[MyAppleMenu] May 17, 2011

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**** Get Rid Of .Zip Files Once They're Expanded <http://www.macworld.com/article/159859/2011/05/archive_utility.html#lsrc.rss_main>
Lex Friedman, Macworld

**** New Core Version Of Curio In The Mac App Store <http://www.tuaw.com/2011/05/16/new-core-version-of-curio-in-the-mac-app-store/>
Brett Terpstra, TUAW

**** Lodsys: Apple Already Licensed, Developers Must Too <http://www.macworld.com/article/159901/2011/05/lodsys_legal_threats_ios_developers.html#lsrc.rss_main>
Lex Friedman, Macworld

Lodsys claims that Apple—along with Google and Microsoft—”is licensed for its nameplate products and services.” But that license does not extend to third-party developers.

**** Playing Podcasts In Chronological Order <http://www.macworld.com/article/159915/2011/05/chron_ipod_podcast.html#lsrc.rss_main>
Christopher Breen, Macworld

**** FX Photo Studio Now For Mac OS X <http://www.tuaw.com/2011/05/16/fx-photo-studio-now-for-mac-os-x/>
Mel Martin, TUAW

**** Adobe Rejigs Digital Publishing Suite Pricing <http://www.macworld.co.uk/procreative/news/index.cfm?newsid=3279908&pagtype=allchandate>
Neil Bennett, Digital Arts Online

**** Many Apple Users Share Data With Publishers <http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2011/05/16/many-apple-users-share-data-with-publishers/>
Yukari Iwatani Kane, Wall Street Journal

**** StoryMill 4 Novel Writing Software Review <http://www.appletell.com/apple/comment/storymill-4-novel-writing-software-review/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+appletell+Appletell>
Kirk Hiner, Appletell

It allows you to focus solely on writing when you want to, but also allows to keep everything organized and identified for when you drop into editing mode. It’s unfortunate that some of the features may be disabled by your preferred writing process, but that leaves more to discover as your familiarity with the program increases.

**** Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 Review <http://www.appletell.com/apple/comment/adobe-creative-suite-5.5-review/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+appletell+Appletell>
Kirk Hiner, Appletell

**** Apple Shows Off Some New Apps <http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_18050292?nclick_check=1>
Patrick May, San Jose Mercury News

The other day at the Apple Store in San Francisco, team members offered this newspaper a sneak peek at some of the latest and coolest apps to come down the pike, including a few not yet released to the general public. Here are our favorite five.

**** Troubleshooting Utility News And Updates <http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-20063363-263.html>
Topher Kessler, CNET

This week there were updates to file recovery software, some drive monitoring utilities, and duplicate file management tools.

**** The Latest From OmniGroup - OmniOutliner For iPad: A Review <http://appadvice.com/appnn/2011/05/quickadvice-omnioutliner-for-ipad>
Christine Chan, AppAdvice

**** Maintain App Organization When Restoring iOS Devices <http://www.macworld.com/article/159917/2011/05/ios_restore_folders.html#lsrc.rss_main>
Dan Frakes, Macworld

iPhone or iPad folders gone after a restore? Try restoring twice.

**** Using Google Docs On The iPad <http://www.macworld.com/article/159928/2011/05/googledocs_ipad.html#lsrc.rss_main>
Tony Bradley, Macworld

**** Six Unexpected Uses For The Application Switcher <http://www.macworld.com/article/159921/2011/05/appswitcher.html#lsrc.rss_main>
Sharon Zardetto, Macworld

You’ve probably got the basics of the Application Switcher down pat by now: press Command-Tab to see a bar full of running-application icons and keep Command down as you tap the Tab key to quickly switch to the application of your choice. But, as with everything on the Mac, the Application Switcher can do more than you might guess.

**** What App Developers Need To Know About Lodsys And The In-app Upgrade Button Patent Problem <http://fosspatents.blogspot.com/2011/05/what-app-developers-need-to-know-about.html>
Florian Mueller, FOSS Patents



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**** Foodies Vs. Techies <http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/05/15/foodies-vs-techies/?partner=rss&emc=rss#>
Virginia Heffernan, New York Times

Let the foodies complain about Twitter while they make emu-egg cassoulet with crème fraiche. Techies have better things to do.

**** Rare Earth Elements <http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2011/06/rare-earth-elements/folger-text>
Tim Folger, Photograph By Nick Mann, National Geographic Magazine


>From smart phones to hybrid vehicles to cordless power drills, devices we all desire are made with a pinch of rare earths—exotic elements that right now come mostly from China.


