[MyAppleMenu] Jul 16, 2011

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**** Using Quicken For Mac? Read This Before You Upgrade To Lion <http://lowendmac.com/zisman/11az/quicken-and-lion.html>
Alan Zisman, Low End Mac

**** Apple's Taiwanese App Store Gets Refund Policy <http://news.cnet.com/8301-27076_3-20079824-248/apples-taiwanese-app-store-gets-refund-policy/?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=News-Apple>
Josh Lowensohn, CNET

To comply with local consumer-protection laws, Apple has rolled out a new refund policy in the Taiwanese versions of its App Store, Mac App Store, and iBookstore.

**** The Huge Success Of An AppStore Failure <http://blog.gameized.com/2011/07/12/the-huge-success-of-an-appstore-failure/>
Gameized

As of this writing, FingerKicks has sold only 1163 legitimate copies but there are at least 15,950 pirated copies being played on a regular basis on Apple’s Game Center. 

**** First Look: Spotify <http://www.macworld.com/article/161135/2011/07/spotify_firstlook.html>
Christopher Breen, Macworld

**** The Smart Cover, A Few Months In <http://www.marco.org/2011/07/15/ipad-2-smart-cover-review>
Marco Arment

I can’t find a comfortable way to hold and use the iPad with the Smart Cover attached. It flops and slides around far too much.

**** An Analysis Of Apple’s Adjustment Of International App Store Prices <http://www.macstories.net/news/an-analysis-of-apples-adjustment-of-international-app-store-prices/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+macstoriesnet+%28MacStories%29>
Graham Spencer, MacStories

**** How To Restrict Printer Sharing In OS X <http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-20079858-263/how-to-restrict-printer-sharing-in-os-x/>
Topher Kessler, CNET

Sharing non-network printers in OS X has been a relatively simple and convenient feature to set up, where all you have to do is enable sharing on a configured printer and anyone on the local network could access it, using your computer as a print server. In OS X 10.5 and earlier, this feature had no restrictions, so shared printers could be accessed by anyone, but starting in OS X 10.6 Apple introduced the option to allow or deny specific users and groups access to the shared printer. Here is how to set this up and configure it on your system.



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**** White Fever By Jacek Hugo-Bader - Review <http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/jul/15/travel-writing-russia?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+theguardian%2Fbooks%2Frss+%28Books%29>
Luke Harding, The Guardian

Two decades after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia has failed to come up with a new national idea. Instead, the US's erstwhile superpower rival has metastasised into a brutal kleptocracy. (This, at least, is the damning verdict of US diplomats, revealed late last year by WikiLeaks.) In a four-month drive from Moscow to Vladivostok, punctuated by frequent breakdowns and one nasty incident in which he slithers off the road into the snow, Hugo-Bader explores this despairing post-communist landscape.

**** Chicken Toenails, Anyone? <http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2011/jul/15/david-sedaris-chinese-food-chicken-toenails?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+theguardian%2Fbooks%2Frss+%28Books%29>
David Sedaris, The Guardian

"I have to go to China." I told people this in the way I might say, "I need to insulate my crawl space" or, "I've got to get these moles looked at." That's the way it felt, though. Like a chore. What initially put me off was the food. I'll eat it if the alternative means starving, but I've never looked forward to it, not even when it seemed exotic to me.

**** Back To The Coffee House <http://www.economist.com/node/18928416>
The Economist

And although this transformation does raise concerns, there is much to celebrate in the noisy, diverse, vociferous, argumentative and stridently alive environment of the news business in the age of the internet. The coffee house is back. Enjoy it.



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**** Elections 2.0 <http://singaporelifetimes.blogspot.com/2011/07/elections-20.html>
Singapore Life And Times

You want change? Then vote in opposition in numbers for them to form the government and then change the Westminster style of government to the American one. Then Presidential elections have real meaning. I am sorry, but I think JS is way off his rocker.

**** 别急着起价，先改善服务！ <http://www.zaobao.com.sg/yl/yl110716_008.shtml>
李喜梅, 联合早报

**** Employment Plight Of Our Seniors <http://yawshinleong.blogspot.com/2011/07/employment-plight-of-our-seniors.html>
Yaw Shin Leong

Eight hours shift for senior Singaporeans in the security industry should be encouraged. This will ensure that our seniors need not stay on their feet for 12 hours daily. At the same time I agree with Mrs Joanna Han that our seniors ought to deserve a less physically demanding work, especially when such jobs are available in other sectors.

