[MyAppleMenu] Oct 4, 2011

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**** Hong Kong Apple Store Express Counter In Additional Stores <http://www.tuaw.com/2011/10/03/hong-kong-apple-store-express-counter-in-additional-stores/>
Dave Caolo, TUAW

The Express Purchase Counter is for customers who walk in knowing exactly what they want.

**** Preparing Your Lion Repair Kit <http://www.macworld.com/article/162628/2011/10/lion_repair_kit.html#lsrc.rss_main>
Christopher Breen, Macworld

**** Growl 1.3 Now On The Mac App Store: $1.99, Completely Rewritten <http://www.macstories.net/news/growl-1-3-now-on-the-mac-app-store-1-99-completely-rewritten/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+macstoriesnet+%28MacStories%29>
Federico Viticci, MacStories

One of the biggest new features of Growl 1.3 is the Rollup window — from a first look, it appears to be Growl’s unofficial response to Apple’s Notification Center for iOS. Because Growl keeps working even while you’re away from your computer, the Rollup window will collect the notifications you’ve missed in a single place, allowing you to review them later.

**** TextExpander Is Awesome! <http://macgroup.org/blog/2011/10/03/textexpander-is-awesome/>
Terry White, MacNews

TextExpander allows you to create shortcuts that expand out to the full text that you type on a regular basis.

**** OS X Lion: Where Did My Windows Go? <http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-20114887-263/os-x-lion-where-did-my-windows-go/?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=MacFixIt>
Topher Kessler, CNET

**** Grazing 2.1 & Grazing For OS X: Push Links Back To The Mac <http://www.macstories.net/reviews/grazing-2-1-grazing-for-os-x-push-links-back-to-the-mac/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+macstoriesnet+%28MacStories%29>
Federico Viticci, MacStories

Grazing 2.1 is a must-have if you’ve been looking for an alternative iOS browser capable of sending webpages as push notifications back to the Mac. If you don’t care about push notifications, at $1.99 you’d still get a fine, stable browser with lots of functionalities, support for multi-touch gestures, and an elegant UI.

**** The Cost Of Not Buying Good Software <http://www.practicallyefficient.com/2011/10/03/software-cost/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PracticallyEfficient+%28practically+efficient%29>
J. Eddie Smith, IV, Practically Efficient

Good software is virtually free, regardless of its purchase price, because the payback dwarfs the investment. If your time is worth something, you’d be rational to pay hundreds of dollars for applications you use every day.

**** Copy Files From Your Mac To Your Kindle <http://www.macworld.com/article/162612/2011/10/copy_files_from_your_mac_to_your_kindle.html#lsrc.rss_main>
Jason Snell, Macworld

**** Adobe Releases Flash 11 And AIR 3 <http://www.macstories.net/news/adobe-releases-flash-11-and-air-3/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+macstoriesnet+%28MacStories%29>
Federico Viticci, MacStories

**** Color Splash Studio 1.0 <http://www.macworld.com/article/162513/2011/10/color_splash_studio_1_0.html#lsrc.rss_main>
Alexandra Chang, Macworld

**** iOS 5 To Ship October 12 <http://www.macworld.com/article/162642/2011/10/ios_5_to_ship_october_12.html>
Lex Friedman, Macworld

If you’re hungry for new insights into iOS 5, though, Forstall may have left you disappointed; there was little in his presentation that wasn’t discussed back in June—save for the October 12 release date.

**** iCloud To Make Official Debut On October 12 <http://www.macworld.com/article/162647/2011/10/icloud_to_make_official_debut_on_october_12.html>
Serenity Caldwell, Macworld

Following its preview at Apple’s World Wide Developer Conference in June, iCloud has received an official debut date—October 12—at Tuesday’s Let’s Talk iPhone Apple event. It replaces the company’s oft-maligned $99 MobileMe service, offering a central online repository for your mail; contacts; calendars; music, TV, app and book purchases; photos; documents; and backup—all for free. In addition, Apple introduced a new app called Find My Friends, for connecting with friends and family.

