[MyAppleMenu] Nov 21, 2008

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**** Font Software PopChar X Gets Update, Fixes Bugs <http://www.macworld.co.uk/procreative/news/index.cfm?RSS&NewsID=23621>
by Macworld UK

**** iPod Touch 2.2 Update Omits Google Maps Improvements <http://www.ipodnn.com/articles/08/11/21/ipod.touch.22.update/>
by iPodNN
The update appears to exclude any of the iPhone's upgrades to Google Maps, such as Street View, public transit navigation or sharing information via e-mail.

**** DisplayPort <http://earthlingsoft.net/ssp/blog/2008/11/displayport>
by Sven-S. Prost, Quarter Life Crisis

**** iPhone 2.2 Hides Some Treats <http://cultofmac.com/iphone-22-hides-some-treats/5019>
by Giles Turnbull, Cult Of Mac

**** Review: Contribute CS4 <http://www.macworld.com/article/136843/2008/11/contributecs4.html?lsrc=rss_main>
by Tom Negrino, Macworld
Unimpressive upgrade for Adobe's web page editor.

**** Psystar Case Reveals Apple's Shaky E-Mail Retention Policy <http://www.macworld.com/article/137017/2008/11/emailpolicy.html?lsrc=rss_main>
by Jordan Golson, The Industry Standard
Apple employees are responsible for maintaining their own documents such as e-mails, memos, and voicemails. In other words, there is no company-wide policy for archiving, saving, or deleting these documents.

**** Apple Releases iPhone 2.2 Update <http://www.macworld.com/article/137023/2008/11/iphone_22.html>
by Jason Snell, Macworld
Apple released the 2.2 software update for the iPhone late Thursday night Pacific time.

**** Apple Updates Final Cut In Pro App Update <http://www.macworld.com/article/137022/2008/11/proapp.html?lsrc=rss_main>
by Jim Dalrymple, Macworld

**** In UI Design, The "Obvious" Solution Isn't Necessarily The Best Solution <http://www.usabilitypost.com/2008/11/20/in-ui-design-the-obvious-solution-isnt-necessarily-the-best-solution/>
by Usability Post
OS X scrollbars have two arrow buttons, up and down, just like Windows &mdash; but the difference is that they're both located at the bottom.

**** Apple's Folly <http://www.redherring.com/Home/25540>
by Michael Lee, Red Herring

**** How Apple Gained The Upper Hand On Microsoft <http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=3071>
by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, ZDNet.com
Bottom line, the Mac experience removes uncertainty.

**** Apple Releases iTunes 8.0.2 <http://www.macrumors.com/2008/11/20/apple-releases-itunes-8-0-2/>
by Arnold Kim, MacRumors.com

**** EtherPad Brings Simultaneous Writing To Web <http://db.tidbits.com/article/9869>
by Glenn Fleishman, TidBITS
Simultaneous writing might seem like the authorial equivalent of the four-way intersection car crash in Steve Martin's L.A. Story. Instead, we find it makes it posssible for us to write faster (especially under deadline), and speed up editing, too.

**** StoryMill Update Adds Word Frequency Filtering <http://www.macworld.com/article/136999/2008/11/storymill.html?lsrc=rss_main>
by Jim Dalrymple, Macworld
New in StoryMill 3.2 is a Project Find and Replace feature, word frequency filtering, text zooming available everywhere, and support for international date formats.

**** One-Touch GarageBand Sound Effects <http://www.macworld.com/article/136990/2008/11/gbsoundeffects.html?lsrc=rss_main>
by Christopher Breen, Macworld

**** The Perfect Storm Of Dta Loss: A Cautionary Tale <http://www.macworld.com/article/136980/2008/11/perfect_storm.html?lsrc=rss_main>
by Dan Moren, Macworld
Don't rely on your iDisk for backups of critical data. Make sure that you have a copy on a local disk at all times, lest you end up crushed and bereft, like me.

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**** St. Olaf Wrestles With Milton's Angel, And Prevails <http://chronicle.com/free/v55/i13/13a00104.htm>
by Jennifer Howard, Chronicle Of Higher Education
When Richard J. DuRocher, a professor English at St. Olaf College, in Northfield, Minn., told one of his classes that he was running a marathon, everybody cheered. Then he told them what kind of marathon: a straight-through, out-loud reading of John ilton's /Paradise Lost/ &mdash; all 12 books of it, from Satan's fall to Adam and Eve's eviction from the Garden of Eden.

