[MyAppleMenu] Aug 26, 2010

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**** Review: PopChar X 5.0 <http://rss.macworld.com/click.phdo?i=4ac7b9121d1d80b8c3945b826532b984>
Jay J. Nelson, Macworld

If you work with multilingual or technical documents, or if you frequently use dingbat fonts, PopChar X 5 will quickly pay for itself. Graphic designers will appreciate PopChar's ability to display the same character across multiple fonts, and Photoshop users will appreciate being able to visually find and choose special characters.

**** Mac Gems: Earth Addresser Puts Address Book Contacts On Google Earth <http://rss.macworld.com/click.phdo?i=d580ac020c5b626c900604ab1fb0eea2>
Roman Loyola, Macworld

Earth Addresser is a fun little program that works with Google Earth and the Mac’s Address Book. It takes your contacts and maps them out on the Google Earth globe.

**** Apple Announces Special Event On Sep. 1 <http://rss.macworld.com/click.phdo?i=816a4d23ba339be43b8482423ec416d8>
Dan Moren, Macworld

Apple on Wednesday announced that it would be holding a special invitation-only event on Wednesday, September 1, at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco.

As usual, the invitation itself is a terse affair, listing only the time and place and showing a picture of a guitar with an Apple-logo-shaped sound hole. In past years, Apple has used September events to showcase music- and media-related products, such as new iPods.

**** Apple Snubs O2's Handset Enviro-spec Rating <http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/08/25/o2_eco_rating/?>
The Register

**** The iPhone User Fallacy: Not Everyone's A Super-User <http://www.mobileindustryreview.com/2010/08/the-iphone-user-fallacy-not-everyones-a-super-user.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+MobileIndustryReview+%28Mobile+Industry+Review%29>
Mobile Industry Review

**** Apple Quietly Drops Boot Camp From OSX Server <http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=26125>
Hexus

**** Use An Eye Candy App To Check Your Mac's Health <http://mac360.com/index.php/mac360/comments/use-an-eye-candy-app-to-check-your-macs-health/>
Ron McElfresh, Mac 360

If you want ease of use, peace of mind, and a central location to check on various Mac functions and invoke a few features, CheckUp will do that and look pretty.

**** The Apple Guessing Game Commences <http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=b3da64762e55fddbba11a59735491c8a>
Nick Bilton, New York Times

Invites like these show up two or three times a year, and it’s always a puzzle wrapped in a cryptic bow of noninformation. Such is the case with the most recent one, which shows a picture of an Apple-branded guitar.

**** Is Google Giving Up On Native iPhone Apps? <http://www.901am.com/2010/is-google-giving-up-on-native-iphone-apps.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+901am+%28901am%29>
901am

Although the iPhone is too big for Google to ignore, we may not see much attention paid to the iDevice in the future, with Google choosing instead to give its best features to Android all the while giving web app scraps to the iOS.

**** Revealed: How Steve Jobs Turns Customers Into Fanatics <http://www.neurosciencemarketing.com/blog/articles/us-vs-them.htm>
Neuromarketing

**** Apple Mac Pro (Xeon E5620) <http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2368270,00.asp>
Joel Santo Domingo, PC Magazine

Compared with the competition, the Mac Pro (Xeon E5620) excels on the ease of expandability, looks, 3D rendering (CineBench R10), and some performance tests. If you have a task that will exercise the Mac Pro's multi-threaded, multi-core power, then it's a worthy addition to your artist or engineer's life.



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**** Punditry at the Drive-Thru <http://nationalinterest.org/bookreview/punditry-drive-3899?page=show>
David Rieff, The National Interest

The intellectual equivalent of this sensible preference for slow food should be for nuance and complexity. And yet in this age of the sound bite, the twenty-four-hour news cycle, multitasking and new media, the books that commercial publishers seem to want to publish, and that ambitious policy intellectuals aspire to write—which came first is probably best viewed as a chicken-and-egg question—are for the most part the intellectual equivalent of a meal at Burger King or Taco Bell. At first bite, tasty, appealing and seemingly complete; in the end, bloating, cloying and empty of genuine intellectual fortification.



