[MyAppleMenu] Feb 5, 2010

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**** Build Your Own Home Media Server <http://rss.macworld.com/click.phdo?i=9c04c8c299deb50d7a81ac17fdc8bbb1>
Ben Long, Macworld

Finding the right storage solution for your needs can be tricky, as you try to balance performance with expandability. Throw in the need for backup and network-wide access and things can get quite complicated.

**** Freedom Locks Down The Internet <http://rss.macworld.com/click.phdo?i=24736a0edd94642cc77d87abf674ee5c>
Dan Frakes, Macworld

If you've ever found the Internet to be a bane to your productivity, Freedom can help. This utility lets you temporarily block Internet access so you can get some work done.

**** Tip: Trick Your iPhone To Watch Movies & Shows In Portrait View <http://appadvice.com/appnn/2010/02/power-user-tip-trick-your-iphone-to-watch-movies-shows-in-portrait-view/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+AppAdvice+%28AppAdvice%29>
Alexander Vaughn, App Advice

**** Modbook Maker Not Worried About iPad <http://rss.macworld.com/click.phdo?i=8722433f5aefc238282b921f37158e39>
Gregg Keizer, Macworld

The iPad is too big and lacks communication capabilities, says the former Apple exec who oversaw the demise of the company's iconic-but-flawed Newton project.

**** Apple Paying Out 15% On Broken 27-Inch iMacs <http://gizmodo.com/5464288/apple-paying-out-15-on-broken-27+inch-imacs>
Mark Wilson, Gizmodo

**** Apple? Google? Who Cares? You Need To Know Dropbox <http://www.suntimes.com/technology/ihnatko/2030286,ihnatko-apple-google-dropbox-cloud-020410.article>
Andy Ihnatko, Chicago Sun-Times

Cloud computing backup system is a God-send for anyone with more than one computer – especially if you ever leave home.

**** Steve Jobs In Secret New York Meeting With Top <i>Times</i> Execs <http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2010/02/steve_jobs_in_secret_new_york.html>
Daniel Maurer, New York Magazine

**** Apple Takes On Intel <http://www.forbes.com/2010/02/03/ipad-apple-semiconductors-technology-breakthroughs-intel.html?feed=rss_home>
Lee Gomes, Forbes

Why chipmakers might not be necessary anymore.

**** Apple Prohibits App Store Devs From Using Location-Based Ads <http://www.macnn.com/articles/10/02/04/gps.info.allowed.only.for.beneficial.uses/>
MacNN

Apple has notified App Store developers that they will be prohibited from using location-based information for mobile advertising. The company claims the GPS data can only be used to provide "beneficial information." The announcement has ignited speculation that Apple has reserved the capability for its own advertising endeavors.

**** A Personal Assistant On Your iPhone <http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=fc612a516170eca2415a1788b2ac9da0>
Jenna Wortham, New York Times

A start-up called Siri, based in San Jose, Calif., hopes to do a slightly better job by bringing a virtual personal assistant to your pocket — more specifically, to your Apple iPhone.

**** Adobe Lashes Back At Apple's On Lazy Remark <http://infotech.indiatimes.com/News-Internet-Adobe_lashes_back_at_Apples_on_lazy_remark/articleshow/5538168.cms>
Times Of India

**** Apple's iPad: Trouble For Intel's Mobile Push? <http://www.reuters.com/article/idUKTRE6125N920100203>
Ian Sherr, Reuters

While Apple likely will not market the chip publicly, analysts say the new processor underscores how rival chip designs may eventually win out over Intel Corp's designs in the emergent hot category of mobile devices like smartphones and tablets.

**** Apple, Google Battling For Mobile Ads <http://rss.macworld.com/click.phdo?i=bc2bfafaf61c9df9d3c0a63787ef0cfd>
Lexton Snol, PC Adviser

In another stage of its mounting battle with Google, Apple has hired two mobile ad industry big hitters.

