[MyAppleMenu] Nov 20, 2010

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**** Apple Versus Operators <http://www.ft.com/cms/s/3/e6f2a674-f3ef-11df-901e-00144feab49a.html?ftcamp=rss>
Financial Times

Instead, the operators seem to be taking a different route: they said on Thursday they would develop their own soft Sim together. This would at least give them control over a universal standard. It could also facilitate two long-held dreams: a world where phones are used to pay for purchases in shops, and where all sorts of technology, including cameras and even cars, are connected to mobile networks.

**** OpenFeint Finds A Way To Co-exist With Apple’s Game Center For The iPhone <http://venturebeat.com/2010/11/19/aurora-feint-finds-a-way-to-co-exist-with-apples-game-center-for-the-iphone/>
Dean Takahashi, VentureBeat

But it turns out that iPhone game developers have not only embraced Apple’s Game Center, which offers features such as leaderboards for games, developers have also continued to use OpenFeint on top of Game Center. That’s because Open Feint has features that the developers can’t live without, said Peter Relan, chairman of Burlingame, Calif.-based OpenFeint, in an interview. Not only is the game platform surviving, it’s thriving.

**** Low Volume And No Retweets: Ping Is Not Going Viral On Twitter <http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/low_volume_and_no_retweets_ping_is_not_going_viral_on_twitter.php?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+readwriteweb+%28ReadWriteWeb%29>
Frederic Lardinois, ReadWriteWeb

Clearly, Ping is not going viral on Twitter yet. Indeed, users barely ever retweet a Ping like.

**** Detection Of Malware Reveals That Mac Viruses Are A Genuine Threat <http://www.scmagazineuk.com/detection-of-malware-reveals-that-mac-viruses-are-a-genuine-threat/article/191223/?>
SC Magazine

The quantity of malware targeted at the Mac platform has been highlighted since the roll out of a free Mac anti-virus solution.

**** Review: Scrivener 2 Writer’s Application <http://it-enquirer.com/2010/11/19/review-scrivener-2-writers-application/>
IT-Enquirer

Scrivener 2.0 is an important upgrade of the number one writer’s tool for Mac users. It has numerous improvements and some new features, such as a template startup screen, better integration between corkboard, outliner and text mode, collections, page view, and the ability to publish to ePUB directly.

**** Free: The Best Mac Launcher Browser Utility <http://mac360.com/index.php/mac360/comments/free-the-best-mac-launcher-browser-utility/>
Alexis Kayhill, Mac360

**** Free: The Best Mac Notification And Alert System <http://mac360.com/index.php/mac360/comments/free-the-best-mac-notification-and-alert-system/>
Alexis Kayhill, Mac360

**** Review: Bare Bones Software Yojimbo <http://www.macnn.com/reviews/bare-bones-software-yojimbo.html>
MacNN

Organize your digital tidbits in a logical way and find them again quickly. Yojimbo 3 adds iPad and scanning support in this easy to use program.

**** Apple To Offer Free MobileMe Service To Some iOS Users? <http://www.macrumors.com/2010/11/19/apple-to-offer-free-mobileme-service-to-some-ios-users/>
Eric Slivka, MacRumors

New evidence uncovered in recent iOS 4.2 builds and the iOS 4.2.1 golden master seed is suggesting, however, that Apple will be offering a free MobileMe tier to users. The evidence comes in the form of a new private framework known as AppleAccounts.framework that includes a series of device-specific error messages referring to free MobileMe accounts.

**** Ask For Help <http://www.red-sweater.com/blog/1505/ask-for-help>
Daniel Jalkut, Red Sweater

As I moped along De Anza Boulevard that afternoon, I thought that I might not be cut out for software engineering in general, let alone at a world-class company like Apple. After I retreated back to my office and got a surge of help from a trusted colleague, I realized that I was perfectly qualified for the job. Especially if I could ask for help every once in a while.



MyAppleMenu Reader
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**** Ballets Russes Style: Diaghilev's Dancers And Paris Fashion By Mary E Davis – Review <http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2010/nov/20/ballets-russes-style-review?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+theguardian%2Fbooks%2Frss+%28Books%29>
Veronica Horwell, Guardian

The story conventionally goes that Sergei Diaghilev and his Ballets Russes landed with a crash on the Paris stage in 1909 and changed the style of everything forthwith: music, ballet and its choreography, art, decor and especially fashion. With Diaghilev the impresario, Stravinsky's dissonances, Nijinsky's leaps and Bakst's designs, modernity got started. That's one of the plots of this winter's V&A exhibition of the Ballets Russes and its accompanying book, and it underlies Mary Davis's account of the relationship between the company and fashion. Not so much fashion in the sense of the sewn frock, as fashionability, a conjunction of perfomed glamour, conspicuous outrage, publicity and pizazz that Diaghilev exploited so well.