**** Shoe-Leather Rhapsody <http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122722969294046463.html?mod=rss_Books>
by David Propson, Wall Street Journal
'Pedestrianism' as a method of discovering the world.

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**** Countries Renew Commitment To Ending Death Penalty Worldwide <http://news.trendaz.com/index.shtml?show=news&newsid=1351230&lang=EN>
by DPA

**** Temasek Plans Pay Cut, Anticipates Global Recession <http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601080&sid=agyORuMZ9S20&refer=asia>
by Chen Shiyin, Bloomberg
Temasek Holdings Pte, Singapore's state-owned investment company, plans to cut salaries and said a worldwide recession may extend beyond 2009.
THe firm, which oversees $130 billion, said senior management has volunteered a 15 percent to 25 percent pay cut. The key managers will provide almost 90 percent of the savings from the companywide cut, it said in an e-mailed response today to a Bloomberg News query.

**** Third Ministers' Pay Hike In Two Years - Staying Together Or Moving Ahead? <http://theonlinecitizen.com/2008/11/third-ministers&#8217;-pay-hike-in-two-years---staying-together-or-moving-ahead/>
by Andrew Loh, The Online Citizen

**** Old Woodlands Checkpoint To Get S$2.5M Makeover Aimed At Easing Congestion <http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/391392/1/.html>
by Hetty Musfirah Abdul Khamid, Channel NewsAsia
Faced with a steady growth in traffic volume, the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA) has announced plans to further evelop the Old Woodlands Checkpoint.

**** Political Systems Or Rhetorical Systems? <http://mollymeek.livejournal.com/201215.html>
by Mollymeek
What the PAP wants is people to believe that it has to be in power forever, not that a dominant-party system is better than a two-party system. Once we get this clear, we know where to steer the debate.

**** Malaysia And Singapore Ties 'Solid As An Iceberg' <http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2008/11/21/nation/2604861&sec=nation>
by The Star
Malaysia-Singapore ties will always remain strong despite long-standing bilateral issues, said Singapore's High Commissioner to Malaysia T. Jasudasen.

**** Monetary Policy Appropriate <http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking%2BNews/Singapore/Story/STIStory_305051.html>
by Robin Chan, Straits Times
The MOnetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) said there are no plans to change its current exchange rate policy stance.

**** Singapore Cuts GDP Forecast <http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking%2BNews/Singapore/Story/STIStory_305046.html>
by Fiona Chan, Straits Times
Singapore's economy could shrink next year for the first time since 2001 as the global downturn deepens, warned the Ministry of Trade and Industry on Friday.

**** Twenty Years Of The GRC: Walkover Political Careers (Part Two) <http://theonlinecitizen.com/2008/11/20-years-of-the-grc-walkover-political-careers-part-two/>
by Melvin Tan, The Online Citizen

**** Home-Schoolers Do Well <http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking%2BNews/Singapore/Story/STIStory_305008.html>
by Jane Ng, Straits Times
The first batch of students outside mainstream schools to sit for the Primary School Leaving Examination have done as well as their counterparts elsewhere, with over 90 per cent of them doing well enough to move to the secondary level.

**** Why Singapore's Political System Works <http://www.straitstimes.com/ST%2BForum/Story/STIStory_304891.html>
by Tan Wu Meng, Young PAP, Straits Times
In partnership with the people of Singapore, PAP governments have kept this nation afloat through the 1970s oil shocks, the 1980s recession, the 1990s Asian financial crisis, the post-9/11 aftermath and Sars. Which other party in the world has this depth of experience?
/PAP prides itself on economic success. But if one measures against protecting the freedom and rights of the citizen as enshrined in our constitution, PAP's track record is bad./.

**** DBS Bank Defends Retrenchment <http://www.straitstimes.com/ST%2BForum/Story/STIStory_304884.html>
by Karen Ngui, DBS Bank, Straits Times
A hiring freeze was already in place and we considered temporary measures, including tiered pay reductions across the organisation. But the most imortant consideration of all is that the changes in the financial landscape are drastic and permanent - they are not cyclical.

**** Falling Prices Scuttle Couple's 'Reverse Loan' <http://tnp.sg/news/story/0,4136,184201,00.html?>
by Tan May Ping, New Paper
/Like many in the U.S. who believed that the value of their properties will only increase and never decrease, this couple was burnt./