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**** Google Quashes 13 Chrome Bugs, Adds PDF Viewer <http://www.macworld.com/article/156160/2010/12/chrome_8.html?lsrc=rss_main>
Gregg Keizer, Computerworld

Google on Thursday patched 13 vulnerabilities in Chrome as it shifted the most stable edition of the browser to version 8.

**** Solved: The Case Of The Missing .Mac Widgets <http://www.tuaw.com/2010/12/03/solved-the-case-of-the-missing-mac-widgets/>
Michael Grothaus, TUAW

I laughed at the program manager's story because it surprised me that something (even relatively simple) like exclusive widgets for .Mac members wouldn't require a little more thought or discussion than just the promise of a whim from an intern. Apparently not.

**** Viber For iPhone Could Give Skype A Challenge <http://www.tuaw.com/2010/12/03/viber-for-iphone-could-give-skype-a-challenge/>
Mel Martin, TUAW

**** When iTunes And iPhones Disagree <http://www.macworld.com/article/156156/2010/12/itunes_iphone_disagree.html?lsrc=rss_main>
Ted Landau, Macworld

Is iTunes having problems getting along with your iPhone or other iOS device? Does your iPhone fail to sync in iTunes? Does iTunes refuse to recognize that your iPhone even exists? If so, you may be surprised at these two unlikely but effective solutions.

**** Mophie Juice Pack Plus Packs High-capacity Backup Battery <http://www.macworld.com/article/156161/2010/12/mophie_juicepack_plus.html?lsrc=rss_main>
Dan Moren, Macworld

**** Mac 101: The Two Applications Folders <http://www.tuaw.com/2010/12/03/mac-101-the-two-applications-folders/>
TJ Luoma, TUAW

Why keep two separate sets of Applications?

**** Making The Leap To SSD On A MacBook <http://remiel.info/post/1601242301/making-the-leap-to-ssd-on-a-macbook>
Remiel

It used to take 28 seconds for my 13-inch MacBook Pro to load the folders on my desktop after I logged in. Now it takes five seconds.

**** Restoring Missing Applications In OS X <http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-20024593-263.html>
Topher Kessler, CNET

**** Apple Updates Their Universal Dock Package <http://www.crunchgear.com/2010/12/03/apple-updates-their-universal-dock-package/>
John Biggs, CrunchGear

**** InsomniMac: What’s Keeping Your Mac Up At Night <http://gigaom.com/apple/insomnimac-whats-keeping-your-mac-up-at-night/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+gigaomnetwork+%28GigaOM%3A+All+Channels%29>
Geoffrey Goetz, GigaOM

**** iOS 4.2 Emits Less USB Power On iPad, Camera Connection Kit Crippled? <http://www.9to5mac.com/40091/ios-4-2-emits-less-usb-power-on-ipad-camera-connection-kit-crippled>
Mark Gurman, 9 To 5 Mac

Among the many changes in iOS 4.2 for iPad Apple has apparently decreased the amount of power that the iPad’s USB port can emit from 100mA to 20mA. The good part about this is that your iPad’s battery will probably last longer but the downside is that Apple’s iPad Camera Connection Kit is crippled for many people.



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**** Here Comes The Wetware <http://techcrunch.com/2010/12/04/wetware/>
Jon Evans, TechCrunch

Throw out your touchscreens, kibosh your Kinects: thought-controlled computing is the new new thing. Brain-computer interface technology has been simmering for years, and seems finally ready to bubble out of research labs and into the real world.



MyAppleMenu Reader
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**** End Times <http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/05/books/review/Fried-t.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss>
Daisy Fried, New York Times

In their latest volumes, two of America’s best-known and longest-lived critics look to poems for clarity about the end of life — what Walt Whitman called “the merge.” In “Last Looks, Last Books,” Helen Vendler closely reads work from the final collections of five major 20th-century poets, all aware that death was coming soon. In “Till I End My Song,” Harold Bloom gathers 100 “last poems,” from Edmund Spenser’s “Prothalamion” (the source of the book’s title) to “The Veiled Suite,” by the Kashmiri-American Agha Shahid Ali, who died in 2001.

