[MyAppleMenu] May 8, 2010

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**** Apple To Begin International Roll Out Of iBooks And iBookstore Alongside iPad Launch <http://www.macrumors.com/2010/05/07/apple-to-begin-international-roll-out-of-ibooks-and-ibookstore-alongside-ipad-launch/>
Eric Slivka, Macrumors.com

**** Avoid iPad Lockouts When Using Bluetooth Keyboards <http://www.macworld.com/article/151128/2010/05/ipadlockout.html?lsrc=rss_main>
Dan Frakes, Macworld

If you forget to turn off your Bluetooth keyboard, or to disable the iPad’s Bluetooth, before tossing your gear in your bag, chances are you’ll arrive at your destination with an iPad in lockout mode. The keyboard’s keys will get pressed in transit, those key presses will be interpreted by the iPad as attempts to enter your passcode, and unless your luck is very good, those attempts will all be wrong.

**** Apple iMac 27-inch (Core i7) <http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2363511,00.asp>
Joel Santo Domingo, PC Magazine

The Apple iMac 27-inch (Core i7) is a powerful system for people who need the multimedia computing power. You can even replace your Mac Pro tower, as long as you don't need internal expandability. The new iMac is as powerful as Mac Pro systems from last year.

**** Leave Google Alone! <http://www.slate.com/id/2253192/?from=rss>
Farhad Manjoo, Slate Magazine

If you have to ask whether either Google or Apple is too big for the mobile business, isn't that a pretty good sign that neither one of them is?

**** That’s A Problem. <http://www.marco.org/576865127>
Marco Arment

When so many obviously spammy and trademark-infringing apps are getting through, it makes every trivial rejection by real developers even more frustrating.

**** Apple Developing Flash Alternative Named Gianduia <http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/10/05/07/apple_developing_flash_alternative_named_gianduia.html>
Apple Insider

As Adobe Flash and Microsoft Silverlight duke it out over their plugin-based, HTML-alternative web platforms, Apple is using Gianduia, its new a client-side, standards based framework for Rich Internet Apps, to create production quality online apps for its retail users.

**** The iPad Travels The World, Via EBay <http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/05/08/the-ipad-travels-the-world-via-ebay/?partner=rss&emc=rss>
Claire Cain Miller, New York Times

Leave it to the early adopters to find a way to get their hands on an iPad even if they live abroad, where Apple will not begin selling iPads until the end of May. Their solution, to avoid going on living without an iPad for even a month longer than the Americans? EBay.



The Tomorrow Weblog
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**** Autodesk For The People <http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/05/07/autodesk-for-the-people/?partner=rss&emc=rss>
Ashlee Vance, New York Times

A couple of easy-to-use applications have helped Autodesk come out of the design shadows to sell directly to consumers.



MyAppleMenu Reader
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**** Double Trouble <http://www.thesmartset.com/article/article05071001.aspx>
Greg Beato, The Smart Set

The hypocrisy of fast-food outrage.

**** The Demise Of Datebooks <http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/09/magazine/09FOB-medium-t.html?partner=rss&emc=rss>
Virginia Heffernan, New York Times

As a committed user of the BlackBerry, Kindle, MacBook Pro and World Wide Web, I rarely get nostalgic for print — for broadsheets or magazines or even books. So I surprised myself by bridling at Steve Jobs’s boast, when introducing the Apple iPad in January, that the device has “a great calendar.” It never occurred to me that people liked digital calendars.

**** The Saturday Poem: Ruby <http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/may/08/john-fuller-poem-ruby?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+theguardian%2Fbooks%2Frss+%28Books%29>
John Fuller, The Guardian

**** Theory, Literature, Hoax <http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/09/books/review/Goldstein-t.html?partner=rss&emc=rss>
Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, New York Times

What strange force is stalking departments of literature? A philosopher investigates.



SingaporeSurf
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**** Romanian Former Diplomat To Singapore Detained Over Allegation Of Hit And Run Death <http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5icYDaHcmWsLeZTIRjA-Z3c4-BSKg>
Associated Press

**** 电视台该考虑转型 <http://www.zaobao.com/yl/yl100508_007.shtml>
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**** Puzzled By Professor's Malay Argument <http://www.straitstimes.com/STForum/Story/STIStory_524012.html>
Chen Junyi, Straits Times

I do not think any ethnic group is cleverer than another. But the cultural background of an ethnic group has a significant influence on the aspirations of its members.

**** Planning For Stable Staples <http://thestar.com.my/columnists/story.asp?col=insightdownsouth&file=/2010/5/8/columnists/insightdownsouth/6209216&sec=Insight%20Down%20South>
Seah Chiang Nee, The Star

Singapore is money rich but asset poor. The former was being pursued relentlessly so that it can pay for the resources that it needs. And oil and raw materials, as well as food, are getting more expensive by the decade.

The trouble is that money is not always a solution in times of global resources crisis.

**** HDB’s Classic Non-answer <http://theonlinecitizen.com/2010/05/hdbs-classic-non-answer/>
Leong Sze Hian, The Online Citizen

With HDB new flats, resale flats’ prices and Cash Over Valuation (COV), all at record highs now, the eventual zero value HDB flat is like an increasing burden which leaves the HDB tenants (no longer owners?) at the mercy of their HDB landlord.

**** Mother-tongue Conservatives Voice Existential Fears <http://www.yawningbread.org/arch_2010/yax-1108.htm>
Yawning Bread

Why can't we imagine a testing regime that is merely designed to find out a child's palette of talents and skills, and then point them to secondary schools that are designed to cater to different abilities?

**** Singapore Democratic Alliance Drops 11 Terms Laid Down By New Reform Party <http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/1055246/1/.html>
S Ramesh, Channel NewsAsia

A list of 11 conditions laid down by the newly formed Reform Party for the Singapore Democratic Alliance (SDA) to consider before the Reform Party joins the alliance has been abandoned after a meeting of the SDA's central executive committee on Friday night.