[MyAppleMenu] Aug 11, 2009

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**** Apple Store Set To Replace Art Deco Landmark <http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/cultofmac/bFow/~3/XVEVb2UfmdU/14305>
Leander Kahney, Cult of Mac

Preservationists in Melbourne, Australia, are up in arms about the imminent destruction of a historic art deco building in favor of a new Apple store.

**** Review: Evernote 1.4 <http://rss.macworld.com/click.phdo?i=53a678fb331b98d9c96ac6445528c89b>
Jeffery Battersby, Macworld

Evernote 1.4.7 is a versatile tool for capturing a wide variety of information and syncing that information among a variety of platforms. While there are some odd feature differences between the iPhone app and its desktop corollary, especially when it comes to adding audio notes, there’s also quite a bit of power in Evernote’s Web back end. The program’s text recognition and search capabilities are unique and powerful and it’s features like these that make Evernote a real standout.

**** Bend Code To Your Will With SubEthaEdit Update <http://rss.macworld.com/click.phdo?i=50589988849f6421d75630c5bcf98d7f>
Philip Michaels, Macworld

The marquee addition to SubEthaEdit 3.5 appears to be code folding—a new feature that lets you hide text or source code in a document. Doing so should let you focus on the task at hand.

**** Apple's Master Plan (Even Fanboys Should Be Scared) <http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/247/2009/20090810181101:ACDA2A02-85FA-11DE-AF08-4FBB11F6C9C8/>
Jason Calacanis, IP

Freedom for our generation starts at our keyboards, flows through our computers and phones, and then on to the internet. Anyone who tries to limit your freedoms in that process is the enemy--even if they produce the best products available right now.

**** "Evil Steve" Drives Apple's Problems <http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=R&sa=T&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pcworld.com%2Farticle%2F169913%2FEvil_Steve_Drives_Apples_Problems.html&usg=AFQjCNF1SHJV6TQxDqU2KzrX3PCE8DviuA>
David Coursey, PC World

Steve Jobs is to blame. For, behind the genius, is the ruthlessness and single-mindedness that has gotten to company into this mess. But, if "Evil Steve" caused the problem, "Nice Steve" can solve them. People want to love Steve Jobs, he just needs to make it easier.

**** Apple's Duty (And How It's Failing) <http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=R&sa=T&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pcworld.com%2Farticle%2F169934%2Fapples_duty_and_how_its_failing.html&usg=AFQjCNGy4AZ8clyV7BcTqJqIy8LHeh1kUw>
Mark Murphy, NetworkWorld

What is happening right now is the formation of a meme: that Apple is closed and closed is bad. It's not that Apple's tactics changed, but that Apple's tactics resulted in a bunch of negative public events, from the big-ticket Google Voice brouhaha to the less-publicized bits about how Apple wants jailbreaking to be made illegal. This appears to have been a "tipping point" that led to the formation of this meme.

**** Majority Of CIOs Still Reject The iPhone, But Resistance Is Weakening <http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/hiner/?p=2345>
Jason Hiner, TechRepublic

**** King Of The Apple Geeks <http://www.businessinsider.com/king-of-the-apple-geeks-2009-8>
Dan Frommer, Business Insider

Indeed, Gruber has effectively created a job as one of the few self-sustaining, solo Web "columnists" out there -- a job that didn't exist five years ago.

**** iPhone 3GS Hardware Encryption Easy To Circumvent <http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/tidbits_main/~3/Ot1bf83ofN4/10468>
Rich Mogull, TidBITS

Jailbreaking the iPhone appears to allow access to the memory location that stores either the passcode, or the setting to use the passcode. With this removed, you gain full access to the iPhone.

**** Apple Reinstates Matte Display Option On 15-inch MacBook Pro, Charges $50 For It <http://feeds.engadget.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~3/P2TE5Jx2WwI/>
Darren Murph, Engadget

**** BBC Hovers On iPhone Apps Due To Apple Terms <http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=R&sa=T&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpaidcontent.org%2Farticle%2F419-bbc-hovers-on-iphone-apps-due-to-apple-terms%2F&usg=AFQjCNER4zdMBBmgzLO_2QnJoT3WFSETOw>
Robert Andrews, PaidContent.org

While BBC Worldwide debuted Radio Times and Lonely Planet apps, and Livestation is distribution a BBC World News app, the public service broadcaster is still missing. PaidContent:UK understands this is due to BBC anxieties over Apple’s terms and conditions - in particular, a concern that it would be left open to “unlimited liability”.

**** Multiwinia <http://www.maclife.com/article/reviews/multiwinia>
Susie Ochs, Mac Life

Multiwinia’s short matches are packed with strategy fun, with simple controls, endless replayability (especially for $19!), and tons of multiplayer potential. The sound effects bored us, but the Tron-ish vector graphics and glowing, geometric shapes are the perfect backdrop for these space-age skirmishes. We’ll never look at innocent stick figures the same way again.

