[MyAppleMenu] Dec 1, 2012

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**** Hands On With Nokia’s HERE Maps … You May Want To Take A detour ****
<http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/hands-on-here-maps-you-may-want-to-take-a-detour/>
AJ Dellinger , Digital Trends



**** Apple Again Recognizes World AIDS Day Online And In-Store ****
<http://www.macrumors.com/2012/12/01/apple-again-recognizes-world-aids-day-online-and-in-store/>
Jordan Golson, MacRumors



**** Automatic Facebook Photo Syncing Now Available On iOS ****
<http://appadvice.com/appnn/2012/11/automatic-facebook-photo-syncing-now-available-on-ios>
Aldrin Calimlim, AppAdvice


> Once enabled, the photos on your iDevice’s camera roll will be automatically synced with Facebook.

> But don’t worry, they will be uploaded to a private photo album. So, none of your embarrassing photos will find their way to your Facebook timeline. Unless you deliberately share them, that is.



**** iTunes 11: Can No Longer Open Playlists In Separate Windows ****
<http://www.betalogue.com/2012/11/30/itunes11-windows/>
Pierre Igot, Betalogue


> So now if you want to, say, copy track X from playlist A to playlist B, you can no longer choose <i>where</i> you are going to drop track X in the track list for playlist B.



**** iTunes 11: Column Browser Bug And Limitations ****
<http://www.betalogue.com/2012/11/30/itunes11-columnbrowser/>
Pierre Igot, Betalogue



**** Apple iMac And Mac Mini Review (Late 2012) ****
<http://www.theverge.com/2012/11/30/3709120/apple-imac-mac-mini-review>
David Pierce, The Verge


> HP's Spectre One does the design well largely by aping the iMac, and Dell's XPS 27 offers all the features I want — but I have yet to see the combination of design, features, and horsepower the iMac offers. I hope someone gets it all right soon, whether it's Apple or not.



**** iTunes 11 Tips And Tricks ****
<http://howto.cnet.com/8301-11310_39-57556465-285/itunes-11-tips-and-tricks/?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=MacFixIt>
Topher Kessler, CNET



**** Time Capsule For $25 ****
<http://garmoncheg.blogspot.sg/2012/11/time-capsule-for-25.html>
Programmer Blog


> The real article name might be something like: <i>Configuring Raspbery Pi to serve like a Time Capsule with Netatalk 3.0 for Mountain Lion</i>.  But it's too long ;)



**** Apple Should Include A Visitor’s Center In Its New HQ Whether It Wants One Or Not ****
<http://www.siliconbeat.com/2012/11/30/apple-should-include-a-visitors-center-in-its-new-hq-whether-it-wants-one-or-not/>
Pat May, SiliconBeat



**** 7 Features Apple Killed Off In iTunes 11 ****
<http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-57556548-37/7-features-apple-killed-off-in-itunes-11/>
Josh Lowensohn, CNET


> Curiously enough, gapless playback in iTunes 11 still works just fine. You just can't tweak any of your existing music to make use of the feature from the options editor.



**** 21-Inch iMac Teardown Shows Newly Rearranged Innards ****
<http://arstechnica.com/apple/2012/11/21-imac-teardown-shows-newly-rearranged-innards/>
Lee Hutchinson, Ars Technica



**** Flare 1.5 Adds New Presets And Borders ****
<http://www.tuaw.com/2012/11/30/flare-1-5-adds-new-presets-and-borders/>
Steven Sande, TUAW



**** Film Buffs Will Want The Free Kubrick App For iOS ****
<http://www.tuaw.com/2012/11/30/film-buffs-will-want-the-free-kubrick-app-for-ios/>
Mel Martin, TUAW



**** Custom Denomination iTunes Gift Cards Now On Sale ****
<http://www.macgasm.net/2012/11/30/custom-demonination-itunes-gift-cards-now-on-sale/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+macgasm%2Fmain+%28Macgasm%29>
Toby Wellington, Macgasm


> If you were planning on buying someone an iTunes gift card this holiday season, you may be glad to hear that Apple has begun to roll out new versions of the card that let you add custom amounts of money.



**** I Was Wrong ****
<http://appcubby.com/blog/i-was-wrong/?utm_source=loopinsight.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+loopinsight%2FKqJb+%28The+Loop%29>
App Cubby Blog


> Given all the mistakes and bad assumptions, it’s clear that the best choice here is to immediately change course. For now I’m going to replace the ads with an apology, and later today I’ll be submitting an update to Timer that removes the ad completely.

