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**** Up Close With Mountain Lion: AirPlay Mirroring ****
<http://www.macworld.com/article/1167893/up_close_with_mountain_lion_airplay_mirroring.html#lsrc.rss_main>
Dan Frakes, Macworld



**** Up Close With Mountain Lion: Auto Save ****
<http://www.macworld.com/article/1167892/up_close_with_mountain_lion_auto_save.html#lsrc.rss_main>
Christopher Breen, Macworld


> In addition to those Duplicate, Lock, and Browse All Versions options, you'll now find commands for renaming and moving files as well as for retrieving the last saved version of your file. Which of those commands you see depends on whether you’ve already saved the file and where you’ve saved it to.



**** Up Close With Mountain Lion: Dictation ****
<http://www.macworld.com/article/1167891/up_close_with_mountain_lion_dictation.html#lsrc.rss_main>
Lex Friedman, Macworld


> Though it falls short of full Siri integration, Mountain Lion's system-wide Dictation tool does bring iOS's transcription functionality to the Mac.



**** Apple Will Now Let Any Teacher Publish Content To iTunes U ****
<http://allthingsd.com/20120725/apple-will-now-let-any-teacher-publish-content-to-itunes-u/?mod=googlenews>
Liz Gannes, All Things D


> Apple is upping its bid for its hot-selling iPad to be a teaching device, with an update today to its iTunes U app that allows any teacher to create a private course.



**** Microsoft Office For Mac: “We’re Ready For Mountain Lion!” ****
<http://www.macgasm.net/2012/07/26/microsoft-office-for-mac-were-ready-mountain-lion/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+macgasm%2Fmain+%28Macgasm%29>
Kaylie Moise, Macgasm



**** Automator Workflow Of The Month: Bring RSS Back To Safari 6 ****
<http://www.macworld.com/article/1167883/automator_workflow_of_the_month_bring_rss_back_to_safari_6.html#lsrc.rss_main>
Christpoher Breen, Macworld


> You can still see RSS articles in Safari with a little help from Apple's automation utility, Automator.



**** The Average App ****
<http://daveaddey.com/?p=893>
Dave Addey


> How much does the average app make on the iOS App Store? Can you, in fact, make a living from selling apps? As the founder of a profitable app development company, these are questions I’ve given a lot of consideration.



**** Subscribe To Feed Safari Extension ****
<http://www.red-sweater.com/blog/2624/subscribe-to-feed-safari-extension>
Daniel Jalkut, Red Sweater


> I’m disappointed by Apple’s decision to remove the button, but when life hands you lemons …



**** How To Bend Mountain Lion's Notification Center To Your Will ****
<http://arstechnica.com/apple/2012/07/how-to-bend-mountain-lions-notification-center-to-your-will/>
Chris Foresman, Ars Technica



**** Did Apple Just Quietly End Development Of Safari For Windows? ****
<http://techcrunch.com/2012/07/25/apple-safari-for-windows-ends/>
Frederic Lardinois, TechCrunch


> Indeed, it looks like Apple has removed all download links for Safari from its site for the time being. This could be because Apple is currently highlighting Safari’s new features in Mountain Lion (which pre-installs Safari 6), or because Apple has indeed ended development of Safari for Windows.

If Apple's goal is to earn some revenue sharing money from Google, well, that's money Apple now doesn't want.


**** Apple Releases Power Nap-enabling Firmware Updates For Recent MacBooks ****
<http://www.macworld.com/article/1167890/apple_releases_power_nap_enabling_firmware_updates_for_recent_macbooks.html#lsrc.rss_main>
Christopher Breen, Macworld



**** Xcode 4.4 Now Available In The Mac App Store, Enhanced For The MacBook Pro With Retina Display ****
<http://www.macstories.net/news/xcode-4-4-now-available-in-the-mac-app-store-enhanced-for-the-macbook-pro-with-retina-display/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+macstoriesnet+%28MacStories%29>
Cody Fink, MacStories


> Updated to take advantage of the MacBook Pro with Retina display, Xcode 4.4 also includes OS X 10.8 SDKs in concert with the release of Mountain Lion earlier this morning.



**** iPhoto, Aperture Get Mountain Lion Updates And Other Changes ****
<http://www.loopinsight.com/2012/07/25/iphoto-aperture-get-mountain-lion-updates-and-other-changes/?utm_source=loopinsight.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+loopinsight%2FKqJb+%28The+Loop%29>
Peter Cohen, The Loop



**** Mountain Lion Miscellany ****
<http://shawnblanc.net/2012/07/mountain-lion-miscellany/>
Shawn Blanc


> The RSS button in Safari is gone completely. If you come across a site and you want to subscribe to its RSS feed you’ll need to either have your own bookmarklet that adds the site to Google Reader or Fever, or the site will need a link to its RSS feed.



