[MyAppleMenu] Dec 22, 2009

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MyAppleMenu
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**** Apple Debuts Sexier, All-in-one Movie Trailers Page Layout <http://www.geek.com/articles/apple/apple-debuts-sexier-all-in-one-movie-trailers-page-layout-20091221/>
Christian Zibreg, Geek.com

A revamped layout sports an all-in-one design collecting all the relevant tidbits of information on a single page, including meta data, iTunes Store links, image galleries, and videos, in addition to cool desktop-like controls.

**** No One Wants To Buy Magazines On The iPhone <http://www.businessinsider.com/no-one-wants-to-buy-magazines-on-the-iphone-2009-12?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider+(Silicon+Alley+Insider)>
Dan Frommer, Business Insider

**** Apple Releases Fix For iMac Graphics Flickering Issue <http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/09/12/21/apple_releases_fix_for_imac_graphics_flickering_issue.html>
AppleInsider

Apple Monday afternoon released a firmware update for its new 27-inch iMac that aims to fix flickering graphics issues that have plagued some users.

**** Itineraries: For Travelers, A Personal Concierge On Your Phone <http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/22/business/22apps.html?partner=rss&emc=rss>
Martha C. White, New York Times

Downloadable applications for the iPhone, Blackberry and other smartphones are fast becoming indispensable among business travelers who use their phones to help them organize and navigate trips with little more effort than a few taps on a touch screen. And looking ahead, technology experts envision tools that will be, in effect, personal concierges — handling everything from reservations to reimbursements.

**** Apple Under Pressure To Get Its Games Rated <http://www.koreaherald.co.kr/NEWKHSITE/data/html_dir/2009/12/22/200912220065.asp>
Jin Hyun-joo, The Korea Herald

With the iPhone's popularity surging in Korea, its maker Apple is under growing pressure to have the games offered at its online store rated by Seoul regulators.

**** Apple TV-Service Proposal Gets Some Nibbles <http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703344704574610491399388448.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_LEFTWhatsNewsCollection>
Sam Schechner And Yukari Iwatani Kane, Wall Street Journal

CBS Corp. and Walt Disney Co. are considering participating in Apple Inc.'s plan to offer television subscriptions over the Internet, according to people familiar with the matter, as Apple prepares a potential new competitor to cable and satellite TV.

**** Apple Firing On All Cylinders In Stellar Year <http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/12/21/BUG01B6HU3.DTL&type=business>
Ryan Kim, San Francisco Chronicle

With the economy ensnaring rival computer-makers, Apple Inc. sailed ahead. When makers of smart phones increased their efforts to catch the iPhone, the Cupertino company maintained its innovation edge. And when CEO and co-founder Steve Jobs stepped aside for almost six months for what turned out to be a liver transplant, Apple barely skipped a beat.

It was that kind of year for Apple.

**** An App Store For All? <http://www.cio.com/article/511417/An_App_Store_for_All_?source=rss_news>
CIO

Apple has made it work for the iPhone, but can that model be expanded to cover the world of desktop PCs?

**** Going Dark For The Rest Of 2009 <http://www.myapplemenu.com/2009/12/22/IM080028/>
Heng-Cheong Leong, MyAppleMenu

This website will be dark until Jan 2010, as I wind down the year for a short vacation and some down-time.

Unless something really big happens between now and Dec 31st, there will not be any updates to this website.

Have some holiday fun, and see you in the new year.



The Tomorrow Weblog
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**** Google's Creed: 'Open Will Win' <http://news.cnet.com/8301-30684_3-10419981-265.html?part=rss&amp;subj=news&amp;tag=2547-1_3-0-20>
Tom Krazit, CNET News

In a 4,000-word manifesto recently penned by Google's Jonathan Rosenberg on the importance of being open, the company once again swears it is a force for good.

**** The Science Of Managing Search Ads <http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/22/technology/internet/22search.html?partner=rss&emc=rss>
Miguel Helft, New York Times

More than a million businesses use Google’s search advertising system to attract customers, a strategy combining gamesmanship with frequent data analysis.

**** Going Dark For The Rest Of 2009 <http://www.myapplemenu.com/tomorrow/2009/12/22/IM080045/>
Heng-Cheong Leong, MyAppleMenu

This website will be dark until Jan 2010, as I wind down the year for a short vacation and some down-time.

Have some holiday fun, and see you in the new year.



