[MyAppleMenu] Mar 29, 2011

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**** Use AirPlay Between iOS Devices With AirFrame <http://www.macworld.com/article/158876/2011/03/airframe_airplay_iphone_ipad.html#lsrc.rss_main>
David Chartier, Macworld

AirFrame is essentially a one-trick pony, but it's a good trick. You can start AirFrame up on one device, which advertises it on the local network as AirPlay-capable (just like an Apple TV). On a second device, simply pick that first device as a destination when streaming media, and you have your own portable, wireless iOS theater.

**** Identifying Faces Faster In iPhoto <http://www.macworld.com/article/158877/2011/03/identify_faces_faster.html#lsrc.rss_main>
Christopher Breen, Macworld

**** iPad 2 Loses Water Damage Indicator At Headphone Jack <http://www.tuaw.com/2011/03/28/ipad-2-loses-water-damage-indicator-at-headphone-jack/>
Chris White, TUAW

This certainly doesn't mean you should take your iPad for a swim, the iPad 2 is not waterproof but you shouldn't have to worry about dampness associated with day-to-day activities causing problems so long as you're careful.

**** Mac OS X And iOS To Share WWDC Stage Gracefully <http://www.macworld.com/article/158882/2011/03/macosx_ios_wwdc.html#lsrc.rss_main>
Dan Moren, Macworld

It seems clear that, going forward, Apple largely envisions the two operating systems as being different facets of the same fundamental experience. For evidence, look no further than the image on the front page of Apple’s WWDC site, which features what appears to be a mingling of iOS and Mac OS app icons combining to fill in an Apple logo.

A glance at the list of tracks for sessions and labs—Application Frameworks; Graphics, Media, and Games; Developer Tools; Internet and Web; and Core OS—would seem to confirm this. Every single one of the tracks mentions and is applicable to both iOS and Mac OS X; and that’s little surprise, given that Apple uses the same underlying technology in both of its operating systems.

**** Apple’s Phil Schiller: No iPad 2 Keyboard Dock <http://appadvice.com/appnn/2011/03/apples-phil-schiller-ipad-2-dock/>
Jovan Washington, AppAdvice

**** WWDC 2011 Already Sold Out <http://www.tuaw.com/2011/03/28/wwdc-2011-already-sold-out/>
Victor Agreda, Jr., TUAW

**** My Mom Reviews The iPad, Her First Computer <http://technologizer.com/2011/03/28/my-mom-reviews-the-ipad-her-first-computer/>
David Worthington, Technologizer

**** Hey Apple, WWDC Is Broken <http://www.tuaw.com/2011/03/28/hey-apple-wwdc-is-broken/>
Erica Sadun, TUAW

Listen, Apple, if your event sells out in 10 hours, you're oversubscribed and under-serving your community. Just 10 hours, people -- 10 hours. That's just crazy. The Beatles won't even be there.

**** The Best Children’s Books On The iPad <http://gadgetwise.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/28/the-best-childrens-books-on-the-ipad/?partner=rss&emc=rss>
Warren Buckleitner, New York Times

**** iPad As Digital Whiteboard <http://speirs.org/blog/2011/3/29/ipad-as-digital-whiteboard.html>
Fraser Speirs

Long story short, the whiteboards in my classroom are worn out. They're impossible to wipe without spraying enough whiteboard cleaner to get an elephant high. Not a good situation.

With my new AV system in hand and an iPad 2, I figured out that I could probably put something together that looks like a digital whiteboard.

**** Amazon Cloud Player Doesn’t Work On iOS — But It’s Not A Flash Issue <http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/28/amazon-cloud-player-ios/>
MG Siegler, TechCrunch

As you may have read by now, earlier tonight, Amazon dropped a bomb on their rivals in the online music space: a fully working cloud storage and playback system. And it’s not just working on desktop web browsers, it works on Android devices too. One important place it doesn’t work though: iPhones, iPads, iPod touches — no iOS devices.

