[MyAppleMenu] Jul 21, 2009

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**** 7 Tips For Using Faces In iPhoto ’09 <http://rss.macworld.com/click.phdo?i=8929dcc0960fd24fb7aae72570dcf9bf>
by Derrick Story, Macworld

There are plenty of hidden features and speedy shortcuts for making the process easier and more useful. Here are a few of my favorites.

**** Time Warp Lets You Store Time Machine Backups Online <http://rss.macworld.com/click.phdo?i=17811cc35daf5da6be926c6640feb800>
by Dan Moren, Macworld

If you want to combine the convenience of your Time Machine backup with the safety of an online backup, there’s Jumping Bean Software’s Time Warp.

**** iPhone Gets Fast, Furious With Special Blu-ray Features <http://rss.macworld.com/click.phdo?i=c6be9769318d941b7af7a01b971f81d4>
by Dan Moren, Macworld

According to Home Media Magazine, beginning with the release of the two-disc special edition of Fast & Furious on Blu-ray, Universal Studios Home Video will release titles that allow users to enhance their home movie-watching experience with the help of their iPhone or iPod touch.

**** Stupid WebKit Tricks <http://andrew.hedges.name/blog/2009/07/19/stupid-webkit-tricks>
by Andrew Hedges

**** Apple Likely To Wow Again <http://www.cnbc.com/id/32009226?FORM=ZZNR2>
by Jim Goldman, CNBC

It seems like every earnings season I focus on Apple as the stock and company to watch, but this time around there's an added dramatic flare in the return of Steve Jobs.

**** Mac's Are Better Than PC's <http://www.cameroncooke.com/2009/07/20/macs-are-better-than-pcs/>
by Thought Patterns

**** School-Shooting iPhone Game Removed From App Store <http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/07/zombie-school/?FORM=ZZNR9>
by Brian X. Chen, Wired

Apple appears to have banned Zombie School, an iPhone game that involved shooting zombie students on an infected campus.

**** Marvel At More Apple Logos Rescued From Dead Computers <http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/cultofmac/bFow/~3/iRuCAbSM7zg/13328>
by Nicole Martinelli, Cult of Mac

**** iPhone 3GS Offers Enterprise-Class Security For Everyone <http://db.tidbits.com/article/10416>
by Rich Mogull, TidBITS

While most of the software features I describe below work on any iPhone running the iPhone OS 3.0, the 3GS model has one significant advantage that enables all of its owners to experience enterprise-class security. The iPhone 3GS includes a hardware encryption chip that uses the industry-standard AES 256 protocol (that's the Advanced Encryption Standard, with a key length of 256 bits).

**** Apple Downplays Fiery iPod Incidents <http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=R&sa=T&url=http://www.kirotv.com/money/20089894/detail.html&usg=AFQjCNEG_ozETFHVIWcbvRrV-GkvdjW7Ow>
by Amy Clancy, KIRO

An exclusive KIRO 7 Investigation reveals an alarming number of Apple brand iPod MP3 players have suddenly burst into flames and smoke, injuring people and damaging property. It’s an investigation that Apple has apparently been trying to keep out of the public eye.

**** To Applecare Or Not To Applecare -- That Is The Question <http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=R&sa=T&url=http://www.tuaw.com/2009/07/20/to-applecare-or-not-to-applecare-that-is-the-question/&usg=AFQjCNG-49q1arAuNfLNvWJNWZFaJ9tqTg>
by Sang Tang, TUAW

**** Apple's Secret Weapon: Your Mom <http://www.newsweek.com/id/207579/output/print?FORM=ZZNR10>
by Brian Caulfield, Forbes

Sales of cars and homes are foundering but Apple is finding steady customers.

**** Recorder 10 Adds Phone Call Recording For iPhone <http://feeds.macnn.com/click.phdo?i=c27d52d8e1199deb9b23817834547a99>
by MacNN

**** Demand For 13-in. Apple MacBook Pro Outpacing Supply <http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=R&sa=T&url=http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=20770&usg=AFQjCNHttDZ4VKlB9jrJ6sQevi7M6_2u_w>
by Andrew Nusca, ZDNet

Apple is reportedly having difficulty keeping units of its newly-anointed 13-in. MacBook Pro laptop computer in stock as it enters the middle of the back-to-school buying season.

**** Review: Together 2.2 <http://rss.macworld.com/click.phdo?i=f354d8c049a0ae3447e5655beddf5bf7>
by Stuart Gripman, Macworld

Together 2.2 from Reinvented Software is an application for keeping disparate bits and pieces of digital data organized and manageable. Mac OS X’s built-in Spotlight, with its content indexing and plug-in architecture do a fine job of helping track down just the item you need, but Together’s abundant management and categorization tools handily justify the asking price.



The Tomorrow Weblog
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**** Hey, Gang, Let’s Watch The Web Together <http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/21/hey-gang-lets-watch-the-web-together/?ref=technology>
by Jenna Wortham, New York Times



MyAppleMenu Reader
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**** My Life As A "Guiding Light" Extra <http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2009/07/21/guiding_light/index.html>
by Raul A. Reyes, Salon

I'm not an orderly, but I play one on TV. Until September, that is, when daytime's first soap goes off the air.

**** Eating in Mumbai After The Attacks <http://food.theatlantic.com/abroad/eating-in-mumbai-after-the-attacks.php>
by Jarrett Wrisley, The Atlantic

As we picked apart our chicken, wrapping it in bubbled sections of bread and dipping those in cool yogurt, the restaurant brimmed with finger-licking customers. Noisy drinkers and wandering tourists spilled out onto Colaba's narrow streets, from the Gokul Bar and Café Mondegar.

