[MyAppleMenu] Jul 31, 2010

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**** Where To? Updated For iOS 4 <http://www.macworld.com/article/153063/2010/07/whereto_ios4.html?lsrc=rss_main>
David Dahlquist, Macworld

Where To? uses your iPhone’s GPS function to let you browse nearby services and amenities. While you can already do this to some extent with the Google Maps app, Where To? enhances the experience with a well-designed interface and added features.

**** Daz Releases Bryce 7 3D Suite <http://www.macworld.com/article/153069/2010/07/bryce7.html?lsrc=rss_main>
Digital Arts

**** Review: Starcraft II: Wings Of Liberty <http://www.macworld.com/reviews/product/504299/review/starcraft_ii_wings_of_liberty.html?expand=true&lsrc=rss_main>
Chris Holt, Macworld

My quibbles about limited strategies and the elimination of certain units are minor, comparatively speaking. After playing ten years of games trying to be StarCraft, it’s nice for Blizzard to come back with StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty and once again raise the bar on sci-fi real-time strategy. The multiplayer is similar enough to the original to keep the puritans happy, while the single player campaign is a beautiful, complex, replayable, and epic journey into a world that gets more interesting every time I enter it.

**** Reviewed: Apple's iPhone 4 Case Program Cases <http://www.macworld.com/reviews/collection/4726/freeiphone4cases.html>
Dan Frakes, Macworld

**** The Omni Group Releases OmniFocus For iPad <http://www.macworld.com/article/153060/2010/07/omnifocus_ipad.html?lsrc=rss_main>
Dan Moren, Macworld

If your life is inundated with tasks that are crying out for management, then you probably have at least a passing familiarity with The Omni Group’s OmniFocus. The task-management program has been available for both the Mac and iPhone for sometime, but on Friday, the company released OmniFocus for iPad.

**** First Look: OmniFocus For iPad <http://www.tuaw.com/2010/07/30/first-look-omnifocus-for-ipad/>
Erica Sadun, TUAW

Costing a rather steep $39.99, OmniFocus for iPad brings another professionally priced tool for professionals into the App Store iPad arena.

**** Mac Touchpads, Compared: Apple Magic Trackpad Vs. Wacom Bamboo <http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-20012244-1.html>
Scott Stein, CNET

We found the Magic Trackpad to have some limitations despite being beautifully constructed and ergonomically superior to the Bamboo as a touch device. The Bamboo has an incredibly diverse customizable preferences area, and more ways to interact.

**** The OpenAppMkt Is Here To Break Down Apple's Walled Garden <http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2010/07/30/businessinsider-the-openappmkt-apple-2010-7.DTL>
Jay Yarow, Business Insider

OpenAppMkt is trying to corral all the HTML5 apps into one place with a clean interface that resembles the App Store. CEO Teck Chia tells us he wants to create an open alternative for developers to submit apps, and hopefully make some money.

**** The iPad Caught Microsoft With Its Pants Down <http://www.zdnet.com/blog/hardware/the-ipad-caught-microsoft-with-its-pants-down/9132>
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, ZDNet

The problem is that Microsoft has a hard time thinking outside the “Windows” box, and an even harder time building a new OS that has all the functionality that people want.

In my opinion, the "Windows Everywhery" strategy killed every Microsoft product except, perhaps, Windows.

**** Core Support Takes First Bite Out Of Apple's Latest Gadget <http://www.independent.ie/national-news/core-support-takes-first-bite-out-of-apples-latest-gadget-2279890.html>
Independent

Roaming charges are unlikely to worry Richard Lynch. The 17-year-old put his family's summer holiday to Portugal in some jeopardy yesterday when he decided that he simply couldn't wait that long before getting his hands on the latest 'must have' gadget from Apple.



The Tomorrow Weblog
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**** So You Don't Really Have To Say Goodbye <http://gadgetwise.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/07/30/so-you-dont-really-have-to-say-goodbye/?partner=rss&emc=rss>
Warren Buckleitner, New York Times

Any parent knows the mixed-up emotions of putting a kindergartener on the school bus. What if you could send a scrap of your voice along for the ride?



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**** Righteous & Wrong <http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2010/aug/19/righteous-wrong/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+nybooks+%28The+New+York+Review+of+Books%29>
Malise Ruthven, The New York Review of Books

At Yad Vashem, the Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem, stands an exhibit that is for some more unsettling than the replicas of the Warsaw Ghetto or the canisters of Zyklon B gas used at Auschwitz and Treblinka. Next to blown-up photographs of emaciated corpses from the death camps there is a picture of the grand mufti of Palestine, Hajj Amin al-Husseini, reviewing an honor guard of the Muslim division of the Waffen SS that fought the Serbs and antifascist partisans. The display includes a cable to Hajj Amin from Heinrich Himmler, dated November 2, 1943: “The National Socialist Party has inscribed on its flag ‘the extermination of world Jewry.’ Our party sympathizes with the fight of the Arabs, especially the Arabs of Palestine, against the foreign Jew.” There is also a quote from a broadcast the mufti gave over Berlin radio on March 1, 1944: “Arabs, rise as one man and fight for your sacred rights. Kill the Jews wherever you find them. This is the command of God, history and religion.”

