[MyAppleMenu] Dec 3, 2012

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**** News Corp. Shutters The Daily iPad App ****
<http://allthingsd.com/20121203/news-corp-shutters-the-daily-ipad-app/>
Peter Kafka, All Things D


> The Daily, News Corp.’s attempt to create a newspaper for the iPad era, is shutting down after less than two years.

> The Daily launched in February 2011 with a great deal of fanfare and a blessing from Apple, which worked closely with News Corp. to get the  paper off the ground.  But the Daily never clicked. It was initially hampered by technical problems, but its key issue was a conceptual one — while the app boasted lots of digital bells and whistles, in the end it was very much a general interest newspaper that seemed to be geared toward people who didn’t really like newspapers. You can’t make that work no matter what kind of platform it uses.



**** Preparing Blog Images With Automator ****
<http://www.tuaw.com/2012/12/03/preparing-blog-images-with-automator/>
Ben Waldie, TUAW


> Automator's the perfect tool for streamlining some of the repetitive things you do on a daily basis.



**** An iPad Guide To Building The Perfect Sustainable City ****
<http://www.fastcodesign.com/1671305/an-ipad-guide-to-building-the-perfect-sustainable-city#1>
Kyle Vanhemert, Co.Design


> So upon completing the collection, the school commissioned Portland-based interactive studio Second Story to transform the book into an iPad app, a resource that would draw from the original text but could also be updated with new projects and papers as needed. Now available for free, the app shows how dynamic areas of study can benefit greatly from equally dynamic texts.



**** Are Apple's New iMacs Being Assembled In The U.S.? ****
<http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2012/12/01/apple-assembled-usa-imac/>
Philip Elmer-DeWitt, Fortune



**** Apple TV Update 5.1.1 Fails Over Ethernet ****
<http://tidbits.com/article/13423?rss>
Josh Centers, TidBITS


> There are a number of reports of problems updating over wired Ethernet connections. In some cases, the Apple TV may fail to boot after a failed upgrade. The solution is to unplug the Ethernet cable and update over Wi-Fi. That has worked for many people for whom the update wouldn’t install.



**** E-Ink Case Turns The Back Of Your Phone Into A Second Screen ****
<http://www.wired.com/design/2012/11/popslate-e-ink-phone-case/>
Tim Maly, Wired


> Do you own a smartphone? Flip it over. What do you see? Maybe there’s a hole for a camera, a company logo, and some FCC disclaimers? Do you see the cool design of a case you bought for it? Either way, it’s essentially inert. But for Greg Moon and Yashar Behzadi, it was an opportunity to do some clever design.



**** Stuck In Guided Access Mode? Here’s How To Disable It ****
<http://appadvice.com/appnn/2012/12/stuck-in-guided-access-mode-heres-how-to-disable-it>
Dom Esposito, AppAdvice



**** On Releasing And Marketing Your New App ****
<http://brettterpstra.com/on-releasing-and-marketing-your-new-app/>
Brett Terpstra


> The following is geared toward independent developers looking to release a Mac or iOS app on a budget. Grass roots marketing for indie devs.






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**** Assassination ****
<http://www.asiancha.com/content/view/1294/368/>
Stephanie Guo, Cha



**** Who Was The Real Woman Behind “Nine And A Half Weeks”? ****
<http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2012/11/who-was-the-real-woman-behind-nine-and-a-half-weeks.html>
Sarah Weinman, New Yorker


> As an inveterate lover of mystery, cracking the code of a writer’s true identity has the same effect, for me, as tasting forbidden fruit. In looking further into Day’s story, I hoped to learn more about who she really was. But what I discovered raised more questions than answers—which is likely what Day would have wanted.



**** A Voice In The Night ****
<http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/features/2012/12/10/121210fi_fiction_millhauser>
Steven Millhauser, New Yorker



**** Poem Of The Week: Musk-Ox By Jane Yeh ****
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2012/dec/03/poem-of-the-week-jane-yeh?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+theguardian%2Fbooks%2Frss+%28Books%29>
Carol Rumens, The Guardian


> Jane Yeh is an American poet based in London. Her voice, to my ear, has a distinctly English quality. Combining fantasy, melancholy, precision and gently-disturbing wit, it suggests at times how Lewis Carroll could have written, had he been a young 21st-century postmodernist.