[MyAppleMenu] Jun 7, 2010

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**** WWDC 2010 <http://incsharp.blogspot.com/2010/06/wwdc-2010.html>
Joe's Coding Blog

As I am sat on the steps of Moscone West on this fresh San Francisco Sunday morning, I couldn't help but wonder, that all these people are affecting the lives of millions around the world in profound ways.

**** Steve Jobs Has Proven Tech CEOs Must Be Accessible <http://www.electronista.com/articles/10/06/06/editorial.tech.execs.cant.live.in.a.vacuum/>
Electronista

In an expected if slightly ironic twist, Steve Jobs -- perhaps the most secretive executive in the tech industry -- has seen the writing on the wall.

**** Steve Jobs' Troops Are In Town <http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2010/06/06/steve-jobs-troops-are-in-town/>
Philip Elmer-DeWitt, Fortune

As the banners draped across the lobby of the conference center make clear, this event is for the people who created 200,000 iPhone apps and 5,000 iPad apps.

**** Steve Jobs Single-Handedly Restructured The Mobile Industry <http://cdixon.org/2010/06/06/steve-jobs-single-handedly-restructured-the-mobile-industry/>
Chris Dixon

The people griping about Apple’s “closed system” are generally people who are new to the industry and didn’t realize how bad it was before.

**** Hands Off My Apple: Can Steve Job's Closed System Keep It Fresh? <http://www.financialpost.com/news/Hands+Apple+Steve+closed+system+keep+fresh/3120140/story.html>
Jameson Berkow, Financial Post

Apple is so hot right now that everything it unveils flies off the shelves, sending its share price higher. The question longer term however, is whether its “closed” strategy of development can continue to deliver the goods — and the buzz — with open-source operating systems such as Android offering slick new applicationsand growing competition.

**** The iPad: One Week In <http://chimpden.com/family/the-ipad-one-week-in.html>
Chimpden

Many of the early reviews of the iPad have focussed on its limits as a content creation device.  I’ve had the opposite experience.

**** 2010 Ars Design Award Winners For Mac OS X Software <http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2010/06/2010-ars-design-award-winners-for-mac-os-x-software.ars?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss>
Chris Foresman, Ars Technica

**** New iPhone Faces High Hopes <http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704025304575285133618617978.html?mod=rss_Today's_Most_Popular>
Yukari Iwatani Kane and Kate O'Keefee, Wall Street Journal

Many details of Apple Inc.'s new iPhone are already widely known, but expectations are high for the fourth-generation smartphone's official unveiling this week at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference.

**** The iPad: Past, Present, Future <http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704764404575286192766121172.html?mod=WSJ_business_LeftSecondHighlights>
Wall Street Journal

**** Demystifying Apple <http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2364658,00.asp>
Tim Bajarin, PC Magazine

Ultimately, all Apple really wants to do is create products that are easy to use and that people want. There's no mystery in this vision. Once the key principles are recognized, it's easy to demystify Apple.

**** App Makers Worry As Data Plans Are Capped <http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/07/technology/07data.html?ref=technology>
Claire Cain Miller and Brad Stone, New York Times

Some developers worry that customers will be reluctant to download and use the most bandwidth-intensive apps and that developers will cut back on innovative new features that would push customers over the new limits.

**** Dangers Lie In Reaching The Top, Even For Apple <http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-20006880-37.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=News-Apple>
Erica Ogg, Tom Krazit, CNET News

People wondered if Apple had peaked with the iPod. Then the company introduced the iPhone. People wondered if Apple had peaked with the iPhone. Then it introduced the iPad.

When the "Stevenote" is finished on Monday, people will wonder again. Apple has drawn a road map to the next era of computing, but that doesn't guarantee it safe passage.

**** Review: FastTrack Schedule 10 Project Management Software <http://www.macworld.com/reviews/product/464237/review/fasttrack_schedule_10.html?expand=true&lsrc=rss_main>
John Brandon, Macworld

I can’t think of any truly negative features in FastTrack Schedule 10. It runs fast and nimble, has plenty of powerful features, and has an amazing cadre of templates. The only real downside: it is not an enterprise tool, so multiple project managers cannot access a project at the same time and make changes. And, as a desktop app, it is only available on your Mac and not from the Web, like many competing tools.

