[MyAppleMenu] Feb 19, 2010

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**** Enable Bluetooth Sending In Snow Leopard <http://rss.macworld.com/click.phdo?i=44c1ed10d4b46c3a6fbf915865be12e4>
Christopher Breen, Macworld

Miss the Finder option to send files via Bluetooth? It's still an option, you just need to know how to turn it on.

**** A Look Back At 20 Years Of Photoshop <http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=3990bbc0e4d2891bfc1f463ca040f1e7>
Rik Fairlie, New York Times

Photoshop is turning 20, and it's planning a big party for itself. Here are some highlights of its history and online resources for user tips.

**** Apple Gets Review In Bid To Block Nokia Imports <http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=a4xrkt3A4eeI>
William McQuillen, Bloomberg

Apple Inc.’s patent-infringement complaint seeking to block Nokia Oyj’s phone imports into the U.S. will be investigated by a U.S. trade agency. The U.S. International Trade Commission in Washington said yesterday it will consider the complaint filed last month and decide whether to ban the imports.

**** Apple Conceals iPad Freight Records – Report <http://brainstormtech.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2010/02/18/apple-conceals-ipad-freight-records/>
Philip Elmer-DeWitt, Fortune

In preparation for the scheduled March delivery of Apple's (AAPL) new iPad tablet computer, the company has blocked its bills of lading and other import records from public access, according to a report issued Thursday by Trade Privacy, a trade data protection company based in Reston, VA.

**** How MonoTouch Gets Around Apple's VM Restrictions <http://blogs.zdnet.com/Burnette/?p=1738>
Ed Burnette, ZDNet

**** How Does Apple Do It?: The Innovators <http://www.thestreet.com/_yahoo/story/10682745/1/how-does-apple-do-it-the-innovators.html?cm_ven=YAHOO&cm_cat=FREE&cm_ite=NA>
Vince Chew, The Street

**** Ngmoco Cancels Rolando 3, Says It Can't Fit Into A Free-To-Play Model <http://www.tuaw.com/2010/02/18/ngmoco-cancels-rolando-3-says-it-cant-fit-into-a-free-to-play/>
Mike Schramm, TUAW

**** Huh, Apple Opens The App Store To Lottery Apps <http://appadvice.com/appnn/2010/02/huh-apple-opens-the-app-store-to-lottery-apps/>
Alexander Vaughn, App Advice

**** Did Apple Just Ban Sexual Content From The App Store? <http://techcrunch.com/2010/02/18/did-apple-just-ban-sexual-content-from-the-app-store/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Techcrunch+%28TechCrunch%29>
Jason Kincaid, TechCrunch

We’ve just heard from Jon Atherton, the developer behind Wobble iBoobs, who says that he just received an Email from Apple indicating that his application was being removed from the App Store because of a new policy change: Apple has apparently decided “to remove any overtly sexual content from the App Store.”

**** iPhone Devsugar: App Store Approval In...One Hour? <http://www.tuaw.com/2010/02/18/iphone-devsugar-app-store-approval-in-one-hour/>
Erica Sadun, TUAW

Shorter review times are a great move on Apple's part and a win for all parties: developers, customers, and Apple.

**** An iPad Is Not A Laptop <http://gizmodo.com/5470450/an-ipad-is-not-a-laptop?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+gizmodo%2Ffull+%28Gizmodo%29>
Matt Buchanan, Gizmodo

It's supposed to be this third thing. Bigger than a phone, smaller than a laptop. It browses; it's got books; it plays video. Can it possibly have a place in a laptop-free utopia?

**** Apple Seeks To Continue Classroom Success With iPad <http://www.dailyillini.com/news/champaign-urbana/2010/02/18/apple-seeks-to-continue-classroom-success-with-ipad>
Derek Beigh, Daily Illini

A look around any university classroom shows blinking lights, the glow of screens and power cords running from desk to wall. Technology experts say tablet computing devices such as the iPad and tablet PCs could join this scene in the future.

**** Report: Apple Cuts Some Final Cut Staff <http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20000083-264.html?part=rss&amp;subj=news&amp;tag=2547-1_3-0-20>
Stephen Shankland, CNET News

Apple has cut some staff working on its Final Cut video editing software suite, according to a report by a video industry insider.



