[MyAppleMenu] Oct 12, 2010

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**** Mac 101: Inserting Or Typing Uncommon Characters <http://www.tuaw.com/2010/10/11/mac-101-inserting-or-typing-uncommon-characters/>
Steven Sande, TUAW

**** Walmart Confirms iPad Reaching Its Stores On Friday <http://www.electronista.com/articles/10/10/11/walmart.says.ipad.in.stores.october.15/>
Electronista

**** Yahoo Messenger App Update Enables Video Calls From Iphone To Desktop <http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/10/10/11/yahoo_messenger_app_update_enables_video_calls_from_iphone_to_desktop.html>
Josh Ong, AppleInsider

Yahoo has updated its Messenger iPhone app to allow video calls from the iPhone to a computer, a feature that Apple has yet to release for its FaceTime standard.

**** Apple Seeks Approval To Sell iPad In S.Korea: Regulator <http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5iENN6K-YONoC06CqJ4xvMmGrBcjQ?docId=CNG.fe2092e7da2bec8f81b505052b734e56.2b1>
AFP

US technology giant Apple is seeking approval to sell its iPad in South Korea, the telecommunications regulator said Tuesday, after the iPhone's local popularity fanned interest in the tablet computer.

**** Quebec Gets Another Apple Store <http://www.macgasm.net/2010/10/12/quebec-apple-store/>
Joshua Schnell, Macgasm

Apple stores have taken a while to make their way to Canada, but now that they have reached our borders, more and more continue to come. We can’t really complain much about it though — the more the merrier. This time, Quebec is being graced with another Apple Store, this time in the picturesque Quebec City.

**** DeNA To Buy iPhone Game Developer <http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/13/technology/13social.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss>
Hiroko Tabuchi, New York Times

DeNA, the Japanese social game giant, said Tuesday that it would acquire Ngmoco, a Silicon Valley iPhone game developer, for $400 million — one of the largest deals ever involving an iPhone application developer and another sign that the iPhone is fast becoming the hottest game device on the market.

**** GrabBox 1.1.2 <http://www.macworld.com/reviews/product/706778/review/grabbox_112.html?expand=true&lsrc=rss_main>
Derik DeLong, Macworld

Publishing your sceenshots to the web for quick sharing is easily done with many free apps. GrabBox is yet another to add to the ranks. While it’s not the first to try to fill this niche, it separates itself from the rest with a couple unique features, including using Dropbox as its online service.

**** Apple Publishes Ping Guidelines For Artists <http://www.tuaw.com/2010/10/12/apple-publishes-ping-guidelines-for-artists/>
Dave Caolo, TUAW

Apple has published official Ping usage guidelines for artists which describe exactly how to create an artist profile and begin posting content.

**** Office 2011: The Macro Is Back <http://www.macworld.com/article/154785/2010/10/welcomebackvisualbasic.html?lsrc=rss_main>
Rob Griffiths, Macworld

I’ve been quite happy with the macro experience in Excel 2011. Now that Tools -> Macros does something useful once again, I can finally retire Excel 2004.



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**** MFK Fisher And The Dangers Of Overcooking Books <http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2010/oct/12/mfk-fisher-overcooking-books?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+theguardian%2Fbooks%2Frss+%28Books%29>
Jean Hannah Edelstein, The Guardian

It's a hard but essential lesson for writers that there comes a time when you have to stop revising your work.

**** This Year, Gardening Includes Oysters <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2010/10/05/ST2010100503040.html>
John Martin Taylor, Washington Post

The bay's recreational oyster season officially opened last week, but more than 2,000 volunteers have already signed on to work with the bivalves: not harvesting them, but "gardening" them on private property. It's the most visible of the aggressive programs Maryland and Virginia have begun, with the help of new federal funding and a number of environmental organizations, in hopes of increasing the number of oysters in the bay tenfold in the next decade.



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**** Target: Get Fit In 9 Months <http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/Singapore/Story/STIStory_589545.html>
Jermyn Chow, Straits Times

The Singapore Armed Forces on Monday announced changes to its physical training programme to raise the fitness levels of its citizen soldiers. They include a key one that will require operationally-ready national servicemen to pass their annual Individual Physical Proficiency Test (IPPT) in nine months instead of the current 12.

**** Mobility <http://mathialee.wordpress.com/2010/10/12/mobility/>
Mathia Lee

**** $50,000 Reward For Missing National Stadium Time Capsule <http://tnp.sg/news/story/0,4136,258144,00.html>
Koh Hui Theng, The New Paper

Now that the demolition of the stadium to make way for the $800 million Sports Hub has begun, it may be the last chance to find this piece of sporting history.

**** The Singapore 'Herstory': From Sophia Raffles To Kwa Geok Choo And Beyond <http://www.eurasiareview.com/201010119023/the-singapore-herstory-from-sophia-raffles-to-kwa-geok-choo-and-beyond.html>
Emrys Chew, Eurasia Review

The term ‘herstory’ originated in the late 1960s, gathering momentum through the 1970s and 1980s as a feminist critique of male-dominated historical narratives. While the term is not derived from the Greco-Latin root word historia (meaning knowledge by enquiry), it is nonetheless a deliberate play-on-words – ‘her’ rather than ‘his’ story – to emphasise historical analysis of the roles of women or accounts told from women’s perspectives, thus reflecting a growing interest in more inclusive gender studies.