**** Ulysses Gets Censored Again; This Time By Apple <http://www.mcelhearn.com/2010/06/07/ulysses-gets-censored-again-this-time-by-apple/>
Kirk McElhearn, Kirkville

This is really sad; Apple censoring a comic of one of the English language’s greatest novels, while still, fortunately, allowing that novel to be sold in ebook format via its iBookstore.

**** Review: Kinemac 1.8.3 <http://www.macworld.com/reviews/product/526768/review/kinemac_183.html?expand=true&lsrc=rss_main>
Dan Ablan, Macworld

Kinemac 1.8.3 is a reasonably priced but powerful 3D-creation tool from which any digital artist can benefit. Whether you’re a hobbyist or a professional 3D content creator, this program is definitely worth checking out.

**** Global CIO: Cutting Google And Apple Down To Size <http://www.informationweek.com/news/global-cio/interviews/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=225402025&tcss=global-cio>
Bob Evans , InformationWeek

Runaway success at Apple and Google has governmental mandarins gleefully preparing litigious and regulatory shackles. And that is sheer madness.

**** Tales Of Monkey Island <http://www.insidemacgames.com/reviews/view.php?ID=1085>
Ted Bade, Inside Mac Games

Tales of Monkey Island is a lot of fun to play and keeps a smile on your face. The graphics and audio of this game create the perfect ambience. While the game engine has its faults, the story is just so much fun that I found myself looking forward to playing.

**** Full Interview Of Apple's Steve Jobs At D8 Now Available <http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/10/06/07/full_interview_of_apples_steve_jobs_at_d8_now_available.html>
AppleInsider



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**** My Obsession With A New York Cup Of Coffee And A Doughnut <http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/jun/06/geoff-dyer-new-york-coffee-doughnuts?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+theguardian%2Fbooks%2Frss+%28Books%29>
Geoff Dyer, The Guardian

One morning, as I gobbled my doughnut and slurped my coffee, thinking to myself, "What a fantastic doughnut, what an amazing coffee," I realised that I had not just thought this but was actually saying aloud, "What a fantastic doughnut! What a totally fantastic experience!", and that this was attracting the attention of the other customers, one of whom turned to me and said, "You like the doughnuts, huh?"

"And the coffee!" I said. "The doughnut would be nothing without the coffee – and vice versa."

**** Should This Be The Last Generation? <http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/06/should-this-be-the-last-generation/?hp>
Peter Singer, New York Times

If there were to be no future generations, there would be nothing for us to feel to guilty about. Is there anything wrong with this scenario?

**** French For People Who Can't Be Bothered To Do it: Reading My First New York <http://www.bookslut.com/features/2010_06_016169.php>
Elizabeth Bachner, Bookslut

I’ve started taking French classes. I want to read Edmond Jabès in French. I want to someday visit the markets of Togo and Senegal. It would make a trip to Madagascar easier. I have to figure out what to do with the rest of my life. People suggest languages, hobbies, new relationships, sports. When someone speaks a foreign language at me, or throws a hard, round object my way, my instinct is to freeze. If I’m lucky, I duck. I don’t swing a bat at the thing, or smile and say hello. But this has to change. I have to get wilier and more agile, braver, more cunning.



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**** The Seminar, Vincent Cheng And The National Library Board <http://www.raviphilemon.net/2010/06/seminar-vincent-cheng-and-national.html>
Ravi Philemon

**** Oil Spill Spread And Clean Up: A Summary <http://wildshores.blogspot.com/2010/06/oil-spill-spread-and-clean-up-summary.html>
Wild Shores Of Singapore

Clean-up costs are estimated to reach hundreds of thousands.

**** It’s Chicken Rice And it’s In Cubao! <http://allanlazaro.wordpress.com/2010/06/06/its-chicken-rice-and-its-in-cubao/>
Allan Lazaro, Take Two, Up Three

We know Chicken Rice isn’t really gourmet food – you can find it in almost every hawker food center in Singapore — but the one we had wasn’t a good imitation.

**** Littering In Singapore <http://zenmindsword.posterous.com/littering-in-singapore>
Trial Of Tears

Re-education, fines and CWO are so yesterday in the fight against litterers.

