[MyAppleMenu] Aug 20, 2007

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**** Apple iPhone, iPod And Leopard Launches Due <http://www.macworld.co.uk/ipod-itunes/news/index.cfm?RSS&NewsID=18865>
by Macworld UK
The next two months seem set to be busy in the Apple world. Reports are suggesting that September could see Apple launch new iPods (in time for the Christmas rush) as well as the European version of the iPhone.

**** Apple Takes Silver While Toshiba Gains Gold For Green Notebooks <http://www.macworld.co.uk/mac/news/index.cfm?RSS&NewsID=18866>
by CHris Mellor, Techworld.com

**** Leopard: Ready Or Not? <http://www.thomas-fitzgerald.net/2007/08/19/leopard-ready-or-not/>
by Thomas Fitzgerald
Now that the iPhone is out I hope the management at Apple take the time to fix the great big UI mess that is the current build of Leopard.

**** Sunday Evening At The Fifth Avenue Apple Store Is A Popular Hang <http://blogs.zdnet.com/Apple/?p=792>
by David Morgenstern, ZDNet

**** Et Tu, iMovie? <http://gedmaheux.wordpress.com/2007/08/19/et-tu-imovie/>
by Gedblog
I definitely think Apple decided to dumb down the new version of iMovie to give Final Cut Pro some breathing room.

**** Is iPhone Typing Slower? <http://palmaddict.typepad.com/palmaddicts/2007/08/is-iphone-typin.html>
by PalmAddicts
Typing on the iPhone gets better over time. It learns how I type and makes suggestions, most of which correct even significant typos. After 2 years with a Treo, I was still making mistakes and it never learned.

**** Why Did Apple Air Two New iPhone Ads Last Week? <http://blogs.business2.com/apple/2007/08/why-did-apple-a.html>
by Business 2.0

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**** "Betas" Just Aren't Betas Anymore, Now Are They <http://blogs.zdnet.com/ip-telephony/?p=2225>
by Russell Shaw, ZDNet

**** Why DVD Recorders Are A Mystery To The Over-50s <http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/technology/technology.html?in_article_id=476414&in_page_id=1965>
by Fiona MacRae, Daily Mail

MyAppleMenu Reader
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**** The Invisible Manuscript <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/15/AR2007081501365.html>
by Wil Haygood, Washington Post
Ralph Ellison died leaving four decades' worth of scribbled notes, thousands of typed pages and 80 computer; disks filled with work on an ambitious second novel. For 14 years, a pair of literary detectives labored to fit the pieces together. Now they're ready to share with the world.

**** Hamlet.doc? Literature In A Digital Age <http://chronicle.com/free/v53/i50/50b00801.htm>
by Matthew Kirschenbaum, The Chronicle Of Higher Education
If Shakespeare had had a hard drive, if the plays had been written with a word processor on a computer that had somehow survived, we still might not known anything definitive about Shakespeare's original or final intentions &mdash; these are human, not technological, questions &mdash; but we might be able to know some rather different things.

**** Don't Be A Basket Case <http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/men/article2250954.ece>
by David Wilson, The Times
Enough is enough. It's time for change. It's time to reassert the wisdom of the male instinct about a central area of our national life. It's time for everyone to admit that shopping is rubbish.

**** Tom Green Works At Home (You Can Watch) <http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/19/arts/television/19rhod.html?_r=1&ref=arts&oref=slogin>
by Joe Rhodes, New York Times
It was 8 p.m., time for Tom Green's live internet talk show, the one he's been doing from his living room five nights a week, more or less, for the last year, and as seems to happen more often than not, things were going horribly wrong.

SingaporeSurf
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**** MOE Spells Out Three Options For Fourth University <http://www.straitstimes.com/Latest%2BNews/Singapore/STIStory_150116.html>
by Ng Kai Ling, Straits Times
A new comprehensive university, a liberal arts college or an institution offering specialised degrees which will allow a smooth transition from polytechnic and university. These are the three possible options to the university sector, according to minister of state for educaton RAdm Lui Tuck Yew.

**** Extreme Makeover, CPF Edition <http://aaron-ng.info/blog/extreme-makeover-cpf-edition.html>
by Aaron Ng, Hear Ye! Hear Ye!
I hope it will be worth it, because many Singaporeans will be in trouble if it doesn't work out.

**** Entrepreneurship <http://www.litemax.info/2007/08/entrepreneurship.html>
by LITEMaX.blog();
All these got me thinking about being involved n entrepreneurship once again.

**** Life At 91 In Singapore <http://statestimes.wordpress.com/2007/08/20/life-at-91-in-singapore/>
by The States Times

**** Museum Or Propaganda Machine? <http://weilingspicturebook.blogspot.com/2007/08/museum-or-propaganda-machine.html>
by Picture Book
It was always my understand that a museum's aim and purpose is to document, archive and present history in a way that is accessible and unbiased. And one would also expect that after 40 over years, these damn Singaporeans would have gotten over being kicked out of Malaysia.

