[MyAppleMenu] Jan 28, 2009

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**** iPhone Push Notifications: Dead And Buried, Or Waiting In The Wings? <http://www.macworld.com/article/138468/2009/01/notifications_op.html?lsrc=rss_main>
by Dan Moren, Macworld
Apple prides itself on simplicity and elegance&mdash;maybe the company realized that the notification system might cause more problems than it solved.

**** Missing iPhone Notification System Leaves Some Third-Party Apps Out Of The Loop <http://www.macworld.com/article/138450/2009/01/notification_apps.html?lsrc=rss_main>
by Dan Moren, Macworld
Without multitasking, notifications could be an important asset in the iPhone developer's toolbox, but it doesn't look as though Apple is planning on launching this system anytime soon.
/The apparent lack of communication (I'm not an iPhone developer, and I didn't signed any NDAs) from Apple is not a good sign./

**** Review: FileMaker Pro 10 And Pro Advanced 10 <http://www.macworld.com/article/138454/2009/01/filemaker10.html?lsrc=rss_main>
by William Porter, Macworld
Saved finds, dynamic summary reports, and script triggers make FileMaker Pro 10 a very desirable upgrade for current users. And if you remember the pain of upgrading from versions 6 to 7, panic not: the format of FileMaker Pro 10 databases has not changed.

**** Tim Cook's Big Problem <http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2009/01/27/tim-cooks-big-problem.aspx>
by Tim Beyers, Motley Fool
Apple needs innovation. A big idea. Soon.
/If that big idea is not already in prototype &mdash; and as envisioned by Steve Jobs &mdash; Apple is indeed in big trouble. But I don't think that's the case here. There are probably several big ideas in Apple's labs right now./

**** Papermaster Settlement: Apple Innovations May Require IBM's OK <http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=212902972>
by Paul McDougall, InformationWeek
Thie chip expert must check in with his former employer if he believes he's using Big Blue technology at Cupertino.

**** Apple's Nvidia Graphics Update Doesn't Fix Mini DisplayPort Dual-Link DVI Distortion Issues <http://i.gizmodo.com/5140300/apples-nvidia-graphics-update-doesnt-fix-mini-displayport-dual+link-dvi-distortion-issues>
by Jason Chen, Gizmodo

**** MacScan Releases Free Mac Trojan Removal Tool <http://blogs.zdnet.com/Apple/?p=2864>
by David Morgenstern, ZDNet.com
With the arrival of yet another trojan targeting the Mac, antispyware vendor MacScan on Tuesday updated and renamed its trojan removal tool.

**** The Irony Of Apple Packaging <http://blogs.zdnet.com/Apple/?p=2860>
by Jason D. O'Grady, ZDNet.com
The problem is with the external packaging.

**** iMovie '09 Image Stabilization <http://www.macworld.com/article/138480/2009/01/imovie_09_image_stabilization.html?lsrc=rss_main>
by Jason Snell, Macworld
I wanted to present a brief sample video of the new image-stabilization features in iLife '09.

**** MacBook Account For 70 Per Cent Of All Apple Mac Sales <http://www.macworld.co.uk/mac/news/index.cfm?RSS&NewsID=24667>
by Jordan GOlson, The Industry Standard
Apple's notebook sales are, just like PC notebooks, trending a larger and larger part of Apple's mix.

**** Review: Pinboard For iPhone <http://www.macworld.com/article/138477/2009/01/pinboard.html?lsrc=rss_main>
by Ben Boychuk, Macworld
Brainstormer's delight offers an easy way to list to-dos, reminders, and other short items.

**** Apple Yanks iMovie 6 Download, Ends Era Of Appeasement <http://www.macworld.com/article/138476/2009/01/goodbye_imovie6.html?lsrc=rss_main>
by Dan Moren, Macworld

**** Apple: Papermaster Lawsuit "Resolved," Will Start In April <http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2009/01/apple-papermaster-lawsuit-resolved-will-start-in-april.ars>
by Jacqui Cheng, Ars Technica
It appears as if Papermaster and IBM have reached some sort of settlement (though Apple's announcement doesn't directly acknowledge a settlement, that's the most logical explanation in this circumstance).

**** New Mac Screenshot App Snapplr Offers File, E-Mail Options <http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2009/01/mac-screenshot-alternative-snapplr-released.ars>
by Justin Berka, Ars Technica
A new Mac application called Snapplr promises to make taking screenshots easier than ever, and also includes a variety of web upload and e-mail features.

