[MyAppleMenu] Jul 27, 2010

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**** There Will Be Blood: Why Apple And Intel Are Destined To Clash <http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2010/07/there-will-be-blood-why-apple-and-intel-are-doomed-to-clash.ars?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss>
Jon Stokes, Ars Technica

Given how much engineering effort the company has focused on its iOS-based products—to the point where most of the CPUs in Mac hardware have fallen a full generation behind—it's hard to imagine that Jobs isn't feeling similarly betrayed by yet another Apple partner's full-court press into the smartphone market. I'm talking, of course, about Intel, which just hired former Apple and Palm VP Mike Bell to head up its smartphone efforts, and which is rumored to be contemplating a purchase of key baseband chipmaker Infineon. Intel is jumping into the smartphone market with both feet, and the company's goal isn't just to create a direct iPhone competitor—no, Intel wants to empower a whole ecosystem of iPhone competitors based on x86.

**** Web Ad Network: IOS 4 On Half Of iPhones <http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-20011628-37.html?part=rss&amp;subj=news&amp;tag=2547-1_3-0-20>
Lance Whitney, CNET

Though only a month old, Apple's new iOS 4 has found its way onto 50 percent of a sample 9 million iPhones tracked by ad network Chitika, according to stats released Monday.

**** iPhone 4 Hitting 17 More Countries On Friday <http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-20011611-37.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=News-Apple>
Lance Whitney, CNET

**** Mac Gems: Get Faster Search Results On Your Mac With DataLore <http://www.macworld.com/reviews/product/572700/review/datalore_102.html?expand=true&lsrc=rss_main>
Stuart Gripman, Macworld

DataLore may stir in you a newfound respect for the Spotlight. The stock interface to Spotlight’s index of your hard drive is very simple, but not particularly flexible. DataLore aims to improve the speed and relevance of your search results by permitting you to be very specific about which folders are searched and which are ignored.

**** Things Touch For iPhone Gets Alarms, Multitasking <http://www.macworld.com/article/152928/2010/07/things_iphone.html?lsrc=rss_main>
David Chartier, Macworld

Things 1.6 for iPhone is the big iOS 4 and iPhone 4 update—you can look forward to Local Notifications for task alarms, multitasking that allows you to switch between apps without losing your place, TextExpander support, and a “major code overhaul” to the task entry process to make it more responsive and squash a bunch of bugs.

**** Jailbreaking Officially Granted DMCA Exemption <http://www.macworld.com/article/152935/2010/07/jailbreak_exemption.html?lsrc=rss_main>
Dan Moren, Macworld

The U.S. Librarian of Congress ruled on Monday that consumers who circumvent digital protections on smartphones to install unapproved applications—a practice often colloquially known as “jailbreaking”—for noninfringing reasons should be exempted from prosecution under the anti-circumvention section of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).

**** 1Password Gets Cloud Syncing <http://www.macworld.com/article/152937/2010/07/1password.html?lsrc=rss_main>
David Dahlquist, Macworld

Agile Web Solutions has brought a much-requested feature to its 1Password password management utility: cloud synchronization. Users of 1Password for Mac and 1Password Pro for iOS can now synchronize their passwords with their Macs, iPhones, and Windows PCs securely via Dropbox.

**** Has Apple Leveled The iPhone Playing Field? Maybe <http://technologizer.com/2010/07/26/iphone-playing-field/>
Harry McCracken, Technologizer

The new Skype is a happy sign that Apple is willing to approve extremely competitive applications from very large companies. Given Apple’s erratic approval patterns in the past, though, it’s not enough to make clear the era of rejecting programs for encroaching on its turf is over.

**** Apple’s Official Response To Dmca Jailbreak Exemption: It Voids Your Warranty <http://www.cultofmac.com/apples-official-response-to-dmca-jailbreak-exemption-it-voids-your-warranty/52463>
Leander Kahney, Cult Of Mac

**** Hong Kong, Singapore Carriers To Offer iPhone 4 Friday <http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20100727-706026.html>
Lorraine Luk and Sam Holmes, Dow Jones

**** iMac Line Refreshed By Apple <http://www.tuaw.com/2010/07/27/imac-line-refreshed-by-apple/>
Erica Sadun, TUAW

The new systems offer Intel Core i3, i5, and i7 processors (no more Core 2 Duo!) with improved graphics and new Magic Trackpad support.

**** Apple's Unveils New Mac Pro Desktop With Up To 12 Processing Cores <http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/10/07/27/apples_unveils_new_mac_pro_desktop_with_up_to_12_processing_cores.html>
AppleInsider

The new Mac Pro desktops feature the latest quad-core and 6-core Intel Xeon processors, all-new ATI graphics and the option for up to four 512GB solid state drives (SSD). The processors run at speeds up to 3.33GHz and use a single die design so they can share up to 12MB L3 cache, improving efficiency while increasing processing speeds.

