[MyAppleMenu] Jun 21, 2011

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**** Adobe Targets iOS Again With Updates To Flash Builder And Flex <http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2011/06/adobe-updates-flash-builder-and-flex-to-target-iphone-ipad.ars?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss>
Chris Foresman, Ars Technica

Despite Apple's long-standing war of attrition over Flash, Adobe is making it easier for Flash and Flex developers to target Apple's mobile platform. The company announced on Monday that the latest versions of Flash Builder and Flex both support building apps for the iPhone and iPad in addition to supporting Android and RIM's BlackBerry PlayBook.

**** Q&A: Deauthorizing iTunes From Afar <http://gadgetwise.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/06/20/qa-deauthorizing-itunes-from-afar/?partner=rss&emc=rss#>
J.d. Biersdorfer, New York Times

In the account sign-in box, enter your iTunes Store user name and password and click on the Account Info (or View Account) button. The top part of the Account Information screen lists the number of computer authorizations you have made. When you have five computers authorized, you should see a Deauthorize All button. Click the button to deauthorize all your computers at once.

**** Investors Biting Apple Lately Getting The Worm <http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/06/20/idUSN1E75J1SU20110620>
Rodrigo Campos, Reuters

Apple Inc shares are deteriorating in a way not seen since the financial crisis.

**** Apple: Use Our Stores' Wi-Fi To Download Lion <http://news.idg.no/cw/art.cfm?id=D4278BD6-1A64-6A71-CE693D3E8FA97C43>
Gregg Keizer, Computerworld

Apple store representatives today said that although its Genius Bar technicians won't install Lion for customers, Mac owners can use a store's Internet connection to download the 4GB upgrade.

**** Apple’s SaaS: Software As A Soul <http://techcrunch.com/2011/06/20/say-it-with-me-hardware-and-software/>
MG Siegler, TechCrunch

**** Apple AirPort Extreme Refresh Outed By The FCC, Lends Credence To Time Capsule Rumors <http://www.engadget.com/2011/06/21/apple-airport-extreme-refresh-outed-by-the-fcc-lending-credence/>
Thomas Ricker, Engadget

The FCC just trumped Cupertino's plan to sneak out an updated AirPort Extreme wireless base station with the outing of an Apple 3x3 802.11n access point, model A1408.

**** Apple Releases Final Cut Pro X <http://www.macworld.com/article/160637/2011/06/fcpxnews.html#lsrc.rss_main>
Jackie Dove, Macworld

It’s finally here. Apple has released Final Cut Pro X, a brand new version of its flagship professional non-linear video editing software. It should be available as a $300 download from the App Store at some point after 5:30 a.m. Tuesday, though Apple warns that it might take "some time" for it and companion apps Motion and Compressor to be visible.

**** First Look: Final Cut Pro X <http://www.macworld.com/article/160618/2011/06/fcpx.html#lsrc.rss_main>
Gary Adcock, Macworld

With this release, Apple shows us the future in which data streams from all the devices we work with communicate seamlessly, sharing media behind the scenes. Think of the advantages and possibilities when all the effort you put into setting up a shot or project continue downstream from your camera into post-production, or follow your content when it’s delivered on the web. That's the promise of Final Cut Pro X. Will that promise be fulfilled?

**** Apple Quietly Updates Time Capsule (2TB And 3TB) And AirPort Extreme <http://www.macrumors.com/2011/06/21/apple-quietly-updates-time-capsule-2tb-and-3tb-models/>
Arnold Kim, MacRumors

**** Grappler 1.0.3 <http://www.macworld.com/article/160426/2011/06/grappler.html#lsrc.rss_main>
Brendan Wilhide, Macworld

Grappler makes downloading content from YouTube easy and remains an all around useful utility.

**** Mac App Store Follow-up <http://www.manton.org/2011/06/mac_app_store_followup.html>
Manton Reece

The writing is on the wall that a year from now most apps will be distributed through the Mac App Store, and the savings and independence of direct download sales won't be worth the maintenance of two separate forms of distribution for many developers. But if Apple holds all the cards in this relationship, then we must hold Apple to a very high standard.



The Tomorrow Weblog
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**** Can AI Be Your Guide To The Web? <http://www.technologyreview.com/web/37865/?ref=rss&a=f>
Erica Naone, Technology Review



MyAppleMenu Reader
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**** Tall Tales From Gifted Storytellers <http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/21/books/adam-rosss-ladies-and-gentlemen-book-review.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss>
Michiko Kakutani, New York Times

“Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.” This George Eliot quotation is the cynical and telling epigraph to Adam Ross’s noirish, self-consciously constructed stories — a collection that underscores the same dark view of human relationships that animated his debut novel, “Mr. Peanut” (2010), which focused on a man’s morbid fantasies of killing his wife.

**** Consider The Hamburger <http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/wordofmouth/2011/jun/21/consider-the-hamburger>
Oliver Thring, The Guardian

Even in its maligned, fiddled-with and industrialised form, it remains a prince of sandwiches.

**** Ooo Baby Baby <http://www.slate.com/id/2297357/?from=rss>
T.R. Hummer, Slate

**** Heavy Sentences <http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/Heavy-sentences-7053>
Joseph Epstein, The New Criterion

On How to Write a Sentence and How to Read One, by Stanley Fish.



