[MyAppleMenu] Dec 20, 2012

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**** The Legacy Of NeXT Lives On In OS X ****
<http://arstechnica.com/apple/2012/12/the-legacy-of-next-lives-on-in-os-x/>
Chris Foresman, Ars Technica



**** iOS 6.0.2 May Impact Battery Life ****
<http://tidbits.com/article/13474?rss>
Adam C. Engst, TidBITS


> For the moment, my advice to anyone who has not noticed any Wi-Fi-related problems with iOS 6.0.1 on an iPhone 5 or iPad mini is to hold off on upgrading to 6.0.2 until more is known.



**** iTunes 11: What's Missing, What's Changed ****
<http://www.macworld.com/article/2019783/itunes-11-whats-missing-whats-changed.html>
Kirk McElhearn, Macworld


> We’ve gotten a lot of questions about iTunes 11, since its release two weeks ago. In this week’s column, I address some of the most common questions about iTunes 11, about what’s missing, and what’s changed.



**** Seeing Double With Mail VIP Notifications ****
<http://www.macworld.com/article/2021283/seeing-double-with-mail-vip-notifications.html>
Dan Moren, Macworld



**** iStopMotion Updated With Better Audio Support ****
<http://www.imore.com/istopmotion-ipad-2-now-available-and-sale>
Leana Lofte, IMore


> With iStopMotion 2.0, you can now record audio right inside the app either before capturing frames or after while watching the clips play back. You can also limit the soundbyte to the length of the current clip, monitor the audio signal coming into the iPad and preview the sound to ensure it's exactly how you want. You can use the iPad's built-in microphone or any microphone or sound input device that is compatible with your device.



**** Person Of The Year Runner-Up: Tim Cook, The Technologist ****
<http://poy.time.com/2012/12/19/runner-up-tim-cook-the-technologist/?utm_source=loopinsight.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+loopinsight%2FKqJb+%28The+Loop%29>
Lev Grossman, Time


> As long as he was handpicking his successor, you’d think Jobs would have chosen someone in his own image, but he and Cook, who was Jobs’ COO at Apple, are in a lot of ways diametrical opposites. Jobs was loud, brash, unpredictable, uninhibited and very often unshaven. Cook isn’t. He doesn’t look like the CEO of Apple, he looks more like an Apple product: quiet, tidy, carefully curated, meticulously tooled and at the same time strangely warm and inviting. He doesn’t look like Jobs, he looks like something Jobs would have made. Cook’s flawless cap of white hair could have been designed by Jony Ive and fabricated in China out of brushed aluminum.



**** Evernote’s Food App Hits Version 2.0, Worth Checking Out ****
<http://www.macgasm.net/2012/12/19/evernotes-food-app-hits-version-2-0-worth-checking-out/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+macgasm%2Fmain+%28Macgasm%29>
Josua Schnell, Macgasm






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**** Has Fiction Lost Its Faith? ****
<http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/23/books/review/has-fiction-lost-its-faith.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0>
Paul Elie, New York Times


> The obvious answer is that it has gone where belief itself has gone. In America today Christianity is highly visible in public life but marginal or of no consequence in a great many individual lives. For the first time in our history it is possible to speak of Christianity matter-of-factly as one religion among many; for the first time it is possible to leave it out of the conversation altogether. This development places the believer on a frontier again, at the beginning of a new adventure; it means that the Christian who was born here is a stranger in a strange land no less than the Sikhs, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, Soviet Jews and Spanish-speaking Catholics who have arrived from elsewhere. But few people see it that way. People of faith see decline and fall. Their detractors see a people threatening rear-guard political action, or a people left behind.