[MyAppleMenu] May 28, 2009

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**** Beyond The Genius Bar <http://www.macworld.com/article/140606/2009/05/beyondgenius.html?lsrc=rss_main>
by Ted Landau, Macworld

The Genius Bar is not the only place you can turn. Whether you don’t have an Apple Store in your town or you’re just not ready to jump in the car and go, you have option.

**** Tweetie 1.2 Adds Video Support <http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/tweetie_1.2_adds_video_support/>
by Jeff Gamet, The Mac Observer

**** International Distribution Of iPhone Apps Broken? <http://www.ipodnn.com/articles/09/05/27/flawed.iphone.app.system/>
by iPodnn

The international distribution of iPhone applications is not being handled properly at the App Store, one developer tells MacNN.

**** Apple Updates Shuffle 3G Software, VoiceOver Kit <http://www.ipodnn.com/articles/09/05/27/ipod.shuffle.os.update/>
by iPodnn

The software addresses a rare issue that occasionally caused playback to stop. A number of other bug fixes have been added, along with support for the new VoiceOver Kit.

**** No Space: Mac Menu Bar Madness <http://pixobebo.com/index.php/pixonomy/articles/no_space_mac_menu_bar_madness/>
by Kate MacKenzie, PixoBebo

It’s getting crowded and it’s getting ugly.

**** Ramming The iPhone Into The Enterprise <http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2009/05/ramming_the_iph.html;jsessionid=ROC2ZAOO4NSY2QSNDLOSKH0CJUNN2JVN>
by Randy George, InformationWeek

The iPhone is actually more enterprise ready than you may realize.

**** Economy Isn't Slowing Apple's Buidling Plans <http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2009-05-27-apple-expansion-plans_N.htm?csp=34>
by Jefferson Graham, USA Today

Apple said Wednesday that it plans to remodel 100 of its stores this year, to make more room for customer training and displayed products. Additionally, it will open 25 new stores, including a fourth location in New York City, and new ones in Paris, Italy and Germany.



The Tomorrow Weblog
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**** Plastic Logic's Touch-Scrteen E-Reader <http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/22705/>
by Kate Greene, MIT Technology Review

The company hopes to carve out a niche with its touch-based interface.

**** How Technology Lifts Pixar's 'Up' <http://news.cnet.com/8301-13772_3-10249396-52.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20>
by Daniel Terdiman, CNET

If you want to consider a difficult computational problem, try thinking of the algorithms required to animate more than 10,000 helium balloons, each with its own string, but each also interdependent on the rest, which are collectively hoisting aloft a small house.



MyAppleMenu Reader
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**** Have Camera, Will Shoot, And Shoot <http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/28/fashion/28spy.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss>
by Michelle Slatalla, New York Times

At this point, there aren’t enough photo albums in the world to contain all my photographs. And even if there were, is there enough time remaining, between now and the end of the world, to sort and organize and cull the collection?

**** Viewing A TV Death In Four Acts <http://www.nationalpost.com/story-printer.html?id=a39d8e41-61f6-4ae6-ba2a-171045a5a96f>
by Robert Fulford, National Post

Most episodic shows tell two stories simultaneously. One deals with fictional characters. The other is the narrative's slow evolution under the pressure of desperate producers and harried writers.



SingaporeSurf
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**** Minimum Nine Opposition MPs From Now On <http://www.yawningbread.org/arch_2009/yax-1030.htm>
by Au Yaipang, Yawning Bread

Lee's hand is forced. He has to allow more opposing voices into Parliament before the street becomes more attractive than elections and the stuffy chamber.

**** TOC Apologises To Ms Stephanie Chok <http://theonlinecitizen.com/2009/05/toc-apologises-to-ms-stephanie-chok/>
by The Online Citizen

**** PM's Gambit Is Manufatured Dissent Par Excellence <http://theonlinecitizen.com/2009/05/toc-analysis-pm’s-gambit-is-manufactured-dissent-par-excellence/>
by Choo Zheng Xi, The Online Citizen

Right thinking members of the public should see this exercise as the farce that it really is. If anything has changed, it has changed for the worse.

