[MyAppleMenu] Dec 12, 2009

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**** Apple Relaxing App Store Rejections In Certain Cases? <http://rss.macworld.com/click.phdo?i=5708056d340a6343e9f82fdde83580fa>
Dan Moren, Macworld

A handful of recent app approvals suggest that Apple is now approving iPhone apps that use previously forbidden private APIs.

**** Apple Revamps The App Store <http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AppAdvice/~3/E7KcFhFSDFs/>
Alexander Vaughn, App Advice

It seems like the idea is to make the App Store more graphical. The app icons are bigger and the screenshots are more prominent. If you have a Multi-Touch trackpad/mouse you can now also swipe through them a little bit like on the iPhone.

**** Blame The Nokia-Apple Spat On Convergence <http://gigaom.com/2009/12/11/blame-the-nokia-apple-spat-on-convergence/>
Stacey Higginbotham, GigaOM

**** A Piece With A Lot Of Screenshots About The Close Tab Behaviour In Google Chrome <http://www.theinvisibl.com/news/2009/12/08/a-piece-with-a-lot-of-screenshots-about-the-close-tab-behaviour-in-google-chrome/>
The Invisible

In placing the close button on the right, Google have assumed that in the majority of cases, users are going to be wanting to close the most recently opened tabs first (likely to be the ones to the far right of the tab group) and have accordingly placed the close button on the right. Why? Because not only does this give the user the ability to close a number of tabs in one go without moving the mouse pointer (which Safari does not), it also means that the app does not need to exhibit the ever-so-slightly less normal behaviour of the ‘delayed resizing’ in the most-common case.



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**** We're Thru <http://www.slate.com/id/2238094/?from=rss>
Tom Vanderbilt, Slate Magazine

Has the American romance with the drive-through gone sour?

**** The Infinity Of Lists By Umberto Eco <http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/dec/12/umberto-eco-lists-book-review?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+theguardian%2Fbooks%2Frss+%28Books%29>
Mary Beard, The Guardian

Is there still life in the list?

**** H. W. Fowler, The King Of English <http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/13/books/review/Holt-t.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss>
Jim Holt, New York Times

Some care about getting English right; others don’t. For those who do, there is Fowler’s “Dictionary of Modern English Usage.”

**** John Ashbery, Toying With Words <http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/13/books/review/Vendler-t.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss>
Helen Vendler, New York Times

The master of sinuous syntax has performed surgery in this collection, often bringing his poems into the wry epigrammatic domain of Dickinson.



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**** Foreign Casinos Can Recover Debts If ... <http://www.todayonline.com/Singapore/EDC091212-0000207/Foreign-casinos-can-recover-debts-if-,,,>
Zul Othman, Today

Caesars Palace may have been the big loser, but gamblers who get into debt with foreign casinos should think twice if they now want to try pulling off a bluff.

**** 'Cooling-off' Period May Shift Goal Posts Further <http://www.straitstimes.com/STForum/Story/STIStory_465572.html>
Paul Chan Poh Hoi, Straits Times

The proposed change could be seen as shifting the goal posts further, given the fact that in past election campaigns, mainstream media did not give equal coverage to opposition parties. It is hard to define the parameters of 'ban' on political activities when the ruling party makes the rules.

**** Activist Govt Gives Most Optimal Results, Says Law Minister <http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/1024267/1/.html>
Channel NewsAsia

Which would deliver the "most optimal results" for Singapore: An "activist government" or the "classic laissez fare approach"? Law minister and second minister for home affairs K Shanmugam believes it is the former.

**** Don’t Blame The Singapore Blogosphere If You Didn’t Do Your Homework <http://blog.dk.sg/2009/12/12/dont-blame-the-singapore-blogosphere-if-you-didnt-do-your-homework/>
Dee Kay Dot As Gee

I can’t say much for the rest of Singapore media. But the local blogs are definitely not controlled by the government.

**** Polls Fever Rises As Yuletide Nears <http://thestar.com.my/columnists/story.asp?col=insightdownsouth&file=/2009/12/12/columnists/insightdownsouth/5290115&sec=Insight%20Down%20South>
Seah Chiang Nee, The Star

The move is read as a tacit admission by the government that the political temperature is rising significantly enough to warrant the counter-measures to prevent an “accidental” outcome.

It also seems to support a popular belief that economic hardship and unpopular policies may be eroding some of the PAP’s support among Singaporeans.