[MyAppleMenu] Aug 30, 2012

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**** DeepSleep Hibernates Your Mac To Save Power ****
<http://www.macworld.com/article/1168352/deepsleep_hibernates_your_mac_to_save_power.html#lsrc.rss_main>
Leah Yamshon, Macworld


> This no-frills tool provides an excellent way to save power in between uses.



**** Java Security Threats: What You Need To Know ****
<http://www.macworld.com/article/1168358/java_security_threats_what_you_need_to_know.html#lsrc.rss_main>
Rich Mogull, Macworld


> Thanks to changes Apple has made, most of us are likely to be safe from this threat.

> That said, although you likely aren’t at risk today, it is clear that Java still represents one of the biggest, most persistent security problems face users of all operating systems. So I recommend you consider implementing the precautions suggested below.



**** Parallels Launches Desktop 8 For Mac ****
<http://www.macworld.com/article/1168343/parallels_launches_desktop_8_for_mac.html#lsrc.rss_main>
Joel Mathis, Macworld


> The revamped application has been upgraded with Apple’s latest-generation computers and operating system in mind—it supports the high-definition Retina display available on the new MacBook Pro, and it offers a number of features that take advantage of Mountain Lion, including the ability to use the new dictation tool in both Mac and Windows, the addition of Windows notifications in the Mac’s Notification Center, the ability to organize Windows apps in Launchpad, and the use of Mountain Lion gestures (such as pinch-to-zoom) in Windows applications.



**** How To Sort And Organize Alerts In Notification Center On iPhone And iPad ****
<http://www.imore.com/how-sort-and-organize-alerts-notification-center-iphone-and-ipad>
Allyson Kazmucha, IMore


> By default, Notification Center will add app alerts in the order in which the app was installed. You can take control of notification handling on your iPhone or iPad, however, and organizing alerts and notifications in a way that makes the most sense to you.



**** Why Businesses Shouldn't Trust Apple's Cloud Services ****
<http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/mac/why-businesses-shouldnt-trust-apples-cloud-services/2262?>
Erik Eckel, TechRepublic


> While iCloud, again, is awesome for personal use, businesses will find themselves better served by a terminal server parked in a secure data center, VPN access to a corporate server, or another cloud-based file sharing solution that ensures only authorized users securely access corporate data.



**** Hold On: Maybe Apple Doesn't Own Pinch-to-Zoom After All ****
<http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2012/08/hold-maybe-apple-doesnt-own-pinch-zoom-after-all>
Kevin Drum, Mother Jones


> "The 'scaling the view' if the operating system receives 'two or more input points' part you reference could be the two-finger tap to zoom out. It's a pretty nice feature that not a lot of people know about. In maps, just as you double tap with one finger to zoom in, you can single tap with two fingers to zoom out. I use it all the time."



**** Apple’s Genius Bar Goes Online In Europe ****
<http://blogs.wsj.com/tech-europe/2012/08/30/apples-genius-bar-goes-online-in-europe/>
Nick Clayton, Wall Street Journal



**** VoodooPad Review ****
<http://www.maclife.com/article/reviews/voodoopad_review?>
Ian Betteridge, Mac Life


> Of all the hundreds of ways of organizing information, a flexible, smartly linked wiki is one of the most modern, useful, and efficient. VoodooPad lets you easily whip up personal wiki pages including text, images, and more.



**** Lift Launches Incredibly Simple Personal Motivation App ****
<http://allthingsd.com/20120829/lift-launches-incredibly-simple-personal-motivation-app/>
Liz Gannes, All Things D


> Lift allows you to join or create a “habit,” click a big button once a day if you’ve met your goal, and give and receive props to other users. All activity is public.



**** The Slow Obviation Of Yojimbo ****
<http://shawnblanc.net/2012/08/the-slow-obviation-of-yojimbo/>
Shawn Blanc


> But in my willingness to break habits and workflows that may no longer be the case for me — I’m considering a transition away from Yojimbo.



**** Create Calendar Events More Efficiently ****
<http://www.macworld.com/article/1168349/create_calendar_events_more_efficiently.html#lsrc.rss_main>
Christopher Breen, Macworld



**** Pinch-to-Zoom And Rounded Rectangles: What The Jury Didn’t Say ****
<http://techpinions.com/pinch-to-zoom-and-rounded-rectangles-what-the-jury-didnt-say/9465>
Steve Wildstrom, TechPinions


> Depth, expertise, and reflection are all lacking. So is serious research. If you are going to write about a patent case, it’s a good idea to read the patents in dispute.