SingaporeSurf
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**** S$5,000 Was For Goodwill, Not Compensation: SMRT <http://www.todayonline.com/Singapore/EDC110621-0000082/S$5,000-was-for-goodwill,-not-compensation--SMRT>
Today

**** A Case Of Too Little Too Late? <http://theonlinecitizen.com/2011/06/a-case-of-too-little-too-late/>
Jason Lee, The Online Citizen

What’s the point of doing away these ‘rah-rah’ fanfare if any MP and/his grassroots leaders continue to adopt a “holier-than-thou, know-it-all attitude” in their dealings with the residents?

In this regard, the jury is still out on whether such efforts aimed at connecting with their residents will eventually bear fruit.

**** Government Should Not Sweat The Small Matter Of Presidential Elections <http://yawningbread.wordpress.com/2011/06/21/government-should-not-sweat-the-small-matter-of-presidential-elections/>
Au Waipang, Yawning Bread

There’s a morality tale somewhere in this, in the way Singaporeans have turned the tables on the PAP. Today, a possible majority might seize this device of an elected president to keep a check on a PAP government.

**** No Letting Up In Anger <http://mysingaporenews.blogspot.com/2011/06/no-letting-up-in-anger.html>
Chua Chin Leng, My Singapore News

**** S'pore Denies Malaysia's Airspace Encroachment Charges <http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/Singapore/Story/STIStory_682136.html>
Carolyn Hong & Lin Zhao Wei, Straits Times

Singapore yesterday dismissed as 'baseless' a statement by Malaysia that the Republic's air force had encroached into the country's airspace 2,508 times since 2008.

**** Singapore Violated Airspace 2,058 Times <http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2011/6/21/parliament/8941624&sec=parliament>
Martin Carvalho And P. Aruna, The Star

Zahid said there were 985 airspace violations in 2008 or an average of 164 incidents a month, 1,286 cases in 2009 or an average of 107 incidents a month and 218 cases last year or average of 18 incidents a month.

There were 19 cases as of May this year, he said, adding that Malaysia had lodged diplomatic protests over the incidents.

**** Elected Presidency - What Kind Of President? <http://singaporealternatives.blogspot.com/2011/06/elected-presidency-what-kind-of.html>
Goh Meng Seng, Singapore Alternatives

**** Why Let Singapore Spit On Us? <http://justread-whatever.blogspot.com/2011/06/why-let-singapore-spit-on-us.html>
Just Read!

So, are we going through diplomatic channel again? One or two could be a coincidence but a few thousands are deliberate attempt to undermine our security!

**** Clearly, They've Never Been To Singapore <http://the-reaction.blogspot.com/2011/06/clearly-theyve-never-been-to-singapore.html>
The Reaction

This also means China can effectively choke off Singapore's vital import/export business. Along with Indonesia and Malaysia. Pretty important stuff to nations made up in large part of port cities.

**** Don’t Be Silly, Silly! <http://canvasinglight.wordpress.com/2011/06/21/dont-be-silly-silly/>
Canvasing Light

Regardless if it be a public or private residential development, ethics should also be included in the business plan.

**** Four Questions On DBSS <http://www.straitstimes.com/STForum/Story/STIStory_682027.html>
Patrick Tan, Straits Times

For a private developer to buy the land at a subsidised rate and then sell the property at market rate - that is gross profiteering.

The Housing Board's mission is to build affordable housing for ordinary Singaporeans. For a major part of our history, it fulfilled its role well. But, over the past several years, it has completely lost its direction and purpose.

**** The Two-Tier Society <http://flaneurose.blogspot.com/2011/06/two-tier-society.html>
Flâneurose

Still, the feeling that Singapore is Home continues to recede. Feeling is irrational, and it defies logic and explanation. Yet there it is, and it persists in existing.

It is difficult to love a city that doesn't love you back, and that is both cold and hard. And it is not for nothing that cash is described as cold and hard. 

**** The Unkempt Beauty Of Coffee Hill <http://thelongnwindingroad.wordpress.com/2011/06/21/the-unkempt-beauty-of-coffee-hill/>
The Long And Winding Road

**** Woodlands Residents Want Answers From Town Council Over Water-tank Saga <http://www.yoursdp.org/index.php/news/singapore/4867-woodlands-residents-want-answers-from-town-council-over-water-tank-saga>
Singapore Democratic Party

The Town Council may have felt that replacing the tank is more than adequate to put a full stop to this issue but how do you take care of the emotional trauma which the residents are going through?

The Town Council cannot continue to pretend that the residents’ lives have resumed to normality and that they should move on from this incident because the feedback gathered by SDP from this townhall meeting has shown otherwise.

**** MediaCorp To Stream All 7 Channels Online For Free <http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/Singapore/Story/STIStory_682173.html>
Chua Hian Hou, Straits Times

National broadcaster MediaCorp will be streaming - free - all its seven channels online, alongside a new premium pay-TV service, minister for information, communications and the arts Yaacob Ibrahim announced. 'Within the next year, consumers in Singapore and overseas will be able to freely access MediaCorp's seven 'Free-to-Air' channels on the Internet,' he said.

**** The Next Singapore President <http://harishpillay.wordpress.com/2011/06/21/the-next-singapore-president/>
Harish Pillay, Life One Degree North, One-O-Three Degrees East

So, now that we have an office of the elected President, I think we should make full use of that position to check the government.