[MyAppleMenu] Apr 29, 2009

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**** Notebooks For iPhone <http://www.macworld.com/article/140044/2009/04/notebooks.html?lsrc=rss_main>
by Lex Friedman, Macworld

Note taker benefits from in-app help, usable interface.

**** NetworkLocation 3.0.5 <http://www.macworld.com/article/140266/2009/04/networklocation3.html?lsrc=rss_main>
by Glenn Fleishman, Macworld

This clever utility examines data about your network and USB connections to determine your present location, and can then modify your other system settings based on rules you configure. NetworkLocation gets you most of the way to your desired state, and can get even closer if you know a bit of AppleScript.

**** Apple Adds New Artist Lessons To GarageBand <http://www.macworld.com/article/140269/2009/04/lesson.html?lsrc=rss_main>
by Jim Dalrymple, Macworld

With the latest update, Apple added two new Sting songs—"Message in a Bottle" and "Fragile"—and Sarah McLachlan's "Angel".

**** Apple's WWDC 2009 Conference Is Sold Out <http://www.macrumors.com/2009/04/28/apples-wwdc-2009-conference-is-sold-out/>
by Arnold Kim, MacRumors.com

**** Doylestown Hospital: Always On Call <http://www.apple.com/iphone/enterprise/doylestown.html?sr=hotnews.rss>
by Apple

A community medical center near Philadelphia, Doylestown Hospital relies on a mobile workforce of 360 independent physicians to provide a highly responsive healing environment for thousands of patients. Those physicians stay connected 24/7 to colleagues and hospital staff with their first responder: Apple iPhone 3G. With iPhone, doctors get access to patients’ vital stats, medical reference applications, and breaking health alerts to provide collaborative and efficient patient care.

**** iPod To Reach Out And Touch Someone <http://solution.allthingsd.com/20090428/ipod-to-reach-out-and-touch-someone/?mod=ATD_rss>
by Katherine Boehret, Wall Street Journal

This week, I tested ways to make the Touch even more like the iPhone: apps that use the Internet to make phone calls.

**** MultiBrush 4.0 Adds New Tools, Restoration Options <http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/04/28/multibrush.4.update/>
by MacNN

AKVIS has released MultiBrush 4.0, an update to its tool suite for retouching and enhancing photos. New tools are designed to improve retouching, restoration and collage creation. All pens and brushes feature automatic adjustments for preserving colors, texture, brightness and tonal range from the original image, allowing the restored section to blend into the existing background.

**** Apple Using iPhone To Play AT&T Against Verizon? <http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE53S03O20090429>
by Sinead Carew and Gabriel Madway, Reuters

Apple Inc appears to be playing the top two U.S. mobile operators AT&T Inc and Verizon Wireless against each other as it shops for the next distributor for its popular iPhone.

Whether one or both operators sign a deal, analysts are in no doubt that Apple wins in the end.



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**** What's So Funny? <http://www.boston.com/ae/books/articles/2009/04/28/whats_so_funny/?rss_id=Boston+Globe+--+Book+reviews>
by Alex Beam, Boston Globe

In the immortal deathbed phrase variously attributed to actors Edwin Booth, Edmund Kean, Donald Wolfit, and others: "Dying is easy, comedy is hard."

**** A Nonfiction Marriage <http://nymag.com/arts/books/profiles/56289/>
by Jonathan Van Meter, New York Magazine

After the massage parlors, after the affair, after the scandalous book that nearly broke up his family, Gay Talese is writing a new opus—about his relationship with his wife.



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**** An Open Letter To Ms Josie Lau <http://www.sgpolitics.net/?p=2820>
by Ng E-Jay, Sgpolitics.net

You claimed that you are seeking to serve other women in Singapore, but all I can see is that you are serving your own bigoted cause. Your resume posted on AWARE’s website lists an impressive array of corporate credentials, but unfortunately it also reveals that you have never been involved in feminism or helping women. In the absence of any track record of feminist work, we have to judge you based on your words and deeds over the past few weeks. Your behaviour speaks for itself.