**** Nokia Targets iPhone, iPad & More In Second ITC Complaint Against Apple <http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/11/03/29/nokia_targets_iphone_ipadmore_in_second_itc_complaint_against_apple.html>
Sam Oliver, AppleInsider

Nokia on Tuesday announced that it has filed a second complaint with the U.S. International Trade Commission, accusing "virtually all" of Apple's products of infringing upon seven patents.

**** How Apple Played Hard To Get And Seduced The Enterprise <http://www.macworld.com/article/158875/2011/03/apple_enterprise.html#lsrc.rss_main>
Chris Nerney, Network World

Traditionally enterprise managers could rely on software and support directly from the vendors supplying the devices. For example, RIM offers a BlackBerry Enterprise Server for IT managers to securely allow enterprise executives access to corporate email and other documents using their RIM smartphones.

But that’s not the way Apple operates. Apple didn’t want to develop its own management and security tools, and between the SDK and the emergence of mobile device management vendors such as Good Technology, it doesn’t have to.

**** How To Resize Small Images For Print <http://www.macworld.com/article/158490/2011/03/smprint.html#lsrc.rss_main>
Lesa Snider, Macworld

In this article, I’ll show you how to increase resolution and if you must, the pixel dimensions, of small images so they print well at the sizes you need.



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**** Saving Souls <http://www.bostonreview.net/BR36.1/gornick.php>
Vivian Gornick, Boston Review

While the tone and the rhetoric of Israeli writing is certainly different from that of eastern Europe, in much of it the same stunned sense of disconnect prevails; even more so, in fact. In Israel the catastrophe has gone on for so long, and has pressed so many people into the position of victimizer as well as victim, murderer as well as murdered, that a haunting sense of complicity colors the disconnect.

**** Words Vs. Work <http://www.thesmartset.com/article/article03281101.aspx>
Kristen Hoggatt, The Smart Set

It’s hard to measure the value of writing a poem versus the more immediate value of taking out the trash, but I think writing a poem would be greater, in most respects. That doesn’t mean you shouldn’t take out the trash, that there’s no value in performing such a task. Life is all about balance and...

Oh, who am I kidding?

**** When Are You Dead? <http://stanmed.stanford.edu/2011spring/article5.html>
John Sanford, Stanford Medicine

In the end, that patient became brain dead, so he was allowed to be a donor. Several months later, the hospital’s board of directors approved the DCD protocol, which Magnus, Esquivel and other Stanford physicians helped craft. Nevertheless, Magnus is confident it was right to forgo DCD in that case.

“There’s no doubt Carlos was frustrated, but I think we eventually won him over,” Magnus says. “It was never a good idea to let a transplant team go in half-cocked, without a protocol.”

Indeed, as both would soon discover, half-cocked DCD efforts can end in criminal charges. But we’re getting ahead of the story.

**** Soul <http://www.slate.com/id/2289689/?from=rss>
David Ferry, Slate

**** Get Lost <http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/03/28/get_lost?page=0,0>
Paul Salopek, Foreign Policy

The most lyrical passages in In Motion describe how the 2003 blackout in New York jarred an entire bustling metropolis -- the apex of sedentary life -- into a state of Deep Travel: Manhattanites gaped at lingering sunsets for the first time in years; and with thousands of air conditioners silenced, neighbors could hear hushed conversations across the street. An old wonder was rediscovered.



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**** Mrs Chiam Could Face Swing Votes <http://www.todayonline.com/Singapore/EDC110329-0000069/Mrs-Chiam-could-face-swing-votes>
Teo Xuanwei, Today

In an interview with Today last week, Mrs Lina Chiam, who is contesting in Potong Pasir and is hoping to ride on her husband's support base, conceded that there had been a perceptible shift in the demographics of the ward's population - including the younger families who had moved into new residential developments such as Platinum Edge and One Leicester.

