[MyAppleMenu] Jan 18, 2011

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**** Hands-on With The OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro Dual Mini SSD <http://www.tuaw.com/2011/01/17/hands-on-with-the-owc-mercury-elite-al-pro-dual-mini-ssd/>
Steven Sande, TUAW

**** Print-to-PDF Mysteries Revealed <http://www.macworld.com/article/157024/2011/01/pdfprinting.html?lsrc=rss_main>
Marco Tabini, Macworld

Because PDF support is built right into the operating system, OS X’s printing system gives applications the ability to “print” a file directly to PDF. In practice, this means that any application that supports printing is capable of generating a PDF file that can be saved, e-mailed, or faxed to a third party.

**** Holiday Sales Help Apple Start The Fiscal Year In Style <http://www.macworld.com/article/157242/2011/01/first_quarter_earnings_2011.html>
Philip Michaels, Macworld

Apple saw sales of $26.74 billion and a net profit of $6 billion—both quarterly records—for the three months ended December 25, 2010, the company announced Tuesday. Sales grew nearly 71 percent from the $15.68 billion in revenue that Apple reported for the year-ago quarter. Earnings jumped 75 percent year-over-year to $6.43 per share, up from $3.67 last year.

**** Microsoft Introduces OneNote iPhone App <http://www.macworld.com/article/157239/2011/01/onenoteiphoneapp.html?lsrc=rss_main>
Dan Miller, Macworld

OneNote is similar to apps like Evernote: It allows you to create different kinds of notes and then save them to the cloud. From there, you can access them from any Mac or iOS device.

**** Mac IT Guy: Macs And Active Directory <http://www.macworld.com/article/157198/2011/01/askmacitguy04.html?lsrc=rss_main>
John C. Welch, Macworld

It's certainly possible to connect Macs to networks that are running Active Directory. But sometimes it takes a little doing.

**** TiVo Releases Official iPad App <http://www.macworld.com/article/157229/2011/01/tivo_ipad.html?lsrc=rss_main>
David Chartier, Macworld

Simply called TiVo, the DVR pioneer’s new app does double duty as a program guide and remote for TiVo Premiere and TiVo Premiere XL boxes. 

**** A World Without Jobs <http://www.culture-making.com/articles/a_world_without_jobs>
Andy Crouch, Culture Making

As remarkable as Steve Jobs is in countless ways—as a designer, an innovator, a (ruthless and demanding) leader—his most singular quality has been his ability to articulate a perfectly secular form of hope. Nothing exemplifies that ability more than Apple’s early logo, which slapped a rainbow on the very archetype of human fallenness and failure—the bitten fruit—and made it a sign of promise and progress.



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**** Baking For Beginners: An Introduction To Temperature <http://www.theatlantic.com/food/archive/2011/01/baking-for-beginners-an-introduction-to-temperature/69555/>
Joanne Chang, The Atlantic

When people say that baking is tricky, they may not realize that in so many different ways, temperature plays a huge role in success or failure. It helps to understand when and why something needs to be ice-cold, chilled, room temperature, hot, or caramelized. Seeing things from the ingredients' point of view takes the mystery out of baking—so you can march confidently into the kitchen and make something sweet.

**** Lines In Memphis, Tennessee <http://www.slate.com/id/2281456/?from=rss>
Joel Brouwer, Slate



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**** Singapore’s Racist ‘Meritocracy’ <http://www.according2ed.com/2011/01/singapores-racist-meritocracy.html>
Life According2Ed

To what degree is this going to popularise the perception that everything is a ‘chinese thing’ whilst what is left-over is for everyone else?

**** S'pore A Global City, Yes. But How About Humility? <http://www.todayonline.com/Singapore/EDC110118-0000142/Spore-a-global-city,-yes,-But-how-about-humility?>
Leong Wee Keat, Today

**** Court Reserves Judgment <http://www.todayonline.com/Singapore/EDC110118-0000150/Court-reserves-judgment>
Teo Xuanwei, Today

State Counsel Aedit Abdullah argued yesterday that Mr Ravi was essentially asking the court to "pre-empt a decision of the Cabinet" and, in effect, make the decision to grant clemency.

**** HDB To Review Rule On Siblings <http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/Singapore/Story/STIStory_625366.html>
Jessica Cheam, Straits Times

The Housing Board on Monday said it will be reviewing its scheme that allows siblings - whether citizens or permanent residents (PRs) - to buy resale flats. Such applications, which are considered on a case-by-case basis, are small in number, the HDB added.

**** Bureaucrat Faces Life In Jail As Singapore Protects Image <http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-01-18/singapore-official-faces-life-in-prison-as-city-state-protects-clean-image.html>
Andrea Tan, Bloomberg

Singapore may send a former government executive to prison for life to protect its graft- free image, after jailing the first of his alleged accomplices in a decade-long scam for 10 years.

Singapore pays its top officials the world’s highest public salaries to prevent graft and was ranked the most business- friendly country by the World Bank in November. The city-state has built a $182 billion economy by attracting companies including Hewlett-Packard Co. and Pfizer Inc. with its reputation for strong investor protection and low corruption. That image has been dented by the duration of the fraud, which lasted from July 1999 to March 2010, and the allegation that Koh and former colleague Christopher Lim Chai Meng used the money to buy apartments and cars including a S$1.6 million limited-edition Lamborghini Murcielago LP670-4 SV and a Ferrari F430.

