[MyAppleMenu] Oct 18, 2009

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MyAppleMenu
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**** Behind The Cover Of An iTunes LP <http://rss.macworld.com/click.phdo?i=eddf64524f935136598bc4a7921c91bd>
Scott McNulty, Macworld

**** Devs Quickly Move To New Models After In-app Purchase Change <http://www.tuaw.com/2009/10/17/devs-quickly-move-to-new-models-after-in-app-purchase-change/>
Mike Schramm, TUAW

**** All Eyes On Apple's Earnings <http://brainstormtech.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2009/10/17/all-eyes-on-apples-earnings-2/>
Philip Elmer-DeWitt, Fortune

What's Wall Street expecting this quarter? The analysts we polled are all over the lot.

**** The iPhone App Economy: What Price Quality? <http://technologizer.com/2009/10/16/the-iphone-app-economy-what-price-quality/>
Harry McCracken, Technologizer

**** Flash To iPhone <http://www.insideria.com/2009/10/flash-and-iphone.html>
Veronique Brossier , Inside RIA

This article will explain some of the engineering behind the magic of an ActionScript project appearing on your desktop as an ipa. It will describe how what has changed under the hood affects your source code. It will go over some best practices to develop for devices with small CPUs such as the iPhone and other smartPhones.



The Tomorrow Weblog
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**** Transfer To: Lets You Transfer Mobile Phone Credit To Relatives <http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Venturebeat/~3/siZxk0Y37yU/>
Dean Takahashi, VentureBeat



MyAppleMenu Reader
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**** The Long Shadow Of Willie Horton <http://feeds.boston.com/click.phdo?i=4657409c6f3da6c0c074d53c27ff57a0>
Michael Blanding, Boston Globe

More than two decades ago, a governor showed a prisoner leniency, with horrifying results. Our justice system hasn’t been the same since.

**** The Power Of Treats <http://feeds.boston.com/click.phdo?i=6480b00f37c87115ca9cdcb2081fc0ac>
Virginia A. Smith, Boston Globe

Defining the rules by bending them a little.

**** In Praise Of Amy Tan And San Francisco's Literary Life <http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=8e952e4245d227e7e07eeba7118bdf42>
Bruce Weber, New York Times

The event to honor the novelist Amy Tan at the Herbst Theater here on Wednesday night was supposed to be in the spirit of a roast. But the organizers couldn’t quite call it that — “a braising,” they suggested instead — and the speakers had a hard time saying anything terribly mean, even in jest. The running joke concerned Ms. Tan’s ordinarily placid demeanor, which was attributed to her husband’s sexual prowess.

**** Let Us Now Praise... The Cliché <http://feeds.boston.com/click.phdo?i=38a9694de682feed44c248b32e41bcd4>
James Parker, Boston Globe

It’s concise, time-tested, and instantly familiar. What’s not to love?

**** The Periodic Table: Primo Levi's Elementals Of Life, Suffering And Death <http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2009/oct/09/primo-levi-periodic-table>
Tim Radford, Guardian

As a survivor of Auschwitz, Levi offers fiction, non-fiction, allegory and reality wrapped in a metaphor of chemistry to brings us a layered vision of his world.

**** New film Where The Wild Things Are Sends Parents Into A 'Rumpus' <http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/oct/18/sendak-wild-things-film>
Vanessa Thorpe and Anushka Asthana, Guardian

The spooky palm tree fronds and twisting vines that invade the bedroom of naughty Max in this nursery classic will soon be invading the imaginations of young children anew.



SingaporeSurf
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**** Factual Error In “Why “No.1” Singapore Fails To Get No.1 In Highest Global Human Achievements” By Mr Abdul Gafoor <http://www.temasekreview.com/2009/10/18/factual-error-in-why-%e2%80%9cno-1%e2%80%9d-singapore-fails-to-get-no-1-in-highest-global-human-achievements-by-mr-abdul-gafoor/>
The Temasek Review

**** 民主制度下的一党执政 <http://www.dfdaily.com/node2/node31/node2433/userobject1ai193616.shtml>
梁捷, 东方早报

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**** Singapore Transport Operators – Stop Quibbling Over Senior Citizen Concessionary Travel <http://rogerpoh.wordpress.com/2009/10/17/singapore-transport-operators-stop-quibbling-over-senior-citizen-concession-travel/>
SpotlightOnSingapore

In Singapore our gesture toward our senior citizens is widely seen as half-hearted or tight-fisted as in public assistance to the very poor many of whom are senior citizens.

**** 一法轮功成员 公共秩序法下被捕 <http://www.zaobao.com/sp/sp091018_009.shtml>
刘丽仪, 联合早报

一名法轮功成员被指不理警方下达解散的指示，日前遭警方逮捕，是首个在今年刚通过的公共秩序法下的被捕者。

**** The LOWest Point Of LUP: A Mere Storm In The Tea-cup? <http://www.temasekreview.com/2009/10/18/the-lowest-point-of-lup-a-mere-storm-in-the-tea-cup/>
The Temasek Review

**** Journalist Assaulted For Work On Foreign Workers <http://theonlinecitizen.com/2009/10/journalist-assaulted-for-work-on-foreign-workers/>
Andrew Loh, The Online Citizen

**** Singapore Writers Fest Pays Us A Visit <http://thebookaholic.blogspot.com/2009/10/singapore-writers-fest-pays-us-visit.html>
Sharon Bakar, Bibliobibuli

It is really nice to see the organisers of the Singapore Writers' Festival reaching out to Malaysian authors and book lovers. They were in town Thursday for a press conference at MPH Mid Valley.

**** Smoking: HDB Dwellers Still Suffering In Silence <http://www.todayonline.com/Voices/EDC091018-0000089/Online-Only---Smoking--HDB-dwellers-still-suffering-in-silence>
Chua Kim Choo, Today

**** High Property Prices Cloud The View Of A Generation <http://theonlinecitizen.com/2009/10/high-property-prices-cloud-the-view-of-a-generation/>
Ian Choo, The Online Citizen

**** Rich Enough To Be Frugal, Blessed Enough To Suffer. <http://feedmetothefish.blogspot.com/2009/10/rich-enough-to-be-frugal-blessed-enough.html>
Feed Me To The Fish

There is a great difference in frugality practiced by the rich and frugality practiced by the poor. The poor can't choose.

**** Profit-Motive Blinding Governments From The Public Good? <http://us.asiancorrespondent.com/clementtan/same,-same...but-different-.htm>
Clement Tan, Asian Correspondent

What does the floundering healthcare reform attempts in America and the sorry plight of foreign workers in Singapore have in common? They are both victims of corporate interests. Making profits has become the overwhelming concern that it has shrouded the reality these profits might have come at a huge social cost.