**** Amnesty In The Dark On Singapore Executions <http://www.pressrun.net/weblog/2011/03/amnesty-in-the-dark-on-singapore-executions.html>
Pressrun.net

At least eight people were sentenced to death in Singapore last year but how many were executed remains unknown, says Amnesty International. “Death sentences continued to be mandatorily imposed in Singapore, mostly for drug-related offences and mainly against foreign nationals,” it says in its report, Death Sentences and Executions 2010.

**** What About Not Raising Rents <http://www.todayonline.com/Voices/EDC110329-0000034/What-about-not-raising-rents>
Eileen Tan Chwee Lin, Today

The small profits of these food sellers would have been squeezed by higher ingredient prices and higher rents. Shouldn't the MPs look at dealing with the increasing cost upstream by urging landlords not to raise rents or by getting wholesalers to similarly pledge not to increase their prices?

**** It’s Time To Legalize Chewing Gum In Singapore <http://www.cnngo.com/singapore/life/elaine-ee-meyers-its-time-legalize-chewing-gum-singapore-722085>
Elaine Ee-Meyers, CNNGo

Let’s be pragmatic about this like true Singaporeans. We’re not heeding the cries of anguish that erupted when chewing gum first became a controlled substance, and we're not complaining about a paternalistic government treating its citizens like five-year-olds, or about infringements of people’s personal habits, or anything ideological like that.

We’re just saying, hey, why don’t we make this work for us?

**** Clear Career Path For Low-paid S'poreans <http://www.straitstimes.com/STForum/Story/STIStory_650460.html>
Philip Wong, Straits Times

The Singaporeans at the lowest pay rung have no advancement prospects because businesses hire S-Pass holders to run supervisory roles. The solution: Remove the S-Pass category.

**** A Twist To Patient Priority At Skin Centre <http://www.straitstimes.com/STForum/Story/STIStory_650467.html>
Francis Cheng, Straits Times

Competition between the two health-care clusters - National Healthcare Group (NHG) and SingHealth - has deprived patients of the freedom to select hospitals of their choice for CT scans. A patient does not get a chance to pick a hospital within the SingHealth cluster if he is undergoing treatment in an NHG institution.

**** Sad Life Of Singaporeans <http://truthhermit.blogspot.com/2009/03/sad-life-of-singaporeans.html>
The Hermit

We all have to work like mice,


just so we can get some rice.


While ministers all sitting on cloud-nine,


busy scheming for our every dime.


PAP MPs, all pretending to sign,


but in reality, have no minds.


Terrorist escaped, no need to resign,


fixed the oppositions also never mind.

**** “Life Will Have No Meaning For Me If I Were Left Alone” <http://theonlinecitizen.com/2011/03/life-will-have-no-meaning-for-me-if-i-were-left-alone/>
Kirsten Han, The Online Citizen

**** Beware Contracting Out Our Young Graduates' Future <http://www.todayonline.com/Singapore/EDC110329-0000006/Beware-contracting-out-our-young-graduates-future>
Richard Hartung, Today

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**** Why Singaporeans Don’t Feel That They Belong <http://visaisahero.wordpress.com/2011/03/28/why-singaporeans-dont-feel-that-they-belong/>
Visaisahero

**** Reform Party Confident Of Fielding Enough Candidates <http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/Singapore/Story/STIStory_650516.html>
Tessa Wong, Straits Times

Reform Party (RP) chief Kenneth Jeyaretnam has dismissed speculation that his party lacks candidates to contest in constituencies it has earmarked for the next general election.

The RP has announced its candidates for only two wards: Mr Jeyaretnam in Pioneer, and central executive committee member Alec Tok in Radin Mas. Its pre-election activities and walkabouts have also been largely confined to these two areas.

**** Vote For PAP And Your Future Is Just Like Your Past.. <http://singaporemind.blogspot.com/2011/03/vote-for-pap-and-your-future-is-just.html>
Diary of A Singaporean Mind

Lim Boon Heng now says the PAP will fight for the future of Singaporeans. Really? Lim Boon Heng was the labor chief when the floodgates was opened to foreign labor. 