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**** Vui Kong Given Extension To File Clemency, Shadrake’s Trial Postponed <http://theonlinecitizen.com/2010/08/vui-kong-given-extension-to-file-clemency-shadrakes-trial-postponed/>
The Online Citizen

**** Sports Hub To Open By April 2014 <http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/1077161/1/.html>
Tan Yo-Hinn, Channel NewsAsia

On Wednesday, the Singapore Sports Council (SSC) signed the contract with the Singapore Sports Hub Consortium to design, build, finance and operate the Sports Hub for the next 25 years on a 35-hectare site in Kallang.

Demolition of the National Stadium, which sits on the site, will begin in October, and the new facility will open its doors by April 2014.

**** Faster Refund Option Available <http://www.straitstimes.com/STForum/OnlineStory/STIStory_570860.html>
Corrine Ng, TransitLink, Straits Times

Alternatively, commuters can choose to have the refund credited directly into their DBS/POSB account. This is a faster option and the amount can be refunded within three working days.

**** Less Satisfaction For Singapore Students And Commuters <http://www.pressrun.net/weblog/2010/08/less-satisfaction-for-singapore-students-and-commuters.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rana+%28Blowin%27+In+The+Wind%29>
Blowin' In The Wind

"This is an indication from locals that they are receiving less bang for the buck in their commuting experiences," says the study. In other words, commuters are feeling shortchanged. The MRT has fallen more sharply in public opinion than bus services.

**** Death Penalty : Why We Need To Rethink.... <http://singaporemind.blogspot.com/2010/08/death-penalty-why-we-need-to-rethink.html>
Diary of A Singaporean Mind

The death penalty shouldn't be used to compensate for the lack of expediency of law enforcement agencies. Singapore is a developed country and we the means to do away with unnecessary executions if we better our ability to fight crime.

**** 'Malicious Prosecution' - Is It A Valid Defence? <http://www.todayonline.com/Singapore/EDC100826-0000107/Malicious-prosecution---is-it-a-valid-defence?>
Teo Xuanwei, Today

What happens when the authorities go after one offender but not others who run afoul of the law?

**** Time To Review Censorship Process <http://www.todayonline.com/Singapore/EDC100826-0000050/Time-to-review-censorship-process>
Ang Peng Hwa, Today

I do not know of any country that uses only the courts to censor. The reason is that courts in most countries are busy enough without having to deal with whether an exposed breast is indecent in a particular context or not. Most of the time, the subject matter being considered for censorship is neither so life-threatening nor of earth-shaking importance as to require the judicial process.

**** An Airline That Brags About Its Food, With A Cookbook <http://www.businessweek.com/lifestyle/travelers_check/archives/2010/08/an_airline_that_brags_about_its_food_with_a_cookbook.html>
Justin Bachman, BusinessWeek

Rare is the time when an airline is so proud of its food that it publishes a cookbook. Then again, rare is an airline that makes dining - “a topic that heretofore has been so cringe-worthy” as Singapore Airlines spokesman James Boyd puts it - central to its in-flight brand strategy.

**** Say A Little Prayer <http://www.smh.com.au/business/say-a-little-prayer-20100825-13saf.html>
Eric Ellis, The Age

New evangelical, deal-making networks are tiptoeing to the edges of power in south-east Asia.

**** 深圳应走新加坡的道路 <http://reports.yikuo.com/news/2010-08-26/1333_201082693319133394453.htm>
易阔每日财经

我们的主张是，深圳不要走香港的路子，这个城市只要经济一好转，大家就都想到炒房，深圳应该走新加坡的道路，通过发展制造业和研发产业，支撑起城市的经济。

**** In A Fix Over Public Transport Fares <http://guanyinmiao.wordpress.com/2010/08/26/in-a-fix-over-public-transport-fares/>
Guanyinmiao's Musings

The PTC has to move away from the convenient message of a fare reduction, and begin to be more transparent and all-rounded in its public education effort.

**** Yong's Fate Now In Singapore Government's Hands <http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2010/8/26/nation/6921396&sec=nation>
Teh Eng Hock, Lee Yuk Peng And Desiree Tresa Gasper, The Star

The Government has done all it can to help save the life of Sabahan Yong Vui Kong who is on death row in Singapore, said foreign minister Datuk Seri Anifah Aman.

