[MyAppleMenu] Sep 2, 2008

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MyAppleMenu
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**** Apple iPhone: 8 Million And Counting <http://apple20.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2008/09/01/apple-iphone-8-million-and-counting/>
by Philip Elmer-DeWitt, Fortune

**** With iTunes, Schools Join Digital World <http://www.nj.com/newark/index.ssf/2008/09/with_itunes_schools_join_digit.html>
by Jeanette Rundquist, Star-Ledger
Students will take a leap in classroom technology this year, using Apple's iTunes store to post and share educational material.

**** Google Chrome: Apps In Tabs <http://ignorethecode.net/blog/2008/09/02/google-chrome-apps-in-tabs/>
by Lukas Mathis, Ignore The Code
A better approach to web applications is to bring web applications out of the browser ghetto and make them first-class applications, rather than burying them inside browser chrome you're never going to use anyway.

**** The Newest Version Of OpenOffice Passes Test <http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/tech/drmac/5978055.html>
by Bob LeVitus, Houston Chronicle

**** Google Creating Its Own Browser Based On WebKit <http://www.tuaw.com/2008/09/01/google-creating-its-own-browser-based-on-webkit/>
by Robert Palmer, The Unofficial Apple Weblog
Google is developing a new web browser built from the groun dup and based on WebKit, the same rendering engine that Safari uses.
/We have two embedded-in-OS web rendering engines in the two competing operating system. Microsoft's IE has a longer history, but it is Safari/WebKit that is creating more innovating products by third parties./

**** Apple Hysteria <http://www.thomas-fitzgerald.net/2008/09/01/apple-hysteria/>
by Thomas Fitzgerald
If you put the seeming hysteria aside you begin to see that this backlash is just that, hysteria.

**** 4Th Generation iPod Nano Case 'In The Wild' <http://www.macrumors.com/2008/09/01/4th-generation-ipod-nano-case-available-in-stores/>
by Arnold Kim, MacRumors.com

**** How To Use Google Docs Offline In Safari <http://db.tidbits.com/article/9752>
by Adam C. Engst, TidBITS
Like all online word processors, Google Docs has one significant architectural limitation: if you don't have internet access, you documents are completely unavailable to you. Google has been working on eliminating this limitation with a technology called Google Gears.

**** Project Calculator 3.0 Adds Quick Filters, Menu Bar <http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/09/01/project.calculator.30/>
by MacNN
Blue Banana Software has released Project Calculator 3, a major update to its project time-tracking software.

The Tomorrow Weblog
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**** The Human Frailty Of Software <http://www.theage.com.au/news/perspectives/the-human-frailty-of-software/2008/09/01/1220121133241.html>
by Graeme Philipson, The Age

**** Turning Visitors Into Customers <http://www.technologyreview.com/Infotech/21323/>
by Erica Naone, MIT Technology Review
Visting a company's website could result in a cold call.

**** A Quick Guide To Netbooks <http://gigaom.com/2008/09/01/choosing-a-netbook-a-guide/>
by Kevin C. Tofel, GigaOM

MyAppleMenu Reader
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**** Can Poetry In Translation Ever Be As Poetic In Its New Language? <http://search.japantimes.co.jp/rss/fl20080831rp.html>
by Roger Pulvers, Japan Times
Perhaps the answer &mdash; and the key to capturing a poem's messages and signals in translation &mdash; lies in the word "voice." This would be my answer to my friend's question: that a poem has to speak to readers in the translated language with the same voice it does to readers of the original.

**** About Death, Just Like Us Or Pretty Much Unaware? <http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/02/science/02angi.html?ref=science>
by Natalie Angier, New York Times
Do animals grieve like we do?

**** Gamign Evolution <http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/02/science/02spor.html?ref=science>
by Carl Zimmer, New York Times
By day, Thomas Near studies the evolution of fish, wading through streams in Kentucky and Mississippi in search of new species. By night, Dr. Near, an assistant professor at Yale, is a heavy-duty gamer, sterring tanks or playing football on his computer. This afternoon his two lives have come together.

SingaporeSurf
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**** Political Openness - For PAP Only <http://theonlinecitizen.com/2008/09/political-openness-for-pap-only/>
by Andrew Loh, The Online Citizen
On what moral authority would the government be able to require everyone else to adhere to and obey the law if it does not do so itself?

**** Friendly Reminders From The Nation-Building Press About The Dangers Of Hong Lim Park <http://mrwangsaysso.blogspot.com/2008/09/friendly-reminders-from-nation-building.html>
by Mr Wang Says So

**** Singapore And Malaysia Should Smoothen Their Relations <http://www.bernama.com.my/bernama/v3/news.php?id=356635>
by Bernama
Singapore and Malaysia should not create more impediments that could cause unnecessary hardships to the people from both countries, Malaysian High Commissioner to Singapore Datuk N. Parameswaran said. In response,

**** Demo Lasted 10 Minutes <http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking%2BNews/Singapore/Story/STIStory_274352.html>
by Li Xueying, Straits Times
Singapore's first legal demonstratin in two decades was held yesterday at the Speakers' Corner - and lasted for all of 10 minutes.
At 7pm, five members of a non-profit group, Hearer of Cries, gathered metres from the Clarke Quay MRT station exit at Hong Lim Park to stage a protest against employers who abuse their maids.
See Also:
Photos From First Day Of "Relaxed Rules" Allowing Public Demonstrations At Speakers Corner <http://jg69.blogspot.com/2008/09/photos-from-first-day-of-relaxed-rules.html>, by Jacob's Weblog.

**** Money For Nothing But Heartache And Shame For Free <http://feedmetothefish.blogspot.com/2008/09/money-for-nothing-but-heartache-shame.html>
by Feed Me To The Fish
First ping pong fiasco, then health minister's facts fiasco and now bicycle carnival fiasco. When will they ever learn?