[MyAppleMenu] Dec 17, 2007

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**** 2007'S Most Googled Gadget Is The iPhone <http://www.tech.co.uk/computing/internet-and-broadband/news/2007s-most-googled-gadget-is-the-iphone?articleid=1555223164>
by J. Mark Lytle, Tech.co.uk
THis year's Google Zeitgeist has just been made public and, as expected, is topped by everybody's favourite gadget, Apple's iPhone.

**** Year In Review: Apple's iPhone Takes Center Stage <http://www.news.com/Year-in-review-Apples-iPhone-takes-center-stage/2009-1041_3-6222156.html?part=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-20&subj=news>
by Tom Krazit, CNET News.com
Apple took several bold steps this year, proving that it's one of the most influential companies in the technology and media worlds.

**** Is Apple's Approach To Fixes 'InSecurity Through Obscurity'? <http://blogs.chron.com/techblog/archives/2007/12/is_apples_approach_to_fixes_insecurity_throug_1.html>
by Dwight Silverman, Houston Chronicle

**** Sales Cap Aims To Hang Up iPhone Resellers <http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-fi-iphone17dec17,1,4553062.story?coll=la-headlines-technology&ctrack=1&cset=true>
by Michelle Quinn, Los Angeles Times

**** Making Mac OS X Play Nicely With Novell <http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9053138&source=rss_topic123>
by Ryan Faas, Computerworld

**** iPod Classic: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back <http://blogs.computerworld.com/ipod_classic_one_step_forward_two_steps_back>
by Ken Gagne, Computerworld
This sixth-generation iPod's operating system has some significant changes from my older iPod Photo, and they're not for the better.

**** iPhone Greedily Eats North American Market Share <http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/smartphones/iphone-greedily-eats-north-american-market-share-334516.php>
by Gizmodo
A 27% market share is nothing to scoff at; what Apple hs done in a few months, others have failed to do in years.

**** iPhone Beats Windows Mobile In Browsing Use <http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2007/12/iphone_beats_wi.html>
by David DeJean, InformationWeek

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**** Five Ways To Protect Your Privacy Online <http://www.cnet.com/8301-13880_1-9834148-68.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20>
by Dennis O'Reilly, CNET News.com

**** On Facebook, Scholars Link Up With Data <http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/17/style/17facebook.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin>
by Stephanie Rosenbloom, New York Times

**** Microsoft In Denial: Google Threat Is Classic Disruption <http://www.alleyinsider.com/2007/12/microsoft-in-denial-google-threat-is-classic-disruption.html>
by Henry Blodget, Silicon Alley Insider
To understand why Google is such a threat to Microsoft&mdash;and why Microsoft's pooh-poohing of this thread is, at best, a smokescreen&mdash;you need to understand how technology disruption works.

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**** Bonfire Of The Disney Princesses <http://www.thenation.com/doc/20071224/ehrenreich>
by Barbara Ehrenreich, The Nation
Disney likes to think of the Princesses as role models, but what a sorry bunch of wusses they are.

**** The Ghosts Of Clinton Street <http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/16/nyregion/thecity/16hous.html>
by Saki Knafo, New York Times
Ms Geraghty's great-great-great-grandmother bought the house at 312 Clinton Street for $4,000 in 1866. At the time, an outhouse stood in the backyard and hroses were quartered next door.
For the next 140 years, a period spanning Brooklyn's consolidation with New York, the family discarded practically nothing: not the trunks of hand-woven bedspreads and frilly Victorian undergarments, nto the boxes of handwritten grocery receipts dating to the 1880s, not the chunks of petrified laundry starch now piled in a 19th-century beer pail called a growler.

**** The Onion Poem <http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/poetry/2007/12/24/071224po_poem_joudah>
by Fady Joudah, New Yorker
Why are there onions the size of swallows in your maple tree?<br/>In the land of cactus wind the one-eyed dwell.

**** Star Power <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/14/AR2007121400591.html?nav=rss_nation/science>
by David Segal, Washington Post
The first time Neil deGrasse Tyson got a good look at the universe, he thought it was a hoax. He was a 9-year-old, visiting the Hayden Planetarium on Manhattan's Upper West Side, and when the lights went down and a narrated tour of the night sky began, an ocean of stars twinkled overhead.
Yea, /right/, he thought.

