[MyAppleMenu] Apr 3, 2012

[applesurf at myapplemenu.com]

MyAppleMenu
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**** Sync iCloud To Dropbox ****
<http://www.tuaw.com/2012/04/03/sync-icloud-to-dropbox/>
TJ Luoma, TUAW


> The good news is that you can sync iCloud to Dropbox. The bad news is that it's a one-way sync from iCloud to Dropbox. But if all you want to do is backup iCloud files and be able to retrieve previous versions from Dropbox, it's pretty simple to do.



**** The Best Online Backup App For OS X ****
<http://lifehacker.com/5898366/the-best-online-backup-app-for-os-x>
Adam Pash, Lifehacker



**** New Trojan Variant Can Install Without Password ****
<http://www.macworld.com/article/1166169/new_trojan_variant_can_install_without_password.html#lsrc.rss_main>
Dan Moren, Macworld


> The latest variant, discovered by security researchers at F-Secure and dubbed OSX/Flashback.K, takes advantage of a weakness in Java SE6. That vulnerability, identified as CVE-2012-0507, allows the malware to install itself from a malicious website the user visits, without needing the user to enter an administrator’s password.



**** Backroom Only For Thunderbolt Cables ****
<http://www.zdnet.com/blog/apple/backroom-only-for-thunderbolt-cables/12665?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+zdnet%2FApple+%28ZDNet+The+Apple+Core%29>
David Morgenstern, ZDNet


> Could it be that these easy-to-shoplift cables are so valuable (or rare) that they must be left in the back room? Or is it that there are few sales of the cables and they don’t warrant a spot on the shelves?



**** How To Create And Use BBEdit Clippings ****
<http://www.macworld.com/article/1166149/how_to_create_and_use_bbedit_clippings.html#lsrc.rss_main>
Glenn Fleishman, Macworld


> A clipping lets you easily insert pre-defined bits of text into a document. A clipping can be any length of text, and it can contain placeholders that are swapped out with the corresponding value when you insert the clipping.



**** New App Helps Local Bookstores Compete With Superstores ****
<http://tucsoncitizen.com/arizona-news/2012/04/01/new-app-helps-local-bookstores-compete-with-superstores/>
Kerry Lengel, Arizona Republic News



**** Tweet Marker Launches “Plus” Version To Sync Timeline On The Web, Index Tweets ****
<http://www.macstories.net/news/tweet-marker-launches-plus-version-to-sync-timeline-on-the-web-index-tweets/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+macstoriesnet+%28MacStories%29>
Federico Viticci, MacStories


> At $2 per month, Tweet Marker Plus offers new functionalities and a web interface for Twitter users, while keeping the basic sync you may already be using in Tweetbot or Twitterrific completely free.



**** Daily Mac App: Battery Health Monitors Your Mac's Battery ****
<http://www.tuaw.com/2012/04/02/daily-mac-app-battery-health-for/>
Mel Martin, TUAW






The Tomorrow Weblog
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**** A Little Device That’s Trying To Read Your Thoughts ****
<http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/03/science/ibrain-a-device-that-can-read-thoughts.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss>
David Ewing Duncan, New York Times


> Already surrounded by machines that allow him, painstakingly, to communicate, the physicist Stephen Hawking last summer donned what looked like a rakish black headband that held a feather-light device the size of a small matchbox.

> Called the iBrain, this simple-looking contraption is part of an experiment that aims to allow Dr. Hawking — long paralyzed by amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or Lou Gehrig’s disease — to communicate by merely thinking.






MyAppleMenu Reader
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**** Insomnia Etiquette ****
<http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/poem/2012/04/_insomnia_etiquette_by_rita_dove_.html>
Rita Dove, Slate



**** Just Write It! ****
<http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/04/11/110411fa_fact_miller>
Laura Miller, New Yorker


> A fantasy author and his impatient fans.






SingaporeSurf
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**** Open Court Hearing For Hougang By-election Case ****
<http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/1192908/1/.html>
Claire Huang, Channel NewsAsia



**** Coping With Shifting Morality In Our Society... ****
<http://singaporemind.blogspot.com/2012/04/coping-with-shifting-morality-in-our.html>
Diary Of A Singaporean Mind


> If govt does not change its approach soon, we are going to lose the battle on 2 fronts. While morality continues to decline and we do too little to mitigate the negative effects declining morality, we will see an expansion of the problems in our society.



**** S'poreans Seem To Lack Social Grace To Clean Up After Themselves ****
<http://news.asiaone.com/News/Latest%2BNews/Singapore/Story/A1Story20120402-337257.html>
Maureen Koh, The New Paper



**** Bay South Garden To Open On June 29 ****
<http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/1192846/1/.html>
Joanne Chan, Channel NewsAsia


> Bay South Garden, a section of the waterfront gardens in the new Downtown @ Marina Bay, will open on June 29. Bay South features the two cooled conservatories, and the 18 "supertrees".



**** Prices Of Resale Flats Up; Private Homes Down ****
<http://news.insing.com/tabloid/prices-of-hdb-resale-flats-up-private-homes-down/id-3b3e3f00>
inSing



**** Saying Something Good About MCYS ****
<http://andrewlohhp.wordpress.com/2012/04/03/saying-something-good-about-mcys/>
Andrew Loh


> At times, it is the small, practical things which help the most – and which we miss.



**** BTO Purchase Tough For Divorcees ****
<http://www.straitstimes.com/STForum/OnlineStory/STIStory_784576.html>
Chu Pei Ling, Straits Times



**** What Price Human Dignity Or Safety? ****
<http://atans1.wordpress.com/2012/04/03/what-price-human-dignity-or-safety/>
Thoughts Of A Cynical Investor



**** It Does Not Feel Like A Price Correction ****
<http://www.todayonline.com/Commentary/EDC120403-0000057/It-does-not-feel-like-a-price-correction>
Colin Tan, Today


> Is this the worst that the most drastic set of cooling measures ever to be imposed can do to prices and sales? And that its future impact can only dissipate over time? It certainly doesn't look good.



**** Be A Man, Do The Right Thing ****
<http://feedmetothefish.blogspot.com/2012/04/be-man-do-right-thing.html>
Feed Me To The Fish


> Let's not waste peoples' time and money. Let's not neglect the residents of Hougang.



**** Not Many Native Singaporeans Left? ****
<http://theonlinecitizen.com/2012/04/not-many-native-singaporeans-left/>
Jen, The Online Citizen


> Personally, I had once naively thought we were making good progress in developing a Singapore identity. But I have since been jolted into realising that this Singapore identity as we know it is fast morphing into a different Singapore culture due to the large number of immigrants. This never-ending stream of new citizens will keep meshing with our society to eventually form a new and different Singapore identity in the distant future.

> The home as we know it has changed indeed.