[MyAppleMenu] May 30, 2010

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**** WIRED On iPad: Just Like A Paper Tiger… <http://informationarchitects.jp/wired-on-ipad-just-like-a-paper-tiger/>
iA

Good pictures speak for themselves. But text is a different story. It needs a lot of rhetoric skill and typographic care to do what it should: to communicate. On the screen things become even more complicated. While WIRED journalists and graphic designers are still at the top of their game, the typography and the interaction design of the iPad app doesn’t come even close.

**** Columns On iPad-Sized Screens <http://ignorethecode.net/blog/2010/05/29/columns_on_ipad_sized_screens/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+IgnoreTheCode+%28ignore+the+code%29>
Lukas Mathis, Ignore The Code

We shouldn’t discard an idea simply because paper did it. Some ideas that made sense for paper, but didn’t make sense for the web, actually do make sense again when designing for the iPad.

**** Using Styles In Word Processing: Apple’s Pages Vs. Microsoft Word <http://www.betalogue.com/2010/05/06/styles/>
Pierre Igot, Betalogue

As far as one can tell, Microsoft’s MacBU is a completely ossified institution that just keeps churning out version after version of the same old crap.

**** Apple Picks Death Not Compliance For Open Source iPhone Game <http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/05/27/gnu_go_fsf_apple_itunes/>
Gavin Clarke, The Register

Apple has removed an application from the iPhone App Store after the Free Software Foundation complained that the store's terms of service undermined the application's open source license.

**** What Makes Apple So Sticky <http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2010/05/29/what-makes-apple-so-sticky/>
Philip Elmer-DeWitt, Fortune

**** Apple Probe Grows <http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/apple_probe_grows_eC2Xojek2kBNijBO2uP1kJ>
Claire Atkinson, New York Post

According to several sources, the Justice Dept. has contacted a handful of the country's biggest media and technology companies to get their views on Apple, which, after years of casting itself as the tiny outsider, has become an 800-pound gorilla calling the shots in several arenas.

**** Apple iPad: It's Cheaper At Heathrow Airport <http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/apple/7779568/Apple-iPad-its-cheaper-at-Heathrow-Airport.html>
Matt Warman and Andrew Hough, Telegraph

Tax-free purchases at Heathrow airport could save Apple fans more than £20.

**** A Pact-ful Of Joy <http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2010/5/30/focus/6368009&sec=focus>
Roger Tan, The Star

Sadly, we are more influenced by rivalry and pride whenever we deal with one another, always forgetting that serious ramifications will follow as our peoples are closely related in family ties.

For now, though, Johoreans can only hail this latest breakthrough as it will bring long-term improvement to many ordinary lives on this side of the Causeway.

**** Skype Over 3G Comes To The iPhone. It’s Not All Good News … <http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/05/skype-over-3g-comes-to-the-iphone-its-not-all-good-news/comment-page-1/>
John C. Abell, Wired

Skype on Saturday released an upgrade to its iPhone app that allows calls to be made and received under AT&T’s 3G network, but there’s a catch — they won’t be free for very long, even for Skype-to-Skype calls or for people who have all-you-can-eat calling plans with the internet telephony company.

**** Hitch 22: A Memoir By Christopher Hitchens <http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/may/30/christopher-hitchens-hitch-22-memoir?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+theguardian%2Fbooks%2Frss+%28Books%29>
Toby Young, The Guardian

Christopher Hitchens hasn't mislaid his passion for polemics in this unapologetic account of his life.

**** Gestural Interfaces: A Step Backwards In Usability <http://jnd.org/dn.mss/gestural_interfaces_a_step_backwards_in_usability_1.html>
Don Norman and Jakob Nielsen



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**** One-day Wonder <http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2010/05/30/one_day_wonder/?rss_id=Boston+Globe+--+Ideas+section>
Erin McKean, Boston Globe

How fast can a word enter the language?



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**** Singapore Starts Its Engines <http://www.timeslive.co.za/lifestyle/travel/article474000.ece/Singapore-starts-its-engines>
Tony Dawe, Times

When the Grand Prix cameras pan out in a few months, viewers may be surprised by the changes to the city state's skyline.

**** Letter From Singapore <http://www.wallpaper.com/architecture/letter-from-estonia/www.wallpaper.com/architecture/letter-from-singapore/4194>
Daven Wu , Wallpaper.com

In many ways, Singaporean architecture still suffers a little from the metallic and glass box mentality. If it was good enough for Mies van der Rohe, the thinking goes, it’s good enough for the tropics.

**** Civil Service Pay Fluctuates, In Tandem With Economic Performance: DPM Teo <http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/1059935/1/.html>
S Ramesh, Channel NewsAsia

Deputy prime minister Teo Chee Hean, who is also minister-in-charge of the Civil Service, said public sector wages will dovetail Singapore's economic performance.