[MyAppleMenu] Nov 3, 2011

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MyAppleMenu
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**** Fix Nonfunctional Mail PDF Function In OS X Preview <http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-20129274-263/fix-nonfunctional-mail-pdf-function-in-os-x-preview/>
Topher Kessler, CNET

If this happens to you, the problem at hand likely arises from a fault in the way Preview is interacting with the sandboxing features that Apple has implemented in OS X.

**** Apple Kills The Mac Pro? It Doesn't Matter <http://blogs.computerworld.com/19195/apple_kills_the_mac_pro_it_doesnt_matter>
Jonny Evans, Computerworld

The future of computing is the device you hold in your pocket, the services and software as a service solutions you can access using that device, notions of distributed computing and the acceptance that you don't need all the power of the PC universe inside the device you own, you just need to be able to access that much power using cloud-based services now and then.

**** Apple Pushes Back Mac App Store Sandboxing Requirement To March 2012 <http://www.macstories.net/news/apple-pushes-back-mac-app-store-sandboxing-requirement-to-march-2012/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+macstoriesnet+%28MacStories%29>
Graham Spencer, MacStories

**** Livestand From Yahoo! Adds A Slick Magazine For iPad <http://www.tuaw.com/2011/11/02/livestand-from-yahoo-adds-a-slick-magazine-for-ipad/>
Mel Martin, TUAW

The free app strives to provide you with a personalized magazine drawn from Yahoo! and other content sources like Scientific American, Consumer Reports News, Wired, Forbes, and Parenting.

**** Sophos SafeGuard For Mac 5.5 Is A Powerful Encryption Tool <http://www.macworld.com/article/163296/2011/11/sophos_safeguard_for_mac_5_5_is_a_powerful_encryption_tool.html#lsrc.rss_main>
Glenn Fleishman, Macworld

Sophos SafeGuard Disk Encryption for Mac offers full-disk encryption (FDE) for the Mac, with protection at boot time from unauthorized access. FDE scrambles the entire contents of a disk drive, rendering it ostensibly unrecoverable without access to the long encryption key used, or a shorter account passphrase that unlocks that key.

**** Why The Mac App Sandbox Makes Me Sad <http://lacquer.fi/pauli/blog/2011/11/why-the-mac-app-sandbox-makes-me-sad/>
Pauli Olavi Ojala, Naming Things

One side-effect of the sandbox model which makes me particularly sad and nostalgic is that it kills the notion of plugins. This will also affect many of Apple’s own pro apps on the App Store.

**** Recover Lost iCloud Data <http://tidbits.com/article/12607?rss>
Rich Mogull, TidBITS

iCloud data isn’t necessarily at greater risk than it was in MobileMe, but when you delete it from iCloud, it’s gone from the source, and recovery is definitely more difficult than it used to be.



The Tomorrow Weblog
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**** Rocking Like Clapton, On Batteries <http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/03/technology/personaltech/rock-like-clapton-on-4-aa-batteries-state-of-the-art.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss>
David Pogue, New York Times



MyAppleMenu Reader
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**** Why Creative Writing Is Better With A Pen <http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/nov/03/creative-writing-better-pen-longhand?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+theguardian%2Fbooks%2Frss+%28Books%29>
Lee Rourke, The Guardian

Above all, though, writing longhand is a secretive pleasure. I can sit in a corner of a café unnoticed and write to my heart's content. I'm less conspicuous than the iBook brigade, cluttering up London coffee houses and pubs with their flashy technologies.



SingaporeSurf
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**** Monopoly No More! Happiness Here To Stay? <http://feedmetothefish.blogspot.com/2011/11/monopoly-no-more-happiness-here-to-stay.html>
Feed Me To The Fish

**** Are You “Pro-opposition”? Or Are You Really Rooting For PAP To Change? <http://politicalwritings.wordpress.com/2011/11/02/are-you-pro-opposition-or-are-you-really-rooting-for-pap-to-change/>
Political Writings

Hopefully we will find someone whom all the parties, including the Worker’s Party, can work with, even if they won’t rally around him. And 2016 will then see not only all 87 seats contested, but a real contest for power, not just a contest to be PAP’s ”checker” and “balancer”.

