[MyAppleMenu] Nov 22, 2008

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**** Apple Unplugged In Georgetown? <http://washington.bizjournals.com/washington/stories/2008/11/24/story14.html?b=1227502800%5E1736617>
by Missy Frederick, Washington Business Journal
Although Apple Inc. paid $13.4 million for a building at 1229 Wisconsin Ave. NW more than a year ago, there are no signs the company is moving forward with its plans any time soon.

**** Apple Approves Third-Party Email Client For The App Store, Violates Its Own Policies <http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/apple-approves-third-party-email-client-for-the-app-store-viola/>
by Joshua Topolsky, Engadget

**** Without Battery, MacBooks Take Big Performance Hit <http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2335279,00.asp>
by Zach Honig, PC Magazine
If you're a MacBook or MacBook Pro owner, you'll get the best performance out of your system when you leave the battery in.

**** Jobs, It's My House... <http://mac.blorge.com/2008/11/21/its-a-sick-sick-world/>
by Ronald O Carlson, Mac.Blorge.com

**** Mac OS X Targeted By Trojan And Backdoor Tool <http://news.zdnet.co.uk/security/0,1000000189,39559174,00.htm>
by Matthew Broersma, ZDNet.co.uk
Two pieces of malicious software affecting Apple's Mac OS X appeared this week: a Trojan horse with the ability to download and install malicious code of an attacker's choice, and a hacker tool for creating backdoors, according to security vendors.
/Still, no virus. :-)/

**** Apple's Ad Spend Almost A Half-Billion Dollars <http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=10977>
by Sam Diaz, ZDNet.com
If Apple can afford to spend almost a half-billion dollars on an ad campaign and still continue to beat Wall Street's quarterly estiamtes, launch breakthrough products that keep customers longing for more and generate an enormous amount of unsolicited blog buzz, then I say more power to them.
/Unlike Microsoft, Apple doesn't need more money to fix Vista./

**** The Revenge Of The $9.99 iPhone Apps <http://venturebeat.com/2008/11/21/the-revenge-of-the-999-iphone-apps/>
by Mg Siegler, Venture Beat
$0.99-an-app isn't much of a way for developers to make a living, and quite a few of them are now trending back towards $10.

**** Apple Updates Final Cut Pro, Compressor, Color And Shake <http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/08/11/21/apple_updates_final_cut_pro_compressor_color_and_shake.html>
by AppleInsider

**** $5 Million Lawsuit Charges Apple With Fraud Over 3G Speeds <http://www.macworld.com/article/137029/2008/11/eglawsuit.html?lsrc=rss_main>
by Jim Dalrymple, Macworld
A new lawsuit filed this week against Apple and AT&amp;T charge the companies with a host of offenses related to the speed of the 3G network and the performance of the iPhone.

**** Apple Lawyers Hand iPod Hash Cracking Site A DMCA Notice <http://arstechnica.com/journals/apple.ars/2008/11/21/apple-lawyers-hand-ipod-hash-cracking-site-a-dmca-notice>
by Justin Berka, Ars Technica
Apple lawyers recently sent a DMCA violation notice to a project that was attempting to reverse-engineer the current version of hte iTunesDB protection.

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**** The (Mostly) True Story Of Helvetica And The New York City Subway <http://www.aiga.org/content.cfm/the-mostly-true-story-of-helvetica-and-the-new-york-city-subway?pp=1>
by Paul Shaw, AIGA
There is a commonly held belief that Helvetica is /the/ signage typeface of the New York City subway syste, a belief reinforced by /Helvetica/, Gary Hustwit's popular 2007 documentary about the typeface. But it is not true&mdash;or rather, it is only somewhat true.

**** The Sitcom Digresses <http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/23/magazine/23wwln-comedy-t.html?_r=1>
by Ross Simonini, New York Times
Avant-grade literature gave America its first tradition of subverting narrative, but what was once a wild experiment in language has become an accepted counterpart to our internet culture, where digressive Googling and link-clicking are a way of life. The dustry sitcom has caught up to the modern mind.

**** Spellbound <http://www.nybooks.com/articles/22120>
by Michael Dirda, New York Review Of Books
Start one of his books and by page two you cannot choose but hear. While Paul Auster may not have a glittering eye, he still knows how to keep a reader spellbound.

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**** Durian Seller Explains Why Only One Seller Needed <http://yuhuissingaporeblogger.blogspot.com/2008/11/durian-seller-explains-why-only-one.html>
by Yuhui's Singapore Blogger

**** Why Can't We Be More Like Singapore? <http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2008/11/22/focus/2615768&sec=focus>
by The Star
To all our politicians who intend to go for long and expensive overseas trips to study how to run our country, please don't waste taxpayers' money. Be humble and just learn from Singapore!

**** PAP: Change We Also Can... Part 1 <http://singaporemind.blogspot.com/2008/11/pap-change-we-also-can-part-1.html>
by Diary Of A Singaporean Mind
The PAP is a product of Singaporeans' apathy and complacency.

**** A Touch Of Reserve <http://theonlinecitizen.com/2008/11/a-touch-of-reserve/>
by The Online Citizen
In a wider sense, the current acrimony is also a product of latent worries about the government's notoriously secretive management of the country's savings.

**** Gamblers And Gambling - A Nation Hooked <http://theonlinecitizen.com/2008/11/gamblers-and-gambling---a-nation-hooked/>
by Gilbert Goh, The Online Citizen

**** Rocked By Global Crisis <http://thestar.com.my/columnists/story.asp?col=insightdownsouth&file=/2008/11/22/columnists/insightdownsouth/2605904&sec=Insight%20Down%20South>
by Seah Chiang Nee, The Star
The government, which had been sweeping general elections, is evidently worried about an upsurge in discontent that could erode its power base.

**** Shrinking Economy Tests Singapore <http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/c0ff6644-b839-11dd-ac6d-0000779fd18c.html>
by John Burton, Financial Times
Singapore's government faces its biggest test since taking office in 2004 after forecasting that the economy will shrinnk 1-2 per cent next year.
A recesion next year would be the fourth that Singapore has suffered since independence in 1965 but some economists believe it could be the country's worst. The sudden downturn may prompt the government to call an early election before scheduled polls in 2011 in case economic pain leads to a backlash against the People's Action party that has ruled Singapore for 50 years.

**** Tan Kin Lian Has Left The PAP? <http://www.zaobao.com/yl/yl081122_509.shtml>
by Lianhe Zaobao

**** Logic Favours Two-Party System <http://www.straitstimes.com/ST%2BForum/Story/STIStory_305299.html>
by Rayner Teo, Straits Times
Experience does not prevent us from making mistakes; worse, it creates an environment of complacency and lethargy.

**** Governments Better Off With Checks And Blanaces <http://www.straitstimes.com/ST%2BForum/Story/STIStory_305298.html>
by Vincent Tan, Straits Times