Without major changes to our system, our future will simply look like our past. The next 10 years will look like the past 10 years - rising cost of living, widening income gap, stagnant wages and continued deterioration of the quality of life in Singapore.

**** Tin Pei Ling Vs Chen Show Mao – And A Very Scary Thought <http://onesingaporean.wordpress.com/2011/03/29/tin-pei-ling-vs-chen-show-mao-and-a-very-scary-thought/>
One Singaporean

It would be really really sad and bad for Singapore if someone like Tin Pei Ling is slipped into Parliament without a single vote cast in her favour, while those like Chen Show Mao, Sylvia Lim or even Low Thia Khiang do not get in.

Indeed, the dud slate of candidates the PAP is offering – and if each and everyone of them gets into Parliament – puts Singapore in a precarious position, moving forward.

**** The Modern NS Experience <http://www.insanepoly.com/blog/?p=1123>
Insanepoly.com

And you can’t really blame the prevalent attitude these days because NS seems nothing more than an unfortunate burden reserved for the luckless males of singapore. Its NS for citizens, jobs for FTs. The SAF itself already don’t treat the average NS man with much respect, so it is not surprising that the NS man will not wear the uniform with much pride and self respect.

For people who thinks this is embarrassing, for a soldier, how is this any more embarrassing than any one of the majors or colonels that makes their runner carry their shit for them whenever they go on exercise. If a an NS man carry a major’s fullpack, than a maid carry an NS man’s fullpack. If anything, a maid may make more money as a maid than what a private will make as a grunt in the infantry. What’s good for the goose is good for the gander I’d say.

**** WP Electoral Bid For Alternative Government? <http://yawshinleong.blogspot.com/2011/03/wp-electoral-bid-for-alternative.html>
Yaw Shin Leong

My fellow WP leaders, activists & I are fully committed to achieve secretary general Low Thia Khiang’s vision of WP being in a position to mount an electoral bid for Singapore's alternative government in 16 years and an eventual WP government for Singapore.

**** Electricity Tariff To Increase 6.1 Per Cent Starting April <http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/1119444/1/.html>
Mustafa Shafawi, Channel NewsAsia

SP Services said households will pay more for their electricity from April, with their electricity tariff increasing by 6.1 per cent to 25.58 cents per kilowatt-hour. On average, families in four-room HDB flats will pay about S$4.85 more a month for their electricity based on the new tariff.

**** "Can't We Find Locals For Elections?" <http://yoursdp.org/index.php/news/singapore/4691-qcant-we-find-locals-for-electionsq>
Singapore Democratic Party

"It seems like we can't even find locals for elections these days," the man said in Chinese, in a surprisingly loud voice. Was he taking a swipe at the PAP for fielding candidates such as Dr Janil Puthucheary who only recently became a Singapore citizen? 

**** On Mediacorp’s Heartland Voter Survey, Part 1 <http://yawningbread.wordpress.com/2011/03/29/on-mediacorps-heartland-voter-survey-part-1/>
Yawning Bread

Why didn’t it ask voters which party they intended to vote for? Why not ask a direct question? Why ask such a roundabout question like “influence”?

**** Lim Boon Heng: MP's Job Can Be Thankless <http://www.mrbrown.com/blog/2011/03/lim-boon-heng-mps-job-can-be-thankless.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+mrbrown+%28mrbrown%29>
mrbrown

"Mr Lim, you got salary + pay rise. Jesus where got"

**** Singapore's Defence Burden - Something No Maid Can Carry <http://kementah.blogspot.com/2011/03/singapores-defence-burden-something-no.html>
Senang Diri

Whether or not the image is real or staged, it shows the impact that a single NSF can have on the image of Southeast Asia’s best-equipped armed forces. The unknown soldier is the strategic corporal personified, the warfighter at the bottom of the pecking order of rank-and-file who exerts an influence far out of proportion to his rank’s status.