**** Apple Updates iPod Nano, Touch Models <http://www.macworld.com/article/162651/2011/10/apple_updates_ipod_nano_touch_models.html>
Jonathan Seff, Macworld

In this year’s update, Apple will make the nano’s multitouch display easier to navigate by using larger icons. The 1.54-inch nano screen will now display a single icon at a time; you’ll swipe the screen to switch icons.

**** Apple Unveils iPhone 4S <http://www.macworld.com/article/162650/2011/10/apple_unveils_iphone_4s.html>
Lex Friedman, Macworld

Apple’s new iPhone 4S doesn't look all that different on the surface from the iPhone 4 it replaces. But the latest iPhone unveiled by Apple at a press event Tuesday promises an improved processor, new wireless system, and more powerful camera, along with voice control capabilities.

The feature is called Siri, based on the voice-activated app that Apple bought in 2010. Forstall described it as “your intelligent assistant that helps you get things done just by asking.” Forstall asked the iPhone 4S what the weather is like today, and the phone gets to the meaning behind his words, displaying a weather forecast. He asked, “What time is it in Paris?” and Siri responded with a live clock. “Wake me up at 6 a.m.” instantly set an alarm clock for early tomorrow morning.



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**** Farmer’s Almanac More ‘Weed-dating’ Than Game-changing <http://arts.nationalpost.com/2011/09/27/farmers-almanac-more-weed-dating-than-game-changing/>
Robert Fulford, The National Post

The Almanac places some of its information on a website but its fundamental identity rests, as always, on old-fashioned type and old-fashioned illustrations printed on cheap but serviceable paper.

**** Inside The Russian Short Wave Radio Enigma <http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/09/ff_uvb76/all/1>
Peter Savodnik, Wired


>From a lonely rusted tower in a forest north of Moscow, a mysterious shortwave radio station transmitted day and night. For at least the decade leading up to 1992, it broadcast almost nothing but beeps; after that, it switched to buzzes, generally between 21 and 34 per minute, each lasting roughly a second—a nasally foghorn blaring through a crackly ether. The signal was said to emanate from the grounds of a voyenni gorodok (mini military city) near the village of Povarovo, and very rarely, perhaps once every few weeks, the monotony was broken by a male voice reciting brief sequences of numbers and words, often strings of Russian names: “Anna, Nikolai, Ivan, Tatyana, Roman.” But the balance of the airtime was filled by a steady, almost maddening, series of inexplicable tones.




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**** Will COE Prices Always Be High Now? <http://blogging4myself.blogspot.com/2011/10/will-coe-prices-always-be-high-now.html>
Blogging For Myself

As long as the band plays, we will dance. When the music stop, we must quit. It is so simple isn't it? Eventually you will forget about dancing. Those who resist will be like those who spend a fortune to look youthful even as they fight a losing battle with age. We will always have such people with us.

**** Shortage Of Question Papers Forces NUS To Cancel Economics Exam <http://www.todayonline.com/Singapore/EDC111004-0000162/Shortage-of-question-papers-forces-NUS-to-cancel-economics-exam>
Wendy Wong, Today

Some 700 first-year undergraduates at the National University of Singapore (NUS), who were supposed to sit for a paper on managerial economics last Saturday, were told on the spot that the exam was cancelled - because not enough question papers were printed.

**** Can Singapore Become A Normal Democratic State? <http://themorningsidepost.com/2011/10/can-singapore-become-a-normal-democratic-state/>
Crystal Neo, The Morningside Post

While many of us cannot foresee the day when the PAP relinquishes power, the hope of more checks and balances on the government has become more reachable.

**** S'poreans have fake divorces to own 2 flats <http://news.insing.com/tabloid/s-poreans-have-fake-divorces-to-own-2-flats/id-b5cb3e00>
Lianhe Wanbao

Property agents say they are seeing a trend of Singaporeans divorcing in order to own more than one HDB flat. Commenting on the odd phenomenon, property agents say that they are seeing couples that despite having split up, are still shopping for flats together.

