[MyAppleMenu] Jan 5, 2013

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**** iPad, Surface, Ultrabook: Are We There Yet? ****
<http://www.hanselman.com/blog/iPadSurfaceUltrabookAreWeThereYet.aspx>
Scott Hanselman's Computer Zen



**** Apple's Fusion Drive Now Available On New Entry-level 21.5" iMac Orders ****
<http://appleinsider.com/articles/13/01/05/apples-fusion-drive-now-available-to-configure-on-entry-level-215-imac>
AppleInsider


> Apple is now offering the Fusion Drive as a build-to-order option when ordering the most affordable 2.7GHz 21.5-inch iMac model, a change in availability from October when the system was limited to high-end versions and the 27-inch iMac.



**** Indistinguishable From Magic ****
<http://www.macworld.com/article/2023755/indistinguishable-from-magic.html>
Jason Snell, Macworld


> I can’t be the only person who thinks about this stuff. (I mean, Marty McFly’s Walkman!) So I mentioned it on Twitter and suddenly found myself in a discussion about what Apple device you’d want to take back in time from today to blow away those sci-fi writers in 1956. 



**** Inquiry Into Tech Giants’ Tax Strategies Nears End ****
<http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/04/business/an-inquiry-into-tech-giants-tax-strategies-nears-an-end.html?_r=2&>
Charles Duhigg and David Kocieniewski, New York Times


> Apple, in a statement on Thursday, said the company was “one of the top corporate income taxpayers in the country, if not the largest.” The statement said the company “conducted all of its business with the highest of ethical standards, complying with applicable laws and accounting rules.”



**** iBook Lessons: Childrens Picture Books ****
<http://www.tuaw.com/2013/01/04/ibook-lessons-childrens-picture-books/>
Erica Sadun, TUAW



**** BBC Launches Clever Play-along Companion iOS App ****
<http://www.tuaw.com/2013/01/04/bbc-launches-first-play-along-companion-ios-app-is-really-cleve/>
Michael Grothaus, TUAW



**** How To Create Retina-Caliber Favicons ****
<http://daringfireball.net/2013/01/retina_favicons>
John Gruber, Daring Fireball



**** Mac Gems: ForgetMeNot Keeps You From Forgetting Email Attachments ****
<http://www.macworld.com/article/2023733/mac-gems-forgetmenot-keeps-you-from-forgetting-email-attachments.html>
Dan Frakes, Macworld


> Whenever you attempt to send a message using Mail, the plug-in first scans the text of that email for specific words indicating that you meant to include an attachment. If ForgetMeNot detects one of those words and the message indeed includes an attachment, the message goes through; if the message is missing attachments, you see an alert. You can then choose to cancel sending, add the attachment, or send sans attachment.



**** If You See A UI Walkthrough, They Blew It ****
<http://www.marco.org/2013/01/04/ui-walkthroughs-blow-it>
Marco Arment


> So the answer, as always, is “It depends.”






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**** Single Women And The Sitcom ****
<http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2013/jan/03/sitcoms-single-women/>
Elaine Blair, The New York Review Of Books


> All this gives most sitcoms a certain sense of indeterminacy—we’re bound for no obvious destination—that also applies to the characters’ relationships. As long as each episode has its own tidy, reassuring little ending, audiences tolerate a great deal of open-endedness when it comes to the hero or heroine’s romantic life. And what those tidy little endings are reassuring us about, much of the time, is the fact that the characters are not alone even when they remain romantically unattached and hapless; they have friends, family, colleagues—stability, in other words, even without being married. Sitcoms offer a salve for the bruises of urban single life.



**** A Long Goodbye ****
<http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/06/books/review/the-end-of-your-life-book-club-by-will-schwalbe.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0>
Christiopher R. Beha, New York Times


> Mary Anne, a lifelong reader, and Will, then the editor in chief of a major publishing house, began trading books to discuss when Will accompanied his mother to her chemotherapy sessions. As its title suggests, these discussions are the ostensible subject of Will Schwalbe’s memoir, “The End of Your Life Book Club.” But just as the books themselves served as excuses for Mary Anne and Will to talk of difficult things — particularly mortality — the book club serves here as an excuse for a loving celebration of a mother by a son.



**** How To Create The Perfect Wife By Wendy Moore – Review ****
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2013/jan/04/how-create-perfect-wife-review?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+theguardian%2Fbooks%2Frss+%28Books%29>
Andrea Wulf, The Guardian


> In June 1769, 21-year-old Thomas Day and his friend John Bicknell went to the Orphan Hospital in Shrewsbury to select a prepubescent girl for Day. This was not a gesture of charity to remove the girl from her destitute situation but an experiment in which Day was trying to create his "perfect wife".