**** Toh Chin Chye <http://historyof07.blogspot.com/2007/08/toh-chin-chye-toh-chin-chye-is-seldom.html>
by Winnie Soh, Yvonne Wen, Neo Qian Yu, sin
Never take Singapore granted for what it is today, it is our forefathers who path the way and a success to it.

**** Notes From The National Day Rally 2007 <http://www.toomanythoughts.org/blog/2007/08/notes-from-national-day-rally-2007.html>
by Tym Blogs Too!
Reason #7924 why Singapore will never get its act together like a real society: the prime minister is happy to opeate at the level of "Singaporeans like incentives", and toss more incentives at them.

**** Hsien Loong's National Day Rally <http://mysingaporenews.blogspot.com/2007/08/hsien-loongs-national-day-rally.html>
by My Singapore News
What Hsien Loong completely missed out is the runaway cost of living. If this area can be arrested, then the people, especially the lower income group, will be richer and their money can be stretched a little longer. So will the savings of the retirees.

**** National Day Rally Speech 07 <http://songb.wordpress.com/2007/08/20/national-day-rally-speech-07/>
by Think.
If CPFB can afford to distribute an additional 1% from the returns they make from investing our funds, they should give it for the whole amount, and not take the profit from what is above the cap.

**** Singapore National Day - PM LHL Rally: Budding Tensions? <http://ibeattheredlight.wordpress.com/2007/08/20/national-day-rally-yadda-yadda/>
by Beat The Red Light
We want our money in our pockets. And the state, darn it, thinks it fit to keep my money.

**** National Day Rally 2007 <http://trulysingapore.wordpress.com/2007/08/19/national-day-rally-2007/>
by Yours Truly Singapore
The success of a company or a country cannot be solely attributed to the CEO or the prime minister and much has to be considered of the contributions of employees and the people.

**** Shirt Cuffs: Emperor's New Clothes? <http://urbanrant.blogspot.com/2007/08/shirt-cuffs-emperors-new-clothes.html>
by Urbanrant

**** What Is "Singapore Music"? <http://jeremyyew.com/2007/08/20/what-is-singapore-music/>
by Jeremy's Little Blog

**** A Good Speech - But Some Points To Keep In Mind <http://theonlinecitizen.com/2007/08/20/a-good-speech-but-some-points-to-keep-in-mind/>
by Andrew Loh, theonlinecitizen
While the broad, general picture the prime minister has painted is indeed hard to fault, one must keep in mind that it is in the details - and their implementations - that the best-laid plans can come asunder.

**** Many Say PM Lee Addressed Difficult Issues Confronting Singaporeans <http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/294951/1/.html>
by Asha Popatlal, Channel NewsAsia
Many in the audience said the prime minister took the bull by the horns and addressed some of the most difficult issues confronting ordinary Singaporeans.

**** PM Lee Shines <http://rana.typepad.com/weblog/2007/08/singapore-prime.html>
by Blowin' In The Wind
The finest moment, I thought, was when he asked the teachers in the audience to stand up and take a bow.

**** Singapore, Break My Heart <http://aerianta.livejournal.com/60115.html>
by Aerianta
To me they feel more like the pestilence of modernity that threaten to erode at what is consistent and iconic, that defines a city, or that makes a place memorable throughout history and so dearly loved.

**** Singapore Raises Long-Term Economic Growth Forecast, Lee Says <http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aZgRjP3vbAik&refer=home>
by Jean Chua, Bloomberg
Singapore prime minister Lee Hsien Loong raised the forecast for the city-state's long-term growth to as much as 6 percent a year, citing a "very favorable" economic environment.

**** Singapore Second Last In Asia Democracy Index <http://www.yawningbread.org/arch_2007/yax-780.htm>
by Au Waipang, Yawning Bread
I hope political science students in Singapore will tkae up the challenge of doing a survey based on exactly the same questions, but with more rigorous selection of respondents and with a larger sample size.

**** Sinking Feeling Along Telok Blangah Road <http://www.straitstimes.com/Free/Story/STIStory_150032.html>
by Straits Times
The sunken secton, spanning two lanes, is near the junction of Telok Blangah and Alexandra Road, close to the Port of SIngapore Authority Building.

**** Reader's Digest's Promotion Of Its 'Sweep Stake' Package Not Environ-Friendly <http://www.straitstimes.com/ST%2BForum/Online%2BStory/STIStory_149274.html>
by Yeo Wen Qing, Straits Times

**** NDP Rally - Blue Shirt; Blue Heart? <http://antineodem.wordpress.com/2007/08/19/ndp-rally-blue-shirt-blue-heart/>
by The Anti Neo-Democracy Theorist
For one, Low Thia Khiang must be happy - PM Lee seems to be wearing a blue shirt, the color of the Workers' Party Uniform. THis symbolizes PM Lee's commitment to address issues of the heartlands and the blue collar workers.

**** Initial Thoughts On National Day Rally 2007 <http://aaron-ng.info/blog/initial-thoughts-on-national-day-rally-2007.html>
by Aaron Ng, Hear Ye! Hear Ye!
I think that credit should be given to the government for trying to tackle all the various problems through policy changes.