[MyAppleMenu] Apr 1, 2008

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**** Apple Posts Three New iPhone TV Ads <http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/04/01/three.new.iphone.tv.ads/>
by MacNN

**** Passing Judgment On Nerds: The Five People You Meet In An Apple Store <http://www.dailyevergreen.com/story/25274>
by Victor Graf, The Daily Evergreen
I wandered into the Apple Store in Portland this weekend and was confronted by the usual mix of candy-coated technology, obtuse and rare software, and bizarre people.

**** MacBook Pro Review - It's A Laptop That Just Feels Right <http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,23467857-5006364,00.html>
by Chris Oaten, Adelaide Advertiser
The most appealing facet of the MB Pro is something that can't be measured in benchmarks. It just feels right, as a mature product should feel.

**** Apple MacBook Air Review - It's The Supermodel Of Laptops <http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,23467850-5006364,00.html>
by Chris Oaten, Adelaide Advertiser
Apple's MacBook Air remains a thing of such stunning form that the fact it's also a surprisingly capable computing device seems more a bonus than a necessity.

**** How Apple Won Me Over <http://kevincarmony.blogspot.com/2008/03/how-apple-won-kevin-carmony-over.html>
by Kevin Carmony
The Mac has everything I love about Linux, but the software and services were so nicely put together.

**** Another Trojan Targets Mac OS X <http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2008/03/another_trojan.html>
by George Hulme, InformationWeek

**** What Is The Rate Of Mac OS X Leopard Adoption? <http://blogs.zdnet.com/Apple/?p=1483>
by David Morgenstern, ZDNet.com

**** Scientists Want Your MacBook For Earthquake Detection <http://www.wired.com/science/planetearth/news/2008/03/quake_network>
by Erik Vance, Wired
Seismologist Elizabeth Cochran and Jesse Lawrence have made use of the sensors built into many new laptops that sense when the computer is being dropped, and turned them into earthquake monitors. They hope to sign up thousands of users to act like a grid of detectors that can sense an earthquake before it does too much damage.
/I wonder how Al Gore will feel about all these laptops running screensavers at night, sucking away electricity, while helping to cure cancer and detect earthquakes./

**** Working The Security Drama Queens <http://www.cnet.com/8301-13509_1-9906502-20.html>
by The Macalope, CNET News.com
The Macalope certainly wants to see Apple come up with a comprehensive strategy for implementing sound security in its software, he's just saying that there's more than one aspect to this issue.

**** The Core Of Its Success <http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080331.wsrconsumerapple3/BNStory/PersonalTech/home>
by Matt Hartley, Globe And Mail
Every week during the design process, the teams hold a pair of meetings, Michael Lopp, senior engineering manager at Apple, said. One is a brainstorming session where free-floating and crazy ideas are encouraged; in the second, designers and engineers are forced to ground all those thoughts in reality and figure out how they can be practically incorporated into the product.
Mr Lopp said this two-pronged approach helps keep the idea phase of the process rooted in the real world early on, while ensuring that the innovative juices keep flowing in the final stages.

**** Apple Touts Tool Aimed At Helping Papers Post Video <http://www.newsandtech.com/issues/2008/April/ot/04-08_newos-podcast.htm>
by Marcelo Duran, Newspapers And Technology
For users of Apple's Leopard Server, Podcast Producer automates the workflow behind producing near-live audio and video podcasts, the company said.