**** The Case Against Vacation Photos <http://www.salon.com/life/feature/2011/05/16/vacation_photos_imprint/index.html>
August Heffner, Salon

When I started sketching instead of using my camera, it revolutionized my travel experience.



SingaporeSurf
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**** Returning Officer Declares Three Opposition Candidates As NCMPs <http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/1129206/1/.html>
S Ramesh, Channel NewsAsia

The Returning Officer for the General Election, Mr Yam Ah Mee, has declared in a government gazette three opposition candidates as Non-Constituency Members of Parliament (NCMPs). They are Madam Loh Woon Lee Lina, who is known as Mrs Lina Chiam, from the Singapore People's Party and Mr Gerald Giam and Mr Yee Jenn Jong from the Workers' Party.

**** Police Report Lodged Against Tin Pei Ling Over Cooling-off Day Complaint <http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/1129239/1/.html>
S Ramesh, Channel NewsAsia

Police have confirmed that a report has been lodged against the MP for Marine Parade Group Representation Constituency (GRC), Ms Tin Pei Ling, for allegedly violating "cooling-off day" guidelines.

**** A Leader Steps Down And Singapore Moves On <http://yeejj.wordpress.com/2011/05/16/a-leader-steps-down-and-singapore-moves-on/>
Yee Jenn Jong

Personalities come and go. Some leave behind big shoes for others to fill. New personalities will come and define themselves in their own way. As a nation, let’s have more confidence in ourselves that we have come so far, and we will continue to progress together.

**** Electoral Politics Alone May Not Solve All Of Society’s Woes <http://www.sgpolitics.net/?p=6853>
Ng E-Jay, Sgpolitics.net

When the heat of the election campaign is over, opposition parties should seek not just to represent the views of their constituents, but also seek to hold the government accountable for human rights issues and other serious lapses that betray our claim to being a first world country.

Opposition parties should also be willing to work with NGOs and civil society to better our society in non-political ways. They should not adopt a closed mindset and assume that the only role of an opposition is to win votes and get into Parliament.

**** New MRT Platform On Track To Give Relief From Rush-hour Squeeze <http://www.todayonline.com/Singapore/EDC110517-0000270/New-MRT-platform-on-track-to-give-relief-from-rush-hour-squeeze>
Qiuyi Tan, Today

Come next Friday, commuters could see some relief during the morning rush-hour crush on MRT trains, with the opening of a new platform at Jurong East Station that will allow five new trains to be added to the transport network.

**** Bring Back Rental Flats In Big Way <http://www.todayonline.com/Voices/EDC110517-0000219/Bring-back-rental-flats-in-big-way>
Chia Hern Keng, Today

Why is it that these smaller flats were subsequently either perceived by the HDB as lacking a demand, or was it a matter of policy? What is wrong with living in a small flat even on rental if it means affordability and having more disposable income for other uses?

**** Singapore’s Newest Tourist Spot – The “Welcome To Potong Pasir” Billboard Featuring Chiam See Tong <http://alvinology.com/2011/05/17/singapores-newest-tourist-spot-the-welcome-to-potong-pasir-billboard-featuring-chiam-see-tong/>
Alvinology

**** The GE 2011 Political Demise Of Lee Kuan Yew: A Supreme Irony <http://catherinelim.sg/2011/05/17/the-ge-2011-political-demise-of-lee-kuan-yew-a-supreme-irony/>
Catherine Lim

He is likely to carry this stance to his grave, believing till the end in his own misfortune of having an ungrateful people incapable of understanding him and appreciating all that he had done for them. Outwardly chastened but inwardly disillusioned, he must be particularly disappointed with his own PAP colleagues, for their failure to share his passionate belief that his was the right and proven way to achieve the well-being of the society. It is not so much megalomania as the sheer inflexibility that convictions sometimes harden into, something that will probably continue to give him a completely different interpretation of the devastation of GE 2011.

Lee Kuan Yew’s legacy is so mixed that even his greatest detractor must acknowledge his very substantial achievements for Singapore, and even his greatest admirer must admit that along the way, alas, he lost touch with the ground. He puts one in mind of the great hero of epic tragedy, who is caught in a maelstrom of forces beyond his control, that destroy him in the end by working, ironically, upon a single tragic flaw in his character. Alone and lost, unbowed and defiant, he still cuts an impressive figure, still able to tell the world, ‘I am me.’

