[MyAppleMenu] Feb 2, 2013

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**** Java Updated Again, Snow Leopard Users Cannot Run Browser Applets ****
<http://www.tuaw.com/2013/02/01/java-updated-again-snow-leopard-users-cannot-run-browser-applet/>
Michael Rose, TUAW



**** Expo Notes: Gigsky App Offers International Data Without Expensive Roaming Charges ****
<http://www.macworld.com/article/2026874/expo-notes-gigsky-app-offers-international-data-without-expensive-roaming-charges.html>
Joel Mathis, Macworld


> But the heart of the Gigsky system is a forthcoming iOS app—due in the App Store “any day now”—that lets Gigsky customers compare available data plans on the road and purchase the one the makes the most sense. Users can even pre-shop and purchase data plans before leaving the country, if they want.



**** Expo Notes: BigDay Keeps Track Of Birthdays, Gift Ideas ****
<http://www.macworld.com/article/2026824/expo-notes-bigday-keeps-track-of-birthdays-gift-ideas.html>
Lex Friedman, Macworld



**** Mac Gems: Inky Offers A Fresh, Human Take On Email ****
<http://www.macworld.com/article/2026667/mac-gems-inky-offers-a-fresh-human-take-on-email.html>
Nathan Alderman, Macworld


> Inky has no calendar, to-do lists, or other auxiliary features, which likely makes it less than ideal for business use. But its sharp design, smart features, and overall plucky cheerfulness won me over. Mac email users should definitely give this fun, full-featured, and free program a try.






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**** On The Road Again ****
<http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2013/01/15/on-the-road-again/>
Robert Moor, The Paris Review


> Transcontinental travel, of course, was nothing new. What amazed Kerouac was the speed and the scope—two qualities he would stylistically twin in his novel, to famous effect—that the highway system allowed. He was not alone.



**** How Fiction Doesn’t Work ****
<http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/books/2013/02/david_shields_how_literature_saved_my_life_reviewed.html>
Lowen Liu, Slate


> It is no surprise to see aphorism alive and thriving in our current celebrity climate. The forgotten, it may be assumed, never said anything interesting, whereas choice words of the famous live forever at cocktail parties and in book reviews. To carry a portfolio of pithy quotations is to suggest you have a direct line to the minds of geniuses who came before. And it may even imply, whether or not you fulfill the promise, that you hold vast reserves of brilliance yourself.



**** Shame Serves As A Muse ****
<http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/03/fashion/the-novelist-ann-leary-writes-about-secrets.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0&pagewanted=all>
Judith Newman, New York Times


> The novel tells the story of Hildy Good, a flinty 60-ish real estate agent in a gentrifying New England coastal town where she has lived forever. Hildy believes she can tell as much about a person from one walk through their home as a therapist can from traipsing through their mind. “That’s why we all clean up before visitors come,” Ms. Leary says “We don’t want strangers to know too much about us.”



**** Masters Of Subservience ****
<http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/03/books/review/bureaucracy-lit-in-china.html?partner=rss&emc=rss>
Louisa Lim, New York Times


> In China, “bureaucracy lit” is a hot genre, far outselling spy stories and whodunits as the airport novel of choice. In these tales of overweening ambition, the plot devices that set readers’ pulses racing are underhanded power plays, hidden alliances and devious sexual favors.