**** Creating New Books From Old <http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/nov/20/jonathan-safran-foer-bruno-schulz?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+theguardian%2Fbooks%2Frss+%28Books%29>
Jonathan Safran Foer, Guardian

The order was given to destroy the Second Temple. Three of the walls went down, but the fourth resisted. It stood firm against hammers, and pick-axes, and clubs. The Romans had elephants push against the wall, they tried to set fire to it, they even invented the wrecking ball. But nothing, it seemed, would bring the wall to its knees. The soldier in charge of overseeing the Temple's destruction reported back to his commanding officer: "We have destroyed three of the Temple walls."

"And what about the fourth?"

"I am of the opinion that we should leave it, as a testament to our greatness."

**** Chasing The Sun: The Epic Story Of The Star That Gives Us Life By Richard Cohen – Review <http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/nov/20/sun-stars-richard-cohen-review?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+theguardian%2Fbooks%2Frss+%28Books%29>
Tim Radford, Guardian

Richard Cohen is a publisher who kept looking for other people to write this book, and then finally did it his way. This literary orbit around the biggest thing in our lives takes in mythology, written history, and the traffic of understanding from Babylon, ancient Egypt, Athens, the Islamic world, imperial China and Japan, the scientific revolution that began with Copernicus and Galileo and other extraordinary ways in which this slow understanding of the Sun has changed our lives.

**** Tolstoy: Russia’s Thunderous Prophet <http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/70ecbfa6-f362-11df-b34f-00144feab49a.html>
AN Wilson, Financial Times

The death of Leo Tolstoy on November 20 1910 in a small railway station in southern Russia, was being turned into mythology even as it was happening. Pathé, the pioneer of newsreels, made one of its first moving-pictures about the event. Lenin had said two years earlier that Tolstoy was “a mirror of the revolution”. Both communist revolutionaries and the Russian government were watching to see what the effect of the death of the great anarchist would be on the Russian people, who felt that they had lost not just a great artist but the most eloquent voice that had thundered on their behalf against monstrous injustices.

**** The Zen Of Silence <http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/21/books/review/Adams-t.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss>
John Adams, New York Times

John Cage was one astonishing individual. A composer we commonly associate with coin tossing, whose most famous piece called for the performer not to make a single sound, he upended long-held conventions about the listening process and prodded us to re-evaluate how we define not only music but the entire experience of encountering art. He was, in the words of Kenneth Silverman’s new biography, “driven by an ideal of nonmythic listening and seeing, of perceptual innocence”; his goal was to compose “a prelapsarian music untainted by history.”

**** This Ballerina Found History In Her Footsteps <http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/21/arts/dance/21homans.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss>
JENNIFER B. McDONALD, New York Times

It is not the typical academic who studies the political and cultural history of nations by trying to locate those histories within her body. Yet that was precisely the approach taken by Jennifer Homans, a former professional ballet dancer turned historian and critic, whose enormous new history of classical ballet, “Apollo’s Angels,” was published this month.

**** My Year In Waxing School <The wishy-washiest opposition parties may lose their pants in  three-cornered fight — and if these unfocussed parties are eliminated from our political scene, the shake-out may do our politics some good.>
Virginia Sole-Smith, Slate

Naked people don't tip well, and more tricks of the trade.



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****  Much Ado About Freedom Of Speech <http://kentridgecommon.com/?p=8422>
Koh Choon Hwee, Kent Ridge Commons

**** Do You Hate Singapore? <http://yu-kym.blogspot.com/2010/11/do-you-hate-singapore.html>
Yu-Kym's Blog

If people hate Singapore so much, they should just leave and not return - not even via the Internet. I don't care whether they survive or thrive elsewhere. Singapore doesn't need such people. They are many foreigners who can't wait to take their place here.

**** A Very – Engineered *Society* – Singapore Is …. <http://refinelubis.wordpress.com/2010/11/20/a-very-engineered-society-singapore-is/>
Day-To-Day-Notes

so really, if i am a Singaporean, i will stop complaining and realign my focus on keep improving myself, my family, people i love. focus on our purpose of being and living, keep striving our best …. the road is there we just need to work on our engine so we can complete our journey to the right destination.

**** Learn From Singapore <http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2010/11/20/focus/7464772&sec=focus>
Gursharan Singh, The Star

There are many aspects we can learn from Singapore if only we stop thinking that it is below our dignity or position to learn from a country whose size and population is a fraction of ours.

**** Rep: Ban Buses To Casinos <http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2010/11/20/parliament/7465381&sec=parliament>
Desiree Tresa Gasper, The Star

Datuk Tee Siew Kiong (BN-Pulai Sebatang) said the step was necessary to curb gambling among locals who are spending an average of RM7mil daily at the casinos. “Local travel agencies should also be banned from arranging direct trips to casinos on the island."

**** MARUAH Supports Call To Suspend Executions; ACLS Calls For MDP To Be Abolished <http://theonlinecitizen.com/2010/11/maruah-supports-call-to-suspend-executions/>
The Online Citizen

**** Shooting Non-linear Bullets <http://yawningbread.wordpress.com/2010/11/20/shooting-non-linear-bullets/>
Yawning Bread

The wishy-washiest opposition parties may lose their pants in  three-cornered fight — and if these unfocussed parties are eliminated from our political scene, the shake-out may do our politics some good.