And the sailors all agreed that their curry tasted just the same.

**** The Most Careless Girl In The Class Had The Most Exquisite Body <http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/slate/~3/g8-P6Hy0nP8/>
by Erica Ehrenberg, Slate Magazine



SingaporeSurf
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**** MRT Service Disrupted 92 Times Between 2007 And July 2009 <http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/443633/1/.html>
by Hoe Yeen Nie, Channel NewsAsia

Between 2007 and July 2009, the MRT service was disrupted 92 times, with each incident lasting over 10 minutes. In a reply to Marine Parade MP Fatimah Lateef on Monday, transport minister Raymond Lim said in 30 of these cases, it took at least half an hour before normal service resumed.

**** First-timers Can Afford Payments <http://www.todayonline.com/Singapore/EDC090721-0000072/First-timers-can-afford-payments>
by Today

Two years ago, first-time HDB home owners used about 20 per cent of their monthly income to pay their home loan. Currently, it is about 25 per cent, for first-time home buyers of resale flats in the cheaper, non-mature estates, it was revealed yesterday.

But this is still below the HDB's "affordability benchmark" of 30 per cent, senior minister of state (national development) Grace Fu said in Parliament in response to Member of Parliament Ho Geok Choo's concern that the resale price index is "reaching a record level not since 1990".

**** Civil Service Jobs: No Compromise On Standards <http://www.todayonline.com/Singapore/EDC090721-0000066/Civil-Service-JOBS--NO-compromise-on-standards>
by Leong Wee Keat, Today

**** CPFLife Payouts For Life <http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking+News/Singapore/Story/STIStory_405847.html>
by Straits Times

Manpower minister Gan Kim Yong has assured Singaporeans they will receive a monthly payout from the CPFLife annuity scheme for the rest of their lives, despite a 'disturbing' provision in the new law.

Mr Gan, in his bid to allay any fears, said it was not feasible to guarantee the amount paid. This is because the monthly sum would have to be adjusted regularly, 'taking into account interest rates and mortality experience to ensure the solvency of the Lifelong Income Fund'.

**** Think Before You Tax <http://www.todayonline.com/Voices/EDC090721-0000061/Think-before-you-tax>
by Benjamin Gan, Today

Such a tax will have disastrous consequences not just on the property market but also on the capital market.

**** Singapore “Walks The Talk” <http://ariellah.wordpress.com/2009/07/20/singapore/>
by Ariellah's Technoblog

What can Singapore, an island city-state, the smallest nation in southern Asia with population of about 4.5 million people teach the world about education?

**** Singaporeans Are Saving More And Investing Less After Economic Crisis <http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/443736/1/.html>
by Channel NewsAsia

High-income earners in Singapore are saving more and investing less following the onset of the global financial crisis, according to a survey.

**** 业者加强车队与人手 等巴士时间将再缩短 <http://www.zaobao.com/sp/sp090721_005.shtml>
by 李静仪, 联合早报

再过两个星期，本地公共巴士服务间隔时间有望进一步缩短，让乘客在繁忙时段可更快搭到巴士。从下月起，主干和支线巴士须遵循更严格的服务准则，两家巴士公司受询时表示已做好准备，有足够车队和人手应付要求，进一步缩短乘客等车的时间。

**** MOE Registration And CaseTrust No Enough? <http://searchingforenlightenment.blogspot.com/2009/07/moe-registration-and-casetrust-no.html>
by Random Thoughts Of A Free Thinker

**** Residents Say Lift Maintenance One Of Key Areas To Assess Town Councils <http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/443763/1/.html>
by Hoe Yeen Nie, Channel NewsAsia

**** Singapore's Temasek Says Goodyear Not To Become CEO <http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=R&sa=T&url=http://www.reuters.com/article/rbssFinancialServicesAndRealEstateNews/idUSSIN48278620090721&usg=AFQjCNG6zMtKyO808txNOixo_MShbIAZ5w>
by Saeed Azhar, Reuters

Singapore's Temasek Holdings said Charles (Chip) Goodyear has decided not to become the chief executive of the state investment firm due to differences on certain strategic issues that could not be resolved.

**** Temasek Says Goodyear Will Not Be CEO <http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=R&sa=T&url=http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/6fc55de6-75db-11de-84c7-00144feabdc0.html&usg=AFQjCNHbRCDLW7s5KoIpyhOLFBMPNdiiEQ>
by John Burton, Financial Times

There has been considerable speculation in Singapore about how much independence Mr Goodyear would be given in pursuing his goals in light of the fact that Temasek owns most of the city-state’s leading companies.

**** Renewing Or Remaining? <http://yawshinleong.blogspot.com/2009/07/renewing-or-remaining.html>
by Yaw Shin Leong

Why weren't strategic directions (at least in broad strokes) discussed prior to his recruitment? Why the haste then in announcing Mr Goodyear as the CEO-designate when such important issues were not sorted out in the beginning?

**** 3 More Patients In ICU <http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking+News/Singapore/Story/STIStory_406024.html>
by Straits Times

Three more H1N1 patients with underlying medical problems have been admitted to intensive care units.

**** KPE Traffic Volume Jumps <http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking+News/Singapore/Story/STIStory_406107.html>
by Straits Times




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