**** Migrant Worker Problems Must Be Tackled At Roots <http://www.yawningbread.org/arch_2009/yax-1014.htm>
by Au Yaipang, Yawning Bread

What I have noticed is that the Manpower Ministry is not taking a pro-active approach to these problems. There is an unmistakable tendency to merely play passive mediator when complaints flood in, even when employers have clearly violated one or more laws. One cannot but get the sense that the civil servants just want the problem to go away, and their actions seem to be mainly directed at chasing complainants away and looking good to the media.

**** Singapore Raises Alert Level <http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking+News/Singapore/Story/STIStory_369833.html>
by Straits Times

Singapore's Ministry of Health on Tuesday night raised the pandemic alert phase for swine flu outbreaks from green to yellow as the epidemic has entered a new phase with more than 16 countries reporting confirmed or suspected infections.

**** What The School Programme Teaches Students <http://www.straitstimes.com/ST%2BForum/Story/STIStory_369974.html>
by Deeksha Vasundhra, Aware CSE Development Team (2006-07), Straits Times

The CSE programme takes a lifelong approach to sex and aims to equip young people for adulthood and marriage as there are even fewer chances for sex education after they leave school.

**** iPhone Nation, Part 2 <http://theiphoneinsingapore.blogspot.com/2009/04/iphone-nation-part-2.html>
by The Singapore iPhone Guide

**** AWARE EGM Venue Moved To Expo, Next To &quot;Transformation Conference 2009&quot; Co-Organized By COOS And 40 Other Churches <http://wayangparty.com/?p=8542>
by The Wayang Party Club

This is a number game. The majority wins, as simple as that.

**** Expect More Layoffs <http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking+News/Singapore/Story/STIStory_370116.html>
by Sue-AnnC hia, Straits Times

Workers should continue to brace themselves for tough times ahead as the global economy has yet to hit the bottom and more layoffs are likely, labour chief Lim Swee Say has said.

**** Sleepless In Singapore <http://theonlinecitizen.com/2009/04/sleepless-in-singapore/>
by The Online Citizen

The country is ill-equipped to cope with a possible rise in homelessness.

**** 请容纳一点“不一样” <http://icutnewspapers.blogspot.com/2009/04/blog-post_9974.html>
by 剪报本子

让我们多容纳一点“不一样”吧。生活才不会太乏味。

**** Worst Is Over For Singapore <http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking+News/Singapore/Story/STIStory_370192.html>
by Fiona Chan and Robin Chan, Straits Times

The worst is over for Singapore's economy, but a decisive rebound is not on the cards, said the Monetary Authority of Singapore on Wednesday.

**** Bus Scheme Extended <http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking+News/Singapore/Story/STIStory_370195.html>
by Maria Almenoar, Straits Times

Motorists will have to give way to buses on more roads from June when the Mandatory Give Way to Buses Scheme is extended. The scheme, which started with a three month trial in December at 22 bus stops along three roads, will now be extended islandwide over two years.

**** Singapore Air Should Handle China Eastern With Care <http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124099855423368061.html>
by Andrew Peaple, Wall Street Journal

Tempting though entry into China's airline sector may be, Singapore Airlines must tread very carefully when it comes to China Eastern Airlines. The Chinese carrier's leadership claims Beijing is keen to revive talk of an investment from Singapore's flagship carrier.

**** URA, NParks Introduce Schemes To Promote More Skyrise Greenery In Singapore <http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporebusinessnews/view/425763/1/.html>
by Tmothy Ouyang, Channel NewsAsia

Come December 1 this year, new projects and re-developments within the central business district, Kallang Riverside and Jurong Gateway areas will be required to have green landscape at least equivalent in size to the development site area.

**** AWARE Changes Venue Of Extraordinary General Meeting Again <http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/425811/1/.html>
by Channel NewsAsia

The Association of Women for Action and Research or AWARE has changed the venue of its extraordinary general meeting again.

**** Singaporeans Need To Overcome Negative Traits <http://theonlinecitizen.com/2009/04/singaporeans-need-to-overcome-negative-traits/>
by Tan Kin Lian, The Online Citizen




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