**** A Redefined Meritocracy As The New Social Compact For Singapore? <http://www.motochan.com/2011/05/16/redefined-meritocracy-as-new-social-compact-for-singapore/>
James Chan, Moto.Chan

PM Lee’s apology and new-found empathy may have surprised and appeased many, but I’ve become increasingly convinced that the government will have to redefine its current version of meritocracy if it is to do better at the polls in 5 years’ time.

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**** The Worrying Calmness Of Stability <http://thethinkingfishtank.wordpress.com/2011/05/16/the-worrying-calmness-of-stability/>
The Thinking Fish Tank

It is worrying that little changes in government can generate so much fear. Have the government and citizens become too complacent? Are we as stable as we think we are? Has stability made Singapore too fragile for change?

**** Singapore Exports Unexpectedly Fall On Electronics Shipments <http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-05-16/singapore-exports-unexpectedly-fall-on-electronics-shipments.html>
Shamim Adam, Bloomberg

Singapore’s exports unexpectedly fell in April as manufacturers shipped fewer electronics goods and sales to customers in the U.S. and Hong Kong declined.

**** Not Fade Away <http://www.economist.com/blogs/banyan/2011/05/singapore_politics>
R.C., The Economist

It’s unclear whether a few men in white coats took MM aside to finally do some plain speaking of their own, or whether Mr Lee took the decision himself to resign from the cabinet. But the result is the same; the founding-father will continue to opine, but the PAP will have a little more room to change and adapt to a changed electoral landscape.

**** Singapore Private Home Sales Keep Rising <http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703509104576327093617227366.html>
Chun Han Wong, Wall Street Journal

Private home sales in Singapore rose 29% in April from a month earlier, in a sign that recent government measures to cool the city-state's red-hot property market have yet to temper strong underlying demand.

**** Killing A Chicken To Scare The Monkeys? <http://enquirer.sg/2011/05/17/killing-a-chicken-to-scare-the-monkeys/>
Kirsten Han, The Enquirer

The anti-death penalty campaign is a difficult one. Each case is taken on with the implicit knowledge that we will probably not win. And yet we activists, together with the families and friends of the inmates, press on, fuelled by the belief that the death penalty does not work, and that one day change will come.

**** Singapore Election: A Lesson We Learned Earlier? <http://www.bernama.com/bernama/v5/newspolitic.php?id=587004>
Alan Ting, Bernama

**** Like Singapore <http://dimpost.wordpress.com/2011/05/17/like-singapore/>
The Dim-Post

Singapore is the darling of free-market, right-wing parties. Which is strange, because Singapore is the world’s ultimate nanny-state: not just culturally in the sense that the government controls the media and all forms of entertainment, but in the sense that it’s essentially a massive socialist state in which the government micro-manages the whole economy.

**** Malaysia Challenges Singapore As Aviation Hub <http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/17/business/global/17iht-rav-seletar-17.html?_r=1>
Sonia Kolesnikov-jessop, New York Times

Across the Strait of Johor, the Senai Aviation Park in Malaysia is slowly taking shape next to the Senai International Airport, with operators trying to position it as a regional aviation park for aircraft manufacturers, fixed base operators, maintenance and repair firms and other companies supporting general aviation. Last year, two Seletar-based companies decided to relocate to the Johor aviation park: C&A Aviation, which supplies and maintains aircraft engines, and Executive Jets Asia, which operates private jets. The second phase, which will double the park’s size to 142 hectares, is now being developed and should be completed by the fourth quarter of this year, said Mohd Sidik Shaik Osman, chief executive officer of Senai Airport.

**** The Biggest Losers <http://www.economist.com/blogs/dailychart/2011/05/gambling?fsrc=scn%2Ffb%2Fwl%2Fdc%2Fthebiggestlosers>
The Economist

**** What Exactly Is The Change In PAP’s Promise? <http://theonlinecitizen.com/2011/05/what-exactly-is-the-change-in-paps-promise/>
Howard Lee, The Online Citizen

If there is any real intent to change policies to better serve citizens, and not merely a one-way communication plan, those intentions have yet to show. If anything, the vast and open promises have already been tempered with an interest to continue with hard-selling with no room for response, which pretty much describes the party’s social media campaign.

**** Fear In Choosing ‘Unqualified’ Opposition? Rubbish! <http://sgpublicpolicy.wordpress.com/2011/05/02/fear-in-choosing-unqualified-opposition-rubbish/>
Scrutinizing The Singapore Government