**** This Is Not What I Want Singapore Politics To Be Like <http://siewkumhong.blogspot.com/2011/03/this-is-not-what-i-want-singapore.html>
Siew Kum Hong

I would like politics in Singapore to be about the candidates and their views and their competency/suitability as MPs and office holders. I would not like politics in Singapore to become an exercise in gutter journalism. If and to the extent that a politician makes morality and virtue part of his/her platform or public persona, then that becomes fair game as well -- but only then, and not before.

**** Quit Playing Games For My Vote <http://newnation.sg/2011/03/quit-playing-games-for-my-vote/>
Justin Zhuang, New Nation

**** Straits Times Puts Photo Of Tin Pei Ling's Hair On Its Front Page <http://izreloaded.blogspot.com/2011/03/straits-times-puts-photo-of-tin-pei.html>
I.Z. Reloaded

Yes, she's the same lady who in 2007 said in a speech that the widening gap between the lowest-income group and the well to do is not the government's responsibility.

**** Sugar Coating Of New PAP Candidates Part 2 - What Questions Would You Like To Ask Them Most? <http://de-leviathan.blogspot.com/2011/03/sugar-coating-of-new-pap-candidates_29.html>
De Leviathan @ SG

While the common Singaporeans are feeling the pain of inflation with stagnant income, the PAP Govt had not forgotten to hike its own salaries and bonuses. We hit the issue of "sustainability". The PAP leaders know how to sustain its own immediate party interests with higher salaries and bonuses, GRC system with or without gerrymandering, etc. But does it know how to sustain the interests of the common Singaporeans with or without and against the huge influx of foreigners (individuals plus corporates) ?

**** Breaking News: Women Are Not People. <http://weekdayblues.wordpress.com/2011/03/29/breaking-news-women-are-not-people/>
Weekday Blues

The Straits Times asked Tin Pei Ling about her marital status and whether she would have children. That was misogynist. Irrelevant detail only thought relevant b/c these are thought women’s affairs, b/c a patriarchal society expects these to affect her job performance. Misogynist.

The Temasek Review is no better. No, not just that – it’s much, much worse. It’s tearing down a candidate simply b/c of her personal appearance & her relationship history, positioning her as a ‘gold-digger’ b/c that’s it, isn’t it, that’s all a woman ever amounts to. Defined by her sexual relationships. & surely choosing them based on $, b/c she is incapable of supporting herself.

**** When The PAP Loses An Election, It Will Be Time To Leave. <http://flaneurose.blogspot.com/2011/03/when-pap-loses-election-it-will-be-time.html>
Flaneurose

A monolithic government such as ours can coast along for a long while without major problems. But a true crisis, a black swan, one that the PAP cannot handle, will lead to catastrophic failure. And without a robust framework in place for orderly transition and change of political leadership, Singapore would fail and fail irrecoverably.

**** The (Watch)men In White <http://saltwetfish.wordpress.com/2011/03/28/the-watchmen-in-white/>
Salt Wet Fish

You see, the PAP government sees security threats in two ways; those that threaten the lives of Singaporeans and those who threaten the power of the PAP. Being a gay activists, we are involved in getting people see through the norms imposed by society and the fear to challenge the government on its status quo. Any civil movement activists in this sense will be a security threat to the PAP government, because they are asking people to think for themselves and be able to challenge the existing system for it. This is, of course, unthinkable for the PAP government.

And there lies the danger of having a single party so dominant for so long; there is no clear separation of power between the party and the government. Bills and laws are passed in favor of helping PAP keep in power while disadvantaging the opposition parties or dissenting voices. The government and police force cannot tell at difference between serving and protecting it citizen from serving and protecting PAP’s power. Even the election department and  the judiciary becomes a tool for the PAP to maintain their dominance.

**** How Many Need To Die? <http://webelieveinsecondchances.blogspot.com/2011/03/how-many-need-to-die.html>
We Believe In Second Chances