[MyAppleMenu] Aug 5, 2013

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*** Tencent's WeChat Updated To Version 5.0 With New Sticker Shop And Other Features ***
<http://appadvice.com/appnn/2013/08/tencents-wechat-updated-to-version-5-0-with-new-sticker-shop-and-other-features>
Aldrin Calimlim, AppAdvice



*** Vox 1.0 Makes Beautiful Music ***
<http://www.tuaw.com/2013/08/05/vox-1-0-makes-beautiful-music/>
Brett Terpstra, TUAW


> The short version of this post: Vox is a music player with a beautiful interface and an elegant feature set. I love it.




*** Spotify Announces 'Browse' Curated Playlist Feature On iOS ***
<http://www.tuaw.com/2013/08/05/spotify-announces-browse-curated-playlist-feature-on-ios/>
Michael Grothaus, TUAW



*** Create A Spark And Show Your Flair With The Newly Updated Lango Messaging App ***
<http://appadvice.com/appnn/2013/08/create-a-spark-and-show-your-flair-with-the-newly-updated-lango-messaging-app>
Aldrin Calimlim, AppAdvice



*** OpenOffice 4.0 ***
<http://tidbits.com/article/13987?rss>
Agen G. N. Schmitz, TidBITS


> The biggest visible change is the new Sidebar user interface, which brings context-sensitive panels that change properties according to the current editing task. Additionally, developers have been given a framework to build extensions to the Sidebar.




*** Five Best Online Backup Services ***
<http://lifehacker.com/five-best-online-backup-services-1006345049?utm_campaign=socialflow_lifehacker_facebook&utm_source=lifehacker_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow>
Alan Henry, Lifehacker


> If you're backing up your data but you're not saving it offsite, you're putting it at risk. If something happens to your home or electronics, all that data could be lost. That's why there are tons of affordable, easy-to-use online backup services that you can send your data to seamlessly for safe keeping.




*** Five Apps That Could Help Sharpen The Brain ***
<http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-brain-training-apps-20130802,0,4719759.story?track=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+latimes%2Ftechnology+%28L.A.+Times+-+Technology+News%29>
Jessica Naziri, Los Angeles Times



*** Mac App Notes: iStat Menus Lets You Keep An Eye On Your Mac ***
<http://www.mcelhearn.com/2013/08/04/mac-app-notes-istat-menus/>
Kirk McElhearn, Kirkville


> A glance at my menu bar tells me how fast a download is coming into my Mac, or whether my processors are maxing out.




*** How To Recover The Password Of Your AirPort Extreme, AirPort Express, Or Time Capsule Base Station ***
<http://www.iclarified.com/entry/index.php?enid=32519>
IClarified



*** How To Master iOS Security: 5 Simple Ways To Increase Data Protection And Privacy ***
<http://www.imore.com/how-master-ios-security-5-way-increase-data-protection-privacy>
Rene Ritchie, iMore


> Adding security does require more time and effort than going without, but nowhere nearly as much time and effort as it takes to recover after your stuff is spied, stolen, or otherwise violated.




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*** Science Deniers Just Don’t Think: All Hail The Scientific Method ***
<http://www.salon.com/2013/08/04/all_hail_the_scientific_method/>
David McRaney, Salon


> The twisting path to becoming less dumb has led to many stops and starts, yet humans persist. Sure, scientists are just people, prone to the same delusions as anyone else, but the enterprise, the process, slowly but surely grinds away human weakness. It is a self-correcting system that is always closer to the truth today than it was yesterday.




*** Meet The President! ***
<http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/features/2013/08/12/130812fi_fiction_smith>
Zadie Smith, New Yorker



*** Anatomy Of A Publisher ***
<http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2013/08/12/130812crbo_books_gottlieb>
Robert Gottlieb, New Yorker


> A new book—“Hothouse” (Simon & Schuster), by Boris Kachka—takes as a given that its subject, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, has been and remains a great publisher, and without any question that’s the case. FSG, as it’s generally called, has brought us more than half a century of distinguished books, rarely slipping below the level of distinction it hoped to achieve. How it did so is certainly worth both parsing and paying tribute to, but a degree of disillusionment with this project sets in when we get past the cute title to the even cuter and more hyperbolic subtitle: “The Art of Survival and the Survival of Art at America’s Most Celebrated Publishing House.” The tone is set: this vigorous and often diverting trot through the history of an important cultural institution is frequently slapdash and overwrought in its determination to show just how hot the house was—in fact, “hands down, the hottest house in New York.” I’ve been in the business close to sixty years, and there’s never been a single hottest house; neither FSG nor any other publisher has ever been perceived as one—except perhaps by the central character in Kachka’s account, Roger Straus, the crucial “S” of FSG and, to put it mildly, an accomplished blower of his own horn.




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