[MyAppleMenu] Sep 18, 2010

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**** App Tamer Halts Your Apps To Speed Up Your Mac <http://rss.macworld.com/click.phdo?i=131c19a078b330d6d918183f57e546b4>
Jeff Porten, Macworld

App Tamer will automatically stop any application you choose when it is in the background, and automatically bring it back to its full vitality when you bring it back to the foreground. You can choose which applications are stopped, how long the pause should be before this occurs, and whether this should happen all the time, or only when you’re running off battery power. App Tamer can also helpfully gray out the windows of paused applications to remind you that they’ve been halted.

**** Feeds Into Reads: Transforming RSS Into Beauty <http://db.tidbits.com/article/11608?rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+tidbits_main+%28TidBITS%3A+Mac+News+for+the+Rest+of+Us%29>
Glenn Fleishman, TidBITS

Times for iPad and Flipboard take streams of updates and create newspaper and magazine layouts automatically. This approach works better than it may sound at first. Automatic layout seems like an iffy proposition, but both programs produce interesting results.

**** Exciting: IOS 4.2 Media Framework Is Airplay-Enabled, Works With Netflix & More! <http://appadvice.com/appnn/2010/09/huge-ios-42-native-player-airplayenabled-works-netflix-html5-videos-mlb-bat/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+AppAdvice+%28AppAdvice%29>
Alexander Vaughn, App Advice

This is pretty huge. It means that any app that uses Apple’s default media player is already AirPlay-enabled. That means that with IOS 4.2, you can stream from Netflix, MLB At Bat, Vimeo HTML5 Embeds (in Safari), the YouTube clips from the AppAdvice app and so on. It will work with Airport Express and we believe the Apple TV as well.

**** GV Connect Is Now Available In The App Store – More Google Voice Apps To Come? <http://appadvice.com/appnn/2010/09/gv-connect-app-store-google-voice-apps/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+AppAdvice+%28AppAdvice%29>
Casey Tschida, App Advice

A third-party Google Voice app has just hit the App Store. GV Connect by Andreas Amann is a native app that is able to interact directly with Google Voice accounts and features.

**** CEOs Love Their iPads <http://bobsutton.typepad.com/my_weblog/2010/09/ceos-love-their-ipads.html>
Bob Sutton, Work Matters

**** One World, 5 Billion iPads <http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2010/09/17/one_world_five_billion_ipads/index.html>
Andrew Leonard, Salon

Wireless connectivity -- and slick tablet computers -- targets global super-saturation.

**** Room For Improvement In Explaining YOG Overspending <http://www.straitstimes.com/STForum/Story/STIStory_579953.html>
Kevin Kwek, Straits Times

What I am appalled at was the way the overspending was swept aside. It remains a fact that we spent three times more of taxpayers' money than anticipated.



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**** Love Poem With Pig <http://feeds.guardian.co.uk/~r/theguardian/books/rss/~3/mlOVv2N9V8Y/paul-muldoon-saturday-poem>
Paul Muldoon, The Guardian

**** All Men Are Liars By Alberto Manguel <http://feeds.guardian.co.uk/~r/theguardian/books/rss/~3/NTTWZieQ3zU/all-men-are-liars-alberto-manguel>
Steven Poole, The Guardian

Alberto Manguel is a liar. Or so the reader of this book is invited to think, having enjoyed a peculiarly evasive and suspenseful story told by a rather neurotic and unreliable character named "Alberto Manguel", only to see the next narrator exclaim, at the start of her version of the same tale: "Alberto Manguel is an asshole [. . .] No, nothing is true for Manguel unless he's read it in a book."

**** Crazy Age By Jane Miller <http://feeds.guardian.co.uk/~r/theguardian/books/rss/~3/eaLdMVSzR_A/crazy-age-jane-miller-review>
Joan Bakewell, The Guardian

Jane Miller's 11 essays unfold into an acceptance of a world which its author finds full of comfort and pleasure, friendships and books. "I like being old at least as much as I liked being middle aged and a good deal more than I liked being young." 

**** Separation Anxiety <http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=1035471ce7a8665dd92600acf1f01f81>
Aimee Bender, New York Times

Emma Donoghue’s remarkable new novel, “Room,” is built on two intense constraints: the limited point of view of the narrator, a 5-year-old boy named Jack; and the confines of Jack’s physical world, an 11-by-11-foot room where he lives with his mother. We enter the book strongly planted within these restrictions. We know only what Jack knows, and the drama is immediate, as is our sense of disorientation over why these characters are in this place. 