The Tomorrow Weblog
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**** Researchers Open Door To Electronics Made From Single Layers Of Atoms ****
<http://arstechnica.com/science/2012/08/researchers-open-door-to-electronics-made-from-single-layers-of-atoms/>
Matthew Francis, Ars Technica






MyAppleMenu Reader
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**** Every Love Story Is A Ghost Story: A Life Of David Foster Wallace – Review ****
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/aug/30/every-love-story-dt-max-review?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+theguardian%2Fbooks%2Frss+%28Books%29>
Ned Beauman, The Guardian


> It's true that Wallace never intended to set himself up as some sort of generational sage. But it's also true that, as a devotee of self-help books and Alcoholics Anonymous, he was far more hospitable than most postmodern intellects to the idea that from someone else's advice or example you can learn specific and articulable things about how best to live your life. So it makes sense that his bereft readers would like some reassurance that Wallace's final act was not – as Edouard Levé wrote of his own imminent suicide – "the most important thing [he] ever said".



**** A Critic’s Manifesto ****
<http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2012/08/a-critics-manifesto.html>
Daniel Mendelsohn, New Yorker


> If Vendler was writing about the latest volume of poetry by, say, James Merrill, it was clear from her references that she’d read and thought about everything else Merrill had ever written; what you were getting in the review wasn’t just an opinion about the book under review, but a way of seeing that book against all of the poet’s other work. Ditto for the others. To read a review by Croce about this or that performance of a Balanchine ballet was to get a history of the work itself, a mini-tutorial in Balanchine technique, and a capsule history, for comparison’s sake, of other significant performances of the same work.



**** ‘NW’ By Zadie Smith: A Brilliant Novel — For The Dedicated Reader ****
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/nw-by-zadie-smith-a-brilliant-novel-for-the-dedicated-attentive-reader/2012/08/28/8da12902-f117-11e1-892d-bc92fee603a7_story.html?wprss=rss_books>
Ron Charles, Washington Post


> And here she comes with a big, challenging new novel about the forces that poison our dreams of economic ascendancy.



**** NW By Zadie Smith – Review ****
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/aug/26/nw-zadie-smith-review?commentpage=1#comment-17910998>
Rachel Cooke, The Guardian


> Zadie Smith's London novel is flawed, fragmentary and undeniably brilliant.






SingaporeSurf
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**** Singaporeans Urged To Be Tolerant Of Expats ****
<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/expat/expatnews/9506035/Singaporeans-urged-to-be-tolerant-of-expats.html>
Leah Hyslop, Telegraph



**** Auditor General: MOF Breached Constitution Article 144 In January 2012. ****
<http://sonofadud.com/2012/08/30/auditor-general-mof-breached-constitution-article-144-in-january-2012/>
Kenneth Jeyaretnam, Rethinking The Rice Bowl


> It’s a long report almost all of it vital and essential but my attention was drawn  in particular to Part 1B which is an audit of Government Ministries, Organs of State and Government Funds.  Astonishingly the AGO observes that the MOF breached Article 144 of the Constitution.



**** Where Lee Hsien Loong’s Heart Is. ****
<http://xuyun74.blogspot.sg/2012/08/where-lee-hsien-loongs-heart-is.html>
Transitional Eternity


> Whichever shapes LHL attempts to disguise his heart, his policies betray him too easily. It is far too apparent that his heart or compassion or whatever name he chooses to call it, could only be located in the laps of dollars and cents.



**** Can You Love Singapore And Challenge Lee Kuan Yew? ****
<http://rafflespress.com/2012/08/29/1361/>
Jeremy Yew Ern and Regina Marie Lee, Word Of Mouth


> It is time to remember that Singapore is ours to love — and to build.



**** Tipping The Scales Of Balance ****
<http://mumsatwork.net/blog/?p=520>
Mus at Work Singapore



**** Anti-littering Surveillance Cameras To Be Set Up At 100 Locations ****
<http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/1222962/1/.html>
Channel NewsAsia


> The National Environment Agency (NEA) said it is first targeting at the housing estates in Bukit Panjang, Pasir Ris, West Coast, Hong Kah and Sembawang.

