[MyAppleMenu] Sep 30, 2010

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**** Condé Nast’s Ipad Apps Are Too Portly. Blame Adobe. <http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/20100928/conde-nasts-ipad-apps-are-too-portly-blame-adobe/>
Peter Kafka, Wall Street Journal

Both the New Yorker and Wired have the same weight problem for the same reason: They are built on the back of an Adobe program that essentially functions as an image reader.

**** State Of The Art: A Simple Swipe On A Phone, And You’re Paid <http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=9a2abe586b38d6408b65428633febce6>
David Pogue, New York Times

The Square device snaps into an iPhone and allows you to become a credit card authorizing entrepreneur. No setup fees, no two-year contract — you’re in business.

**** Review: Photoshop Elements 9 <http://rss.macworld.com/click.phdo?i=c60b6002f382a013c5c90fcbcef8e32a>
Lesa Snider, Macworld

As updates go, this one’s a biggy and Adobe’s new cross-platform strategy for both Photoshop Elements, Photoshop Organizer, and Premiere Elements is a breath of fresh air. The layer mask button alone makes this a worthwhile upgrade for frequent users, and the new Guided Edit modes make it a good choice for new users.

**** Deleting Duplicate Images <http://rss.macworld.com/click.phdo?i=604dcfa4f254f14d39c30c1d4d7a5fff>
Christopher Breen, Macworld

**** Postbox 2.0 Available Now! <http://www.tuaw.com/2010/09/29/postbox-2-0-available-now/>
Brett Terpstra, TUAW

With version 2.0, organization is faster and even easier, thanks to features like Quick Move and some new keyboard shortcuts. There's even a Quick Reply feature which lets you respond to a message from within the message or thread by hitting Shift-R (a lot like GMail). There are also keyboard shortcuts for navigating mailboxes and accounts without touching your mouse.

**** AirPlay Update: Open To Developers, But Won’t Let Your IDevice Go To Sleep <http://appadvice.com/appnn/2010/09/airplay-update-open-developers-idevice-sleep/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+AppAdvice+%28AppAdvice%29>
Alexander Vaughn, App Advice

Airplay is possibly the most exciting iOS feature Apple has released since multitasking. It has incredible potential, and while we’re still waiting to see what Apple will really do with it, they already leaked a couple of details this week that will whet your appetite.

**** Teardown Reveals New Apple TV Comes With 8GB Flash Storage <http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2010/09/teardown-reveals-new-apple-tv-comes-with-8gb-flash-storage.ars>
Jacqui Cheng, Ars Technica

The new Apple TV no longer allows users to purchase and store content on the device, but Apple still managed to cram in 8GB of flash storage, as well as 256MB of integrated RAM. The discovery was made by gadget repair site iFixit during one of its famed product teardowns. iFixit founder Kyle Wiens declared that the Apple TV was "surprisingly repairable."

**** 3 Secret Apple TV Features Steve Jobs Hasn't Told You About <http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/09/apple-tv-secrets/>
Brian X. Chen, Wired News

“The most important hint of Apple’s real ambitions in the living room come from AirPlay, which puts iPhones and iPads in the driver’s seat and makes the TV just an output device for the Apple ecosystem,” said James McQuivey, a Forrester analyst, in a recent e-mail statement. “Expect Apple to gradually push more and more in that direction, but as of this moment in 2010, Apple has not yet made a significant play for control of the TV.”

**** Opinion: Are CIOs Embracing Apple's iPad? <http://www.macworld.co.uk/business/news/index.cfm?newsid=3241536>
Michael Friedenberg, CIO

Or maybe Forrester analyst Ted Schadler hit the nail on the head in his article in our recent issue when he wrote, "Companies that empower their employees to use these tools have a leg up on those that lock down systems."

**** Apple's Segmentation Strategy, And The Folly Of Conventional Wisdom <http://radar.oreilly.com/2010/09/apple-segmentation-strategy-an.html>
Mark Sigal, O'Reilly Radar

Apple's product strategy is a study in market segmentation. Versus merely trying to stuff a product, burrito-style, with as many different features as possible, they target specific user experiences, and build the product around that accordingly.

**** NVIDIA GPU Settlement Covers Apple, Dell, HP Repairs <http://www.electronista.com/articles/10/09/29/suit.covers.15..and.17.inch.models.from.07.08/>
Electronista

NVIDIA has agreed to provide compensation to owners of Apple, HP and Dell computers as part of a settlement in a class-action lawsuit.

