finalised after engineers complete the necessary tests. From applesurf at myapplemenu.com Mon Aug 31 18:59:00 2009 From: applesurf at myapplemenu.com (applesurf at myapplemenu.com) Date: 31 Aug 2009 22:59:00 -0000 Subject: [MyAppleMenu] Aug 31, 2009 Message-ID: <20090831225900.81666.qmail@voot.pair.com> MyAppleMenu ==================================== **** Is The Tyranny Of The Mac Fan Boy Waning? Sarah Lacy, TechCrunch Some reporters??? long harassed by Mac fan boys when they???ve dared to criticize the company (read: do their jobs) ??? are saying a sea change is occurring in Apple fan boy nation. **** There???s An App for That- Small Uses That Make The iPhone Great Dan Cohen, Gear Diary As much as I may complain about Apple and AT&T these days I still love my iPhone 3GS. In fact it is because the iPhone is as remarkable as it is that I get frustrated with Apple and AT&T standing in the way of the device reaching toward its potential. **** SEC Investigating Apple Trading Dan Dorfman, Huffington Post Hey, have some investors been screwing around illegally with the shares of high-flying Apple, Inc., a superstar of the investment scene? Apparently, the Securities & Exchange Commission is suspicious this may be the case and has kicked off an investigation into the trading in Apple's securities both here and abroad. This is revealed in a series of documents it recently fired off to the brokerage community. **** All A Cub Reporter Needs Is A Scoop And An iPhone Claire Cain Miller, New York Times A Web site for local news hopes to fill the growing void in professionally reported local news by recruiting citizens armed with iPhones as reporters. **** Apple's New OS Geared For Multicore Future Stephen Shankland, CNET News.com Apple began shipping Snow Leopard on Friday, but the true importance of the Mac OS X update likely will emerge well afterward. **** Mac OS Snow Leopard: Great News For Windows 7, Too Dong Ngo, CNET News.com MyAppleMenu Reader ==================================== **** The Curious Appeal Of Miscellanea Tom Scocca, Boston Globe Or, why we???ll pay for information, but only if it???s completely irrelevant. **** Love And Lies Michael Pollan, Photograph by Christian Ziegler, National Geographic How do you spread your genes around when you're stuck in one place? By tricking animals, including us, into falling in love. **** When Science & Poetry Were Friends Freeman Dyson, The New York Review Of Books The scientists of that age were as Romantic as the poets. The scientific discoveries were as unexpected and intoxicating as the poems. Many of the poets were intensely interested in science, and many of the scientists in poetry. **** The Game Bruce Smith, New Yorker **** Pernilla John Ashbery, New Yorker **** Distant Relations Orhan Pamuk, New Yorker The series of events and coincidences that would change my entire life began on April 27, 1975, when Sibel happened to spot a purse designed by the famous Jenny Colon in a shopwindow as we were walking along Valikonagi Avenue, enjoying the cool spring evening. SingaporeSurf ==================================== **** End Of The Road For Prison Teh Joo Lin, Straits Times Queenstown Remand Prison (QRP) has closed after 44 years and moved to the new prison cluster at Changi which merges all prisons into one cluster complex. **** Journey Of A Lifetime, 4-hour Causeway Wait Ho Lian-yi, New Paper Adventurer recounts how he was stuck in Woodlands as Swiss Embassy, LTA rush to get paperwork done for car to enter Singapore. Welcome to Singapore, the land of sorry-i-understand-but-you-still-need-to-fill-up-that-paperwork. **** Library Caters To All, But Priority For Those Who Use Its Resources Ngian Lek Choh, National Library Singapore, Straits Times Recognising that libraries are public spaces catering to the needs of all types of users, we seek Miss Ho's understanding that priority will still need to be given to users to access, browse and use the library resources. **** How HDB Keeps It Affordable Ignatius Lourdesamy, Housing & Development Board , Straits Times HDB aims to make public housing affordable for eligible first-time households. These households are generously subsidised for their purchase of new or resale flats. On average, first-time households used 21 per cent and 25 per cent of their monthly income to service their loans on new and resale HDB flats respectively in non-mature estates. These figures are well below the international affordability benchmark of 30 per cent. **** Media Execs Query SingTel/StarHub Premier League Joint Bid Asiya Bakht , Media Media sources have questioned a research paper from Deutsche Bank that suggested telco giants SingTel and StarHub might launch a joint bid to secure the rights to screen English Premier League (EPL) matches in Singapore for the next three seasons. This move by the local players, if true, is surely anti-competitive, and goes against Singapore government's aim to be a player in the media business. **** S'pore's GIC Names Chiefs For Europe, Americas Operations Kevin Lim, Reuters The Government of Singapore Investment Corp (GIC), which manages an estimated $200 billion-plus in assets said it has created the new posts of president (Europe) and president (Americas) to help it improve ties with policymakers. **** Ripples Felt Here Esther Fung, Today Singapore's wealth management industry, along with its global counterparts, is still assessing the repercussions of a high profile tax-evasion case which involved Switzerland's largest bank, UBS, said industry watchers. **** Singapore To Make Billions Handling Cross-Border Arbitrations Andrea Tan, Bloomberg **** A Question Of Fairness: PRs Competing With Citizens For Primary 1 Places Bhaskaran Kunju, The Temasek Review PM Lee focused on social cohesion in his National Day Rally and assimilating non-citizens into our population was part of it. Despite our conservative culture, I think we have been tolerant in accepting people of all races, creed and nationality. But if there is a perennial issue of citizens not feeling at home in their own country then there has to be a deeper problem that has not been addressed. **** New Citizens: A New Support Base For The PAP The Temasek Review Much has been written on the economic impact of the uncontrolled influx of foreigners into Singapore. Little is known about the underlying political implications. **** Singaporeans Read For Info Yen Feng, Straits Times 'While students in Singapore will not hesitate to read school-related materials, getting them to become life-long readers and to read for pleasure remains an uphill task,' the survey concluded. Instead of listening to the latest tunes on your iPod, consider trying out an audiobook. You can borrow audiobooks at the public libraries for free.