[MyAppleMenu] Oct 23, 2009

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**** Psystar Sells $50 Software Hack To Run Snow Leopard On PCs <http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/09/10/22/psystar_sells_50_software_hack_to_run_snow_leopard_on_pcs.html>
AppleInsider

Mac cloner and enduring litigant Psystar has rolled out a new $50 application that will allow certain Intel-powered PCs to run Mac OS X.

**** Apple: Drunk With Power <http://www.minyanville.com/articles/apple-hate-it-windows-slow-snow-leopard-relationships-google-att-pc-minyanville/index/a/25057>
Mike Schuster, Minyanville

Apple's behavior has become that of an alcoholic relative: You're pleading with them to stop and you despise what they've turned into. Has success gone to its head? What will it take for it to show some humility? How much will Apple customers take before they leave in droves?

**** Apple: What’s Not To Love? <http://www.minyanville.com/articles/apple-computer-apps-technology-lineup-new-products-itunes-earnings-love-it-minyanville/index/a/25060>
Steve Reiter, Minyanville

While Apple may not always be the first out of the gate, it tends to quickly surpass the competition with style and originality.

**** Apple Must Upgrade Boot Camp To Support Windows 7 <http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9139781/Apple_must_upgrade_Boot_Camp_to_support_Windows_7?taxonomyId=12>
Gregg Keizer, Computerworld

Apple today announced that it will update its Boot Camp utility before the end of the year to support Microsoft's just-launched Windows 7.

**** 27-Inch iMac Is The New Apple TV <http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/10/the-27-imac-is-the-new-apple-tv/>
Charlie Sorrel, Wired

**** Gift This App, Apple! <http://www.mobileorchard.com/gift-this-app-apple/>
Dan Grigsby, Mobile Orchard

Providing a “Gift This App” mechanism would open up a universe of novel marketing, bundling and promotional opportunities — all of which would drive App Store revenues, none of which would threaten Apple’s commission.

**** Apple Releases Server Diagnostic Tool For Snow Leopard <http://rss.macworld.com/click.phdo?i=aeb31f3e9b59e4b8356884d1afde378f>
Philip Michaels, Macworld

Apple released a server diagnostic download on Thursday that the company says will test servers running Mac OS X Server 10.6 for hardware issues.

**** AT&T Says Loosing Apple iPhone Exclusivity Possible, But Not A Worry <http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=R&sa=T&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.crn.com%2Fmobile%2F220900257&usg=AFQjCNHE8mI1T_ZQ09WctTZ2mzsbUuyYnA>
Joseph F. Kovar, ChannelWeb

A top AT&T executive on Thursday acknowledged that his company could lose its exclusive contract with the Apple iPhone, but brushed off concerns that such an event would have a major impact on AT&T.

**** Pro Applications Update Tackles Final Cut Studio <http://www.macworld.com/article/143458/2009/10/proapplications_finalcut.html?lsrc=rss_main>
Philip Michaels, Macworld

Apple rolled out minor updates for the components of the latest version of its Final Cut Studio video-production suite on Thursday, with all five updates included in a single bundle.

**** Three New "Get A Mac" Ads Premiere, Aimed At Win 7 <http://www.tuaw.com/2009/10/22/three-new-get-a-mac-ads-premiere-aimed-at-win-7/>
Michael Rose, TUAW

Domestic TV watchers who tuned into the NBC Thursday comedy lineup or the Yankees-Angels playoff game on Fox were treated to three new Get a Mac ads in heavy rotation tonight, all focused on the launch of the latest Windows version. You can watch all three ads (Broken Promises, Teeter Tottering & PC News) over on Apple's site.

My favorite is PC News.

**** Can You Plagiarize A Store? <http://technologizer.com/2009/10/22/can-you-plagiarize-a-store/>
Harry McCracken, Technologizer

**** Review: Yojimbo 2.0 <http://rss.macworld.com/click.phdo?i=93aeffc5f2077136d3805e1f3fa22760>
Roman Loyola, Macworld

Yojimbo 2.0 is a well executed update with truly worthwhile enhancements. It may not have everything on your wish list (where are those nested collections and rule-based smart collections?) but Yojimbo handles information with aplomb and is top notch in its class.

