[MyAppleMenu] Feb 17, 2010

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**** Review: Now X Calendar And Contact Manager <http://rss.macworld.com/click.phdo?i=1df5716362bff073e2ce7fd8718c3f28>
Jeffery Battersby, Macworld

Now X, once the standard for Mac contact management and calendaring, is a program that doesn't rise anywhere near the level of its predecessor. Poorly documented, occasionally buggy, and often slow, Now X is unlikely to be a viable replacement for whatever contact and calendar application is your current favorite.

**** First Impressions Of Aperture 3 <http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ThomasFitzgeraldnet/~3/P4cds1Y9bo8/>
Thomas Fitzgerald

**** Apple Announces MacBook Repair Program For Hard Drive Issues <http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/10/02/16/apple_announces_macbook_repair_program_for_hard_drive_issues.html>
AppleInsider

Users who bought MacBooks between May 2006 and December 2007 that are experiencing hard drive problems may be covered under a new repair extension program.

**** Nuance Acquires MacSpeech <http://www.tuaw.com/2010/02/16/nuance-acquires-macspeech/>
Mel Martin, TUAW

Nuance Communications, the company behind Dragon Dictate and Dragon Search for the iPhone, has acquired MacSpeech, the company that makes MacSpeech Dictate and other voice recognition apps for the Mac platform.

**** iPad SDK's Surprise: There Are No Surprises <http://www.infoworld.com/d/developer-world/ipad-sdks-surprise-there-are-no-surprises-622?source=rss_infoworld_news>
Paul Krill, InfoWorld

Developers report lacks of new features beyond support of UI elements for the larger screen.

**** Mac 101: Adding New Microphones To Your Mac <http://www.tuaw.com/2010/02/16/mac-101-adding-new-microphones-to-your-mac/>
Erica Sadun, TUAW

There are several tricks that can help you analyze why your audio chats aren't working quite right. Here's a quick run-down of the steps you should take.

**** Initial Aperture 3 Release Triggers Severe Memory Leaks <http://www.macnn.com/articles/10/02/16/virtual.memory.eventually.renders.drives.unusable/>
MacNN

Serious memory leaks are being caused by the newly-released Aperture 3, complaints on Apple's support forums suggest. Affected users note that virtual memory can spiral out of control, to the point that it can consume all of the free space on a Mac's hard drive. This can result in a Mac becoming unusable, either extremely slow or ultimately hanging.

**** Six Unexpected Uses For Tooltips <http://rss.macworld.com/click.phdo?i=52688002c8f3c866e613d6e7b31f913b>
Sharon Zardetto, Macworld

You can do more with these little yellow rectangles than just identify items in toolbars.

**** Announcing SushiReader 1.0.0. <http://www.myapplemenu.com/2010/02/17/IM130057/>
Heng-Cheong Leong, MyAppleMenu

Announcing SushiReader 1.0.0 [http://www.myapplemenu.com/sushireader/], an application that I've build for news junkies like me.

SushiReader is a simple river-of-news style RSS reader for the busy news junkie. You can specify priority levels for your subscriptions so that important news stories are sorted at the head of the queue, which you can read earlier. Keywords can also be specified to further rank individual news stories' importance.

SushiReader requires Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard), and is available for free.



The Tomorrow Weblog
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**** An iPad For The Preschool Set: The Fisher-Price IXL <http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=ecc768601087332f28c9e4d056a79f60>
Ashlee Vance, New York Times

Fisher-Price says it will soon offer a tiny touch-screen computer for tots.



MyAppleMenu Reader
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**** Roger Ebert: The Essential Man <http://www.esquire.com/features/roger-ebert-0310>
Chris Jones, Esquire

It has been nearly four years since Roger Ebert lost his lower jaw and his ability to speak. Now television's most famous movie critic is rarely seen and never heard, but his words have never stopped.



SingaporeSurf
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**** Too Easy A Draw? <http://www.todayonline.com/Comment/EDC100217-0000074/Too-easy-a-draw?>
Derrick Paulo, Today

By law, Automated Teller Machines (ATMs) are not allowed in the casino - a clause included in the Casino Control Act as a social safeguard. But in living up to the letter of the law, Resorts World Sentosa (RWS) has not quite embraced the spirit of the law.

**** PM Lee- Funny Guy <http://www.insanepoly.com/blog/?p=952>
Insane Polygons

That’s a team of 7 multi-million salaried ministers helping one guy do his job and I must say its not even a job that has been done very well over the last 5 years.

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**** Indonesian Who Lost All In Casino At Resorts World Sentosa, Stole At Airport <http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/1038033/1/.html>
Mustafa Shafawi, 938Live

An Indonesian man who lost all the S$1,000 he had with him at the Resorts World Sentosa casino was jailed for four weeks after pleading guilty to stealing a handphone from an undergraduate at Changi Airport.

**** Resorts World Sentosa Says 70% Of Its Over 8,000 Staff Are S'poreans, PRs <http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/1038035/1/.html>
Jeremy Koh, 938Live

Resorts World Sentosa said 70 per cent of its staff strength of over 8,000 are Singaporeans or Permanent Residents. But some who've visited the gaming tables are questioning where exactly are they working?

**** CRA Probing 5 Cases Of Non-Payment Of Sentosa Casino Entry Levy <http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/1038045/1/.html>
Bhagman Singh, Channel NewsAsia

**** Singapore Exports Jump 21 Percent In January <http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2010/02/17/business-as-singapore-trade_7361951.html?boxes=financechannelAP>
Associated Press

Singapore's exports jumped in January for a third straight month as global demand for the city-state's electronics and petrochemicals surged.

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**** SM Goh Admits “Hard Lessons” Were Learnt From Suzhou Industrial Park <http://www.temasekreview.com/2010/02/17/sm-goh-admits-hard-lessons-were-learnt-from-suzhou-industrial-park/>
The Temasek Review

Singapore’s latest foray into China, led by the Ministry of National Development to develop an eco-city in the northern metropolis of Tianjing appears to be turning into another Suzhou nightmare too.

**** Singapore Pushing Films <http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118014757?categoryId=3937&cs=1>
Clifford Coonan, Variety

The Singapore government is pushing co-productions in live action and animation and has worked to build a major production and post-production hub from basically a standing start, serving one of the most heavily populated and rapidly expanding regions in the world.

**** Announcing SushiReader 1.0.0. <http://www.myapplemenu.com/singapore/2010/02/17/IM140057/>
Heng-Cheong Leong, MyAppleMenu

Announcing SushiReader 1.0.0 [http://www.myapplemenu.com/sushireader/], an application that I've build for news junkies like me.

SushiReader is a simple river-of-news style RSS reader for the busy news junkie. You can specify priority levels for your subscriptions so that important news stories are sorted at the head of the queue, which you can read earlier. Keywords can also be specified to further rank individual news stories' importance.

SushiReader requires Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard), and is available for free.