[MyAppleMenu] Feb 6, 2011

[applesurf at myapplemenu.com]

MyAppleMenu
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**** HyperDock 1.0 Brings Windows 7 Desktop Features To Snow Leopard <http://www.betanews.com/article/HyperDock-10-brings-Windows-7-desktop-features-to-Snow-Leopard/1296926158?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+bn+%28Betanews+Full+Content+Feed+-+BN%29>
Nick Peers, Beta News

HyperDock 1.0 aims to fill in the gaps by bringing two of Windows 7's best features -- pop-up thumbnail previews of open windows and programs, and the ability to quickly and easily snap two windows side-by-side on-screen -- to the Mac desktop.

**** How To Add Cool Dock Effects To OS X <http://www.techradar.com/news/computing/apple/how-to-add-cool-dock-effects-to-os-x-919748>
Craig Grannell, TechRadar

**** Review: Witch 3.5.8 <http://pcweenies.com/2011/02/06/review-witch-3-5-8/>
Krishna Sadasivam, The PC Weenies

Witch brings proper window management to Mac OS X, and does it in an elegant, straight-forward manner. It’s a very powerful and customizable tool, and in my usage, Witch has really improved my productivity manyfold – I’m no longer wasting valuable time ping-ponging between virtual desktops to locate the proper window.



MyAppleMenu Reader
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**** What Is Artificial Intelligence? <http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/06/opinion/06powers.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss>
Richard Powers, New York Times

It does not matter who will win this $1 million Valentine’s Day contest. We all know who will be champion, eventually. The real showdown is between us and our own future. Information is growing many times faster than anyone’s ability to manage it, and Watson may prove crucial in helping to turn all that noise into knowledge.

**** How Hef Got His Groove Back <http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/06/magazine/06Hefner-t.html?ref=magazine&pagewanted=all>
CHARLES McGRATH, New York Times

Hefner still supervises the layouts and chooses  all the photographs, which by today’s standards are practically chaste-seeming. Airbrushed and lustrous, their pubic hair (if there is any) as carefully fluffed as their tresses, the Playboy nudes are suffused with an unearthly, almost Platonic radiance; and as the critic Joan Acocella once pointed out, those enormous breasts, miracles of buoyancy and cantilevering, make the women seem less sexy, oddly, than childish and innocent. They’re like little girls with balloons.

**** Book Review: 'O.K.: The Improbable Story Of America's Greatest Word' By Allan Metcalf. <http://www.latimes.com/features/books/la-ca-allan-metcalf-20110206,0,757748.story?track=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+features%2Fbooks+%28Los+Angeles+Times+-+Books%29>
Nick Owchar, Los Angeles Times

Metcalf's book is an enjoyable addition to the shelfload of books prompting us to reconsider everyday things — from appliances to the moon overhead to the air we breathe. His book, in fact, isn't just enjoyable — that's right, it's better than OK.



SingaporeSurf
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**** Malaysia Is Singapore's Talent Pipeline <http://www.malaysiakini.com/news/155301>
Malaysiakini

**** We Have Grown <http://singaporelifetimes.blogspot.com/2011/02/we-have-grown.html>
Singapore Life & Times

**** Hardship <http://richardyewrulz.blogspot.com/2011/02/hardship.html>
Richard Yew

**** Strict Or Less Strict? …My Thoughts On Being A Muslim & The Only Islam I Know ~ <http://suriamohd.com/spiritual/strict-or-less-strict-my-thoughts-on-being-a-muslim-the-only-islam-i-know/>
Suria Mohd

If anything else, the issue raised by the comment has offered a wake up call for us Muslims to reflect on our observance of Islam – Contrary to being strict- majority of us have not been “Strictly Fundamental” enough on ourselves in observing Islam ( myself included ) as a holistic way of life – the reason for rise of such undesirable results.

**** High Cost Of Medical Care In Singapore.... <http://singaporemind.blogspot.com/2011/02/high-cost-of-medical-care-in-singapore.html>
Diary Of A Singaporean Mind

**** Temasek's Investment In Thailand Shaken <http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/local/219965/temasek-investment-in-thailand-shaken>
Bangkok Post

The committee recommended that state-owned TOT sue Advanced Info Services (AIS), its mobile phone concessionaire, for over 70 billion baht in damages caused by amendments to its concession contract during the time Thaksin was in power.

Singapore telecoms giant Singtel and Temasek Holdings stand to be affected, as they are the major shareholders in Shin Corp and AIS.

**** Rethinking Civil Service Scholarships And The Entrepreneurial Spirit <http://furrybrowndog.wordpress.com/2011/02/06/rethinking-civil-service-scholarships-and-the-entrepreneurial-spirit/>
Furry Brown Dog

**** For The Last Time, TOC Is Not A Political Party! <http://siewkumhong.blogspot.com/2011/02/for-last-time-toc-is-not-political.html>
Siew Kum Hong

Indeed, Mr Cheong's error demonstrates how the PMO's decision to designate a civil society group as "political" will retard the development of an active citizenry. Given Singaporeans' general reluctance to be associated with partisan politics, the conflation of activism with "politics" will deter Singaporeans from being active in the first place. This does civil society, and indeed all of society, a disservice.

**** Egypt Crisis No Direct Impact On ASEAN Politics: George Yeo <http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/1109160/1/.html>
Tan Qiuyi, Channel NewsAsia

**** Forget Chewing Gum, Try The Murtabak <http://www.newsweek.com/2011/02/06/forget-chewing-gum-try-the-murtabak.html>
Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan, Newsweek

As someone who has chosen the free speech of America over Singapore’s irreplaceable food scene for more than a decade now, I sometimes look back on my decision with a little regret. Freedom of expression in the kitchen can be prized, too, after all. And besides, as I often tell Americans about Singaporeans: we don’t eat to live; we live to eat.