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**** House Life In A Koolhaas <http://blogs.nybooks.com/post/397201656/house-life-in-a-koolhaas>
Martin Filler, The New York Review of Books

Few makers of architectural documentaries exploit the full potential of film to create a convincing sense of what it is like to move through a sequence of interiors, an ability made much easier with the introduction of the Steadicam in 1976. A rare exception is Ila Bêka and Louise Lemoine’s 58-minute-long Koolhaas Houselife (2008), one of two recent releases on the celebrated Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas, principal of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture in Rotterdam.

**** Mothers In Combat Boots <http://www.hoover.org/publications/policyreview/82844182.html>
Mary Eberstadt, Policy Review

With the obvious assent of the American people, as well as most of our political and military and other leaders, the United States military now routinely recruits mothers or soon-to-be mothers of babies and young children — and often puts them in harm’s way more or less as it does every other soldier. This is a practice so morally questionable, and in virtue of that fact so fraught with policy difficulties, that both its persistence and its apparent lack of controversy fairly beg for explanation. It is past time to ask the question: Why?



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**** MM Lee Warns Of Dangers Of Slow Growth If Productivity Does Not Increase <http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/1038320/1/.html>
S Ramesh , Channel NewsAsia

The future is promising for Singaporeans, but challenges such as increasing productivity and raising skills across the board need to be tackled in the next five years, minister mentor Lee Kuan Yew said.

**** Piggybacking On The Resorts <http://www.todayonline.com/Singapore/EDC100219-0000114/Piggybacking-on-the-resorts>
Teo Xuanwei, Today

Both IRs have kept hush-hush the contracts they have awarded, but the advertisements in newspapers congratulating RWS this week, paid for by a slew of companies, reflect where many deals have gone.

**** Beware Of 'Too Big To Fail' Situation <http://www.straitstimes.com/STForum/Story/STIStory_492028.html>
Errol Goodenough, Straits Times

The Economic Strategies Committee suggested even more consolidation. However, given the vagaries of the global economy, is it wise to develop corporate behemoths that may eventually become too big to fail locally and require national resources to be rescued?

**** Concerned Over HDB's Record-keeping <http://www.straitstimes.com/STForum/Story/STIStory_492034.html>
Mavis Ng, Straits Times

I am concerned that citizens are expected to keep documents from 15 years ago. Should not such records be HDB's responsibility?

**** Singapore Economic Outlook Improves <http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703983004575074080943095428.html?mod=WSJ_economy_LeftTopHighlights>
Sam Holmes, Wall Street Journal

Singapore's economy contracted at a pace slower than initial government estimates in the fourth quarter from the previous quarter, government data showed Friday.

**** On The Beat To The Hustings? <http://theonlinecitizen.com/2010/02/on-the-beat-to-the-hustings/>
Ng E-Jay, The Online Citizen

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**** SGD20.5b Resilience Package Worked Though Only A Fraction Of GIC, Temasek Losses <http://www.pressrun.net/weblog/2010/02/sgd205b-resilience-package-worked-though-only-a-fraction-of-gic-temasek-losses.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rana+%28Blowin%27+In+The+Wind%29>
Blowin' In The Wind

**** Rough Justice? It Works ... <http://www.todayonline.com/Comment/EDC100219-0000064/Rough-justice?-It-works-,,,>
Paul Gilfeather, Today

**** Parliament To Discuss Issues On ESC Report, Housing, Romanian Hit-and-run Case <http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/1038514/1/.html>
Channel NewsAsia

Parliament will sit on Monday, with Members of Parliament (MPs) seeking clarification on the impact of the recently-released Economic Strategies Committee (ESC) report.

**** Government To Introduce New Tax, Lower Loan Limit To Cool Private Property Market <http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/1038526/1/.html>
Mustafa Shafawi, Channel NewsAsia

The government has introduced two new measures that will take effect Saturday to temper sentiments and pre-empt a property bubble from forming in the private residential market.

The first is a Seller's Stamp Duty on all residential properties and residential lands that are bought after Friday and sold within one year from the date of purchase. The housing loan limit will also be capped at 80 per cent of the private property's value, instead of the current 90 per cent.

**** S'pore Income Gap Narrows <http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/Singapore/Story/STIStory_492307.html>
Clarissa Oon, Straits Times

Singapore's income gap narrowed slightly last year for the second year in a row, as families in the higher income groups experienced a bigger drop in income than those in lower-earning households.