**** Straitjacketed Cosmopolitanism <http://yawningbread.wordpress.com/2011/07/16/straitjacketed-cosmopolitanism/>
Au Waipang, Yawning Bread

Not only does Singapore want brain-cauterised Singaporeans, we want all foreigners coming here to contribute their skills and labour to our society and economy, to put on straitjackets on entering. We want them decontaminated of political impulses, and become, like Singaporeans, mere economic and consumerist automatons.

Unless, of course, they support the single party that dominates this state. In that case, please speak up and laud our tremendous achievements.

**** What Goes Up Stays Up – For Now <http://thestar.com.my/columnists/story.asp?col=insightdownsouth&file=/2011/7/16/columnists/insightdownsouth/9111855&sec=Insight%20Down%20South>
Seah Chiang Nee, The Star

**** Salary Not The Only Reason Why Docs Left: Health Minister <http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/Singapore/Story/STIStory_691314.html>
Salma Khalik, Straits Times

More money is not the only reason public sector doctors are leaving for private practice, health minister Gan Kim Yong believes. So he has asked the ministry to find out all the other factors behind the constant attrition of doctors from public hospitals and polyclinics.

**** A Refreshing Candidate In The Presidential Election <http://singaporerecalcitrant.blogspot.com/2011/07/refreshing-candidate-in-presidential.html>
Singapore Recalcitrant

If Mr. Tan Jee Say is indeed elected president, it will be a celebratory occasion for true Singaporeans. It will show the political awakening of the people who dare to display displeasures to the so-called PAP democratic rule.

**** Tan Jee Say Running For President: Break PAP Monopoly <http://rogerpoh.wordpress.com/2011/07/16/tan-jee-say-running-for-president-break-pap-monopoly/>
Spotlight On Singapore

A vote for Tony Tan is a vote for PAP. And PAP stands for repression as many Singaporeans have gradually realized.

**** Straits Times Censors Tan Jee Say’s Press Statement <http://www.temasekreview.com/2011/07/16/straits-times-censors-tan-jee-says-press-statement/>
The Temasek Review

In her article published in the Straits Times today entitled “Another Tan joins the fray”, Tessa Wong did not bother to reproduce the key points in pro-Singaporean leader Mr Tan Jee Say’s press statement posted on his blog yesterday saved for the opening paragraph that he is contesting the election on behalf of Singaporeans who want a president independent of the PAP.

In contrast, the Straits Times published most of PAP-endorsed candidate Tony Tan’s press statement when he first announced his candidacy.

**** What Is Tony Tan Doing On Tan Jee Say’s Page? <http://theonlinecitizen.com/2011/07/what-is-tony-tan-doing-on-tan-jee-says-page/>
The Online Citizen

**** Tan Jee Say’s Candidacy: Rivals React <http://thesatayclub.net/2011/07/tan-jee-says-candidacy-rivals-react/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tan-jee-says-candidacy-rivals-react>
Nigel Tan, The Satay Club

**** Just How Much Profit Is Enough? <http://thesatayclub.net/2011/07/just-how-much-profit-is-enough/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=just-how-much-profit-is-enough>
Lim Weiliang, The Satay Club

Either nationalise public transport or fully liberalise the sector by shattering the monopoly that is currently enjoyed by the operators. With the current state of affairs, commuters are completely at the transport companies’ mercy, and are bound to get left with the short end of the stick.

**** C-class Wards Should Be Air-conditioned <http://www.todayonline.com/Voices/EDC110716-0000103/C-class-wards-should-be-air-conditioned>
Leong Mun Keong, Today

**** Fare-change Formula "Ensures Operators Remain Productive" <http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/1141302/1/.html>
Evelyn Choo, Channel NewsAsia

He explained that while the formula incorporates the rate of inflation and wage increase, it also takes into consideration a productivity factor of 1.5 per cent.

He said: "So if there is no inflation for the year and there is no wage increase, then the fares will come down by one per cent, which means that we put an incentive on the operators to make sure that they are productive, and that's what the formula does."

**** No More Wheels For Rent At Bishan Park <http://sg.news.yahoo.com/blogs/singaporescene/no-more-wheels-rent-bishan-park-052656459.html>
Alicia Wong, Yahoo!

After doing business for nearly a decade, the only rental shop at one of the most popular parks in Singapore will be closing its doors from next month.

**** A Tale Of Two Jokers <http://politicalwritings.wordpress.com/2011/07/16/a-tale-of-two-jokers/>
Political Writings

Mr Tan thinks he qualifies for a COE because he was a fund manager for over $100M of assets under management.

The man is a scholar, so he can’t be stupid. So why does he think that a fund manager position is equivalent to that of a CEO of a $100M company?