[MyAppleMenu] Apr 30, 2009

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**** Crabble: The iPhone, iPod Touch Stand That Fits In A Wallet <http://www.macworld.com/article/140291/2009/04/crabble_the_iphone_ipod_touch_stand_that_fits_in_a_wallet.html?lsrc=rss_main>
by David Chartier, Macworld

Seskimo makes a clever plastic stand for iPhone and iPod touch called the Crabble, which has recently been updated with a much better design that, like the original, still folds and fits in a wallet.

**** Adobe Updates InContext Editing Service <http://www.macworld.com/article/140288/2009/04/incontext.html?lsrc=rss_main>
by Jackie Dove, Macworld

Adobe on Wednesday released an update to its InContext Editing service, the Web content maintenance tool introduced last fall in conjunction with Dreamweaver CS4. Version 1.5 of InContext Editing offers simplified administration and complete editing capabilities within the browser.

**** Remotely Fixing The Family Printer <http://www.macworld.com/article/140298/2009/04/fix_printer_remotely.html?lsrc=rss_main>
by Christopher Breen, Macworld

**** AT&T Re-Inserts Slingbox 3G Terms <http://www.electronista.com/articles/09/04/29/att.anti.sling.tos.returns/>
by Electronista

AT&T on Wednesday quietly updated its cellphone terms of service to again potentially ban devices like the Slingbox on its network.

**** Apple's 17-Inch MacBook Pro Is Long On Looks, Battery Life <http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Apple/Apples-17Inch-MacBook-Pro-Is-Long-on-Looks-Battery-Life-279972/?kc=rss>
by Cameron Sturdevant, eWeek

Apple's 17-inch MacBook Pro is the thinnest and lightest notebook in its category, and the system is well-engineered and powerful. It also boasts up to 8 hours of battery life&mdash;a very good thing given that the battery is built-in. All of this earns the MacBook Pro eWEEK Labs' Analyst's Choice award.

**** In Major Shift, Apple Builds Its Own Team To Design Chips <http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124104666426570729.html#mod=rss_whats_news_us>
by Yukari Iwatani Kane and Don Clark, Wall Street Journal

Apple Inc. is building a significant capability to design its own computer chips, a strategy shift that the company hopes will create exclusive features for its gadgets and shield Apple's work from rivals.

The Silicon Valley trend-setter has been hiring people from many different segments of the semiconductor industry, including engineers to create multifunction chips that are used in cellphones to run software and carry out other chores.

**** Six Quick Fixes You Should Never Skip <http://www.macworld.com/article/140144/2009/04/quickfix.html?lsrc=rss_main>
by Ted Landau, Macworld

Here are a few tried-and-true remedies you shouldn’t forget in the rush to try more-complicated troubleshooting techniques.

**** Tribal Trouble 2 <http://www.insidemacgames.com/reviews/view.php?ID=1041>
by Franklin Pride, Inside Mac Games



The Tomorrow Weblog
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**** Anti-Virus Moves To The Cloud <http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Security/Antivirus-Moves-to-the-Cloud-313604/?kc=rss>
by Larry Seltzer, eWeek

Vendors such as Panda Security, McAfee and Trend Micro are looking into cloud security approaches. The volume and velocity of malware developments necessitate changes like this, and there are advantages to the cloud approach. It's also a risky move, but it's beginning to look inevitable.



MyAppleMenu Reader
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**** Final Edition <http://www.thesmartset.com/article/article04220903.aspx>
by Stefany Anne Golberg, The Smart Set

In praise of the newspaper obituary.

**** American Stonehenge: Monumental Instructions for the Post-Apocalypse <http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/magazine/17-05/ff_guidestones>
by Randall Sullivan, Wired

Whoever the anonymous architects of the Guidestones were, they knew what they were doing: The monument is a highly engineered structure that flawlessly tracks the sun. It also manages to engender endless fascination, thanks to a carefully orchestrated aura of mystery. And the stones have attracted plenty of devotees to defend against folks who would like them destroyed. Clearly, whoever had the monument placed here understood one thing very well: People prize what they don't understand at least as much as what they do.

**** Of Loos And Language <http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/30/opinion/30iht-edcohen.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss>
by Roger Cohen, New York Times

That England’s gone, of course, it’s had its glossy makeover like everywhere else. Gastropubs shun bangers and lumpy mash and even Leeds is trendy.

But language is another story.