**** 100 Things We Love About The 80s <http://remembersingapore.wordpress.com/2011/11/03/100-things-we-love-about-the-80s/>
Remember Singapore

The era of the eighties is a favourite for many, including me. Life seemed to be a little slower, a little less stressful and perhaps also a little boring since there were no internet, iPhone, Facebook and cable TV.

**** Cemetery Should Make Way For The Living <http://www.straitstimes.com/STForum/Story/STIStory_729899.html>
Daniel Chia, Straits Times

Preserving the cemetery will deprive the living in Singapore of a basic need they expect and deserve, which is comfortable housing.

The current development, on the other hand, is to build a road so that drivers can drive a few minutes faster to the PIE. Just like how we torn down the National Library so that drivers can drive a little faster into Orchard Road.

**** Punggol Waterway <http://chantc.blogspot.com/2011/11/punggol-waterway.html>
My Little Corner

It's a 4.2km long, 20-30 metre wide man-made waterway that goes through the new Punggol estate. One end will lead you to the Sengkang riverside park while the other will lead you to the Lorong Halus Wetland near Pasir Ris.

**** Criticism In Parliament Crucial For Policy-making <http://www.todayonline.com/Voices/EDC111103-0000048/Criticism-in-Parliament-crucial-for-policy-making>
Risa Tan Xuan Ying, Today

**** Time Spent In Parliament Too Short To Make Impact <http://www.todayonline.com/Singapore/EDC111103-0000067/Time-spent-in-Parliament-too-short-to-make-impact>
Esther Ng, Today

Even as nominations opened yesterday for a new batch of Nominated Members of Parliament (NMPs), several among the previous batch told Today that their term - which was interrupted by the General Election (GE) in May - was too short for them to make a tangible impact.

**** “负担得起的价格”是什么? <http://www.zaobao.com.sg/yl/yl111103_006.shtml>
王新民, 联合早报

与民生息息相关的政府部门和法定机构，若都能在非追求盈利管理模式下运作，这对降低国民生活费用和提高国民生活质量两大经济福利目标，肯定有提振的作用。

希望今后公共部门和有关机构所制定的收费或价格，都是真正的“负担得起的价格”，而不是为了平息民怨的一句口头禅！

**** A Tale Of Two Parties <http://www.publichouse.sg/categories/topstory/item/207-a-tale-of-two-parties>
Publichouse.sg

Still, Mr Lee’s speech represented a significant concession in the terms of the debate over inequality and safety nets, which would give the opposition a much better opening to put pressure on the Government to do more on this front. The appearance of kinks in the usually disciplined ruling party is a curious affair, but Mr Lee seems to be trying to feel his way around a new political landscape that is being shaped by evolving electoral expectations even while some of his frontbenchers stuck dogmatically with the old party line.

**** To Mr. Khaw Boon Wan, What Did You Expect? <http://www.passudiary.com/2011/10/to-mr-khaw-boon-wan-what-did-you-expect.html>
Passu Diary- Journal Of An Ordinary Bhutanese

But since you questioned the presence of happiness in Bhutan, let me answer by telling you few things that you overlooked when you visited my country. Those people you saw in the fields weren't unhappy, if you have gone closer you would have heard them singing and enjoying the social lives, perhaps you won't understand that. If you have spent a little longer time watching them, you would have seen and a woman with basket on her back and holding arms with several children coming with steaming food- we don't have McDonald or KFC. Then everybody will sit down to eat their lunch, laughing and joking, feeding babies, for over an hour- you wouldn't have had so much time to sit and watch I know, times means money in your country. But we have luxury of time. People don't worry "about the next harvest and whether there would be buyers for their products." In fact, we don't do much commercial farming, we do most of them to keep with the tradition. And when the sun sets, doesn't really matter what time, people leave for their homes where they have a large family waiting. Large family because we don't chase away our children when they become 18 or children cast away their parents when they age.

We don't need Health Insurance to survive, no have to go for Education Loan for educating our children. We don't hang the drug users, we counsel them to hang on to their lives, we don't have to have a job to survive, and when we fall sick even the furthest cousin comes to attend without having to update Facebook status.




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