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**** Adobe Photoshop Elements 10 Editor And Premiere Elements 10 Editor <http://tidbits.com/article/12616>
Jeff Carlson, TidBITS

Photoshop Elements 10 Editor expands its array of Guided Edits to easily create shallow depth of field effects, dreamy Orton effects, and more. It also adds the capability to align text to a path, paint using new Smart Brush designs, and recompose photos using crop guides.

**** Automator Workflow Of The Month: Back Up Contacts And Archive Calendar Events <http://www.macworld.com/article/163273/2011/11/automator_workflow_of_the_month_back_up_contacts_and_archive_calendar_events.html#lsrc.rss_main>
Christopher Breen, Macworld

**** iCloud Vs. Wi-Fi Sync: Which Does What? <http://www.macworld.com/article/163412/2011/11/icloud_vs_wi_fi_sync_which_does_what.html#lsrc.rss_main>
Dan Frakes, Macworld

But there are notable differences between what gets synced using each method—some things are exclusively iCloud or Wi-Fi Sync, while other things can be synced via either method. And it’s important to note that Wi-Fi sync and iCloud sync aren’t mutually exclusive. You can, and mostly likely will, use both methods depending on the situation and your settings. Which is why it’s easy to get confused about the differences and similarities between the two.



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**** Condo At The End Of The World <http://www.theverge.com/culture/2011/11/1/2525857/2012-survival-condo-at-the-end-of-the-world>
Joseph L. Flatley, The Verge

A new breed of survivalist is wealthy, educated, and plans to ride out 2012 in style.

**** Difference Engine: Luddite Legacy <http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2011/11/artificial-intelligence?fsrc=scn/tw/te/bl/ludditelegacy>
The Economist

But here is the question: if the pace of technological progress is accelerating faster than ever, as all the evidence indicates it is, why has unemployment remained so stubbornly high—despite the rebound in business profits to record levels?



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**** Reservoir Deaths And Media Responsibility <http://www.todayonline.com/Singapore/EDC111107-0000024/Reservoir-deaths-and-media-responsibility>
Ong Dai Lin, Today

Some residents living near the reservoir told Today that they were concerned about copycat behaviour arising from media reports, even as others reiterated the need for the media to report these cases because of public interest. 

Media consultant P N Balji, who has more than 25 years of journalism experience, felt that the media coverage of the deaths in Bedok Reservoir has been "quite sombrely". But he noted that the reports on the prayer session held there on Saturday - which was carried on the front page of some national dailies here - was "kind of dramatised".

**** SMRT Continues To Raise Netizens' Ire <http://news.insing.com/tabloid/smrt-continues-to-raise-netizens-ire/id-40073f00>
InSing

SMRT chief executive Saw Phaik Hwa's latest words have once again raised the ire of netizens and commuters.

In a Straits Times report yesterday, the SMRT chief commented that the MRT system is "still reliable compared with other systems". She said, "I don't see anything significant" in the number of disruptions and delays.

**** Singaporeans Generally Satisfied With Presidential Election System <http://yawningbread.wordpress.com/2011/11/07/singaporeans-generally-satisfied-with-presidential-election-system/>
Alex Au, Yawning Bread

Why should the constitution be the test? Might one not say that it’s the other way around? That Singaporeans’ wishes are the test and the constitution is failing it. In other words, the expectations expressed by survey respondents represent what Singaporeans want out of the presidency, and where they diverge from constitutional provision is not a matter of Singaporeans being “confused”, but the constitution being insufficient.

**** Shangri-La On Earth? <http://desparatebeep.blogspot.com/2011/11/shangri-la-on-earth.html>
Desparatebeep

**** Ensure Adequate Land Supply; Leave Prices To Market Forces <http://www.straitstimes.com/STForum/Story/STIStory_731251.html>
Ee Teck Siew, Straits Times

By rejecting bids based on price alone or withholding supply of land, the government could be sending a signal that it is trying to sustain land price, and this would feed property speculation frenzy, which distorts the healthy development of our property market.

**** Long Wait For Buses And Trains Unacceptable <http://www.straitstimes.com/STForum/OnlineStory/STIStory_731159.html>
Nurul Huda Mohamed Soleh, Straits Times

I do remember that the situation was not so bad nine years ago, when I was in secondary school.

**** Govt To Reduce Gas Exports To Singapore <http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2011/11/06/govt-reduce-gas-exports-singapore.html>
The Jakarta Post

The Indonesian government had planned to reduce gas exports to Singapore to cover a shortage of the strategic commodity in the country, energy and miniral resources deputy minister Widjajono Partowidagdo said Sunday.

The reduction in gas exports to Singapore would be replaced by export of electricity to that country, he said.

**** A Fine Question <http://publichouse.sg/categories/community/item/215-a-fine-question>
Publichouse.sg

Furthermore, the system of sanctions for service lapses may not be targeting the right criteria: PTC’s quality of service for buses, for example, uses as one of its main criterion the scheduled departure of the buses from their terminals, whereas scoring whether a bus reaches each of its stops within a scheduled period would probably be a far more useful measure of performance.  It may also be good to tie sanctions to an accurate survey of commuter feedback, as the perception of commuters about the standards of comfort and timeliness would otherwise be difficult to gauge.

**** Independence <http://piaroh.wordpress.com/2011/11/07/independence/>
Words Of The Cze

What the citizenry may want is reflected by the objective cardinal scores, not their ordinal placement.

**** Unsafe Pedestrian Crossing At Bugis MRT To Bugis Village <http://uncleyap-news.blogspot.com/2011/11/unsafe-pedestrian-crossing-at-bugis-mrt.html>
News Release By Uncle Yap

**** Singaporean Home Buyers Look To Johor <http://www.thesundaily.my/news/201334>
Eva Yeong, The Sun

The long queue for public housing in Singapore and high prices in the secondary market have resulted in more Singaporeans buying property in Johor and the Iskandar region, a Singapore real estate agent said.