[MyAppleMenu] Dec 11, 2010

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**** Open Websites At Login <http://www.macworld.com/article/156341/2010/12/open_websites_login_startup.html?lsrc=rss_main>
David Chartier, Macworld

**** Mac 101: Changing The Default Web Browser In OS X <http://www.tuaw.com/2010/12/10/mac-101-changing-the-default-web-browser-in-os-x/>
Dave Caolo, TUAW

**** Cult Apple Store Lurks In Suburban California Mall <http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN0923781020101210>
Sarah McBride, Reuters

It may be unassuming and, yes, a bit uncool, but it's not forgotten, not by Christmas shoppers who flock these days to the Glendale Galleria mall and especially not by Appleheads at the core of the cult brand.

Staff couldn't talk officially to a visiting reporter, but they did say they do nothing to encourage the store's cult status. Nevertheless, every few weeks, die-hard fans stop by and take pictures or engage them in conversation about the store's pedigree.

**** Apple Quietly Drops iOS Jailbreak Detection API <http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/121010-apple-ios-jailbreak.html>
John Cox, Network World

Apple has disabled, without explanation, a jailbreak detection API in iOS less than six months after introducing it. Device management vendors say the reasons for the decision are a mystery, but insist they can use alternatives to discover if an iPhone, iPod touch or iPad has been modified so they can load and modify applications outside of Apple's iTunes-based App Store.

**** MacBook Pro 13-Inch Is The Ideal Computer For The Traveling Photographer <http://dpmac.com/2010/12/macbook-pro-13-inch-is-the-ideal-computer-for-the-traveling-photographer/>
George Mann, Dpmac



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**** Comfort And Joy By India Knight – Review <http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/dec/11/comfort-joy-india-knight-review?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+theguardian%2Fbooks%2Frss+%28Books%29>
Laura Barnett, Guardian

If you're allergic to tinsel, come out in hives at the idea of spending each 25 December in the company of your nearest and not-so-dearest, and think Ebenezer Scrooge had a point, then you should probably look away now. Comfort and Joy, the third novel by India Knight, is in love with Christmas, and all its glorious Technicolor traditions of overeating, over-imbibing and over-exposure to an endless stream of friends, relatives and hangers-on.

**** Working On The Ending <http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/12/books/review/Godwin-t.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss>
Gail Godwin, New York Times

When you’re a young writer, you subtract the birth dates of authors from their publication dates and feel panic or hope. When you’re an old writer, you observe the death dates of your favorite writers and you reflect on their works and their lives.

**** The Kitchen God Dreams Of Love <http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/12/books/review/Downer-t.html?partner=rss&emc=rss>
Lesley Downer, New York Times

The English writer Sam Meekings’s accomplished first novel, “Under Fishbone Clouds,” is based on the lives of his Chinese wife’s grandparents. An unlikely love story set against the events of the last half-century in China, it’s a tale of terrible suffering that also manages to be a poetic evocation of the country and its people.

**** Tragedy In Black And White <http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/12/books/review/Royte-t.html?partner=rss&emc=rss>
Elizabeth Royte, New York Times

In the austral summer of 2005-6, the veteran magazine journalist Fen Montaigne traveled to Palmer Station in Antarctica to work with the highly regarded polar ecologist Bill Fraser. For nearly five months, Montaigne gamely weighed and banded Adélie penguins and their predators, attached radio tags to feathers, dodged shooting streams of gack (giant-petrel vomit), sifted through guano in search of silverfish otoliths and reveled in the sensory delights of “the most alien and beautiful place on the planet.”

But this is no straightforward work of natural history with Fraser as heroic guide. It’s a morality tale, in which Fraser plays an unsociable Cassandra who’s entrusted his tidings to a sympathetic messenger. Luckily for readers, Montaigne has wrapped his portrait of a place on the brink of oblivion inside a penguin love fest.

**** Class Conflict, American Style <http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704594804575649310009009640.html?mod=WSJ_Books_LS_Books_5>
Fred Siegel, Wall Street Journal

The idea that there is a British-style ruling establishment in America is touched by more than a little hyperbole. But in the past three decades the political and class structure of the U.S. has indeed been rearranged.



