[MyAppleMenu] Jun 17, 2011

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**** Considering OS X Server For Home Users <http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-20071411-263/considering-os-x-server-for-home-users/>
Topher Kessler, CNET

**** Why iTunes Match Has Indie Soul Label Singing The Blues <http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2011/06/why-itunes-match-has-indie-soul-label-singing-the-blues.ars>
Chris Foresman, Ars Technica

**** Working At The Apple Store: Tales From The Inside <http://gizmodo.com/5812669/working-at-the-apple-store-tales-from-the-inside>
Adrian Chen, Gizmodo

After the Wall Street Journal published an account of Apple's retail culture that was as sterile and cheery as Apple Stores themselves, we asked insiders to send us more colorful details about hawking Steve Jobs' pricey chunks of metal. And Apple Store employees had some tales to tell. Here's a selection.

**** Apple And A Web-free Cloud <http://radar.oreilly.com/2011/06/apple-icloud-control-google-amazon.html>
Alasdair Allan, O'Reilly Radar

The link between custom chips and the cloud may seem tenuous at first glance, but I think Apple's return to designing their own silicon is telling. Almost as telling as spending half a billion dollars on a custom data center to support their new iCloud service. Both moves show the company is now committed more than ever to controlling the verticals. From the chips inside the devices to the data centers their customers' data ultimately resides on, Apple is committed to controlling the user experience, and the web has no place in that.

**** The Stranger's Child By Alan Hollinghurst – Review <http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/jun/17/strangers-child-alan-hollinghurst-review?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+theguardian%2Fbooks%2Frss+%28Books%29>
Theo Tait, The Guardian

Hollinghurst has a strong, perhaps unassailable claim to be the best English novelist working today. He offers surely the best available example of novelistic ambition squared with the highest aesthetic standards.

**** FAQ: No, You Can't Have Lion <http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/news/software/3286705/faq-no-you-cant-have-lion/>
Gregg Keizer, Computerworld

Like any OS, Lion comes with a set of requirements, prerequisites and limitations that will lock out some users entirely and discourage others.

**** Customers With Multiple Apple IDs Frustrated By Apple's "No Consolidation" Policy <http://www.tuaw.com/2011/06/17/multiple-apple-ids-frustrated-by-apples-no-consolidation-policy/>
TJ Luoma, TUAW

Since Apple's iCloud announcement, we have received a steady stream of messages from people with the same problem: multiple Apple IDs.

**** Apple Accepts Javascript In EPUB Ebooks In iBookstore <http://www.pigsgourdsandwikis.com/2011/06/javascript-accepted-in-ibookstore.html>
Liz Castro, Pigs, Gourds, And Wikis

Last night my photography ebook, “Barcelona Beyond Gaudí” was accepted into the iBookstore. While I'm personally very excited, I'm also professionally excited (!), since this means that Apple accepts Javascript in EPUB files for iBooks.

**** Review: World Of Goo <http://www.applegazette.com/games/review-world-of-goo/>
Apple Gazette

**** Déjà Vu 3.7.5 <http://www.macworld.com/article/160423/2011/06/dejavu3.html#lsrc.rss_main>
Jeffery Battersby, Macworld

Déjà Vu is a simple, easy-to-configure System Preference pane that helps you backup up your data to any directly attached or network attached drive, including optical media such.



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**** The Match That Would Never End <http://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/entertainment/articles/2011-06/03/gq-sport-wimbledon-nicolas-mahut-john-isner-tennis/match>
Ed Caesar, GQ

Curiously, it's not an image I remember best from the match, but a sound. At seemingly incongruous moments in the fifth set of the last year's first-round tie between John Isner and Nicolas Mahut, the crowd on Court 18 at Wimbledon emitted a nervous giggle.

Wimbledon crowds don't usually giggle. Of course, they have a famously low threshold for laughter. A rogue pigeon, for example, can reduce Centre Court to weepy guffaws. But this was something higher and finer than laughter. The sound rose from Court 18 like freshly applied cologne. It was the noise of a crowd watching a tightrope walk, not a tennis match. And it told you one thing: the spectators could not process the evidence placed before their eyes. They did not believe that two professional tennis players could fail to win, or refuse to lose a match for so long.