> The equipment can pick up items as small as cigarette butts being thrown from windows, even in low light conditions at night.



**** Yale-NUS Is Committed To Liberal Arts ****
<http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/2012/aug/30/letters-83012/>
Pericles Lewis, Yale Daily News


> While the external constraints in Singapore are different from those in the United States, both countries can benefit from free and open inquiry, pluralistic debate, and respect for diversity.



**** Singapore Economy Slowed By Weaker Global demand-IMF ****
<http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/08/27/imf-singapore-idUSL1E8JRIKO20120827>
Lesley Wroughton, Reuters


> Singapore's economy is set to weaken this year on the back of weaker global demand and related international financial and trade strains emanating from the euro zone debt crisis, the International Monetary Fund said on Monday.



**** Brain Training ****
<http://berthahenson.wordpress.com/2012/08/30/brain-training/>
Bertha Harian



**** We're Not Talking About The Death Penalty, We're Talking About Discretion ****
<http://www.singapolitics.sg/views/were-not-talking-about-death-penalty-were-talking-about-discretion>
Walter Woon, Straits Times



**** Yes Minister – Reflections On The National Day Rally 2012 (Part 1) ****
<http://gabfriends.wordpress.com/2012/08/29/yes-minister-reflections-on-the-national-day-rally-2012-part-1/>
Gab & Friends



**** Why Over-reliance On Foreign Workers Is Bad To The Economy ****
<http://sbr.com.sg/economy/news/why-over-reliance-foreign-workers-bad-economy>
Singapore Business Review


> Check out this graph showing the steady decline of total factor productivity to Singapore's GDP over the last 20 years.



**** Spread Young Talent Among Schools ****
<http://www.todayonline.com/Hotnews/EDC120830-0000067/Spread-young-talent-among-schools>
Woo Sian Boon, Today


> The Republic's young talent should be spread out across the island's schools, instead of being concentrated in a few elite schools, said retired top civil servant Ngiam Tong Dow yesterday.

> "I'm not saying that they don't deserve to go (to these schools); they do. But they will be taught by just two sets of teachers, and they can only deal with the regular problems of the world, they cannot deal with (problems that are out of the box)," he said.



**** Dear PM, You Still Don't Get It, Do You? ****
<http://feedmetothefish.blogspot.sg/2012/08/dear-pm-you-still-dont-get-it-do-you_29.html>
Feed Me To The Fish



**** Look Into Affordable Housing First, Not Birth Rate ****
<http://www.todayonline.com/Voices/EDC120830-0000052/Look-into-affordable-housing-first,-not-birth-rate>
Chia Hern Keng, Today



**** Pearls Centre, Thomson PO To Go ****
<http://www.todayonline.com/Singapore/EDC120830-0000059/Pearls-Centre,-Thomson-PO-to-go>
Amir Hussain And Wong Wei Han, Today



**** Wealth Creation Can't Be Left To Chance ****
<http://www.todayonline.com/Singapore/EDC120830-0000011/Wealth-creation-cant-be-left-to-chance>
Ngiam Tong Dow, Today


> In a highly competitive knowledge-based global world economy, our universities are the only strategic assets we have. If we fail to mobilise our universities, Singapore will quickly revert back to the stagnant trade burdened economy of the 1950s.

> Without a knowledge-based growth strategy, all the glitz and glamour of the new Singapore we enjoy today will simply be a mirage, a footnote in world history.



**** About Singapore Press Holdings ****
<http://theonlinecitizen.com/2012/08/about-singapore-press-holdings/>
Yuen Chung Kwong, The Online Citizen



**** Heng Swee Kiat Committee – Behind Closed Doors And Closed Minds? ****
<http://yawningbread.wordpress.com/2012/08/29/heng-swee-kiat-committee-behind-closed-doors-and-closed-minds/>
Alex Au, Yawning Bread


> In a nutshell, the process is flawed because it is hierarchical, insider-driven, like-minded selective, with no way to create public buy-in of its findings, simply because of its closed-door process.

> The funny thing is that a proven process exists: it’s called democracy.



**** 不要赖，要负责 ****
<http://www.kwongwah.com.my/news/2012/08/29/109.html>
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