[MyAppleMenu] Jul 6, 2008

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MyAppleMenu
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**** Apple's iPhone Could Find Asia Tough To Crack <http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jO7kBjLpblkcRmvgP3xFbhK33ksg>
by AFP
With the phone already in circulation, the novelty factor will be less, which could emphasise the importance of pricing for the new model. And that could prove to be an obstacle.

**** From Windows To Mac: Three Biggest Tips For Switchers <http://blogd.com/wp/index.php/archives/3859>
by The Blog From Another Dimension
Having helped several people make the switch from Windows to Macs, I have seen pretty clearly some common problems people have when making the switch. Walt Mossberg wrote a short article on this, and his observations are pretty spot-on, albeit abbreviated and limited. I just figured I'd do my own long-winded version.

**** No Going Back When You're Hooked On Mac <http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,23975097-5000117,00.html>
by Jo Stanley, Sunday Herald Sun
Apple do a fantastic job at making things look really pretty, spacially efficient and usable for idiots like me.

**** If You're Open To Growth, You Tend To Grow <http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/06/business/06unbox.html?_r=1&ref=business&oref=slogin>
by Janet Rae-Dupree, New York Times
At the beginning of each interview, Scott Forsall, senior vice president of Apple in charge of iPhone software, warned the recruit he couldn't reveal details of the project he was working on. But he promised the opportunity "to make mistakes and struggle, but eventually we may do something that we'll remember the rest of our lives."

The Tomorrow Weblog
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**** Electronic Papyrus: The Digital Book, Unfurled <http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/06/technology/06novelties.html?_r=1&oref=slogin>
by Anne Eisenberg, New York Times

**** What Happens After TV's Mainframe Era Ends Next February? <http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/what-happens-after-tvs-mainframe-era-ends-next-february>
by Doc Searls, Linux Journal

MyAppleMenu Reader
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**** The Urge To End It <http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/06/magazine/06suicide-t.html>
by Scott Anderson, New York Times
"There is but one truly serious philosophical problem," Albert Camus wrote, "and that is suicide." How to explain why, among the only species capable of pondering its own demise, whose desperate attempts to forestall mortality have spawned both armies and branches of medicine in a perpetual search for the Fountain of Youth, there are those who, by their own hand, would choose death over life? Our contradictory reactions to the act speak to the conflicted hold it has on our imaginations: revulsion mixed with fascination, scorn leavened with pity. It is a cardinal sin &mdash; but change the packaging a little, and suicide assumes the guise of heroism or high passion, the stuff of literature and art.

**** Numerology <http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/06/books/review/Ellenberg-t.html>
by Jordan Ellenberg, New York Times
"One to Nine" offers a different model for teaching math &mdash; discursive rather than linear, topical rather than abstract and remote, and, above all, manically energetic rather than repetitive and plodding.

SingaporeSurf
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**** Measures To Manage Traffic Congestion Are About Trade-Offs <http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/358568/1/.html>
by Liang Kaixin and Satish Cheney, Channel NewsAsia
Senior minster of state for transport Lim Hwee Hua said: "What I think this whole package says is that there are a lot of trade-offs that have to be made. At the end of it, we will have to decide whether our time... the quality of life is more important."

**** Singapore's Property Boom Cooling: Analysts <http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5iHaEQRkO2TbsV3xYhcAYAuB9PFcA>
by AFP
Singapre's booming residential property sector is finally showing signs of cooling but projects including two casino developments should underpin long-term prices, analysts say.