[MyAppleMenu] Apr 23, 2010

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MyAppleMenu
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**** App Store Rejects Analog Clock iPad App <http://www.macworld.com/article/150788/2010/04/clock_app.html?lsrc=rss_main>
David Dahlquist, Macworld

What gives? There’s a wide selection of similarly feature-less clock apps available right now—but either digital or paid—so why reject his? Does Apple have some kind of vendetta against analog clocks?

**** What Almost Three Weeks With An iPad Has Taught This Blogger <http://www.tuaw.com/2010/04/22/what-almost-three-weeks-with-an-ipad-has-taught-this-blogger/>
Steven Sande, TUAW

**** Dueling Market Caps: Apple And Microsoft <http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/20100422/apple-surpasses-microsoft-on-sp-500/?mod=ATD_rss&mod=atd>
John Paczkowski, Wall Street Journal

So this float-adjusted achievement of Apple’s is really more of a psychological milestone than anything — one made possible only because S&P is counting just the 87 percent of Microsoft’s shares that are available for public trading.

**** Apple Shouldn't iPad Balance Sheet <http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704133804575198350644055686.html?mod=WSJ_hp_mostpop_read>
Martin Peers, Wall Street Journal

Mr. Jobs should either use a big chunk of the money or return it to shareholders.

**** Apple Throws Adobe A Bone -- On The Mac <http://www.tuaw.com/2010/04/22/apple-throws-adobe-a-bone-on-the-mac/>
Chris Rawson, TUAW

Adobe's stance has long been to blame Apple for the poor performance of Flash on the Mac, citing Apple's unwillingness to allow third-party developers access to APIs necessary for hardware-accelerated video. Adobe no longer has that excuse to fall back upon: Apple posted a technical note back in late March that removes this restriction and allows third-party developers access to hardware-acceleration APIs for h.264 decoding in compatible GPUs.

**** Google To Bring Free Turn-By-Turn Navigation To The iPhone <http://appadvice.com/appnn/2010/04/google-bring-free-turnbyturn-navigation-iphone/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+AppAdvice+%28AppAdvice%29>
Alexander Vaughn, App Advice

**** Apple Releases Raw Compatibility Update 3.2 <http://www.macworld.com/article/150811/2010/04/digitalcamerarawupdate32.html>
Heather Kelly, Macworld

The update adds Raw image support for nine popular camera models including the Canon EOS Rebel T2i, the Leica S2, and the Sony A230.

**** iPad Camera Connection Kit Works Simply And Well <http://db.tidbits.com/article/11219>
Glenn Fleishman, TidBITS

The process of importing photos couldn't be more straightforward; it's rather like a good hybrid of Image Capture and iPhoto's import processes.

**** Eleven Ways To Get Back To A Web Page <http://www.macworld.com/article/150745/2010/04/safariback.html?lsrc=rss_main>
Sharon Zardetto, Macworld

Where was it that you read that insightful analysis of the latest politico peccadillo? Where did you see that nifty mockup of the Next Great Thing from Apple? We all want to get back to pages we’ve visited on the Web sometimes. It’s easy to find a site that you’ve bookmarked—but what about the ones you breeze through without saving, but later wish you had? Safari 4 provides a myriad of options.

**** Google Dashes Hopes Of Free iPhone Turn-by-Turn GPS <http://www.pcworld.com/article/194857/google_dashes_hopes_of_free_iphone_turnbyturn_gps.html>
Daniel Ionescu, PC World

"We did not say we would bring it to iPhone, we said to date we've had it on Android and that in the future it may come to other platforms but did not confirm this will be coming to iPhone at all," a Google spokesperson told PCWorld.

**** Seven Reasons Apple Shareholders Should Be Cautious <http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704830404575200362577226100.html>
Brett Arends, Wall Street Journal

Savor the moment, by all means. But don't get complacent. If you're an Apple shareholder, here are seven things to be concerned about—and one thing you can do about it.

**** Apple Makes MagSafe MagSafer <http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/04/apple-makes-magsafe-magsafer/>
Charlie Sorrel, Wired

**** Apple iPhone Captures 72% Of Japan Smartphone Market <http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-04-23/apple-iphone-captures-72-of-japan-smartphone-market-update3-.html>
Pavel Alpeyev and Yoshinori Eki, Bloomberg

Apple Inc.’s iPhone shipments to Japan more than doubled in the past year, capturing 72 percent of the country’s smartphone market, a research firm said.

**** Apple's Unusual Retail Strategy With iPads: Banning Would-Be Customers <http://www.businessinsider.com/apples-unusual-retail-strategy-with-ipads-2010-4>
Jay Yarow , The Business Insider



The Tomorrow Weblog
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**** Facebook F8: One Graph To Rule Them All <http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-20003053-36.html?tag=newsEditorsPicksArea.0>
Caroline McCarthy, CNET News

**** For Web’s New Wave, Sharing Details Is The Point <http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/23/technology/23share.html>
Brad Stone, New York Times



MyAppleMenu Reader
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**** Not Really Simple <http://incharacter.org/observation/not-really-simple/>
Charlotte Allen, In Character

Welcome to the simplicity movement, the ethos whose mantras are "cutting back," "focusing on the essentials," "reconnecting to the land" - and talking, talking, talking about how fulfilled it all makes you feel. Genuine simple-living people - such as, say, the Amish - are not part of the simplicity movement, because living like the Amish (no iPod apps or granite countertops, plus you have to read the Bible) would be taking the simple thing a bit far.

