[MyAppleMenu] Dec 6, 2009

[applesurf at myapplemenu.com]

MyAppleMenu
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**** Apple’s Game Changer, Downloading Now <http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/06/technology/06apps.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss>
Jenna Wortham, New York Times

The popularity of Apple’s app model has reached a fever pitch. Tens of thousands of independent developers are clamoring to write programs for it, and the App Store’s virtual shelves are stocked with more than 100,000 applications. Apple recently said that consumers had downloaded more than two billion applications from its store.

“I absolutely think this is the future of great software development and distribution,” Mr. Schiller says. “The idea that anyone, all the way from an individual to a large company, can create software that is innovative and be carried around in a customer’s pocket is just exploding. It’s a breakthrough, and that is the future, and every software developer sees it.”

**** What's On Phil Schiller's iPhone? <http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/05/whats-on-phil-schillers-iphone/?partner=rss&emc=rss>
Jenna Wortham, New York Times

Philip W. Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of worldwide product marketing, has immense power over iPhone applications. Which apps are on his personal iPhone?

**** Going Dark Until Dec 10 <http://www.myapplemenu.com/2009/12/06/LM000404/>
Heng-Cheong Leong, MyAppleMenu

There will be minimal updates until Dec 10, 2009 (Thursday), as I will be away for work.



The Tomorrow Weblog
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**** Novelties: Devices To Take Textbooks Beyond Text <http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/06/business/06novel.html?partner=rss&emc=rss>
Anne Eisenberg, New York Times

Now there is a new approach that may adapt well to textbook pages: two-screen e-book readers with a traditional e-paper display on one screen and a liquid-crystal display on the other to render graphics like science animations in color.



MyAppleMenu Reader
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**** Questions Odd And Profound <http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=c81405979a690c302237e0d1c518bbd5>
Mary Jo Murphy, New York Times

Newton, electricity, Einstein, laughing gas. For 350 years, Britain’s Royal Society has tried to make sense of the world.



SingaporeSurf
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**** Why Singapore Hides The Human Face Of The Death Penalty <http://www.asiancorrespondent.com/the-asia-file/why-singapore-hides-the-human-face-.htm>
Ben Bland, Asian Correspondent

The Singapore government occasionally speaks out in defence of the death penalty, insisting that it is necessary to keep crime down and claiming that capital punishment has overwhelming public support.

But, paradoxically, the government is afraid to open the issue up to debate, trotting out its hackneyed argument about how controversial subjects such as the death penalty, religion or race relations should not be discussed in public for fear of fanning the flames of social tension.

**** Singapore Lane Springs To Life <http://travel.nytimes.com/2009/12/06/travel/06headsup.html>
Gisela WIlliams, New York Times

Haji Lane has become a meeting place for the city’s anti-mall crowd.

**** Going Dark Until Dec 10 <http://www.myapplemenu.com/singapore/2009/12/06/LM000407/>
Heng-Cheong Leong, MyAppleMenu

There will be minimal updates until Dec 10, 2009 (Thursday), as I will be away for work.