Twenty-two-year-old Yong’s fate now depends on the outcome of a judicial review application filed by his lawyers, he added.

**** The Irony Of Censorship <http://www.fridae.com/newsfeatures/2010/08/25/10247.the-irony-of-censorship>
Jun Zubillaga-Pow, Fridae

The irony out of these episodes is glaringly uncanny. After hearing about the ban imposed on Eating Out 3, several people went online and downloaded not just one, but all three chapters of the series and watched these films in their private comfort. Such is the contradiction between the private and the public; the intention of the organiser, that is to introduce quality GLBT films to local audiences, has nonetheless been achieved. The charge of online piracy is inevitably an adverse consequence given the denial of GLBT films to be screened in honourable public domains.

**** 宛如隔世的芽笼 <http://news.163.com/10/0826/11/6F0QL7SL00014AED.html>
金陵晚报

Geylang被新加坡的华人称为“芽笼”。这几乎是整个新加坡里最不像新加坡的地方，但矛盾的是，新加坡人又会告诉你，如果你没有来过“芽笼”，其实你就不算到过新加坡。

**** 世界航运重心东移亚洲 香港受益不及新加坡 <http://www.worldscm.com/article/html/2010-8-26/2010826105100.htm>
供应链世界

新加坡政府的理念与做法是政府主导，积极主动，抢抓机遇；而香港政府仍坚守所谓“小政府，大市场”的传统思维，采取顺其自然的态度。

**** Grads Default On CPF Loans <http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/Singapore/Story/STIStory_571124.html>
Leow Si Wan, Straits Times

More than 7,500 students have defaulted on repaying monies - taken from either their own Central Provident Fund (CPF) accounts or their parents' - to pay for their education.

**** More Time For Clemency Plea <http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/Singapore/Story/STIStory_571134.html>
Kor Kian Beng, Straits Times

The Prisons Department has extended the deadline for convicted Malaysian drug trafficker Yong Vui Kong to file a plea for presidential clemency, from today to a date to be fixed.

**** Is Singapore Handcuffing Down The Path Of Communism? <http://politicssg.blogspot.com/2010/08/is-singapore-handcuffing-down-path-of.html>
Sex Sells, So Does Politics

**** The Age of Ideas <http://mindymatrix.com/india/2010/08/25/the-age-of-ideas/>
India News

And it is the freedom of ideas and imagination that makes democracy still the best form of governance, no matter what benevolent dictators like Lee Kuan Yew may have to say about state control.

**** 关于杨伟光事件的一些想法 <http://inbetweenconfusion.blogspot.com/2010/08/blog-post_25.html>
惑与不惑之间

我想问，把宽赦机制当着一项摆设品，是不是更加严重的破坏了法治精神？如果不是把宽赦机制当着摆设品，新加坡的法律部长如何能够在杨伟光还没呈上他的宽赦请愿书之前，就断言不会宽赦杨伟光？

**** Language Scuffles <http://yawningbread.wordpress.com/2010/08/26/language-scuffles>
Yawning Bread

Twisting words and defensive over-reaction are never good strategies for winning friends. Honesty and openness work so much better. But in a tragi-comic way, those who are most eager (actually: most desperate) to press a hopeless case tend to resort compulsively to doing the former.

But this is the internet age, my dears. And if there’s one thing that’s been cranked up by the new technology, it’s the laugh machine.

**** SMRT和新捷运将探讨改善服务 <http://www.zaobao.com/sp/sp100826_006.shtml>
联合早报

SMRT回复本报说，新地铁的购入以及陆路交通管理局所进行的裕廊东地铁转换站增建新轨道工程，将能缓解目前地铁的拥挤现象。

**** Hand, Foot And Mouth Disease Still At Epidemic Level In Singapore <http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/health/2010-08/26/c_13463608.htm>
Xinhua

**** Casino Cash May Inject $1.5 Bln Into Singapore Annually-DBS <http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSSGE67P0BK20100826>
Nopporn Wong-Anan, Reuters

Revenues from two new casino-resorts could contribute as much as S$2 billion ($1.47 billion) annually to Singapore's economy, which is expected by the government to grow by up to 15 percent this year, DBS Bank said on Thursday.




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