[MyAppleMenu] Aug 24, 2009

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MyAppleMenu
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**** My Evil iPhone <http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2009/08/24/hate_my_iphone/index.html>
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 <http://www.edibleapple.com/apples-retail-stores-continue-to-boom-with-fifth-avenue-location-in-nyc-earning-35000-per-square-foot-of-space/>
EdibleApple

**** Apple Blogger Legally Unlocks iPhone <http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=R&sa=T&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.theregister.co.uk%2F2009%2F08%2F24%2Fiphone_legit_unlock_finland%2F&usg=AFQjCNF41JqytOeHr2fOckT2I1ttxvhpwQ>
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? <http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=R&sa=T&url=http%3A%2F%2Fbits.blogs.nytimes.com%2F2009%2F08%2F24%2Fwill-apple-approve-rhapsodys-music-application%2F&usg=AFQjCNFggWy40Wxx2utKopCTKEN3slzASg>
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 <http://rss.macworld.com/click.phdo?i=3aa1a7bde69aaa3cdca37cd378b2835b>
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 <http://rss.macworld.com/click.phdo?i=c58e521a5a91dea0dac82d95bf4020d6>
Tony Craine, Macworld

Great apps help you pinch pennies on-the-go.

**** Five Favorite Excel Tips <http://rss.macworld.com/click.phdo?i=5368c4545a05d5c5a0defe8e4a079094>
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 <http://feeds.macnn.com/click.phdo?i=6d9990d315fe9902f6278c4eb3205f5f>
MacNN



The Tomorrow Weblog
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**** Mining The Web For Feelings, Not Facts <http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/24/technology/internet/24emotion.html?partner=rss&emc=rss>
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
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**** The Fountain House <http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/features/2009/08/31/090831fi_fiction_petrushevskaya>
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 <http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/poetry/2009/08/31/090831po_poem_wilbur3>
Richard Wilbur, New Yorker

**** Flying <http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/poetry/2009/08/31/090831po_poem_wilbur2>
Richard Wilbur, New Yorker

**** The House <http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/poetry/2009/08/31/090831po_poem_wilbur1>
Richard Wilbur, New Yorker



SingaporeSurf
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**** The Pledge Is Not An Aspiration Or Ideology – It’s <i>A Promise</i> <http://geraldgiam.sg/2009/08/the-pledge-is-not-an-aspiration-or-ideology-its-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? <http://feedmetothefish.blogspot.com/2009/08/is-our-pledge-aspiration-leading-to.html>
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% <http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking+News/Singapore/Story/STIStory_420652.html>
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 <http://temasekreview.com/?p=12257>
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 <http://www.itworld.com/legal/75371/no-three-strikes-law-planned-singapore-agency-says?FORM=ZZNR3>
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).






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