**** Stream Music From iTunes <http://rss.macworld.com/click.phdo?i=6c7466a5fa5078a8cd5f139f3fb4897a>
Kirk McElhearn, Macworld



The Tomorrow Weblog
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**** Robots To Get Their Own Operating System <http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20327206.300-robots-to-get-their-own-operating-system.html>
MacGregor Campbell, New Scientist

Roboticists have begun to think about what robots have in common and what aspects of their construction can be standardised, hopefully resulting in a basic operating system everyone can use. This would let roboticists focus their attention on taking the technology forward.



MyAppleMenu Reader
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**** Reviving The Lost Art Of Naming The World <http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=fbb5bcdd58b75b9f4ffddd69ca2671f0>
Carol Kaesuk Yoon, New York Times

Outside taxonomy, no one is much up in arms about this, but perhaps we should be, because the ordering and naming of life is no esoteric science.

**** The Lost Art Of Reading <http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/arts/la-ca-reading9-2009aug09,0,4905017.story>
David L. Ulin, Los Angeles Times

The relentless cacophony that is life in the 21st century can make settling in with a book difficult even for lifelong readers and those who are paid to do it.

**** At The Dance <http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/slate/~3/mfitKseKWgc/>
Louise Glück, Slate Magazine



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**** Chee And Yeo Cross Swords Again <http://theonlinecitizen.com/2009/08/chee-and-yeo-cross-swords-again/>
Khairulanwar Zaini / Andrew Loh, The Online Citizen

**** One-year Contract For Bus-stop Ads Unfair <http://www.straitstimes.com/ST%2BForum/Story/STIStory_415051.html>
Lee Yan Kit, Straits Times

**** Singapore’s Limits: The Curse Of The GDP <http://temasekreview.com/?p=11784>
Eugene Yeo, The Temasek Review

**** Singapore’s Economy Expanded More Than Expected Last Quarter <http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=apJX.1EhdKQQ>
Shamim Adam, Bloomberg

Singapore’s economy expanded more than initially estimated last quarter as manufacturing and services improved, reinforcing the nation’s emergence from its worst recession since independence 44 years ago.

Singapore’s gross domestic product gained an annualized 20.7 percent last quarter from the previous three months, after shrinking a revised 12.2 percent between January and March, the trade ministry said in a statement today. Second-quarter growth was more than a July 14 estimate of a 20.4 percent expansion, and compares with the median forecast for a 19.2 percent gain in a Bloomberg survey.

**** Adventures In Ill-Advised Graphic Design: Singapore Anti-Sex Trafficking Poster <http://www.boingboing.net/2009/08/10/adventures-in-ill-ad.html>
Xeni Jardin, Boing Boing

The best intentions appear to have gone horribly, double-entendre-ly wrong in a Singapore public service ad campaign which proposes that citizens use hand lotion as a weapon against child sex trafficking.

**** AirAsia turns Singapore into a virtual hub <http://www.eturbonews.com/10933/airasia-turns-singapore-virtual-hub>
Luc Citrinot, eTurboNews.com

Despite the fact that AirAsia does not have an airline based in Singapore, the City State is turning now into one of the busiest gateways for the red-and-white, low-cost carrier.

**** NS For Adult New Citizens Not Practical (You Sure Or Not?) <http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/OnPU/~3/tb2izco5y-0/ns-for-adult-new-citizens-not-practical.html>
Military Life: Memoirs of a Conscript in the Lion City

What planet is Xiao FuChun from?

**** Singapore Won’t ‘Turn Back,’ Will License New Foreign Law Firms <http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601102&sid=aS6aOikDhoJg>
Andrea Tan, Bloomberg

Singapore, which allowed six foreign law firms to practice local corporate law in December, will award more licenses as soon as next year if that would help the economy, Law Minister K. Shanmugam said.

“The direction has been set and we don’t intend to turn back,” he said in an interview. The government will review the progress of its liberalization program in the first six months of 2010 and could award more licenses then if the market can “digest them,” he said.

**** S'pore Disappointed With Aung San Suu Kyi's Trial Verdict <http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/448178/1/.html>
Valarie Tan, Channel NewsAsia

Singapore's foreign ministry said Ms Suu Kyi did not plan to violate the terms of her house arrest, and the intruder into her house was a person who appears to be of unsound mind.

**** Singapore GDP Up, But Almost All Indicators Down <http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/rana/~3/mWTh2IRJIQk/singapore-gdp-up-but-almost-all-indicators-down.html>
Blowin' In The Wind

In fact, Singapore is not doing well at all by any measure if one looks at the full report on the  Economic Survey of Singapore for the second quarter.