**** How To: Create Free Ringtones For Your iPhone <http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AppAdvice/~3/AAH3fm0_ytg/>
Caleb Kingston, App Advice



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**** Two Storytellers, Singing The Blues <http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=6fccfb32cc761fde779befcdb8d10e49>
Michiko Kakutani, New York Times

**** Timewarp: How Your Brain Creates The Fourth Dimension <http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20427311.300-timewarp-how-your-brain-creates-the-fourth-dimension.html>
Douglas Fox, New Scientist

When we look back at scary situations, they often seem to have occurred in slow motion. Eagleman wanted to know whether the brain's clock actually accelerates - making external events appear abnormally slow in comparison with the brain's workings - or whether the slo-mo is just an artefact of our memory.

It's just one of many mysteries concerning how we experience time that we are only now beginning to crack. "Time," says Eagleman, "is much weirder than we think it is."

**** Stops: On Those Things My New Novel Forgot To Be About, Maybe <http://www.powells.com/blog/?p=8287>
Jonathan Lethem, PowellsBooks

For me, there's a weird, unfathomable gulf — I almost wrote gulp — between the completion of a novel and its publication. Some days this duration feels interminable, as though the book has voyaged out like some spacecraft on a research mission, populated by forgotten losers like the ones in John Carpenter's Dark Star, a craft cut loose by those who launched the thing and now grown irretrievable, bent by space and time into something distorted and not worth guiding home. Then there are other days, where the book might be a pitch that's left your hand too soon, now burning towards home plate, whether to be met by a catcher's mitt or the sweet part of the bat, you can't possibly know.



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**** The Hiring Gates Re-open <http://www.todayonline.com/Singapore/EDC091023-0000066/The-hiring-gates-re-open>
Lin Yanqin, Today

As the Singapore economy turns the corner and with potential growth ahead, more employers here plan to hire staff in this final quarter - more than at any other period this year - according to the latest report on manpower outlook by Hudson.

**** Managing LUP: Advisers Should Be Independent Of Party Interests <http://www.straitstimes.com/ST%2BForum/Story/STIStory_445493.html>
David Lim, Straits Times

In essence, the Government has forgotten the difference between the organs that implement policies - for example, civil service and municipal concerns - and the government, thinking both are the same. In fact, in 40 years, it has institutionalised state organs to be People's Action Party (PAP) organs.

**** Singaporean Youths Are Apathetic About Singapore’s Future <http://theonlinecitizen.com/2009/10/singaporean-youths-are-apathetic-about-singapore%e2%80%99s-future/>
Ivan Chan, The Online Citizen

I urge everyone to break this cycle, to think about the future of living in Singapore, regardless of the molly coddling and the perceived certainty that life will always be smooth sailing.

**** Latest Boulud Outpost - Singapore <http://dinersjournal.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/22/latest-boulud-outpost-singapore/>
Glenn Collins, New York Times

Chef Daniel Boulud announced Thursday that he will be opening a 120-seat DB Bistro Moderne restaurant in the new $5.5 billion Marina Bay Sands project, a luxury hotel and casino resort under construction by the Las Vegas Sands Corporation, which owns the Venetian resort-hotel-casino in Las Vegas.

**** æ²¡çœ‹ä»·æ ¼ç‚¹é¤ 看到账单喊冤 两份滑蛋鱼片河粉96元？ <http://www.zaobao.com/sp/sp091023_005.shtml>
胡洁梅, 联合早报

**** 新移民是客人还是主人？ <http://www.zaobao.com/yl/yl091023_001.shtml>
李叶明, 联合早报

我们为什么要谈融入呢？不就是希望把更多外来人才变成“自己人”吗？我们所谈的融入，不就是一个把客人变成主人的过程吗？如果把客人永远当客人，还时常提醒他们遵守为客之道，那融入的意义又何在呢？

**** Russian Interest In Singapore Grows <http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/7225e286-bea1-11de-b4ab-00144feab49a.html?nclick_check=1>
Kevin Brown, Financial Times

Singapore is attracting a surge of Russian investment as rich business people seek a politically stable home for personal wealth as well as exposure to Asia's rapid recovery from the global financial crisis.

