[MyAppleMenu] Jul 19, 2011

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**** Getting Images From iPhoto To Lightroom <http://gadgetwise.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/18/getting-images-from-iphoto-to-lightroom/?partner=rss&emc=rss>
Roy Furchgott, New York Times

There is a fast, easy way to move your photos over—and a slow tedious way. Which one you want depends on how eager you are to save the edits to your photos, and the way you have them organized.

**** Options For Sleeping Displays In OS X <http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-20080445-263/options-for-sleeping-displays-in-os-x/?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=MacFixIt>
Topher Kessler, CNET

**** iPhone 4 Survives Fall From Skydiver's Pock <http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/mobile/07/18/iphone.skydive/index.html?hpt=hp_t2>
John D. Sutter, CNN

**** Silently Set An iPhone Alarm <http://www.macworld.com/article/161184/2011/07/iphone_alarm.html#lsrc.rss_main>
Lex Friedman, Macworld

When you're choosing your alarm sound, double-tap it instead of single-tapping it. You'll select the sound without auditioning it first. And that should let everyone sleep better.

**** Apple To Open A New Store Every 50 Hours Before End Of 2011 Harvest <http://www.current.com.au/2011/07/19/article/Apple-to-open-a-new-Store-every-50-hours-before-end-of-2011-harvest/WOFORDPTKS.html>
Patrick Avenell, Current.com.au

“Our retail offering continues to growth, with Penrith the 11th store in Australia, since we opened Apple Store Sydney just three years ago. Globally we are planning to have 363 stores in fiscal 2011.”

**** BBEdit 10 Brings More Than 100 Enhancements <http://www.macworld.com/article/161180/2011/07/bbedit_10.html#lsrc.rss_main>
Dan Moren, Macworld

Among the most noticeable changes in BBEdit 10 is the removal of the document drawer, which has been replaced by a sidebar that users can toggle on and off. That sidebar gives users quick access to lists of open and recent documents; you can close an open document right from the sidebar, and then re-open it from the recent documents list. The Project view, which previously used a similar sidebar, has been updated with similar features.

**** Seven Under-the-radar Lion Features You Might Have Missed <http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2011/07/under-the-radar-lion-features.ars?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss>
Chris Foresman, Ars Technica

**** Social Clipboard 1.4 <http://www.macworld.com/article/160654/2011/07/socialclipboard1.html#lsrc.rss_main>
Brendan Wilhide, Macworld

Social Clipboard is a sort of super clipboard that allows you to post copied text, photos and HTML code to Facebook, Twitter and Dropbox. After authorizing Social Clipboard to interact with each account, you select what you’ve copied and then paste it to the each site. For example, photos uploaded to your Facebook profile are placed on your wall and a special Social Clipboard photo album.

**** Apple Reports Record Sales, Profits For Third Quarter <http://www.macworld.com/article/161212/2011/07/apple_third_quarter_earnings.html#lsrc.rss_main>
Philip Michaels, Macworld

Record iPhone and iPad sales combined with continued growth of its Mac business pushed Apple to another strong performance in its fiscal third quarter. On Tuesday, the company reported sales of $28.57 billion and net profit of $7.31 billion for the three-month period ended June 25, 2011.

**** Lion Will Ship Wednesday On The Mac App Store <http://www.macworld.com/article/161215/2011/07/lion_ships_wednesday.html#lsrc.rss_main>
Serenity Caldwell, Macworld

The cat’s out of the bag: During Apple’s third-quarter financial earnings call Tuesday, chief financial officer Peter Oppenheimer announced that Lion would debut Wednesday on the Mac App Store. The OS update will cost $30.



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**** Ambiguity <http://asymptotejournal.com/article.php?cat=Criticism&id=20&curr_index=22&curPage=current>
Adonis, Asymptote

"Modern poetry, and most especially your poetry, is opaque." So says a reader who might stand in for many others, including some who write poetry. It is a common sentiment, even a cliché. Accordingly, there must be something that allows for this phenomenon. How do we explain it? What does it signify?

**** Boy On Crutches <http://www.slate.com/id/2299362/?from=rss>
Terese Svoboda, Slate

**** How To Undress A Victorian Lady In Your Next Historical Romance <http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304911104576443871615544338.html?mod=WSJ_LifeStyle_Lifestyle_6>
Alexandra Alter, Wall Street Journal

For most people, giving a presentation in skivvies to 100 professional peers sounds like a bad dream. But Ms. Gist was giving a workshop on Victorian clothing at the Romance Writers of America's annual convention this summer. The romance novelists had gathered in New York to learn how to dress—and undress—heroines in their novels.



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**** Joint Head Of Temasek's Seatown To Leave -Source <http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/18/temasek-seatown-idUSL3E7II1CO20110718>
Saeed Azhar, Reuters

Nasser Ahmad, co-chief executive of Seatown, a multi-billion dollar investment firm set up by state investor Temasek in 2010, will leave the firm, a source said on Monday. Charles Ong, also co-CEO of Seatown, will return to Temasek where he had the title of senior managing director for special projects, the source familiar with the two moves told Reuters.

**** A Female President Is Almost Impossible <http://www.aware.org.sg/2011/07/a-female-president-is-almost-impossible-in-singapore/>
Grace Ke, Aware

The plain truth is this: The professional credentials of an eligible Presidential candidate are held to extremely stringent standards. Current female representation in the highest echelons of the public and private sectors in Singapore is inadequate.

In other words, much more must be done to encourage and ensure the presence of more women at these levels of leadership, before a female President becomes a significantly concrete prospect.

**** Day 2 <http://christinasthoughtoftheday.blogspot.com/2011/07/day-2.html>
Christina Ferrero, Thought Of The Day

Also, all of the sub-cultures of Singapore were destroyed by the former prime minister Lee Kuan Yew.

