[MyAppleMenu] Sep 10, 2010

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**** Parallels Desktop 6 For Mac To Launch Sept. 14 With 80 New Features <http://feeds.appleinsider.com/click.phdo?i=436fc6f5883e06d6f6db9fbd3afcf7b4>
AppleInsider

Calling it the "best Windows on Mac experience yet," Parallels on Thursday formally announced the sixth version of its virtualization software, set to bring more than 80 new features and enhancements when it launches Sept. 14.

**** Mac Gems: PowerMate 3.0 <http://rss.macworld.com/click.phdo?i=663d3530c55facdc3e8e2c177a2b2465>
Dan Frakes, Macworld

**** Red Giant Releases Magic Bullet Suite 10 <http://rss.macworld.com/click.phdo?i=f50a24ed78444fcc40d2af0d987c7050>
Digital Arts

Red Giant Software has released Magic Bullet Suite 10, a collection of eight software applications used for professional color correction, enhancement, and film output in Adobe After Effects, Adobe Premiere Pro, and Apple Final Cut Pro.

**** Apple HDR Head To Head With Two Top Competitors <http://www.tuaw.com/2010/09/09/apple-hdr-head-to-head-with-two-top-competitors/>
Mel Martin, TUAW

**** Apple’s New App Store Review Guidelines Annotated & Explained <http://appadvice.com/appnn/2010/09/apples-app-store-review-guidelines-annotated-explained/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+AppAdvice+%28AppAdvice%29>
Alexander Vaughn, App Advice

Despite what you might think, the document is very human as you’ll see, nothing like a law book. It also does leave Apple some space so they’re not completely giving up on their freedom to reject you. Further, you’ll discover that this new transparency comes at a price as it seems like Apple will be much stricter from now on about what it approves.

**** Apple As A News Censor: No Way To Run An App Store <http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2010/09/09/apple_apps_censorship_open2010/index.html>
Scott Rosenberg, Salon

Apple loves to maintain tight control of things. That's been a hugely successful approach for its hardware business. It's even a defensible position applied to software. But it's a lousy model for a newsstand.

**** Adobe Resumes Development Of Packager For iPhone Tool <http://feeds.appleinsider.com/click.phdo?i=1256d7a179ea5b7f4bfc0c44c3a5d5ac>
AppleInsider

On its official blog, Adobe confirmed Thursday that it was resuming development of the tool, which allows Flash developers to "quickly and easily deliver applications for OS devices."

**** FaceMan Brings Real Time Effects To iPhone 4 Front-facing Camera <http://rss.macworld.com/click.phdo?i=778240aa311996cf375e970c39ed34f3>
David Dahlquist, Macworld

Though it will run on any iOS 4 device, FaceMan is specifically designed to make use of the iPhone 4’s front-facing camera. It provides 16 real-time effects that swirl, stretch, distort, and otherwise mangle your face beyond recognition.

**** Review: Finale 2011 <http://rss.macworld.com/click.phdo?i=4b267f7110a6d4a1a65edb17ea0e9202>
Peter Kirn, Macworld

Finale's ambitious annual upgrade cadence can make it hard for existing users to determine when to upgrade, but Finale 2011 is a comparatively easy choice. If you use lyrics, you should upgrade even if you're using Finale 2010, and users of older releases will find the latest Finale more usable while producing better output. For those not yet using Finale, the choice is more personal.

**** App Store Rules: Olive Branch Or Air Cover? <http://news.cnet.com/8301-31021_3-20015978-260.html?part=rss&amp;subj=news&amp;tag=2547-1_3-0-20>
Erica Ogg, CNET

The tone comes across almost as if Apple didn't really want to publish these rules at all. So why did it? The timing is certainly curious, since Apple rarely gives up information willingly about anything related to how the company works. The fact that regulators were sniffing around Apple's policies was likely a motivating factor.

**** Apple's New Developer Terms: What's In, What's Out <http://www.pcworld.com/article/205226/apples_new_developer_terms_whats_in_whats_out.html>
Ian Paul, PC World

Here's a look at what might be headed back to the iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch under Apple's new iOS Developer License.

