[MyAppleMenu] Apr 24, 2009

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**** Charge It On Your AirEx <http://www.macworld.com/article/140166/2009/04/expresscharge.html?lsrc=rss_main>
by Dan Frakes, Macworld

**** Steve Jobs: Nobody Loves Me <http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2009/0511/032-apple-steve-jobs-nobody-loves-me.html>
by William P. Barrett, Forbes

Steve Jobs, the man rolling out iPods, iPhones and cool computers to millions of adoring customers, once felt he wasn't getting enough respect&mdash;from his own board of directors. That, at least, was what he told the Securities &amp; Exchange Commission while explaining his actions in the Apple option-backdating scandal that broke in 2006. The scandal, which was part of what caused Apple then to take an $84 million earnings writedown, raised questions about whether Jobs had helped set advantageous grant dates for options for himself and other executives.

**** Apple's iPod Touch Sales Double, Nearly On Par With iPhone <http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/09/04/23/apples_ipod_touch_sales_double_nearly_on_par_with_iphone.html>
by Katie Marsal, AppleInsider

Sales of Apple's iPod touch, once discounted as a pricey niche product, have more than doubled over the past 12 months to rates nearly in line with the iPhone, fueled by an explosion of attractive gaming titles on the App Store that are boosting overall multi-touch device shipments into Nintendo DS territory.

**** Ancient Frog For iPhone <http://www.macworld.com/article/140037/2009/04/ancientfrog.html?lsrc=rss_main>
by Lex Friedman, Macworld

Ancient Frog is a meditative puzzle game from Ancient Workshop with beautiful imagery and a serene soundtrack that’s as unusual to play as it is to describe.

**** Tips For Greener Computing <http://www.macworld.com/article/139447/2009/04/greenmactips.html?lsrc=rss_main>
by Michael Gowan, Macworld

There are two really good reasons to practice green computing: It saves you money, and—bit by bit—it helps save the planet. It’s a major win-win. Here are just a few of the little things you can do to make a big difference.

**** Why I'm Switching From Twitterrific To Tweetie <http://www.macworld.com/article/140178/2009/04/tweetie.html?lsrc=rss_main>
by Jim Dalrymple, Macworld

I would highly recommend giving Tweetie a try—you won't regret it.

**** Mac Mini Media Center: Control Everything Remotely <http://www.macworld.com/article/140182/2009/04/macmini_mediacenter_remotecontrol.html?lsrc=rss_main>
by Christopher Breen, Macworld

Software and hardware options abound for controlling your media center from the couch.

**** HanDBase For Mac Can Synchronize With iPhone <http://www.macworld.com/article/140192/2009/04/handbase.html?lsrc=rss_main>
by Peter Cohen, Macworld

**** Apple Apologizes For Baby Shaker <http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-10226232-37.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=News-Apple>
by Tom Krazit, CNET

Just hours before the App Store offers up its 1 billionth download, Apple was forced to acknowledge that perhaps the most notorious iPhone application ever constructed was "deeply offensive" and a "mistake." Baby Shaker appeared on the App Store Monday, and was pulled Wednesday after a media frenzy grew following the discovery of the application by the founder of a shaken baby syndrome foundation.

**** Apple Sells Its One Billionth iPhone App <http://www.macworld.com/article/140190/2009/04/onebillionth.html?lsrc=rss_main>
by Jim Dalrymple, Macworld

Nine months after opening its App Store, Apple announced on its Web site that it reached the milestone of selling its one billionth iPhone application on Thursday.

**** JellyCar For iPhone <http://www.macworld.com/article/139975/2009/04/jellycar.html?lsrc=rss_main>
by Zach Okkema, Macworld

Simple driving game is a fun way to pass the time—particularly for kids.

**** The End Of Innocence At Apple: What Happened After Steve Jobs Was Fired <http://blog.wired.com/business/2009/04/the-end-of-inno.html>
by Frank Rose, Wired

It seems unthinkable today — but more than two decades ago, when personal computers were still new and everybody listened to music on a Walkman, Steve Jobs was cast out of Apple. The year was 1985. IBM and Microsoft dominated the world of computing. The revolutionary Macintosh, launched with such fanfare just a year earlier, appeared to be foundering. And Jobs, the guiding force at Apple from the beginning, seemed not just expendable but a threat to the company he’d built.