**** Does Buying Apple Gear Turns You Into A Snob? <http://www.johntopley.com/2008/03/31/does-buying-apple-gear-turn-you-into-a-snob/>
by John Topley
I think that it probably amplifies any snobbish tendencies that you may already have, but perhaps more than anything it makes you aware of the deficiencies in other products through a heightened appreciation of good design. Is that so bad?
/Or maybe it takes a snob to buy Mac? After all, if you are not a snob, you'll just use (and bitch about) whatever else everyone is using, right?/

**** First Look: Outspring Mail For Mac, A Client With A "Brain" <http://arstechnica.com/journals/apple.ars/2008/03/31/first-look-outspring-mail-for-mac-a-client-with-a-brain>
by David Chartier, Ars Technica
While Outspring Mail introduces some intriguing new ways of managing e-mail, it drops the ball on some standard features in the process.
/Reading this reminded me of OpenDoc: how one might be able to take the brains of Outspring and drop it into the body of Mail.app./

**** First Look: New Adobe Photoshop Elements For Mac <http://mac360.com/index.php/mac360/comments/first_look_new_adobe_photoshop_elements_for_mac/>
by Alexis Kayhill, Mac 360
Adobe has managed to take a massively complex application with many professional level features and make it somewhat easy for the average Mac user to tolerate, at a wonderful price. It's not perfect, but it's a true value.

**** Bad Security Week For Apple <http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Security/Bad-Security-Week-For-Apple/>
by Larry Seltzer, eWeek
And yet the Mac continues /not/ to be widely attacked int he real world. With their reputation among security professionals taking a nosedive and malware for the Mac on the increase, things could change real soon. Unless all that talk of the Mac market share increasing is just hot air.

**** Why IT Hates The iPhone <http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120647580478363231.html?mod=technology_featured_stories_hs>
by Ben Worthen, Wall Street Journal
Many IT groups have banned the iPhone from their workplaces, complaining that there is no way to force employees to protect their iPhones with passwords and that they can't erase sensitive corporate data from remote locations if the device is stolen or lost. Additionally, they say the iPhone doesn't support the software many businesses use and that it only works on one cellular carrier's network.
But keeping the iPhone out of the office may be a losing battle.
/The strategy of getting Macs to corporations via the bottom rank-and-file failed. Let's see how well iPhone can invade the enterprise./

**** Web2 Delight 1.0 For Mac Released <http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/03/31/web2.delight.10/>
by MacNN
With Web2 Delight, users can find content from any popular video or photo sharing service, such as YouTube and Flickr, and save it to any Mac.

**** Analyst: How Apple Sells 45 Million iPHones In 2009 <http://apple20.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2008/03/31/analyst-how-apple-sells-45-million-iphones-in-2009/>
by Philip Elmer-DeWitt, Fortune

**** Runes Of Avalon 2 For Mac Released <http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/03/31/runes.of.avalon.2/>
by MacNN

**** Outspring Mail Promies Intelligent Filing <http://db.tidbits.com/article/9540>
by Adam C. Engst, TidBITS

**** FlickrBooth 2.1 Adds YouTube Uploading From Photo Booth <http://arstechnica.com/journals/apple.ars/2008/03/31/flickrbooth-2-1-adds-youtube-uploading-from-photo-booth>
by Jacqui Cheng, Ars Technica

**** Review: AirPort Express (802.11N) Base Station <http://www.macworld.com/article/132754/2008/03/express11n.html>
by Dan Frakes, Macworld
The AirPort Express offers more features, a more travel-friendly design, and easier setup than similiar products from other vendors.
See Also:
Airport Express Comes Through <http://confessionsofanexwindowsuser.wordpress.com/2008/03/31/airport-express-comes-through/>, by Confessions Of An Ex-Windows User.

**** First Look: Roxio Toast 9 Titanium <http://www.macworld.com/article/132761/2008/03/toast9firstlook.html>
by Peter Cohen, Macworld
Roxio has beefed up the software impressively, and has made Toast much less of a simple video burning tool and much more of a digital media hub for users looking to get a lot more out of the content they already have.

**** Apple Hit With New, Colorful Lawsuit Over iMac Displays <http://arstechnica.com/journals/apple.ars/2008/03/31/apple-hit-with-new-colorful-lawsuit-over-imac-displays>
by David Chartier, Ars Technica
The new suit was filed today in San Jose, accusing Apple of pulling the same color dithering trick on the latest 20-inch iMac that it did with the MacBook and MacBook Procs cited in the previous lawsuit.