**** The Joy Of Lists <http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/05/books/review/Krystal-t.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss>
Arthur Krystal, New York Times

You've got to hand it to writers who have the hubris to stick a list in your face. There you are happily reading along in a poem or a novel and suddenly a Catalogue, an Inventory, a Phalanx of Facts appears on the page. Don’t writers ever consider the possibility that lists stop the action, that they get in the way of the story? Of course not, writers don’t care about our comfort level, they just like to show off how much they know and their ability to communicate it. If I were to draw up a list of all the poets and novelists who have resorted to lists, you’d be astonished. Luckily, others have done the job for me, and if you take the time to peruse their books you’ll see that many writers, despite my misgivings, can make a list practically shimmy off the page.

**** Winter Break <http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/dec/04/winter-break-hilary-mantel-shortstory?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+theguardian%2Fbooks%2Frss+%28Books%29>
Hilary Mantel, Guardian

**** The Cinderella Art <http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2010/dec/04/ballet-jennifer-homans-dancers?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+theguardian%2Fbooks%2Frss+%28Books%29>
Jennifer Homans, Guardian

We revere great ballets: we know, we remember, that ballet can be, as the critic Arlene Croce once put it, "our civilisation". Yet inside today's brand new theatres a tradition is in crisis: unfocused and uncertain.

**** Nightingales <http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/dec/04/nightingales-david-morley-saturday-poem?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+theguardian%2Fbooks%2Frss+%28Books%29>
David Morley, Guardian

**** The Junkie And The Atheist <http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/12/03/the-junkie-and-the-atheist/?ref=opinion>
Timothy Egan, New York Times

Both men, on paper at least, are hard to love, but impossible to dislike. In the United States, they got what so many from other shores have obtained — renewal.

**** The Lies Of Science Writing <http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704584804575645200523271296.html?mod=WSJ_Books_LS_Books_5>
Lawrence Krauss, Wall Street Journal

Writing about science poses a fundamental problem right at the outset: You have to lie.

I don't mean lie in the sense of intentionally misleading people. I mean that because math is the language of science, scientists who want to translate their work into popular parlance have to use verbal or pictorial metaphors that are necessarily inexact.

**** My Jerry Saltz Problem <http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/My-Jerry-Saltz-problem-6502>
James Panero, New Criterion

On art criticism in the age of the internet.



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**** NUH: It Happened So Suddenly, No One Could Prevent I <http://www.straitstimes.com/STForum/Story/STIStory_610204.html>
Noel Cheah, National University Hospital, Straits Times

The hospital did not provide information to the media related to Mr Low's personal details, medical condition or details of the incident.

When the media approached us to verify the incident, we conveyed to the reporters the family's request not to run the story. The Straits Times reporter's interview with the unnamed cleaner in the article was not arranged by the hospital, nor was the information verified with us. We also wish to verify that Mr Low did not have a history of mental illness.

**** Death Fall: Widow Criticises NUH And ST <http://www.straitstimes.com/STForum/Story/STIStory_610207.html>
Chua Lay Tin, Straits Times

I wish to categorically refute any claim that my husband had a history of mental illness. Throughout his life, he had never been referred to, consulted or confined to any mental institution. Given the report's prominence, I am extremely disturbed by the impact of this callous statement on the future image of my husband's family members, especially his children.

**** Singapore More Expensive Than Central London <http://www.pressrun.net/weblog/2010/12/singapore-more-expensive-than-central-london.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rana+%28Pressrun.net+%28originally+Blowin%27+in+the+Wind%29%29>
Pressrun.net

Singapore is more expensive than Central London, according to ECA International’s cost of living survey. The current median income in Singapore for fully employed residents (not foreigners), however, is almost half that of London last year.

**** Human Rights Not For Impressionable Young Minds; Film Rated R21 <http://yawningbread.wordpress.com/2010/12/04/human-rights-not-for-impressionable-young-minds-film-rated-r21/>
Yawning Bread

Even if you have no interest in human rights, you may want to go and see the film, just to find out why the hell they think human rights is unsuitable for impressionable young Singaporean minds. No, not just the young. Even 18 – 20 year-old National Servicemen, called to arms to defend the country, are not allowed to watch a film about human rights.

**** Court Reserves Judgement On Appeal By 3 SDP Members <http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/1097112/1/.html>
Zul Othman, Today

Judgement has been reserved regarding the appeal by three leaders of the Singapore Democratic Party (SDP) against their convictions and sentences for participating in a procession without a permit. They had walked from Speakers' Corner to Parliament House four years ago.

**** Attempt To Smuggle Sand Foiled <http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2010/12/4/nation/7559613&sec=nation>
The Star

The Selangor Customs managed to foil attempts to smuggle sand worth RM144,000 into Singapore by intercepting two barges and a ship.

