[MyAppleMenu] Nov 8, 2010

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**** Apple Cuts Australian Mac Prices <http://www.macworld.com.au/news/apple-cuts-australian-mac-prices-19218/>
Xavier Verhoeven, Australian Macworld

Apple has quietly updated the Australian prices of every Mac in its lineup over the last week or so – most likely due to the current exchange rates, though Apple has not discussed the changes.

**** iPhone Triggers Videogame Gold Rush <http://www.nzherald.co.nz/technology/news/article.cfm?c_id=5&objectid=10686202>
Fabrice Hoss, New Zealand Herald

The commercial tsunami unleashed by the iPhone and its similarly capable iPod Touch has served as a launch pad for the videogame industry in Montreal, which hopes to seize on the success of Apple's smartphone.

**** Parents Worry About Toddlers' Tiny Fingers Itching For iPhones <http://www.usatoday.com/tech/products/2010-11-08-iToddlers08_CV_N.htm?>
Craig Wilson, USA Today

Call them iTots. Wunderkind of the 21st century. One-, 2- and 3- year-olds who know their way around an iPhone or an iPad better than you do.

**** Qantas’ New Macs Have A Windows Secret <http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2010/11/qantas-new-macs-have-a-windows-secret/>
Angus Kidman, Lifehacker

Qantas has made a lot of noise about the new Macs in its domestic Qantas Club lounges. But it hasn’t been so keen to point out one of the key features of those machines: when you sit down at them, you’re offered a choice of whether to run Windows 7 or Mac OS X.

**** Could The Mac App Store Kill Software "Bundles"? <http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2010/11/mac-app-store-might-kill-bundles-but-macgraphoto-set-for-one-more-try.ars?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss>
Chris Foresman, Ars Technica

**** Toshiba Introduces MacBook Air 'Blade-Type' SSDs To Mass Market <http://www.macrumors.com/2010/11/08/toshiba-introduces-macbook-air-blade-type-ssds-to-mass-market/>
Arnold Kim, MacRumors

**** iOS 4.2 On iPhone 3G: Is The Performance Any Better? <http://www.tipb.com/2010/11/07/ios-42-iphone-3g-performance/>
Rene Ritchie, TiPb

iPhone 3G’s hardware isn’t as fast and it’s RAM is literally a quarter of iPhone 4’s but it did a decent job typing, scrolling, pinching, and zooming its way around iOS 4.2.

**** Steve Jobs Says Hardly Anyone Was Buying The Xserve <http://www.tuaw.com/2010/11/08/steve-jobs-says-hardly-anyone-was-buying-the-xserve/>
Steven Sande, TUAW

**** The Washington Post Offers iPad App For Free, For Now <http://www.macworld.com/article/155529/2010/11/washington_post_app.html?lsrc=rss_main>
Joel Mathis, Macworld

In addition to a user interface designed to more closely resemble a newspaper, the iPad app offers video content and a Live Topics feature that combines headlines with social media conversations from Facebook and Twitter.



The Tomorrow Weblog
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**** Color Comes To E Ink Screens <http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/08/technology/08ink.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss>
Eric A. Taub, New York Times



SingaporeSurf
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**** Too Young To Know? <http://www.todayonline.com/Voices/EDC101108-0000064/Too-young-to-know?>
Kelvin Seah Kah Cheng, Today

Although the recent poll indicated that 95 per cent of youth are proud to be Singaporean, the students polled were in Primary 4 and 6, Secondary 2 and 4, and Year 2 of junior college. Many of them have yet to experience the realities of working life and competitive pressures outside school.

**** More Joining Young PAP: Zaqy <http://www.todayonline.com/Singapore/EDC101108-0000068/More-joining-Young-PAP--Zaqy>
Ong Dai Lin, Today

More have been joining the People's Action Party's (PAP) youth wing over the past two years, said Young PAP (YP) vice-chairman Zaqy Mohamad yesterday. Mr Zaqy attributed the increase to more outreach efforts by YP. "I think many are keen to know more about politics in Singapore and how they can contribute to the benefits of other Singaporeans."

**** Pro-rated Payouts For Workers Not Re-employed At Age 62 <http://www.todayonline.com/Singapore/EDC101108-0000060/Pro-rated-payouts-for-workers-not-re-employed-at-age-62>
Leong Wee Keat, Today

Older part-time workers who are not re-employed at the age of 62 should receive payouts that are pro-rated according to the hours they work, instead of the proposed minimum $4,500 employment assistance payment. Tripartite partners - comprising the Ministry of Manpower (MOM), unions and employers - agreed with this suggestion during a recent public consultation on the proposed law governing re-employment.

**** 本地兴起　在家上网当义工 <http://www.zaobao.com.sg/sp/sp101108_006.shtml>
王珏琪, 联合早报

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**** Lee Yi Shyan "Happy But Reluctant" To Stand For Joo Chiat <http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/1092031/1/.html>
Lynda Hong, Channel NewsAsia

**** Singapore Airlines: No A380 Engine Problems <http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5j2pQdEnvH0NWsgMpDoz9TRbGV8cw?docId=CNG.13a32e3e27d0d88287d6166f16570378.7e1>
AFP

Singapore Airlines said Monday its inspections found no problems with the Rolls-Royce Trent 900 engines used on the carrier's Airbus A380 superjumbo planes.

**** To The Knacker’s We Go <http://mollymeek.wordpress.com/2010/11/08/to-the-knackers-we-go/>
Molitics

Certainly, there are good reasons to work beyond the retirement age if it is not a matter of sheer necessity and even if it is a matter of necessity, many people do not mind working beyond the age of 62 in order to support themselves. But employment itself is a problem.

**** "Vui Kong’s Story Changed It All For Me” <http://theonlinecitizen.com/2010/11/vui-kong’s-story-changed-it-all-for-me/>
Kirsten Han, The Online Citizen

In this way I learned more about compassion, forgiveness, mercy and humanity than I would have ever been able to learn in a classroom.

**** Singapore Spinoff <http://www.yalealumnimagazine.com/issues/2010_11/singapore327.html>
Mark Alden Branch, Yale Alumni Magazine

This idea—a liberal arts curriculum that looks at the world’s cultural traditions in dialogue—has enthusiastic Yale faculty enthralled, for two reasons. First, if Yale hopes to popularize liberal education in Asia, such a curriculum will be necessary to make the liberal arts relevant there. Second, globalization is making a broader knowledge of non-Western culture increasingly important for graduates of schools like Yale itself. Curricular innovations from Yale-NUS might very well find their way back to New Haven.