**** First Look: Personal Antispam X5 <http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/03/31/first.look.antispam/>
by MacNN

**** The Browser Bunch <http://www.macworld.com/article/132681/2008/03/browsers.html>
by Joe Kissell, Macworld
We've taken a fresh look at ten browsers for OS X. We put all of these browsers through their paces and judged them on interface, web capabilities and extra features.

**** Analysts: iPhone Driving Smartphone Sales <http://www.macworld.com/article/132769/2008/03/iphone_market.html>
by Nancy Gohring, Macworld
When the iPhone went on sale in the U.S. last June, many observers predicted that it would ignite sales int he broader smartphone market. After nine months on sale here, and its more recent rollout in parts of Europe, it is now clear that the iPhone ahs done just that, analysts at the Smartphone Summit in Las Vegas said on Monday.

The Tomorrow Weblog
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**** File Sharing: To Fight Or Accommodate? <http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oew-healey1apr01,0,2014471.story>
by Jon Healey, Los Angeles Times

**** Building A Faster Internet <http://www.newsweek.com/id/129639>
by Karen Pinchin, Newsweek

**** Is The Internet Eroding America's Puritanism - Or Making It Worse? <http://www.salon.com/opinion/kamiya/2008/04/01/puritanism/>
by Gary Kamiya, Salon
Beneath the gawking, the online reaction to the Spitzer and Paterson revelations shows that Americans are wary of passing judgment on private sins.

**** Google Docs Pulls Head Out Of The Cloud, Goes Offline <http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080331-google-docs-pulls-head-out-of-the-cloud-goes-offline.html>
by Jacqui Cheng, Ars Technica

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**** The Bricklayer's Sons: The Family That Spawned 9/11 <http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/01/books/01kaku.html?_r=1&ref=arts&oref=slogin>
by Michiko Kakutani, New York Times
"The Bin Ladens" uses the prism of one family to examine the mind-boggling, culture-rocking effects that sudden oil wealth had on Saudi Arabia, while shedding new light on the "troubled, compulsive, greed-inflected, secret-burdened" relationship that developed between the desert nation and the United States, and the conflicts many Saudis felt, pulled between the traditional pieties of their ancestors and the glittering temptations of the West.

**** Oh Blessed Season <http://www.slate.com/id/2183118/?from=rss>
by Chris Forhan, Slate

**** Integer <http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/poetry/2008/04/07/080407po_poem_armantrout>
by Rae Armantrout, New Yorker

**** The House Behind A Weeping Cherry <http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/features/2008/04/07/080407fi_fiction_jin>
by Ha Jin, New Yorker

**** Mine Is Longer Than Yours <http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/04/07/080407fa_fact_kinsley>
by Michael Kinsely, New Yorker
Of all the gifts that life and luck can bestow&mdash;money, good looks, love, power&mdash;longevity is the one that people seem least reluctant to brag about. In fact, they routinely claim it as some sort of virtue&mdash;as if living to ninety were primarily the result of hard work or prayer, rather than good genes and never getting run over by a truck. Maybe the possibility that the truck is on your agenda for later this morning makes the bragging acceptable. The longevity game is one that really isn't over till it's over.

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**** Australian Pilot Fined For Intrusion Into Singapore Airspace <http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/338631/1/.html>
by Satish Cheney, Channel NewsAsia
An Australian pilot has been fined S$5,000 for flying into Singapore "without a valid certificate of airworthiness".

**** Activists Screen Political Films In "Private Function" <http://singaporerebel.blogspot.com/2008/04/activists-screen-political-films-in.html>
by Martyn See, No Political Films Please, We're Singaporeans
As the law requires that all public screenings in Singapore to be sanctioned by an exhibition licence, the organisers were quick to bill the event as a "private function."

