[MyAppleMenu] Nov 4, 2009

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**** Apple Rejects iPhone App For Containing "iPhone" In Title <http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2009/nov/03/iphone-app-rejection-macworld>
Charles Arthur, Guardian

Tales from the Twilight Zone of the iPhone App Store, pt 946: Apple has rejected an ebook submitted by Macworld because it contains the word "iPhone".

**** iPhone Public Radio App Is A DVR For NPR <http://www.pcworld.com/article/181290/iphone_public_radio_app.html?tk=rss>
Jared Newman, PC World

**** OmniFocus 1.7 Review <http://www.macworld.co.uk/macsoftware/reviews/index.cfm?RSS&ReviewID=3643>
Karl Hodge, Macworld UK

Get things done with OmniFocus: not so much a list maker as a life manager.

**** Snow Leopard Bug Prevents Opening Groups Of Files <http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/tidbits_main/~3/52HxblhYpSw/10712>
Doug McLean, TidBITS

A handful of recent threads on Apple's Support Discussion forums - backed up by our own testing - indicate that Snow Leopard suffers from a bug that prevents users from opening multiple recently downloaded files simultaneously.

**** TapeDeck 1.3 Adds Apple Lossless Audio Codec Support <http://feeds.macnn.com/click.phdo?i=1da7ef89ac565895977caa13f8421fa2>
MacNN

The software behaves like an old-style tape recorder, with the ability to export to WAV, AIFF and MP3 formats.

**** China Unicom Says It Has Signed Up 5,000 Users For Apple iPhone <http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601089&sid=a.hMzyoGKovQ>
Mark Lee, Bloomberg

China Unicom (Hong Kong) Ltd., the country’s second-biggest mobile-phone company, said it has 5,000 users for Apple Inc.’s iPhone, after the carrier introduced the handset in the world’s biggest phone market last week.

**** Snow Leopard: Don't Get Caught In Date Handling Change In AppleScript <http://blogs.zdnet.com/Apple/?p=5148>
David Morgenstern, ZDNet

As users migrate to Snow Leopard they will find that AppleScript is less forgiving about date and time formatting. Formerly reliable scripts, years old, may fail.

**** Dora The Explorer Interactive Learning Games Debut For Mac <http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/11/03/dora.and.diego.adevnture.games.solve.puzzles/>
MacNN

Avanquest Software’s Nova Development unit in collaboration with Nickelodeon has launched three new children’s software titles for the Mac, consisting of Dora the Explorer and Go, Diego Go! characters. 

**** Apple Tops In Retail, Universal Stores Lead Online <http://www.electronista.com/articles/09/11/03/consumer.reports.marks.electronics.shops/>
MacNN

Apple leads in brick-and-mortar retail stores but is no match for more universally oriented stores online, Consumer Reports says in its December issue.

**** Create Pause-Zoom-Pause Effects In iMovie Stills <http://www.macworld.com/article/143628/2009/11/imoviekenburns.html?lsrc=rss_main>
Rob Griffiths, Macworld

**** Mac Mini (Late 2009) <http://www.macworld.com/article/143611/2009/11/macminilate2009.html?lsrc=rss_main>
Dan Frakes, Macworld

According to Apple, the mini line was designed to be the most affordable way to get a computer with Mac OS X and iLife. While that may be true, the early-2009 Mac minis were the first that actually let you take full advantage of that software. The latest models improve modestly on their predecessors with faster processors, more RAM, and—on the lower-end model—more hard-drive space at the same $599 and $799 prices. The results are Mac minis that address a few of my biggest criticisms of the early-2009 models. (Sadly, slow hard drives remain.)

**** Workaround For The 27 Inch iMac Flash Lag? <http://www.tuaw.com/2009/11/03/possible-fix-for-the-27-inch-imac-lag/>
Josh Carr, TUAW

The suggestion at this point: cycle your wireless connection.