**** Apple Releases iPhone Software 2.2.1 <http://www.macworld.com/article/138470/2009/01/iphoneupdate.html?lsrc=rss_main>
by Jim Dalrymple, Macworld
Apple says the update provides improved stability for the Safari web browser and secondly, an issue was fixed where some images saved from Mail do not display correctly in the Camera Roll.

**** Apple Secures Multitouch Technology Patent <http://www.macworld.com/article/138465/2009/01/multitouch_patent.html?lsrc=rss_main>
by Dan Moren, Macworld

**** MacHEADS Documentary Now Available For Download Or Rent <http://www.macworld.com/article/138457/2009/01/macheads_now_available_for_download_or_rent.html?lsrc=rss_main>
by Cyrus Farivar, Macworld
iTunes offers it up for $15 for purchase and $4 for rent.

**** Monitor Your Mac From Your iPhone <http://www.macworld.com/article/138456/2009/01/monitor_my_mac.html?lsrc=rss_main>
by Derik DeLong, Macworld
Install a little server on all your Macs, buy the $2 application of the App Store for your iPhone, and the Macs on your Wi-Fi network instantly show up for your monitoring pleasure.

**** Review: FusionFall <http://www.macworld.com/article/138451/2009/01/fusionfall.html?lsrc=rss_main>
by Chris Holt, Macworld
Cartoon Network deserves credit for creating a game where kids 8 to 14 and their parents can share in the fun. While adult gamers may find the game shallow, the short game sessions, multiple character cameos, and simple game mechanics will likely entertian kids and be a safe introduction into the world of MMOs.

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**** Muxtape Returns From RIAA-Induced Hiatus <http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10151266-2.html?tag=mncol>
by Josh Lowensohn, CNET News.com
The new version of the service, which does /not/ allow users to upload music from their hard drives, instead relies on bands to submit ther own tracks for listeners to play on Muxtape&mdash;and Muxtape only.

**** Self-Publishers Flourish As Writers Pay The Tab <http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/28/books/28selfpub.html?_r=1&ref=todayspaper>
by Motoko Rich, New York Times
The point may soon come when there are more people who want to write books than there are people who want to read them.

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**** Book Soup's Ending Isn't Yet Written <http://www.latimes.com/features/books/la-et-book-soup27-2009jan27,0,4808393.story?track=rss>
by Susan Salter Reynolds, Los Angeles Times
"When a wise man dies," Rabbi David Wolpe asked at the memorial service for Book Soup owner Glenn Goldman, "how can he be replaced?"
For customers, employees, sales reps, writers and just about everyone who ever wandered into the Sunset Boulevard bookshop, this question has taken on an added significance in the wake of Goldman's death.

**** Late Works <http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2006/08/07/060807crat_atlarge>
by John Updike, New Yorker
Last words, recorded and treasured in the days when the deathbed was in the home, have fallen from fashion, perhaps because most people spend their final hours in the hospital, too drugged to make any sense. And only the night nurse hears them talk. Yet, at least for this aging reader, works written late in a writer's life retain a fascination.

**** Updike Made The Mundane Into A Saga <http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/28/books/28appr.html?_r=1&em>
by Michiko Kakutani, New York Times
Endowed with an art student's pictorial imagination, a journalist's sociological eye and a poet's gift for metaphor, John Updike &mdash; who died on Tuesday at 76 &mdash; was argably this country's one true all-round man of letters, moving fluently from fiction to criticism, from light verse to short stories to the long-distance form of the novel: a literary decathlete in our age of electronic distraction and willful specialization, Victorian in his industriousness and almost blogger-like in his determination to turn every scrap of knowledge and experience into words.

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**** Naked Couple Greeted With Applause <http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24975139-12377,00.html>
by Reuters
A couple treated open air diners to a 15-minute naked parade in Singapore, triggering both embarrassment and applause for a scene almost unheard of in the conservative city-state.
Police said the couple, a Caucasian man and an ethnic Chinese woman in their 20s, had been arrested and released on bail.

**** Malaysiakini At Vanguard Of Media Revolution <http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/features/01/27/09/malaysiakini-vanguard-media-revolution>
by Sarah Stewart, AFP
"Malaysiakini could only have existed in places like Malaysia, Singapore or Burma, simply because the mainstream press have no credbility," James Chin, a political analyst from the Kuala Lumpur campus of Australia's Monash University, said.

**** Why This Is Not Election Year <http://theonlinecitizen.com/2009/01/why-this-is-not-election-year/>
by PN Balji, The Online Citizen
The one thing this Budget lacks is a feel-good factor.