[MyAppleMenu] Feb 14, 2010

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**** Tune Up Brings Order To Your iTunes Music <http://rss.macworld.com/click.phdo?i=5dbe9dc8cb9ceb50f9519717d1085dec>
Chris Holt, Macworld

Do have any unidentified tracks in your iTunes collection? How about mislabeled albums? Tune Up can help. Tune Up is a why-didn’t-I-think-of-it-first iTunes add-on that cleans up your iTunes library by identifying missing information in your iTunes library.

**** Macworld iPad Panelists Defy Steve Jobs' Snub Of The Show <http://venturebeat.com/2010/02/13/macworld-ipad-panelists-defy-steve-jobs-snub-of-the-show/>
Paul Boutin, VentureBeat

This year, Macworld bravely carried on without an Apple booth or a Steve Jobs “One more thing …” keynote. With Apple nowhere to be found at San Francisco’s Moscone Center, there’s a new-Apple-gadget buzz missing from the show.

But in another way, Macworld has opened up. Daddy Steve Jobs and Mommy Apple PR are gone. Let’s party!

**** Macworld 2010 Recap <http://technologizer.com/2010/02/13/macworld-2010-recap/>
Harry McCracken, Technologizer

Do I miss the older, larger, newsier Macworld? Absolutely. But I do get the sense that some of the people who are declaring the new Macworld to be pointless and/or about to die are pining for a show that never quite existed.



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**** Forget 'Serious' Novels, I've Turned To A Life Of Crime <http://feeds.guardian.co.uk/~r/theguardian/books/rss/~3/6Y_2ntlUXx4/crime-fiction-merritt-sj-parris>
Stephanie Merritt, The Guardian

Murder mysteries, once looked down on, are now fit for the literary elite.

**** Post-Minimal To The Max <http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/14/arts/design/14curators.html>
Roberta Smith, New York Times

To paraphrase Jerry Lee Lewis, there is a whole lot of art making going on right now. All different kinds. But you’d hardly know it from the contemporary art that New York’s major museums have been serving up lately, and particularly this season.

**** The Flower, The Leaf And The Lobby: A Valentine's Tale <http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703382904575059292499597092.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEFTThirdBucket>
Eric Felten, Wall Street Journal

It's odd that we celebrate love with perishable tokens.

**** Listening In On A Pay Phone In Queens <http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/13/nyregion/13payphone.html?partner=rss&emc=rss>
Manny Fernandez, New York Times

Yet this grimy phone — in a silvery booth that Superman would have skipped over, for it is doorless and not fully enclosed — survives and, in its own nickel-and-dime way, thrives.



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**** Singapore Rolls Dice On First Casino <http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/world/168443/singapore-rolls-the-dice-on-first-casino>
AFP

The doors to the cavernous and carpeted casino were thrown open to the public at 12:18 pm on the first day of the Year of the Tiger in the Chinese lunar calendar. When pronounced in the Cantonese dialect, 12:18 sounds like "prosperity". A middle-aged Singaporean woman was the first gambler allowed in, followed by an initial crowd of about 200.

**** Buddhist Tattoos Gaining Popularity In Singapore <http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5igSAJV26DPZGSm4oKW_qCY-FHEgQ>
AFP

The sak yant form of tattooing originated in Thailand and is gaining popularity in Singapore, a predominantly ethnic Chinese city-state with a strong Buddhist and Taoist tradition.