**** What's New In iTunes U ****
<http://speirs.org/blog/2012/7/25/whats-new-in-itunes-u.html>
Fraser Speirs



**** How Mountain Lion Changes The Rules For AppleScript ****
<http://tidbits.com/article/13135?rss>
Shane Stanley, TidBITS


> OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion keeps the same script file format as its predecessors, and yet at the same time changes the rules completely: scripts and applications can be saved in an uncompiled state. It is a small change, and simultaneously a huge one.



**** Apple Pulls Lion From The Mac App Store ****
<http://www.macworld.com/article/1167879/apple_pulls_lion_from_the_mac_app_store.html#lsrc.rss_main>
Lex Friedman, Macworld


> With the Option key trick, customers who own Lion and, for whatever reason, want to install it fresh on a compatible Mac, can do so. Cautious Mac users who try to remain one major Mac OS iteration behind the current release, on the other hand, are out of luck. It looks like Apple will offer new buyers just one version of its desktop operating system in the Mac App Store, and that version is Mountain Lion. If you don’t already own Lion, the Mac App Store currently offers no way to get it.



**** Safari 6 For Lion Adds Unified Search Bar, More ****
<http://www.macworld.com/article/1167878/safari_6_for_lion_adds_unified_search_bar_more.html#lsrc.rss_main>
Dan Moren, Macworld


> While Mountain Lion may be getting all the attention, users of OS X Lion have a couple of software updates to grab as well on Wednesday. Among the most significant is Safari 6 for Lion, which brings many of the same features included in the Mountain Lion version of Apple’s Web browser—though not all of them.



**** Up Close With Mountain Lion: Safari ****
<http://www.macworld.com/article/1167866/up_close_with_mountain_lion_safari.html#lsrc.rss_main>
Leah Yamshon, Macworld


> Safari has been around forever, and you might not think there was much that Apple could do to improve it in Mountain Lion. But in fact the company has found some clever—and welcome—ways to update the app many of use more than any other.



**** Up close with Mountain Lion: Messages ****
<http://www.macworld.com/article/1167818/up_close_with_mountain_lion_messages.html#lsrc.rss_main>
Dan Miller, Macworld


> Messages is not just a reskinning of iChat. Sure, the interface looks different. But in addition to its updated interface, Messages introduces a big change to the way instant messaging works on the Mac.



**** Up Close With Mountain Lion: Reminders ****
<http://www.macworld.com/article/1167856/up_close_with_mountain_lion_reminders.html#lsrc.rss_main>
Lex Friedman, Macworld


> Reminders, of course, is a tool for recording and storing todo lists, tasks, and any other little bits you want to remember. If you're familiar with the Reminders iOS app, you'll feel right at home in the Mountain Lion version, which is a near-perfect clone.



**** Up Close With Mountain Lion: Security ****
<http://www.macworld.com/article/1167862/up_close_with_mountain_lion_security.html#lsrc.rss_main>
Lex Friedman, Macworld


> Though Apple has long prided itself on the Mac’s safety record, recent events such as the Flashback Trojan horse have proven that the company can’t take the security of its operating systems for granted. And the security upgrades in Mountain Lion make it clear that Apple isn’t.



**** Should You Do A "Clean Install" Of Mountain Lion? ****
<http://www.macworld.com/article/1167867/should_you_do_a_clean_install_of_mountain_lion.html#lsrc.rss_main>
Dan Frakes, Macworld



**** How To Install Mountain Lion Over Leopard ****
<http://www.macworld.com/article/1167868/how_to_install_mountain_lion_over_leopard.html#lsrc.rss_main>
Dan Frakes, Macworld



**** How To Make A Bootable Mountain Lion Install Drive ****
<http://www.macworld.com/article/1167857/how_to_make_a_bootable_mountain_lion_install_drive.html#lsrc.rss_main>
Dan Frakes, Macworld


> Thankfully, it’s easy to create a bootable install drive from the Mountain Lion installer that you download from the Mac App Store. I show you how, below.



**** Hands On With Mountain Lion's OS X Recovery And Internet Recovery ****
<http://www.macworld.com/article/1167870/hands_on_with_mountain_lions_os_x_recovery_and_internet_recovery.html#lsrc.rss_main>
Dan Frakes, Macworld


> A major feature that debuted in Lion (OS X 10.7) and continues in Mountain Lion (OS X 10.8) is one I hope you’ll never need to use: recovery mode, officially called OS X Recovery. (It was called Lion Recovery under Lion.) When you install Mountain Lion or Lion, the installer creates an invisible, bootable, 650MB partition—a portion of a drive the operating system treats as a separate volume—on your startup drive called Recovery HD that includes a few essential utilities for fixing problems, restoring files, browsing the Web, and even reinstalling the operating system.



**** Installing Mountain Lion: What You Need To Know ****
<http://www.macworld.com/article/1167855/installing_mountain_lion_what_you_need_to_know.html#lsrc.rss_main>
Dan Frakes, Macworld


> Fair warning: If you install Mountain Lion right when it’s released, keep in mind that you’re installing version 1.0 of a major new OS. It could be bug-free, but if the history of OS X is any indication, we’ll see the first update, containing a number of bug fixes, within a few weeks. If downtime isn’t an option for you, you might consider holding off for OS X 10.8.1.



