[MyAppleMenu] Jan 28, 2011

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**** Genieo Now Available For Mac, Recognizes Your Favorite Web Content <http://www.tuaw.com/2011/01/27/genieo-now-available-for-mac-recognizes-your-favorite-web-conte/>
Dave Caolo, TUAW

Genieo is now available for the Mac with a unique approach to managing information overload. The developers are interested in a service that learns your preferred topics, your trusted sources, and how you find and read information on the web. Genieo then presents you with content you're certain to like, without any scripting or filtering from you, the user.

**** With Skype 5.0 Out Of Beta, Group Video Chat Becomes A Premium Feature <http://www.macworld.com/article/157435/2011/01/skype5.html?lsrc=rss_main>
Marco Tabini, Macworld

Voice-over-IP developer Skype says that its latest client for the Mac is now out of beta and officially available for download as a fully-supported product. With the latest release, Skype has made some changes to its software in response to customer feedback and is also packaging some functionality into a “premium” pricing tier.

**** Q.&A.: Deleting Mac App Store Apps <http://gadgetwise.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/01/27/q-a-deleting-mac-app-store-apps/?partner=rss&emc=rss>
J.d. Biersdorfer, New York Times

To remove a Mac App Store app from your computer, you uninstall it the way you uninstall most Mac programs. Just open the Applications folder on the Mac’s hard drive and drag the unwanted app to the Trash can; you may need to type in your administrator password to do so. Then go to the Finder menu and choose the Empty Trash option.

**** Line2 - 2 Numbers 1 iPhone <http://www.macworld.com/appguide/app.html?id=299619&lsrc=rss_main>
Glenn Fleishman, Macworld

**** iBank 4 <http://www.macworld.com/reviews/product/577563/review/ibank_4.html?expand=true&lsrc=rss_main>
Jeffery Battersby, Macworld

iBank 4.1 is a powerful and easy-to-use personal and small business finance application that is constantly being updated, offers a useful set of features, and, most importantly, is designed by developers who seem hell-bent on pleasing their customers and adding new and better features to their application.



The Tomorrow Weblog
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**** Catching Classic Sports Moments As They're Happening <http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/32232/?a=f>
Erica Naone, Technology Review

A startup quantifies what makes games exciting—and alerts you to go watch them.



MyAppleMenu Reader
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**** Getting Medieval On Higher Education <http://chronicle.com/article/Getting-Medieval-on-Higher/126008/>
Thomas H. Benton, Chronicle Of Higher Education

One could imagine that in the Middle Ages, choosing a monastery might have been like selecting among liberal-arts colleges, each with a different variation of mission and expression. But the major purpose, in every case, was to turn away from the vices and distractions of the world toward a higher life—often a deeply intellectual one—nurtured by the work of one's hands.

**** The New School Of Fish <http://www.sanfranmag.com/story/the-new-school-of-fish>
Erik Vance, San Francisco Magazine

Eating sustainably is at the very core of Bay Area culture, an essential part of the local ethos. Our chefs are leaders of the organic movement, and when we sit down in a top-rated restaurant, we take it for granted that the food we’re served has been sourced with the best interests of the planet at heart. We assume that the salad greens are always organic and that the porchetta sandwich we stand in line for is made with meat from a humanely raised, hormone-free pig who spent his days rooting for acorns underneath an oak tree. But when it comes to offering sustainable seafood, very few local restaurants get it right in any consistent way.

**** Larry Page's Google 3.0 <http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/11_06/b4214050441614.htm>
Brad Stone, BusinessWeek

The company co-founder and his star deputies are trying to root out bureaucracy and rediscover the nimble moves of youth.



SingaporeSurf
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**** “This Is Organised By The Residents For The Residents,” MP Retorts <http://theonlinecitizen.com/2011/01/mp-brushes-off-residents-complaint-of-loud-music-thank-you-for-your-feedback/>
Richard Seah, The Online Citizen

**** Costlier Coffee At Some Chains <http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/Singapore/Story/STIStory_629218.html>
Jamie Ee Wen Wei, Straits Times

On Wednesday, Starbucks hiked drinks prices by between 10 and 30 cents. A tall latte is now $5.50, up from $5.30, and a tall mocha frappuccino is $5.80, up from $5.50. S-11 put up signs at its drink stalls announcing price increases for coffee, tea and Milo, which started from Jan 11. A cup of coffee is now $1, up from 90 cents.