**** RP Rally: A Little Bit Of Everything <http://theonlinecitizen.com/2011/01/rp-rally-a-little-bit-of-everything/>
Rachel Chan, The Online Citizen

The Reform Party rally, held at Speaker’s Corner on a rainy Saturday afternoon, continually questioned the actions of the incumbent PAP. But it also managed to raise awareness on many of the alternate solutions available to the issues concerning Singaporeans – mainly the influx of foreigners, high ministerial pay, as well as the increasing income divide.

**** 马国青年贩毒上诉案 临时要求撤换大法官被拒 <http://www.zaobao.com.sg/sp/sp110118_018.shtml>
韩宝镇, 联合早报

**** 更多巴士路线将改善 <http://www.zaobao.com.sg/sp/sp110118_019.shtml>
赵倩玉, 联合早报

下来还会有更多巴士路线获改善，有关计划一获公共交通理事会批示，公共交通运营商就会公布细节。

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**** Democrats Rebut PAP Minimum Wage Groupthink <http://yoursdp.org/index.php/news/singapore/4499-democrats-rebut-pap-minimum-wage-groupthink>
Singapore Democratic Party

We take this opprtunity to rebut some of the points that the MPs made about Minimum Wage and in the process continue to make our case for its introduction in Singapore.

**** Pardon Process Has Been “Irreversibly Tainted” – M Ravi <http://theonlinecitizen.com/2011/01/pardon-process-has-been-“irreversibly-tainted”-m-ravi/>
Kirsten Han, The Online Citizen

**** Benalec Eyes Singapore Jobs <http://biz.thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2011/1/17/business/20110117115858&sec=business>
The Star

Newly listed Benalec Holdings Bhd expects business from Singapore to be a big contributor to the group in the next two to three years as it eyes more reclamation projects there.

“There are quite a handful projects in Singapore, such as land reclamation at Tuas's View Extension and Pulau Tekong in Changi. There's also a big one (project) coming up on the east coast of Singapore,” said managing director Vincent Leaw after Benalec's listing ceremony this morning.

**** Singapore Exchange Implements All-day Trading From March 1 <http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSSGC00388420110118>
Charmian Kok, Reuters

**** Temasek Holdings To Pay Indonesia Fine <http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_singapore_business/view/1105381/1/.html>
Jonathan Peeris, Channel NewsAsia

Singapore's Temasek Holdings said Tuesday it will pay a fine of 15 billion Indonesian rupiah (US$1.7 million) imposed by Indonesia for breaching the country's anti-competition laws.

The state investment company decided to pay the fine after Indonesia's Supreme Court rejected its application to review the ruling by a competition watchdog that it had breached rules in the telecoms market, Temasek said.

**** PMO Reaffirms Position On TOC <http://theonlinecitizen.com/2011/01/breaking-news-pmo-reaffirms-position-on-toc/>
The Online Citizen

In an email sent to TOC’s acting chief editor Joshua Chiang and founders Choo Zheng Xi and Andrew Loh, the PMO asserted that TOC is “not a passive website”, as it ”has organized online and offline

campaigns to change legislation and government policies, a forum for local politicians, and polls on public support for local politicians and on other political issues concerning Singapore”.

The letter argued that the definition of “political association” under the Political Donations Act (PDA) clearly applies to TOC – whether or not it considers itself non-partisan.

**** Gov’t Declares Local Website Now A Political Association <http://sg.yfittopostblog.com/2011/01/18/govt-declares-local-website-now-a-political-association/>
Faris, Yahoo!

**** MTL Learning To Be More Interactive <http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/1105443/1/.html>
Imelda Saad, Channel NewsAsia

**** RP Makes Its Stand Against The Mandatory Death Penalty <http://theonlinecitizen.com/2011/01/rp-makes-its-stand-against-the-mandatory-death-penalty/>
The Online Citizen

**** ASX Takeover On Track: Singapore Bourse <http://www.smh.com.au/business/asx-takeover-on-track-singapore-bourse-20110118-19ut1.html>
Reuters

Singapore Exchange (SGX) says it is on track to complete a $7.9 billion takeover of Australian bourse operator ASX in 2011, but political obstacles to Asia-Pacific's first major merger of exchanges remain a challenge.

**** The Partial Myth Of The "Asset Rich, Cash Poor" Singaporean <http://mrwangsaysso.blogspot.com/2011/01/partial-myth-of-asset-rich-cash-poor.html>
Gilbert Koh, Mr Wang Says So

If you actually expect your CPF money to cover your retirement needs, you could be seriously screwing your own financial health. Instead you should be actively saving and investing for your retirement, with your non-CPF funds.

In addition, due to the long-term nature of the CPF scheme and the government's power to write and rewrite the rules, one may also conclude that your CPF monies are exposed to a significant degree of political risk.

**** Roystan Tan, Sadly, Has The Last Laugh <http://sg.yfittopostblog.com/2011/01/19/roystan-tan-sadly-has-the-last-laugh/>
Alicia Wong, Yahoo!

When acclaimed local filmmaker Roystan Tan first directed his breakout short film ”15” in 2002, which explored teenage gangsterism in Singapore, local  authorities told him the topic was “fictional”.

Now as it turns out, his short film – which was made into a full-length movie in 2003 — was prophetic, even visionary.