[MyAppleMenu] Feb 6, 2010

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MyAppleMenu
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**** Contextual Consolidation In iTunes 9 <http://rss.macworld.com/click.phdo?i=a83527af9dfea8d297ef955905a6cb7d>
Rob Griffiths, Macworld

Learn how to consolidate only selected music and media in iTunes 9.

**** iPad Likely To Be Popular Among Business Travelers And The Middle-aged <http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=R&sa=T&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mercurynews.com%2Fbreaking-news%2Fci_14343777&usg=AFQjCNFyplpUFdrDUf1pmAj1DpRKJtOu_Q>
San Jose Mercury News

Its iPods and iPhones wooed the young and tech savvy. But with its iPad, Apple may reach a new demographic: the middle-aged.

**** Why (And How) Apple Killed The $US9.99 Ebook <http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2010/02/why-and-how-apple-killed-the-us9-99-ebook/>
Matt Buchanan, Gizmodo

Publishers joining Apple’s iBooks store are turning their back on Amazon and its vision of the flat $US9.99 ebook. Apple forced the music industry to charge 99 US cents per song, so why are they helping publishers set their own prices?

To screw Amazon.



The Tomorrow Weblog
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**** A Search Engine That Relies On Humans <http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=b32253adef6f975f96e710a78a237c5c>
Joshua Brustein, New York Times

Aardvark, a social search company, is developing a new paradigm for Web searches that taps into social networks, not automated formulas, to provide answers to queries.



MyAppleMenu Reader
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**** On Monsters: An Unnatural History Of Our Worst Fears By Stephen T Asma |Book Review <http://feeds.guardian.co.uk/~r/theguardian/books/rss/~3/PPv0u4RF-j4/unnatural-history-worst-fears-asma>
Kathryn Hughes, The Guardian

You will find every kind of monster lurking within these densely-packed 350 pages. There are two headed-babies, mythical mermaids, a giant, detached mouth, not to mention that horrible thing that bursts out of John Hurt's torso in Alien. In a dizzying if not entirely coherent book, Stephen Asma is determined to look unblinkingly at the creatures that lurk on the edges of our consciousness, those sticky slitherers and orange-tusked grunters which hide in wardrobes or in the deep end of the swimming pool, just waiting to pull us down from our well-lit lives into murky mayhem.

**** The Book Of Self-Love <http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=3a91638e51a76df31e684d011bf2101c>
Lee Siegel, New York Times

Christopher Lasch’s “Culture of Narcissism” offered an indictment of American life that displeased both the right and the left.

**** A Wrinkle In Time <http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=b6e9d956231752f77a2ee604fdcd6324>
Geoff Dyer, New York Times

Don DeLillo explores the radical manipulation of time in this novel, which brings an Iraq war planner, his daughter and a filmmaker together at a house in the desert.



SingaporeSurf
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**** More Single Seats May Disadvantage PAP <http://www.straitstimes.com/STForum/OnlineStory/STIStory_487013.html>
Robin Chee, Straits Times

Dr Wong seems to suggest the PAP may have a better chance of winning SMCs when this may not be the case as younger and less experienced PAP candidates may be pitted against opposition heavyweights who have worked the ground over the years. If the number of SMCs is expanded, these less experienced PAP candidates may no longer have the 'shield' of contesting a GRC led by a PAP heavyweight.

**** Resorts World At Sentosa Awarded Casino Licence <http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/1035794/1/.html>
Wang Eng Eng, Channel NewsAsia

Resorts World at Sentosa has been awarded its casino licence. It is the first of Singapore's two integrated resorts to get the go ahead for its casino operations.  Although the opening date of the casino at Resort World has not been announced, preparations are in full swing.

**** Singapore Pawn Shops Scramble To Beat Competition <http://www.upi.com/Features/Culture_Society/2010/02/05/Singapore-pawn-shops-scramble-to-beat-competition/12653815499446/>
Ang Hui Min, UPI

The number of pawnshops was at 120 in 2009, an all-time high in Singapore, the Singapore Pawnbrokers' Association said.

**** Hitting The Brakes On Foreign Force <http://thestar.com.my/columnists/story.asp?col=insightdownsouth&file=/2010/2/6/columnists/insightdownsouth/5616558&sec=Insight%20Down%20South>
Seah Chiang Nee, The Star

Sudden changes of major long-term policies are rare in this well-planned city, but an exception – on immigration – is about to take place.

The weight of public opinion matters a lot more today than during the authoritarian days of Lee Kuan Yew.

**** ‘There’s No Need To’ According To Today ‘Editors’ <http://sfd.sg/content/%E2%80%98there%E2%80%99s-no-need-to%E2%80%99-according-today-%E2%80%98editors%E2%80%99>
Singaporeans for Democracy

**** Aware Bows Out Of Sex Ed <http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/Singapore/Story/STIStory_487387.html>
Irene Tham, Straits Times

In the latest twist in the long-running saga over sexuality education, the Association of Women for Action and Research (Aware) says that it will not offer its programme to schools for now.