**** WikiLeaks Boost For LKY <http://www.thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2010/12/4/focus/7554520&sec=focus>
Seah Chiang Nee, The Star

While the authorities pondered the potential impact of the exposure, many Singaporeans felt happy to learn that their small country was able to punch more than its own weight in global geopolitics.

**** 有“包不出错”的选人机制吗？ <http://www.zaobao.com.sg/yl/yl101204_002.shtml>
严孟达, 联合早报

假设政府有个能够捕捉每个人从小到大有过什么行差踏错（不只犯罪的警方纪录）的系统，如小六时候偷过同学的手机，中学时调戏过女同学，大学时偷过住在同宿舍同学的拖鞋……这样的国家才够可怕。“人非圣贤，孰能无过”，一个人行为上的瑕疵，可能自己早已忘记，国家“系统”却忘不了，成为了一个人求进步的障碍，对个人对社会都没有好处。

所以，这位留英学生年少时的“偷窥”行为，老师们没有特别当作污点而阻碍他申请奖学金，这是制度的优点，国家给了他第二次机会，只能怪他没有好好把握。

**** Four Pillars Of Social Security – Really? <http://theonlinecitizen.com/2010/12/four-pillars-of-social-security-really/>
Leong Sze Hian, The Online Citizen

When CPF was first conceived, its vision was to provide a safety net for Singaporeans when they retire. However, over the years, this safety net has been slowly frivelled away.

**** Singapore Merger 'Unequivocally' Good For Australia: ASX <http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hBFv7LvEXCBVpFHmK7-4Dy8ICu_g?docId=CNG.32042153ae46cfd89875a0e9c9b81c86.3d1>
AFP

Australia's stock exchange chief lauded a proposed multi-billion-dollar merger with Singapore's bourse, saying the nation was "indebted" to Asia and should seek greater regional integration.

**** ISA Still In Active Use Today – Teo Soh Lung <http://theonlinecitizen.com/2010/12/isa-still-in-active-use-–-teo-soh-lung/>
The Online Citizen

**** 本地超过80%病人不接受爱之病检验 <http://realtime.zaobao.com.sg/2010/12/101204_27.shtml>
联合早报

本地公共医院为所有住院病人提供爱之病检验服务，但超过80%病人选择退出，引起政府关注。

**** Before Assange There Was Jayakumar: Context, Realpolitik, And The Public Interest <http://singapore2025.wordpress.com/2010/12/04/before-assange-there-was-jayakumar-context-realpolitik-and-the-public-interest/>
Singapore 2025

In a parliamentary speech that would have had Julian Assange smiling from ear to ear, Jayakumar said, “We therefore have no choice but to set the record straight by releasing these documents for people to judge for themselves the truth of the matter.” The parliamentary reason for the unprecedented release of information was the misrepresentations made by Malaysia over the price of water, amongst others.

The then Malaysian prime minister, Mahathir’s response to Singapore’s pre-Wikileak wikileak was equally quote-worthy, “I don’t feel nice. You write a letter to your girlfriend. And your girlfriend circulates it to all her boyfriends. I don’t think I’ll get involved with that girl.”

**** Imposition Of Levy Needs Careful Study, Says Muhyiddin <http://www.bernama.com.my/bernama/v5/newsindex.php?id=547807>
Ahmad Fuad Yahya, Bernama

Deputy prime minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin said a thorough study is needed to look at the impact arising from Malaysians gambling in Singapore casinos before any measure, including the imposition of a levy as suggested by some parties, is introduced.

"I don't want to say anything (on the proposal to impose a levy). We have to study this because we don't want Singapore to say later that we are obstructing, preventing. We are part of Asean and Asean adopts a policy of free trade, open. Even the movement of people, we cannot stop and prevent. "If they choose to gamble, what business does the government have in preventing and so on. Is the imposition of the levy a reasonable move? This we have to study deeply, or there are other initiatives that we can implement to be looked at not only from the economic aspect, but from the social, community leadership, political parties may have a role to play in this matter," he said.

**** Censorship In Shades Of Black And Gray <http://www.miller-mccune.com/legal-affairs/censorship-in-shades-of-black-and-gray-25816/>
Michael Todd, Miller-McCune

John Kampfner, the head of the London-based Index on Censorship, discusses the threats to free expression in the world, from the dictator’s muzzle to the playwright’s pen.




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