[MyAppleMenu] Jan 22, 2010

[applesurf at myapplemenu.com]

MyAppleMenu
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**** Google And Apple: Schmidt Calls Partnerships "quite Stable Right Now" <http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=29832>
Sam Diaz, ZDNet

During a Q&A conference call with analysts to discuss the Google’s fourth quarter earnings, someone asked about the company’s relationships with Apple. In a heartfelt answer, Schmidt made his “special place” comment and further praised Apple for being a very well run company that has “a lot of good stuff coming.”

**** How To Correct Color Problems In IPhoto <http://www.macworld.com/article/145795/2010/01/fixcolorsiniphoto.html?lsrc=rss_main>
Ben Long, Macworld

Learn how to use iPhoto's Adjust palette to tackle bad color, which is one of the most challenging image problems to solve.

**** Apple Delays 27-inch iMac Shipments Again <http://www.cultofmac.com/apple-delays-27-inch-imac-shipments-again/27092?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+cultofmac%2FbFow+%28Cult+of+Mac%29>
John Brownlee, Cult of Mac

**** Open-source Project Shoots For Mac E-mail Client <http://www.macworld.com/article/145815/2010/01/letters.html?lsrc=rss_main>
Lex Friedman, Macworld

Developer Brent Simmons and Mac pundit John Gruber have kicked off a project to make new email software for the Mac.

**** New Firefox 3.6 Brings Speed Boost <http://www.macworld.com/article/145825/2010/01/firefox36.html?lsrc=rss_main>
Dan Moren, Macworld

Among the new end-user features in Firefox 3.6 are a theme capability called Personas that allows users to change the look of the browser without having to restart, a Plugin Updater that now detects out-of-date plugins, and form completion that suggests answers for common questions.

**** Ease Web Searches With LaunchBar <http://www.macworld.com/article/145831/2010/01/lbwebsearch.html?lsrc=rss_main>
Aayush Arya, Macworld

Learn how to use LaunchBar to quickly search your favorite sites, and how to use Google's I'm Feeling Lucky feature to immediately jump to the results you (most likely) want to see.

**** Apple Launches A New European iPhone Charger <http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AppAdvice/~3/BAEEU0rP4Ww/>
Alexander Vaughn, App Advice

**** More Flame Bait <http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/01/more-flame-bait.html>
Charles Stross, Charlie's Diary

One day, I hope, the entire PC industry will cotton on to the value of good industrial design and start taking it as seriously as Apple; or that those companies who don't will go bust.

**** Ulysses 2.0 <http://www.macworld.com/article/145733/2010/01/ulysses2.html?lsrc=rss_main>
Nathan Alderman, Macworld

The Soulmen’s Ulysses 2.0.4 writing app is dense, complex, and well-designed.



The Tomorrow Weblog
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**** NASA Announces Designs For Personal Flying Suit <http://intransit.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/21/nasa-announces-designs-for-personal-flying-suit/>
Dan Saltzstein, New York Times



MyAppleMenu Reader
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**** The Dark Side Of Food Porn <http://food.theatlantic.com/stories/the-dark-side-of-food-porn.php>
Nicole Allan, The Atlantic

I didn't know how to react to the Fat Bitch. A friend had emailed me a link to a picture of what was, anatomically, a hoagie bun stuffed with cheesesteak, bacon, marinara sauce, French fries, tomatoes, ketchup, mayonnaise, and mozzarella sticks. I knew the link—the picture, even the sandwich itself—was a joke. I'd received and sent many such links, reveling at the daring of whoever would consume such creations. But this one, for some reason, just made me squirm.

**** The Chess Master And The Computer <http://www.nybooks.com/articles/23592?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+nybooks+%28The+New+York+Review+of+Books%29>
Garry Kasparov, The New York Review Of Books

It was an impressive achievement, of course, and a human achievement by the members of the IBM team, but Deep Blue was only intelligent the way your programmable alarm clock is intelligent. Not that losing to a $10 million alarm clock made me feel any better.



SingaporeSurf
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**** Public Order Act Slammed <http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/Singapore/Story/STIStory_480426.html>
Kor Kian Beng, Straits Times

A New York-based rights group has criticised Singapore's new Public Order Act, which gives the police powers to compel a person to move on and refrain from returning to a designated spot for up to 24 hours.

In its World Report 2010 released yesterday, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said the new law has effectively negated an earlier move by the Government to relax rules at Speakers' Corner in Hong Lim Park.

**** Singapore: The Nation That Dreamt Of Becoming An Ivy League <http://givemesometruth.wordpress.com/2010/01/21/singapore-the-nation-that-dreamt-of-becoming-an-ivy-league/>
Alastair Su, Gimme Some Truth!

**** Discriminatory Job Ads On The Decline? That Is But The Tip Of Our Problems. <http://www.sgpolitics.net/?p=3762>
Ng E-Jay, Sgpolitics.net

The main issue I have with the Tafep report is that it has neglected to consider discrimination against Singaporeans vis-a-vis foreign workers.

**** Govt Won't Fund World Cup <http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/Singapore/Story/STIStory_480660.html>
Straits Times

The government has signalled that it would not fund the 2010 World Cup on free-to-air television, as it looks like Singapore will be denied the live telecast because SingTel and StarHub will not pay the price demanded by soccer's world governing body, Fifa.

**** 脚踏车合法使用人行道的准备工作不足 <http://www.zaobao.com/yl/yl100122_007.shtml>
单锦昌, 联合早报

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**** Singapore Snorts Over McDonald's Toy Pig Blunder <http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=R&sa=T&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.reuters.com%2Farticle%2FidUSTRE60L0U720100122&usg=AFQjCNEgRJ2k2gUUWdzZ0_VXD9JLINeuVg>
Nopporn Wong-Anan and Fabian Ng, Reuters

McDonald's apologized to Singapore Friday and brought a pig back to its toy menu, after a decision to leave the animal out of its Chinese zodiac collection upset many in the predominantly ethnic Chinese nation.

**** Singapore Rejects 'Repressive State' Tag By Rights Watchdog <http://news.malaysia.msn.com/regional/article.aspx?cp-documentid=3808053>
AFP

Singapore on Friday rejected allegations by a US-based human rights group that it is a "politically repressive state". "Singapore is a democratic state with a clean and transparent government, whose public officials are held responsible against the highest standards of probity and integrity," the Ministry of Law said in a statement to AFP.