**** Apple Introduces The Magic Trackpad <http://www.tuaw.com/2010/07/27/apple-introduces-the-magic-trackpad/>
Dave Caolo, TUAW

Today, Apple released the Magic Trackpad, calling it "...a multi-touch Bluetooth trackpad meant to work with your desktop computer." It certainly resembles an oversized MacBook Pro trackpad (in fact, it's 80% larger) perched atop the same battery case that's on Apple's Bluetooth keyboards. In fact, it sits at the same height and angle as the keyboard, so you can move back and forth easily.

**** Apple Introduces New 27-inch LED Cinema Display <http://www.macworld.com/article/152954/2010/07/27inchcinemadisplay.html?lsrc=rss_main>
Marco Tabini, Macworld



The Tomorrow Weblog
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**** So Many Bugs, So Little Time <http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/25869/?ref=rss&a=f>
Erica Naone, Technology Review

The development of a technique known as "fuzzing" has led to a shift in the way software bugs are discovered. Fuzzing involves repeatedly feeding randomly altered input into a program, causing the program to crash. Those inputs that caused it to crash could reveal an important bug.



MyAppleMenu Reader
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**** Love Found Amid Ruins Of Empire <http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/27/books/27book.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss>
Michiko Kakutani, New York Times

Gary Shteyngart’s wonderful new novel, “Super Sad True Love Story,” is a supersad, superfunny, superaffecting performance — a book that not only showcases the ebullient satiric gifts he demonstrated in his entertaining 2002 debut, “The Russian Debutante’s Handbook,” but that also uncovers his abilities to write deeply and movingly about love and loss and mortality. It’s a novel that gives us a cutting comic portrait of a futuristic America, nearly ungovernable and perched on the abyss of fiscal collapse, and at the same time it is a novel that chronicles a sweetly real love affair as it blossoms from its awkward, improbable beginnings.

**** Following A Script To Escape A Nightmare <http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/27/health/27night.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss>
Sarah Kershaw, New York Times

In recent years, nightmares have increasingly been viewed as a distinct disorder, and researchers have produced a growing body of empirical evidence that this kind of cognitive therapy can help reduce their frequency and intensity, or even eliminate them.

**** The State Of "State Of The Art" <http://www.thesmartset.com/article/article07261001.aspx>
Jesse Smith, The Smart Set

All these technologies — and the journalists who write about them — can thank an engineer named Henry Harrison Suplee for the four-word phrase that today signals to readers and listeners that something is new and should therefore be considered the best, without really explaining why.

**** Milk <http://www.slate.com/id/2261777/?from=rss>
T.R. Hummer, Slate Magazine

**** The Dos and Don'ts of Ordering Chinese <http://www.theatlantic.com/food/archive/2010/07/the-dos-and-donts-of-ordering-chinese/60324/>
Andrew Coe, The Atlantic

A Chinese meal is a social event meant to break down boundaries, not build them. There's nothing sadder in a Chinese restaurant than seeing a table where eaters guard their individual portions of beef with broccoli or sweet and sour pork like inmates in the prison mess hall.



SingaporeSurf
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**** Asia Is Hot Destination For Medical Tourists <http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/c32088a4-98cf-11df-9418-00144feab49a.html?ftcamp=rss>
Tim Johnston and Kevin Brown and Amy Kazmin, Financial Times

When Khazanah, Malaysia’s sovereign wealth fund, launched a bid for control of Singapore’s Parkway Holdings healthcare group earlier this year, it triggered a cross-border takeover battle involving companies in three Asian countries.

The tussle demonstrates the high value attached by the rival bidders to Parkway’s extensive hospital network, which the bidders hoped to use to create a leading Asian healthcare provider – and capitalise on the region’s fast-growing medical tourism industry.

**** Singapore Airlines Profits Boosted By Traveller Demand <http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-10762533>
BBC

Singapore Airlines (SIA) made a first-quarter profit of 253 million Singapore dollars ($184.7m; £119m) for the three months between April and June. The figure, which was above ...

**** The "Market" As Deus Ex Machina (or, The Scapegoat For Rising Housing Prices And Other Inconvenient Realities) <http://siewkumhong.blogspot.com/2010/04/market-as-deus-ex-machina-or-scapegoat.html>
Siew Kum Hong

By mixing up the public policy goals of providing affordable accommodation and helping citizens plan for their retirement, the Government has ended up achieving neither, with public housing becoming increasing unaffordable and many retirees being asset-rich and cash-poor.

**** Fastest Growing Economy – What About Jobs And Wages? (Part 2) <http://theonlinecitizen.com/2010/07/fastest-growing-economy-what-about-jobs-and-wages-part-2/>
Leong Sze Hian / Andrew Loh, The Online Citizen

**** Accommodate Maximum, Not Average, Loads <http://www.todayonline.com/Voices/EDC100727-0000046/Accommodate-maximum,-not-average,-loads>
Richard Seah, Today

The SMRT communications staff asserts that MRT trains carry an "average" of only 1,300 to 1,500 passengers during peak hours. These numbers work out to an average of 3.8 persons per square metre, which does not correspond with reality.

Could SMRT please divulge how it arrives at the "average" passenger load? Would it care to also reveal the maximum numbers? Do independent entities, such as the LTA or the Public Transport Council, verify the numbers?