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**** Is The PAP A Profligate Government? <http://singstatistician.blogspot.com/2011/06/is-pap-prolifigate-government.html>
Thoughts Of A Singapore Statistician

The ministers have therefore all discovered that the easiest way to become popular and well liked is to spend money and make voters happy. As this new thinking catches on, I expect more ministers and MPs to come forward with ways to spend money.

**** The Genderal Elections <http://thinkingbetterthinkingmeta.blogspot.com/2011/06/genderal-elections.html>
Sam's Thoughts, Sam Ho

Next time when we pass judgement on a female politician, do take some time to think to what extent does her femaleness play a role in our evaluation, and perhaps why we think this way and assume it to be a "natural" reaction. You don't know what to say, but you know what to think about next time.

**** Group Urges Sabahan's Case Be Referred To ICJ <http://www.dailyexpress.com.my/news.cfm?NewsID=78298>
Daily Express

Ravi, during a press conference, urged the Malaysian Parliament to take Yong's case to the ICJ. He said "Yong did not receive a fair trial given the fact that the Chief Justice was in conflict of interest in proceeding to hear the case despite a valid application to recuse him from hearing it."

**** No To Obedient Wives Club <http://www.aware.org.sg/2011/06/singapore-should-not-have-an-obedient-wives-club/>
AWARE

We urge the Minister in charge of Muslim Affairs and MUIS to comment on the OWC and so contextualise the teachings in Islam that illuminate this concept of obedience. We need these authorities to speak up so that women and men can make informed choices as they try to live by the teachings of their faith.

**** Unit Prices For DBSS Project In Tampines Hit Record High <http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporebusinessnews/view/1135575/1/.html>
Liang Kaixin, Channel NewsAsia

Would you pay S$880,000 for a new HDB flat? That is the top price for a five-room unit at Centrale 8, the new Design-Build-and-Sell-Scheme in Tampines and it sets a new record, surpassing prices of some resale flats in the area.

**** NGO Calls For International Domestic Workers Law To Be Ratified In Singapore <http://theonlinecitizen.com/2011/06/ngo-calls-for-international-domestic-workers-law-to-be-ratified-in-singapore/>
The Online Citizen

**** The Wisdom Of George Yeo <http://www.visakanv.com/blog/2881/the-wisdom-of-george-yeo/>
Visakan Veerasamy.

New avenues have opened up for asymmetrical warfare, and the former Brigadier-General wisely senses that by staying out of the current political structure, he has the opportunity to create a role for himself that has not existed before.

**** The Spirit Of Neutrality <http://politicalwritings.wordpress.com/2011/06/16/the-spirit-of-neutrality/>
Political Writings

**** Time To Pack It In, Kenneth <http://thesatayclub.net/2011/06/time-to-pack-it-in-kenneth/>
Cheryl Chan, The Satay Club

If Mr Jeyaretnam wants to advance the cause of the opposition in Singapore, perhaps the best thing he can do is to wind up his party and quit politics altogether. He risks damaging the legacy of his father by becoming a marginal, irrelevant political figure.

**** Singapore Regulator To Launch Full-scale Inspection Of Casinos <http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/06/17/singapore-casinos-idUSL3E7HH1HC20110617>
Reuters

Singapore's casino regulator said on Friday it will launch a full-scale inspection of the city-state's two casino-resorts this year to ensure the operators comply with all rules and regulations.

"With both casinos having been in operation for more than a year, they would have by now sorted out any kinks in their operations and moved into a steady state of operations," Casino Regulatory Authority (CRA) chairman Richard Magnus said during a seminar.

**** Singapore Finds Its Cultural Feet With Culinary Renaissance <http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jun/17/singapore-culture-dinner-clubs-music>
Kate Hodal, The Guardian

It is often derided as a cultural desert, but a younger generation of Singapore's residents and expats is determined to bring an edgier side to the city. They are leading an improvisation drive, chiefly culinary, and the results are rarely dull.