**** Changes To Parliamentary System: Don't Be Lulled Into The Political &quot;Mind Trap&quot; Set By The PAP <http://www.sgpolitics.net/?p=3144>
by Ng E-Jay, Sgpolitics.net

All these token changes announced in Parliament do little to alter the status quo. They merely provide a safe outlet for the opposition to air their views without disrupting the PAP’s power base.

**** Girl's Fall Due To Human Error <http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking+News/Singapore/Story/STIStory_382452.html>
by Cheryl Ong, Straits Times

Inadequate checks led to an eight-year-old girl's fall through a gap in a metal railing at the lift landing outside her fourth-floor Telok Blangah flat, the committee that investigated the mishap concluded.

**** To Build Up An Enterprise Ecosystem <http://www.todayonline.com/articles/322569.asp>
by Pearl Forss, Today

Singapore will set up an Economic Strategies Committee to study the long-term economic transformation of the country.

**** Move? I Can't Afford To... <http://www.todayonline.com/articles/322511.asp>
by Ng Bock Kim, Today

I understand the environmental issues involved in the building of the Marina Barrage and I am not against the relocation exercise. What irks me is that I now face an uncertain future because of the move, but the authorities are not helping to defray the cost of this move.

**** 新加坡印象：一个让人眼前一亮的城市国家 <http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_4c7eba020100dakh.html>
by 《想法日报》想法改变世界

说到T3航站楼就要说说新加坡的“第三搭客大厦”，其实两者一回事，但是新家坡就叫“搭客大厦”，北京就叫“航站楼”，不用说得多复杂，看名字我们就应该很容易看出，一个是从“客人角度”思考问题、做事情，一个依然是高高在上从“航空公司”考虑问题、做事情。这就是差距，往小里说是北京机场与新加坡机场的差距，往大里说就是中国与新加坡的差距。

**** e-learning <http://diandao.wordpress.com/2009/05/27/e-learning/>
by 点到伟止

新加坡人无论做什么事情都会排队，唯独在等地铁的时候不排队。

**** The Crucial Role Of The Singapore Journalist <http://bernardaw.wordpress.com/2009/05/28/the-crucial-role-of-the-singapore-journalist/>
by Bernard Aw's Blog

**** Is The Workers' Party An Effective Elected &quot;Opposition&quot;? <http://wayangparty.com/?p=9812>
by Fang Zhi YUan, The Wayang Party Club

While it is critical to have an elected opposition in Parliament to add diversity to the views being espoused and to ensure the ruling party is held accountable to the people, an opposition which does not dare to push the boundaries and provide a stiff challenge to the incumbent will be more of a hindrance than an asset to the progress of democracy in Singapore.

**** Support Chiam's Call To Abolish The GRC System And Reform The Media <http://wayangparty.com/?p=9860>
by Fang Zhi Yuan, The Wayang Party Club

**** Changes To Electoral System Counter Productive <http://mysingaporenews.blogspot.com/2009/05/changes-to-electoral-system-counter.html>
by My Singapore News

As for the possibility of more opposition MPs or NCMPs, that may not be a good thing given that opposition MPs are mostly very simplistic in their views, of no substance and only opposed for opposition's sake.

This is a very simplistic view in assessing the achievements of opposition parties in Singapore.

**** Will Singapore Usher In Government 2.0? <http://subbaiyer.wordpress.com/2009/05/27/will-singapore-usher-in-government-2-0/>
by Subba's Serendipitous Moments

One look at the Government CIO mandate here shows it is inwardly focused, tactically driven and continues to continues to operate from a traditional mindset.

