[MyAppleMenu] Dec 7, 2012

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MyAppleMenu is dark for a week until 14 Dec, 2012.


**** Google Makes Snapseed For iOS Free ****
<http://www.tuaw.com/2012/12/06/one-of-the-best-ios-image-editors-is-now-free/>
Mel Martin, TUAW


> Other changes include built in Google+ sharing, of course, and some new filters and updated photographic frames. Those frames can be colorized to match the colors in your image.



**** Instacast 3 Review ****
<http://www.macstories.net/reviews/instacast-3-review/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+macstoriesnet+%28MacStories%29>
Cody Fink, MacStories


> Instacast 3 is selling you an app that has a their own Cloud Syncing solution, a better iPad interface, and a new a storage limit feature for better managing downloads.



**** 5 Things To Like About Twitterrific 5 ****
<http://52tiger.net/5-things-to-like-about-twitterrific-5/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+52Tiger+%2852+Tiger%29>
Dave Caolo, 52 Tiger



**** T-Mobile CEO Confirms The iPhone And The Death Of Phone Subsidies ****
<http://gigaom.com/mobile/t-mobile-ceo-confirms-the-iphone-and-the-death-of-phone-subsidies/>
Kevin Fitchard, GigaOM


> T-Mobile USA CEO John Legere confirmed that the iPhone will be among the Apple products that T-Mobile sells next year, but he said that T-Mo will sell it in a far different way than other carriers. T-Mobile is eliminating all device subsidies in 2013, requiring new customers to pay full price for their phones up front, buy it on installment or bring their own unlocked devices, Legere said speaking at corporate parent Deutsche Telekom’s Capital Markets Day in Bonn.



**** My Mac Mini Is My 2012 Tech Boyfriend ****
<http://www.tuaw.com/2012/12/06/my-mac-mini-is-my-2012-tech-boyfriend/>
Erica Sadun, TUAW


> It boots like a dream. Its Fusion drive seamlessly and invisibly manages my data, keeping the files system snappy and responsive. Even Xcode, bane of my existence, crashes faster and more smoothly than it did on my old system.



**** Foxconn Plans American Expansion As Clients Seek Made In U.S.A. ****
<http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-12-06/foxconn-plans-american-expansion-as-clients-seek-made-in-u-s-a-.html?utm_source=loopinsight.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+loopinsight%2Fmembers+%28The+Loop+Members%29>
Tim Culpan, Bloomberg


> “We are looking at doing more manufacturing in the U.S. because, in general, customers want more to be done there,” Louis Woo, a Foxconn spokesman, said in a phone interview. He declined to comment on individual clients or specific plans.



**** Behind The App: Twitterrific 5 ****
<http://furbo.org/2012/12/06/behind-the-app-twitterrific-5/>
Craig Hockenberry, Furbo.org


> As work progressed on the product, we realized we were making something special. When that happens, all sorts of crazy and wonderful things start to form without you really knowing how or why.



**** Instacast 3.0 For iPhone And iPad Now Available ****
<http://www.imore.com/instacast-30-iphone-and-ipad-now-available>
Leanna Lofte, IMore


> Instacast, the very popular podcast app, as been updated with a completely new design and a new robust syncing mechanism. Instacast is also now a universal app for iPhone and iPad so that you can enjoy and follow your favorite podcasts with any iOS device.



**** Apple Hires Hacker Who Helped Save Windows From Security Hell ****
<http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/12/apple-hires-hacker/>
Robert McMillan, Wired



**** Review: Twitterrific 5 Brings Elegance To The Foreground ****
<http://www.macworld.com/article/2018790/review-twitterrific-5-brings-elegance-to-the-foreground.html>
Dan Moren, Macworld


> While Twitterrific 5 features a more competitive ecosphere than ever, there’s no reason it can’t co-exist along other excellent clients like Tweetbot; there’s audience enough for both Tweebot’s industrial design and Twitterrific’s more spartan approach.






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**** Sex Tips For Writers ****
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/dec/06/essential-guide-to-good-sex-writing?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+theguardian%2Fbooks%2Frss+%28Books%29>
Edmund White, The Guardian


> As Susan Sontag once observed, pornography is practical. It was designed as a marital aid, and its vocabulary should follow natural biological rhythms and stick with hot-button words in order to produce a predictable climax. It is not <i>about</i> sex but <i>is</i> sex. Whereas the great sex writers (Harold Brodkey, DH Lawrence, Robert Gluck, David Plante, the Australian Frank Moorhouse) have a quirky, phenomenological, <i>realistic</i> approach to sex. They are doing what the Russian formalists said was the secret of all good fiction – making the familiar strange, writing from the Martian's point of view.



**** Can Food Be Art? ****
<http://www.thesmartset.com/article/article12061201.aspx>
Sara Davis, The Smart Set


> One reason that <i>art</i> is such a jealously guarded term is that we use it to elevate sensory experience to something special — the implication being that sensory experiences are not all that special on their own.