**** Reduced Work Experience Required For Law Graduates With Second Class Lower Honours <http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/338622/1/.html>
by Channel NewsAsia

**** Guidelines For Wealth Funds Apply To Singapore's Temasek <http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/195851,guidelines-for-wealth-funds-apply-to-singapores-temasek.html>
by DPA
Guidelines for sovereign wealth funds crafted by conterparts from the United States and Abu Dhabi apply to Singapore's investment arm Temasek Holdings, the finance ministry clarified on Tuesday. Temasek initially said it was not affected by the new guidelines reached between the two countries and the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation and unveiled last week.

**** UBS Says Ospel Resigns After $19 Billion Writedowns <http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=atC1ZPCEta8U&refer=us>
by Elena Logutenkova, Bloomberg
The bank will seek 15 billion francs in a rights offer to replenish capital, after already raising 13 billion francs from investors in Singapore and the Middle East.
See Also:
GIC Positive About Longer Term Outlook Of UBS Investment <http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporebusinessnews/view/338643/1/.html>, by CHannel NewsAsia.
GIC's Injection Into UBS Just Vapourised <http://aaron-ng.info/blog/gics-injection-into-ubs-just-vapourised.html>< by Aaron Ng, Hear Ye! Hear Ye!

**** NEL Train Running On 6 Mins Frequencies On Morning Rush Hour. An April Fools Prank Or What? <http://www.myhometown.sg/Blog/tabid/61/EntryID/98/Default.aspx>
by MyHomeTown.sg

**** If You Can't Get Into SG Uni, You Are Not Worthy Enough <http://www.ignorantsoup.com/2008/03/30/if-you-cant-get-into-sg-uni-you-are-not-worthy-enough/>
by The Ignorantsoup
A Singaorean citizenship means nothing. You are but less worthy than foreigners who have the right to leave Singapore after leeching the benefits.

**** 702 More HFMD Cases Reported <http://www.straitstimes.com/Latest%2BNews/Singapore/STIStory_222649.html>
by Judith Tan, Straits Times

**** Clementi No More? <http://singapore.metblogs.com/2008/04/01/clementi-no-more/>
by Singapore Metblogs
This cinema building is one of those rarer few that have survived from the 70s-80s although the cinema itself has ceased to function since the last 5 years.

**** Singapore-Beijing Highway Prompts Environmental Concerns <http://www.abc.net.au/ra/news/stories/200804/s2204657.htm?tab=asia>
by ABC Radio Australia
Critics are warning the pace of development of a highway linking Singapore and Beijing is accelerating the spread of disease and environmental damage.

**** Shops Sell $10 SingTel Prepaid Card For $1 More <http://tnp.sg/news/story/0,4136,160738,00.html?>
by Megha Gupta, New Paper

**** Highly Educated, Poorly Educated, Same Difference <http://cowboycaleb.liquidblade.com/index.php/archives/2008/04/01/highly-educated-poorly-educated-same-difference/>
by Cowboy Caleb
A person with a degree would have to pursue a specific line of work related to their studies. Career changes are difficult and would probably come with a paycut.

**** 'The Herd Instinct' <http://www.todayonline.com/articles/245909.asp>
by Loh Chee Kong, Today
What can be done about the 'non-genuine' buyers of Build-To-Order flats?

**** Finding A Parking Lot In CBD Will Soon Be Harder <http://www.straitstimes.com/Free/Story/STIStory_222528.html>
by Yeo Ghim Lay, Straits Times
Motorists venturing into the Central Business District (CBD) will find it tougher to find a parking space in the future.
The Land Transport Authority (LTA), in its Land Transport Masterplan unveiled on Sunday, said this will happen gradually because upcoming buildings in the CBD have to adhere to regulations tightened in 2002 that restrict the number of parking spaces they can have.

**** Applicants Lose Out In Build-To-Order Project <http://www.straitstimes.com/ST%2BForum/Story/STIStory_222455.html>
by Lim Yong Chuan, Straits Times