**** Apple's Guidance Game <http://www.businessinsider.com/chart-of-the-day-apples-guidance-game-2009-4>
by Dan Frommer and Kamelia Angelova, Silicon Alley Insider

Why does Apple (AAPL) always "beat expectations?" Because it sets the bar so low it could fall over it.

**** Why Apple's MobileMe Doesn't Work As A $100 Service <http://i.gizmodo.com/5224855/why-apples-mobileme-doesnt-work-as-a-100-service>
by Wilson Rothman, Gizmodo

The service itself is made up of many pieces you already have. This presents a complicated economic argument.

**** Apple Is Already Selling A Netbook <http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2009/04/apple_is_alread.html>
by Michael Hickins, InformationWeek

**** Apple Retails Shed 1,600 Full-Time Positions <http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-10226486-37.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=News-Apple>
by Tom Krazit, CNET

The retail arm of the company now employs 14,000 full-time equivalent workers, down from 15,600 at the end of Apple's first fiscal quarter, according to a filing with the SEC.

**** Why Does Apple Rise While The Rest Fall? <http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/tech-manager/?p=1166>
by John McKee, TechRepublic

Apple Inc’s leadership has shown vision, guts, and determination. They created a clear business plan and executed it without any outwardly visible hesitation.

**** Review: FontExplorer X Pro 2.0 <http://rss.macworld.com/click.phdo?i=ad567ab4956b28e1f6bb8fe15b34a941>
by Jay J. Nelson, Macworld

FontExplorer X Pro 2.0.1 is an advanced, feature-complete font-management tool. It's as if the developers asked hundreds of designers and prepress professionals what they wanted, and then delivered everything on the list.

**** Mac Malware Not A Big Deal - Yet <http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/%3Fp%3D16969>
by ZDNet

**** How To Recycle Your Mac <http://www.macworld.com/article/139449/2009/04/recyclemac.html?lsrc=rss_main>
by Lisa Schmeiser, Macworld

Here are a variety of solutions—from low-effort to time-intensive—that’ll keep your conscience and your closet clear.

**** Thirteen Year-Old Revealed As Winner Of Apple's Billion App Contest <http://www.macworld.com/article/140201/2009/04/billion.html?lsrc=rss_main>
by Peter Cohen, Macworld

Connor Mulcahey downloaded the one billionth app: Bump, a contact information swapping application developed by Bump Technologies.



The Tomorrow Weblog
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**** RealTime: No YouTube Revolution Yet <http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10226244-2.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20>
by CNET

RealTime lets friends share what they're watching on YouTube. But you'll have to build a new social network, and it doesn't unlock any hidden YouTube value.



MyAppleMenu Reader
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**** Does Updike's Last Verse Hit Its Mortal Mark? Plainly. <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/22/AR2009042204045.html>
by Michael Dirda, Washington Post

In their last years, many artists cast aside all their usual flourishes, dismiss the circus animals and simply set down, as directly as possible, the realities and inevitabilities of old age. So John Updike has done in this moving book of poems. As he ruefully attests, "In the beginning, Culture does beguile us,/but Nature gets us in the end."

**** Bound To Burn <http://www.city-journal.org/2009/19_2_carbon.html>
by Peter W. Huber, City Journal

Humanity will keep spewing carbon into the atmosphere, but good policy can help sink it back into the earth.

**** Darwin's Worms <http://www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=wq.essay&essay_id=87172>
by Amy Stewart, The Wilson Quarterly

When I stand on a patch of earth and wonder about the activity occurring underfoot, I’m not alone. Gardeners are inquisitive by nature; we’re explorers; we like to turn over a log or pull up a plant by the roots to see what’s there. Most of the gardeners I know are, like me, quite interested in earthworms, in the work they do churning the earth and making new dirt. We hold soil in our hands, squeeze it and smell it as if we’re checking a ripe melon, and sift it to see what inhabits it. Ask a gardener about the earthworm population in her garden, and I guarantee she’ll have something to say on the subject.

It seems strange, then, that most scientists before Charles Darwin (1809 –82) didn’t consider worms worthy of study.

**** Gather 'Round The Cadaver <http://www.slate.com/id/2216761/?from=rss>
by Barron H. Lerner, Slate

The photographs in the remarkable new book Dissection shocked me, even though I spent a year in anatomy class during medical school.



SingaporeSurf
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**** Showdown At AWARE Office Over Lock Change By New Exco <http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/424471/1/.html>
by Pearl Forss, Channel NewsAsia

**** Singapore's LGBT Community Plans 'Pink Dot' Event <http://www.pinknews.co.uk/news/articles/2005-12122.html>
by PinkNews.co.uk

An unusual day in the park planned for next month will show support for Singapore's lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans population.