**** The Fat Man’s Vengeance <http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2010/apr/19/fat-mans-vengeance/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+nybooks+%28The+New+York+Review+of+Books%29>
Michael Wood, The New York Review of Books

“He had it coming,” we read on the second page of Ian McEwan’s new novel. This is the character’s line of thought, a self-accusation, not an authorial verdict, and he returns to it eagerly a little later. “Yes, yes, he had been a lying womanizer, he had had it coming.” This is the least of what he has been, and at the end of the novel he still has it coming, it’s almost upon him, in the shape of two women about to tear him apart, a dangerous melanoma on his wrist, and what promises to be a series of lawsuits that will last his lifetime.



SingaporeSurf
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**** The Great Singapore Transport Overhaul <http://www.pressrun.net/weblog/2010/04/the-great-singapore-transport-overhaul.html>
Blowin' In The Wind

So, why does it make me feel like a lab rat?

**** Politics And Policy-making <http://siewkumhong.blogspot.com/2010/04/politics-and-policy-making.html>
Siew Kum Hong

Everybody has different strengths and weaknesses, why is one particular set of weaknesses picked out for crutches and other special treatment?

**** Puzzling Transfer Rule <http://www.straitstimes.com/STForum/Story/STIStory_517984.html>
Koh Tze Hock, Straits Times

Another question: will commuters who travel on the upcoming Downtown Line, transfer to Bukit Panjang's LRT, and continuing their journey on the North-East Line be penalised?

**** Singapore Opposition Politician Sells Flat To Contest Election <http://us.asiancorrespondent.com/the-asia-file/singapore-opposition-politician-sells-flat-to-contest-election>
Ben Bland, Asian Correspondent

Politics is always an expensive business but, in Singapore, the risk of failure is particularly high.

**** 数学和科学比重可否降低呢？ <http://www.zaobao.com/yl/yl100423_012.shtml>
余玉玲, 联合早报

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**** 应让小六生自选升学最佳三科 <http://www.zaobao.com/yl/yl100423_011.shtml>
许绮纹, 联合早报

如果教育部真的决定要“让兴趣和天份不同的学生有更多空间和时间追求自己的兴趣”，我希望他们可以考虑采用O水准的制度：让考生从自己小六会考成绩里选出最佳三科的成绩，才减少第四科的比重。这一来才不会影响语言能力较强的学生的成绩，让他们也能升上理想的中学。

**** Activists Tell UN That Racial Harmony Here Is A Media Myth <http://journalism.sg/2010/04/23/activists-tell-un-that-racial-harmony-here-is-a-media-myth/>
journalism.sg

Singaporeans For Democracy has told the visiting UN Special Rapporteur on Racism that the situation here is less harmonious than the government makes it out to be. The group, spearheaded by activist James Gomez, said that the lack of freedom of expression was denying citizens the chance to discuss problems openly.

**** Singapore Inflation Accelerates, Requiring Stronger Currency <http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-04-23/singapore-inflation-accelerates-requiring-stronger-currency.html>
Shamim Adam, Bloomberg

Singapore’s consumer prices rose the most in 12 months in March amid an economic rebound that has led policy makers to allow the island’s currency to strengthen.

**** Can Innovation Thrive In Singapore? <http://www.theborneopost.com/?p=25664>
Bill Costello, The Borneo Post

If Singaporean educators want to learn how to teach students to think more creatively so the nation can increase its ability to produce scientific and technological innovations, then it would be useful for them to look beyond the classroom.

**** Prices Of HDB Resale Flats Continue To Climb <http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/1052096/1/.html>
Claire Huang, Channel NewsAsia

Data released by the Housing and Development Board (HDB) showed that its resale price index in the first quarter this year stood at 155. That's an increase of 2.8 per cent over the previous quarter, slightly higher than HDB's preliminary forecast of a 2.7 per cent rise.

**** Price Of Private Residential Properties Up By 5.6% In Q1 2010 <http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/1052102/1/.html>
Mok Fei Fei, Channel NewsAsia

Private home prices continue to rise first quarter this year but at a slower pace. Final data released by the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) showed that prices were up 5.6 per cent slightly higher than the initial estimate of 5.1 per cent.

**** Singapore's 'Void Decks' Reflect Racial Rainbow <http://www.france24.com/en/20100423-singapores-void-decks-reflect-racial-rainbow>
AFP

With more than 80 percent of its ethnically diverse people staying in public flats -- and foreigners now accounting for a third of the population of five million -- void decks are an important part of daily life in Singapore.

Like blank canvasses on which Singapore's ethnic rainbow is painted, void decks host everything from weddings and funerals to romantic trysts and day-long chequers sessions that draw retirees from all ethnic groups.

**** Parliament To Debate 3 Bills To Put Changes In Place For Next GE <http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/1052137/1/.html>
Lin Jiamei, Channel NewsAsia

When Parliament sits on Monday, MPs will debate proposed changes to the Constitution and two other related bills which will pave the way for the next General Election.

**** New Scheme Planned To Replace Bring Your Own Bag Day <http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/1052170/1/.html>
Saifulbahri Ismail, Channel NewsAsia

Howard Shaw, executive director, Singapore Environment Council, said: "We are in dialogues with all the major retailers to actually implement a nationwide scheme, basically bringing your own bag day, every day, idea - by offering their customers incentives for using reusable bags, like a small discounts, for example."