**** Safari Data Bug Could Mean Huge Phone Bills for Some <http://www.cultofmac.com/safari-data-bug-could-mean-huge-phone-bills-for-some/20409>
Lonnie Lazar, Cult Of Mac

The danger appears related to Safari’s failure to close connections with web servers that run Motion JPEG to stream video over the Internet.

**** Hands-on With The Magic Mouse <http://www.tuaw.com/2009/11/03/hands-on-with-the-magic-mouse/>
Joachim Bean, TUAW

Overall, if you've used a Mighty Mouse, you'll need little time to adjust. It feels mostly the same, and I was surprised in how easy it was to get used to.

**** Parallels Desktop 5 Boosts Performance, More <http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/parallels_desktop_5_boosts_performance_more/>
Jeff Gamet, The Mac Observer

The new version of the OS virtualization application offers up to a three times performance improvement, and video performance that's up to seven times better compared to previous versions of the application.

**** Two 'App Stores' For China Unicom's iPhone <http://asia.cnet.com/blogs/sinobytes/post.htm?id=63014668&scid=hm_bl>
Steven Millward, CNET Asia

Apple's App Store is the official source of third-party apps on China Unicom's iPhone. But China Unicom's online App Store, dubbed the China Unicom "Wo" portal, accessed in the Safari Web browser (at iphone.wo.com.cn), has positioned itself as the de facto source of apps for Chinese consumers.

**** Why iPhone Sales In China Are Stronger Than Apple Thinks <http://www.minyanville.com/articles/apple-china-shanghai-iphone-launch-at&t-unicorn-mobile-cell-phones/index/a/25272>
Minyanville.com

In Apple’s eyes, the iPhone may have debuted last week. In reality, iPhones have been available to the Chinese, albeit illegally, for quite some time.

**** Keep Track Of Changes In Pages <http://rss.macworld.com/click.phdo?i=fcc342ec482a8d5e54b1bbd4d74ec3f5>
Kirk McElhearn, Macworld

**** App Store Officially Passes 100,000 App Mark <http://rss.macworld.com/click.phdo?i=d3ce290e14e7b6b673ee134d99aca9be>
Dan Moren, Macworld

We’ve known it was coming for a while now, but the milestone has finally been passed: Apple announced on Wednesday that the App Store now boasts more than 100,000 applications available for download. And download the people have, more than two billion times in 77 countries.

**** Developers Stealing From Developers: An App Store Tale <http://feeds.arstechnica.com/~r/arstechnica/apple/~3/w6xtq71NifU/developers-stealing-from-developers-an-app-store-tale.ars>
Jeff Smykil, Ars Technica

In the high-stakes game of iPhone application development, your portfolio can mean the difference between landing a client or being overlooked. What happens when your peers decide they need to steal from your app portfolio in order to get ahead?

**** News: iTunes Store Highlights Music Related Movies <http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/itunes_store_highlights_music_related_movies/>
Jeff Gamet, The Mac Observer

Apple added a new section to its iTunes Store on Wednesday geared at highlighting movies with a musical theme. The section includes musicals, music-focused movies, concert movies and documentaries.

**** Bare Bones Updates BBEdit <http://blogs.zdnet.com/Apple/?p=5156>
David Morgenstern, ZDNet

BBEdit, Bare Bones Software’s leading HTML code and text editor was updated to Version 9.3 on Tuesday with new features and interface tweaks.



MyAppleMenu Reader
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**** Cookbooks As Edible Adventures <http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=d1eb9b0592af02da8dda1d6d3d34fd66>
Julia Moskin, New York Times

Even in the age of ever-expanding recipe databases, cookbooks are still alluring. In the good ones, voice, images, recipes and food sense knit into edible autobiography.

**** A White House Chef Who Wears Two Hats <http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=cd058d950073143ad2df88e6bb3f80d0>
Rachel L. Swarns, New York Times

Twice a month, President Obama’s senior policy advisers gather at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building to hash out strategies for improving the health of the country’s children. Among the assistant secretaries, chiefs of staff and senior aides sits an unlikely participant: a bald, intense young man who happens to be the newest White House chef.

