From applesurf at myapplemenu.com Sun Nov 1 18:59:00 2009 From: applesurf at myapplemenu.com (applesurf at myapplemenu.com) Date: 1 Nov 2009 23:59:00 -0000 Subject: [MyAppleMenu] Nov 1, 2009 Message-ID: <20091101235900.61839.qmail@voot.pair.com> MyAppleMenu ==================================== **** First Look: Apple's 27" Big Screen iMac AppleInsider **** Review: VMware Fusion 3 Jon Fingas, MacNN **** Review: 27-Inch iMac, The World???s Sexiest Desktop Just Got Sexier Leander Kahney, Cult of Mac **** Reports Coming In Of DST-related Snow Leopard Issues Michael Rose, The Unofficial Apple Weblog The Apple support boards are hopping with reports of 100% CPU spikes coinciding with the switchover from DST between 1 am and 2 am, mostly associated with having the menu bar clock enabled and/or having the clock automatic set feature turned on. **** Think Those Warranty Parts Are New? Think Again Josh Carr, The Unofficial Apple Weblog The iPhone that you just received looks new on the outside because it has new glass, a new case, new battery... but the rest of the device is fair game for refurbished parts. The Tomorrow Weblog ==================================== **** Prototype: Everybody In The Pool Of Green Innovation Mary Tripsas, New York Times MyAppleMenu Reader ==================================== **** The Perfect Traveler Pico Iyer, World Hum Really, I suppose, the ideal traveler, or travel companion, offers a happy blend of steadiness and surprise. I make up such lists of characteristics often, in my head, and scroll quickly through some of the obvious suspects (Graham Greene, D.H. Lawrence, Herman Melville, Annie Dillard). And then, somehow, I alight, over and over, on a man who seems to be wearing a silk dressing gown and is best known for his novels (though in his lifetime he was celebrated as a dramatist). We read ???Of Human Bondage,??? ???The Razor???s Edge??? or ???The Moon and Sixpence??? for their familiar characters, their unembarrassed intensity and, perhaps, behind all that, their exotic scenes; but the reason Somerset Maugham is still commanding readers almost 50 years after his death, and the reason Hollywood keeps turning to him for new movies (???Up at the Villa,??? ???Being Julia,??? ???The Painted Veil???) is that he was a classic traveler, disguising his hunger for romance, and even for transcendence, behind the cool demeanor of an unillusioned, above-it-all, often feline Englishman. **** A Room Of Her Own Karen Houppert, Washington Post Her college feminism professor taught her to learn through rigorous inquiry. Then Marcia Carlisle died and left her former student to answer the biggest question yet. **** A Final Verdict On The Presidential Salute Carey Winfrey, New York Times Presidents have long been saluted, but they began returning salutes relatively recently. **** A Tour Of Literary Manhattan Terri Colby, Los Angeles Times Holly Golightly kept me company -- courtesy of Truman Capote's "Breakfast at Tiffany's" -- on my latest trip to Manhattan. It was an excursion that combined my passion for books with my love of travel. **** Empire Falls: The Revolutions of 1989 Ronald Grigor Suny, The Nation History is always more complicated and messy than the moral and ideological tales it may be called to serve. SingaporeSurf ==================================== **** Lim Boon Heng Says Strong Leaders Key To Continued Success Of PAP Hoe Yeen Nie, Channel NewsAsia At a PAP event on Saturday evening, party chairman Lim Boon Heng said that the party's continued success depended on identifying committed leaders to stand for elections, maintaining its core values and staying in touch with the ground. **** Social Isolation ??? Left Among The Dead Andrew Loh, The Online Citizen The location of the Lim Chu Kang dormitory smacks of a policy of social isolation for these foreign workers. While one can understand the shortage of space in Singapore to provide housing for these workers, one wonders if siting their living quarters, in an isolated area of Singapore and within a cemetery, with little amenities and with the nearest bus stop some 5 km away, is a ???humane??? solution which Ms Ng mentioned and which Mr Mah had agreed is a consideration for the government. **** Singapore Among Economies To Blame For Financial Secrecy The Straits Times Leading economic centres, including the United States, Britain and Singapore, are among the countries most to blame for promoting international financial secrecy, according to a new index comparing the harm allegedly done by tax havens and rich nations. **** Singapore Getting Cold Feet Over Its Worsening International Image The Temasek Review Obviously the regime is becoming worried and paranoid over the deluge of negative publicity that Singapore has been getting in the last two years from the international press and NGOs which is largely their own doing. **** Some Promising PAP Candidates Identified For Next Election: PM Lee Channel NewsAsia Prime minister Lee Hsien Loong said the People's Action Party (PAP) has already identified some promising candidates and potential office-holders ??? mainly in their thirties and forties ??? for the next general election. **** The Self-Defeating Effects Of Fear And Paranoia Clement Tan, Asian Correspondent Sure, these are ideal types and any approach to governance would be a shrewd mix of both, but if Singapore truly wants the kind of creative and entrepreneurial spirit to take root organically and if China wants to lead the world and be respected on their terms, an honest appraisal and rethink should be on the cards. **** Three Days Of Fantastic Classics Erza S.T., The Jakarta Post While Singapore Sun Festival 2009 ended just a week ago, great impressions and comments from concerts they held this year are still far from ending. **** Next General Election Crucial: Singapore PM Xinhua Singapore's prime minister Lee Hsien Loong said on Sunday that the next general election will be very important as it must produce a line-up of leaders who can take over from him and his senior Cabinet colleagues. **** A Closer Look At Andy Ho???s ???Reasons For Singapore To Be Cool On Global Warming??? Olivia Choong, Green Kampong There are more points that Andy has raised, but we will leave it up to you to decide how believable it is. **** Attempt to Manipulate And Confuse Public Thinking On Climate Change AsiaIsGreen.com As a compulsive reader of The Straits Times, I am disappointed and appalled by Mr Ho???s attempt to manipulate and confuse public thinking on climate change and the urgent actions needed, based on misleading claims and references in his article. This is a serious dent in this most widely-read national newspaper???s reputation, neutrality and journalistic integrity. **** Andy Ho Shares His Greater Knowledge On Climate Change Green Drinks Singapore We should use our writing constuctively to inform and spur positive changes, and it would greatly help to verify the facts, and therefore not mislead ??? journalistic integrity counts. **** Sembawang Music To Close Shuli Sudderuddin, Straits Times Said owner and founder Dave Boo, 56: 'We've liquidated the company and are filing for bankruptcy. Right now, all our energy is on clearing our stock and making as many sales as we can.' **** New Media Tools Get Prominent Showing At PAP Convention Hoe Yeen Nie, Channel NewsAsia **** SG Citizenship Is Worth About $7,503-$10,583 More Than PRs A Year Singapore Watch **** Sheng Siong, Wet Markets And Free Speech Singapore Democrats So the next anyone says that democracy and political rights have nothing to do with bread-and-butter issues, remember: Sheng Siong, wet markets, and PAP MPs. **** Elect Lee Kuan Yew Ilonggo Sa Desyerto We often hear calls to elect leaders like Lee Kuan Yew of Singapore. However, it is easier said than done in the Philippines. The Filipino people may elect a leader with the qualities of ???Lee Kuan Yew??? but once he is in the office, they???ll throw whatever garbage and baseless accusations they have towards him. He would have to face several coup de etat, marching priests and nuns, demonstrations in EDSA and character assassination from the opposition. If he survives the office, he???ll leave a broken man. **** Canberra Stretches Singapore's Patience Matt O'Sullivan, Sydney Morning Herald The Rudd government has told Singapore Airlines to be patient about its long-harboured aspirations to fly between Australia and the United States. **** PAP Abandoned Potong Pasir? Rachael Chang, Straits Times While there is the need to look after those in Potong Pasir who voted for the PAP, the party must be careful not to be taken advantage of, prime minister Lee Hsien Loong said, recalling the 2006 election. **** S'pore Still Needs Foreigners Cai Haoxiang, Straits Times **** To PAP : You Need Better MPs... Diary of A Singaporean Mind **** What Has Gini Got To Do With Medifund? Leong Sze Hian , The Online Citizen From applesurf at myapplemenu.com Mon Nov 2 18:59:00 2009 From: applesurf at myapplemenu.com (applesurf at myapplemenu.com) Date: 2 Nov 2009 23:59:00 -0000 Subject: [MyAppleMenu] Nov 2, 2009 Message-ID: <20091102235900.21944.qmail@voot.pair.com> MyAppleMenu ==================================== **** iPhone Gets Tepid Reception In China Loretta Chao, Wall Street Journal Apple Inc.'s iPhone got a lukewarm welcome in its official Chinese debut, with a boisterous crowd turning out for a launch party in the capital but no sign of the sort of sellout reception that greeted the smart phone at its introduction in other countries. **** Chinese iPhone Has Grey Market To Contend With Seth Weintraub, Computerworld Apple might already have finally met its match in when it comes to Chinese competition...from other iPhones. **** Apple Snow Leopard Server: A Faster, Smoother Breed Of Cat Tom Henderson and Brendan Allen, NetworkWorld On the surface, Apple's Snow Leopard Server feels like a $499 maintenance release, but underneath, there's much more ??? improved performance, more polish and new apps focused on collaboration and content sharing. **** Do-It-Yourself iPhone Apps Olga Kharif, BusinessWeek Services that do the coding for you make it easy for nontechies to create iPhone apps. Applications to the Apple App Store are exploding. **** Review: Acorn 2.1 James Dempsey, Macworld Acorn 2.1 is a great app for digital photography hobbyists, bloggers, or anyone who needs a decent amount of flexibility in editing images but doesn't require the power of a full image editor. **** Apple's 2010 Capital Expenditures Could Signal Major Investments AppleInsider Apple has forecast a 70 percent increase in capital expenditures for the 2010 fiscal year, which one analyst has said could be a sign the Mac maker is investing in "strategic new infrastructure." **** Man Loses All His iTunes, But Apple Gives Them Back Consumerist.com "Seeing that you have been a loyal customer since September, 2004, the iTunes Store would like to give you the opportunity to redownload (at no charge) all the titles you purchased on this account that are still available... Please note that you may download your purchases only once, so this is an exception. Also note that Apple does not offer protection for the loss of data from your hard disk, so I recommend that you back up your iTunes library as soon as possible and thereafter on a regular basis." **** iPhone Hints: Lock Picture Orientation In Photos Dan Moren, Macworld **** Apple???s iTunes Pitch: TV For $30 A Month Peter Kafka, All Things Digital Would you pay $30 a month to watch TV via iTunes? That???s the pitch Apple has been making to TV networks in recent weeks. The company is trying to round up support for a monthly subscription service that would deliver TV programs via its multimedia software, multiple sources tell me. **** Power And The International Mac Christopher Breen, Macworld Macs and their power adapters are???and have been for as long as I can remember???built to support 110 ??? 240 Volts. So, out of the box, you can jack your Mac mini or MacBook into just about any outlet you come across without fear of melting the thing. Where the country-of-purchase makes a difference is in the kind of plug that appears at the end of that power adapter. And that???s what you need to change. The Tomorrow Weblog ==================================== **** First Test For Election Cryptography Erica Naone, MIT Technology Review The first government election to use a new cryptographic scheme that lets both voters and auditors check that votes were cast and recorded accurately will be held tomorrow in Takoma Park, MD. **** Software That Fixes Itself Erica Naone, MIT Technology Review A new tool aims to fix misbehaving programs without shutting them down. MyAppleMenu Reader ==================================== **** Southeast Of Eden Glyn Maxwell, New Yorker **** November Philosophers Katie Ford, New Yorker **** Premium Harmony Stephen King, New Yorker They???ve been married for ten years and for a long time everything was O.K.???swell???but now they argue. Now they argue quite a lot. It???s really all the same argument. It has circularity. It is, Ray thinks, like a dog track. When they argue, they???re like greyhounds chasing the mechanical rabbit. You go past the same scenery time after time, but you don???t see it. You see the rabbit. **** Where Horror Truly Lies ... Charlie Higson, Guardian Stephen King didn't scare me when I first started reading adult horror fiction as a teenager ??? it was Orwell's 1984 that really frightened me. SingaporeSurf ==================================== **** We The Citizens Of Singapore Ian On The Red Dot Breath in, breath out. Calm down. Calm down. **** Singapore's Public Transport Lags Behind Hong Kong's Liang Hien Fung, Straits Times There is no real competition in the public transport sector in Singapore, unlike in Hong Kong where the companies running bus, minibus and train services compete for the same pool of passengers. **** Act Now To Counter Looming Threat John Richard Gee, Straits Times Dr Ho could not be more wrong. **** What Singaporeans Can Do Jeffrey Chan, Straits Times It is true that as Singapore is a small country, the consequences of environmental practices are likely negligible relative to the scale of global pollution today. But let us do our part. **** Why Singapore Government Is Bruised By The World Press Freedom Index Ranking? Manisha Kumari, The Temasek Review In spite of enjoying first status in almost all the thing, Singapore will continue to be the laughing stock in front of the world press and the ranking only getting worse if media continues to be in such a dilapidated state. **** Minister Warns Of Singapore Slowdown Kevin Brown, Financial Times Singapore???s trend rate of economic growth is likely to slow because of labour constraints and its success in achieving high levels of income per head, according to Tharman Shanmugaratnam, the island state???s finance minister. **** ????????????????????? ??????????????????????????????????????????????????? ????????? ????????? ?????????, ???????????? ????????????????????????????????????50????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? **** 13 Things You Don't Know About Singapore CNNGo **** ?????????:??????????????????????????????????????????????????? ????????? ???11???2???????????????????????????????????? ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? **** On Medical Leave And The Employee Singapore Aspirations Why do employers in Singapore treat their employees in this way? Well, Singapore employers claim they are afraid that medical leave benefits will be abused, resulting in a loss of productivity at work. But if we think about it, the prevailing system in Singapore doesn???t really do much to prevent the abuse of medical leave benefits. Most companies will concede that employees who are determined to use up all their medical leave, will do so anyway whether or not their employers require them to see a doctor and obtain medical certification. **** Court Gives Surrender Order Elena Chong, Straits Times District judge Roy Neighbour said he was satisfied that there was sufficient evidence to justify a trial of the offences which Balldev Naidu Ragavan, also known as Balraj Naidu Ragavan, is facing. **** ???????????????????????????????????? ???????????????????????? ??????, ???????????? ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? **** Potong Pasir Town Council Rebuts ST Report Wilfred Leung, Potong Pasir Town Council, The Online Citizen The report seems to imply that voters in Potong Pasir have been shortchanged because they did not vote for PAP. I beg to differ. After the last election, the Potong Pasir Town Council has work hard to implement various upgrading programs to enhance the whole of Potong Pasir, bringing residents many benefits and more convenience. **** Singapore Healthcare Diana Saw, Cambodia Calling **** Temasek Eyes AXA China Stake, Valued At $1.05 Bln George Chen, Reuters **** Most Difficult Policy Jeremy Au Yong, Straits Times Intelligence does not necessarily translate into a flair for languages. That was the lesson minister mentor Lee Kuan Yew said he learnt in implementing the bilingual policy in schools. **** Judge Toh Allows Last Minute Police Application Singapore Democrats District judge Toh Yung Cheong granted the prosecution a last minute application to vacate a set of hearing dates because the police needed their witnesses for duty next week during the APEC meeting. Contrast this with the warrant of arrest he issued for Dr Chee Soon Juan when the SDP secretary-general had to attend his father-in-law's funeral in Taiwan in June this year. Even after he was notified of the death, Judge Toh initially refused to rescind the warrant of arrest. From applesurf at myapplemenu.com Tue Nov 3 18:59:00 2009 From: applesurf at myapplemenu.com (applesurf at myapplemenu.com) Date: 3 Nov 2009 23:59:00 -0000 Subject: [MyAppleMenu] Nov 3, 2009 Message-ID: <20091103235900.70255.qmail@voot.pair.com> MyAppleMenu ==================================== **** Intel Comments On iPhone Sync Glitch Brooke Crothers, CNET News.com Intel on Monday said it is investigating a glitch that prevents an Apple iPhone from synching with certain PCs that use a new Intel chipset. **** ScreenFlow 2 Screencasting Software Review Erik Vlietinck, IT Enquirer Mac OS X users have several screen-casting applications to choose from, but the best one by a margin remains ScreenFlow. With the release of version 2 Telestream has upped the bar for other screen-cast software developers. **** Bean Review: Is TextEdit Too Minimal And Word Too Much? Bean Fits Somewhere In Between Karl Hodge, Macworld UK It lacks a full word processor???s more advanced features, but Bean handles all the same files as TextEdit in an interface that???s easy to understand and looks great. **** Apple's Shine Stems From Productivity, Not Politics Jonathan Hoenig, Smart Money I am not a tech geek or company evangelist, but the fact that the iPhone is, quite simply, a miracle of human achievement. It???s a phone, a map, a camera, an encyclopedia, and stereo, among a thousand other uses, all for a few hundred dollars upfront and a reasonable monthly fee. Consider that my family???s old Apple II cost more than $1,200 back in the late 1970s, a hefty price for a machine that didn???t do much beyond a rudimentary version of Lemonade Stand. The iPhone demonstrates wealth creation incarnate. **** Thursby Announces ADmitMac 5, DAVE 8 Updates MacNN **** Here's The iTunes TV Subscription I'd Pay For Harry McCracken, Technologizer Is any of this too much to ask for? I???d cheerfully pay a lot more than $30 a month to the first company who offers it. **** Apple To Reinvent Apple TV...For The Rest Of Us Peter Burrows, BusinessWeek It seems Apple is rethinking its TV strategy, in a way that might???if the company can pull it off???give consumers the option to pay Apple less than half as much as they currently pay their cable or satellite provider for a monthy TV subscription. **** Why China Isn't Buying The iPhone Carl Franzen, The Atlantic A few tech writers are congratulating themselves for predicting the disappointing debut of the iPhone in China on Friday. Many have linked to the various reports from The Wall Street Journal's Loretta Chao, who closely followed the run-up and launch of the product, which she says netted a "lukewarm" reception. What accounts for Apple's hard luck? Bloggers offer several theories. **** You Win Some, You Lose Some: A Review Of Apple's Magic Mouse Eric Bangeman, Ars Technica Apple attempts to reinvent the mouse with its new Magic Mouse. It offers multitouch gestures and brings a new dimension to scrolling, while dropping some useful features from its predecessor. **** Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard): Click-Through In Finder Windows Pierre Igot, Betalogue With such inconsistencies, it is pretty much impossible for the user to develop instinctive habits in his or her interactions with the Finder, and he or she ends up constantly having to correct the inappropriate/unexpected behaviour triggered by his or her mouse clicks. **** Review: Google Picasa 3.5 Photo Organizer Kris Fong, Macworld If you use an older version of iPhoto but want the newer features, switching to Picasa is a no-brainer. If you use Photoshop or another image editor, Picasa makes a great photo-management companion. It???s free, so why not give it a go? **** Orange, Apple Drop Exclusivity On iPhone In France -Regulator Dow Jones The Tomorrow Weblog ==================================== **** It Knows Where You Are, And What You???re Looking For Claire Cain Miller, New York Times Big Web companies and start-ups alike are scrambling to create the best applications to allow users to search for surrounding businesses and events from a mobile phone. Loopt, a service that lets people find their friends on the go, is now entering the crowded field. MyAppleMenu Reader ==================================== **** Chick Lit Offers Fully Rounded Heroines For Fully Rounded Women Amelia Hill, Guardian "Chick lit" has relied for years on repetitive plot lines with heroines who agonise about their weight as they swig chardonnay, smoke cigarettes and have sex with their boss. But the latest publishing phenomenon to sweep America, which has just arrived over here, features a new heroine: the young woman who is seriously overweight ??? and doesn't care. **** Collecting Headlines Funnier Than This Eric Konigsberg, New York Times Headlines in the satirical weekly newspaper The Onion tend to function both as punch line and setup, in that order. They are the heart of the paper, and not only the first thing anybody reads, but also, unlike headlines in real newspapers all over the world, the first things to be written. SingaporeSurf ==================================== **** HDB Turns Community Builder Esther Ng, Today >From familiar squabbles among neighbours, to a new source of tension as more immigrants populate the heartlands - such issues will be tackled by the Housing and Development Board (HDB) as it moves beyond its main role as provider of affordable public housing. **** Measuring Economic Performance: Looking Beyond GDP Gerald Giam **** Is PM Lee Looking For The Next Generation Of Leaders Or Sheep? The Temasek Review Under usual circumstances, it is risky to field so many new and untested candidates in a general election, but the PAP has cleverly engineered the electoral system in such a way that they can be almost assured of a victory by riding on the ???coat-tails??? of a heavyweight minister in a GRC. **** HDB Annual Report : Deficit Has Doubled ??? Really? Leong Sze Hian, The Online Citizen **** Letter To Andy Ho, And His Response Olivia Choong, I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself! I don't think his commentary communicates his intended message. What do you think? **** ?????????????????????:??????????????????????????????????????? ???????????? ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? **** ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? ???????????????????????????????????? ?????????, ???????????? ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? **** Op-Ed: Medical Tourism -- Outsourcing Your Health Judy Dugan, Los Angeles Times Pitching lower costs, 'international hospitals' are trying to make inroads into the U.S. healthcare system. But are they just a remedy for insurance companies? **** The Bilingual Policy & Its Victims Mr Wang Says So The biggest problem was the government's rigid insistence (that lasted for many years) that a student who wished to progress to the next higher stage of education would have to pass both English and Chinese - entirely regardless of what he wanted to study, at the next stage. **** ?????????????????????24???????????? ????????? ?????????, ???????????? ???????????????????????????24???