SingaporeSurf
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**** Identity Mobilisation - A Threat To Society <http://www.yawningbread.org/arch_2009/yax-1015.htm>
by Au Yaipang, Yawning Bread

If we don't want to see this kind of identity mobilisation tear society apart over the question of homosexuality, the solution is not to freeze, stand still and move no further forward on the question of gay equality, but the opposite: To move faster. To blur the distinction and value differential between gay and straight. So that scary bogeymen conjured by fanatical minds are not believed but laughed away. And fanatics seen for what they are: the real threat.

**** Why Singapore's Sustainable Development Blueprint Is Unsustainable <http://sgentropy.blogspot.com/2009/04/why-singapores-sustainable-development.html>
by Singapore Peak Oil: Energy, Entropy, Economics, Ecology

In spite of the blueprint's laudable efforts and lofty goals to maintain sustainable growth (an oxymoron really) and to raise green living standards, one topic that is sorely missing is any discussion at all about the future availability of dense energy sources, namely fossil fuels, to implement the "four-pronged strategy".

Singapore's position, if I understand correctly, is that no revolutionary progress in energy 'creation' is expected or assumed.

**** A Year After Storm, Subtle Changes In Myanmar <http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/30/world/asia/30myanmar.html?ref=global-home>
by New York Times

The secretive and xenophobic junta — still fearing a seaborne invasion by Western powers — now readily accepts air shipments of foreign aid, even from the West. Myanmar’s neighbors in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, especially Indonesia and Singapore, have been widely credited with helping the junta to assume a somewhat more relaxed posture.

**** Turned Off By Bad Service At Sushi Restaurant <http://www.straitstimes.com/ST%2BForum/Online%2BStory/STIStory_370368.html>
by Irving C. Johnson, Straits Times

My friends and I had lunch at Sakae Sushi in West Coast Plaza last week and were disturbed by the low service quality. What was to have been a short lunch dragged into a painful hour of having to deal with untrained staff and a general lack of attention.

**** Employment Situation In First Quarter 2009 <http://www.mom.gov.sg/publish/momportal/en/press_room/press_releases/2009/20090430-Q1_ES.html>
by Ministry Of Manpower, Singapore Government

Preliminary estimates show that total employment declined marginally by 1,000 in the first quarter of 2009 as the economy continued to worsen. Falling external demand has severely affected the manufacturing sector where employment declined by 19,900, deeper than the 7,000 loss in the earlier quarter. Supported by a strong pipeline of building projects, construction employment grew by 8,500 in the first quarter of 2009, but lower than the gains in the earlier quarters. Services added 10,300 workers, substantially lower than before.

**** Jobless Rate Hits 4.8% <http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking+News/Singapore/Story/STIStory_370567.html>
by Sue-Ann Chia, Straits Times

The unemployment rate for Singaporeans and permanent residents hit a five-year high of 4.8 per cent last month, according to the latest Manpower Ministry figures, but this is still below the peak reached during the Sars crisis in 2003.

**** 新马长途巴士终站在何方？ <http://www.zaobao.com/yl/yl090430_508.shtml>
by 盛卓荣, 联合早报

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**** Singapore Employers Fire Record Number Of Workers <http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601080&sid=aMT_xoI20rJs&refer=asia>
by Shamim Adam, Bloomberg

Singapore employers fired a record number of workers last quarter as the nation’s deepest recession since independence in 1965 forced manufacturers to cut output.

**** Budget American Food In Singapore <http://www.cullenhartley.com/2009/04/american-food-on-a-budget/>
by Cullen Hartley

**** Singapore Has Reason To Be Quietly Confident Despite Downturn, Says PM Lee <http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/426103/1/.html>
by Hoe Yeen Nie, Channel NewsAsia

In his May Day message on Thursday, Mr Lee said the country must use this crisis to prepare for a different and more competitive world.

**** Couple Who Walked In Nude At Holland Village Fined S$2,000 Each <http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/426105/1/.html>
by Timothy Ouyang, Channel NewsAsia

A couple who walked nude at Singapore's Holland Village in January, were fined S$2,000 each on Thursday.

**** Ex-Reform Party Chairman Denies Ouster <http://theonlinecitizen.com/2009/04/ex-reform-party-chairman-denies-ouster/>
by Andrew Loh, The Online Citizen

**** Orange Alert <http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking+News/Singapore/Story/STIStory_370728.html>
by Irene Ngoo, Straits Times

Singapore on Thursday raised the Mexican swine flu pandemic alert from Yellow to Orange, and will quarantine people who have been to Mexico recently and tighten infection control measures at hospitals.