> Please accept my sincere apologies for making a mess of a great app.



**** Apple Vetting Operators On LTE Network Performance ****
<http://www.telecoms.com/54319/apple-vetting-operators-on-lte-network-performance/>
Mike Hibberd, Telecoms.com


> Nordstrom said he was “shocked” when told about the policy, which restricts operators to offering the new device on 3G networks until Apple enables LTE functionality.

> It proved, he said, “who is running the industry”, adding: “Apple have put themselves in the driving seat; it’s really changing the game.”






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**** Is God Happy? ****
<http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2012/dec/20/is-god-happy/>
Leszek Kolakowski (Translated from the Polish by Agnieszka Kołakowska), The New York Review Of Books


> Such a condition can be imagined, but it has never been seen. It has never been seen.



**** BASIC ****
<http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/books/2012/11/computer_programming_10_print_chr_205_5_rnd_1_goto_10_from_mit_press_reviewed.html>
Geeta Dayal, Slate


> <i>10 PRINT CHR$ (205.5 + RND (1)); : GOTO 10</i>, a new book collaboratively written by 10 authors, takes a single line of code—inscribed in the book’s mouthful of a title—and explodes it.



**** Michael Jackson's 'Thriller' At 30: How One Album Changed The World ****
<http://www.billboard.com/features/michael-jackson-s-thriller-at-30-how-one-1008031662.story#/features/michael-jackson-s-thriller-at-30-how-one-1008031662.story>
Steve Greenberg, Billboard


>  When executives of CBS Records went about the business of preparing for the November 30 release of Michael Jackson's "Thriller" in the fall of 1982, they knew they had on their hands a terrific album by one of the biggest superstars in the music industry. But they were also a bit concerned, since the timing of Jackson's follow-up to his mega-selling 1979 album "Off The Wall" could not have seemed worse.



**** Shakespeare ****
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/nov/30/shakespeare-carol-ann-duffy-poem?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+theguardian%2Fbooks%2Frss+%28Books%29>
Carol Ann Duffy, The Guardian



**** Writers And Artists At Harvard ****
<http://harvardmagazine.com/2012/11/writers-and-artists-at-harvard>
Helen Vendler, Harvard Magazine


> Can frugality seem as desirable to our undergraduates as affluence—provided it is a frugality that nonetheless allows them enough leisure to think and write? Can we preach a doctrine of vocation in lieu of the doctrine of competitiveness and worldly achievement?



**** 'The Particle At The End Of The Universe' Gets Real ****
<http://www.latimes.com/features/books/jacketcopy/la-ca-jc-sean-carroll-20121202,0,4799148.story>
David L. Ulin, Los Angeles Times


> "The Particle at the End of the Universe" is a scientific detective story, the saga of the search for the Higgs. Like all such stories, it's driven by a fundamental, yet elusive, mystery: What is the nature of the universe?



**** What's A Life Worth? ****
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2012/dec/01/carol-shaben-larry-plane-crash?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+theguardian%2Fbooks%2Frss+%28Books%29>
Carol Shaben, The Observer


> It was after that event that my father confided in me that he measured his worth as a man by what he'd contributed to society during the extra years God had granted him and not others.



**** Hitchcock's B-sides ****
<http://www.thesmartset.com/article/article11301201.aspx>
Colin Fleming, The Smart Set


> With some artists, it’s hard to resist the temptation to take up the cause of what I call their B-sides, the material that gets overshadowed by other works that inform, shift, color, and do just about everything that can be done to the cultural zeitgeist. But when we’re talking the best of artists, all of the parts the drawer, so to speak, need to be explored; right up front, where the popular goodies are, and way in back, where the nuggets reside, those often one-off, singular creations that can give us a deeper understanding of works we’ve already felt we’ve come to know so well.



**** Atari Teenage Riot: The Inside Story Of Pong And The Video Game Industry's Big Bang ****
<http://www.buzzfeed.com/chrisstokelwalker/atari-teenage-riot-the-inside-story-of-pong-and-t>
Chris Stokel_Walker, BuzzFeed


> On Nov. 29, 1972, a crude table-tennis arcade game in a garish orange cabinet was delivered to bars and pizza parlours around California, and a multi-billion-dollar industry was born. Here's how that happened, direct from the freaks and geeks who invented a culture and paved the way for today's tech moguls.