[MyAppleMenu] Apr 15, 2013

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**** Improve Email Productivity By Using A “Brevity Signature” In Mail App For Mac OS X ****
<http://osxdaily.com/2013/04/14/improve-email-productivity-brevity-signature-mac-os-x-mail-app/>
OS X Daily


> Anything to boost productivity and reduce time spent emailing is a big win in my book. Accordingly, the “Sent from my iPhone” signature attached to an email has become associated in everyones minds with brevity, since naturally nobody expects a lengthy email reply sent while on the go from a smartphone, right? As a result, short replies from smartphones and iPhones are not considered rude or overly brief, and you can use that expectation of a brief and concise message to your advantage when sending emails from the Mail app of OS X. This is a great way to improve your email productivity when writing and replying from the desktop, and while some people call it a brand vanity signature, I like to call it the “brevity signature”.



**** Remind Me Adds A Global Hotkey To Apple’s Reminders App ****
<http://lifehacker.com/5994472/remind-me-adds-a-global-hotkey-to-apples-reminders-app>
Shep McAllister, Lifehacker



**** When And Why I Automate ****
<http://www.leancrew.com/all-this/2013/04/when-and-why-i-automate/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+macstoriesnet+%28MacStories%29>
And Now It's All This


> A script that takes an hour to write but only saves me 15 minutes may seem like a waste, but if it saves three other people 15 minutes, too, the overall accounts are in balance. I’ll get my “lost” 45 minutes back when others share the scripts they’ve written.






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**** Hitler's Words Into Stone ****
<http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323296504578398542977265774.html>
Michael Z. Wise, Wall Street Journal


> Can architecture itself be fascist?



**** The Book Of My Lives By Aleksandar Hemon – Review ****
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2013/apr/14/aleksandar-hemon-book-lives-review?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+theguardian%2Fbooks%2Frss+%28Books%29>
Andrew Anthony, The Observer


> The Bosnian has said that he writes "sad books for humorous people" and "humorous books for sad people". <i>The Book of My Lives</i> is a thoughtfully humorous and profoundly sad memoir-cum-collection of essays that explores Hemon's first life, growing up in the lively cultural atmosphere of Sarajevo before the onset of the war in Bosnia, and his second life as a sort of accidental exile in America, where he was effectively trapped in 1992 when the war broke out.