[MyAppleMenu] Feb 4, 2013

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**** Facebook Adds Voice And Video To iOS App ****
<http://www.macworld.com/article/2027003/facebook-adds-voice-and-video-to-ios-app.html>
Joel Mathis, Macworld



**** Stop Squinting: Make Text Bigger In OS X ****
<http://www.macworld.com/article/2026699/stop-squinting-make-text-bigger-in-os-x.html>
Kirk McElhearn, Macworld


> Whether your eyes are aging, your young eyes need glasses, or someone that you provide computer support for could use a boost in seeing the screen, no one should have to squint when surfing the Web, reading email, or writing documents. A few key techniques can increase the font size in applications where easy-to-see text makes the biggest difference.



**** AppleScripting Notification Center > Scheduling Do Not Disturb ****
<http://www.tuaw.com/2013/02/04/applescripting-notification-center-scheduling-do-not-disturb/>
Ben Waldie, TUAW


> Unlike iOS 6, though, Mountain Lion doesn't give you an option for enabling/disabling notifications on a schedule. At least, it doesn't provide a built-in option for this. With a little customized help from AppleScript, Automator, and the Calendar app, it is possible.



**** No, I'm Not Going To Download Your Bullshit App ****
<http://tommorris.org/posts/8070>
Tom Morris


> I wouldn’t download a BBC app or an NPR app for my computer. Why would I want one on my phone?



**** Apple's AppStore.com Makes Stealth Super Bowl Debut ****
<http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-57567366-37/apples-appstore.com-makes-stealth-super-bowl-debut/>
Josh Lowensohn, CNET


> At the end of the commercial for the upcoming "Star Trek: Into Darkness" film, Paramount flashed a quick promotion for its iOS app, complete with an AppStore.com link that takes people right to it. In function it's identical to what Apple already uses through its iTunes links, but this one's designed so that people can quickly type it into a mobile device or remember it for later.



**** 'This Resource Fork' ****
<http://rixstep.com/2/2/20130203,00.shtml>
Rixstep



**** Typing These Eight Characters Will Crash Almost Any Application On Your Mac ****
<http://thenextweb.com/shareables/2013/02/02/typing-these-eight-characters-will-crash-almost-any-application-on-your-mac/>
Emil Protalinski, The Next Web


> A closer look shows the bug is inside Data Detectors, a feature that lets apps recognize dates, locations, and contact data, making it easy for you to save this information in your address book and calendar.



**** iPad Pro: The Missing Workflow ****
<http://www.mondaynote.com/2013/02/03/ipad-pro-the-missing-workflow/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+monday-note+%28Monday+Note%29>
Jean-Louis Gassée, Monday Note


> The more complex the task, the more our beloved 30-year-old personal computer is up to it. But there is now room above the enforced simplicity that made the iPad’s success for UI changes allowing a modicum of real-world “Pro” workflow on iPads.






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**** The Embassy Of Cambodia ****
<http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/features/2013/02/11/130211fi_fiction_smith>
Zadie Smith, New Yorker



**** Moon Man ****
<http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2013/02/11/130211crat_atlarge_gopnik?currentPage=all>
Adam Gopnik, New Yorker


> Although Galileo and Shakespeare were both born in 1564, just coming up on a shared four-hundred-and-fiftieth birthday, Shakespeare never wrote a play about his contemporary. (Wise man that he was, Shakespeare never wrote a play about anyone who was alive to protest.) The founder of modern science had to wait three hundred years, but when he got his play it was a good one: Bertolt Brecht’s “Galileo,” which is the most Shakespearean of modern history plays, the most vivid and densely ambivalent.



**** Speak, Memory ****
<http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2013/feb/21/speak-memory/?pagination=false>
Oliver Sacks, The New York Review Of Books


> I accepted that I must have forgotten or lost a great deal, but assumed that the memories I did have—especially those that were very vivid, concrete, and circumstantial—were essentially valid and reliable; and it was a shock to me when I found that some of them were not.



**** More Literary Remixes From A Mash-Up Artist ****
<http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/04/books/how-literature-saved-my-life-by-david-shields.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0>
John WIlliams, New York Times


> The most generous reaction to David Shields’s recent books would be to assume they are straight-faced parodies in the vein of those performed by Joaquin Phoenix or Andy Kaufman, sly commentaries on the culture’s already rampant solipsism. But all signs are that he’s serious.