[MyAppleMenu] Oct 25, 2012

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**** Apple Releases New MacBook Pro Commercial, Colors ****
<http://www.imore.com/apple-releases-new-macbook-pro-commercial-colors>
Rene Ritchie, IMore



**** How Apple “Doubled” iPad Wi-Fi Throughput ****
<http://tidbits.com/article/13353?rss>
Glenn Fleishman, TidBITS



**** Safari Users Hit By Facebook Certificate Error ****
<http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-57538839-263/safari-users-hit-by-facebook-certificate-error/?part=rss&subj=news&tag=title>
Topher Kessler, CNET


> While this may raise concern about where the connection is going, the situation does not appear to be malicious in any way and instead has arisen from an apparent hosting configuration change for the image file.



**** How To Manage The Java 6 And Java 7 Runtimes In OS X ****
<http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-57539151-263/how-to-manage-the-java-6-and-java-7-runtimes-in-os-x/?part=rss&subj=news&tag=title>
Topher Kessler, CNET


> In the meantime, if you have a Java applet that you need to run on your system and you can't get it working in Oracle's Java 7, then you can re-enable Java 6 without needing a Java runtime manager utility like Apple's Java Preferences. The installation of Java 7 does not remove the Java 6 runtime from OS X, but simply replaces Apple's Java Internet plug-in link with its plug-in package. Therefore, to downgrade and use Java 6, you can replace this package with a link to Apple's Java runtime.



**** Apple Store Now Selling Lightning To HDMI And VGA Adapters For $49 Each ****
<http://www.tuaw.com/2012/10/24/apple-store-now-selling-lightning-to-hdmi-and-vga-adapters-for/>
Steven Sande, TUAW



**** Apple's Schiller Defends iPad Mini's Price Tag ****
<http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/10/23/us-apple-schiller-idUSBRE89M1IN20121023>
Noel Randewich and Poomima Gupta, Reuters


> "The iPad is far and away the most successful product in its category. The most affordable product we've made so far was $399 and people were choosing that over those devices," Schiller said.

> "And now you can get a device that's even more affordable at $329 in this great new form, and I think a lot of customers are going to be very excited about that," Schiller said.



**** Skype 6 With Improved Social Integration Now Available ****
<http://www.pcworld.com/article/2012983/skype-6-with-improved-social-integration-now-available.html>
John P. Mello Jr., PCWorld



**** How To Create Shared Reminders With iCloud In Mac OS X 10.8.2 ****
<http://www.macworld.com/article/2010613/how-to-create-shared-reminders-with-icloud-in-mac-os-x-10-8-2.html>
Lex Friedman, Macworld



**** Hands On With iBooks 3 ****
<http://www.macworld.com/article/2012965/hands-on-with-ibooks-3.html>
Lex Friedman, Macworld


> The new iBooks doesn’t seem to be a dramatic change from its previous iteration. Instead, it appears aimed at making the reading app a bit more social, and a bit more usable—whether you’re using a device with less storage, or one with less screen real estate.



**** Review: Letterpress Is An Excellent iOS Word Game ****
<http://www.macworld.com/article/2012082/review-letterpress-for-iphone-is-an-excellent-word-game.html>
Lex Friedman, Macworld


> Fans of word games won’t be disappointed. If you’re starting to tire of Words With Friends, or just want additional word-focused fun, Letterpress deserves your attention.

Also:
• <a href="http://www.imore.com/letterpress-atebits-review">Letterpress by Atebits review</a> (Dave Wiskus, iMore)


**** Thoughts On iPad Mini ****
<http://speirs.org/blog/2012/10/24/thoughts-on-ipad-mini.html>
Fraser Speirs


> I don't really buy the argument that young children need a smaller device. That's intuitively appealing but I don't think it stands up. For one thing, the smaller the device is, the finer motor skills you need to manipulate it. Young children don't have such fine motor control. This is why you give a young child a fat pencil and an older child a thinner one. Secondly, our experience has been that younger children tend to lose small things. We see younger pupils losing their own iPod touch devices quite often in school but never their iPad. The most compelling reason to give a younger pupil a smaller iPad is cost and, at the price points Apple's offering, I don't see the savings over a three-year lease as compelling. The benefits to having all pupils on the one device are probably greater - especially for a school like mine with all grades K-12 in the one school.