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????24??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????24?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? How the heck did this guy 'know' that the majority of residents do not want 24-hour services near their flats? **** Fined $1.7m For Price Fixing Maria Almenoar, Straits Times Sixteen coach bus companies and the Express Bus Agencies Association have been fined $1.69 million by the Competition Competition Commission of Singapore (CCS) for fixing the prices of express bus tickets to Malaysia. **** Singapore's Temasek Bidding For Taikang Life Stake: Reports MarketWatch Singapore's state-backed investment fund Temasek Holdings is expected to submit a bid for a stake in China's Taikang Life worth more than $1 billion, according to news reports. **** ????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? ??????????????????????????? ????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? **** ???????????????????????????????????? ???????????? ???????????? ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? **** Whither The Leaders? Today In Singapore Hardly the ???I had a dream??? type of inspirational speechmaking from a leader. Reflecting, even he recognised his response was downright effete. **** Lee Kuan Yew Was Wrong. Singaporean Skeptic The feed-back mechanism the PAP government has in place is defective. The only way an MP can understand the ground is if they are affected directly. No wonder some people have to throw chairs to get their attention. **** An Alliance Between Singapore Opposition Parties: A Dream Too Far? Kelvin Teo, The Temasek Review The obstacles to the formation of an alliance cannot be ignored, and careful planning must be invested to maximize the advantages and minimize the pitfalls. That being said, the fact remains that if an alliance of opposition parties (possibly in future) in a GRC fight is able to produce good results, such will be a clear demonstration of the opposition???s ability to work together effectively as a unified front. **** Five Political Risks To Watch In Singapore Andrew Marshall and Nopporn Wong-Anan, Reuters **** ???Look at the science???, Mr Ho ??? A Letter To The Straits Times Green Kampong "Mr. Ho urges Singapore not to be ???bamboozled??? by Western leaders to take climate action, but it seems that the real bamboozling is coming from another source." **** APEC Meeting First Event To Be Gazetted Under New Public Order Act Imelda Saad, Channel NewsAsia The APEC meeting in Singapore is the first major event to be gazetted as a "Special Event" under the amended Public Order Act introduced earlier this year. **** New Opposition Candidate Expected In Potong Pasir Today It is likely that Potong Pasir Member of Parliament Chiam See Tong will contest in a Group Representation Constituency (GRC) in the next General Election, which is due by February 2012. According to Singapore People's Party (SPP) chairman Sin Kek Tong, "someone new" will be fielded to defend the Potong Pasir ward - a constituency that Mr Chiam has represented since 1984. **** US 'indispensable' In Asia: Singapore PM AFP The United States plays an "Indispensable" role in Asia despite the rise of China and India and should be part of any new regional group, Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said today. **** Singapore To Offer Chinese-language Domain Names Sumner Lemon, IDG News Service The Singapore Network Information Center (SGNIC) will begin registering Chinese-language domain names later this month, the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA) said Tuesday. **** New Heights For Singapore Property Megawati Wijaya, Asia Times A bubbling property market represents the latest indication that Singapore is recovering from its global crisis-induced economic doldrums. From applesurf at myapplemenu.com Wed Nov 4 18:59:01 2009 From: applesurf at myapplemenu.com (applesurf at myapplemenu.com) Date: 4 Nov 2009 23:59:01 -0000 Subject: [MyAppleMenu] Nov 4, 2009 Message-ID: <20091104235901.7807.qmail@voot.pair.com> MyAppleMenu ==================================== **** Apple Rejects iPhone App For Containing "iPhone" In Title Charles Arthur, Guardian Tales from the Twilight Zone of the iPhone App Store, pt 946: Apple has rejected an ebook submitted by Macworld because it contains the word "iPhone". **** iPhone Public Radio App Is A DVR For NPR Jared Newman, PC World **** OmniFocus 1.7 Review Karl Hodge, Macworld UK Get things done with OmniFocus: not so much a list maker as a life manager. **** Snow Leopard Bug Prevents Opening Groups Of Files Doug McLean, TidBITS A handful of recent threads on Apple's Support Discussion forums - backed up by our own testing - indicate that Snow Leopard suffers from a bug that prevents users from opening multiple recently downloaded files simultaneously. **** TapeDeck 1.3 Adds Apple Lossless Audio Codec Support MacNN The software behaves like an old-style tape recorder, with the ability to export to WAV, AIFF and MP3 formats. **** China Unicom Says It Has Signed Up 5,000 Users For Apple iPhone Mark Lee, Bloomberg China Unicom (Hong Kong) Ltd., the country???s second-biggest mobile-phone company, said it has 5,000 users for Apple Inc.???s iPhone, after the carrier introduced the handset in the world???s biggest phone market last week. **** Snow Leopard: Don't Get Caught In Date Handling Change In AppleScript David Morgenstern, ZDNet As users migrate to Snow Leopard they will find that AppleScript is less forgiving about date and time formatting. Formerly reliable scripts, years old, may fail. **** Dora The Explorer Interactive Learning Games Debut For Mac MacNN Avanquest Software???s Nova Development unit in collaboration with Nickelodeon has launched three new children???s software titles for the Mac, consisting of Dora the Explorer and Go, Diego Go! characters. **** Apple Tops In Retail, Universal Stores Lead Online MacNN Apple leads in brick-and-mortar retail stores but is no match for more universally oriented stores online, Consumer Reports says in its December issue. **** Create Pause-Zoom-Pause Effects In iMovie Stills Rob Griffiths, Macworld **** Mac Mini (Late 2009) Dan Frakes, Macworld According to Apple, the mini line was designed to be the most affordable way to get a computer with Mac OS X and iLife. While that may be true, the early-2009 Mac minis were the first that actually let you take full advantage of that software. The latest models improve modestly on their predecessors with faster processors, more RAM, and???on the lower-end model???more hard-drive space at the same $599 and $799 prices. The results are Mac minis that address a few of my biggest criticisms of the early-2009 models. (Sadly, slow hard drives remain.) **** Workaround For The 27 Inch iMac Flash Lag? Josh Carr, TUAW The suggestion at this point: cycle your wireless connection. **** Safari Data Bug Could Mean Huge Phone Bills for Some Lonnie Lazar, Cult Of Mac The danger appears related to Safari???s failure to close connections with web servers that run Motion JPEG to stream video over the Internet. **** Hands-on With The Magic Mouse Joachim Bean, TUAW Overall, if you've used a Mighty Mouse, you'll need little time to adjust. It feels mostly the same, and I was surprised in how easy it was to get used to. **** Parallels Desktop 5 Boosts Performance, More Jeff Gamet, The Mac Observer The new version of the OS virtualization application offers up to a three times performance improvement, and video performance that's up to seven times better compared to previous versions of the application. **** Two 'App Stores' For China Unicom's iPhone Steven Millward, CNET Asia Apple's App Store is the official source of third-party apps on China Unicom's iPhone. But China Unicom's online App Store, dubbed the China Unicom "Wo" portal, accessed in the Safari Web browser (at iphone.wo.com.cn), has positioned itself as the de facto source of apps for Chinese consumers. **** Why iPhone Sales In China Are Stronger Than Apple Thinks Minyanville.com In Apple???s eyes, the iPhone may have debuted last week. In reality, iPhones have been available to the Chinese, albeit illegally, for quite some time. **** Keep Track Of Changes In Pages Kirk McElhearn, Macworld **** App Store Officially Passes 100,000 App Mark Dan Moren, Macworld We???ve known it was coming for a while now, but the milestone has finally been passed: Apple announced on Wednesday that the App Store now boasts more than 100,000 applications available for download. And download the people have, more than two billion times in 77 countries. **** Developers Stealing From Developers: An App Store Tale Jeff Smykil, Ars Technica In the high-stakes game of iPhone application development, your portfolio can mean the difference between landing a client or being overlooked. What happens when your peers decide they need to steal from your app portfolio in order to get ahead? **** News: iTunes Store Highlights Music Related Movies Jeff Gamet, The Mac Observer Apple added a new section to its iTunes Store on Wednesday geared at highlighting movies with a musical theme. The section includes musicals, music-focused movies, concert movies and documentaries. **** Bare Bones Updates BBEdit David Morgenstern, ZDNet BBEdit, Bare Bones Software???s leading HTML code and text editor was updated to Version 9.3 on Tuesday with new features and interface tweaks. MyAppleMenu Reader ==================================== **** Cookbooks As Edible Adventures Julia Moskin, New York Times Even in the age of ever-expanding recipe databases, cookbooks are still alluring. In the good ones, voice, images, recipes and food sense knit into edible autobiography. **** A White House Chef Who Wears Two Hats Rachel L. Swarns, New York Times Twice a month, President Obama???s senior policy advisers gather at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building to hash out strategies for improving the health of the country???s children. Among the assistant secretaries, chiefs of staff and senior aides sits an unlikely participant: a bald, intense young man who happens to be the newest White House chef. **** Conversation Piece Robert Pinsky, Slate Magazine Why so much casual talk in Yeats' brilliant poem "Adam's Curse"? **** The Point Of Diminishing Returns AL Kennedy, Guardian I have no idea what a new writer would do now ??? publishers are beyond risk-averse: they are decision-averse. And we are all suffering from the lack of variety. **** Paris Ballet Follies Robert Gottlieb, The New York Review of Books Your take on Frederick Wiseman???s La Danse: The Paris Opera Ballet???a two-and-a-half hour documentary opening on November 4th at New York???s Film Forum???will depend on your feelings about ballet, about Wiseman, and about the Paris Opera Ballet itself. SingaporeSurf ==================================== **** Young Scholars With An Attitude Ong Dai Lin, Today Some government scholars have a poor attitude and misplaced expectations, such as expecting to meet their minister frequently. They can also be very choosy about postings and place personal interest above organisational interest. These are the observations that Public Service Commission chairman Eddie Teo has made about "a few" of the current generation of young scholars. **** Birds Shot Down Only As A Last Resort Yeo Kia Thye, Changi Airport Group, Straits Times Our priority is to minimise the potential hazard that birds could pose to aircraft. We seek to discourage the presence of birds in the airfield as far as possible, rather than to remove them by shooting. While these preventive measures do help, they do not keep birds away totally. **** SDP's Response To Queries From Today Singapore Democrats The SDP calls on the government to release the electoral map without further delay. In the past the PAP has done this at the last minute. In one of the recent elections, the new boundaries were made known the day before elections was called. This is a shameful practice which no confident ruling party would do and which no democratic system would accept. The PAP needs to stop all these shenanigans and reveal the boundaries immediately. **** No Apology Needed... Times They Are A-Changin' Did we detect any sense of remorse in our leaders when they quietly dropped such ill-informed policies? Not really. The Bilingual policy wasn't wrong. It was just a 'difficult' policy to implement. There is no apology needed in a one-party rule. **** Singapore Productivity Falls Sharply, Average Wages Drop To 2007 Level Blowin' In The Wind Singapore productivity has gone down sharply, according to the latest government data. It started before the recession, dipping slightly in 2007, then plummeted last year --- and hasn't hit bottom yet. **** Grassroots Advisers Are Not Accountable Either Gerald Giam It is unfortunate that the HDB has overlooked this reality and has chosen to work primarily with the advisers instead of the elected MPs to implement the LUP in opposition wards. **** ?????????????????????????????????????????? ????????? ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? **** ?????????????????????????????? ??????, ???????????? ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????10???27??????????????????????????????????????????????????????25????????????????????????????????? **** Singapore Has Health-care Hurdles Too Stanley Jeremiah, Wall Street Journal In many ways, Singapore is heading in the same direction as the U.S. when it comes to health care. While a high quality of care is available, it is not always accessible or affordable. People unfortunate enough to be born with or develop significant medical conditions can find the cost financially crippling to themselves and to their families. **** ???????????????????????????????????? ?????????, ???????????? ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? **** ??????????????????????????????????????? ?????????, ???????????? ????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? **** ?????????????????????????????? ?????????????????????????????? ?????????, ???????????? ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? **** Chiam See Tong Leaving Potong Pasir To Fight In A GRC: A Political Strategy Or Suicide? The Temasek Review With his own support base in Potong Pasir dwindling, is this the right time to leave his stronghold and venture into an unknown territory? **** Online Only - How To Make Buses Adhere To Schedules Bruno Wildermuth, Today I believe the time has come for bus operators to be held responsible for their drivers' performance regarding the schedules. Schedules should be published as they are in other cities and fines should be applied for all deviations, especially running ahead of schedule which is a very common occurrence in Singapore that invariably leads to major distortions in the waiting times for passengers. **** Parliament To Sit On Nov 23 Straits Times **** Nod For Chartered Takeover Chua Hian Hou, Straits Times The proposed $5.6 billion takeover of home-grown chip-maker Chartered Semiconductor by an Abu Dhabi sovereign fund was overwhelmingly passed by shareholders on Wednesday, in spite of fiery exchanges between hostile minority shareholders and the company's board of directors. **** Is The RSF Press Ranking Flawed? Readings From A Political Duo-ble Contrary to George???s assertion, the questions were not based on ???perceptions of the press??? but rather stating concrete cases of aspects of press freedom violations. **** New Strategy For EZ-Link To Expand Reach In Retail Sector Cheryl Lim, Channel NewsAsia EZ-Link is planning to capture a bigger share of the estimated S$38 billion card-based transaction market by expanding its reach in the retail sector. **** Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew Pisses Off Chinese Netizens Kenneth Tan, Shanghaiist In his various meetings rubbing shoulders with very important minds, the sage-like Lee who has often been counted on to interpret Asia to the west did not hesitate to tell the Americans what he saw in his crystal ball. **** ?????????????????????????????? ???????????? ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? **** ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????? ???????????????????????? ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? **** ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? ??????, ???????????? ????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? **** New Work Group To Study Joint Economic Project In Iskandar Malaysia Channel NewsAsia A new work group has been formed to study the joint development of an iconic economic project in Iskandar Malaysia. This is a follow-up to the discussions between the prime ministers of Malaysia and Singapore in May this year. **** ?????????:????????????????????????????????????????????? ???????????????????????? ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? **** Fears Of New Bubble As Cash Pours In Alex Frangos and Bob Davis, Wall Street Journal To battle bubbles, policy makers are turning first to regulation. Singapore's authorities tightened mortgage requirements, ended real-estate stimulus policies and pledged to make more land available for development. From applesurf at myapplemenu.com Thu Nov 5 18:59:00 2009 From: applesurf at myapplemenu.com (applesurf at myapplemenu.com) Date: 5 Nov 2009 23:59:00 -0000 Subject: [MyAppleMenu] Nov 5, 2009 Message-ID: <20091105235900.7561.qmail@voot.pair.com> MyAppleMenu ==================================== **** iMac (Late 2009) Benchmarks James Galbraith, Macworld **** App Store Size: Comparisons And Challenges Adam C. Engst, TidBITS I don't see Apple letting the App Store collapse under its own weight, but with all these other app stores coming online and gaining momentum, Apple needs to solve these problems sooner rather than later. **** Apple's 100000 Point Lead John Biggs, CrunchGear Apple???s refusal to expand its product line has finally paid off. By creating a regimented army of drone devices to run its marketplace they???ve ensured absolute compatibility at the cost of, potentially, consumer choice. **** Apple's Magic Mouse Is Simple, Beautiful, Functional MCT News Service Typically, simplicity comes with less functionality. But Apple seems to keep breaking that rule and the Magic Mouse is definitely another rule-breaker. If your Mac meets the minimum requirements, you're going to want this mouse. **** Reference Tracker 1.5 Adds Improvements, Bug Fixes MacNN The software enables users to track all citations and references within essays or books, while creating a reference list that can be accessed whenever necessary. The latest version features improved accuracy for the formatted reference list importer. **** Mac Game: Art Project Or Malware? Elinor Mills, CNET News As part of his Master of Fine Arts thesis project, Zach Gage wrote a game to run on Macintosh computers that resembles Space Invaders but with a digital roulette twist--for every alien space ship the player destroys a random file on the computer is deleted. **** Fix Snow Leopard's Screen Sharing Black Screen Bug Glenn Fleishman, TidBITS The advice - from Anonymous - is to change the Screen Sharing program's mode setting to 32 bits. **** Apple???s New Remote Is A Riddle, Wrapped In A Mystery, Inside An Enigma MG Siegler, TechCrunch I really don???t understand Apple???s thinking with these remotes. It would seem that they???re clearly inching towards products with less buttons and more touch elements, but this new remote is the opposite of that. **** Five Classic Apple Marketing Tactics That Lock You In Dan Tynan, PC World The bottom line: Apple makes great products, but its marketing practices limit your choices and cost you more money. **** Does Apple Really Build What You Want? Tech Night Owl Apple???s logic is that they aren???t going to build a product unless they can sell enough copies to make it profitable. That means that you won???t get a non-glossy iMac unless demand is extremely high. There will probably never be a mid-priced expandable desktop without an integrated display simply because the market is moving towards notebooks. **** It's Apple's World, We Just Click In It InfoWorld People can't get enough of Apple's aura of cool. But a bit more humility would make the company easier to live with. **** MacSpeech Dictate Adds Surport For Bluetooth Headset Macworld UK MacSpeech 1.5.6 adds a new dictation preferences pane that allows the Auto Cache Document feature to be enabled or disabled for TextEdit and Microsoft Word. The update also adds "exclusive support" for the Plantronics Calisto Bluetooth Headset. which allows freedom of movement during dictation. **** Review: Studio One Pro 1.0.1 John Brandon, Macworld For those who never buy a 1.0 product, just on principle, now might be the time to break the rule. Studio One Pro 1.0.1 has an arguably more appealing interface than Logic Studio, the one-screen approach is easy to use, yet really powerful, and the app is a solid and stable performer. Plus, the musical results are impressive. I own Logic Studio, but I plan to record more songs with Studio One. The Tomorrow Weblog ==================================== **** Software Listens For Hints Of Depression Jennifer Chu, MIT Technology Review While most speech recognition software concentrates on turning words and phrases into text, Pentland's group is developing algorithms that analyze subtle cues in speech to determine whether someone is feeling awkward, anxious, disconnected or depressed. MyAppleMenu Reader ==================================== **** License To Wonder Olivia Judson, New York Times There are plenty of (probably) apocryphal tales about what inspired a great discovery, from Archimedes in his bathtub, to Newton and his apple. But there are also many well-documented accounts of inspiration ??? or lack of it ??? in the history of science. **** Firing Bullets Of Data At Cozy Anti-Science Janet Maslin, New York Times The term ???denialism,??? used by Mr. Specter as an all-purpose, pop-sci buzzword, is defined by him as what happens ???when an entire segment of society, often struggling with the trauma of change, turns away from reality in favor of a more comfortable lie.??? In this hotly argued yet data-filled diatribe, Mr. Specter skips past some of the easiest realms of science baiting (i.e., evolution) to address more current issues, from the ethical questions raised by genome research to the furiously fought debate over the safety of childhood vaccinations. **** The Secrets Of A Family Recipe Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan, The Atlantic The first time my grandmother was hospitalized for the mysterious pains that would lead to her death, she had an important thing on her mind. Summoning my Uncle Soo Kiat to the bedside of her Singapore hospital, she said, "I've made the chili paste for otah," referring to a creamy and spicy fish paste wrapped in banana leaves that was one of her many signature dishes. "The fish has been bought; the otah must be made." **** Promises, Promises Stuart Blackman, The Scientist Of course, scientists have a strong incentive to make bold predictions???namely, to obtain funding, influence, and high-profile publications. But while few will be disappointed when worst-case forecasts fail to materialize, unfulfilled predictions???of which we???re seeing more and more???can be a blow for patients, policy makers, and for the reputation of science itself. SingaporeSurf ==================================== **** Govt Will Continue To Invest Heavily In Sports, Says DPM Wong Low Lin Fhoong, Channel NewsAsia Deputy prime minister Wong Kan Seng said the government will continue to invest heavily in sports, as evidenced by the Sports Hub, which is due to be constructed at the Kallang waterfront. The government is actually talking about sports entertainment, I guess. **** S'pore Top Choice Of Migrants Lin Zhaowei, Straits Times Singapore is a top immigration hot spot, according to a global survey conducted by Gallup. If it were to take in all adults who wish to settle in the country, its adult population of 3.6 million would jump to 13 million, said the survey released this week. **** Foreign Cooks Shouldn't Be Required To Have A Degree To Work Here Jonathan Siow, Straits Times Since June 1, the Ministry of Manpower (MOM) has tightened its criteria for foreigners who apply for employment passes. For example, a foreign cook now needs to have a degree to qualify for the S-Pass. Would any cook go for a degree? **** What's Really Rotten In The City-State Of Singapore? Bryan Caplan, EconLib Bottom line: Singapore's critics have plenty of genuine grievances to denounce. (And under Singaporean law, it's legal to do so - just don't get personal!) So why do the critics keep complaining about "lack of democracy" when the real story is that most Singaporeans persistently prefer the PAP to the opposition? **** ?????????????????????????????????????????? ?????????, ????????? ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? **** GST Is Unnecessary For Singapore Tan Kin Lian **** Lee's Ill Advice Only Spreads Mistrust Wu Meng, Global Times In times lacking mutual trust, an influential politician like Lee should be focusing on building mutual trust instead of spreading mistrust. **** 7 Good Reasons Why Public Transport Ridership Is Dropping Ronald Chan, The Temasek Review **** HDB???s $2 Billion Dollar Deficit ??? More Questions Than Answers Damon Yeo, The Temasek Review Reading through financial statements had left this writer with more questions than answers. There is no question on the integrity and truthfulness of the numbers as presented publicly, but more explanation and disclosure are required before anyone can examine the state of HDB finances critically. **** Expedite Traffic Flow At CIQ Roger Poh, The Star With Malaysia???s anxieties about attracting investments to the Iskandar Development Region and boosting tourist arrivals from Singapore, the removal of unnecessary hassles and faster clearance of traffic at the Sultan Iskandar Customs and Immigration Quarantine Complex in Johor Baru should be the concern of the relevant authorities. **** Opening Of New MRT Stations Still Depends On Nearby Developments Phua Hooi Boon, Ministry of Transport, Straits Times What we will do is open stations when there are sufficient developments around a station. As rail lines and their stations are built to cater to both near- and long-term needs, there will be areas along the rail line where development plans are to be realised only in the long term. **** The Booboo Of Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew Singapore Recalcitrant Do Singapore taxpayers really believe that the annual remuneration of three million dollars MM Lee receives is a fair charge on them? To all intents and purposes the office of minister mentor appears to be a sinecure. What he does is to jet around to spout his whimsical ideas upon gullible audiences around the world, which not surprisingly included such discerning world leaders like President Barack Obama. And occasionally he made a booboo out of it. **** Stop Comparing Singapore With Third World Countries Gerald Giam It never ceases to amaze me the kind of examples some people will use to drive home their point that the PAP is the one and only party capable of leading Singapore forever and ever. **** ??????????????????????????????????????????????????? ??????????????N????????? ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? **** What Will The Economic Recovery Mean For Singaporeans? Manu Bhaskaran, The Edge In short, while wages may not rise as much as in the good years, household balance sheets are likely to remain strong. This augurs well for Singaporeans next year. **** New Fund For Care Services Theresa Tan, Straits Times A new $1 million fund to support initiatives that improve the lives of the elderly, disabled and their care-givers has been set up. **** ??????????????????????????????????????????????????? ????????????????????? ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????--??????????????????????????????????????? **** ??????????????????????????????????????? ???????????????????????? ?????????, ????????? ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? **** 9 In 10 S'pore Workers Prefer To Work For Ethical Firms: Survey Lin Jiamei, Channel NewsAsia Ninety-one per cent of Singapore workers said that they are more likely to work for an organisation that is ethically and socially responsible, according to a survey by Kelly Services. **** The 3 Tiers Of Censorship In Singapore Martyn See, Only "Objective" And "Factual" Political Films Please, We're Singaporeans The Singapore government adopts a one step forward, two steps back approach in calibrating space for political expression. **** Exploring Johor Bahru Lim Mun Fah, Sin Chew Daily When the ties have been loosened, is Johor Bahru really nothing more than just a place for eating, drinking and playing for Singaporeans? **** ?????????????????????????????? ?????? ????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? **** Sentosa Resort To Open By Jan Bernama From applesurf at myapplemenu.com Fri Nov 6 18:59:00 2009 From: applesurf at myapplemenu.com (applesurf at myapplemenu.com) Date: 6 Nov 2009 23:59:00 -0000 Subject: [MyAppleMenu] Nov 6, 2009 Message-ID: <20091106235900.45502.qmail@voot.pair.com> MyAppleMenu ==================================== **** 8 Stars Speak Out On Steve Jobs Fortune Eight people who rarely speak publicly about Jobs explain what makes him one of the best business minds of our time. **** Quick QuickTime Q&A TJ Luoma, TUAW QuickTime was one of the few apps which changed significantly in Snow Leopard. We've heard from some readers who missed the initial reports about it, so we're repeating it here, with some additional QuickTime information. **** Apple Unveils First Paris Store In Louvre Ed Sutherland, Cult of Mac Apple today opened the first of a series of stores planned for Paris. The first, located near the famous Louvre art museum, coincided with the release of the Musee du Louvre iPhone app showcasing among other exhibits, Leonardo da Vinci???s Mona Lisa. **** Steve Jobs's Legacy Fortune Harvard professor Nancy F. Koehn shows us how Steve Jobs stacks up with other great entrepreneurs in history. **** Inside The Apple Ecosystem Fortune >From the brightly colored iMac to the ultra-sleek MacBook Pro, Steve Jobs turned geeky PCs into lusted-after objects. **** The Decade of Steve Adam Lashinsky, Fortune How Apple's imperious, brilliant CEO transformed American business. **** John Legend Live: With MacBook Pro, Logic Studio And MainStage Apple For Legend, cinching that connection on the current tour involves working his songs on every level to meet and exceed the high bar set by the massively popular recordings. **** First Look: Viewfinder For Mac Finds Images For You Jeff Smykil, Ars Technica Viewfinder offers a convenient way to search, obtain, and attribute photos from the popular Flickr photo-sharing site. If you use a lot of images in your day-to-day life, you will want to take a closer look. **** iTunes LP Now Available For Apple TV Customers Dave Caolo, TUAW **** Five Unexpected Uses For The Control Key Sharon Zardetto, Macworld If you???re like me, you???ve nearly worn out your Mac???s Control key (often labeled CTRL), using it to open contextual menus. It???s true that Control-clicking on anything from a Finder icon to a window???s title is an amazingly handy way to access a pop-up menu of targeted options. But you can also add Control to common key combinations for variations on the original functions. The Tomorrow Weblog ==================================== **** Some TVs Go Directly Online For Streaming Movies John R. Quain, New York Times MyAppleMenu Reader ==================================== **** A Dream Home Undone By Divorce Penelope Green, New York Times Welcome to home interrupted, Leslie Williams said, opening the door to what appeared to be just the opposite: a bright TriBeCa loft with near-lapidary finishes. **** The Life And Death Of The Death Of God Nathan Schneider, Obit It was a recipe for the easiest headline ever: "Death of God Guy Dies." John T. Elson, who passed away on Sept. 7, was a journalist best known for penning the story behind Time magazine???s wildly controversial cover in April 1966, which asked, in bold red letters over a black backdrop, "Is God Dead?" The issue became one of the best selling in the magazine's history and sent American religion spiraling into an identity crisis. Maybe now, goes the obvious punch line, Elson can tell us the answer. SingaporeSurf ==================================== **** Manage Foreigners' Inflow Straits Times Singapore must manage the inflow of foreign talent and other immigrants to ensure Singaporeans do not lose out but rather benefit from their presence, senior minister Goh Chok Tong said on Thursday. He said the Republic, which is already a cultural melting pot, will become even more diverse in the years to come. **** Global Bodies Need Change Jeremy Au Yong, Straits Times Previously Western-centric organisations like the World Bank need to make fundamental adjustments to remain relevant and ensure stability in the post-crisis world, minister mentor Lee Kuan Yew says. **** The Agony Of Waiting For Some Buses Beverly Robin Britton, Straits Times **** Free Ez-link Replacement Card Shouldn't Come With Zero Value Wilson Choo, Straits Times **** ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? ???????????????????????????, ???????????? ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? **** ???????????????????????????????????????????????? ?????????, ???????????? ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? **** Temasek Scores Perfect 10 Alvin Foo, Straits Times Temasek Holdings has kept its position as one of the world's most transparent sovereign wealth funds (SWFs). It attained a perfect score in the third quarter of this year on a United States-based transparency index which evaluates such entities. **** Attack On Temasek Review: Not SPH Geoffrey Pereira, Straits Times Well, the truth is no warning was needed; but perhaps a little more understanding of the Internet by TR. **** ?????????????????????????????????????????? ???????????????????????? ????????? ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????balance????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????balance????????? **** Slowly, Foreign Buyers Drift Back Into Singapore New York Times After five consecutive quarters of decline in Singapore???s property market, the luxury segment is starting to improve, partly helped by the slow reappearance of foreign buyers. **** Can Raymond Lim Survive The Rush Hour MRT? Diary of A Singaporean Mind I don't think the sardine can, armpit smelling stuffy experience can ever show up in any of the stats. We may think of Malaysia as being behind us in everything but they have one minister who doesn't just look at statistics... **** Declaring Of Goods: Singapore Custom Clarifies For Everyone's Benefit Victor Seah, Singapore Customs, Today In Mr Melvinder Kanth's case, he had claimed that he had always placed everything in the scanner in plain view of the officials. We wish to inform that this by itself does not constitute a proper declaration being made. This is because when a traveller goes through the green lane for clearance, it is taken as a declaration that the traveler has nothing to declare. Hence, he/she would be liable if he/she had in his/her possession contraband items as defined by the country's laws. **** Does APEC Matter Anymore? Kevin Voigt, CNN International **** MFA Spokesman's Comments In Response To Media Queries On Singapore's Views On Recent Developments In Thai-Cambodia Relations Singapore Government "Singapore is concerned about the deteriorating relationship between Thailand and Cambodia. It is not good for ASEAN. We hope that both our friends will keep the larger interest of ASEAN in mind and find a way to resolve their differences quickly in a spirit of good neighbourliness." **** Downturn Could Spread From Singapore???s Ships To Shore Kevin Brown and Paul Betts, Financial Times Now half the banks that used to provide finance for shipping companies have pulled out of the market. It could get worse: hundreds of new ships are on order, many unfinanced. That could help push the proportion of idle box ships as high as 20 per cent next year. No wonder, then, that the trend rate of growth in the city state is likely to shift downwards to somewhere below 5 per cent over the next decade, as Tharman Shanmugaratnam, finance minister, told the Financial Times the other day. **** The Distinctive City Groundnotes This neurotic desire to keep re-inventing ourselves, to be what we???re not, tells us more about our insecurities than anything else. **** Controversy Is 'normal' Sun Chi Yin, Straits Times The recent uproar among Chinese netizens over minister mentor Lee Kuan Yew's call for the United States to remain engaged in Asia to balance China is 'normal', the Chinese foreign ministry said on Friday. It will not affect the bilateral mood ahead of president Hu Jintao's state visit to Singapore next week, the ministry suggested. From applesurf at myapplemenu.com Sat Nov 7 18:59:00 2009 From: applesurf at myapplemenu.com (applesurf at myapplemenu.com) Date: 7 Nov 2009 23:59:00 -0000 Subject: [MyAppleMenu] Nov 7, 2009 Message-ID: <20091107235900.87291.qmail@voot.pair.com> MyAppleMenu ==================================== **** Apple's Broadway Store To Open Saturday, Nov. 14 AppleInsider Apple has officially announced that its forthcoming flagship store on Broadway in New York City will have its grand opening on Nov. 14, in time for the holiday shopping season. **** Add More Effects To Photo Booth And iChat Rob Griffiths, Macworld As you know, Photo Booth includes a collection of image-altering effects you can use to distort your photos; just click the Effects button to see the collection of 24 effects, and to apply them to your photos. A subset of these effects (16 in all) are available in iChat, too, for use in creating some truly strange looking iChat image icons. But in case that???s not enough effects for you, here???s a way to add over 20 additional effects to both iChat and Photo Booth. **** Magic Mouse Loses Its Way Ted Landau, Macworld The mouse will occasionally drop its connection altogether. When this happens, a ???Connection Lost??? message briefly pops up on the display. This can occur even while the mouse is sitting idle. Typically, the mouse re-establishes a connection on its own, but there is no telling how long this will take. **** Doom Game Creator Suggests Apple Embarrassed About iPhone Gaming Brian Garner, AppleInsider John Carmack, creator of the classic PC game Doom, described working with Apple as a "rollercoaster ride," and suggested that company executives are not happy about the popularity of gaming on the iPhone and iPod touch. **** Amid Transition, Rivals Are Descending On Apple Noreen O'Leary, Brandweek Magazine Apple, once untouchable in terms of marketing, has gotten a little roughed up lately. **** iPhone Superguide Comes To The App Store... Eventually Jason Snell, Macworld Now, as some of you may have read elsewhere, getting this app up on the App Store was not as easy as you might think it would be. **** iPhoniness Mark Tennent, ATPM **** With New Features, Apple's MobileMe Is Worth The Price Glenn Fleishman, Seattle Times Apple has finally assembled a set of features for its hosted MobileMe service that makes it worth its subscription fee for the right user. As a critic of the service in the past, I find myself with naught but praise these days. **** Apple Deploys Its New EasyPay Device At Paris??? Grand Store Opening App Advice **** iPhone App Store Hits 100K, Leaves Others In The Dust Yoni Heisler, Network World The iPhone may soon be getting stiffer competition from upcoming products like the Motorola Droid, but one area where Apple's commanding lead seems untouchable is its mobile app store. **** Europe's Biggest Newspaper Forcing Purchase Of Its iPhone App Markus Goebel, Seeking Alpha So much for the coming mobile nirvana of free mobile content ??? at least for iPhone users in Germany. Today Europe???s biggest newspaper, BILD-Zeitung, intends to use, in effect, brute force to compel users buy its new iPhone app. The paper tabloid is to block anyone using an iPhone browser from accessing its website. **** Apple Introduces Reserve And Pick-up Mike Schramm, TUAW The name is a little unwieldy, but it gets the point across. You go onto the Apple web site to find what you want, click to reserve the product at a nearby Apple Store, and then go to the store and pick up the goods while you're doing your holiday shopping between December 15 to 24. **** Bare Bones Yojimbo MacNN Drag and drop to organize your digital tidbits in a logical way and find them again easily. Yojimbo 2 makes this possible in simple, but powerful program. **** Update Fixes iPhone Sync Problem With Windows 7 For Some Nancy Gohring, IDG News Service Gigabyte Technology issued a BIOS update on Friday that fixes a problem for some Windows 7 users who have been unable to sync their iPhones. **** The Many Sliders Of Photoshop CS4 Neven Mrgan They???re all ugly. The Tomorrow Weblog ==================================== **** Adding A 'SixthSense' To Your Cellphone Vikas Bajaj, New York Times Many Indians bought their first mobile phones before they had their first experiences with personal computers. Pranav Mistry thinks that most of them might also skip keyboards and mice and go straight to more intuitive and interactive interfaces. MyAppleMenu Reader ==================================== **** The Internet Is Killing Storytelling Ben Macintyre, The Times Narratives are a staple of every culture the world over. They are disappearing in an online blizzard of tiny bytes of information. **** Penguin Flogs It (And Sells Some Books) Anthony Cummins, Guardian What's the most depressing piece of Penguin merchandising? Notebooks featuring the classic covers of much-loved titles that cost more than the novels themselves. **** Four Poems Will Stone, 3:AM Magazine **** Clive James Isn't A Climate Change Sceptic, He's A Sucker - But This May Be The Reason George Monbiot, Guardian My fiercest opponents on global warming tend to be in their 60s and 70s. This offers a fascinating, if chilling, insight into human psychology. **** Is Technology Dumbing Down Japanese? Emily Parker, New York Times Now the Japanese language is being transformed by blogs, e-mail and keitai shosetsu, or cellphone novels. Americans may fret over the ways digital communications encourage sloppy grammar and spelling, but in Japan these changes are much more wrenching. A vertically written language seems to be becoming increasingly horizontal. Novels are being written and read on little screens. People have gotten so used to typing on computers that they can no longer write characters by hand. And English words continue to infiltrate the language. **** Stephen King???s Glass ??Menagerie James Parker, New York Times Now that the town halls have blazed with vituperation, and fantastical patriots are girding themselves for fascist/socialist lockdown, Americans of a certain vintage must be feeling a familiar circumambient thrill. Boomers, you know what I???m talking about: cranks empowered, strange throes and upthrusts, hyperbolic placards brandished in the streets ??? it???s the ???60s all over again! Once more the air turns interrogative: something???s happening here, but we don???t know what it is, do we, Mr. Jones? Stop, children, what???s that sound? **** Can Modern Dance Be Preserved? Arthur Lubow, New York Times Unlike drama and music, which also unfold in time, dance is not dictated by a written script or score. Although choreographers may sketch out a work for themselves with notes, dance is still taught primarily by one dancer to another, ???body to body,??? as the saying goes, the way the arts were transmitted in ancient cultures. A sculptor???s blocks of stone or a painter???s pigments are paragons of stability compared to the human clay that the choreographer molds. SingaporeSurf ==================================== **** Rethinking The Singapore Growth Model Choy Keen Meng, Today In the last decade, the declining growth rates delivered by the model have also been accompanied by increased output volatility, an amplification of business cycles and a worsening of the income distribution. Such undesirable side-effects must be explicitly taken into account in a balanced assessment of the model's success vis-a-vis the objective of stable and equitable growth for all. **** Some Cheer For Sports Fans Leong Wee Keat and Ong Dai Lin, Today The battle to woo sports fans has escalated, with StarHub and SingTel firing one-two salvos within hours on Friday. Is it a sign that the competition in pay-TV is finally turning in viewers' favour, instead of hurting their pockets with ballooning fees? **** Home-alone Maid Relents After Government Officer Insists On House Inspection Jeremy Yeow, Straits Times What is the NEA's protocol on such visits when the owner is not around and only the maid or a minor is at home? Should the NEA or any government officer enter the premises in the first place, granted that he is carrying out official duties (besides emergencies)? **** "Exceptionalism" Is To Ignore, Rebut Or Engage? Feed Me To The Fish Ignore, rebut or engage? What the difference? **** ST Insight: Censorship Review Committee Thoughts Sam Ho, Sam's thoughts **** ????????????????????? ???????????????????????? ?????????, ???????????? ????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? **** Greater Acclaim Lies Abroad For Minister Mentor Seah Chiang Nee, The Star The foreign recognition comes at a time when the Minister Mentor is losing popularity among young Singaporeans who have a different set of values and little recollection of what he did in the past. However, Singapore???s founding father has shown he still retains the world???s admiration for his role in the contemporary history of Singapore and the region. **** Chiu Chiu Chiuu In Singapore Jian Akiraceo, A Cat Tale **** Modern Architecture In Singapore Tom Ravenscroft, Suite101 Denied the chance to increase it???s exposure through the construction of the ???world???s tallest building???, Singapore has tried to find other ways to distinguish itself and increase people's awareness of the city through its architecture. City officials knew this could be achieved by creating an iconic landmark building, an Eiffel Tower or a Sydney Opera House, which would become synonymous with the city's prosperity. **** More To Gain From Best Sourcing Goh Chin Lian, Straits Times As contractors undercut one another when making bids, and clients go for the cheapest deal, such low-educated and low-skilled workers often accept worse terms to keep their jobs, said unionists and employers. **** Must Address Emotive Issue Straits Times Opening the doors to immigrants and migrant workers is an emotive subject, but it is a critical issue that must be addressed, said senior minister Goh Chok Tong. **** ?????????????????????????????? ??????????????????BLOG ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? **** ???????????????????????????????????? ????????????BLOG **** Singapore???s National Interests Vis-A-Vis China Gerald Giam This is why it is in our interest that the US to continues to station its armed forces in Japan, Korea, Philippines, Australia and, yes, Singapore, and steps up its political and economic engagement of countries in the region, including China. From applesurf at myapplemenu.com Sun Nov 8 18:59:00 2009 From: applesurf at myapplemenu.com (applesurf at myapplemenu.com) Date: 8 Nov 2009 23:59:00 -0000 Subject: [MyAppleMenu] Nov 8, 2009 Message-ID: <20091108235900.88893.qmail@voot.pair.com> MyAppleMenu ==================================== **** Users Encounter Early Magic Mouse Issues MacNN Anticipated drag and swipe functions are sometimes said to be failing, leaving only regular click commands available. When the special wireless mouse software is applied, a Mac may still fail to detect a Magic Mouse. **** Heads Up: Update Your Apple TV To 3.0.1 ASAP, Says Apple Michael Rose, TUAW Apple has shipped 3.0.1, which is supposed to fix problems where 3.0 units would unexpectedly dump all their loaded content. **** iPhone Disappoints In China Launch: Analysts AFP The official launch of Apple's iPhone in China has been disappointing at best for mobile operator China Unicom, with the grey market still booming and competitors offering worthy alternatives, experts say. **** How 'bout That Magic Mouse: Simple, Beautiful, Functional Craig Crossman, McClatchy News Service Typically, simplicity comes with less functionality. But Apple seems to keep breaking that rule and the Magic Mouse is definitely another rule-breaker. If your Mac meets the minimum requirements, you???re going to want this mouse. The Tomorrow Weblog ==================================== **** Far From A Lab? Turn A Cellphone Into A Microscope Anne Eisenberg, New York Times Microscopes are invaluable tools to identify blood and other cells when screening for diseases like anemia, tuberculosis and malaria. But they are also bulky and expensive. Now an engineer, using software that he developed and about $10 worth of off-the-shelf hardware, has adapted cellphones to substitute for microscopes. **** Watch The Walk And Prevent A Fall Steve Lohr, New York Times For years, a small group of geriatric experts has studied falls and suggested preventive programs. Most of the work has relied on visits to doctors and self-reported surveys of volunteers. But now, researchers are beginning to apply the digital tools of low-cost wireless sensors in carpets, clothing and rooms to monitor an older person???s walking and activity. The continuous measurement and greater precision afforded by simple computing devices, researchers say, promise to deliver new insights on risk factors and tailored prevention measures. SingaporeSurf ==================================== **** ????????????????????????????????? ?????????, ???????????? ????