[MyAppleMenu] Oct 17, 2009

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**** Protect Yourself From Adobe Acrobat And Reader Vulnerabilities <http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/tidbits_main/~3/LYVVL-KpyxY/10652>
Rich Mogull, TidBITS

**** See Which Processes Are Using The Internet <http://rss.macworld.com/click.phdo?i=0b8637cb96c2b0397a6e918414326b64>
Rob Griffiths, Macworld

If you’ve ever wondered about which programs are using your Internet connection at any point in time, here’s one way to find out using Terminal.

**** Review: iPhone Halloween Apps <http://rss.macworld.com/click.phdo?i=8dfaa15efebee930b46c3a28abc66c3c>
Lex Friedman, Macworld

There’s some treats to be found this Halloween at the App Store.

**** Is iPhone Bad For The Videogame Industry? <http://wireless.ign.com/articles/103/1036166p1.html>
Matt Casamassina, IGN

More than a 85,000 apps -- many of them games for a buck. Why that should have some publishers scared.

**** Welcome To The University Of iTunes <http://edition.cnn.com/2009/BUSINESS/10/16/online.university/?imw=Y>
Mark Tutton, CNN

The wisdom of business professors, once only available to MBAs and business students, can now be accessed by anybody with an Internet connection.

**** iPhone Supply Issues Dulling Apple's Shine? <http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/20091016/apple-earns-iphone-supply/>
John Paczkowski, Wall Street Journal

Overwhelming demand for the iPhone has made it hard for Apple to keep the device in stock globally, so much so that some observers wonder if the company’s fourth-quarter earnings might be a slight disappointment.

**** Broadcast Nets Ramp Up iPhone Efforts <http://www.mediaweek.com/mw/content_display/news/national-broadcast/e3i8ecb95ad2867bbdb3da6ee73c9b8e740>
Mike Shields, Mediaweek

The broadcast networks are dialing up their collective presence on the iPhone.

**** Free iPhone Apps Are The Future <http://www.businessinsider.com/free-iphone-apps-are-the-future-2009-10>
Alan Warms, Business Insider

With yesterday’s announcement, every company out there can offer a free iPhone App, thereby reducing the friction of driving adoption, knowing that over time they can work with their consumers to find offers that make sense for both parties.

**** EyeTV App Removed From The App Store Over Streaming Workaround <http://www.tuaw.com/2009/10/17/eyetv-app-removed-from-the-app-store-over-streaming-workaround/>
Joachim Bean, TUAW

 Just shortly after the discovery of an 3G "backdoor" for the EyeTV app, it has been pulled from the App Store.



MyAppleMenu Reader
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**** Coffee, Tea, Then Equality <http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=34877d443f393cea62b5a633b3d1f1c2>
Amy Bloom, New York Times

Gail Collins’s smart, thorough, often droll and extremely readable account of women’s recent history in America not only answers this question brilliantly, but also poses new ones about the past and the present, as she explicates moments that were widely recorded and illuminates scenes that were barely remarked upon at the time.

**** 1989! <http://www.nybooks.com/articles/23232>
Timothy Garton Ash, The New York Review Of Books

Unsurprisingly, the twentieth anniversary of 1989 has added to an already groaning shelf of books on the year that ended the short twentieth century. If we extend "1989" to include the unification of Germany and disunification of the Soviet Union in 1990–1991, we should more accurately say the three years that ended the century.



SingaporeSurf
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**** AGC Stops Swim Club Cases <http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking+News/Singapore/Story/STIStory_443368.html>
Straits Times

The Attorney-General's Chambers (AGC) sent a clear signal yesterday that taking someone to court for criminal defamation is not an action to be taken lightly.

In a highly unusual move, it stepped in to end a series of private prosecutions taken by and against Singapore Swimming Club members for criminal defamation.

**** Lift Upgrading: We Will Agree To Disagree <http://www.straitstimes.com/ST%2BForum/Story/STIStory_443220.html>
Lim Yuin Chien,  Press Secretary To The Minister For National Development , Straits Times

We do not expect the Workers' Party to accept these basic facts, and we will agree to disagree. In the final analysis, the people of Singapore will decide. In the meantime, the interests of Hougang residents are best served by concrete actions, not words.

**** All's Well That Ends Well <http://singaporerecalcitrant.blogspot.com/2009/10/alls-well-that-ends-well.html>
Singapore Recalcitrant

**** Govt Concedes Argument With WP And Singaporeans <http://geraldgiam.sg/2009/10/govt-concedes-argument-with-wp-and-singaporeans/>
Gerald Giam

I can’t see how the PAP advisers, being volunteers (I hope!) and not under the government payroll are “answerable” to the government.

**** Singapore’s Culinary Melting Pot <http://travel.nytimes.com/2009/10/18/travel/18choice.html?ref=travel>
Gisela Williams, New York Times

A small group of chefs is reinventing the city’s traditional food culture, finding a balancing point between the city’s cheap but hard to navigate street food and the expensive white-tablecloth spots.

**** Singapore's Hidden Heartland <http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20091016-713915.html>
Ben Bland, Far Eastern Economic Review

Welcome to Singapore's last remaining slice of rural life: the Kranji countryside. The Southeast Asian city-state may be better known for its banks, shopping malls and sprawling public housing estates but here, in the northwestern corner of the island, Singapore's hardy farmers struggle on, producing 18,000 tons of vegetables, 47 million chickens, millions of eggs and 5,000 tons of fish each year.

**** Liu Guodong Denies Reaching An “amicable” Solution With STTA <http://www.temasekreview.com/2009/10/17/liu-guodong-denies-reaching-an-amicable-solution-with-stta/>
The Temasek Review

The former coach of the Singapore Table Tennis team Liu Guodong had categorically denied reached an “amicable” solution with the STTA over the latest fiasco started by its president and PAP MP Lee Bee Wah.