**** Apple Criticized For Discrimination Of Taiwanese Buyers <http://www.chinapost.com.tw/taiwan/2010/09/30/274493/Apple%2Dcriticized.htm>
The China Post

A former National Assembly representative yesterday launched a campaign of “one person sending one letter” to Steve Jobs, chief operating officer of Apple Inc. to protest the firm's discriminatory practice of denying Taiwanese buyers iPhone 4 protective sleeves.



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**** Book Review: 'Room' By Emma Donoghue <http://feeds.latimes.com/~r/features/books/~3/_L8yP83SPt8/la-et-book-20100929,0,1859019.story>
David L. Ulin, Los Angeles Times

The more you know about Emma Donoghue's ninth novel, "Room," the harder it is to assess.

**** The F-Word In Art <http://moreintelligentlife.com/content/arts/jessica-machado/f-word-art>
Jessica Machado, More Intelligent Life

Unlike the in-your-face identity studies of female artists of the 1970s, Gilmore and many of her contemporaries are making work that is more accessible and more appealing to a wider audience. Time and opportunities have created a new breed of so-called "feminist" artists, many of whom now view the contradictions of the modern female experience through a lens of humour.

**** A Real Table For My Imaginary Family <http://www.salon.com/life/made/index.html?story=/mwt/made/2010/09/29/shalom_auslander>
Shalom Auslander, Salon

Building a table for Thanksgiving, I was armed with power saw and a dream. It wouldn't be nearly enough.

**** Rising To The Challenge Of (Almost) Unplugged Baking <http://www.latimes.com/features/food/la-fo-unplugged-kitchen-20100930,0,3852897.story>
Karen Stabiner, Los Angeles Times

I've made so many pie crusts in my food processor that I think it knows the recipe by heart; I could probably measure out the ingredients, set them next to the machine, turn my back for three minutes and return to find the dough, magically, mixed.

By hand it's another story.



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**** Make Big Money In Singapore’s Casinos, Without Gambling <http://sovereign-investor.com/2010/09/29/make-big-money-in-singapores-casinos-without-gambling/>
Jeff Opdyke, The Sovereign Investor

Singapore’s growth is real. And the government’s effort to push the economy to the next level is working.

**** Singapore's Sand <http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2010/09/28/singapores_sand>
Lim Yuin Chien, Singapore Government, Foreign Policy

The Singapore government does not condone illegal smuggling of sand. We have put in specific and stringent procedures to ensure that sand is extracted legally and in compliance with the environmental laws and regulation of the source countries. To date, all sand vendors have provided valid clearance documentation from the source countries.

**** Management Of Gays Revisited, Part 2 <http://yawningbread.wordpress.com/2010/09/29/management-of-gays-revisited-part-2/>
Yawning Bread

**** Lift Dialect Restriction? Not Yet, Says Minister <http://www.todayonline.com/Singapore/EDC100930-0000091/Lift-dialect-restriction?-Not-yet,-says-Minister>
Esther Ng, Today

Mr Lui said the restrictions would remain as Singapore's dialect policy was based on the need to promote a common Chinese mother tongue.

**** Singapore's Elder Lee Hospitalized With Infection <http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/feedarticle/9288041>
Associated Press

The 87-year-old Lee was admitted to Singapore General Hospital late in the day, Channel NewsAsia reported, citing Lee's press secretary, Yeong Yoon Ying. No details were given as to Lee's condition. Calls to Yeong rang unanswered Wednesday.

**** Queen Street: Art, Sushi And Pole Dancing <http://www.cnngo.com/singapore/play/rise-queen-street-435337>
Serene Thia, CNNGo

In case you haven't noticed, Singapore's art and civic district has gotten a little livelier over at Queen Street, one of Singapore's oldest streets. The seeds were sown two years ago when the Singapore Art Museum extended its premises and opened its contemporary art wing, 8Q Sam.

**** R21电影不进组屋区戏院　公众表赞同 <http://www.zaobao.com/sp/sp100930_010.shtml>
萧洁盈, 联合早报

对于政府决定不允许R21电影走进组屋区戏院及售卖R21影片光碟，所有受访的公众都表示这在他们预料之内，因为政府一向比较保守，对媒体内容的管制也比较严厉。而大部分公众也对这个决定表示赞同。

**** 若全面放宽方言影片 将影响讲华语运动成效 <http://www.zaobao.com/sp/sp100930_008.shtml>
郭丽娟, 联合早报

如果进一步放宽对方言节目的限制，吕德耀担心必然会影响年轻一代学好双语，毕竟学生要同时学习英语和华语，已有一定的困难。

**** 没梁智强就不行？ 8部本地片 票房都未破百万 <http://www.zaobao.com/fk/fk100930_001.shtml>
李亦筠, 联合早报

今年推出的本地片产量不少，当中有新戏种，也有优秀电影，但相较于外来华语片的票房，本地电影却是凄凄惨惨戚戚。8部本地片中，只有梁智强的《做人》近百万，若不是被婚外情拖累，《做人》铁定破百万。本地电影，少了梁智强，就不行吗?

**** Singapore’s Youth Olympics And The Impotence Of Being Disearnest <http://measuredmusings.wordpress.com/2010/09/30/singapores-youth-olympics-and-the-impotence-of-being-disearnest/>
Measured Musings

**** GIC Report – ’significant’ Recovery But How Much Exactly? <http://theonlinecitizen.com/2010/09/gic-report-significant-recovery-but-how-much-exactly/>
Leong Sze Hian, The Online Citizen

**** Singapore Shaken By $9m Fraud <http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-world/singapore-shaken-by-9m-fraud-20100930-15yre.html>
AFP

Singapore said on Thursday it was reviewing government financial processes in the wake of its worst corruption case in 15 years, involving a senior civil servant with a penchant for Italian supercars.

**** SAF Apache Helicopter Crash-Lands In Woodlands Field, Sends Tail Flying 50M Away <http://singaporeseen.stomp.com.sg/stomp/sgseen/this_urban_jungle/465944/saf_apache_helicopter_crash_lands_in_sembawang_field.html>
STOMP

STOMPer Quintus was driving past an open field in a residential area in Woodlands Avenue 12 when he saw this SAF Apache helicopter crash landing into the field, sending its tail flying about 50 metres away.

See Also: Flash: Apache Down [http://kementah.blogspot.com/2010/09/flash-apache-down.html] by Senang Diri.

**** Lower Electricity Tariff For Households From Oct-Dec <http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/1084290/1/.html>
Channel NewsAsia

Households will pay lower electricity tariff from October to December. On average they will pay 3.3 per cent less than the previous quarter as the tariff for households will be reduced by 0.79 cents to 23.34 cents per kilowatt-hour (kWh).

**** Singapore Swing: Playing For Global Wealth Crown <http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSSGE68K0GN20100930>
Raju Gopalakrishnan, Reuters

The squeaky clean city of 5.1 million, nicknamed the "nanny state" for its propensity for micromanagement, is fast emerging as one of the world's hottest destinations for wealth -- and the wealthy, who now have casinos and theme parks for play, and seaside mansions and penthouses to stay.

"Hong Kong probably makes great business sense from an investment banker perspective, but I don't think it has invested as much in itself in creating a place for families to live," says Nick Pollard, Asia chief executive of private banker RBS Coutts. "What Singapore has done very well is that it has almost created a whole infrastructure, not just a place to work, but also a place to live, a place to educate your children, a place to have great fun."

**** Malaysia-Singapore Business Council Revamped <http://www.bernama.com.my/bernama/v5/newsbusiness.php?id=531543>
Bernama

**** Rocky's Bru: What Will Singapore Hijack Next? <http://www.mmail.com.my/content/50876-rockys-bru-what-will-singapore-hijack-next>
Ahirudin Attan, Malay Mail

One must wonder: What will Singapore hijack from Malaysia next? Fortunately, where the F1 is concerned, we are still ahead of Singapore, actually. That's because we have Malaysian teams actually competing in the race!

**** Singapore's Apache Attack Helicopter Makes Crash Landing <http://www.bernama.com.my/bernama/v5/newsindex.php?id=531624>
Bernama

In a brief statement, the republic's Defence Ministry said the helicopter landed between Woodlands Ave 12 and Woodlands Dr 75 at about 3.30pm. The ministry said there had been no damage to civilian property or injury to personnel reported, adding that an investigation was ongoing.

**** Lee Kuan Yew's Prayer <http://www.mb.com.ph/articles/279852/lee-kuan-yews-prayer>
Manila Bulletin




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