[MyAppleMenu] Nov 12, 2011

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**** Bugs & Fixes: Running On Empty <http://www.macworld.com/article/163534/2011/11/bugs_and_fixes_running_on_empty.html#lsrc.rss_main>
Ted Landau, Macworld

After spending around twenty minutes experimenting with various possibilities, I spotted the culprit. It was in the Status Bar that appears at the bottom of Finder windows. The Bar read: “0 GB available.” As in zero, zip, nada, zilch.

**** Apple Still Investigating iOS 5 Battery Issues <http://www.loopinsight.com/2011/11/11/apple-still-investigating-ios-5-battery-issues/?utm_source=loopinsight.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+loopinsight%2FKqJb+%28The+Loop%29>
Jim Dalrymple, The Loop

“The recent iOS software update addressed many of the battery issues that some customers experienced on their iOS 5 devices,” an Apple spokesperson told The Loop. “We continue to investigate a few remaining issues.”

**** What To Do If You Find A Lost iPhone <http://www.macworld.com/article/163204/2011/11/what_to_do_if_you_find_a_lost_iphone.html#lsrc.rss_main>
Lex Friedman, Macworld

**** Mac OS X Has Its Own Sandbox Security Hole <http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2011/11/researchers-discover-mac-os-x-has-its-own-sandbox-security-hole.ars?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss>
Chris Foresman, Ars Technica

Apps that conform to Apple's sandbox design use a set of "entitlement" profiles defined by Apple; those profiles determine which system resources it can use and which are off limits. CoreLabs discovered that some of the limits in the default profiles can actually be circumvented by triggering certain Apple Events. In particular, Apple Events can cause launchd to launch a separate process without sandbox restrictions.

**** iOS 5.0.1 Update Causing Contact, WiFi Headaches For Some Users <http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2011/11/ios-501-update-causing-contact-wifi-headaches-for-some-users.ars?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss>
Chris Foresman, Ars Technica

**** Apple Launches 1st Generation iPod Nano Replacement Program <http://www.tuaw.com/2011/11/12/apple-launches-1st-generation-ipod-nano-replacement-program/>
Megan Lavey-Heaton, TUAW

Apple has sent out emails to registered owners of 1st generation iPod nanos stating that certain iPod nanos created between September 2005 and January 2006 might overheat and pose a safety risk. This is because of a manufacturing defect from a single supplier, and the likelihood of problems increases as the model ages.

**** Apple Store Self-Check Out: Shopping, Perfected <http://techland.time.com/2011/11/11/apple-store-self-check-out-shopping-perfected/>
Harry Mccracken, Time

Everybody who learns about this breakthrough has the same question: What’s to stop people from merely pretending to use EasyPay, then sauntering out of the store’s front door without actually having paid? I don’t know what Apple is or isn’t doing to foil shoplifters. For all I know, there’s some complicated monitoring system keeping tabs on who’s bought what with EasyPay. But I wouldn’t be stunned if there wasn’t.

Apple Stores aren’t security-free zones; for one thing, they’ve got cameras in their ceilings. But already, Apple clearly errs on the side of an ingratiating shopping experience over hardcore anti-shoplifting tactics. It leaves products on shelves that other stores lock up in cases, and the demonstration Macs and other products are lightly tethered to the tables rather than being practically welded in place.



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**** The Newspaper That <i>Almost</i> Seized The Future <http://www.cjr.org/feature/the_newspaper_that_almost_seized_the_future.php?page=all>
Michael Shapiro, Columbia Journalism Review

The San Jose Mercury News, Silicon Valley’s own daily, was poised to ride the digital whirlwind. What happened?

**** Rebecca Coriam: Lost At Sea <http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/nov/11/rebecca-coriam-lost-at-sea?CMP=twt_gu>
Jon Ronson, The Guardian

When Rebecca Coriam vanished from the Disney Wonder in March, hers became one of the 171 mysterious cruise ship disappearances in the past decade. So what happened?



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**** Less Room, Hence Smaller Families? <http://www.todayonline.com/Voices/EDC111112-0000034/Less-room,-hence-smaller-families?>
Rick Lim Say Kiong, Today

The government has been encouraging Singaporeans to procreate and have more children in its bid to raise the total fertility rate. 

The provision of smaller and more expensive flats by HDB seems to run counter to that national initiative and could have inured us to raising smaller families instead.

**** Disabled Should Be Able To Travel Independently <http://www.straitstimes.com/STForum/OnlineStory/STIStory_732971.html>
Ruth Cheng, Straits Times

**** Hawker Centre Prices Pushed Up By Profiteers <http://news.insing.com/tabloid/hawker-centre-prices-pushed-up-by-profiteers/id-f3103f00>
Lianhe Wanbao

Stall owners are said to be profiteering by transferring or renting their stalls out at inflated prices.

These inflated rental prices lead to hawkers who have to charge higher prices to make a living. Prices borne by consumers like you and me.

**** Startling Turn Of Events <http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2011/11/12/focus/9881876&sec=focus>
Seah Chiang Nee, The Star

Singapore’s ‘big bang’ approach to its manpower needs in the face of falling birth rates had its roots in the Goh Chok Tong administration, a current affairs commentor suggests.

**** Power For The People: Security Implications From Importing Electricity <http://kementah.blogspot.com/2011/11/power-for-people-security-implications.html>
David Boey, Senang Diri

**** GIC Responds To "Olympus Losses" Speculation <http://www.todayonline.com/Singapore/EDC111112-0000075/GIC-responds-to-Olympus-losses-speculation>
Today

The Government of Singapore Investment Corporation (GIC) said it disposed of almost all its shareholding in the troubled Japanese electronics maker Olympus "on first suspicion of possible wrongdoing".

GIC did not disclose whether it had suffered any losses on the transactions.

**** Sick Joke? <http://kaffein-nated.blogspot.com/2011/11/sick-joke.html>
Kaffein-nated

I'm sorry, lady, I don't buy your bullsh*t. If it is so, why are we paying sky-high monies for a 20 or 30-year loan to get a smaller area that is only leased to us for 99 years?

**** Singapore To Host 2015 SEA Games <http://www.todayonline.com/Sports/EDC111112-0000098/Singapore-to-host-2015-SEA-Games>
Tan Yo-Hinn, Channel NewsAsia

This was confirmed at the SEA Games Federation council meeting today in Palembang, where Singapore were the only member nation to submit an official bid.

**** "Smaller flats doesn't mean lower quality of living" : HDB CEO... <http://singaporemind.blogspot.com/2011/11/smaller-flats-doesnt-mean-lower-quality.html>
Diary Of A Singaporean Mind

Instead of removing the causes of the low fertility rates, they use the outcome of lower fertility rates to justify the need to bring in import more people and build smaller homes for Singaporeans. This mixing up of cause and effect puts Singaporeans in a vicious cycle of falling fertility and increasing foreign influx. 

**** Library at orchard Gets New Home <http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/1165017/1/.html>
Lip Kwok Wai And Wayne Chan, Channel NewsAsia

It will be located on the third and fourth levels of the new Specialist Shopping Centre, which will be situated between the Orchard Central and 313 at Somerset shopping malls.