The increases come after a third chain, Ya Kun, raised its coffee prices by 20 cents last month.

**** Singaporeans For Democracy Wants Government To State Stand On Book On Hangman <http://www.bernama.com.my/bernama/v5/newsgeneral.php?id=559961>
Zakaria Abdul Wahab, Bernama

Singaporeans For Democracy (SFD), a political association, Thursday called on the government to ban the book, "Once A Jolly Hangman: Singapore Justice in the Dock" or assign it a classification that clearly and publicly indicates that the book could not be distributed or sold in the city-state.

**** No Penalty For Taking Maternity Leave <http://www.straitstimes.com/STForum/Story/STIStory_629033.html>
Lu Cheng Yang, Ministry Of Education, Straits Times

Supervisors have the flexibility to rank and assign a performance grade to deserving officers, even if they have been on extended periods of leave.

**** MICA Appoints PR Agency To 'Market Singapore Holistically' <http://www.todayonline.com/Singapore/EDC110128-0000232/To-win-fans-and-friends-,,,>
Cheow Xin Yi, Today

To "win fans and friends" for the Republic, the Ministry of Information, Communications and the Arts (MICA) will be going where it has never gone before: For the first time, it has appointed a public relations consultancy to help come up with a strategy "to market Singapore holistically".

**** MM And Lucky Tan Could Both Be Wrong <http://atans1.wordpress.com/2011/01/28/mm-and-lucky-tan-could-both-be-wrong/>
Thoughts Of A Cynical Investor

**** Incense And Insensibility <http://thebluesweater.blogspot.com/2011/01/incense-and-insensibility.html>
The Blue Sweater

Most ironically, in his attempt to invoke his vision of the ideal, and to encourage Singaporeans to strive towards achieving it, he has only exposed how diametrically different and unacceptable that vision is for the same Singaporeans he cultivated based on that vision.

**** Lee Kuan Yew Vs The Muslims <http://burnrallytogether.blogspot.com/2011/01/lee-kuan-yew-vs-muslims.html>
The People's Friend

What right has Lee to comment on how Muslims should conduct themselves, especially in matters of religion? 

**** Record 15,360 Job Vacancies Unfilled: MOM <http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/Singapore/Story/STIStory_629317.html>
Straits Times

The Ministry of Manpower released its annual Job Vacancies Report on Friday which showed that employers last year (2010) struggled to fill a record level of jobs for extended periods.

**** A Government Ready To Abandon Its People <http://yoursdp.org/index.php/the-party/young-democrats/4551-a-government-ready-to-abandon-its-people>
Muhd Shamin, Singapore Democratic Party

**** Subsidise Foreign Degree Fees Of Those Who Don't Get Place Here <http://www.todayonline.com/Voices/EDC110128-0000506/Subsidise-foreign-degree-fees-of-those-who-dont-get-place-here>
Colin Ong Tau Shien, Today

**** Non-PR Foreigners Snap Up Private Homes At Record Rate <http://sg.yfittopostblog.com/2011/01/28/non-pr-foreigners-snap-up-private-homes-at-record-rate/>
Faris, Yahoo!

**** AMP Responds To Comments By MM Lee In His New Book <http://theonlinecitizen.com/2011/01/amp-responds-to-comments-by-mm-lee-in-his-new-book/>
Association Of Muslim Professionals, The Online Citizen

MM’s comments also raise questions as to whether they reflect the thinking of other political leaders. Does this thinking (relating to the misperception of Muslims being disinterested in integration, or that the MMC will never catch up with other communities) affect, directly or indirectly, other government policies? If this is not the case, then the State should clarify this. Otherwise, the perception will be that the comments expressed by MM Lee, as a core member of the Cabinet, reflects the official position of the government.

**** Prices Of HDB Flats, Private Homes On The Rise <http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporebusinessnews/view/1107485/1/.html>
Joanne Chan, Channel NewsAsia

Moving forward, analysts expect property prices to stabilise, rising five to eight per cent this year.

**** EU Fines Weigh On Singapore Airlines <http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703956604576109543811631566.html>
Gaurav Raghuvanshi, Wall Street Journal

Singapore Airlines Ltd. said Friday its fiscal third-quarter net profit fell 28.6% from a year earlier after the company set aside money to pay fines for alleged price fixing by its cargo unit, while adding that tapering advance passenger bookings and rising fuel costs are clouding its outlook.