**** Why Apple's Winning In Tech Support And Satisfaction <http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2368923,00.asp?kc=PCRSS03079TX1K0000585>
Lance Ulanoff, PC Magazine

Owing to its market share and the fact that it controls its hardware and, to a certain extent, software ecosystem in ways no other system manufacturer can match, Apple may in fact have an advantage. On the other hand, that can't be all of it. Sometimes doing things different really does make sense.

**** Adobe On Apple: Our Glass Is Half Full <http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/money_topstories/~3/Mdm4JRnpcd4/>
Philip Elmer-DeWitt, Fortune

Yes for Flash apps in the App Store, no for Flash in the iPhone browser -- at least for now.

**** A Look At Apple's Updated iPhone Configuration Utility <http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9184323/A_look_at_Apple_s_updated_iPhone_Configuration_Utility>
Ryan Faas, Computerworld



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**** Why Have Ufos Changed Speed Over The Years? <http://www.philosophypress.co.uk/?p=1380>
Martin S. Kottmeyer, TPM

Things have certainly changed since 1947, and the oddest, simplest proof of this is in the statistics about the speed of saucers. Where 53 percent of the cases of 1947 emphasize speed, statistics from 1971 showed only 41 percent of cases mention it. By 1986 it had fallen to 22 percent. Inversely, there has been a startling shift in the presence of hovering in UFO reports.



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**** Free Bus Service To Sentosa Gone For The People Who Could Use It The Most. <http://sentosathemepark.blogspot.com/2010/09/free-bus-service-gone-for-people-who.html>
Sentosa Theme Park

Not the gambler who no matter what are going to gamble. They well pay the S$100.00 entry fee. They can take the MRT,Public Bus, Taxi or their own car. It doesn't mater to them they want to gamble their money and do what ever it take to get to the casinos.

**** Resorts World Sentosa To Stop Shuttle Service To Heartlands <http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/1080242/1/.html>
Neo Chai Chin and Sharon See, Channel NewsAsia

In a statement released late on Thursday night, RWS said it was "voluntarily withdrawing its shuttle services in the spirit of collaboration with the Singapore government". 

**** It Is Not About The Metaphors <http://asiancorrespondent.com/40182/it-is-not-about-the-metaphors/>
Liau Chuan Yi and Norvin Chan, Asian Correspondent

The most disturbing significance of the arrest is not that the government is flexing its muscle in cyberspace or launching a crackdown on the creative use of language. Rather, it is the fulfillment of an Orwellian prophecy that is truly the heart of the matter - the criminalization of thought-crime has started.

**** Let A Hundred Censors Bloom <http://yawningbread.wordpress.com/2010/09/10/let-a-hundred-censors-bloom>
Yawning Bread

A hundred censors bloom when the soil is fertile for them to do so. We have a culture of allowing people to act as self-appointed vigilantes when they have no authority over us, or when they do, we get shockingly meek and never challenge them even when they apply that authority inappropriately.

**** Govt To Stop Free Bus Rides <http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/Singapore/Story/STIStory_577021.html>
Straits Times

The government will take action with the Casino Regulatory Authority to stop the free shuttle bus services provided by operators of the integrated resorts between Housing Board heartlands and its casinos.

**** Speakers' Corner, 10 Years On <http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/1080339/1/.html>
S Ramesh, Channel NewsAsia

The Speakers' Corner at Hong Lim Park, Singapore's version of London's Hyde Park where people are allowed to make speeches, turned 10 years old on September 1 this year.

**** Controversial Campaign On Breast Cancer <http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2010/9/10/nation/7009705&sec=nation>
The Star

A cartoon character squeezing a nipple and another painted with breasts as its head are part of a controversial campaign in Singapore to prevent breast cancer, reported Sin Chew Daily.

**** Singapore Muslim Leader Calls For Peaceful Response To Provocations <http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/asiapacific/news/article_1583614.php/Singapore-Muslim-leader-calls-for-peaceful-response-to-provocations>
DPA

A Singapore Muslim leader called Friday on Muslims to refrain from 'acts of vendetta' when provoked, referring to plans by a Florida minister to burn copies of the Koran on the anniversary of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.