[MyAppleMenu] Dec 27, 2012

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**** Apple CEO Cook Gets $4.17 Million Compensation, No Stock ****
<http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-12-27/apple-ceo-s-pay-drops-99-on-lack-of-stock-awards.html>
Ville Heiskanen, Bloomberg


> Apple Inc. chief executive officer Tim Cook will receive compensation for 2012 worth $4.17 million, down 99 percent from a year earlier because of a lack of stock awards he received for 2011.



**** Signs Of Changes Taking Hold In Electronics Factories In China ****
<http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/27/business/signs-of-changes-taking-hold-in-electronics-factories-in-china.html?pagewanted=all&_r=1&>
Keith Bradsher and Charles Duhigg, New York Times



**** Apple’s Statement On Factory Conditions In China ****
<http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/27/business/apples-statement-on-factory-conditions-in-china.html?_r=0>
New York Times



**** Web Developer Admits: Objective-C > HTML5 ****
<http://engblog.polyvore.com/2012/12/web-developer-admits-objective-c-html.html>
Polyvore Engineering Blog


> The best way of creating that awesome app is not to insulate yourself from the power of the operating system you are running on but to embrace it.



**** The Nailed Nano ****
<http://512pixels.net/2012/12/nailed-nano/>
512 Pixels


> That’s why I went to work for Apple. I wanted to be able to help people when their stuff was broken or acting up. I got to connect with lots of customers in meaningful ways.



**** iCloud Documents ****
<http://www.libertypages.com/clarktech/?p=5767>
Clark's Tech Blog


> Apple’s done robust data sharing before with OpenDoc. It didn’t turn out well for a variety of reasons. Apple knows that iOS devices will become more powerful. It also knows that trying to replicate the windowed workflow on a touch device is a lost cause. I’m honestly not sure what Apple’s solution consists of. I suspect we’ll see the following though.



**** Where Did Those Files Go? Use The Blast App On Your Mac To Find Out ****
<http://bohemianboomer.com/2012/12/where-did-those-files-go-use-the-blast-app-on-your-mac-to-find-out/>
Jeff Mincey, Bohemian Boomer



**** Bartender Review ****
<http://www.maclife.com/article/reviews/bartender_review>
J Keirn-Swanson, Mac Life


> Dispensing with visual clutter is what Bartender is all about. Sure, it's nice having those app icons up top where you can get to them quickly, but what about some lesser used ones? What about critical information like your battery status that just takes up too much space? Bartender has all that covered.



**** How To Offload Your iTunes Library To A NAS ****
<http://arstechnica.com/apple/2012/12/how-to-offload-your-itunes-library-to-a-nas/>
Lee Hutchinson, Ars Technica


> Free up your local disks by shoving that iTunes library onto external storage.



**** PSA: Think Twice Before Using A Smartphone Charging Kiosk ****
<http://www.geek.com/articles/mobile/psa-think-twice-before-using-a-smartphone-charging-kiosk-20121224/>
Russell Holly, Geek.com






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**** An Early Tale Of The Internet ****
<http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/12/26/an-early-tale-of-the-internet/?hpw>
John Markoff, New York Times



**** How Rick Eastman Invented The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles ****
<http://www.laweekly.com/2012-12-27/news/rick-eastman-teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles/>
Gendy Alimurung, LA Weekly


> Kevin Eastman was 21 when he created the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. He's 50 now, and the Turtles are still around. The past three decades have been a long, weird ride.



**** Secret Lives Of Readers ****
<http://chronicle.com/article/Secret-Reading-Lives-Revealed/136261/>
Jennifer Howard, The Chronicle Of Higher Education


> Anyone who has ever displayed a trophy volume on the coffee table knows that people do many things with books besides read them.



**** Up And Down The Ladder Of Abstraction ****
<http://worrydream.com/LadderOfAbstraction/>
Bret Victor, Worrydream.com


> How can we design systems when we don't know what we're doing?