[MyAppleMenu] Jul 11, 2010

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**** iTunes Password Caching <http://www.manton.org/2010/07/itunes_password.html>
Manton Reece

A reasonable argument could be made that iTunes should either not cache passwords at all, or keep a separate cache for app downloads vs. in-app purchases, or maybe always prompt for a password on in-app purchases.

**** Another Fraudulent Developer Removed From Apple's App Store <http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/10/07/10/another_fraudulent_developer_removed_from_apples_app_store.html>
AppleInsider

A second case of alleged App Store fraud arose this week, with one developer's travel-related applications seeing strong sales as at least one user claimed their account was hijacked.

**** Apple Is Better By Design, But Does Little For Western Workers <http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/jul/11/apple-foxconn-start-ups>
John Naughton, The Guardian

**** Why I Can’t Kick The Apple iPhone Habit <http://scobleizer.com/2010/07/11/why-i-cant-kick-the-apple-iphone-habit/>
Robert Scoble, Scobleizer

So, why am I more productive on iPhones than on Android?



MyAppleMenu Reader
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**** How Facts Backfire <http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2010/07/11/how_facts_backfire/?rss_id=Boston+Globe+--+Ideas+section>
Joe Keohane, Boston Globe

It’s one of the great assumptions underlying modern democracy that an informed citizenry is preferable to an uninformed one. “Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government,” Thomas Jefferson wrote in 1789.

In the end, truth will out. Won’t it?

**** iBoy By Kevin Brooks <http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/jul/11/iboy-kevin-brooks-book-review?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+theguardian%2Fbooks%2Frss+%28Books%29>
Geraldine Brennan, The Guardian

Adolescents tend to think they can rule their known world from anywhere with a phone signal: Kevin Brooks's gripping, streetwise and profound new science-fiction crime thriller for readers of 13 and above is about a boy who can do just that.

**** The Maples Stories By John Updike <http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/jul/11/maples-stories-john-updike-review?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+theguardian%2Fbooks%2Frss+%28Books%29>
Natasha Tripney, The Guardian

Updike is, as ever, sensitive to the fuzzy line between love and hate, the things people do to hurt one another, with and without meaning it, and the many tiny intimacies and outrages that make a marriage.



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**** Kempas To Be Site Of Railway's Southern Hub <http://www.nst.com.my/nst/articles/24assembly/Article#ixzz0tHuwNtud>
Ben Tan, New Straits Times

With the impending relocation of the Keretapi Tanah Melayu Bhd (KTMB) railway station from Woodlands, Singapore, to Malaysia, the state government has allocated 80.9ha in Kempas for the purpose.

**** Broken Words <http://singaporelifetimes.blogspot.com/2010/07/broken-language.html>
Singapore Life and Times

Let's be honest, no matter how broken the language is, all of us understood what he said and what he meant. There wasn't any ambiguity.

**** Things We Forget <http://theonlinecitizen.com/2010/07/things-we-forget/>
The Online Citizen

**** Be Open About Singapore's Investment In Johor, Says Najib <http://www.bernama.com/bernama/v5/newsindex.php?id=512628>
Bernama

Prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak has called on all parties to keep an open mind and not to be emotional about Singapore's investment in Johor, particularly in Iskandar Malaysia.

Najib, who is the Umno president, said if Singapore or other countries were investing in Iskandar Malaysia, it would be to the benefit of the people of Johor.

**** Spotting The Bad Eggs <http://singaporedesk.blogspot.com/2010/07/spotting-bad-eggs.html>
Singapore Notes

Minister-in-charge of Muslim affairs Yaacob Ibrahim asked instead his Malay community to use the troika of the office of the Mufti, registered religious teachers and the Islamic Rellgious Council of Singapore (Muis) to snitch for the ISD. Instead of helping their misguided brethren who have may have strayed inadvertently from the righteous path, he wants the ISD goons to do the dirty work.

**** Look At Fare Changes Over Time To See Real Benefits: Lim Hwee Hua <http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/1068811/1/.html>
Hoe Yeen Nie, Channel NewsAsia

Commuters who feel they are paying more under the distance-based fare system should look at fares over time, instead of how much they are paying per trip. Second transport minister Lim Hwee Hua said that by doing so, commuters might find they have benefited.

**** Doesn't One-third Passing Mean Two-thirds Failing? <http://siewkumhong.blogspot.com/2010/07/doesnt-one-third-passing-mean-two.html>
Siew Kum Hong

Come on! That was the standard of English proficiency being tested, and two-thirds failed?

**** Barrage Working Well <http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/Singapore/Story/STIStory_552259.html>
Sue-ann Chia, Straits Times

The senior Parliamentary secretary for environment and water resources on Sunday sought to dispel talk that it was futile to build the Marina Barrage as it did nothing to prevent the flood in Orchard Road last month.

Dr Amy Khor said it was working well. Otherwise, other areas in Singapore might have flooded too.

**** Casino Fee Given Back To Public <http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/Singapore/Story/STIStory_552266.html>
Straits Times

The money collected by the two casinos in entrance fees from Singaporeans and permanent residents (PRs) is already being recycled back to the community. This is being done via the Tote Board which is given all the money collected.

It then hands them out as grants to community projects, said second minister for finance Lim Hwee Hua at a dialogue with Bukit Gombak residents. Mrs Lim, who is also second minister for transport, did not specify the types of projects that gained from the collection.