**** Conversation Piece <http://feeds.slate.com/click.phdo?i=7d9d3776c8c3c0d62d15d7c2f93af0d1>
Robert Pinsky, Slate Magazine

Why so much casual talk in Yeats' brilliant poem "Adam's Curse"?

**** The Point Of Diminishing Returns <http://feeds.guardian.co.uk/~r/theguardian/books/rss/~3/UsfZ6uQaC8A/al-kennedy-fiction-writing>
AL Kennedy, Guardian

I have no idea what a new writer would do now – publishers are beyond risk-averse: they are decision-averse. And we are all suffering from the lack of variety.

**** Paris Ballet Follies <http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/nybooks/~3/JLhCfPXYRfM/232177875>
Robert Gottlieb, The New York Review of Books

Your take on Frederick Wiseman’s La Danse: The Paris Opera Ballet—a two-and-a-half hour documentary opening on November 4th at New York’s Film Forum—will depend on your feelings about ballet, about Wiseman, and about the Paris Opera Ballet itself.



SingaporeSurf
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**** Young Scholars With An Attitude <http://www.todayonline.com/Singapore/EDC091104-0000124/Young-scholars-with-an-attitude>
Ong Dai Lin, Today

Some government scholars have a poor attitude and misplaced expectations, such as expecting to meet their minister frequently. They can also be very choosy about postings and place personal interest above organisational interest. These are the observations that Public Service Commission chairman Eddie Teo has made about "a few" of the current generation of young scholars.

**** Birds Shot Down Only As A Last Resort <http://www.straitstimes.com/ST%2BForum/Story/STIStory_449962.html>
Yeo Kia Thye, Changi Airport Group, Straits Times

Our priority is to minimise the potential hazard that birds could pose to aircraft. We seek to discourage the presence of birds in the airfield as far as possible, rather than to remove them by shooting. While these preventive measures do help, they do not keep birds away totally.

**** SDP's Response To Queries From Today <http://yoursdp.org/index.php/news/singapore/3016-sdps-response-to-queries-from-today>
Singapore Democrats

The SDP calls on the government to release the electoral map without further delay. In the past the PAP has done this at the last minute. In one of the recent elections, the new boundaries were made known the day before elections was called. This is a shameful practice which no confident ruling party would do and which no democratic system would accept. The PAP needs to stop all these shenanigans and reveal the boundaries immediately. 

**** No Apology Needed... <http://pngapore.blogspot.com/2009/11/no-apology-needed.html>
Times They Are A-Changin'

Did we detect any sense of remorse in our leaders when they quietly dropped such ill-informed policies? Not really. The Bilingual policy wasn't wrong. It was just a 'difficult' policy to implement. There is no apology needed in a one-party rule.

**** Singapore Productivity Falls Sharply, Average Wages Drop To 2007 Level <http://www.pressrun.net/weblog/2009/11/singapore-productivity-falls-sharply.html>
Blowin' In The Wind

Singapore productivity has gone down sharply, according to the latest government data. It started before the recession, dipping slightly in 2007, then plummeted last year --- and hasn't hit bottom yet.

**** Grassroots Advisers Are Not Accountable Either <http://geraldgiam.sg/2009/11/grassroots-advisers-are-not-accountable-either/>
Gerald Giam

It is unfortunate that the HDB has overlooked this reality and has chosen to work primarily with the advisers instead of the elected MPs to implement the LUP in opposition wards.

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**** 李光耀访美言论掀波澜 <http://news.ifeng.com/world/200911/1104_16_1418667.shtml>
东莱, 广州日报

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**** Singapore Has Health-care Hurdles Too <http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704335904574498331958059804.html?mod=googlenews_wsj>
Stanley Jeremiah, Wall Street Journal

In many ways, Singapore is heading in the same direction as the U.S. when it comes to health care. While a high quality of care is available, it is not always accessible or affordable. People unfortunate enough to be born with or develop significant medical conditions can find the cost financially crippling to themselves and to their families.