The Tomorrow Weblog
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**** How I Automated The Boring Parts Of Life ****
<http://stevecorona.com/how-i-automated-the-boring-parts-of-life>
Steve Corona



**** We Need BYTE ****
<http://threads2.scripting.com/2012/october/weNeedByte>
Dave Winer, Scripting News






MyAppleMenu Reader
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**** The Island Where People Forget To Die ****
<http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/28/magazine/the-island-where-people-forget-to-die.html?hp&_r=1&>
Dan Buettner, New York Times


> The study would try to cut through the stories and establish the facts about Ikaria’s longevity. Before including subjects, Poulain cross-referenced birth records against baptism or military documentation. After gathering all the data, he and his colleagues at the University of Athens concluded that people on Ikaria were, in fact, reaching the age of 90 at two and a half times the rate Americans do.






SingaporeSurf
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**** Dr Chee Soon Juan: Response To Interview Analysis ****
<http://theonlinecitizen.com/2012/10/57244/>
Chee Soon Juan, The Online Citizen


> A free-market economy does not preclude state intervention to invest in the needy and support the infirm. Many countries in northern Europe have combined free-market elements with socialist principles to good effect, producing robust and sustainable economies. My colleagues and I in the SDP want to do away with a centrally-planned economy and allow an entrepreneurial class develop and flourish in Singapore. We also see the need to reduce the income disparity by introducing capital gains tax for the very rich and minimum wage for the very poor. It really is not that confusing.



**** S'pore May Bin Phone Books Over Privacy Fears ****
<http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_singapore/view/1233400/1/.html>
Channel NewsAsia


> Singapore is considering stopping the publication of free telephone directories listing residential and office numbers as privacy concerns mount, a government agency said.

> The use of telephone directories "have declined significantly over the years", said the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA) in a consultation paper seen by AFP on Thursday.



**** Ex-NWC chief proposes changes to help narrow income gap ****
<http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/1233373/1/.html>
Thomas Cho, Channel NewsAsia


> Professor Lim calls for a continued issuance of quantitative wage increase guideline for low income workers who earn S$1,500 or less a month for the next two years. 

> And should the wages of the lowest paid workers remain stubbornly very low in two or three years' time, Professor Lim said serious consideration should be made to introduce a compulsory minimum wage scheme of S$1,000 a month as a start-off quantum.



**** Malaysia-Singapore Relations Augur Well For Water Re-negotiation - Riot ****
<http://www.bernama.com/bernama/v6/newsindex.php?id=704667>
Bernama


> The thriving good relations between Malaysia and Singapore augured well for both countries to re-negotiate the price of untreated water supply from Johor to the republic, said foreign deputy minister Datuk Richard Riot. However, the government must first take into account certain factors such as the increased water supply demand in Johor and Singapore’s readiness to engage in the re-negotiation.



**** Asian Airline To End World's Longest Flights ****
<http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203937004578076560046135292.html>
Jeffrey Ng, Wall Street Journal


> The all-business-class flights began in 2004 and will halt by the end of next year. The Newark-Singapore flight covered 9,506 miles and lasted about 18.5 hours, while the Los Angeles-Singapore flight covered 8,746 miles and lasted about 16 hours. 

> The cuts were caused by a combination of economics and physics. Amid the sluggish global economy, fewer fliers were willing to pay premium fares, which can be more than five times the standard coach fare. The rise of discount carriers in Asia has also put additional pressure on the regional operations of premium carriers such as Singapore Airlines and Hong Kong's Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd.