[MyAppleMenu] Nov 9, 2008

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**** The Essential Guide To Deep-Cleaning Your Mac <http://www.techradar.com/news/computing/apple/the-essential-guide-to-deep-cleaning-your-mac-482571>
by TechRadar.com
How to find the files that eat up space and slow you down.

**** Why Apple's Keynote Keeps Raising The Bar When It Comes To Presentations - It's All To Do With Why It Was Created In The First Place <http://lesposen.wordpress.com/2008/11/08/keynote-keeps-raising-the-bar/>
by Les Posen's Presentation Magic
One shouldn't underestimate the story-telling, narrative-building capacities of Keynote. More than ever, the power to weave a story arc, with its beginning - middle - end, is essential for conveying complex ideas and concepts to naive audiences.

**** Latest App Store Victim: CastCatcher By Return7 <http://www.macblogz.com/2008/11/08/latest-app-store-victim-castcatcher-by-return7/>
by MacBlogz

**** Apple Slimming Down AC Adapter Recall Packaging? <http://www.theiphoneblog.com/2008/11/08/apple-changing-ac-adapter-recall-packaging/>
by Rene Ritchie, The iPhone Blog

**** Balancing New, Old Technologies Is Tricky <http://www.sunherald.com/business/story/940600.html>
by Craig Crossman, SunHerald.com
It's unreasonable to ask companies like Apple to keep supporting legacy products without end.

**** AT&amp;T Brass Talks Big On Future Of iPhone <http://www.macworld.com/article/136674/2006/03/iphone_att.html?lsrc=rss_main>
by Mark Sullivan, PC World
De la Vega, AT&amp;T iPhone chief, let loose with a laundry list of future applications and usage scenarios for the device.

**** MacMania: A Sea Of Macs <http://smileonmymac.net/blog/2008/11/08/macmania-a-sea-of-macs/>
by SmileOnMyMac Blog

**** A Crack In Wi-Fi Security And How To Fix It <http://db.tidbits.com/article/9846>
by Glenn Fleishman, TidBITS

The Tomorrow Weblog
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**** Why I Copyfight <http://www.locusmag.com/Features/2008/11/cory-doctorow-why-i-copyfight.html>
by Cory Doctorow, Locus
Why does all this copyright reform stuff matter, anyway? What's at stake? Everything.

MyAppleMenu Reader
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**** Hey! How Are You? Long Time, No See. How About A Visit? Say... Jan. 20? <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/08/AR2008110802607.html>
by Avis Thomas-Lester and Lori Aratani, Washington Post
President-elect Barack Obama hadn't left the stage at Chicago's Grant Park on Tuesday night when telephones started jingling across the Washington area. America, apparently, is looking for a place to crash.

**** Shadowland <http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/09/nyregion/thecity/09noir.html?ref=todayspaper>
by Alexander Aciman, New York Times
Metropolis and world capital by day, the city by night is an Art Deco treasure that exists most powerfully in detective movies of previous decades. Even in the town celebrated for insomnia and vivcity, there exists a spooky, eerie element that haunts the streets at night.

**** The Fall <http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/11/17/081117fa_fact_grann>
by David Grann, New Yorker
John McCain's choices.

SingaporeSurf
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**** Accept Sacrifies, Cutbacks <http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking%2BNews/Singapore/Story/STIStory_300327.html>
by Straits Times
The government will ensure no Singaporean falls below the poverty line as a result of the financial crisis but it cannot restore peoples living standards to what they were pre-crisis. Minister mentor Lee Kuan Yew gave this assurance today, as he promised measures in next year's budget to buffer lower-income earners and those without jobs from the impact of higher prices of food and other goods.

**** Singapore Has Enough Reserves To See Country Through Crisis <http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/388705/1/.html>
by Imelda Saad, Channel NewsAsia
Minister mentor Lee Kuan Yew has said the current global recession ins the most severe since the Great Depression of the 1930s. And he cautioned that it is just the beginning in Singapore. But Mr Lee said: "Our reserves can see us through this crisis without going broke, although we have no natural resources, no oil, gas, palm oil whatever."

**** Bali Bombers And The Death Penalty <http://www.yawningbread.org/arch_2008/yax-954.htm>
by Au Waipang, Yawning Bread

**** Sovereign Wealth Funds Turning Cautious: Analysts <http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5hehB5zrSWLIJCoSMvnQnqHOTLu_w>
by AFP
Cash-rich sovereign wealth funds from Asia and the Middle East may be turning cautious after getting burnt by investments in Western firms hit by the current financial turmoil, analysts said.

**** Reply To Mr Ablert Teng's Letter To /Today/ On How Well Managed PAP Town Councils Are <http://wayangparty.com/2008/11/09/reply-to-mr-albert-tengs-letter-to-today-on-how-well-managed-pap-town-councils-are/>
by The Wayang Party Club Of Singapore
It is quite frankly a severe case of double standards, to only hold opposition-run town councils to a high standard of scrutiny when the maority of town councils in Singapore, which are PAP-run, do not hold themsleves up to that same standard of scutiny.

**** Not Ready For Non-Chinese PM? Who Is PM To Speak On Our Behalf? <http://wherebearsroamfree.blogspot.com/2008/11/not-ready-for-non-chinese-pm-who-is-pm.html>
by Where Bears Roam Free
If the PAP is race bias, don't blame it on the people. No matter how much PAP has been saying that race is not an issue for them, and at the same time poking jibes at other countries' race politics, the PAP has /always/ played the racial card.

**** Singapore To Work With KL On Crisis <http://www.nst.com.my/Current_News/NST/Sunday/National/2397135/Article/index_html>
by New Straits Times
Singapore foreign minister George Yeo said the two neighbours could work together in staving off a potential crisis as their economies were closely intertwined.

**** Johor Must Bring Out Its Tourism Chamr, Says Don <http://www.nst.com.my/Current_News/NST/Sunday/National/2396825/Article/index_html>
by Anis Ibrahim, New Straits Times
Prof Amran Hamzah of Universiti Teknologi Malaysia said Iskandar Malaysia should leverage on its advantage and not compete with Singapore in the same tourism area.