Obama Weekly Approval Average Dips to New Low of 46%

Obama Weekly Approval Average Dips to New Low of 46%

Watch the chart: worse than my blog trend !

Typed moustache

for moustache lovers… who also love type.

Stench from oil spill affects East Coast Park

East Coast Park smelled like a petrol station yesterday.

The stench of oil had park users speculating if it had come from an oil spill which resulted after a tanker and bulk carrier collided yesterday morning.

They were right.

In a joint statement by the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore and the National Environment Agency (NEA), the authorities confirmed that the smell was a result of the oil spill from the tanker.

Lighter portions of the oil could have evaporated which may have caused the smell.

The statement also said that the smell had subsided by late afternoon, and that there was no cause for alarm as NEA's monitoring has detected no toxic chemicals in the air.

When The New Paper team checked to see how bad the oil spill was yesterday, we noticed a faint whiff at Changi Village. The smell worsened when we got to East Coast Park.

The slick has not reached the beaches.

RUMOR: Apple to make MobileMe free

We have received a tip that we cannot confirm, hence our "RUMOR" designation, that nonetheless has at least an air of credibility about it that says, "Apple is planning to make MobileMe free."

MobileMe is Apple's $99 per year service (it can be purchased for less) that keeps your email, contacts, and calendar information in the “cloud” and uses push technology to keep everything in sync across your iPhone, iPad, Mac, PC, and the web automatically. MobileMe also offers MobileMe Gallery for sharing your photos, Find My iPhone and Find my iPad, which helps you locate your lost (or stolen) device, Remote Wipe, which allows you to remotely delete your personal information and restore devices to their to the factory settings, iDisk, for storing, accessing, and sharing files online (starts at 20GB), Me.com, a suite of ad-free web applications — Mail, Contacts, Calendar, Gallery, iDisk, and Find My iPhone — all accessible from a browser on any Mac or PC, Back to My Mac puts any Mac OS X Leopard- or Snow Leopard-based Mac you use within easy reach from anywhere, Secure iChat, which lets you protect your chats with robust, 128-bit encryption, the free iDisk app which lets you view files on your iDisk right on your iPad, iPhone or iPod touch, share content from iPhoto, iMovie, QuickTime, and Aperture, seamless iWeb integration, personal domain name hosting, and more.

MobileMe was originally launched on January 5, 2000, as "iTools," a free collection of Internet-based services for users of Mac OS 9. iTools was relaunched as ".Mac" on July 17, 2002, when it became a $99 per year subscription service. .Mac was relaunched as "MobileMe" at WWDC 2008 on July 9, 2008.

No timeframe was given for MobileMe to go free, other than: "sooner than later... depends on certain facilities going operational."

That's all we have at this time.

SOURCE | MacDailyNews

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Marina Bay bridges open

The poser buzzing in many Singaporeans' minds was answered by Mr Mah Bow Tan yesterday when he opened the two landmark bridges across Marina Bay and revealed their names.

The Helix, at 280m long, was chosen for the spiral-shaped pedestrian bridge while the Bayfront Bridge, spanning 303m, was picked for the parallel bridge for vehicles.

About 2,000 people turned up at Marina Bay last night to witness the event. They were treated to a two-minute display of fireworks from the two bridges while taking in the panoramic view of the new downtown.

The crowd was also entertained by drummers and stilt walkers positioned on The Helix.

Mr Mah, the National Development Minister, declared the bridges open at about 8pm.

Vehicles can start using the Bayfront Bridge from 3pm today. The Youth Olympic Park, Singapore's first art park at the entrance of the bridges, was also opened yesterday.

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THE KOOKS to play Ibiza Rocks

We are pleased to announce that THE KOOKS will be playing at this year's Ibiza Rocks.

The band will play at the Ibiza Rocks Hotel on 10th August. They have also been confirmed for the Mallorca Rocks Hotel opening party on 6th June.

Tickets for both events are now on sale at http://www.ibizarocks.com/

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