[MyAppleMenu] Aug 24, 2011

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**** United Puts iPads In Cockpits For 'Paperless Flight Deck' <http://www.macworld.com/article/161884/2011/08/ipads_in_cockpit.html#lsrc.rss_main>
Joel Mathis, Macworld

United Airlines is joining the “paperless flight deck” revolution, announcing Tuesday that it is distributing 11,000 iPads to United and Continental pilots to replace bulky paper navigation charts in the cockpit.

**** Launchpad-Control 1.3 <http://www.macworld.com/article/161888/2011/08/launchpad_control_gem.html#lsrc.rss_main>
Dan Frakes, Macworld

This simple utility, which operates as a System Preferences pane, displays a list of all Launchpad-eligible applications (essentially, anything located in /Applications or ~/Applications), as well as any folders that either exist inside the Applications folders or that you’ve created within Launchpad. Next to each program or folder is a checkbox—if the box is checked, the application appears in Launchpad. Uncheck the boxes next to the programs you want to exclude from Launchpad, click Apply, and the Dock (which handles part of Launchpad’s functionality) relaunches as your changes are applied.

**** Apple Finally Updates OS X Lion On Mac App Store To 10.7.1 <http://www.macrumors.com/2011/08/23/apple-finally-updates-os-x-lion-on-mac-app-store-to-10-7-1/>
Eric Slivka, MacRumors

**** AirPlay Credited With Winning Apple Movie Market Share In iTunes <http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/11/08/23/airplay_credited_with_winning_apple_movie_market_share_in_itunes.html>
Daniel Eran Dilger, AppleInsider

Apple has resumed growth among online movie stores after spurt of competition blunted its market share last year, a recovery credited in part to the company's new AirTunes mobile integration feature.

**** Apple Releases Epson 2.8 Printer Driver Update <http://www.macworld.com/article/161901/2011/08/apple_releases_epson_2_8_printer_driver_update.html#lsrc.rss_main>
Serenity Caldwell, Macworld

**** In Praise Of The iPod Classic <http://www.macworld.com/article/161868/2011/08/opinion_in_praise_of_the_ipod_classic.html#lsrc.rss_main>
Kirk McElhearn, Macworld

For those who simply want to listen to music, the iPod classic is ideal; in fact, it’s the only device that offers decent capacity at an affordable price.

**** Favorite Text-expansion Tricks <http://www.macworld.com/article/161894/2011/08/favorite_text_expansion_tricks.html#lsrc.rss_main>
Dan Frakes And Kirk McElhearn, Macworld

Cut keystrokes and save time by letting these utilities do the work for you.

**** Q&A: Making Apple’s New Mail Program Look Old Again <http://gadgetwise.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/24/qa-making-apples-new-mail-program-look-old-again/?partner=rss&emc=rss>
J.d. Biersdorfer, New York Times

**** Motion FX Uses Lion To Add Video Effects In Real Time <http://www.macworld.com/article/161906/2011/08/motion_fx_uses_lion_to_add_video_effects_in_real_time.html#lsrc.rss_main>
Joel Mathis, Macwold

Autodesk on Wednesday launched a new video-effects application for Macs, one that uses the face-tracking technology of OS X Lion to create exotic images using your computer’s camera.

**** Word Breaks For Nerds <http://www.red-sweater.com/blog/2137/word-breaks-for-nerds>
Daniel Jalkut, Red Sweater

Starting in Lion, Apple fine-tuned the behavior by changing the definition of what constitutes a word delimiter for option-arrow navigation. While it used to stop on e.g. period-separated words, now it considers such chains.of.words to be a single “word.”

**** Apple Issues Updates For Boot Camp, iMac Graphics Firmware <http://www.macworld.com/article/161920/2011/08/apple_issues_updates_for_boot_camp_imac_graphics_firmware.html#lsrc.rss_main>
Lauren Crabbe, Macworld



The Tomorrow Weblog
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**** Reaping The Benefits Of Electronic Medical Records <http://www.technologyreview.com/biomedicine/38418/?ref=rss>
Emily Singer, Technology Review

Researchers use natural language processing to flag postsurgical complications in physicians' notes.



MyAppleMenu Reader
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**** The Prodigy Burned Out. Why Not Blame Mom? <http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/24/books/disaster-was-my-god-by-bruce-duffy-review.html?partner=rss&emc=rss>
Carlin Romano, New York Times

Why did he stop writing poetry at 20 and become an adventurer who spent a decade in Abyssinia (now Ethiopia) as a merchant and gun runner before his death in a Marseille hospital?

**** How Hard Is It To Get A Cartoon Into <i>The New Yorker</i>? <http://www.slate.com/id/2302171/?from=rss>
James Sturm, Slate

It was a Tuesday in July and I was sitting in the "cartoonist lounge" on the 20th floor of the Condé Nast building in Times Square with an envelope containing 10 drawings: my first cartoon submissions to The New Yorker. Every Tuesday is judgment day, the day Robert Mankoff, the magazine's cartoon editor, meets with cartoonists face to face.

**** The Genius In My Basement By Alexander Masters - Review <http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/aug/24/genius-in-my-basement-review?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+theguardian%2Fbooks%2Frss+%28Books%29>
Jenny Turner, The Guardian

An unusual biography of a mathematician and public transport addict.

**** Springtime For Hitler <http://www.tnr.com/book/review/dead-funny-humor-hitler-germany-holocaust-rudolph-herzog>
Monica Osborne, The New Republic

Jokes about Hitler, Nazis, and concentration camps were pervasive before and during World War II: the least amusing era in history produced its own quantities of humor. Its jokes were told and heard by German citizens of all walks of life, which reveals an even more distressing piece of knowledge: Germans may not have been aware of every aspect of Hitler’s plan to exterminate the Jews and eliminate political dissenters, but they had an acute understanding of the diabolical nature of his vision, and instead of acting against it they sometimes laughed about it. Herzog’s new book uses Nazi-era German humor as a basis for exposing the ethical shortcomings not only of those directly involved in crimes against humanity, but also of those who remained silent or claimed ignorance.



SingaporeSurf
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**** PA Lifting Conditions For Leasing Sites <http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/1148722/1/.html>
Channel NewsAsia

The People's Association (PA) is lifting its conditions for non-PA grassroots organisations which want to lease its sites in areas managed by Aljunied-Hougang Town Council. In a joint statement with the National Development Ministry on Tuesday night, the association explained that as long as events are non-political in nature, it will not impose any conditions on the organisers about whom they want to invite.

PA said it is lifting the conditions because the Aljunied-Hougang Town Council stated on 19 August that it too will not put any restrictions on guests of grassroots organisations using their facilities.

See Also: The Online Citizen [http://theonlinecitizen.com/2011/08/mnd-pa-responds-to-ahtc/]: Joint Statement from MND and PA on Leasing Sites on HDB Land within Aljunied Town.

**** 'Links To Opposition But Jee Say Will Be pro-S'porean' <http://www.todayonline.com/Singapore/EDC110824-0000381/Links-to-Opposition-but-Jee-Say-will-be-pro-Sporean>
Quek Sue Wen Carolyn, Today

Despite presidential candidate Tan Jee Say's association with the Opposition, his links with the Singapore Democratic Party (SDP) was the shortest - at four months - compared to the other three candidates who had been members of the ruling People's Action Party (PAP) for more than 30 years, said a speaker at Mr Tan's election rally last night.

**** 'Hazel Poa's Statements Misleading' <http://www.todayonline.com/Voices/EDC110824-0000350/Hazel-Poas-statements-misleading>
Serena Khoo, Temasek Holdings, Today

We take this opportunity to reassure our broader public as well as Ms Poa that we are keen to expand our stakeholder base in a responsible, prudent and measured manner. 

We are credit rated AAA/Aaa by internationally recognised rating agencies, and have offered top rated Temasek Bonds to both international and Singapore investors since 2005.

**** How Will Govt Count Extra Uni Places? <http://www.straitstimes.com/STForum/Story/STIStory_705320.html>
Law Che Kun, Straits Times

Does the increase in 2,000 places for citizens include the 1,000 places offered by SIT this year and 500 by SUTD next year? Or would they be in addition to that? This will determine whether there would actually be a significant increase in the number of university places offered to students by 2015.

**** Why SMRT’s Laissez-Faire Attitude Worries Commuters <http://guanyinmiao.wordpress.com/2011/08/24/why-smrt’s-laissez-faire-attitude-worries-commuters/>
Guanyinmiao's Musings

**** Teaching An Old Dog New Tricks <http://chaptertworeload.wordpress.com/2011/08/24/teaching-an-old-dog-new-trick/>
Aaron Ng, Chapter Two: Reload

However, the PAP chose to hand the Workers’ Party a loaded gun instead, and the Worker’s Party has, perhaps with much glee, opened fire on the PAP using the gun. And now, the independent voters who fled from the fold of the PAP are probably nodding to themselves in approval that they did the right thing in voting against a bully.

**** Political Gridlock Or Sterility, PM? <http://theonlinecitizen.com/2011/08/political-gridlock-or-sterility-pm/>
Howard Lee, The Online Citizen

The PAP seems to have finally realised that, for all its years of attempting to manage public perception and expectations on the way it governs, policy does indeed have an effect on public sentiment, and Singaporeans are increasingly aware of the avenues at their disposal to make themselves heard. These avenues are not always spelt “T-O-C”. At times, they are spelt “V-O-T-E”.

**** 若当选总统 陈如斯拟以薪酬设两基金 <http://www.zaobao.com.sg/sp/sp110824_015.shtml>
郑景祥 游润恬 黄伟曼, 联合早报

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**** Gift From The Heavens <http://hardhitting-nobs.blogspot.com/2011/08/gift-from-heavens.html>
Musings From The Lion City

You know what this means? This means that the WP will have a ready made excuse in the next GE if they failed to run Aljunied GRC as well as the previous PAP team. Not only that, they have proof that they had obstructions placed by PAP-run bodies!

**** Our View: Singapore's System Keeps Traffic Moving <http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/editorials/2011-08-23-Singapore-transportation-solutions_n.htm>
USA Today

More than any other country, Singapore has come to an epiphany about how to keep people from being caught in endless traffic delays: It thinks of its roads not as a social service but as a business, one that affects all other businesses and the health of the overall economy.

**** Singaporeans On The Cabinet’s First 100 Days <http://sg.news.yahoo.com/blogs/singaporescene/singaporeans-cabinet-first-100-days-042016611.html>
Liyana Low, Yahoo!

**** Sack HDB, Disband People’s Association <http://yawningbread.wordpress.com/2011/08/24/sack-hdb-disband-peoples-association/>
Au Waipang, Yawning Bread

The members of the Board should be impeached. At the very least, the President should refuse to reappoint any of them when their terms of office come up for renewal.

**** Media Release On Untrue Claims Of Curtailment Of PAP Grassroots Activities In
 Hougang SMC <http://wp.sg/2011/08/media-release-on-untrue-claims-of-curtailment-of-pap-grassroots-activities-in%E2%80%A8-hougang-smc/>
Low This Khiang, Member Of Parliament For Aljunied, Former Chairman, Hougang Town Council, Workers' Party

In attempting to sidetrack the issue of what is the “real” role of the People’s Association (PA) funded by taxpayers’ money and to conceal the political motivation behind this unprecedented policy of excluding such common property from Town Council management, they now issue a long list of untrue accusations that I shall rebut point by point.

**** Second Media Release On Public Sites <http://wp.sg/2011/08/second-media-release-on-public-sites/>
Yaw Shin Leong, Member Of Parliament (Hougang), Vice-Chairman, Aljunied-Hougang Town Council, Workers' Party

We took over the management of TC on 1st August and no instruction was given either by the Chairman and Vice-chairmen to the staff on the issue of who permit applicants should invite. If MND has any information to the contrary, we will investigate the matter. In any case, it should be clear to all that there has never been any policy in both the former Hougang Town Council (HGTC) and AHTC to set conditions on the guest list. This is not a `new position’ as claimed by the PA, and is self-evident from the presence of PAP grassroots advisors at events held on Town Council-managed land in Hougang over the last 20 years and in Aljunied GRC after the General Elections.

This episode has clearly illustrated how key government agencies with intense outreach capabilities can be mobilized to advance the political interests of the ruling party, and to undermine the mandate of opposition MPs given by the electorate.