**** A National Disgrace: NUS Stage-managed “Forum” For MM Lee <http://www.temasekreview.com/2009/10/23/a-national-disgrace-nus-stage-managed-forum-for-mm-lee/>
The Temasek Review

**** Five Countries Reject Civil Society Reps At Asean Summit <http://www.bernama.com/bernama/v5/newsindex.php?id=448966>
D Arul Rajoo, Bernama

The governments of Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, the Philippines and Singapore have rejected members of civil groups from their respective countries at the 15th Asean Summit here.

**** Progress At Genting's Singapore Casino Puts Pressure On Sands <http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703816204574489202544754342.html>
Wall Street Journal

Officially, Genting hasn't strayed from its target date of early 2010 for the opening of its US$4.4 billion Resorts World on the holiday island of Sentosa. But despite its cautious public projections, the developer has quietly been preparing for an earlier ramp-up, and a consensus is emerging among market-watchers that Resorts World will open ahead of Sands' Marina Bay Sands project in the heart of Singapore's business district.

**** Singapore's Home Prices Rebound On Cheap Money, Better Economy <http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601080&sid=aC7mYkyffjZA>
Bloomberg

Singapore’s private home prices rose 15.8 percent in the third quarter, the most in 28 years, as cheap money and improving economic conditions lured buyers.

**** MDA Launches Tender For Campaign To Promote Public-service Broadcasts <http://www.media.asia/Newsarticle/2009_10/MDA-launches-tender-for-campaign-to-promote-public-service-broadcasts/37634>
Media

The Media Development Authority of Singapore (MDA) has put out a tender for an agency to conceptualise and implement an integrated education campaign around public-service broadcasting.

**** How CPF And Tax Changes Contribute To Widening Income Gap Between The Rich And The Poor <http://www.temasekreview.com/2009/10/23/how-cpf-and-tax-changes-contribute-to-widening-income-gap-between-the-rich-and-the-poor/>
The Temasek Review

**** Singapore's Consumer Prices Declined A Sixth Month In September <http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601080&sid=a8X03SKfL9gY>
Shamim Adam, Bloomberg

Singapore’s consumer prices fell for a sixth month in September as a stronger currency reduced the cost of imports and housing and transportation prices eased.

**** HDB Resale Prices Rise <http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking+News/Singapore/Story/STIStory_445654.html>
Fiona Chan, Straits Times

Prices of HDB resale flats hit another record high in the third quarter, jumping 3.6 per cent over the second quarter.

This is higher than HDB's estimate earlier this month of a 3.2 per cent increase, and comes after HDB resale prices rose 1.4 per cent in the second quarter over the first quarter.

**** The Domino Effect <http://zachisaiahchia.wordpress.com/2009/10/23/the-domino-effect/>
Zach's Thought Blot

**** HDB Will Ensure Adequate Supply Of New Flats <http://www.hdb.gov.sg/fi10/fi10296p.nsf/PressReleases/5AFE23A1479CCDC3482576580016D811?OpenDocument>
Singapore Government

This press release provides housing data for the HDB Resale and Rental Market transactions in 3rd Quarter 2009.

**** The Government Will Continuously Introduce Incentives To Recognise Our NSmen’s Dedication And Commitment, Says Minister K Shanmugam <http://www.mha.gov.sg/news_details.aspx?nid=MTU5Ng%3d%3d-uxtKcyLqx8U%3d>
Singapore Government

**** Tough Start For ASEAN Human Rights Commission <http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125629301638203551.html>
James Hookway, The Temasek Review

Southeast Asia's efforts to create a commission to curb human rights abuses and encourage free-trade deals got off to a rocky start Friday when delegates from several countries refused to meet with a group of pre-selected civil society activists.