[MyAppleMenu] Apr 27, 2013

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**** Reeder For iPhone Gets Feedbin Sync, Local RSS Support ****
<http://www.macstories.net/news/reeder-for-iphone-gets-feedbin-sync-local-rss-support/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+macstoriesnet+%28MacStories%29>
Federico Viticci, MacStories


> Reeder 3.1 also adds support for local RSS subscriptions, which won’t sync with any web service or other device running Reeder. Supporting local RSS feeds is anachronistic, but probably the right thing to do to ensure Reeder can keep working in case more RSS services will announce a shutdown in the future.



**** Apogee Duet For iPad & Mac ****
<http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2417989,00.asp>
Jamie Lendino, PC Magazine



**** Cdto Opens Any Folder In The OS X Terminal With One Click ****
<http://lifehacker.com/cdto-opens-any-folder-in-the-os-x-terminal-with-one-cli-481539331>
Adam Dachis, Lifehacker



**** Review: Xamarin 2.0 Works Mobile Development Magic ****
<http://news.idg.no/cw/art.cfm?id=BAECAD0B-94DF-D64B-0BC298DA61AF5AA0>
Tom Thompson, InfoWorld


> Impressive Xamarin SDK brings native iPhone and Android development to C# programmers, Visual Studio.



**** Focusrite Forte ****
<http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2417991,00.asp>
Jamie Lendino, PC Magazine



**** Pay Per Play: Exploring The Pros And Cons Of Freemium Gaming On iOS ****
<http://reverttosaved.com/2013/04/26/pay-per-play-exploring-the-pros-and-cons-of-freemium-gaming-on-ios/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+macstoriesnet+%28MacStories%29>
Craig Garnell, Revert To Saved


> Freemium, free-to-play and IAP are now entrenched in gaming for the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. But is that a bad thing, or has the system just been too often abused? I ask developers whether micro- (and not-so-micro-) transactions are the future of the industry, and how that will affect the games that are made.



**** Bizarre iMessage Bug Deletes Last Word Of Certain Texts ****
<http://www.theverge.com/2013/4/26/4270608/imessage-bug-deletes-last-word-certain-texts>
Chris Welch, The Verge


> The bug appears to render the final word of certain messages sent from an iPhone or Mac invisible to both sender and recipient. Two phrases have been confirmed as affected by the issue, with one oddly including President Barack Obama.



**** Apple Says New Tech Talks Are Coming This Fall ****
<http://www.macstories.net/news/apple-says-new-tech-talks-are-coming-this-fall/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+macstoriesnet+%28MacStories%29>
Federico Viticci, MacStories


> Following an “unprecedented interest” in WWDC that saw tickets selling out in less than two minutes, Apple has officially announced on its “News and Announcements” developer portal that “they’ll be hitting the road” with Tech Talks this Fall.



**** Mac Gems: Spotdox Makes All Your Files Accessible Via Dropbox ****
<http://www.macworld.com/article/2036432/mac-gems-spotdox-makes-all-your-files-accessible-via-dropbox.html#tk.rss_all>
Dan Frakes, Macworld


> If you rely on Dropbox to keep your files and folders accessible from all your devices, I feel confident in saying that Spotdox will eventually get you out of a self-inflicted jam.






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**** How To Write A "Vinyl Is Back!" Story ****
<http://blogs.villagevoice.com/music/2013/04/vinyl_is_back.php>
Nick Greene, Village Voice


> Last Saturday marked Record Store Day, a global celebration that encourages folks to head down to their local record store and buy some vinyl. Pleasantly, the initiative has done wonders for local businesses. Besides boosting sales, Record Store Day also offers an invaluable service to writers: It presents us with a peg to hang our "Vinyl is Back!" stories.



**** Questions Of Travel By Michelle De Kretser – Review ****
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2013/apr/27/questions-travel-michelle-de-kretser-review>
AS Byatt, The Guardian


> <i>Questions of Travel</i> is about uprootedness and travel, about tourism and flight from terror, about the trivial and the terrible.



**** Subject To Revision ****
<http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/28/books/review/life-after-life-by-kate-atkinson.html?ref=review>
Francine Prose, New York Times


> “After the first death, there is no other,” Dylan Thomas wrote. How obvious, one might think. But the one-time-only nature of death is anything but self-evident in Kate Atkinson’s new novel, “Life After Life.”



**** Many Selves: 'Tiger Writing,' By Gish Jen ****
<http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/28/books/review/tiger-writing-by-gish-jen.html?partner=rss&emc=rss>
Wesley Yang, New York Times


> A group of students at Cornell, born in Asia but raised in the United States by immigrant parents, were instructed to keep a diary. They struggled to recall the events of their own daily lives when they were later quizzed about them, remembering fewer details about their experiences than their Euro-American counterparts. Qi Wang, the Cornell scholar of “cross-cultural” cognition who conducted the experiment, speculated that Asians were not more forgetful but that they had, perhaps, filtered out the contents of their own stories, deeming them unworthy of being encoded as memories in the first place.