**** Circle Line Extension To Open In January, Earlier Than Expected <http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/Singapore/Story/STIStory_719615.html>
Maria Almenoar, Straits Times

Commuters will have a direct link to the bay area when the Circle Line extension opens in January. There are two stations on the extension. The first, called Marina Bay, will be an interchange with the existing Marina Bay station on the North-South Line. The second, called Bayfront, will be near Marina Bay Sands.

**** 千篇一律的新加坡食店 <http://www.zaobao.com.sg/yl/yl111004_004.shtml>
许德金, 联合早报

**** The Four Myths Of Inequality In Singapore <http://theonlinecitizen.com/2011/10/the-four-myths-of-inequality-in-singapore/>
Donald Low, The Online Citizen

My own study of the issue suggests that what matters more for economic growth and competitiveness is not how generous a country’s social protection system is, but how it isdesigned. It is not the level of social welfare spending that determines whether a country is on the efficiency-equity frontier but the way its social welfare programmes are structured and the incentive effects they create. Good design means paying attention to individual incentives, structuring the programmes in a way that encourages work, and redistributing incomes without reducing the incentive for investments. In short, the question governments should be asking themselves is not whether they can grow the economy without reducing social equity. It is how they can achieve this.

**** 赴复旦大学招募学生 狮城国大作文题目引争议 <http://www.nanyang.com/node/387282?tid=461>
南洋商报

新加坡国立大学到中国复旦大学招募学生，不料学校出的作文题目引起争议，有学生批评题目有歧意，认为国大应该道歉。

**** Exorcising Specters: The Issue Of 377A <http://theonlinecitizen.com/2011/10/exorcising-specters-the-issue-of-377a/>
Claudia Petrat, The Online Citizen

**** General Election Not An "Internet Election": IPS Study <http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/1157136/1/.html>
Channel NewsAsia

The survey found that media consumption remained centred on traditional media such as TV, newspapers and radio, with only about 30 per cent of respondents also looking at new media sites such as Facebook and blogs for election news during the election period.

**** Johor Kids Going To Singapore <http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2011/10/4/focus/9623769&sec=focus>
The Star

**** Perched On Top Of A House Of Cards <http://www.yoursdp.org/index.php/news/singapore/4983-perched-on-top-of-a-house-of-cards>
Singapore Democratic Party

And yet the PAP is betting our economic future on this system. Worst of all, our CPF (now this is real money because they were part of our wages and not loans that banks conjured up from nothing) is tied up in the very banks and financial institutions that we now realise are really a house of cards.

The people at the GIC and Temasek will pretend that they know what their doing but they are just as clueless as anyone else. Otherwise they would not have exposed our money to Western banks and lost hundreds of billions dollars in investments in toxic financial products.

**** NUS To Strengthen Exam Processes <http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/1157180/1/.html>
Channel NewsAsia

**** Diverse Strategies In Political Blogs' Election Coverage <http://journalism.sg/2011/10/04/diverse-strategies-in-political-blogs-election-coverage/>
Cherian George, Journalism.sg

This and the other editorial choices that I have outlined are ultimately dilemmas with no obvious answers. They involve trade-offs, reflecting unresolved tensions in the democratic role of journalism. We can be sure that alternative media will continue to evolve in Singapore, and we can be equally sure that they will not converge around a set of common norms. We can expect them to continue to be fragmented and diverse in their interpretations of their journalistic mission.

**** S'pore, M'sia To Call Tender For Rapid Transit System <http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/1157204/1/.html>
Melissa Goh, Channel NewsAsia

Singapore transport minister Lui Tuck Yew, who is currently on a one-day introductory visit to neighbouring Malaysia, said a tender will be out soon. Engineering companies from both sides of the Causeway will be invited to take part in the tender.




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