[MyAppleMenu] Jan 19, 2013

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**** A Month With Apple's Fusion Drive ****
<http://www.anandtech.com/show/6679/a-month-with-apples-fusion-drive>
Anand Lal Shimpi, AnandTech


> Apple’s Fusion Drive is probably the best hybrid SSD/HDD solution I’ve ever used, and it didn’t take rocket science to get here. All it took was combining a good SSD controller (Samsung’s PM830), with a large amount of NAND (128GB) and some very aggressive/intelligent software (Apple’s Core Storage LVM). Fusion Drive may not be fundamentally new, but it’s certainly the right way to do hybrid storage if you’re going to do it.



**** Lode Runner Classic Review ****
<http://www.maclife.com/article/reviews/lode_runner_classic_review?>
Mikel Reparaz, Mac Life


> Lode Runner Classic offers up a faithful, mostly unchanged port of the 30-year-old original — but while the game itself is still mostly fantastic, the iOS shell that's been built around it leaves something to be desired.



**** How To Check Your Magic Trackpad's Battery Life ****
<http://www.macinstruct.com/node/509>
MacInstruct



**** How To Use Photoshop Images In Final Cut Pro X ****
<http://www.macworld.com/article/2025166/how-to-use-photoshop-images-in-final-cut-pro-x.html>
Mark Spencer, Macworld



**** The Trend Against Skeuomorphic Textures And Effects In User Interface Design ****
<http://daringfireball.net/2013/01/the_trend_against_skeuomorphism>
John Gruber, Daring Fireball



**** Improve OS X Window Management With Moom ****
<http://www.zdnet.com/improve-os-x-window-management-with-moom-7000010023/>
Jason D. O'Grady, ZDNet


> It adds a new submenu to the familiar green button in OS X that does more than just zoom the window to its previous size (its current behavior). The Moom submenu allows you to easily move and zoom a window to the top, bottom, left or right of your screen. 



**** Future Store Location Proves: Apple Likes Universities ****
<http://www.ifoapplestore.com/2013/01/17/future-store-location-proves-apple-likes-universities/>
IfoApplestore.com


> One of the long-known criteria for evaluating future Apple retail store locations is a proximity to a institution of higher learning, and it doesn’t get any higher than Princeton University (NJ). Perhaps that’s why an Apple store will appear later this year inside the Quaker Bridge Mall, about five miles away from that university’s 5,000 students.

I hope Apple likes Singapore too. :-)





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**** Going All The Way ****
<http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/movies/2013/01/nagisa_oshima_s_in_the_realm_of_the_senses_sex_violence_and_beauty.html>
Dana Stevens, Slate


> <i>In the Realm of the Senses</i> isn’t about sex, it is sex: Sex is the medium it moves in and the language it speaks.



**** Awaiting A New Darwin ****
<http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2013/feb/07/awaiting-new-darwin/?pagination=false>
H. Allen Orr, The New York Review Of Books


> The history of science is partly the history of an idea that is by now so familiar that it no longer astounds: the universe, including our own existence, can be explained by the interactions of little bits of matter. We scientists are in the business of discovering the laws that characterize this matter. We do so, to some extent at least, by a kind of reduction. The stuff of biology, for instance, can be reduced to chemistry and the stuff of chemistry can be reduced to physics.

> Thomas Nagel has never been at ease with this view.



**** Librarians Of The Twitterverse ****
<http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2013/jan/16/librarians-twitterverse/>
James Gleick, The New York Review Of Books


> This is an ocean of ephemera. A library of Babel.



**** Reeling In The Years ****
<http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/20/books/review/the-river-swimmer-by-jim-harrison.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0&pagewanted=all>
Ron Carlson, New York Times


> Thad, the river swimmer, is 17 in every way; Clive, the art professor returning to the farm in “The Land of Unlikeness,” is 60. These two trenchant and visionary long stories are about the real human discomfort — and triumph — of being awake.