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? **** Pregnant Women Sacked Radha Basu, Straits Times There were 119 'pregnancy-related' complaints lodged with the Ministry of Manpower (MOM) in the first nine months of the year - up from 72 for the whole of 2007, and 95 last year. **** Singapore: Is One National Daily Enough? Imran Ahmed, The Temasek Review The real loser is Singapore ??? and any entrepreneur wishing to invest capital so as to create an enlarged, vibrant media sector. It is time for the government to encourage greater private sector participation in the media sector by reducing barriers to entry and creating a level competitive playing field. **** Singapore PM Says China-Singapore Ties Good On Broad Front Zhang Yongxing and Gao Chuan, Xinhua China and Singapore have enjoyed good relations on a broad front over the past two decades, and Chinese president Hu Jintao's forthcoming visit to Singapore next week will give the already good relations another push upwards, Singapore's prime minister Lee Hsien Loong has said. In a recent exclusive interview with Xinhua, Lee Hsien Loong said that Singapore is very happy that its relations with China have grown and prospered over the last 20 years in many fields. **** New Immigrants Help Sustain, Enrich S'porean Way Of Life, Says SM Goh Diary of A Singaporean Mind Having one cup of coffee everyday helps to gets you going, but the PAP's immigration policy is like taking 15 cups of coffee a day overworking your adrenal glands to the point of exhaustion- our housing market is over-heated, our structural unemployment problems severe, our income gap is terrible and the ordinary Singaporean is asking what the hell is going on here. **** Singapore's Sterile Charms Jamaica Observer Singapore is the temple to civilised living. They pay heavily for all that social order with their civil liberties. But given how much disorder is breaking out around the world, I suspect there are increasing numbers of people who would be willing to do the same. Singapore's sterile charms make it one of the best places in the world to live. For that reason alone it is a very worthwhile place to visit. **** ??????????????????????????????,????????????????????? ?????? ????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? **** ??????????????????????????????????????????????????? ?????????, ????????? ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? **** Press Can Criticise, But Government Expects Right Of Reply Yours Truly Singapore So if Mr Shanmugam wishes to question the objectivity of the rankings, it needs to come up with more objective arguments than merely equating law and order with press control. **** Studying At Airport 'Unique' Leow Si Wan, Straits Times Some people view them with contempt, others as eyesores cluttering the way, but tourists here seem unbothered by the sight of students studying at Changi Airport. In fact, a number of travellers said they find these students a distinctive trademark at the airport. **** First Potential Payout Heartening Judith Tan, Straits Times Health minister Khaw Boon Wan is heartened by the news of the first potential kidney donor to be reimbursed by the National Kidney Foundation (NKF). He said it reinforced the belief that when the donor's welfare is taken care of, he does not have to think twice about donating a kidney. **** Is Asia Taking Corporate Social Responsibility Seriously? Chris Tobias, Celsias Countries taking this position on emissions has knock on effects for their national industries, such as aviation. Some countries such as Singapore are crafty in how they straddle both sides of the fence: for business and investment, they position themselves as developed nations; on climate and carbon issues, they wish to be seen as developing countries to avoid major emissions liability. **** Health Minister Expects Foreigners To Come To Singapore For H1N1 Vaccine Joanne Chan, Channel NewsAsia Health minister Khaw Boon Wan said Sunday he expects some foreigners to come to Singapore for the H1N1 vaccine. However, Mr Khaw said there is a sufficient supply of vaccines for Singaporeans who need it. **** Users Required To Top Up Replacement Cards, Says EZ-Link Gregory Gerald Danker, EZ-Link, Straits Times While EZ-Link will replace all faulty cards for free, these cards will not come with any additional monetary encoding and the user is required to top up the card before use. From applesurf at myapplemenu.com Mon Nov 9 18:59:01 2009 From: applesurf at myapplemenu.com (applesurf at myapplemenu.com) Date: 9 Nov 2009 23:59:01 -0000 Subject: [MyAppleMenu] Nov 9, 2009 Message-ID: <20091109235901.71166.qmail@voot.pair.com> MyAppleMenu ==================================== **** Apple Addict Ted Murphy **** How Apple Handles App Store Infringement Complaints: Badly OS News **** Apple TV Is Still On The Fritz0 Philip Elmer-DeWitt, Fortune Despite a hasty fix to repair the last update, reports of problems continue to pour in. **** A For Apple, I For Phone Michelle McGee, Savannah Morning News If you are an iPhoner, though, you understand because you know that the iPhone is more than just a phone. In fact, it's a world of entertainment at your fingertips, no matter how small they may be. **** Apple Still Not Allowing VoIP Calls Over 3G Om Malik, GigaOM A month has passed since the decision was announced, and there is still no support for VoIP over 3G. **** HD Radio For The iPhone Lauren Goode, Wall Street Journal The HD Radio app for the iPhone, while technically free, isn???t cheap. It requires a Gigaware HD Radio receiver accessory, which costs $80 and is only available at Radio Shack. Headphones are also required, not just for listening purposes, but also to act as antennae for the receiver. **** Apple Begins Shipping Core I5 iMacs MacNN Apple this morning began sending notices that it has started shipping at least Core i5-equipped versions of the 27-inch iMac. **** First-Known iPhone Worm 'Rickrolls' Jailbroken Apple Handsets AppleInsider The iPhone's first worm -- a playful, wallpaper-changing prank that only affects jailbroken phones -- could be a sign of more dangerous things to come. **** Review: Bare Bones' Yojimbo 2.0 MacNN **** iPhone Hints: Take Self-portraits More Easily Dan Moren, Macworld The iPhone???s shutter control doesn???t trigger when you press the camera button, it triggers when you release it. So the simple trick for taking better iPhone self-portraits is to press and hold the camera button, then turn the phone around and snap the picture by releasing your finger. MyAppleMenu Reader ==================================== **** Little Darlings Amanda Fortini, Salon Inside the elaborate, disturbing and downright riveting world of child-beauty pageants. **** Fireflies Dave Smith, New Yorker **** The Burglary Linda Pastan, New Yorker **** Alone Yiyun Li, New Yorker When the waitress came to take the order, she asked how Suchen was doing with the smoke. Suchen replied vaguely that all was well with her, though she had no idea what smoke the waitress was talking about. The man sitting at the next table, an elbow away???the patio was barely large enough for the six tables it held, three of them unoccupied???must have been observing the exchange; he leaned over after the waitress had left and explained that up north the wildfire was just a few miles from the state highway. **** Poem Of The Week: Our Be'thplace By William Barnes Carol Rumens, Guardian SingaporeSurf ==================================== **** Baby-unfriendly Poles On SBS Buses Ong Chee Seng, Straits Times The entrances and exits of SBS buses are fitted with a metal pole divider in the centre of the doors, making loading and unloading of baby prams or strollers tedious and difficult. **** The Difference That Is Invent Singapore Abhinav Jain, SGEntrepreneurs **** Singapore Bottoms Out Of Crisis With Minimum Damage: Lee Kuan Yew Xinhua **** Film Censorship Correspondence, Part 2 Yawning Bread I thought long and hard about what I should say in response, but in the end, I felt it would make very little sense to bang one's head on a brick wall, writing an email back. In any case, I think it is apparent enough to readers that ultimately, the authorities' response is not of reason, but essentially one of folding their arms and saying: "Because we said so." **** A Rebuttal To Andy Ho???s Article On Climate Change Julian Wong Li-An, The Temasek Review Andy Ho relies on selective analysis, dubious science and false assertions in urging Singapore to resist action on climate change. In doing so, Mr. Ho single-handedly casts a pall over his own credibility as a science writer, compromises the integrity of the paper for which he writes for, and undermines the international standing of a country that wants to be, in the words of PM Lee Hsien Loong, a ???responsible member of the international community??? that should shoulders its ???fair share of the collective global effort to reduce carbon emissions.??? **** More Turn To Sub-letting HDB Flats Esther Ng, Today Some were in financial hardship, and an increasing number were Singaporeans working overseas or who simply saw their flats as investments. They made up the growing number of households that are sub-letting their entire flats - a figure that jumped 21 per cent in the course of the last financial year. **** Sucking Demigods??? Toes Yawning Bread I sometimes wonder why people don't seem to feel embarrassed. They hold high positions; they can't be stupid to have gotten to where they are. Yet they kowtow to their political masters so low, they not only kiss their feet, but suck their toes. **** PRs Vetted Carefully Rachel Chang, Straits Times The government looks closely at permanent residents' (PRs) contributions to Singapore before deciding which ones can become citizens, said minister mentor Lee Kuan Yew on Sunday night at a Tanjong Pagar GRC event. **** From Railway Track To The Centrepoint (Part 1 Of 2) Times of My Life I just got my key when they first opened in 1983. I mean my 21 years old ???key??? when Centrepoint first opened in 1983 at Orchard Road. Many of us have witnessed the changes of the landscape occuppied by Centrepoint over the years. Even Centrepoint itself have undergone major ???facelift??? throughout all these years. **** StarHub: Reached Deal With Apple To Offer iPhone In Singapore Down Jones **** A Christmas All Decked Out in Singapore Claudia the Panda **** Singapore Says It May Need More Anti-Speculation Property Rules Shamim Adam, Bloomberg Singapore may need to implement more measures to rein in its property market should low interest rates and an economic recovery renew speculative purchases, the central bank said. **** Counting The Costs Of Male Citizenship Jimmy Mun, Frankly Speaking **** Singapore Inc. Flaneurose **** Possible Property Bubble Has Singapore Officials Worried Reuters From applesurf at myapplemenu.com Tue Nov 10 18:59:01 2009 From: applesurf at myapplemenu.com (applesurf at myapplemenu.com) Date: 10 Nov 2009 23:59:01 -0000 Subject: [MyAppleMenu] Nov 10, 2009 Message-ID: <20091110235901.36151.qmail@voot.pair.com> MyAppleMenu ==================================== **** Apple Posts Wireless Keyboard Update 2.0 Scott McNulty, Macworld **** Magic Mouse Is Apple's Best Mouse Ever, But??? MG Siegler, TechCrunch The short answer is yes. This is hands-down the best mouse Apple has ever made. It???s not even close. That said, it could be even better, and hopefully down the road, with a software update, it will be. **** Jailbreaking Puts iPhone Owners At Risk Gregg Keizer, Computerworld Pwn2own winner Charlie Miller says modified iPhones lack security defenses and are therefore easier to hijack **** Is Apple Stopping Progress? VoIP Watch **** Letter From Paris: Apple Mania! Beth Anoid, Huffington Post **** Apple Rejects My Caricature App Tom Richmond, Tom's MAD Blog Wow. I???ve had rejections in theme parks before but never because my drawings were considered ???obscene, pornographic, or defamatory???. **** Apple As An Obsessive-compulsive Case Study Scott Bradner, Networld World Apple's take-it-like-we-serve-it attitude has recently struck close to home for me and it is frustrating. **** Lawsuit Claims iPhone Games Stole Phone Numbers Lex Friedman, Macworld **** Orb Has Landed For Intel Macs Mel Martin, TUAW If you are a sometime PC user you probably know about Orb, a multimedia sharing tool that allows you to access your media from anywhere you have an internet connection and a browser. Now, Orb has come to the Mac and it's got great possibilities -- but it's a mixed bag in terms of reliability. **** Apple Releases Mac OS X 10.6.2 With Guest Account Bug Fix AppleInsider Apple's second update for Snow Leopard, Mac OS X 10.6.2, was officially released Monday afternoon, fixing a number of issues including a guest account bug that could potentially delete a user's account data. **** Apple Releases Security Update 2009-006 For Leopard Ramu Nagappan, Macworld **** Tethering To iPhone Still Coming, AT&T Says; No Date Set: AT&T Has Promised Tethering For The iPhone For A Year" Matt Hamblen, Computerworld AT&T today reiterated its plans to offer tethering on the iPhone, but again gave no date when that might happen -- more than a year after the carrier first said tethering would be coming "soon." **** Magic Mouse Works Fine For Multi-Touch Unless You???re The Six-Fingered Man MG Siegler, TechCrunch The Magic Mouse has no problem following up four points of contact relatively easily. It works for five too, but at that point, the surface area on the top of the mouse becomes the issue. **** Confirmed: 10.6.2 Removes Atom CPU Support From Snow Leopard TJ Luoma, TUAW Is this Apple clamping down on "hackintosh" computers, or just continuing to prune code that it doesn't need? The answer you prefer likely depends on your previous view of Apple. The Tomorrow Weblog ==================================== **** Intel Introduces A Digital Book Reader That Reads Aloud To The Blind Dean Takahashi, VentureBeat The Intel Reader is available today for $1,499.That???s a pretty hefty price, considering that devices like the $259 Amazon Kindle can read books aloud in a robotic voice. But the Intel Reader is based on a lot of research and is designed for the visually impaired, first and foremost. MyAppleMenu Reader ==================================== **** Green Giants By Tim McKeough Tim McKeough, The Walrus How urban planners are turning industrial eyesores into popular public spaces. **** Three Anniversaries Michael Lind, Salon The fall of the Berlin Wall, 9/11 and the collapse of Lehman Brothers: Each ushered in a new American era. **** Daily Threads Wyn Cooper, Slate Magazine SingaporeSurf ==================================== **** Changi Airport Singapore Tom.Otley, ABTN Foo Sek Min, executive vice-president of airport management at Singapore Changi talks about the challenges facing the airport **** Asia Must Study Stimulus Exit 'Carefully,' Singapore's Lim Says Shamim Adam and Valarie Tan, Bloomberg **** Airports Not For Tobacco Ban Karamjit Kaur, Straits Times Changi Airport has put its weight behind a global airports group opposing a World Health Organisation (WHO) proposal to ban the sale of duty-free tobacco products on airport premises. The Airports Council International (ACI), which groups 1,679 airports worldwide, including Changi, maintains that this move will hurt airport earnings, as well as penalise the travelling public. **** Yes, Set A Property Quota For Citizens Wong Mei Keng, Straits Times I hope something will be done to control property prices and make them go back to the good old days when we need not bid or ballot for a home. **** Don't Take Potong Pasir For Granted, SPP Thomas Teo, Straits Times The reply by the Singapore People's Party (SPP) last Thursday ('SPP: Potong Pasir voters not short-changed') understates the sacrifices made by Potong Pasir residents in voting in an opposition Member of Parliament. **** And Now It's Three Neo Chai Chin, Today It is officially a free-for all for the iPhone in Singapore. And while the public can expect charges to drop - and the telcos anticipate high take-up rates - news yesterday of StarHub's entry to the iPhone market nonetheless drew a bittersweet response from some consumers. **** Singapore As 'Thought Leader' At Apec Ansley Ng, Today Ministry of trade and industry (MTI) permanent secretary Ravi Menon told MediaCorp in an email interview that with the meetings taking place at a time of "momentous changes", Singapore hopes to "strike a balance between responding to the crisis at hand and positioning our economies for the post-crisis future". **** Thinking Out Of The Box In A Singapore Library Blowin' In The Wind I love the playful design of the Bishan Public Library with its narrow glass cubicles jutting out of the facade like so many books pulled out of shelves. I can't help but wonder about the air-con cost, what with all these transparent windows. **** Singapore Bent On Protest-free APEC Summit AFP Singapore's legendary zeal for public order will be on full display this week when it hosts a summit involving US President Barack Obama and 20 other leaders. Even one-man protests are banned. **** MDA Appoints Leo Burnett For Media Classification Drive In Singapore Kenny Lim, Media The Media Development Authority of Singapore (MDA) has appointed Leo Burnett to oversee and implement an integrated public education campaign for media classification. **** China's Lack Of Popularity Among Its Neighbors Li Kaisheng, UPI Asia On one hand, these countries are interacting with China more and more in terms of trade, economic and civil exchanges. But on the other hand, they keep a wary eye on China and spare no effort at encouraging the United States to balance China???s influence. **** Johor Not Competing With Singapore For Theme Park Visitors Malaysia Star Johor is not competing with Singapore in attracting visitors to the two soon-to-be-built theme parks in Iskandar Malaysia. Mentri Besar Datuk Abdul Ghani Othman said Legoland Malaysia in Medini and the Family Indoor Theme Park in Puteri Harbour were more for children below 12 years of age. **** ??????????????????????????? ??????, ???????????? ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? **** New $100 Singapore Banknotes Tan Wei Jie! **** Singapore Air Posts Worse-than-expected Q2 Loss Harry Suhartono, Reuters Singapore Airlines, the world's biggest airline by market value, reported a worse-than-expected second quarter loss as the global economic slowdown hit the carrier's higher margin business travellers particularly hard. The company, which warned in July it could post a full-year loss if tough conditions last, reported a net loss of S$159 million compared to a net profit of S$324 million a year ago. **** The Effectiveness Of NSmen System Goh Meng Seng, Singapore Alternatives There are many other ways to moderate our defense spending and I believe there may be people with more creative, effective and efficient plans to help us in this without compromising on our safety. **** In Singapore, Nature Reborn As Art Sonia Kolesnikov Jessop, New York Times From applesurf at myapplemenu.com Wed Nov 11 18:59:00 2009 From: applesurf at myapplemenu.com (applesurf at myapplemenu.com) Date: 11 Nov 2009 23:59:00 -0000 Subject: [MyAppleMenu] Nov 11, 2009 Message-ID: <20091111235900.57471.qmail@voot.pair.com> MyAppleMenu ==================================== **** O2 To Start Unlocking iPhones Nick Spence, Macworld UK Apple???s original UK iPhone partner O2 will start to unlock customers??? phones. Rival provider Orange started selling the iPhone Tuesday, while Vodafone is expected to offer the iPhone from the second week in January next year. **** Downsizing: Going From A 17-inch MacBook Pro To A 13-inch MacBook Peter Cohen, The Loop In the end, I???m really pleased with the MacBook as a replacement for my 17-inch MacBook Pro. Obviously, three years is a long time in the evolution of computer systems, especially for Apple. When I acquired my previous laptop, Apple was only a year into the Intel transition, having announced its plan in 2005 and executing in 2006. But going from one end of the Apple???s laptop spectrum to the other hasn???t been a sacrifice. In fact, it???s been great. **** VESA Certifies Mini DisplayPort As Standard MacNN The VESA group today officially released Mini DisplayPort as a finalized standard. Known for short as mDP, the Apple-developed connector can now be used by other companies to attach displays with the expectation that they will meet all the DisplayPort 1.1a specs. **** Bugs & Fixes: What Bugs Mac OS X 10.6.2 Tackles Ted Landau, Macworld The Mac OS X 10.6.2 update fixes several bugs that Ted Landau looked at in previous columns. Here's a rundown of what the updated OS addresses. **** Directly Set Screen Sharing Image Quality Level Rob Griffiths, Macworld Learn how to set the quality level of a remote Mac's screen in the Screen Sharing application in 10.5 and 10.6. **** Yojimbo 2.1 Supports Snow Leopard Text Features MacNN **** FolderGlance Lets You Peek Inside Folders (and Files) Dan Frakes, Macworld FolderGlance modifies the Finder's contextual menus, allowing you to view the contents of folders and files, and perform actions on those items, with a simple right-click. **** Snow Leopard Update Fixes Photoshop Issues Macworld UK Apple's Mac OS X 10.6.2 Snow Leopard update released on Monday, has fixed several issues associated with running Adobe Photoshop on a Mac. **** NVIDIA's CEO Proclaims His Love Of Apple Computers Jason Mick, DailyTech Apple's decision to opt for NVIDIA is certainly being rewarded with loads of love from the graphics giant. **** When It Comes To In-App Purchases On The iPhone, Games, Social Networking, And Books Rule Erick Schonfeld, TechCrunch **** A Finder-Copying Bug In Snow Leopard Matt Neuburg, TidBITS **** Microsoft Office 2008 12.2.3 Update Glenn Fleishman, TidBITS The 12.3.3 update contains a critical security fix, as well as significant improvements in stability, according to the release notes. **** While Rivals Jockey For Market Share, Apple Bathes In Profits MG Siegler, TechCrunch While the press and rivals obsess over market share, Apple quietly comes in and makes an insane amount of money. It???s the same in the computer industry. Small market share, huge amount of money. The most important thing for all of these are companies is the bottom line. Apple wins that battle. **** Apple Uses ???Switchers??? Ad To Keeping Smacking Windows 7 All Things Digital **** Why It's Easier To Make A Great Twitter Client For iPhone Than For Android The iPhone Blog Sure, that means there???s a lower barrier of entry to creating poor iPhone apps, but it also means great developers aren???t wasting their time re-inventing UI wheels, or fighting the OS to do right by their apps. They investing that time in making great apps. **** The Difference Between Apple And Microsoft When It Comes To New Products Thomas Fitzgerald It???s funny how Apple is one of the few (if not only) very successful businesses that pundits continue to argue that the companies business model is entirely wrong and that it should be doing things completely differently. **** Does Apple Really Want To Sell Magazines? Jason Snell, Macworld In all the speculation that abounds on the Web about the possibilities of an Apple-designed tablet device that would compete with e-readers from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and the like, I haven???t seen a whole lot of discussion about one of the great mysteries of the idea: who would sell the content for such a device? There are two likely answers to that question. Each has its own advantages and disadvantages. Let???s take them in turn. **** New iPhone Malware Steals Data From Jailbroken Phones Jeremy Kirk, IDG News Service Another piece of dangerous code that attacks iPhones has been found, although