**** Fibbing With Numbers <http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=0631de3b2ca8e3937230b4064c1d1699>
Steven Strogatz, New York Times

Charles Seife is steaming mad about all the ways that numbers are being twisted to erode our democracy. We’re used to being lied to with words (“I am not a crook”; “I did not have sexual relations with that woman”). But numbers? They’re supposed to be cold, hard and objective. Numbers don’t lie, and they brook no argument. They’re the best kind of facts we have.

**** The Plot Escapes Me <http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=eefb50b57ec4cfe4cc59ce27e515684c>
James Collins, New York Times

I have just realized something terrible about myself: I don’t remember the books I read.



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**** Who And Why The RWS Shuttle Bus Was Approved? <http://www.temasekreview.com/2010/09/17/who-and-why-the-rws-shuttle-bus-was-approved/>
The Temasek Review

If MCYS choose not to order the termination of service NR1 and NR6, we can therefore conclude without a doubt that there are some hidden agenda behind this shuttle bus issue and the gamblers are just a smoke screen. To add on to the conspiracy theory, we all know that PTC only make their presence known whenever there is a need to explain to the public why the transport operators need to increase their fares. I am sure our reader know if the PTC, being an independent body, actually supports commuters or the transport company.

**** Caught Up In S'pore PR Issue <http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&usg=AFQjCNGt_iSHTTCaO8ckdVPdpmYEXL8G-w&url=http://thestar.com.my/columnists/story.asp?file%3D/2010/9/18/columnists/insightdownsouth/7061389%26sec%3Dinsightdownsouth>
Seah Chiang Nee, The Star

Observers believe that the authorities – in the face of an approaching general election – are serious about taking restrictive measures to placate widespread public unhappiness.

**** KL Writer Has Wrong Idea Of Religious Freedom <http://www.straitstimes.com/STForum/Story/STIStory_579952.html>
Chen Sen Lenn, Straits Times

**** Fundamental Problem Is Treating Sex As A Dirty Act <http://www.straitstimes.com/STForum/Story/STIStory_579950.html>
Adam Leo Isidore Tan, Straits Times

The fundamental error in these debates is the treatment of sex as a dirty act, or at least one which should be encountered only after one hits puberty.

Sexual intercourse is a fact, without which there would be no life. At a higher level, sex is an act of intimacy between two lovers; a profound expression of love. Treating sex as taboo, a subject best kept from children, doled out in careful doses and carefully skirted, is detrimental in the long run.

**** The YOG Saga Continues <http://hardhitting-nobs.blogspot.com/2010/09/yog-saga-continues.html>
Musings From the Lion City

I applauded Mr. Balakrishnan for taking some responsibility for the YOG as mistakes were made but frankly I doubt that the benefits of the YOG are worth $387 million.

**** Singaporeans Demand More Transparency On Blown YOG Budget <http://kentridgecommon.com/?p=7763>
Christopher Ong, The Kent Ridge Common

Despite Dr. Balakrishnan providing a breakdown of how the costs were under-budgeted, particularly in the technology sector, many Singaporeans desired even greater detail and transparency in accounting for the cost.

**** Singaporeans Unappreciative Of Vivian <http://mysingaporenews.blogspot.com/2010/09/singaporeans-unappreciative-of-vivian.html>
My Singapore News

Under his guidance, the Organising Committee became too careful and tried their best to present as small a budget as possible. They tried to cut corners, lower the quality of the things needed for the game. I think the food for the volunteers was a good example.

**** Ten Things I Love About Singapore <http://ayulittleone.blogsome.com/2010/09/18/ten-things-i-love-about-singapore/>
Dyah Ayu Wanodyasari, Searching For Utopia

**** Anti-Government Regarded As Obstacles To Singapore's Success By PAP Supporters? <http://www.temasekreview.com/2010/09/18/anti-government-regarded-as-obstacles-to-singapore’s-success-by-pap-supporters/>
The Temasek Review

**** Malaysia Does Not Need Lee Kuan Yew's Advice - Tun Abdullah <http://www.bernama.com/bernama/v5/newsgeneral.php?id=528629>
Bernama

Malaysia does not need any advice from Singapore's Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew because it has its own way of governing the country which comprises multi-racial people, said former prime minister Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi.

"We are too different from Singapore and Lee's statement which criticised the system being practised in this country cannot be accepted because Malaysia has adopted a different set of approaches and measures in managing issues involving the cultures and religions of its multi-racial population," he told reporters.