**** Relaxing Its Grip To Play For A Winning Hand <http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/07/world/asia/07singapore.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss>
Norimitsu Onishi, New York Times

Casinos would be allowed in Singapore only “over my dead body,” Lee Kuan Yew, the country’s founder and a fierce opponent of gambling, once said.

The so-called minister mentor of a government led by his eldest son, Mr. Lee, 86, still casts a long shadow over this city-state. But two casinos, as grandiose and gaudy as anything in Las Vegas or Macao, have opened here recently — with his blessing.

**** Chinese Garden And The Eight Singapore Immortals <http://talesacrossthesea.net/singblog/?p=915>
Lara's Singapore Blog

**** Ex-Detainees Fight Back <http://yoursdp.org/index.php/news/singapore/3794-ex-detainees-fight-back>
Singapore Democrat Party

**** Water Lessons From Singapore <http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/gleick/detail??blogid=104&entry_id=65162>
Peter Gleick, San Francisco Chronicle

Some of the most interesting water stories are coming out of Singapore -- an example of a place with serious water constraints and important political and economic incentives to address those constraints in a sustainable way.

**** Big Money In Mobile Apps For Corporate Clients <http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporebusinessnews/view/1061504/1/.html>
Ephraim Seow, Today

Local developers of mobile applications, or apps, are turning to companies as a new driver of growth.

**** LKY’s Prejudice <http://www.dailymirror.lk/print/index.php/editorial/106-editorial/12395.html>
Daily Mirror

Sri Lanka is in the process of rebuilding the nation after a horrible war and there’s a responsibility by the likes of senior international politicians of the calibre of LKY to avoid making statement that would harm the reconciliation process by pitting one community against the other.

**** MTI Says No To Excluding Doctors' Guideline On Fees From Competition Act <http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/1061514/1/.html>
Channel NewsAsia

The Ministry of Trade and Industry (MTI) has declined a request by the Singapore Medical Association, SMA, to exclude its Guideline on Fees (GOF) from the Competition Act.

MTI, in consultation with the Health Ministry, has assessed that MOH's current and continuing measures to improve information transparency better serves this purpose.  MOH's measures include publishing actual medical fees on its website, requiring hospitals to provide financial counselling to patients and requiring medical bills to be itemised.

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**** Singapore's Policy Keeps Drugs At Bay - Really? <http://kixes.wordpress.com/2010/06/06/singapores-policy-keeps-drugs-at-bay-really/>
Funny Little World

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**** 嚴盯賭球活動‧同事之間下注也犯法 <http://www.sinchew.com.my/node/163557?tid=2>
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**** Key Challenges To Be Considered In Formulating Singapore's Social Policy: Vivian <http://www.news.gov.sg/public/sgpc/en/media_releases/agencies/mcys/speech/S-20100607-1>
Vivian Balakrishnan, Singapore Government

**** Swiss Monitoring Singapore Graffiti Case <http://www.expatica.com/ch/news/swiss-news/swiss-monitoring-singapore-graffiti-case_74270.html>
AFP

The Swiss embassy said on Monday it plans to observe the court case of a citizen facing prison and caning for allegedly spray-painting graffiti on a Singapore metro train.

**** New Media Used To Engage Residents At Grassroots Level <http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/1061572/1/.html>
Saifulbahri Ismail, Channel NewsAsia

It's easy to start a blog. It's more difficult to maintain it and make it relevant.

**** Elections Dept Identifies 1,400 Premises For Polling & Vote Counting <http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/1061605/1/.html>
S Ramesh, Channel NewsAsia

**** Singapore Hopes Shaming Litterbugs Will Help Keep Squeaky-clean Image <http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/world/breakingnews/singapore-hopes-shaming-litterbugs-will-help-keep-squeaky-clean-image-95753894.html>
Associated Press

Singapore, where painting graffiti can get you caned and drug smugglers are hanged, is trying a new tactic against the city-state's litterbugs: Embarrassing them in front of their neighbours.

**** Cross-border Rules Hampering ASEAN Trade, Say Industry Players <http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hZfujb805C5QEm9R5-FMhzxVLY5A>
AFP

Southeast Asian nations must coordinate efforts to cut cross-border red tape and promote regional road transport as they move towards a common market, industry players said Monday.