**** Desperately Seeking A Kidney <http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/16/magazine/16kidney-t.html?ex=1355461200&en=b64857982edd3384&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss>
by Sally Satel, New York Times
In the fall of 2005, I started my first online relationship. He was a 62-year-old retireee from Canada; I was a 49-year-old psychiatrist living in Washington. Beginning in early October of that year, we talked or e-mailed several times a week. This arrangement was novel to both of us, so our conversations were tentative at first, but we soon grew more comfortable, and excitement over our shared visioin blossomed. After a few weeks, we decided to meet for a uniquely intimate encounter. After New Year's, the Candian would fly to Washington to meet me &mdash; at a hospital, where he would give me one of his kidneys. Thank God.

**** Top Ten Astronomy Pictures Of 2007 <http://www.badastronomy.com/bablog/2007/12/13/top-ten-astronomy-pictures-of-2007/>
by Phil Plait, Bad Astronomy Blog
Science doesn't take away from the beauty of nature. It enhances it, /multiplies/ it.

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**** Drop In Call Bookings As Higher Taxi Fares Kick In <http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/317884/1/.html>
by Wong Mun Wai, Channel NewsAsia
SIngapore's largest taxi operator, ComfortDelGro, has seen a drop in call bookings during the morning peak hours, largely due to the higher taxi fares which kicked in on Monday. However, the company has described this as an expected knee-jerk reaction.

**** SHA 7820 D And Other Taxi Drivers, Sorry, You Just Got Pwned <http://blog.simplyjean.com/2007/12/17/sha-7820-d-and-other-taxi-drivers-sorry-you-just-got-pwned/>
by Simply Jean
See Also:
Taxi Drivers Getting Pwned... <http://blog.simplyjean.com/2007/12/17/taxi-drivers-getting-pwned/>, by Simply Jean.

**** Retro MRT Map <http://deadpoetscave.com/2007/12/retro-mrt-map/>
by Deadpoet's Cave
This was from the time before the North-East Line, when each direction had a unique colour.

**** 11,000 Households Picked For Expenditure Survey <http://www.straitstimes.com/Latest%2BNews/Singapore/STIStory_187705.html>
by Straits Times

**** Simei, Sin Meng &amp; SMRT <http://praveenrajan.com/blog/2007/12/simei-sin-meng-smrt.html>
by Praveen Rajan

**** Is The Authority Really Concern About The Taxi Woes? <http://blog.alicecheong.com/?p=153>
by Alice In Wonderland
The requirements of the taxi operator is set so high, that no common taxi driver will be able to team up to fulfil them.

**** Take Risk To Remove Climate Of Fear, PAP <http://singaporesundry.blogspot.com/2007/12/take-risk-to-remove-climate-of-fear-pap.html>
by All And Sundry Singapore
We must agree that PAP is an efficient government. But it needs "upgrading" to learn to drop the use of fear tactics to rule.

**** Out In The Cold <http://www.todayonline.com/articles/227897.asp>
by Gilbert Goh Keow Wah, Today
One wonders if the jobs created, mostly in the service sector, are more suitable for younger workers.

**** Asking Rents At Specialist Malls Rise By Up To 30% <http://www.straitstimes.com/Free/Story/STIStory_187522.html>
by Chua Hian Hou, Straits Times
Retailers in specialist malls such as Sim Lim Square, Queensway Shopping Centre and United Square have not escaped the tide of rising rentals seen at other malls here. Some tenants have reported demands for rent hikes of up to 30 per cent when the time came to renew their shop leases.
/Where is the Amazon.com of Singapore?/

**** Allow Folded Bikes On Buses And Trains <http://www.straitstimes.com/ST%2BForum/Story/STIStory_187488.html>
by Ng Lai Yien, Straits Times
It seems the only means of public transport for this group of bikers is by taxi.
/Er... taxi is not public transport. It is a "premium" service./

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**** Confidences Shattered <http://friendlyfirerecordings.com/Bands/Camphor/camphor.html>
by Camphor
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