it puts at risk only a very small subset of the smartphone's users. **** Mac Marketshare Grows In Europe As Apple's Competitors Struggle AppleInsider PC sales in the U.K. and Western Europe diminished over the past year while Apple's market share has grown, as higher-priced Macs have found success in the midst of down economy. **** Fix 10.6.2's Broken Slide Show Screen Saver Adam C. Engst, TidBITS The Tomorrow Weblog ==================================== **** Google Introduces 'Go' Programming Language Thomas Claburn, InformationWeek Google on Tuesday released a new open source programming language called Go that's optimized for applications designed for massive scalability and multi-processor systems. MyAppleMenu Reader ==================================== **** United Tastes: Saving New Orleans Culture, One Sandwich At A Time John T. Edge, New York Times This month, New Orleans is having a party for the po??? boy, the city???s signature ??? and some say endangered ??? sandwich. **** Science Fiction's Realist Alison Flood, Guardian As his publisher Jane Johnson, an author herself, puts the finishing touches to a roast chicken in the kitchen, Kim Stanley Robinson ??? Stan ??? tries to explain his new theory of time travel, worked out for his latest novel, Galileo's Dream. **** Why Writers Define The First World War Alastair Harper, Guardian As well as its other horrific innovations, this was the first occasion when those in the firing line could record their experiences. SingaporeSurf ==================================== **** Singapore Hopes APEC Economies Commit To The Grouping Work Zakaria Abdul Wahab, Bernama Singapore hoped the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) economies would commit themselves to cooperate with one another to sustain growth, to eschew protectionism, and to promote regional economic integration. **** Singapore Hails 'Breakthrough' Summit With US, Myanmar Martin Abbugao, AFP A weekend summit involving US President Barack Obama and the premier of military-ruled Myanmar will be a "breakthrough" in ties between Southeast Asia and the United States, Singapore said Tuesday. **** Singapore: Follow Its Savvy And Profitable Money... Tony Sagami, HoweStreet.com Unusually, the Singaporean government has proved to be one of the best investors in the world through its two sovereign investment funds, Temasek and the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation, also known as GIC. **** Slow Week For Businesses Lim Wei Chean, Straits Times A quiet week is in store for businesses around Suntec City with shoppers giving the Apec venues a wide berth. **** Chiam's GRC Move Good For The Opposition Thomas Lee, Straits Times Is it not something to celebrate when Mr Chiam is planning to move out of Potong Pasir and into a group representation constituency (GRC)? **** Once Bonded, Reloaded James Chan, Master Of The Obvious In exchange for a 4-year all-expenses paid education in a top-class American engineering university, both my parents became my sureties; an act that would have made them liable for a staggering sum of S$472,000 in liquidated damages if I ever reneged on my scholarship contract. Up till then, I had never heard about study loans or bursaries, or understood concepts such as ???leverage??? or ???opportunity cost???. **** Trillionaires! (In Singapore Dollars) Blowin' In The Wind Amazing, isn't it, that while wages dropped, the economy tanked, and corporates haemorrhaged red ink, the people grew richer? **** 'Singapore To Focus On Alternative Energy, Tourism' Rachel Kelly, Today Singapore is likely to focus on growing its alternative energy and tourism sectors, following the global financial crisis. This according to Singapore trade and industry minister Lim Hng Kiang in an exclusive interview with MediaCorp on the sidelines of the Apec meetings yesterday. **** Some Warehouse Sales OK Jessica Lim & Leow Si Wan, Straits Times Barely a week after it told retailer Mustafa to stop sales at its warehouse, the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) has signalled that it will adopt a more flexible stance on such events. **** ??????????????????????????????????????? ?????????????????????????????? ?????????, ???????????? ???????????????27??????O????????????????????????????????????10???????????????????????? **** ?????????????????????????????? ?????????, ???????????? ????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? **** Property Bubble : More Government Intervention Or Less? Leong Sze Hian , The Online Citizen **** ????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? ?????? **** Dear Apple: Burn Down The App Store???s Entertainment Category Pete Mortensen, Cult of Mac Yes, despite the fact that the entertainment category does include some legit apps, some of which are great (Pocket God, Emoji, and Movies spring to mind), it is, for the most part, a giant blue Pac-Man of lame softcore porn devouring all in its path. **** StarHub's Offer Too Late Chua Hian Hou, Straits Times Starhub's unsolicited offer to host its pay-TV content is too little, too late, although Singapore Telecommunications will consider it if such an offer is formally tabled. SingTel's chief executive for Singapore Allen Lew said its rival's offer comes 'three years too late', after it has already spent money to build a future-proof pay-TV system designed to work with the national fibre-optic broadband network currently under construction. StarHub would have to change its set-top box anyway, he added. **** 6 New Monuments Tay Suan Chiang, Straits Times Acting minister for information, communications and the arts Lui Tuck Yew on Wednesday announced that Keng Teck Whay temple, the former Command House at Bukit Timah, former Raffles College also at Bukit Timah, Church of St Teresa, former St James Power Station and Bowyer Block at the Singapore General Hospital will be preserved as national monuments. **** FM George Yeo Says "creeping Protectionism" Must Be Addressed Imelda Saad, Channel NewsAsia Singapore foreign minister George Yeo said "creeping protectionism" seen now must be addressed or it would lead to a more dire situation for APEC members. **** Police Video: Propaganda At Its Worst Singapore Democrats In the lead up to the Asia-Pacific Economic Coorperation (APEC) meeting, the Singapore police have released a video that shows the state's readiness to provide maximum security (a virtual lockdown, actually) for those attending the meeting. What is disturbing, however, is the use of the video for its own autocratic ends. A careful watch of the 6-minute film reveals a portrayal of democracy protesters in a negative and violent light. **** We Will Continue To Make HDB Flats Affordable To Singaporeans Singapore Government **** China To Loan Two Pandas To Singapore For 10-year Period Asha Popatlal, Channel NewsAsia China will also be loaning two baby pandas to Singapore for a 10-year period, as part of a collaboration between the China Wildlife Conservation Association and Wildlife Reserves Singapore to mark the 20th anniversary of Sino-Singapore relations. **** Singapore Air Loss Is More Bad News For Temasek New York Times It seems that Temasek Holdings, which in September posted a record 67 percent drop in net profit for the year ended March 31, can???t get no satisfaction from its investments these days. **** Singapore Air Cuts Fuel Hedging, Sees Business Recovery Harry Suhartono, Reuters Singapore Airlines (SIAL.SI), the world's biggest airline by market value, said it reduced its fuel hedging to 22 percent by the end of October from over 30 percent, as it sees oil prices staying at around current levels. **** Singapore Set To Be Removed From OECD Grey List Channel NewsAsia Singapore is on track to being removed from the Organisation of Economic Cooperation and Development's grey list of financial jurisdictions. It's scheduled to sign its 12th Avoidance of Double Taxation Agreement or DTA this Friday with France, according to an invitation from the French embassy. From applesurf at myapplemenu.com Thu Nov 12 18:59:00 2009 From: applesurf at myapplemenu.com (applesurf at myapplemenu.com) Date: 12 Nov 2009 23:59:00 -0000 Subject: [MyAppleMenu] Nov 12, 2009 Message-ID: <20091112235900.76296.qmail@voot.pair.com> MyAppleMenu ==================================== **** A Satellite Radio Receiver That Works With The iPhone Stephen Williams, New York Times Sirius XM Radio, always on the lookout for ways to attract fee-paying younger subscribers, is now after the Apple crowd. After its introduction several months ago, the XM SkyDock, an iPod/iPhone accessory, is finally on the market, at a price of $120; even Apple stores are expected to carry it. **** Four Ways To Access Files From Afar Glenn Fleishman, Macworld If you work in lots of locations, you may find yourself wishing you could access your files from everywhere. Here are four ways to do just that. **** Indev Software Releases MiniMail 2.0 Jeff Porten, Macworld The latest version of MiniMail adds a small message notification view to Mail, multiple viewers, and Snow Leopard compatibility. **** Apple Releases Safari 4.0.4 With Security Flaw Patch AppleInsider Apple Wednesday afternoon released an update to its Safari Web browser, addressing a vulnerability that could allow an image file to exploit Macs with older software. **** Explaining iPhoto Library Size Discrepancy Christopher Breen, Macworld Why does iPhoto report a library of 7GB when the Finder says 21GB? There's more to the iPhoto Library package than meets the eye. **** Apple App Store Takes Tiny Step Toward Transparency Brian X. Chen, Wired Taking a small step toward openness, Apple rolls out a brand new way for iPhone developers to track the status of apps they???ve submitted to the App Store. **** Behind The Scenes Of China's iPhone Apps Juliet Ye, Wall Street Journal **** Facebook App Developer Is Through With The iPhone, Blames App Store Approval Process Michael Rose, TUAW **** Psystar Claims It Cracked Mac OS X On Its Own MacNN **** MacBook Entry-level Specs Impress Garry Barker, The Age Apple's latest line-up has a gift for integration. **** Apple's Soaring Pile Of Cash Gizmodo Apple brought Steve Jobs back to the company in December 1996. Since then, he's been building a massive pile of cash, rolling out new product after new product. **** iPhone Apps Take Root As Cottage Industry Yukari Iwatani Kane and Ryan Knutson, Wall Street Journal There is a hint of that old boomtown feeling again in the Bay Area -- this time in living rooms and garages and cubicles where a cottage industry is unfolding around the iPhone app. **** State Of The Apple Nation Mark Webster, New Zealand Herald All in all, it has been a fantastic year for Apple against all expectations. **** iPhone Virus Maker Regrets 'Stupidity' Ben Grubb, SC Magazine Ashley Towns said he had received non-stop phone calls, death threats and posting of his personal details online. **** The iPhone Economy: Is There App Inflation? Lisa Scherzer, Smart Money The Tomorrow Weblog ==================================== **** Powering Cell Phone Towers With Wind CNET News Southern California pilot program to test Helix Wind's small wind turbines to run cell phone towers. MyAppleMenu Reader ==================================== **** Don't Patronise Popular Fiction By Women Harriet Evans, Guardian I'm fed up with seeing some of our best novelists written off as 'chick lit' ??? you don't see the same belittling line taken with male writers. SingaporeSurf ==================================== **** Restricted Mailbox Access But Still Spammed Straits Times Every week, once a week, I notice the latch is moved to open the horizontal slot to allow spammers to fill up my mailbox. **** Of Job Offers And Cabbies Daryl Yong, Today In any case, the cabby has judged that it is not in his interest to offer his services. Who are we to force him to do so? This logic does not hold water simply because the taxi driver has a business that is granted to him by the society under specific instructions. **** Unfair To SMEs Sng Yee Nam, Today [CASE's] comment implied that consumers need only be wary of small businesses, and need not be careful when transacting with large corporations or international chains. **** Singapore Calls For Asia Pacific Free Trade Zone Mil Arcega, Voice Of America Singapore has called for the creation of an ambitious Asia-Pacific free trade zone that it says would comprise nearly half of all global trade. The call, by Singapore's foreign minister, comes ahead of the 20th Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit. **** Singapore Recruitment Agency Offers Jobs For Foreigners Only Temasek Review Unless Singaporeans wake up from their long slumber and reclaim their civil and political rights as citizens of their country, they will forever be subjected to the mercy of the ruling party. **** Drug Blunder At KKH Salma Khalik, Straits Times Human error at KK Women's and Children's Hospital (KKH) led to two cancer patients being given more chemotherapy drugs than they were supposed to get. **** Panda Diplomacy And Chinese/Taiwanese Soft Power To Singapore The Anti Neo-Democracy Theorist Would panda diplomacy/giving of scholarships to Singaporeans to go to study in Beida and Fudan change the future of Singaporeans??? cultural orientation? **** Singapore Government Responds To The "White Paper On The Repression Of Political Freedom In Singapore" By Canandian Law Firm Singapore Government Singapore has grown and prospered because of its adherence to the rule of law and its robust legal framework. In a world of competing interests and priorities, Singaporeans must choose for themselves the kind of government they want, and the appropriate balance to be struck between societal interests and the individual. Singapore does not seek to prescribe or impose its values on others, but simply for an open dialogue on these issues untainted by misrepresentation. This response clarifies facts which the Paper chose to ignore. **** Disputing Mr Shanmugam???s Claims That Singapore???s Approach To The Law Has Worked Ng Kok Lim, The Temasek Review **** Malaysia's Mysterious Ship City Causes Concern AFP Hundreds of ships mysteriously left idle off the Malaysian coast during the economic downturn are posing environmental and safety hazards, port authorities and fishermen say. The ships are lying off the southeastern tip of southern Johor state which faces onto Singapore, positioned outside port limits to avoid charges and official scrutiny. **** Apec Meet Brings Early Christmas To Singapore Malaysia Star Christmas has started early in the island republic with major streets including Orchard Road and Marina Bay lit up and decorated with huge Christmas trees and ornaments with festive lights strung across the road. **** Indonesian Trade Minister Says S'pore-Indonesia Ties Moving Well S.Ramesh, Channel NewsAsia Indonesian Trade Minister Mari Pangestu said Singapore-Indonesia ties are moving well. Speaking to Channel NewsAsia, she said the increased investments in Indonesia over the last two years have been from Singapore and that reflected the close bilateral economic, trade and investment relations. **** StarHub Proposes Discussion With SingTel On One Common Set-up Box Channel NewsAsia StarHub said on Thursday that "what could have been proposed three years ago has no relevance," in response to comments made by SingTel Singapore's chief Allen Lew. **** China Carefully Navigates Ties With Straits Chinese Reuters When Chinese president Hu Jintao arrived in Singapore for a state visit this week, he announced China's favorite diplomatic gift -- two pandas -- but chose his words very carefully. From applesurf at myapplemenu.com Fri Nov 13 18:59:00 2009 From: applesurf at myapplemenu.com (applesurf at myapplemenu.com) Date: 13 Nov 2009 23:59:00 -0000 Subject: [MyAppleMenu] Nov 13, 2009 Message-ID: <20091113235900.32628.qmail@voot.pair.com> MyAppleMenu ==================================== **** Apple Banks On Retail Stores Marguerite Reardon, CNET News Apple's latest store in Manhattan is part of a bigger plan to win new customers through its retail strategy. **** De-glitched, The C64's Up And Running Again Stephen Williams, New York Times The on-again, off-again Commodore 64 app for Apple is on again in the iTunes app store, now improved over the original version that appeared???but only briefly???in September. **** Apple's Modest Addition To The Upper West Side Saul Hansell, New York Times A glass and marble palace on New York's Upper West Side is the latest in Apple's retail chain that makes nearly as much per store as Macy's does from locations 30 times larger. **** Apple's 'Significant Store' Strategy Andrew LaVallee, Wall Street Journal Apple said Thursday that it expects to open 40 to 50 new retail locations next year and that it will focus on bigger flagship stores in major cities. **** Taking iPhone To New Depths Apple iPhone is helping these engineers deploy submarines and subsea rovers all over the world ??? without breaking the bank. **** Research: Apple???s iPhone Owns 17% Of Smartphone Market Ed Sutherland, Cult of Mac Apple???s iPhone now accounts for 17 percent of global smartphone sales, propelled by a nearly 50 percent growth rate for the third quarter, new research released Thursday indicates. Cupertino???s rising star in worldwide smartphone demand is expected to only increase as the iPhone becomes available in China and more carriers begin offering the popular cell phone. **** Looking At The Changes To Snow Leopard's Top Command Rob Griffiths, Macworld Learn about some key changes to the Unix 'top' command in Snow Leopard. **** Undercover 1.5 Ousts iPhone Thieves With Push Notifications Nicholas Bonsack, Macworld Orbicule's Undercover 1.5 for iPhone introduces clever push notifications to the iPhone tracking app, specifically made to fool a thief into exposing his whereabouts. **** Inside Apple's Newest Temple Matt Buchanan, Gizmodo While every Apple Store is in some sense a place of reverence, the new Upper West Side store unabashedly evokes that feeling: The top floor's a vast open space, enclosed by spartan stone walls which support a massive glass ceiling. **** Apple's Newest Retail Masterpiece Dan Frommer, The Business Insider It's hard to get excited about most new stores, but this one -- from the outside, at least -- looks gorgeous. **** It's Harder To Get A Job At The Apple Store Than It Is To Get Into Harvard Dan Frommer, The Business Insider At a press event today, Apple said that 10,000 people submitted applications to work at the new store on Manhattan's Upper West Side, according to Gizmodo's Matt Buchanan. Of those, just over 200 got jobs, for a 2% acceptance rate. **** Apple's Global Retail Invasion Jim Goldman, CNBC Apple now says it will open 40 to 50 new Apple stores this year, compared to earlier estimates of 25 to 50; over half the openings will be international, including locations in the United Kingdom, Italy, Canada, Switzerland, China, and Australia. In fact, Apple will be opening its second stores in London, Paris and Shanghai. **** Airfoil Speakers Touch 1.0.1 Finally Ships Paul Kafasis, Rogue Amoeba Today, over three and a half months after we initially submitted our bug fix update for review, it???s finally available. So what happened? **** With iTunes??? Variable Pricing, Fewer Hit Song Sales Still Mean More Money For Apple Paul Bonanos, GigaOM When it comes to selling a song online, 30 cents means a lot. Sales of hit songs in Apple???s iTunes store have dipped 6 percent since April, in part due to a new variable song pricing structure that has driven up the price of most hits to $1.29, data from a new study by Billboard???s Glenn Peoples shows. But popular tracks by Lady GaGa, Miley Cyrus and their ilk are keeping their market share in comparison with the remainder of the music market, and Apple???s revenue from sales of the more expensive hit songs appears to be rising faster than consumers are turning away. **** How You Can Become One Of Apple's Star iPhone App Reviewers Alaska Miller, The Business Insider **** Store Photos Outside Of iPhoto's Library Derrick Story, Macworld By storing files outside of iPhoto???s database, you can stay in control and share with other programs. **** Apple Unveils Browser-based iTunes Preview Apple Insider Apple has updated links generated via iTunes to direct to a Web site called iTunes Preview, which gives customers the option to view content without launching the application. The Tomorrow Weblog ==================================== **** Clicker Aims To Be The Path To TV Online Miguel Helft, New York Times A new service called Clicker.com aims to help users find television shows across the web. MyAppleMenu Reader ==================================== **** Big Idea: Origami National Geographic Magazine Anything can be made with origami???from birds and bugs to stents and space telescopes. It's just a matter of math. **** Facing Down the Fanatics Michael Finkel, National Geographic Magazine A more tolerant Islam is confronting extremism in the world's most populous Muslim country. **** The Misuses Of Darwin Simon Underdown, Guardian The idea that Darwin is to blame for high school massacres and far-right politics is a huge intellectual mistake. **** Axler's Theater Elaine Blair, The New York Review of Books One of the rare funny moments in Philip Roth's recent novel Everyman (2006) takes place when the unnamed hero visits his parents' graves in Newark. His health has been poor, his colleagues and friends have been dying, and though he has no reason to think that his own death is imminent, he can no longer pretend to himself that he will never die. In this frame of mind, he finds himself talking to the buried bones of his parents. "I'm seventy-one, your boy is seventy-one," he tells them. In his mind, he hears his mother reply: "Good. You lived." **** Screen Memories A. O. Scott, New York Times Perhaps the easiest and most satisfying way to make sense of the unruly cinematic abundance of the past 10 years is to sift through it for masters and masterpieces, kicking the tires to see what has been built to last. Whatever else was going on, a handful of great filmmakers made a handful of great films, just as in other decades. SingaporeSurf ==================================== **** The Exodus Has Started ... Teo Xuanwei, Today In recent months, hotels here have lost a "significant" number of rank-and-file workers - especially in back-end departments like laundry, housekeeping and engineering - to the "big boys coming to town", Marina Bay Sands or Resorts World at Sentosa, industry players told MediaCorp. **** Indonesia, Singapore Pledge To Meet Again Imelda Saad, Today Singapore and Indonesia will hold a retreat in six months to review bilateral relations. Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong announced this yesterday after meeting visiting Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, who was re-elected recently for a second term in office. **** Don't Make Divorce Easier Gilbert Goh, Straits Times I refer to Monday's report, 'Couples in uncontested divorces need not go to court', and wonder if it is the right thing to do to make the divorce process easier in view of escalating troubled marriages. In my opinion, the right solution should be make marriages stronger, not to make divorces more difficult. **** $653k For 4-room Flat Jessica Cheam, Straits Times A four-room Queenstown HDB flat has sold for $653,000, setting a new record for price per sq ft (psf), amid continuing red-hot demand for resale flats. **** The Increasing Irrelevance Of Mainstream Media In Singapore Flaneurose What government-controlled media cannot endure is not criticism, but being ignored (or drowned out), because that would mean it has lost control of the conversation **** Fogged Lens Yawning Bread The hurdles experienced in organising the screening of Burma VJ and some other short films documenting human rights abuses in Burma. Throws some interesting light on how the Singapore bureaucracy works. **** Justifying The Public Order Act Through Fear Mongering Rachel Zeng's blog Wonder how much they have spent on creating such a propaganda that leaves a bad taste in the mouths of those who have been trying to speak out in as non violent as they can against the authoritarian rule that we have here in Singapore for the past 44 years to improve the lives of their fellow Singaporeans. **** Singapore And Immigration: A PR Problem The Economist Immigration becomes the hot political issue in a model city-state. **** 'Protectionism' The Bogey At APEC Andrew Stevens and Kevin Voigt, CNN Singapore lives and dies by the global economy. With no natural resources and a small domestic market, in a generation the city-state transformed itself from the third world British colony into a first world economic power by building its economy on exports and business services. **** S'pore Joins 'white List' Francis Chan, Straits Times Singapore has been taken off the 'grey list' and joined the Organisation of Economic Cooperation and Development's (OECD) 'white list' of financial jurisdictions. This follows the signing of its 12th Avoidance of Double Taxation Agreement (DTA) with France on Friday to incorporate new internationally agreed standard for the exchange of information for tax purposes upon request. **** Goh Chok Tong: The Pioneer Bond-breaker? Gangasudhan, The Online Citizen The circumstances seem to suggest that the young Goh Chok Tong in 1965 could have very well been one of the first few ??? if not the first ??? to have broken a civil service bond in Singapore. **** Chee: Stop The Exploitation Of Workers Chee Soon Juan, Singapore Democrats While my colleagues and I have never objected to foreign talent ??? and let me be on record that we are in need of such talent ??? the truth is that the Foreign Talent Policy has much to do with foreign but little with talent. The reality is that the Government exploits cheap foreign labour to suppress local wages. Foreign workers are allowed into Singapore to keep wages low. Wages are kept low so that we can remain attractive to MNCs. **** ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????? ???????????? ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????6??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? **** SPH Reiterates 'We Didn't Do It' Geoffrey Pereira, Straits Times The summary of all this is, in a space of just under a week, TR has gone on overdrive to increase traffic to its site. It has said so many things ??? including denying, then accepting, that it had accused SPH of trying to cripple its server ??? almost in the same breath. Wayang would be an apt term to describe it. **** Depoliticizing The Upgrading Issue Kelvin Teo, The Temasek Review **** One Powerful Reason Why National Library Board Doesn???t Deserve The Singapore Quality Award (SQA) SpotlightOnSingapore Noisy public libraries have become the norm because of NLB???s tolerance. **** Wash And Watch At Singapore Loos Malaysia Star You can run but you really can???t hide from Big Brother. Even in the loo. Delegates attending the Apec summit are bombarded with a special multimedia presentation when they are answering nature???s call. **** We Should Be Concerned With Skyrocketing HDB Prices Urban Rant The new generation in charge of housing and city planning has different objectives. And they probably do not include 'affordable housing' in the same context as before. **** In Downturn, Luxury Brand Bally Eyes Asia And Beyond Miral Fahmy, Reuters Luxury goods have largely fallen out of favor in Europe and the United States, but as many Asian economies were not as badly affected, the appetite here remains relatively healthy. **** Singapore Retail Sales Declined In September; Slump May Ease Shamim Adam, Bloomberg Singapore???s retail sales fell for a 12th straight month in September, a slump that may ease as the island???s economic recovery and a rebound in tourist arrivals revives spending in the coming months. **** ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? ?????? ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????710???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????19????????????11??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????15?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? **** Sept Retail Sales Slump 8% Straits Times Singapore's retail sales slumped for a 12th straight month in September, due mainly to lower sales of motor vehicles. **** Singapore Qualifies For Removal From Tax 'Grey List' Kevin Brown, Financial Times **** MOE Provides More Support In Special Education Singapore Government From applesurf at myapplemenu.com Sat Nov 14 18:59:01 2009 From: applesurf at myapplemenu.com (applesurf at myapplemenu.com) Date: 14 Nov 2009 23:59:01 -0000 Subject: [MyAppleMenu] Nov 14, 2009 Message-ID: <20091114235901.72572.qmail@voot.pair.com> MyAppleMenu ==================================== **** The Airfoil Speakers Touch Situation John Gruber, Daring Fireball Is Apple within their rights to reject this app for this reason? Sure. The bottom line is that they can reject apps for whatever reasons they want ??? that???s the rule that matters here. But was Rogue Amoeba foolish for designing their application this way? No. There???s nothing in the SDK agreement that they???ve violated. **** The Only 2 Fixes For The iPhone Platform Manton Reece I want my software to fail because it sucks, or is buggy, or doesn't have the right features, not because Apple can shut me down over a minor difference of opinion. **** Apple Quietly Updates The 5th Generation iPod Nano To 1.0.2 Joachim Bean, TUAW **** Grooving To Your iPod, Wirelessly Elizabeth Howell, The Globe And Mail I can't go a considerable distance without playing music ??? so trying out the FM transmitters that connect an iPod or iPhone to your car stereo without wiring sounds like a convenient and excellent solution. Here's a test drive of three of the popular models. **** To Play With Giants, App Devs Risk Getting Squashed Brian X. Chen, Wired News Hot-selling mobile apps have earned some independent programmers hundreds of thousands of dollars. But one of the greatest risks of developing apps for a platform controlled by a large corporation, such as Google or Apple, is that you can easily get crushed. **** Airfoil Speakers Touch: Correcting Misconceptions Mike Ash, Rogue Amoeba Ultimately, this is not a trademark issue, but simply a matter of Apple enforcing arbitrary and inconsistent requirements for iPhone applications. There???s no legal requirement for them to forbid use of their icons, and no benefit to them in doing so. **** The Secrets Of The Apple Store iPod Touch John Biggs, CrunchGear **** Apple Was Not More Profitable Selling Cell Phones Than Nokia In Q3 Joe Wilcox, BetaNews As for Apple's overall phone profits being higher than Nokia's, don't believe it. Just because dozens of Websites report something as true doesn't make it so. Because of the extent of misreporting, I can't say where the fault lies. **** Improving The iPhone App Store Approval Process Rafe Colburn, rc3.org The current system isn???t going to work for a whole lot longer. The Tomorrow Weblog ==================================== **** Fixing E-Mail Erica Naone, MIT Technology Review Experts at Defrag believe e-mail can benefit from lessons learned on the social web. MyAppleMenu Reader ==================================== **** Lost In The Waves Justin Heckert, Men's Journal Swept out to sea by a riptide, a father and his 12-year-old son struggle to stay alive miles from shore. As night falls, with no rescue imminent, the dad comes to a devastating realization: If they remain together, they???ll drown together. **** Invisible By Paul Auster Joanna Briscoe, Guardian Paul Auster has created what amounts to his own, self-referential fictional world over the years, and Invisible is packed with typical Auster tropes. This is his 13th novel, and at times he seems to be both celebrating and lightly mocking his own oeuvre. There is the oddly detached male narrator roaming New York; a random dramatic incident that alters the course of a life; ruminations on the nature of writing, language and identity; multiple narrators; stories within stories; and general intertextual gadding about. And, as ever, fragments of Auster himself seem to feature ??? in this case, divided into two characters. **** The Cheating Game Robert Pinsky, New York Times Near the outset of his copious, lively account of poker???s past and present, ???Cowboys Full,??? James McManus describes the game, and the qualities it demands, as characteristically American. As the American game, he says, poker combines two contrasting strands in our national character, ???the risk-averse Puritan work ethic and the entrepreneur???s urge to seize the main chance.??? SingaporeSurf ==================================== **** Singaporeans Wrestle With Likely Impact Of Two New Casinos Seah Chiang Nee, The Star Between personal tragedy and recovery from an economic crisis, the pros and cons of big-time gambling are still being weighed. **** Myanmar Situation Will Not Change Overnight Today Members of the Association of South-east Asian Nations (Asean) have "minimal pressure points" that would enable it to persuade Myanmar to pursue democratic reforms, said prime minister Lee Hsien Loong in an interview with the BBC. **** LTA's Rejection Of Taxi Application Sends Wrong Signal Paul Chan, Straits Times LTA's rejection of the new application sends the wrong signal to the industry that liberalisation is selective, and runs counter to the principle of free trade and free market competition. **** Chiam's Gutsy Move Teo Kueh Liang, Straits Times **** How Did Ethnic Stereotype Go Unflagged? Chow Pei Sze, Straits Times I was appalled when last Friday's prime-time drama series of MediaCorp's vernacular Channel 8, Daddy At Home, scripted in an ethnic stereotype. **** Not A Zero-sum Game Sue-Ann Chia, Straits Times Despite rivalry between China and the United States, relating with the two is not a zero-sum game and Singapore does not want to have to choose one over the other. Prime minister Lee Hsien Loong made the point on Friday in an interview with the BBC as host of this year's Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) forum. **** The Pragmatic Monkey On Your Non-degree-holder Back Sam Ho, Sam's thoughts We may speak of the pursuit of non-academic passions, but employers and people with financial difficulties may have a different idea. **** Singapore's GIC Sees Recovery Continuing Next Year Kevin Lim and Saeed Azhar, Reuters Sovereign wealth fund the Government of Singapore Investment Corp expects the global economic recovery to extend into 2010 with stronger growth in Asian and Latin American countries that have lower debt levels, deputy chairman Tony Tan said on Saturday. **** Thoughts on Amazon Web Service Expanding To Singapore And Asia Gang Lu, Mobinode It is not only about the cloud infrastructure, it could speed up the building of a healthy ecosystem for Singapore IT industry. **** GIC Says Governments Should Open Markets To Sovereign Funds Netty Ismail and Shamim Adam, Bloomberg Government of Singapore Investment Corp., manager of more than $100 billion of the city-state???s foreign reserves, said governments should keep their capital markets open to sovereign wealth funds, because protectionist measures could hurt the global economic recovery. **** APEC Faces 'Political' Obstacles To Free Trade Area, Lee Says Shamim Adam, Bloomberg The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation group faces ???political??? hurdles in its vision to form a region-wide free trade area, Singapore prime minister Lee Hsien Loong said. **** Obama's Asia Trip: In Singapore, A Focus On US Staying Power Simon Montlake, Christian Science Monitor On the second stop of Obama's Asia trip, the president will meet with the 10 ASEAN leaders in a region that welcomes the US presence as a counterbalance to China. **** Letter On Ethnic Stereotyping Gets Heavily Edited By Straits Times The Online Citizen Ms Chow Pei Sze was outraged when she saw an episode of the Mediacorp Channel 8 drama serial, ???Daddy At Home???. She wrote to the Straits Times??? forum page on 8 November. Her original letter was 424-words long. After a week, on 14 November, the Straits Times published her letter ??? which was edited to 155 words. One should not forget that SPH, which publishes Straits Times, does have a stake in MediaCorp TV Holdings, which operates Channel 8. From applesurf at myapplemenu.com Sun Nov 15 18:59:01 2009 From: applesurf at myapplemenu.com (applesurf at myapplemenu.com) Date: 15 Nov 2009 23:59:01 -0000 Subject: [MyAppleMenu] Nov 15, 2009 Message-ID: <20091115235901.87246.qmail@voot.pair.com> MyAppleMenu ==================================== **** Apple Rejects Unity Games On The App Store Mike Schramm, TUAW The problem appears to be a number of API calls in the engine (though not specifically the game themselves, as I understand it) that allow the games to access the iPhone's number and send it back to the developer's servers. **** Apple Earns Key Legal Victory Against Psystar AppleInsider Judge William Alsup ruled this week in a summary judgment that Psystar infringed on copyrights owned by Apple in order to place Mac OS X on unauthorized computers built and sold by the Florida corporation. In addition, Psystar was found to be in violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act by circumventing Apple's protection barrier that prevents installation of its operating system on third-party hardware. **** Apple Relents. Bobble Reps Rule! Philip Elmer-DeWitt, Fortune An iPhone app illustrated with caricatures of the 111th Congress finally gets the green light. **** Apple Wouldn???t Risk Its Cool Over A Gimmick, Would It? Randall Stross, New York Times Everything about this technology seems so antithetical to the guiding principles of Apple that one would naturally wonder whether Steven P. Jobs even knows whether his company filed a patent application for such a thing. **** Ruling For Apple Against Psystar Means Clone-makers Have No Legal ... Charles Arthur, The Guardian Psystar, the little company in Florida that seemed for a while to be based in the back of a truck while it made Apple clones based on PC hardware, has lost all its claims against Apple in a legal victory that is an important ruling against would-be clone makers. **** Devoted Apple Fans Line Up In Rain For Opening Of City's Fourth Store On Upper West Side Mclendon, New York Daily News New York's already got three Apple stores, but hundreds of Mac fans patiently waited in the drizzle Saturday for a look at the fourth. **** The Apple iPhone App Store Approval Process: A Really Inefficient Route For Getting To The Right Decision Harry McCracken, Technologizer Apple, in other words, usually manages to do the right thing???it???s just that it sometimes does it after doing the wrong thing and getting slapped around in the blogosphere. Wouldn???t it be more efficient for everyone concerned???and less embarrassing for Apple and the iPhone platform???if it figured out it should really approve these apps before rejecting them and sending so many people into a tizzy? SingaporeSurf ==================================== **** Of Immigrants And A More Equitable Singapore Clement Tan, Asian Correspondent The greater problem is therefore, the government's fundamental economic strategy for Singapore and how it contributes to increasing inequity in every aspects of Singapore society. **** The Void That Is Alive Tan Hui Yee, Malaysia Star True to its name, the void deck consists of mostly empty space. Any suggestion that it was inspired by the minimalist designs of the late French modernist architect Le Corbusier is laughed off by HDB veterans. The former chief architect of the HDB, Tony Tan Keng Joo, says the void deck was simply devised to create an informal space for residents to meet and talk. **** Obama In Singapore To Strengthen Southeast Asia Ties Peter Nicholas, Los Angeles Times One of the key messages that he will press in Singapore and throughout his seven-day Pacific trip is that Asian countries must import more U.S. goods and rely less on exporting to American consumers, so as to avoid a repeat of the kind of boom-and-bust cycle that contributed to the current financial crisis. From applesurf at myapplemenu.com Mon Nov 16 18:59:01 2009 From: applesurf at myapplemenu.com (applesurf at myapplemenu.com) Date: 16 Nov 2009 23:59:01 -0000 Subject: [MyAppleMenu] Nov 16, 2009 Message-ID: <20091116235901.72432.qmail@voot.pair.com> MyAppleMenu ==================================== **** It's Back To The iPhone Jim Harmening, Southtown Star **** Was Apple Really More Profitable Selling Cell Phones Than Nokia In Q3? PixoBebo Strategic Analytics report was based on an analysis of Apple???s financial numbers, which include the ever misunderstood subscription accounting, which is mostly iPhone revenue, or, as Apple reported, it would be about $2.85 billion in Adjusted Net Income (which includes iPhone???s subscription accounting). Face it, Joe. Man up. You got it wrong and you???re afraid to admit it. Only Apple really knows how much profit the iPhone brought in last quarter, but all accounts except yours put Apple???s iPhone profits above Nokia???s cell phone profits. **** Priority To Help Two Recover Leow Si Wan, Straits Times Helping the two patients - who are at the heart of a drug blunder at KK Women's and Children's Hospital (KKH) - to recover is the 'top priority' now, said health minister Khaw Boon Wan on Monday. **** Tweetie 2 For Apple's iPhone Takes Twitter To A Whole New Level Matt Marrone, New York Daily News **** Are Apple's App Store Policies Ruining Everything? Paul Venezia, InfoWorld Many iPhone developers are worked up over Apple's application review process. It's not perfect, but it's there for a reason. The Tomorrow Weblog ==================================== **** At Checkout, More Ways To Avoid Cash Or Plastic Claire Cain Miller, New York Times Instead of leather wallets, consumers could some day carry virtual wallets, with their credit card and bank information stored on remote computers. MyAppleMenu Reader ==================================== **** How Memoirs Took Over The Literary World Laura Miller, Salon Has the memoir become the "central form" of our culture, as Ben Yagoda insists in his breezy new consideration of the form, "Memoir: A History"? Do I detect hackles rising from coast to coast at the mere suggestion? **** Linguistic Currency Ange Mlinko, The Nation The equivalence between English and wealth is much more than a metaphor, actually. **** Presence Of Mind Michael Wood, London Review Of Books Roland Barthes died almost 30 years ago, on 26 March 1980, but his works continue to engage new and old readers with remarkable consistency. The persistence of Barthes???s reputation might seem surprising, since his writing is so varied, topical, at times wilfully ephemeral. He was suspicious of monuments ??? ???tombs die too,??? he says in a fine phrase in his mourning notes ??? and didn???t want to be one. He wrote with amusement, and without false modesty, about his own passing ???notoriety???. But then the surprise lasts only as long as we are not thinking very hard. Monuments may or may not endure, but they are not looked at very closely; and fragile-seeming gestures, songs, jokes, metaphors, teasing sentences, often have long lives in the intimacy of many minds. It???s easy, and usually rash, to use the word ???unforgettable???, or even ???memorable???, since we can forget anything. But then what we hang on to becomes all the more remarkable, and Barthes, like Cole Porter, was the author of phrases and rhythms that for some of us will not go away until we do. **** Exercise James Longenbach, New Yorker **** Sad Verso Of The Sunny ____ Liz Waldner, New Yorker **** Indianapolis (Highway 74) Sam Shepard, New Yorker **** Poem Of The Week: Stone Poems By Douglas Skrief Carol Rumens, Guardian Skrief's nature poems sidestep the 'egotistical sublime' by allowing nature to speak. SingaporeSurf ==================================== **** Not As Simple As It Seems Lim Bee Khim, Ministry Of Trade And Industry, Today The key to raising wages of Singaporeans does not lie in tightening the supply of foreign labour, but in upgrading the capabilities of our workers so that they can take on jobs that less-skilled workers elsewhere cannot. **** SPH Bid Wastefully Expensive? Conrad Raj, Today In their eagerness to become major property players, did media group Singapore Press Holdings (SPH) and the National Trades Union Congress (NTUC) overpay for a mall now being developed by the Housing and Development Board at Clementi Town Centre? According to several analysts, they certainly did, and as a result, have downgraded the stock. **** High Taxi Fares Killing The Golden Goose Jack Chew, Straits Times Privately owned taxis do not require a layer of management and its associated costs. The same comparison can be made for wet markets and pay television. **** Every CPF Life Member Will Enjoy The Same Interest Rate Lo Tak Wah, Central Provident Fund Board, Straits Times It is not meaningful to compare CPF Life with other annuity schemes as they are designed on different premises. We would also like to assure Mr Nathan and all Central Provident Fund members that the same mortality experience will apply to all four CPF Life plans. **** Give Courts More Sentencing Discretion Alvin Chen, Straits Times Leaving this issue to prosecutorial discretion is only a stop-gap measure, which may, in the long run, undermine a fundamental principle of the legal system that there should be congruency between the law and its administration. **** Fundamentals To Singapore???s Progress Yours Truly Singapore While stability is not a luxury we take for granted, it is also not an excuse upon which authoritarianism can be justified. **** Plan To Ensure Singaporeans Are Our Leading Investors The Star Singaporeans comprise the largest number of visitors to the country and now, Malaysia wants them to be the No. 1 in investments as well. **** Foreigners Drive Up The Price Of Housing. Singaporean Skeptic NS is bull-shit. You are not protecting the land, you are more like the security guard who is there to protect the rich. **** Foreigners After Non-prime Homes Joyce Teo, Straits Times Foreign property investors are venturing out of traditional prime areas to snap up homes in other parts of the island. **** Bring On The Daisies, and Those Acts Of Kindness Seth Mydans, New York Times While 21 national leaders gathered behind tight security this weekend to address the region???s problems, some Singaporeans were out in the rain-washed streets handing out yellow daisies in the latest government campaign to improve the national character. **** What???s Not Good About Supplementary Retirement Scheme (SRS) Salary.sg We calculated: if you instead invest the $11,475 and achieve a mere 0.31% return per year, you will make slightly more than what you would have got from the SRS tax saving. **** ASEAN Group To Remove Tariffs Reuben Carder, Wall Street Journal Six major members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations will remove tariffs on cross-border transactions of goods on Jan. 1 next year in a move toward broader trade liberalization across the region, the 10-member bloc said in a statement. **** ERP Rates At 31 Gantries To Be Reduced For Year-end School Holidays Channel NewsAsia **** IMF Would Never Make Such A Claim Derek Tonkin, Network Myanmar, Financial Times **** The Ugly Singaporean Simplicity Go round the system. Help the system. Beat the system. Change the system. Outsmart the system. But don't forsake the system that propelled an island from nothing in a short 44 years. **** Payment If Can't Be Rehired Straits Times Employers should offer a one-off Employment Assistance Payment (EAP) if they are unable to find suitable jobs for eligible older workers when the new law kicks in in 2012. This is to tide these employees over a period of time while they look for an alternative job. The amount of payment should be based on certain principles set in the draft tripartite guidelines for re-employment of older workers released on Monday. **** Singapore Private Home Sales Plunge In Oct - Govt Kevin Lim, Reuters Sales of uncompleted private homes in Singapore plunged 29 percent in October from September, falling below the 1,000 unit level for the first time since January as government measures to cool the property market took effect. **** CPF Interest Rate Still At 2.5% Zakir Hussain, Straits Times The CPF Board said on Monday that its computed rate - derived from rates of major local banks for the period between Aug 1 and Oct 31 this year - works out to 0.42 per cent a year. But the higher rate of 2.5 per cent will be paid as that is the minimum specified under the CPF Act. From applesurf at myapplemenu.com Tue Nov 17 18:59:00 2009 From: applesurf at myapplemenu.com (applesurf at myapplemenu.com) Date: 17 Nov 2009 23:59:00 -0000 Subject: [MyAppleMenu] Nov 17, 2009 Message-ID: <20091117235900.70162.qmail@voot.pair.com> MyAppleMenu ==================================== **** What's Next For Future iPhones? Dan Moren, Macworld Competing smartphones can tell us a lot about the iPhone???s future direction. **** Apple Beats Psystar: Is It A Win For You? Ian Paul, PC World Personally, I???m happy with my Mac computer and although I???ve had a few minor problems, I can???t really say I???m unhappy with Apple???s significant control over my computing experience. But then again, isn???t there something instinctively wrong about accepting a system or product, regardless of its quality, that reduces consumer choice? Especially when it comes to a device that is so integral to our daily lives? **** iPhone UI: The Age Gap And Other Stats David Morgenstern, ZDNet Sessions at this month's iPhone Tech Talk in Seattle revealed differences in usage by age groups, according to a developer report from the conference. **** Parallels Switch To Mac Edition Is Daunting But Worthwhile John Martellaro, The Mac Observer **** Apple Beats Nokia In Profits, Apple Doesn't Beat Nokia In Profits, We Don't Really Have A Clue [Smartphones] Jesus Diaz, Gizmodo he fact, however, is that nobody have a single clue about what Apple's real numbers are **** 10 Scenarios That Could Make Apple License Mac OS X Don Reisinger, eWeek Change is constant in the computer industry and even Apple can't say it will never change its mind about retaining exclusive control of the Mac OS platform. **** Why Steve Jobs' "Enforcement Routine" For Ads On Apple Devices Is Not The Dumbest Idea You Ever Heard Jim Edwards, BNET It suggests that Apple is interested in distributing its devices and software free to anyone willing to make a tradeoff by sitting through some ads. This is a time-honored business strategy that has previously been fantastically successful. I see this more of a preemptive measure to prevent others from undercutting the Mac and iPhone markets. **** Apple Vs. Pystar: What's Left To Fight Over Seth Weintraub, Computerworld Here's what's left to be decided at trial: Apple's allegations of breach of contract; induced breach of contract, trademark infringement; trademark dilution; trade dress infringement; and state unfair competition under California Business and Professions Code ?? 