[MyAppleMenu] Apr 4, 2013

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**** Apple Pulls Bookstore App In China Over Illegal Content, FT Says ****
<http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-04-04/apple-pulls-bookstore-app-in-china-over-illegal-content-ft-says.html>
Bloomberg


> Apple Inc. removed at least one mobile application from its China iTunes store for containing books banned by the government, the Financial Times reported, citing the app’s developer.



**** Apple's iMessage Encryption Trips Up Feds' Surveillance ****
<http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57577887-38/apples-imessage-encryption-trips-up-feds-surveillance/>
Declan McCullagh And Jennifer Van Grove, CNET


> An internal Drug Enforcement Administration document seen by CNET discusses a February 2013 criminal investigation and warns that because of the use of encryption, "it is impossible to intercept iMessages between two Apple devices" even with a court order approved by a federal judge.



**** StarCraft II: Heart Of The Swarm Review: Released Three Years After StarCraft II, This Is The Next Chapter In The Starcraft Saga ****
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/macsoftware/reviews/?reviewid=3438521&olo=rss>
Cliff Joseph, Macworld UK


> As you’d expect from Blizzard , everything about Heart Of The Swarm is immensely polished and enjoyable. It’s a complex strategy game that will require plenty of time and patience – and a permanent Internet connection even for the single player game – but if you enjoyed StarCraft II then you won’t want to miss Heart Of The Swarm.



**** Whatever Happened To Siri Eyes Free? ****
<http://www.imore.com/whatever-happened-siri-eyes-free>
Derek Kessler, IMore



**** iPad City... How The Apple Tablet Is Powering London ****
<http://www.standard.co.uk/news/techandgadgets/ipad-city-how-the-apple-tablet-is-powering-london-8557940.html>
Andrew Liddle And Susannah Butter, London Evening Standard


> It could be how you order a drink in the pub or shop for clothes or even how doctors look up medical notes — all that’s needed is an iPad. There’s an iRevolution going on and London is leading the way. Here’s how the city has been iPadded out.



**** Mac App Review: Ulysses III ****
<http://brettterpstra.com/2013/04/03/mac-app-review-ulysses-iii/>
Brett Terpstra



**** iBook Lessons: Why The Kindle App Is Still The Best Reader On iOS ****
<http://www.tuaw.com/2013/04/03/ibook-lessons-why-the-kindle-app-is-still-the-best-reader-on-io/>
Erica Sadun, TUAW


> First, I can read my Kindle content on nearly any platform you can think of. Second, Kindle books are cheap.



**** Lodsys Targets Disney's 'Where's My Water?' And Others In New Round Of Lawsuits Over In-App Purchasing ****
<http://www.macrumors.com/2013/04/03/lodsys-targets-disneys-wheres-my-water-and-others-in-new-round-of-lawsuits-over-in-app-purchasing/>
Eric Slivka, MacRumors



**** Google Going Its Own Way, Forking WebKit Rendering Engine ****
<http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/04/google-going-its-own-way-forking-webkit-rendering-engine/>
Peter Bright, Ars Technica


> Google announced today that it is forking the WebKit rendering engine on which its Chrome browser is based. The company is naming its new engine "Blink."

> Linus Upson, vice president of Engineering at Google, and Alex Komoroske, product manager on the Open Web Platform team, told us that the costs of sharing code now outweighed the advantages. There is considerable complexity in WebCore that is there to support WebKit2 features that Google does not want or use.



**** Audiobooks Are Not Backed Up By iCloud, Can Only Be Downloaded Once ****
<http://www.tuaw.com/2013/04/03/audiobooks-are-not-backed-up-by-icloud-can-only-be-downloaded-o/>
Victor Agreda, Jr., TUAW



**** Microsoft SkyDrive 3.0 Update Finally Makes It Into The App Store ****
<http://www.tuaw.com/2013/04/03/microsoft-skydrive-3-0-update-finally-makes-it-into-the-app-stor/>
Steven Sande, TUAW



**** Twitter Updated, Allows Users To Install And Open Apps From Tweets ****
<http://www.imore.com/twitter-updated-allows-users-install-and-open-apps-tweets>
Joseph Keller, IMore






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**** Does Spelling Matter? By Simon Horobin – Review ****
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2013/apr/04/does-spelling-matter-horobin-review?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+theguardian%2Fbooks%2Frss+%28Books%29>
Henry Hitchings, The Guardian


> The title of Simon Horobin's book poses what, at first blush, seems a banal question. I imagine most readers would answer "Yes, spelling matters", perhaps adding "though not as much as some believe". Yet if the question of how words should be written is not uppermost in many people's minds, its nagging everyday presence is nonetheless evident in the existence of spell-checkers and school spelling tests, as well as in mnemonics designed to help us with spellings, such as the venerable "i before e except after c".



**** Why I Study Duck Genitalia ****
<http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2013/04/duck_penis_controversy_nsf_is_right_to_fund_basic_research_that_conservatives.html>
Patricia Brennan, Slate


> Generating new knowledge of what factors affect genital morphology in ducks, one of the few vertebrate species other than humans that form pair bonds and exhibit violent sexual coercion, may have significant applied uses in the future, but we must conduct the basic research first.