**** Apple iPad's Rejection Of Adobe Flash Could Signal The Player's Death Knell <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/05/AR2010020501089.html>
Rob Pegoraro, Washington Post

It's past time we ushered the Flash site intro and the animated menu off to the junkyard.

**** Migrate A Time Machine Backup <http://rss.macworld.com/click.phdo?i=5ae566fde7ef1720f88eedc40c21f91c>
Joe Kissell, Macworld

If you’ve been using Time Machine for backups, there may come a time when you outgrow your backup disk. It’s easy enough to plug in a larger disk or buy a Time Capsule (or a larger Time Capsule) and choose that as your new Time Machine destination, but doing that means starting over. If you want to move to a larger disk while maintaining the continuity of your backups, you can. It just means taking quite a few steps.



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**** Everyone Eats … <http://www.cjr.org/feature/everyone_eats.php?page=all>
Robert Sietsema, Columbia Journalism Review

But that doesn’t make you a restaurant critic.



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**** 'Opposition Can Criticise Policy, But...' <http://www.todayonline.com/Singapore/EDC100205-0000159/Opposition-can-criticise-policy,-but,,,>
S Ramesh , Today

The opposition can be expected to find fault with government policies but senior minister Goh Chok Tong believes that the Government will be able to defend them "quite well".

**** Why Raising Foreign Worker Levy Won't Work <http://www.straitstimes.com/STForum/Story/STIStory_486614.html>
John Gee, Transient Workers Count Too, Straits Times

Unless the levy increase is punitive, it is unlikely to discourage the employment of foreign workers, but will just be an increased tax on foreign labour employment.

**** Ex-NMP Siew Kum Hong Upbeat About New Media's Role In Politics <http://journalism.sg/2010/02/05/ex-nmp-siew-kum-hong-upbeat-about-new-medias-role-in-politics/>
Bhavan Jaipragas, journalism.sg

Siew was particularly upbeat about the role new media entities were playing in cause-based advocacy and in raising the profile of the civil society here.

**** HDB Homeless Policy <http://singaporealternatives.blogspot.com/2010/02/hdb-homeless-policy.html>
Goh Meng Seng, Singapore Alternatives

Mr Mah’s policy failures have given rise to a small but growing number of homeless Singaporeans. Closing his eyes and pretending that they don’t exist will not make these homeless Singaporeans go away. Given his track record of monumental policy failures, would you want to entrust Singapore’s future to him?

**** Temasek Ups Bond Programme To $10 Bln, Eyes New Issues <http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSSGE6140BR20100205>
Kevin Lim, Reuters

Singapore sovereign wealth fund Temasek said on Friday it doubled the size of its borrowing programme to $10 billion to allow for future bond issues.

**** Singapore Pulls The Welcome Mat For Foreign Workers <http://www.asiasentinel.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2285&Itemid=195>
Ben Bland, Asia Sentinel

Ultimately, the thrifty Singaporean government does not believe in spending its way out of trouble. 

But, without investing in the radical reform of the education system and the retooling of the economy, the government's ambitious plans will be hard to achieve.

**** SERS Flats Converted To Condo For Expats <http://theonlinecitizen.com/2010/02/sers-flats-converted-to-condo-for-expats/>
Andrew Loh / Joshua Chiang, The Online Citizen

As in the case of the flats in Bedok, Toa Payoh and Havelock Road, the question is: Why are so many SERS flats being reserved and rented out to foreigners instead of Singaporeans who are in the queue for public rental flats?

**** AGO Asks Singapore To Bring Fugitive To RI <http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2010/02/05/ago-asks-singapore-bring-fugitive-ri.html>
Arghea D. Hapsari, The Jakarta Post

The Attorney General's Office has requested Singaporean authorities to bring fugitive graft suspect Joko S. Tjandra back to Indonesia.

**** Exclusion Order To Keep Those With Serious Criminal Backgrounds From Entering Casinos <http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/1035657/1/.html>
Evelyn Choo, Channel NewsAsia

The Singapore Police will serve some 3,500 Exclusion Orders on Saturday to those with serious criminal backgrounds to keep them out of Singapore casinos.