**** Colonials Abroad <http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/01/books/review/Wulf-t.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss>
Andrea Wulf, New York Times

In the decades before the Declaration of Independence, thousands of American colonists visited London. Wealthy Southern plantation owners and New England merchants, husbands and wives, children and slaves all arrived in what was thought to be the most exciting city in the world. Some went shopping for exquisite silver, fashionable furniture and the latest books; others traded their goods and engaged in political arguments in noisy coffee houses. A sojourn in London was part of the education of the sons (and sometimes daughters) of wealthy colonial families because, as one contemporary observed, “more is learnt of mankind here in a month than can be in a year in any other part of the world.”

Julie Flavell’s “When London Was Capital of America” illuminates this fascinating chapter of London’s — and North America’s — past, showing how the metropolis functioned as a magnet for colonists from across the Atlantic (including the West Indies) who sought accomplishment, opportunity and commerce. An American-born scholar who is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society, Flavell has unearthed a host of stories that bring alive a previously neglected aspect of the colonial experience.

**** Drink What You Know <http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/01/books/review/Nicholson-t.html?partner=rss&emc=rss>
Geoff Nicholson, New York Times

People telling you how to drink is every bit as tedious and annoying as people telling you not to drink at all. It seems to me that writers are much more useful in these matters when their advice is dispensed casually in their fiction — when they are showing rather than telling.



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**** One Of The Most User-unfriendly Stations <http://www.straitstimes.com/STForum/Story/STIStory_560043.html>
Kevin Leong, Straits Times

The Tanjong Pagar MRT station is probably one of the most user-unfriendly stations in the city despite its big and beautiful design.

**** Shadrake’s Day In Court, Part 1 <http://yawningbread.wordpress.com/2010/07/31/shadrakes-day-in-court-part-1/>
Yawning Bread

A lawyer sitting near me in the public gallery felt that Quentin Loh acted fairly. Another lawyer noted that Chong, lead counsel for the AGC, ought not to have objected to the application for leave to file affidavits. The accused should have the right of reply. In the case against the Wall Street Journal (where David Chong was also lead counsel for the AGC), the accused had about six weeks to file an affidavit.

**** Japan Proves MM Lee <i>Wrong</i>! <http://singaporealternatives.blogspot.com/2010/07/japan-proves-mm-lee-wrong.html>
Goh Meng Seng, Singapore Alternatives

Instead of letting GIC and Temasek Holdings losing billions of dollars in financial crisis, it will only cost us less than 10% of the total losses suffered by GIC and Temasek Holdings to engineer our way out of flooding. Tokyo is many times bigger than Singapore and I guess we should use less than the total amount of money needed for such project.

**** 反对党又见内讧 <http://www.zaobao.com/yl/yl100731_001.shtml>
白士德, 联合早报

詹时中从政34年，当选议员至今也已26年，一手成立的民主党遭人夺权，现在领导了14年的人民党又因他急于壮大反对党，以在新加坡的反对党政治史上留下功绩而闹分裂，实在令人不解。

**** 将继续注意盛港湿巴刹营业情况 <http://www.zaobao.com/yl/yl100731_012.shtml>
纪丽贞，建屋发展局, 联合早报

我们认为私人企业在经营湿巴刹和熟食中心上可以扮演一定的角色，因为它们有更多的诱因去快速对居民不断改变的需求作出反应。

**** 新加坡变身"城市实验室" <http://sh.xinmin.cn/minsheng/2010/07/31/6057360.html>
张贤贞 赵菊玲, 东方网

**** GDP Up, But No Cheer Heard <http://thestar.com.my/columnists/story.asp?col=insightdownsouth&file=/2010/7/31/columnists/insightdownsouth/6763100&sec=Insight%20Down%20South>
Seah Chiang Nee, The Star

People are broadly sceptical about how much the boom will benefit the masses in terms of jobs and wages, or in reducing the gap between rich and poor.

Their doubts seem justified.

**** Alienation Scores Gold At Youth Olympic Games <http://yawningbread.wordpress.com/2010/07/31/alienation-scores-gold-at-youth-olympic-games/>
Yawning Bread

It’s the affective divide again, in the famous words of writer Catherine Lim, who in the 1990s was rapped by the prime minister for undermining public confidence in the government through her plain speaking. But it’s true: There’s a gulf between citizens and the government. As soon as something is seen as being important to the government, especially if it is seen as important to the ego of the government, the average Singaporean keeps his distance. There’s that sense of alienation all over again.

**** Silence Of The Lions <http://www.theasiamediaforum.org/node/3337>
Stanislaus Jude Chan, Asia Media Forum

The Singapore government treats dissent with the same tactic it does drug trafficking: with an iron fist, to make an example of a few in the hope that it will deter others from even the thought of trying.

On the flipside of the coin, the fact that there are even a few voices that dare speak out provides a beacon of hope to illuminate the darkness.

**** 全球iPad数据资费排行：法国最高新加坡最低 <http://tech.sina.com.cn/it/2010-07-31/16104492420.shtml>
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