**** Up Close With Mountain Lion: Sharing ****
<http://www.macworld.com/article/1167854/up_close_with_mountain_lion_sharing.html#lsrc.rss_main>
Dan Moren, Macworld


> One of the many features that Mountain Lion has borrowed from iOS is the idea of systemwide sharing. In many apps you'll see a Share button, represented by an arrow popping out of a box, which provides quick, one-button access to easy ways to disseminate the content you're viewing. Whereas in the past you might have had to—heaven forfend—copy and paste a URL you wanted to share into your Twitter client, now you can share that link right from where you found it.



**** Up Close With Mountain Lion: Notifications ****
<http://www.macworld.com/article/1167842/up_close_with_mountain_lion_notifications.html#lsrc.rss_main>
Dan Moren, Macworld


> iOS users will immediately recognize Mountain Lion's new notification system—it's more or less the same one that debuted on iOS 5 last year. Long time Mac users, on the other hand, will probably recognize its functionality as the same sort offered by the open-source framework Growl. In either case, the idea is simple: Lots of things happen on your Mac—emails, IMs, alarms, even Twitter updates. Notification Center gathers them in a single location, so you can quickly see at a glance everything you need to know.



**** OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, The Little Details ****
<http://tidbits.com/article/13147?rss>
Jeff Carlson, TidBITS


> Apple makes viewing Notification Center sound easy: “just swipe to the left from the right edge of the trackpad.” After I scrolled my Safari window to the right for the fifth time, I figured out that Apple really means from the edge. Position your fingers <i>off the right side</i> of the laptop’s trackpad or Magic Trackpad, and then swipe onto the pad’s surface.






The Tomorrow Weblog
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**** AppFog Wants To Do For Developer Platforms What Google Did For EMail ****
<http://techcrunch.com/2012/07/25/appfog-wants-to-do-for-developer-platforms-what-google-did-for-email/>
Alex Williams, TechCrunch


> AppFog is a Platform as a Service (PaaS) provider that wants to do for developer platforms what Google did for email.



**** An Open Twitter-like Ecosystem ****
<http://scripting.com/stories/2012/07/25/anOpenTwitterlikeEcosystem.html>
Dave Winer, Scripting News


> It turns out that most of what's needed for something open that functions like Twitter is already out there, deployed, standardized, widely supported. There are a few things that need to be created, but not many.






MyAppleMenu Reader
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**** The Teleportation Accident By Ned Beauman – Review ****
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/jul/26/teleportation-accident-ned-beauman-review>
Joe Dunthorne, The Guardian


> Living in Berlin just before the second world war, everything goes wrong for Egon Loeser, and it has nothing to do with the Nazis. In Ned Beauman's terrific second novel, longlisted this week for the Booker, his protagonist, a German set designer, is too sex-starved, self-pitying and, usually, hungover to notice that history is happening all around him.






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**** Town Council: $4.38M Surplus – Still Increase Fees? ****
<http://leongszehian.com/?p=1731>
Leong Sze Hian


> Even if it starts to run into a deficit, from the current operating surplus of $38,056, its accumulated surplus of $4.38 million may be enough to last for many years. 



**** Govt Seeks Public Views On Population Issues ****
<http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/1215828/1/.html>
Tan Qiuyi, Channel NewsAsia



**** No Citizen Should Be In A Position To Not Afford Medical Treatment ****
<http://www.raviphilemon.net/2012/07/no-citizen-should-be-in-position-to-not.html>
Ravi Philemon


> Even if statements like 'no one should be and will be denied medical treatment just because one cannot afford to pay' sounds nice, the fact remains that no citizen should be in a position where he cannot afford medical treatment, and has to depend on handouts from the state, for something as basic a need as healthcare.



**** 3 In 5 Singaporeans Have Never Changed Their SingPass Password ****
<http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/Singapore/Story/STIStory_826320.html>
Irene Tham, Straits Times



**** Money Minefield ****
<http://berthahenson.wordpress.com/2012/07/26/money-minefield/>
Bertha Harian



**** Growth Could Dip Below 1%: MAS ****
<http://sbr.com.sg/economy/news/growth-could-dip-below-1-mas>
Singapore Business Review



**** MND Details Discrepancies In Brompton Bicycle Purchase ****
<http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/1215701/1/.html>
Channel NewsAsia


> The ministry discovered links between the suspended officer, Bernard Lim, and an owner of BikeHop in Bernard's Facebook account.

> Subsequently the audit uncovered certain significant discrepancies, which led to the decision to suspend Bernard and report the matter to the Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau (CPIB) for investigation.



**** Immigration – A Different Approach ****
<http://theonlinecitizen.com/2012/07/immigration-a-different-approach/>
Grace Hui, The Online Citizen



**** 教育部统一抽签器材 æ‘‡ç æœºè½¬å‡ºå°ä¸€å…¥å­¦é¢ ****
<http://www.zaobao.com.sg/sp/sp120726_007.shtml>
陈能端, 联合早报


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