**** 'Intolerance' Is A Threat <http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking%2BNews/Singapore/Story/STIStory_382692.html>
by Jeremy Au Yong, Straits Times

Intolerance, not the economic crisis, poses the biggest threat to Singapore, Associate Professor Koo Tsai Kee (Tanjong Pagar GRC) warned in Parliament on Wednesday.

**** Sexual Slavery Tolerated In Decent Singapore <http://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/opinion/17453/sexual-slavery-tolerated-in-decent-singapore>
by David Armstrong, Bangkok Post

Singapore has thousands of foreign prostitutes but are they sellers or victims? The Singapore government is making sure it does not have to answer that question.

**** I Am Singaporean XVII - Rhetorics <http://sturmdesjahrhunderts.wordpress.com/2009/05/27/i-am-singaporean-xvii-rhetorics/>
by Die Neue Welle

Of course, you can only use such tactics if you are in a position of power – reliance of power is always a good sign that some people are using authority too much and not their own brains, or their senses in judging the real situation on the ground.

**** Foreign Worker Enclaves Mushroom In Singapore <http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jBu5Bpn8yebrV_QKPxp_-EyfwT7g>
by Philip Lim, AFP

While more affluent expatriate families live in upmarket areas, workers like Baskaran are often housed in far-flung, cramped dormitories, and congregate in their thousands at favourite locations to relax on their days off.

**** Couple Guilty Of Sedition <http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking+News/Singapore/Story/STIStory_382751.html>
by Elena Chong, Straits Times

A Christian couple have been found guilty in Singapore's first sedition trial for distributing seditious and undesirable publications as well as possession.

**** Temasek Made Net Gain Of $39 Bln Since 2003 - Finance Minister <http://in.reuters.com/article/fundsNews/idINSIN39783920090528>
by Kevin Lim and Nopporn Wong-Anan, Reuters

Singapore sovereign wealth fund Temasek will remain a long-term investor despite its early exit from Bank of America and the fund made S$56 billion ($38.5 billion) in the six years since March 2003, finance minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam said on Thursday.

**** Unrealistic For Temasek To Always Outperform Or Avoid Losses, Says Finance Minister <http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/432341/1/.html>
by Channel NewsAsia

Finance minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam has said it is not realistic to expect Temasek Holdings to outperform in every cycle or to avoid losses on every individual investment, or its overall portfolio when the markets go through sharp corrections.

**** MP Apologises For Slip <http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking+News/Singapore/Story/STIStory_382800.html>
by Straits Times

MP FOR Tampines GRC on Thursday apologised in Parliament for citing an e-mail from a writer whom he said he did not know, and for not verifying the substance of the contents.

**** Singapore Defends Temasek's Performance As Portfolio Shrinks <http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601080&sid=aMWG8T4zFXpI&refer=asia>
by Netty Ismail, Bloomberg

**** Singapore To Amend Tax Laws In LIne With International Standards <http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporebusinessnews/view/432369/1/.html>
by Wong Siew Ying, Channel NewsAsia

Singapore will be amending its laws to better align with international tax standards.

**** Engage Myanmar, Not Isolate <http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking+News/Singapore/Story/STIStory_382878.html>
by Goh Chin Lian, Straits Times

Senior minister of state for foreign affairs Zainul Abidin Rasheed defended Asean's preference to engage Myanmar rather than isolate it.

**** Changes To Electoral System Not Aimed At Keeping PAP In Power <http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/432421/1/.html>
by S Ramesh, Channel NewsAsia

Dr Balakrishnan stressed that Singapore's political system is one that is slanted in favour of ensuring that only political parties which can form strong governments will be serious contenders in the general elections.

**** 3 More H1N1 Cases <http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking+News/Singapore/Story/STIStory_382905.html>
by Straits Times

Singapore on Thursday confirmed three more cases of Influenza A (H1N1). The patients are being treated at the Communicable Disease Centre at Tan Tock Seng Hospital (TTSH).




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