**** A Taste Of Bad Govt <http://mysingaporenews.blogspot.com/2011/07/taste-of-bad-govt.html>
Chua Chin Leng, My Singapore News

**** The Singapore That’s Great For Everyone, Except Singaporeans – Part 1 Of 2 <http://theonlinecitizen.com/2011/07/the-singapore-that’s-great-for-everyone-except-singaporeans/>
Eugenie Yeo, The Online Citizen

But the issue is that we haven’t yet developed the infrastructure to support this influx of people. Clearly, Singaporeans are bearing the brunt of sky rocketing home prices, over-crowded public transport and spaces, and lack of proper assimilation of immigrant communities. We boast of top-tier healthcare and education yet the regular Singaporean encounters something quite different.

In other words, the very things that Singapore once stood for, no longer stand.

**** At Least One Execution Since Vui Kong's Appeal <http://sgdeathpenalty.blogspot.com/2011/07/at-least-one-execution-since-vui-kongs.html>
The Death Penalty In Singapore

**** What Is At Stake? <http://nohardfeelingsmemoir.wordpress.com/2011/07/18/125/>
A Reporter’s Memoir: No Hard Feelings

**** Philip Yeo, Why Pick On SG Bond-breakers But Dare Not Touch FT Ones? <http://www.temasekreview.com/2011/07/18/philip-yeo-why-pick-on-sg-bond-breakers-but-dare-not-touch-ft-ones/>
The Temasek Review

Mr Philip Yeo, if you are so righteous, let me direct your attention to an even greater injustice. Foreign students, after getting free education and paid allowance for studying in NTU and NUS, have returned to China without even serving out the lenient 3-year bond to work in Singapore. These foreign students broke their lenient bonds and go scot-free without the government breathing a word about such injustice while Singaporean bond-breakers who paid back the government for breaking the bond got named and shamed by Philip Yeo. Philip Yeo, where are you when we need your righteous moral fire towards the foreign bond-breakers?

**** Voters Who Changed Address Allowed To Vote Nearer Home For Presidential Election <http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/1141698/1/.html>
S Ramesh, Channel NewsAsia

The Elections Department said the Registration Officer will transfer their names to the appropriate Registers of Electors based on their NRIC address as on July 11 this year.

**** Did Dr Tony Tan Intimidate The NUS School Of Architecture In 1981? <http://singstatistician.blogspot.com/2011/07/did-dr-tony-tan-try-to-intimidate-nus.html>
Thoughts Of A Singapore Statistician

How can Dr Tony Tan protect Singapore when he appears linked to the worst abuses of the PAP in the past?

**** Overhauling Singapore’s Public Transport Model <http://wp.sg/2011/07/overhauling-singapore’s-public-transport-model/>
Gerald Giam, Workers' Party

To say that shareholder discipline will create such incentives is naïve at best, and wrong at worst.  Shareholders seek higher profits, not better or more affordable services.  The government must examine whether a public utility should be owned and operated by what are effectively private monopolists earning monopoly rents.

SMRT and SBST have consistently enjoyed high returns on equity (ROE) of above 15 per cent.  For SMRT, it has been above 20 per cent in most years.  In contrast, the median ROE for a Singapore listed company is about 9.5 per cent.

Public transport is a public good that serves a national purpose, in the same way as healthcare, education or public housing.  Thus running it on a cost-recovery basis will create positive externalities if it benefits the overall economy, for example, by getting people to work on time and in comfort.

**** The Trick In Pricing A Flat <http://singaporedesk.blogspot.com/2011/07/trick-in-pricing-flat.html>
Singapore Notes

"Pricing a flat is quite tricky as there are many factors at play," Khaw told reporters. Please, spare us the trickery, what the people want is honest to goodness transparent accounting. 

**** Are We Rich Or Are We Bankrupt? Part 3 <http://www.yoursdp.org/index.php/perspective/special-feature/4900-are-we-rich-or-are-we-bankrupt-part-3>
Singapore Democratic Party

Is the PAP finding it difficult to return us our CPF savings because of insufficient funds in the reserves? Is this why the Government is delaying the withdrawal age of CPF account holders, making workers delay their retirement, and even withholding our money outright?

If our reserves are still in tact, and in as healthy a state that the Government claims them to be, why not invite all and sundry to verify the accounts rather than hide the records away from scrutiny. Indeed why does the GIC and the Ministry of Finance not open up their books for public verification?

**** Vikram Nair Clarifies The 60/40 Story <http://theonlinecitizen.com/2011/07/vikram-nair-clarifies-the-6040-story/>
The Online Citizen

What I actually said, after a speech where I discussed the various ways in which the PAP was changing, was the following:

“I remember when we were going through the early stages and we were telling people, yes we are going to change this and going to change that, one of the things one of my friends reminded me was, you can change, but don’t change for the 40% and ignore the 60% that voted for you. So I guess that is the balance we will keep in mind in the renewal process."

**** Dr Tony Tan: "Singaporeans First" Policy For Higher Education, Is Not "Singaporeans Only" <http://www.todayonline.com/Singapore/EDC110719-0000129/Dr-Tony-Tan--Singaporeans-first-policy-for-higher-education,-is-not-Singaporeans-only>
Tan Weizhen, Today

When it comes to higher education, former Deputy Prime Minister and presidential hopeful, Dr Tony Tan, said he favoured a "Singaporeans first" policy. But he made it clear this was different from a Singaporeans only policy.

**** Supertrees In Singapore <http://barrysmyth.blogspot.com/2011/07/supertrees-in-singapore.html>
Barry Smyth

**** Smoking Out Public Service Priorities <http://yawningbread.wordpress.com/2011/07/19/smoking-out-public-service-priorities/>
Au Waipang, Yawning Bread