[MyAppleMenu] Jan 3, 2013

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**** A Possible Explanation For The iOS New Year's Do Not Disturb Bug ****
<http://www.tuaw.com/2013/01/03/a-possible-explanation-for-the-ios-new-years-do-not-disturb-bug/>
Richard Gaywood, TUAW


> Now, to programmers who've done a lot of work with date and time handling (like me; I write airline flight systems for a living, which require a lot of heavy timezone math) "it's broken during something like the first week of the year" immediately suggests a moderately obscure problem related to the ISO week date. This is a slightly weird definition of the year that you get from many date manipulation libraries by specifying that you want the year as "YYYY", as opposed to the more common "yyyy".



**** Apple Killed The Netbook ****
<http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2013/01/what_happened_to_netbooks_apple_s_ipad_and_macbook_air_killed_the_400_former.single.html>
Farhad Manjoo, Slate


> Apple alone stood against the tide of netbooks. Apple’s brilliant insight was that despite netbooks’ popularity, nobody really wanted a netbook per se. Instead, Apple realized that people who were buying netbooks were looking for one of two things—they wanted full-fledged laptops that were very portable, or they wanted cheap machines that allowed them to easily surf the Web, use email and do other light computing tasks. Rather than building a single netbook that fit both these audiences poorly, Apple built two machines that were, each in its own way, much better than any netbook ever sold.



**** Life After The iPhone: How AT&T's Bet On Apple Mobilized The Company ****
<http://www.forbes.com/sites/connieguglielmo/2013/01/02/life-after-the-iphone-how-atts-bet-on-apple-mobilized-the-company/>
Connie Guglielmo, Forbes



**** Delish: Pinboard App For Mac ****
<http://www.macdrifter.com/2013/01/delish-pinboard-app-for-mac.html>
Macdrifter



**** Behind Enemy Lines: 3 Months As An iOS Developer At Google ****
<http://www.splinter.com.au/2012/12/26/behind-enemy-lines-google/>
Chris Hulbert, Splinter Software


> Anyway, yes, there is a bit of anti-iOS sentiment there, you’ll be constantly teased about Obj-C’s strange syntax and other Apple quirks (maps?) no end… But on the other hand, there’s more iOS developers at Google than you’d think, and if you wanted to I think you could make a reasonable career out of it.

Will Google overtake Microsoft as one of the largest third-party Apple developers?


**** Are Designers Crazy? ****
<http://shkspr.mobi/blog/2013/01/are-designers-crazy/>
Terence Eden Has A Blog


> ...or do I just need new glasses?



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<http://www.myapplemenu.com/2013/01/03/article01/>


"Demonstrate that the software works correctly when a new year rolls in" must now be one of the standard must-answer questions in Apple's QA testing.


**** Review: Paperless Is A Solid Paper-organizer ****
<http://www.macworld.com/article/2023055/review-paperless-is-a-solid-paper-organizer.html>
Stuart Gripman, Macworld



**** 100 Words Per Day ****
<http://www.jaynathan.org/2013/01/100-words-per-day/>
Jay Nathan


> Like the Apple TV remote, it takes time and effort to simplify communications to the core message.



**** My Troubled Relationship With Objective-C And iOS Development ****
<http://blog.mariosangiorgio.com/2013/01/02/my-troubled-relationship-with-objective-c-and-ios-development/>
Mario's Coding Blog



**** MacTech Announces BootCamp II Seminar Schedule ****
<http://www.zdnet.com/mactech-announces-bootcamp-ii-seminar-schedule-7000009308/>
David Morgenstern, ZDNet


> The single-day events are aimed at improving the skills of consultants supporting Macs in SOHO and SMB environments. The company said that the curriculum has been revamped to accommodate newbies and returning attendees.



**** Mac Gems: Beamer Streams Video From Older Macs To Apple TV ****
<http://www.macworld.com/article/2023617/mac-gems-beamer-streams-video-from-older-macs-to-apple-tv.html>
Dan Frakes, Macworld



**** Apple's Fix For Do Not Disturb 2013 Woes: Wait Until Jan 7 ****
<http://www.macworld.com/article/2023620/apples-fix-for-do-not-disturb-2013-woes-wait-until-jan-7.html>
Lex Friedman, Macworld


> Apple says that the fix is to wait until January 7, 2013—or manually turn Do Not Disturb on and off. To do so, visit the Settings app, find Do Not Disturb, and tap to switch the slider.

Do Not Disturb is activated when you see a little crescent moon up on the middle of the status bar at the top of your iPhone's screen.


**** No App For That: Apple's False Ad Suit Over Amazon Appstore Thrown Out ****
<http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/01/no-app-for-that-apples-false-ad-suit-over-amazon-appstore-thrown-out/>
Joe Mullin, Ars Technica



**** One Of My Favorite Apps: LaunchBar ****
<http://shapeof.com/archives/2013/1/one_of_my_favorite_apps:_launchbar.html>
Gus Mueller, The Shape Of Everything






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**** Do You Think Like Sherlock Holmes? ****
<http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2013/01/how_to_think_like_sherlock_holmes_see_and_observe_to_fight_attention_blindness.single.html>
Maria Konnikova, Slate


> I do not think like Sherlock Holmes. Not in the least. That was the rather disheartening conclusion I reached while researching a book on the detective’s mental prowess. I’d hoped to discover that I had the secret to Sherlockian thought. What I found instead was that it would be hard work indeed to even begin to approximate the essence of the detective’s approach to the world: his ever-mindful mindset and his relentless mental energy. Holmes was a man eternally on, who relished that on-ness and floundered in its absence. It would be exhausting to think like Sherlock. And would it really be worth it in the end?