17200; and common law unfair competition. See anything on that list that will be helpful to Psystar? **** Apple, Bloomberg: Two Media Brands In The Social Era Tim Leberecht, CNET News Secrecy, compliance, top-down hierarchies, rigid communication policies, and walled gardens are characteristics that may be somewhat outdated in this era, and yet they seem to be the very cornerstones of Apple???s and Bloomberg???s success as the two firms thrive as the surprise champions of their respective categories. **** Needed At Apple: One Good Game Designer Jared Newman, Technologizer Apple???s cooking up something related to video games, and needs a jack of all trades game designer to get the job done. **** Runtime Revolution 4.0 Offers New Web-authoring Option Tony Craine, Macworld Runtime Revolution has released version 4.0 of its self-titled application-authoring software. New in this release is the ability to deploy applications directly to the Web in any of the major browsers running in Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux. **** Apple's iPhone To Be China's No. 1 Smart Phone, Unicom Says Wei Du and Mark Lee, Bloomberg China Unicom (Hong Kong) Ltd. Chairman Chang Xiaobing said he expects Apple Inc.???s iPhone to become China???s best-selling smart phone, countering skepticism by analysts who say the handset is too expensive. **** ShoveBox For The Mac And iPhone Helps Keep Your Stuff Organized Will Kelly, Salon The Tomorrow Weblog ==================================== **** Scientist At Work: Nathan Myhrvold: After Microsoft, Bringing A High-Tech Eye To Professional Kitchens Kenneth Chang, New York Times Inside a nondescript warehouse on a nondescript street of this Seattle suburb is a research laboratory that looks like it came out of a James Bond movie ??? had Q the gadget master been a gastronome. **** A Product (You Think) You'll Never Need Eric A. Taub, New York Times A new low-cost LCD alternative to the magnifying glass can help the visually impaired. MyAppleMenu Reader ==================================== **** Bring Back The Traditional Bookshop Stuart Walton, The Guardian No more lounging in Waterstone's or browsing in Borders ??? turn over an old leaf with the starchy, strait-laced booksellers of old. **** The Evolution Of The God Gene Nicholas Wade, New York Times New research is pointing to a new perspective on religion, one that seeks to explain why religious behavior has occurred in societies at every stage of development. **** The Dream Of The Great Unfinished Novel Wayne Gooderham, The Guardian Nabokov didn't finish The Original of Laura, so we'll never know how good it might have been ??? and that's the key to its tantalising appeal. **** Consciousness Ellen Wehle, Slate Magazine SingaporeSurf ==================================== **** Hawkers Can Pass On Trade Silachart Lau, National Environment Agency, Straits Times The current licensing scheme helps these hawkers pass on their trade by allowing immediate family members to take over the tenancy of the stall after they die. **** Not Likely A Case Of Staff Fatigue: Khaw Alicia Wong, Today "From the pictures I see, the pumps look almost exactly the same," said Mr Khaw, "so we're feeding back to the manufacturer that this is very dangerous". **** Flats Saved For 1st-Timers Jessica Cheam, Straits Times The Housing Board (HDB) has moved to address mounting concern about inadequate flat supply by upping the first-timer's success rate for getting a flat and by launching more than 1,000 homes for sale in Punggol. **** Should Upgrading Decisions Be Even Placed In The Hands Of Politicians? Kelvin Teo Writes Should a politician play god over something that voters have contributed towards with their own hard-earned money? **** Lower Voting Age To 18 Before Next Election Gerald Giam I would attribute the PAP government???s reluctance to reduce the voting age to two factors: Political self interest and inertia. Political self-interest because they know that 18 to 21-year-olds are much more likely to vote for change than older voters. Inertia because they know they can just refuse to do it and not suffer any consequences, since this is not a bread and butter issue. **** Zaobao: Most PRC Scholars Are Still Here. Really? Jimmy Mun, Frankly Speaking **** Temasek Launches Global Bond Sale To Raise US$500m Channel NewsAsia Temasek Holdings announced on Tuesday in a press release that it has launched a 30-year bond to raise US$500 million, which will go into funding operations of the company and of its subsidiaries. **** The Pulse, Singapore Airlines Finds One Ben Sandilands, Crikey Hard on the heels of its loss in the first six months of its financial year, Singapore Airlines finds signs of life in the October operating statistics released this morning. **** Singapore October Exports Fall The Least In 13 Months Stephanie Phang, Bloomberg Singapore???s exports fell the least in 13 months in October as improving global demand supported sales of electronics and pharmaceuticals. **** Temasek's Second Bonds In Two Months See Yield Spreads Narrow Katrina Nicholas and John Detrixhe, Bloomberg **** Racist And Useless Security Checks At Singapore???s MRT Stations AngryAngMo **** Possible Property Bubble Has Singapore Officials Worried Reuters The Singapore central bank warned Monday that more measures could be needed to curb the risk of speculation in the country???s property market, which has been bolstered by low borrowing costs. **** Green Fences Are Not 'friendly' To Old Folks Chia Hern Keng, Today The building of non-breaking green fences going for miles along road dividers all across Singapore is presenting a serious problem to old folks. **** Dover Park Hospice Fund Raising Project Proves A Hit For The Wrong Reasons Lynda Hong, Channel NewsAsia Charity fundraisers are common in Singapore. But an initiative to raise money to help care for the dying has highlighted a less charitable side of the nation. **** Weak US, EU Demand Dampen Singapore Exports AFP Weak demand from the United States and Europe sent Singapore's exports falling for the 18th consecutive month in October, the government said Tuesday. From applesurf at myapplemenu.com Wed Nov 18 18:59:00 2009 From: applesurf at myapplemenu.com (applesurf at myapplemenu.com) Date: 18 Nov 2009 23:59:00 -0000 Subject: [MyAppleMenu] Nov 18, 2009 Message-ID: <20091118235900.99745.qmail@voot.pair.com> MyAppleMenu ==================================== **** Apple's iPhone App Vetting Is Here To Stay???For ... Brian Heater, PC Magazine Developers can protest all they want, but Apple is likely to maintain its tight control over the App Store for as long as it can. **** Mac Laptops' Reliability Doesn't Match Their Price Gregg Keizer, Computerworld But Apple's MacBook line beats the corporate laptop standards of Dell, Lenovo, and HP. **** Apple Store Goes On Hiatus As Microsoft Store Opens Sharon Chan, Seattle Times The Apple store shut its doors for a remodeling in The Shops at Mission Viejo, just as Microsoft announced plans to open a store in the same mall in Orange County, Calif. **** Online Petition Demands Apple Approve iPhone Apps Sarah Perez, ReadWriteWeb Three iPhone application developers are cited in an online petition which asks Apple to approve their apps, all of which have been sitting in limbo for months on end. **** Calling Phony On Apple's Latest Ads Guy R. Briggs, FOXNews **** Apple's App Approval Revolt: Will It Matter? Maybe Sam Diaz, ZDNet Blogs As many of you know, I???m a big fan of Apple products. But, by the time Apple unleashes the iPhone from AT&T and gets its act together over the app approval process, I may be so happy with Android - and its apps - that I won???t be willing to trade it in for an iPhone. **** Pic Of The Day: WiFi Passwords For Mac And PC Leander Kahney, Cult Of Mac **** Get Your iTunes Library In Shape Milind Alvares, Smoking Apples **** Thanks, iPhone: 2000 Percent Increase In Bay Area Data Traffic Since 2008, Says AT&T John Paczkowski, Wall Street Journal **** Apple's iPhone App Store Takes Off In China AppleInsider Despite a slow start in official handset sales, the iPhone has found success in China with customers flocking to the App Store, even with the device's lack of Wi-Fi. **** Notes From Mac Programming Class Guest Lecture Brent Simmons, Inessential The idea behind the lecture was to talk about what makes a great Mac app. I took that as an excuse to talk about everything from work habits to UI to marketing. **** This Just In: MacBooks Are More Reliable Than Netbooks Aron Trimble, TUAW The results may not surprise you; for instance, netbooks fail 40% more often than premium laptops and Apple's MacBook line has above-average reliability. **** Zuma's Revenge Susie Ochs, Mac Life Zuma's Revenge is crammed with content, even without a multiplayer mode or a way to make your own levels. And it's got the "just one more level!" addictiveness that you'd expect from a PopCap game. **** The Argument For Free Classes Via iTunes Brad Stone, New York Times The music, videos and mobile applications available through Apple???s iTunes Store get all the attention, but it might be time to acknowledge the increasingly varied and popular offerings of iTunes U, Apple???s catalog of lectures from colleges and universities around the world. **** China Mobile: Still In Talks With Apple On China iPhone Launch Wall Street Journal **** Copy Music Off Your iPod Kirk McElhearn, Macworld There's nothing worse than losing your iTunes library to a hard drive crash. If you have music on your iPod, you can at least get it back with the right tools. **** Barking Enough To Join The Big Boys Leo Lewis, The Times Singapore???s newspaper stories about dogs must have puzzled world leaders. **** Apple Rejected Another Political Caricature App In 2008, Costing Developers $15000 John Brownlee, Geek.com **** iPhone Cleared For Sale By South Korean Regulator Owen Fletcher, Macworld UK South Korean regulators gave Apple a business license on Wednesday that would allow it to launch the iPhone in the country at any time. **** Review: SyncMate Expert 2.4 John Rizzo, Macworld Sync your Mac to multiple devices, including Windows Mobile. The Tomorrow Weblog ==================================== **** Bendable Magnetic Interface Duncan Graham-Rowe, MIT Technology Review Computer users have been typing on keyboards and clicking on mice for more than 20 years. An experimental new interface under development at Microsoft could give them a completely new way to use their system. Multi-touch and motion-sensing devices have recently emerged from research labs, offering new ways to operate computers. Microsoft's experimental tactile interface takes things further still, letting users interact by squashing, stretching, rolling, or rubbing. MyAppleMenu Reader ==================================== **** Flag Football Michael Oriard, Slate Magazine How the NFL became the American war game. **** And The (Antisocial) Word Of The Year Is ... Mary Elizabeth Williams, Salon I've done it lots of times. You've probably done it as well. Maybe you've even done it to me. People rarely own up to it, but it happens all time. That's why it's the New Oxford American Dictionary word of the year: "unfriend." **** Why Economists Love To Study Cellphone Pricing Saul Hansell, New York Times Have I tragically underestimated the ability of foreign cellphone companies to come up with devilishly complex pricing plans and the skill of economists to convert those schemes into pat theories that can be illustrated with neat charts and graphs? SingaporeSurf ==================================== **** Service Standards Have Gone Up: SRA Mystery Shopping Survey Neo Chai Chin, Channel NewsAsia Brickbats fly at frontline service staff - especially foreigners - whenever customer satisfaction levels for the retail sector see a dip. That's when Singapore Retailers Association (SRA) executive director Lau Chuen Wei finds herself speaking up for service workers. **** Why I Did Not Accept My PSC Scholarship Offer Ramblings Of A DarkMirage **** Magazine To Pay Six-figure Damages To Singapore Leaders AFP The High Court ordered the Review Publishing Company, publisher of the Far Eastern Economic Review (FEER), and editor Hugo Restall to pay 200,000 dollars in damages and 30,000 dollars in legal costs to Premier Lee Hsien Loong. **** A Few Good Men Feed Me To The Fish It is men like Lim Hock Siew, Said Zahari, JB Jeyaratnam, Francis Seow and many more including women like Teo Soh Lung who shows us, and put on record, the hidden Singapore story. **** How Schools Kill Creativity Gerald Giam **** Singapore 3rd Least Corrupt, Transparency Explains... Blowin' In The Wind The Corruptions Perceptions Index (CPI) does not indicate the level of corruption but "the perceived level of public sector corruption in a country or territory", according to Transparency International. The distinction is important. **** The Vicious Cycle Of High Rental Costs Of Foodstalls Kelvin Teo Writes For those who continue to dine at such outlets (affected by high rental costs) because they cannot really afford to dine at more healthy but expensive outlets, they are at risk of being sucked into this vicious cycle initially created by the high rental costs which go into the government???s coffers initially, only to be expended when the consumption results in future health problems. **** Transparency Plea To Sovereign Wealth Funds Blowin' In The Wind **** Insistence On Bilingualism In Early Years Of Education Policy Was Wrong: MM Lee Hoe Yeen Nie, Channel NewsAsia Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew said his insistence on bilingualism in the early years of education policy was "wrong". Instead it caused generations of students to be put off by the Chinese language. **** Stiffer Rules For Buildings Straits Times The building industry has been set more stringent standards for indoor air quality and ventilation which will hopefully reduce health problems among occupants and also increase energy efficiency. **** S'pore Must Be Host And Home Rachel Chang, Straits Times As one of the first multinational companies to set up shop in Singapore celebrated its 40th anniversary on Tuesday night, senior minister Goh Chok Tong emphasised the need for Singapore to become not just a host for foreign businesses, but also a home. **** SingPost Staff Did Not Unlock Letter-box Latch Patsie Tan, Singapore Post Limited, Straits Times We have investigated the matter and wish to assure Mr Nagpal that our staff did not unlock the letter-box latch. There is also no necessity for our postmen to unlock the latch for mail delivery as they have access to the letter box. We are unable to establish the cause of his letter-box latch being unlocked. **** Revamp Company-owned Cab System Murali Sharma, Straits Times Taxis should be run by drivers who own them, then we will get better service. We should do away with giants, like Comfort, which own and lease vehicles to taxi drivers. This sort of organisation comes with a lot of costs. This does not promote pride in the job or good service. Commuters will not get value for money. **** Impose A Quota On Wholesome Media Content Ng Liang Wei, Straits Times Perhaps we can mandate that operators import a certain percentage of wholesome content. This should apply to national television and the press. Channels 5 and 8 could become well known internationally for strongly promoting wholesome content suitable for families with young children, while other channels could take a more relaxed stand, subject to the prevailing climate as determined by the censorship authorities. Firstly, the key to getting more of one kind of stuff is to create more stuff, not to ban other stuff. Secondly, we will never agree what is and what isn't wholesome content. For example, I personally think that a lot of the local Chinese drama are not wholesome at all, even though they are all rated G. **** 'IRs Not A Threat' Neo Chai Chin, Today Whether or not the integrated resorts will pose a serious threat to them, Orchard Road retailers are not "awfully worried". So said Ms Lau Chuen Wei, executive director of the Singapore Retailers Association. **** NKF In The Red & Sustainable Charities: Good People Need Fair Salaries Mathia Lee **** ????????????????????? ????????????????????? ?????????, ???????????? ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????66??????????????????48???????????????????????????????????????72????????????52?????? The prices are confirmed [http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/Singapore/Story/STIStory_455993.html]. **** Was Our Phenomenal GDP Growth Worth Selling Our Soul For? Gerald Giam It???s easy to glaze over the sufferings of these political detainees and get lulled into believing the rhetoric of the PAP which goes something like: ???The key issue is are we better off now than we were 40 years ago???? Better off economically, yes. Morally? I don???t think so. **** Interview With Mr Ng Chun Kiat, Son Of KKH Medication Error Victim Madam Ng On What Really Happened The Temasek Review **** Why I Think MM Lee Is Wrong About The Learning Of The Chinese Language Urban Rant **** Magazine Pays Damages To Singapore Leaders: Lawyer AFP The Far Eastern Economic Review and its editor have paid over 400,000 Singapore dollars (290,000 US) to settle a defamation suit filed by prime minister Lee Hsien Loong and his father, the magazine's lawyer said Wednesday. Dow Jones and Co., which owns the magazine, said in a statement that it disagreed with the verdict and denied any wrongdoing, but would settle the damages instead of prolonging the process. **** Sun, Wind To Power Ubin Straits Times Pulau Ubin could be powered by the sun, wind and even waste in the next one to two years, as Singapore moves to test a combination of clean energy technologies for adoption on the mainland. **** IRAS To Raise Annual Values Of HDB Flats Channel NewsAsia The Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore (IRAS) will raise the Annual Values (AVs) of HDB flats with effect from 1 January 2010. To help HDB homeowners adjust to the AV increase, the government will grant a one-off property tax rebate to all HDB owner-occupiers for the property tax payable in 2010. **** Long Way To Go As Asia's Arts Hub Prime Sarmiento, Inter Press Service More than a venue to encourage arts appreciation and expression, Singapore???s hosting of the Biennale also reflects the government???s ambition to transform Singapore -generally perceived as wealthy, staid, and an efficient place to do business in but not much else - into a bustling haven for the arts. From applesurf at myapplemenu.com Thu Nov 19 18:59:00 2009 From: applesurf at myapplemenu.com (applesurf at myapplemenu.com) Date: 19 Nov 2009 23:59:00 -0000 Subject: [MyAppleMenu] Nov 19, 2009 Message-ID: <20091119235900.72419.qmail@voot.pair.com> MyAppleMenu ==================================== **** Camino 2 Improves Security, More Jeff Gamet, The Mac Observer The Camino Project released Camino 2.0 on Wednesday afternoon with improved security features, enhanced tabbed browsing, and more. **** A Dangerous Precedent: Apple's App Store Philip DiStefano, Tiger Weekly Right now, other smartphone platforms such as Google's Android are using their openness as a selling point, but what will happen when more and more closed platforms start succeeding? **** Apple's Web Worms Katia Dunn, NPR News There are several Apple-devoted sites. Some of them employ whole teams of people who spend their days reporting on the company. And, when I say reporting, I mean impressive investigative journalism. **** Running Windows 7 Under OS X: Ars Reviews VMware Fusion 3 Dave Girard, Ars Technica VMware Fusion has always had a stable, fast foundation, and version 3 continues to impress by pulling off a seemingly flawless 64-bit transition. **** Popcorn 4 Review Jonny Evans, Macworld UK Popcorn is Roxio???s conversion and burning tool for multimedia content. Among other talents it lets you easily convert Flash video clips into a format suitable for your Apple TV or iPhone, but that???s not all. **** Why There Shouldn't Be An iPhone App For That Tom Kaneshige, CIO For some retailers, an iPhone app makes perfect sense. Others, not so much. **** Bringing The iPhone And The Mac Into Ancient Tech Environments At Work Edible Apple With the average joe more tech conscious and savvy these days, the demands for modern technology in the workplace is growing louder, and thankfully, corporations are starting to listen. **** Give Your App To Apple Employees Karelia Software One great way to get some exposure to your application is to get it in front of as many Apple employees as you can. Ideally, give your program away! **** Apple Fixes Problem With LED Cinema Display iSight Camera Jonathan Seff, Macworld On Wednesday, Apple released LED Cinema Display iSight Firmware Update 1.0, a fix for an issue with the built-in iSight camera on the LED Cinema Display not being recognized by some applications. **** iPhone On Wi-Fi Vulnerable To Security Attack John Cox, Macworld UK A new report from a mobile security vendor details how the most popular smartphones, including the iPhone, are very vulnerable to man-in-the-middle attacks, carried out via public Wi-Fi connections. **** WorkSnug: Find Places To Work With Your iPhone Simon Mackie, Salon WorkSnug is a neat augmented reality iPhone app that enables you to find great places to work nearby, from cafes to coworking spaces, complete with reviews. **** The OS Opportunity John Gruber, Daring Fireball **** The Apple Tablet Is Dead Ian Paul, PC World Apple tablet rumors started verging into the ridiculous Thursday morning with reports that Apple has pushed back the project's launch date yet again. Those same sources are saying Apple is developing a high-end tablet that could retail for as much as $2000, according to Digitimes. **** Review: Mac Mini With Snow Leopard Server Jason Snell, Macworld If you want to run a Mac OS X-based server and take advantage of Snow Leopard Server???s impressive skills as a file, Web, backup, and workgroup server, you???ll find no better value than the Mac mini server. It???s appropriate for small businesses, small workgroups in larger enterprises, and educational environments. Isn???t it nice that Apple has finally realized that it had a great server under its nose this whole time? **** Five Unexpected Uses For Copy And Paste Sharon Zardetto, Macworld Use these commands in the Finder to manipulate more than just graphics and text. **** 1Password 3.0 Out Of Beta TJ Luoma, TUAW 1Password 3.0 is available today for Leopard and Snow Leopard users, with a bunch of new features, including 1PasswordAnywhere which allows you to view 1Password data from any other