**** Misinformation Spread By AWARE's New Exco Is Deserving Of The Sternest Rebuke <http://www.sgpolitics.net/?p=2752>
by Ng E-Jay, Sgpolitics.net

The underhand tactics used by this bunch of intolerant individuals to promote their own selfish agenda and the misinformation that is being spread by AWARE’s new Exco is deserving of the strongest rebuke. Let us condemn this atrocity.

**** Coup Leader Comes Open <http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking+News/Singapore/Story/STIStory_367834.html>
by Zakir Hussain, Straits Times

Senior lawyer Thio Su Mien on Thursday revealed the key role she played in bringing about the change of leadership at the Association of Women for Action and Research (Aware).

**** 'Legalise Loan Sharks' Like We Legalise Prostitutes Here? <http://tnp.sg/news/story/0,4136,199820,00.html?>
by Ng Tze Yong, New Paper

Grassroots volunteers say government should declare amnesty and regulate loanshark activities.

**** Lack Of Public Transport Options At Night Safari <http://www.straitstimes.com/ST%2BForum/Online%2BStory/STIStory_367610.html>
by Ajit Koshy, Straits Times

**** The &quot;Foam&quot; Lifts Of Pasir Ris Upgrading Program <http://wayangparty.com/?p=8148>
by The Wayang Party Club

**** New Exco Got Death Threats <http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking+News/Singapore/Story/STIStory_367873.html>
by Sandra Davie, Straits Times

A death threat was sent to a member of the new exco of Aware as well as the husband of president Josie Lau.

**** Membership Shoots Up <http://www.todayonline.com/articles/315759.asp>
by Zul Othman, Today

Aware’s membership numbers have swelled so much in the run-up to its extraordinary general meeting on May 2 that the women’s advocacy group has to find a new venue to hold it.

**** Universal Seek Global Talent For Singapore Park <http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hE82yC-wYGi1il7u8wY_Fjx-kn6A>
by AFP

US entertainment giant Universal Studios on Thursday announced a global recruitment drive for aspiring actors, singers and other performers for shows at its upcoming theme park in Singapore.

**** Save Singapore Reefs <http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking%2BNews/Singapore/Story/STIStory_367656.html>
by Grace Chua, Straits Times

The most comprehensive proposal to save Singapore's coral reefs yet was released on Thursday, calling for the government to formally recognise the richness of reef habitats like Raffles Lighthouse and Cyrene Reef in the southern islands.

**** A Peculiar Irony <http://xenoboysg.blogspot.com/2009/04/peculiar-irony.html>
by A Xeno Boy In Sg

**** Did Josie Lau <i>Lie</i>? Contradictions In Earlier DBS Statement And Her Revelation On CNA 'Talking Point' That She Has No Plans To Run For AWARE President <http://wayangparty.com/?p=8205>
by The Wayang Party Club

**** Thais Say Suffered In Singapore &quot;Jungle Brothel&quot; <http://in.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idINIndia-39222920090424>
by Nopporn Wong-Anan, Reuters

Singapore's sex trade is a side of the Southeast Asian city-state less well-known than its air-conditioned shopping malls, efficient governance and laws that ban littering and the import of chewing gum.

**** Pirate Mother Ship Appears On Hoizon, Guns Blazing <http://www.yawningbread.org/arch_2009/yax-1011.htm>
by Au Waipang, Yawning Bread

Stripped down to the basics, the "agenda" of Thio and her recruits had nothing to do with serving women or advancing feminism. It had just one objective -– to purge AWARE of anything to do with tolerance, diversity and the empowerment of women.

During the last few weeks, many people have wondered why this clique that took over AWARE did not instead set up their own Christian-linked organisation to promote their views. As you can now see, that wouldn't have achieved their objective: It was never to construct an alternative discourse, it was to silence and destroy AWARE's work.

**** NEA To Issue Temporary Food Hygiene Rating Labels <http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/424700/1/.html>
by Ang Ka Swan, Channel NewsAsia

The National Environment Agency (NEA) plans to issue temporary food hygiene rating labels on the spot. This is so that hawkers need not wait for the agency to issue actual labels. 

**** AWARE Old Guard Say They Feel Responsible For What Has Happened <http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/424706/1/.html>
by Cheryl Lim, Channel NewsAsia