[MyAppleMenu] Apr 21, 2013

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**** TweetDeck Air And TweetDeck For iPhone Will Be Discontinued On May 7 ****
<http://www.tuaw.com/2013/04/20/tweetdeck-air-and-tweetdeck-for-iphone-will-be-discontinued-on-m/>
Kelly Hodgkins, TUAW



**** Telling Time With Clock For Mac ****
<http://www.technologytell.com/apple/115765/telling-time-with-clock-for-mac/>
Charles Moore, TechnologyTell


> It also updates its Dock icon with the current time, and ticks very gently when the clock window is open. You can hide the clock window from the Clock menu to silence the clock.



**** Roccat 3.1 Web Browser For OS X Review ****
<http://www.technologytell.com/apple/115703/roccat-web-browser-review/>
Charles Moore, TechnologyTell


> Roccat is an excellent browser choice if you’re a fan of thumbnail page tabs, offering two tab options: garden variety default tabs plus VisiTabs. Both modes let you reorder tabs as you prefer and quickly switch between them.



**** MacHeist Nano ****
<http://www.leancrew.com/all-this/2013/04/macheist-nano/>
And Now It's All This



**** Master Alfred 2.0 On Your Mac With These Five Tips And Tricks ****
<http://www.cultofmac.com/224283/master-alfred-2-0-on-your-mac-with-these-five-tips-and-tricks-feature/>
Rob LeFebvre, Cult Of Mac


> If you haven’t been using Alfred, the amazing app launcher (and much more) on your Mac, you’ve been missing out. It started out as an app launcher, a la Quicksilver, but continued to get improvements and additions over time until now, version 2.0 can do a ton of things on your Mac, all with a quick hotkey press on the keyboard, including launching apps, issuing system commands, and more.



**** Cognitive Overhead, Or Why Your Product Isn’t As Simple As You Think ****
<http://techcrunch.com/2013/04/20/cognitive-overhead/>
David Lieb, TechCrunch


> But the most important, and often most overlooked, is Cognitive Simplicity. This is an idea that slowly emerged as my company, Bump, tried to understand exactly why Bump is so popular, especially in the non-tech crowd. We believe product builders should first and foremost minimize the Cognitive Overhead of their products, even though it often comes at the cost of simplicity in other areas.






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**** Waking Up On The Wrong Side Of A Ratings War ****
<http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/21/magazine/who-can-save-the-today-show.html?ref=magazine&_r=0>
Brian Stelter, New York Times


> One Wednesday last month, Ann Curry, camouflaged in a hat and trench coat, trudged into the art-deco lobby of 30 Rockefeller Plaza. It had been nine months since she was pushed out as co-host of the “Today” show. Curry was now NBC’s “national and international correspondent” and the anchor at large for “Today,” but these titles seemed honorary. Curry had appeared on “Today” only a handful of times since her ouster. She had no role in NBC’s coverage of election night or Inauguration Day. She taped a few stories for “Rock Center,” the prime-time newsmagazine show, but as she explained on Twitter, her bosses kept rescheduling them. Curry had moved to an office on the 27th floor of 30 Rock, far from her NBC News bosses on the third floor. On this morning, she was at work on a short “NBC Nightly News” segment about the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s death. It would be only her sixth appearance on the network all year.



**** Eating A Pomegranate In English ****
<http://www.asiancha.com/content/view/1381/390/>
Ishita Basu Mallik, Cha



**** A Theory Of Love ****
<http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2013/04/19/a-theory-of-love/>
Katie Ryder, The Paris Review


> I remember sitting in red tights and buckled shoes in my childhood room as my word processor booted up. My father had taught himself DOS programming, and boxy yellow letters blinked on the gray green screen. “THIS IS KATIE RYDER’S WORD PROCESSOR. HELLO KATE.” A system-check flashed through my existing files—“/a_bad_day” (child minimalist), “/last_unicorn” (child plagiarist)—before bringing me to the composition page. My dad’s words changed slightly from week to week by mysterious means; this time, they declared: “YOU’RE READY TO WRITE KATE.”



**** The Pain When Children Fly The Nest ****
<http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22207482>
Adam Gopnik, BBC


> What I wonder about is why we love our children so asymmetrically, so entirely, knowing that the very best we can hope for is that they will feel about us as we feel about our own parents: that slightly aggrieved mixture of affection, pity, tolerance and forgiveness, with a final soupcon - if we live long enough - of sorrow for our falling away, stumbling and shattered, from the vigour that once was ours.