computer-Windows, Mac, Linux, whatever-with a modern browser like Safari or Firefox. **** Apple Releases Updates Improving Printing, Scanning, ISight Cameras And QuickTime Joachim Bean, TUAW **** 7 Essential iPhone/iPod Touch Tips Jeff Carlson, TidBITS **** Jobs: Forced Name Change 'Not That Big Of A Deal' MacNN Apple CEO Steve Jobs has chastised a Mac developer in response to a letter regarding a name change, reports say. **** SubRosaSoft Introduces FileSalvage 7 Ramu Nagappan, Macworld SubRosaSoft has released FileSalvage 7, an update to its data recovery software. The latest release offers Snow Leopard support and enables better recovery for flash-memory cards and Windows drives. The Tomorrow Weblog ==================================== **** Computers Can't Answer Everything Erica Naone, MIT Technology Review Damon Horowitz, chief technology officer and cofounder of the San Francisco-based Aardvark, believes that the real power of natural language processing can only be unlocked by acknowledging its limitations and filling in the gaps with human intelligence. MyAppleMenu Reader ==================================== **** Who Knew I Was Not The Father? Ruth Padawer, New York Times DNA testing has led more men to discover that their children are not biologically theirs. Families are being upended, and so is the law. SingaporeSurf ==================================== **** Upgrading Works For Holland And Bukit Panjang Unaffected By Past Investment Losses Channel NewsAsia he Holland-Bukit Panjang Town Council said upgrading works will continue despite huge investment losses reported in 2008. **** MM Lee???s Admission ??? A Good Time For Govt To Reflect On Policy Andrew Loh, The Online Citizen If the minister mentor indeed feels he has made a mistake with the policy, then perhaps he should also look into these other issues which have resulted from the policy as well. **** My Struggle With Chinese Gerald Giam **** Lawyer For Death-row Inmate Denied Access To Client Andrew Loh / Rachel Zeng, The Online Citizen Despite having confirmed that inmate is represented by new lawyer, the Prison Service insists on having the Court???s permission before it allows lawyer access to his client. **** The Government???s Role In Improving The Quality Of Our Educational Institutions Kelvin Teo Writes **** I Am Singaporean II: Bilingualism Is Bad(?) Die Neue Welle What is needed is exposure, and a complete language change should probably do the trick. **** Singapore Cbank: No Change In Underlying Inflation Nopporn Wong-Anan and Saeed Azhar, Reuters Singapore said on Thursday that an upward revision in its forecast for the consumer price index in 2010 was due to a pending increase in property tax rather than any broader increase in underlying inflation. **** Singapore Economy Misses Forecast Se Young Lee, Wall Street Journal Singapore's economy expanded slower than initially estimated in the third quarter, but the government expects growth to resume next year as the global recovery progresses. **** Singapore's Growth Forecast For 2009 Maintained At -2.5 To -2.0% Lukman Khairduddin, Channel NewsAsia Singapore on Thursday declared a severe recession over as data showed its economy grew for the second straight quarter in the three months to September. **** Structural Unemployment In Singapore Diary of A Singaporean Mind **** Amnesty: Singapore Defamation Ruling Attacks Press Associated Press Human rights group Amnesty International urged Singapore on Thursday to protect freedom of expression after an Asian magazine paid 405,000 Singapore dollars ($290,000) to settle a defamation suit by the country's prime minister and his father. "This ruling further illustrates how press freedom is under threat in Singapore and sets a dangerous precedent for freedom of expression and journalism in the region," Sam Zarifi of Amnesty International said in a statement. **** Singapore Gets Live Traffic Updates, Public Transport Directions On Google Maps Today **** Heavy Rain Causes Knee-high Floods In Bukit Timah Channel NewsAsia Heavy and intense rain caused flooding in some parts of Singapore in the early part of Thursday afternoon. The situation was especially bad in Bukit Timah. At its peak, the flood waters reached knee level. **** The KK Chemo Misdosage Incident Flaneurose **** How Singapore Appreciates A PRC Talent Who Tried To Integrate Jimmy Mun, Frankly Speaking This is the stark reality of Singapore. Be a non-committal tourist like Zhang Yuan Yuan and enjoy the best of both worlds, or embrace Singapore and get screwed, like my friend. **** Google Maps Packs In The Data With LTA And Quantum Inventions Techgoondu Are homegrown online maps being side-lined? (Note: The writer is a product manager at Rednano.) **** Only 40 Sand Lorries Cross To S'pore New Straits Times The state Customs Department yesterday revealed the number of lorries carrying sand that ply between Johor and Singapore via the Causeway. **** Singapore Nomads Singapore Short Stories From applesurf at myapplemenu.com Fri Nov 20 18:59:02 2009 From: applesurf at myapplemenu.com (applesurf at myapplemenu.com) Date: 20 Nov 2009 23:59:02 -0000 Subject: [MyAppleMenu] Nov 20, 2009 Message-ID: <20091120235902.4202.qmail@voot.pair.com> MyAppleMenu ==================================== **** Apple's Mistake Paul Graham I don't think Apple realizes how badly the App Store approval process is broken. Or rather, I don't think they realize how much it matters that it's broken. **** Boot Camp Drivers Update 2.2 For Windows Available Dave Caolo, TUAW **** Apple: 'Enterprise' Is As Enterprise Does Matt Asay, CNET News "Enterprise" is defined by the company you keep. **** Apple's App Store Review Irking Developers Dave Rosenberg, CNET News I received a note from Andy Gilbertson, one of the developers behind Parallel Kingdom, a location-based mobile massively multiplayer (or MMO) game that uses your GPS location to place you in a virtual world atop the real world. The game seems like an obvious winner for the iPhone, but the team has been struggling to get it past Apple's app review policies. **** Cut The Drama: Private APIs, The App Store &??You Andrew Bednarz, The Apple Blog **** Buyer's Guide: 33 Things You Don't Need If You Have An iPhone Chris Rawson, TUAW Thanks to the apps that come pre-packaged with the iPhone and the more than 100,000 third-party offerings now available in the iTunes Store, the iPhone has gained functionality that might have seemed hard to fathom under three years ago when Steve Jobs first announced the device. **** Hack Brings 10.6.2 Back To Atom Processors Jeff Porten, Macworld Netbook hackers take note: this is not a point-and-click operation; you'll need to roll up your Terminal sleeves for a few simple steps here. And, of course, replace the kernel of your operating system???the fundamental code that underlies everything else in Mac OS X???with a file you've downloaded from the Internet. **** iPhone Developer: Why I'm Not Making Apps For Android Or Palm (Yet) Dan Frommer, The Business Insider **** Why The iPhone Makes You Feel Smarter Andrew Nusca, ZDNet MAYA Design???s Mickey McManus says products should be so intuitive that a customer feels silly explaining to another how it works. And by silly, I mean smug ??? as in, ???Isn???t it obvious???? **** A Finder-Copying Bug In Snow Leopard, Part 2 Matt Neuburg, TidBITS By comparing two very similar applications, one of which is troublesome and the other not, even though they have almost identical internal structures, I have discovered that the answer involves Unix permissions on symlinks inside the bundle. **** Big Fish Games Releases Drawn: The Painted Tower For Mac MacNN Big Fish Games has released Drawn: The Painted Tower, a new puzzle-adventure game for the Mac. **** Review: IScrapbook 2.1 Katherine Murray, Macworld If you plan to put any real energy into your scrapbooking projects, I recommend iScrapbook 2.1.2 for its ease of use, flexible but powerful toolset, easy-to-customize templates, and add-on iScrapKits that let you expand your creative efforts at your own pace. **** Smartphones' Ecosystem Dilemma Lance Knobel, Reuters What Apple has done so successfully is build a thriving ecosystem around its product. **** Review: Curio Professional 6 Stuart Gripman, Macworld Curio is an ambitious product with much to offer. For users who do moderate amounts of drawing, outlining, mind mapping, note taking, project management, or presenting, Curio can be an excellent value. Students in particular will find it appealing. Those with professional grade requirements will still have to shell out for dedicated applications. The Tomorrow Weblog ==================================== **** Google's Chrome OS: An Appliance, Not A PC Neil McAllister, Infoworld Chrome OS is Google's latest attempt to further its concept of browser-based computing, in which the traditional PC desktop is deemphasized in favor of a completely Web-based experience. MyAppleMenu Reader ==================================== **** Never Mind The Bad Sex Award ??? Where's The Good Sex In Fiction? Sarah Duncan, The Guardian As someone who works hard to get it right in my own novels, I'm very aware of just how difficult it is to depict well. **** How Will Religion Evolve? John Tierney, New York Times Does religion have a future? Who looks more like an evolutionary dead end: the religious American or the agnostic European? Or will both give way to some sort of compromise ??? people bound by new institutions that provide the social benefits of religion without belief in a traditional deity? **** Ben-Hur: The Book That Shook the World Amy Lifson, Humanities Since its first publication, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ has never been out of print. It outsold every book except the Bible until Gone With the Wind came out in 1936, and resurged to the top of the list again in the 1960s. By 1900 it had been printed in thirty-six English-language editions and translated into twenty others, including Indonesian and Braille. SingaporeSurf ==================================== **** Sports Hub Still Has Financing Concerns Leonard Lim, Straits Times The troubled Sports Hub is still facing difficulties and the expected construction date could possibly be pushed back further to 2014. It is understood that the preferred bidder for the $1.87 billion project, the Singapore Sports Hub Consortium, has yet to raise the money necessary for construction to begin at the site of the National Stadium. **** End The Delay And Start Building Chew Chee Meng, Straits Times It is unfair to the two unsuccessful bidders as the reason appears to be the Singapore Sports Hub consortium's failure to secure a bank loan to finance the project. **** The Fasincating Question Of What The Voters Prefer In A Walkover Ward Kelvin Teo Writes **** ????????????????????????????????? ??????????????????????????? ??????, ???????????? ???????????????9???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? **** ????????????????????????????????? ?????????, ???????????? ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? **** ????????????????????????????????? ?????????, ???????????? ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? **** Bold Changes To Beat Crunch Christopher Tan, Straits Times Singapore could face a transport crunch between now and 2020 if bold changes are not made to bus and taxi services. Transport GPC chief Lim Wee Kiak said the country cannot afford to wait until all $40 billion worth of new rail projects - which will double the network to 280km by 2020 - are up and running. **** It's Flooding! With Floating Freezers And Garbage Bins The Keropok Look! Floating garbage bins! That's not the only one floating. We saw quite a few floating by... **** Singapore Minister: Many Airlines Still Face Margin Pressure P.R. Venkat, Wall Street Journal Singapore's second minister for finance and transport Lim Hwee Hua on Friday said that many airlines were still suffering from sharp declines in yields and profitability and the industry faces a second round of threat from rising oil prices and worries of a second wave of the H1N1 strain of influenza this winter season. **** Lee Kuan Yew And Bilingualism The Rot Within **** PM Lee Confident Buddhist Community Will Help Keep Society Harmonious S Ramesh, Channel NewsAsia Prime minister Lee Hsien Loong said he is confident the Buddhist community here will help maintain a harmonious, cohesive and compassionate society in Singapore. Speaking at the opening of the Singapore Buddhist Federation's building on Friday morning, he noted that Buddhists form one of the largest religious groups here, and they contribute to the general mood of tolerance and understanding in society. **** Hospitals Need Better Design April Chong, Straits Times While hospitals here already give a high standard of care, more can be done to improve the overall experiences and well-being of patients, said the DesignSingapore International Advisory Panel. **** Mah???s Explanation Does Not Square With HDB???s Annual Report Leong Sze Hian, The Online Citizen **** CASE, NTUC Income Sued By 2 Private Schools For Some S$10m Channel NewsAsia Stansfield College and the Singapore Institute of Commerce, both owned by Mr Kannappan Chettiar are claiming CASE wrongfully suspended the schools from an accreditation scheme. From applesurf at myapplemenu.com Sat Nov 21 18:59:01 2009 From: applesurf at myapplemenu.com (applesurf at myapplemenu.com) Date: 21 Nov 2009 23:59:01 -0000 Subject: [MyAppleMenu] Nov 21, 2009 Message-ID: <20091121235901.32584.qmail@voot.pair.com> MyAppleMenu ==================================== **** Keyboards Buying Guide Dan Frakes, Macworld The keyboard you choose is based on a personal decision, but there are some features and terms you should understand so you make the proper buying decision. And that???s what this guide is here to do. Here are our tips to buying a new keyboard. **** Mice Buying Guide Rik Myslewski, Macworld We???re in the Golden Age of Rodents. It???s time to look at the mice you???re missing. However, the wealth of choices can be daunting. We have a few tips to help you. **** Apple's App Store Approval Process Gets Partially Automated AppleInsider Apple has added a new automated layer to its approval process for App Store software, but according to one developer, it's not perfect. **** iPhone Owners Demand To See Apple Source Code Gregg Keizer, Computerworld iPhone owners charging Apple and AT&T with breaking antitrust laws asked a federal judge this week to force Apple to hand over the iPhone source code, court documents show. **** Bugs & Fixes: Screensavers In Snow Leopard Ted Landau, Macworld After a little wait, many third-party screensavers are now compatible with Snow Leopard. But there are glitches. Ted Landau has details. **** Apple's App Store API Screening Flawed, Says Developer MacNN A new automatic screening technique Apple is using for the App Store appears to be backfiring, claims developer Rogue Sheep. **** How Smoking Can Ruin Your Mac Chris Matyszczyk, CNET News According to a report, AppleCare warranties can be voided if Apple deems the damage was caused by secondhand smoke. Appeals to Steve Jobs have, apparently, not succeeded. **** Does Apple Enjoy A Licensing Loophole On iPhone? Don Clark, Wall Street Journal While death and taxes are notable certainties, there???s another in the wireless world: make a 3G cellphone and you pay patent royalties to Qualcomm. But Apple may be evading some of the consequences. **** Elgan: Four Things You Need To Know About Apple Mike Elgan, Computerworld Apple actions seem inexplicable -- unless you understand how the company views the world. **** The All-New Apple 27 Inch iMac Jake's Rolex Watch Blog The Tomorrow Weblog ==================================== **** An Unsteady Future For Broadcast Tim Arango and Bill Carter, New York Times Have we finally reached a tipping point that suggests a remarkable decline in the fortunes of broadcast television in America? MyAppleMenu Reader ==================================== **** Hot Pot's Top Spot Daniel Gross, Slate Magazine What a meal of beef stomach and duck throats taught me about the new China. **** A Place in Time, Not All Frozen Diana Bletter, New York Times The temperature was soaring to 75 degrees, and I was walking on ice. Around me the Matanuska Glacier, about 100 miles from Anchorage, sparkled and shimmered in the afternoon sun. The only sound was an occasional rush of cool wind sweeping down from the towering Chugach Mountains and the crunch of my crampons as I made my way up a crevasse with a group of six other trekkers. **** The Shape Of Emotion Jonathan Jones, The Guardian Donatello was the first genius of the Renaissance, but his raw, expressive work also challenges all our assumptions about the period. He is justly the star of the V&A's triumphant new galleries. SingaporeSurf ==================================== **** Deluge Was A 'Freak' Event Amresh Gunasingham and Ang Yiying, Straits Times THURSDAY'S deluge which submerged parts of Bukit Timah was a 'freak' event that occurs once in 50 years, minister for the environment & water resources Yaacob Ibrahim said on Friday. 'What happened was very unusual,' he said. 'The intensity was tremendous.' **** How Does MOE Define Teaching Passion? Raymond Koh, Straits Times **** Idealism 'Not Sufficient': SM Alicia Wong, Today In Singapore, idealism is "not sufficient" to get things done, said senior minister Goh Chok Tong - social service leaders need to translate their vision into practical programmes, and be more "assertive in advocating certain good social causes". **** Ren Ci Founder Sentenced To 10 Months Jail Shaffiq Alkhatib, Channel NewsAsia The ex-CEO of Ren Ci Hospital Shi Ming Yi has been sentenced to ten months in jail. A district court has also sentenced his former aide, 34-year old Raymond Yeung, to nine months' imprisonment. **** UK Election Vs Singapore General Election Phare Anderson, Singapore Social and Political Thoughts What makes me feel that the British, are more open about the election date as it can be found in their official website of the Electoral Commission. **** Weather Information In Complacent Singapore Goh Meng Seng, Singapore Alternatives For example, if the rain that flooded Bukit Timah is to happen in Hong Kong, it will be Black Rain Alert. There is a fundamental flaw in this article: the lack of science. The comparison of Singapore and Hong Kong lacks a fundamental understanding of the difference in climate and weather, and the limitations in the science of weather forecasting. **** Casinos, The Internet And The Sex Trade Ravi Philemon, The Online Citizen **** Police Handling Of Rape Cases In Singapore : Skills Upgrading Needed. Mathia Lee **** Macworld Polishes 2010 Show Without Apple Ryan Kim, San Francisco Chronicle The show must go on. That's the rallying cry for Macworld 2010, which is preparing to soldier on for the first time in 26 years without Apple as its anchor vendor. The show, a production of IDG World Expo, has been tweaked in a number of ways to compensate for the loss of Apple, including a date change to February, registration price cuts and an emphasis on more training. **** Singapore Ramps Up Biomedical Sciences Effort Xinhua Singapore announced on Friday that it will inject 36 million Singapore dollars (25.9 million U.S. dollars) into new programs to give a greater push to its growing medical technology industry locally. **** Dr Chee Soon Juan???s Foreign Liaisons: An Act Of Patriotism Or Treachery? The Temasek Review From applesurf at myapplemenu.com Sun Nov 22 18:59:00 2009 From: applesurf at myapplemenu.com (applesurf at myapplemenu.com) Date: 22 Nov 2009 23:59:00 -0000 Subject: [MyAppleMenu] Nov 22, 2009 Message-ID: <20091122235900.22002.qmail@voot.pair.com> MyAppleMenu ==================================== **** Magic Mouse Drivers For Windows Now Available Chris Jacob, Gizmodo **** Why Go Pro When iMac Goes Faster? Rob Griffiths, Macworld The new Core i7 iMac is a potent machine -- so potent, in fact, that it outpaces a couple of Mac Pro models in benchmarks. It's also an incredible bargain, offering tremendous power given its price. **** iPhone To Go On Sale In South Korea Rhee So-eui, Reuters Apple's iPhone will go on sale in South Korea this week, offered by the country's No. 2 mobile carrier KT Corp (030200.KS), KT said on Sunday. **** Attention To Detail: What We Love In An App Erica Sadun, TUAW Software. It doesn't matter if it's for a Mac or for an iPhone. There are certain qualities we just love, that make an app really stand out to us. **** TUAW Review: Checkout, Top Notch Point Of Sale Software For Mac Josh Carr, TUAW **** Snow Leopard's Creator-Code Snubbing Now Official Matt Neuburg, TidBITS Although this merely confirms what was already known by experience and experimentation, and although it has no bearing whatever on the question of the advisability of this change, it's nice to see Apple come clean at last and state the facts plainly, albeit more than two months after Snow Leopard's release. The Tomorrow Weblog ==================================== **** Java: What Does Its Future Hold? Peter Wayner, Javaworld.com Oracle's imminent acquisition of Sun could strengthen Java -- or cripple it. **** Will The 'Smartbook' Be A Better Netbook? Brooke Crothers, CNET News The "smartbook" aspires to put the smartphone into the laptop. Will it be able to elevate an Apple iPhone or Motorola Droid-like experience to a larger device, or is it just more marketing mumbo-jumbo? MyAppleMenu Reader ==================================== **** The Sci-Fi Legends Who Shaped Today's Tech Stuart Andrews, PC Pro Science fiction has long inspired real-world technology, but have the authors of sci-fi stories finally run out of steam? **** Liberty, Equality, Gastronomy: Paris Via A 19th-Century Guide Tony Perrottet, New York Times A food-obsessed traveler uses the Zagat guide of the Napoleonic era to explore the culinary wonders of this city in the 21st century. **** Raymond Carver???s Life And Stories Stephen King, New York Times Raymond Carver, surely the most influential writer of American short stories in the second half of the 20th century, makes an early appearance in Carol Sklenicka???s exhaustive and sometimes exhausting biography as a 3- or 4-year-old on a leash. ???Well, of course I had to keep him on a leash,??? his mother, Ella Carver, said much later ??? and seemingly without irony. **** How To Be A Better Diner Tom Sietsema, Washington Post There are countless ways customers can endear themselves to restaurants. Inviting a clown to a four-star establishment is not one of them. SingaporeSurf ==================================== **** Singaporeans Urged To Learn From Handling Economic Downturn Xinhua Essentially, the message is: PAP good, trust us, remember to vote for us, okay? **** Patience For Sports Hub Wang Meng Meng, Straits Times PLEASE be patient and Singapore will get a Sports Hub everyone can be proud of. That was Dr Vivian Balakrishnan's response to queries on the Singapore Sports Hub Consor-tium's (SSHC) recent decision to launch a financing competition to raise money for the delayed project. **** Johor Set To Be A Medical Hub The Star The state is on the way to becoming a medical hub ??? for both locals and foreigners ??? with the building of a new public hospital and the proposal for a wellness centre in Nusajaya. Mentri Besar Datuk Abdul Ghani Othman said the proposed wellness centre would be built with the cooperation of the Singaporean government. **** The Singapore Government Will Pay For Your Next Date Martha Lee, CarnalNation What can we expect in terms of measurables from the new SDN? Singaporeans have and should have a say and voice in all this because tax payers??? money is going into allowing singles to date, and gasp, have fun. **** More Plans To Keep Senior Citizens Wired To Internet Asha Popatlal, Channel NewsAsia A new three-year programme to get the elderly more connected to the Internet will kick off in January. Acting minister for information, communications and the arts Lui Tuck Yew announced that 100 hot spots with computers and Internet services will be set up islandwide for senior citizens to use for free. He said this at his first ministerial dialogue session on Sunday. Wouldn't it be easier to get people online just by doing Toto and 4D online? :-) **** Why Raise Property Tax Sue-Ann Chia, Straits Times The property tax of HDB flats is being raised next year partly to avoid having to introduce a bigger increase later should home prices continue to rise, said acting minister for information, communications and the arts Lui Tuck Yew. Smaller increments better than one larger increment? Not when the end result is the same.