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**** High Court Vexed When Asked To Think About Law <http://yawningbread.wordpress.com/2010/12/11/high-court-vexed-when-asked-to-think-about-law/>
Yawning Bread

The 377A challenge was not only struck out on the basis of lack of standing, a technicality which at least may be arguable, it was also characterised as frivolous and vexatious, which is uncalled for.

**** Unsustainable Policy : HDB <http://singaporealternatives.blogspot.com/2010/12/unsustainable-policy-hdb.html>
Goh Meng Seng, Singapore Alternatives

This unsustainable and potentially damaging HDB-retirement scheme must be stopped and ceased else our future generations will suffer in vain for our inaction.

**** He Taught At School Here Despite Child Porn Charge <http://www.todayonline.com/Singapore/EDC101211-0000198/He-taught-at-school-here-despite-child-porn-charge>
Ng Jing Yng, Today

Former Ministry of Education (MOE) scholar Jonathan Wong had already been arrested for possession of child pornography when he returned to teach in a secondary school here, MediaCorp has learnt.

In reply to queries, a ministry spokesman said: "His offence only came to light after he was charged in court in November."

**** 坐落新环线地铁站旁 荷兰村将建迷你社区公园 <http://www.zaobao.com.sg/sp/sp101211_021.shtml>
李静仪, 联合早报

要有绿意盎然的环境，还是要停车方便？荷兰村将在明年第四季前增添一个全新的社区公园，不过该地业者和经常到荷兰村消费的驾车者却表示宁可有更多停车位。

**** 七成新加坡人退休后钱不够用 <http://www.zaobao.com.sg/cs/cs101211_007.shtml>
李敏雯, 联合早报

有近七成新加坡人认为自身的储蓄不够应付退休生活，但只有约四成有意愿增加现有储蓄额。

这是来自汇丰保险(HSBC)的一项半年一度的调查结果。该调查也显示，应付退休后生活是新加坡人储蓄的首要目标，也有近三分之一希望储蓄能让他们提早退休。

**** Singapore Spirit Blows Hot And Cold <http://www.thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2010/12/11/focus/7594730&sec=focus>
Seah Chiang Nee, The Star

In the midst of a historical demographic change, Singapore’s hard-headed government seems less inclined nowadays to talk about national identity than it once was.

It probably seems untimely for the authorities to preach an intensification of national feelings at a time when so many foreigners – and new migrants – are settling here.

**** International Study Examines Parent Actions, Attitudes On Math Learning <http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/curriculum/2010/12/a_new_study_finds_that.html>
Erik Robelen, Education Week

Among the key findings: Parents in Singapore are far more likely than those in the United States and England to engage a math tutor to help their child, they're more likely to get assistance from teachers and others in how to help their child, and their children more often take part in math competitions and math/science camps.

**** Press Muse – Grafting Numbers <http://theonlinecitizen.com/2010/12/press-muse-grafting-numbers/>
The Online Citizen

**** Top Singapore Officials Trash The Neighbours <http://www.theage.com.au/world/top-singapore-officials-trash-the-neighbours-20101211-18thg.html>
Philip Dorling And Nick McKenzie, The Age

Malaysia's ''dangerous'' decline is fuelled by incompetent politicians, Thailand is dogged by corruption and a ''very erratic'' crown prince, Japan is a ''big fat loser'' and India is ''stupid''. So say some of Singapore's highest-ranking officials, according to leaked US State Department cables that are likely to spark intense political controversy in the region.

The cables, leaked exclusively to The Sunday Age by WikiLeaks, detail the content of separate meetings between senior US officials and Singapore's foreign affairs chiefs Peter Ho, Bilahari Kausikan and Tommy Koh.

**** Singapore Beware <http://www.conradalvinlim.com/2010/12/singapore-beware/>
The Pattern Trader

The need to have and not the requirement to have has driven prices up to ridiculous levels not seen in the history of this country. Sure inflation increases as time goes by but this time, the increase is not because of inflation but mainly because people have too much easy money. And much of this easy money is not theirs to spend – its credit.




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