**** Breathing Space! <http://abdillahzamzuri.wordpress.com/2010/07/27/breathing-space/>
Abdillah Zamzuri

**** Banning And Cutting Of Funds As Alleged Forms Of Censorship In Singapore <http://www.thebachelorgirl.com/2010/5152/banning-and-cutting-of-funds-as-forms-of-censorship-in-singapore/>
TheBachelorgirl.com

While I was watching the W!ld Rice restaging of one of its hits — Animal Farm on 21 April 2010 — I was taken aback with some of the references to the Singaporean government, which, even as a foreigner, I could not miss. A few weeks later, the announcement of the cutting of funds came out.

**** The Leader And His Civil Service <http://sakmongkol.blogspot.com/2010/07/leader-and-his-civil-service.html>
Sakmongkol AK47

**** The Little Story Of One Hdb Flat <http://mrwangsaysso.blogspot.com/2010/07/little-story-of-one-hdb-flat.html>
Mr Wang Says So

For most Singaporeans, the only way to make money from a HDB flat is to downgrade. Many people would say, quite rightly, that this means you aren't really "making money".

**** Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve <http://pascalalfadian.blogspot.com/2010/07/sungei-buloh-wetland-reserve.html>
Singapore And Beyond

Who would expect that there is still a wetland in the modern city of Singapore?

**** 少了一站车资更贵？ <http://www.zaobao.com/yl/yl100727_004.shtml>
何荧, 联合早报

同一条路线，提前一个站上车，车程应该是短了，怎么反而得多付7分？少一个站，车资不减反增，令人费解。

**** 组屋转售市场失衡非失控 <http://www.zaobao.com/yl/sl100727_001.shtml>
联合早报

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**** Floods And Politicking – Which Hits Worse? <http://theonlinecitizen.com/2010/07/floods-and-politicking-%e2%80%93-which-hits-worse/>
Howard Lee, The Online Citizen

For the population and particularly those affected, this is the time to muster another level of determination, for odd weather seems here to stay and, by the rhetoric thrown around, most significantly by MM Lee’s decree, we evidently should not depend on our politicians to provide assistance, must less shield us from it.

**** 人民党党内拉锯 对党对詹时中有何影响？ <http://www.zaobao.com.sg/sp/sp100727_016.shtml>
游润恬, 联合早报

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**** 调查显示 å¤–åŠ³ç¨Žå¢žåŠ å¯¹ä¼ä¸šè˜å¤–åŠ³å½±å“ä¸å¤§ <http://www.zaobao.com/sp/sp100727_015.shtml>
吴淑贤, 联合早报

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**** Help Commuters Get A Grip <http://www.todayonline.com/Voices/EDC100727-0000133/Help-commuters-get-a-grip>
Noodie Mak, Today

I know it is not easy to juggle the demands for transportation with the number of trains in service simultaneously but more thought should be put into giving passengers, literally, a grip on the situation aboard our jam-packed trains.

**** Selling A HDB Flat <http://tankinlian.blogspot.com/2010/07/selling-hdb-flat.html>
Tan Kin Lian

We can stop the price escalation of HDB flats by providing a supply of flats for rental at controlled prices. The government has the means to achieve this goal, if they wish to.

**** Competent. Constructive. Compassionate. (Part II) <http://yoursdp.org/index.php/perspective/vantage/3949-sdp-competent-constructive-compassionate-part-ii>
Singapore Democrat Party

**** Singapore Airlines Seeks CEO As Chew Choon Seng Signals Plans To Step Down <http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-07-27/singapore-air-is-in-the-process-of-looking-for-chew-s-successor-lee-says.html>
Chan Sue Ling, Bloomberg

**** Singapore Operators Release iPhone 4 Prices <http://asia.cnet.com/2010/07/27/singapore-operators-release-iphone-4-prices/>
John Chan, CNET Asia

**** Singapour Rouvre Les Portes De L'immigration <http://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2010/07/27/singapour-rouvre-les-portes-de-l-immigration_1392581_3234.html>
Florence Beaugé, Le Monde

La crise n'étant plus qu'un souvenir, les autorités singapouriennes envisagent de rouvrir les portes de l'immigration. Cette année, 100 000 travailleurs étrangers devraient être nécessaires pour répondre au fort rebond de l'économie de la cité-Etat : 18,1 % de croissance pour les six premiers mois.

**** Romanian Ex Diplomat Accused Of Hit-And-Run Killing In Singapore Claims He Was Set Up <http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5iYlTpJS8DC0qWZAoUV1W5btvNn3g>
The Canadian Press

As his trial opened in the Romanian capital on Tuesday, Ionescu claimed this was the second time Singapore's authorities had tried to connect him with a hit-and-run accident. Ionescu said the first case was dropped after witnesses confirmed he had been at a diplomatic reception at the time of the alleged incident.

**** Singapore Called On To Stop Harassment Of Journalist <http://worldjournalism.wordpress.com/2010/07/27/singapore-called-on-to-stop-harassment-of-journalist/>
Journalism, Journalists and the World

For all its official pronouncements of allowing free and open discussion, the Singapore government more often acts like a petty dictatorship than a liberal democracy.