MyAppleMenu Reader
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**** Secrets Of The Universe: How We Discovered The Cosmos <http://bnreview.barnesandnoble.com/t5/The-Thinking-Read/Secrets-of-the-Universe-How-We-Discovered-the-Cosmos/ba-p/1929>
A.C. Grayling, Barnes And Noble Review

Jeremiah Horrocks and his friend William Crabtree were ecstatic when they observed the transit of Venus on 24 November 1639. Horrocks had predicted the date of the transit by carefully applying Kepler's Rudolphine Tables of planetary motion, published twelve years before. The two amateur astronomers watched the black dot of Venus inch its way across the burning image of the sun projected onto a card in Crabtree's attic. Horrocks described his friend as standing 'rapt in contemplation' for a long time, unable to move, 'scarcely trusting his senses, through excess of joy.' The emotion he and Crabtree felt is one well known to science: the exhilaration of securing empirical proof of theory.

**** Going Dark For The Rest Of 2009 <http://www.myapplemenu.com/reader/2009/12/22/IM080004/>
Heng-Cheong Leong, MyAppleMenu

This website will be dark until Jan 2010, as I wind down the year for a short vacation and some down-time.

Have some holiday fun, and see you in the new year.



SingaporeSurf
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**** 'There Is No Such Thing As Safe-riding ... ' <http://www.todayonline.com/Voices/EDC091222-0000039/There-is-no-such-thing-as-safe-riding-,,,->
Raymund Koh Joo Guan, Today

**** “Milder But More Credible”…for Whom? <http://theonlinecitizen.com/2009/12/milder-but-more-credible-for-whom/>
Seelan Palay, The Online Citizen

With this kind of opposition or alternative party, Singapore will continue to be under the PAP for another half-a-century, giving firm assurance to the obvious desire of Law Minister K Shanmugam for the ruling party to continue with the status quo.

**** Designs Released For Singapore’s Landscape Architecture Plans <http://www.worldarchitecturenews.com/index.php?fuseaction=wanappln.projectview&upload_id=13040>
World Architecture News

Grant Associates and Gustafson Porter have won an international competition, organised by Singapore’s National Parks Board, to design Gardens by the Bay, part of the next phase of the city’s masterplan. The gardens will occupy 101 hectares of prime land by the water and will become part of Marina Bay.

**** Tiger Airways Seeks Public Listing In Singapore <http://www.smh.com.au/business/world-business/tiger-airways-seeks-public-listing-in-singapore-20091222-labk.html>
AFP

Budget carrier Tiger Airways said Monday it has informed the central bank of its plans to list on the Singapore Exchange ahead of an initial public offer (IPO).

**** StarHub's OpCo Unit Will See Some 'Red' <http://news.asiaone.com/News/The%2BBusiness%2BTimes/Story/A1Story20091221-187299.html>
Business Times

Starhub subsidiary Nucleus Connect may have written off rival Singapore Telecommunications as a bandwidth customer but it appears that all is not lost for the green camp, thanks to a little-known government decree.

**** Singapore Raises School Fees For Foreigners <http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2009/12/22/nation/5347602&sec=nation>
The Star

Malaysians whose children are studying in Singapore have been caught by surprise by an announcement that school fees for permanent residents (PR) and non-PR students in the republic will be raised in 2011.

**** Foreigners Split Over Move To Raise School Fees <http://www.todayonline.com/Singapore/EDC091222-0000091/Foreigners-split-over-move-to-raise-school-fees>
Maggie Chong and Dylan Loh, Today

The Education Ministry's move to raise annual school fees for permanent residents and international students from 2011 would affect foreigners' decision on whether they should remain in Singapore, according to foreigners who spoke to MediaCorp.

**** 应由咖啡店主自行决定是否提供吸烟区 <http://www.zaobao.com/yl/yl091222_008.shtml>
黄维财, 联合早报

如果有顾客担心吸入二手烟，大可不要靠近烟客，或不要光顾该咖啡店。这就如发现电视节目不好看，可随手把电视关掉不看一样，何必边看电视节目又边骂电视台和演员呢？

咖啡店业者更应该根据自己独有的环境和个别商业考量，自行决定是否继续提供吸烟区给烟客，这样做自然会吸引烟客，也会让一些不吸烟者却步，业者自会权衡得失，反正盈亏由咖啡店业者自己承担。

This will work when there are alternatives for the consumers. But the way coffeeshops are regulated in Singapore, it is usually a local monopoly, and customers have no real choices.

**** YPAP Issue Distracts You From The Real Problem- The PAP <http://singaporeanskeptic.blogspot.com/2009/12/ypap-issue-distracts-you-from-real.html>
Singaporean Skeptic

**** Going Dark For The Rest Of 2009 <http://www.myapplemenu.com/singapore/2009/12/22/IM080033/>
Heng-Cheong Leong, MyAppleMenu

This website will be dark until Jan 2010, as I wind down the year for a short vacation and some down-time.

Unless something really big happens between now and Dec 31st, there will not be any updates to this website.

Have some holiday fun, and see you in the new year.




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