[MyAppleMenu] Feb 12, 2013

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**** How To Make Corrections To Siri Questions Or Commands ****
<http://appadvice.com/appnn/2013/02/make-corrections-to-siri-questions-or-commands>
Dom Esposito, AppAdvice



**** New iOS App Winston Is Your Siri Personal Assitant For News ****
<http://www.tuaw.com/2013/02/12/new-ios-app-winston-is-your-siri-personal-assitant-for-news/>
Kelly Hodgkins, TUAW



**** Public Radio Player 3.0 Brings Remarkably Refreshed Interface And More ****
<http://appadvice.com/appnn/2013/02/public-radio-player>
Aldrin Calimlim, AppAdvice


> Along with the new interface, Public Radio Player 3.0 introduces episode downloading for offline listening and viewing of station Twitter feeds and breaking news headlines.



**** How To Key A Shot With Final Cut Pro X ****
<http://www.macworld.com/article/2025968/how-to-key-a-shot-with-final-cut-pro-x.html>
Mark Spencer, Macworld



**** Files As UI Vs API ****
<http://informalprotocol.com//2013/02/files-as-ui-vs-api/>
Informal Protocol


> So while there is an argument to be made that Dropbox’s UI is a relic, its value as a syncing engine is still huge, precisely because it’s built around the paradigm of files, a paradigm we have decades of experience working with.



**** Sonora, The Great OS X Music Player, Now Available For Free With New Features ****
<http://lifehacker.com/5983406/sonora-the-great-os-x-music-player-now-available-for-free-with-new-features>
Adam Dachis, Lifehacker



**** Yours Vs. Mine ****
<http://dcurt.is/yours-vs-mine>
Dustin Curtis


> The answer for me, then, is that you’re having a conversation with the interface. It’s “Your stuff.”



**** Taskboard Adds An iOS-Like App Switcher Tray To Mac OS X ****
<http://www.addictivetips.com/mac-os/taskboard-adds-an-ios-like-app-switcher-tray-to-mac-os-x/>
Fatima Wahab, AddictiveTips



**** Use Your Phone To Automatically Lock Your Mac When You Walk Away ****
<http://mac.tutsplus.com/tutorials/security/use-your-phone-to-automatically-lock-your-mac-when-you-walk-away/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+mactuts+%28Mactuts%2B%29>
Paula DuPont, Mactuts+


> Keycard is a nifty application new to the Mac App Store that locks your Mac when you get up and walk away with your iPhone or other Bluetooth device.



**** Mac 101: Use Automator To Extract Text From PDFs ****
<http://www.tuaw.com/2013/02/11/mac-101-use-automater-to-extract-text-from-pdfs/>
Matt Tinsley, TUAW



**** iOS 6.1.1 Update Targeted At iPhone 4S Improvement ****
<http://www.macworld.com/article/2027828/ios-6-1-1-update-targeted-at-iphone-4s-improvement.html>
Joel Mathis, Macworld


> iOS 6.1.1 has one purpose: To fix “an issue that could impact cellular performance and reliability for iPhone 4S.” Apple made no other details available.






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**** Before Greed ****
<http://bostonreview.net/BR38.1/richard_white_gilded_age_wealth_inequality.php>
Richard White, Boston Review


> Not only was great wealth an aberration in Lincoln’s time, but even the idea that the accumulation of great riches was the point of a working life seemed foreign. Whereas today the most well-off frequently argue that riches are the reward of hard work, in the Civil War era, the reward was a “competency,” what the late historian Alan Dawley described as the ability to support a family and have enough in reserve to sustain it through hard times at an accustomed level of prosperity.



**** <i>DuckTales</i> Invented A New Animated Wonderland—that Quickly Disappeared ****
<http://www.avclub.com/articles/ducktales-invented-new-animated-wonderlandthat-qu,92324/>
Todd VanDerWfrff, The A.V. Club


> Rather than trying to be as kid-friendly as possible, the series made its protagonist an irascible old man. Rather than celebrating the sorts of family-friendly virtues Disney was associated with, the series was about the awesomeness of unchecked avarice and greed.



**** The Fresh Wars ****
<http://www.slate.com/articles/business/food/2013/02/the_fresh_wars_in_fast_food_how_the_five_letter_word_came_to_dominate_ads.single.html>
S.T. VanAirsdale, Slate


> The Fresh Wars have advertisers, marketers, and chefs embroiled in a battle for the title of freshest American fast food—and for the business of an increasingly sophisticated and conscientious populace of eaters.



**** Glories Of Classicism ****
<http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2013/feb/21/glories-classicism/?pagination=false>
Stephen Greenblatt and Joseph Leo Koerner, The New York Review Of Books


> With this ambition comes a set of difficult problems that may be summed up in three words: “The,” “Classical,” and “Tradition.”