**** 公共交通服务应以乘客为尊 <http://www.zaobao.com/yl/yl091104_007.shtml>
刘安安, 联合早报

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李静仪, 联合早报

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**** 李光耀说啥不必太在意 东盟尚存“美国情结” <http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=R&sa=T&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.cctv.com%2Fworld%2F20091104%2F102082.shtml&usg=AFQjCNFWItLuizsDXOUk-kwNIKCQn4GUhw>
李明波, 广州日报

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**** Chiam See Tong Leaving Potong Pasir To Fight In A GRC: A Political Strategy Or Suicide? <http://www.temasekreview.com/2009/11/04/chiam-see-tong-leaving-potong-pasir-to-fight-in-a-grc-a-political-strategy-or-suicide/>
The Temasek Review

With his own support base in Potong Pasir dwindling, is this the right time to leave his stronghold and venture into an unknown territory?

**** Online Only - How To Make Buses Adhere To Schedules <http://www.todayonline.com/Voices/EDC091104-0000193/Online-only---How-to-make-buses-adhere-to-schedules>
Bruno Wildermuth, Today

I believe the time has come for bus operators to be held responsible for their drivers' performance regarding the schedules. Schedules should be published as they are in other cities and fines should be applied for all deviations, especially running ahead of schedule which is a very common occurrence in Singapore that invariably leads to major distortions in the waiting times for passengers.

**** Parliament To Sit On Nov 23 <http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking+News/Singapore/Story/STIStory_450192.html>
Straits Times

**** Nod For Chartered Takeover <http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking+News/Singapore/Story/STIStory_450177.html>
Chua Hian Hou, Straits Times

The proposed $5.6 billion takeover of home-grown chip-maker Chartered Semiconductor by an Abu Dhabi sovereign fund was overwhelmingly passed by shareholders on Wednesday, in spite of fiery exchanges between hostile minority shareholders and the company's board of directors.

**** Is The RSF Press Ranking Flawed? <http://aussgworldpolitics.wordpress.com/2009/11/04/is-the-rsf-press-ranking-flawed/>
Readings From A Political Duo-ble

Contrary to George’s assertion, the questions were not based on ‘perceptions of the press’ but rather stating concrete cases of aspects of press freedom violations.

**** New Strategy For EZ-Link To Expand Reach In Retail Sector <http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/1015931/1/.html>
Cheryl Lim, Channel NewsAsia

EZ-Link is planning to capture a bigger share of the estimated S$38 billion card-based transaction market by expanding its reach in the retail sector.

**** Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew Pisses Off Chinese Netizens <http://shanghaiist.com/2009/11/04/lee_kuan_yew_chinese_netizens.php>
Kenneth Tan, Shanghaiist

In his various meetings rubbing shoulders with very important minds, the sage-like Lee who has often been counted on to interpret Asia to the west did not hesitate to tell the Americans what he saw in his crystal ball.

**** 李光耀为何媚美抑华？ <http://finance.people.com.cn/GB/10318786.html>
环球时报

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**** 别与“老李”生闲气，发展才是硬道理！ <http://blog.huanqiu.com/?uid-149007-action-viewspace-itemid-365393>
魏远峰的个人空间

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方晓, 东方早报

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**** New Work Group To Study Joint Economic Project In Iskandar Malaysia <http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporebusinessnews/view/1015941/1/.html>
Channel NewsAsia

A new work group has been formed to study the joint development of an iconic economic project in Iskandar Malaysia. This is a follow-up to the discussions between the prime ministers of Malaysia and Singapore in May this year.

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**** Fears Of New Bubble As Cash Pours In <http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125729703390626817.html?mod=rss_Today's_Most_Popular>
Alex Frangos and Bob Davis, Wall Street Journal

To battle bubbles, policy makers are turning first to regulation. Singapore's authorities tightened mortgage requirements, ended real-estate stimulus policies and pledged to make more land available for development.