[MyAppleMenu] Jan 23, 2013

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**** Tonido Is Your Personal Cloud, Providing Live Streaming Access To All Your Data And Media, everywhere ****
<http://venturebeat.com/2013/01/22/tonido-is-your-personal-cloud-providing-live-streaming-access-to-all-your-data-and-media-everywhere/>
John Koetsier, VentureBeat



**** Steve Jobs Threatened Patent Suit To Enforce No-hire Policy: Filing ****
<http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/01/23/us-apple-google-lawsuit-idUSBRE90M04Y20130123>
Dan Levine, Reuters



**** Siri Rising: The Inside Story Of Siri's Origins -- And Why She Could Overshadow The iPhone ****
<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/22/siri-do-engine-apple-iphone_n_2499165.html>
Bianca Bosker, The Huffington Post



**** 'Temple Run 2' Review - That Old Familiar Feeling ****
<http://toucharcade.com/2013/01/22/temple-run-2-review/>
Jared Nelson, Touch Arcade


> There are plenty of more complex runners out there, and the beauty of the App Store is that you're free to play any and all of them to suit your tastes. But <i>Temple Run 2</i>'s simplicity and intangible "something" is what made its predecessor a game that I always went back to even in the face of a smorgasbord of alternatives, and it's what will keep this on my device easily within thumb's reach for a long time to come.



**** EazyDraw: A Hidden OS X Gem Of An App ****
<http://www.tuaw.com/2013/01/22/eazydraw-a-hidden-os-x-gem-of-an-app/>
Erica Sadun, TUAW


> You can think of EazyDraw as MacDraw on steroids. It offers a wide range of vector drawing tools, it supports layers, offers calibrated colors, supports SVG and PDF and more. For an interface that at first glance appears quite simple, it hides an enormous feature set.



**** How To: Combine PDFs With Preview, Automator ****
<http://fairerplatform.com/2013/01/how-to-combine-multiple-pdfs-with-preview-automator/>
FairerPlatform



**** Caffeinate Mountain Lion To Prevent It From Sleeping ****
<http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-57565272-263/caffeinate-mountain-lion-to-prevent-it-from-sleeping/?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=MacFixIt>
Topher Kessler, CNET


> Caffeinating the system basically means to manually create a power assertion in the system, which can be done globally or targeted to a specific application so the system will not sleep while that application is running.

> While there are third-party utilities like Caffeine, or Sleep No More, Apple has a couple of ways you can do this directly in OS X, so these tools are not always needed.



**** The Slow But Almost Certain Demise Of Apple’s OS X Dashboard ****
<http://techland.time.com/2013/01/22/the-slow-but-almost-certain-demise-of-apples-os-x-dashboard/>
Matt Peckham, Time



**** New Worry For Apple ****
<http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323485704578257393880660184.html>
Anton Troianovski, Thomas Gryta and Ian Sherr, Wall Street Journal


> Demand for its phones appears to be running high in the U.S. But much of that demand appears to be coming from price-conscious segments of the market buying cheaper—and likely less profitable—Apple phones.

Isn't this good news for Apple, that they are now even attracting price-conscious consumers who before will simply just buy any phone that is cheap?
It will be bad news for Apple when the non-price-conscious consumers are <i>not</i> buying iPhones.


**** 500Px Photo Apps Pulled From iOS App Store Over Nude Photos (Updated: Apple Responds) ****
<http://www.theverge.com/2013/1/22/3904356/500px-iso500-photo-apps-pulled-from-itunes-allegedly-over-nudes>
Adi Robertson, The Verge


> Apple has responded with the following comment, which confirms that the app was removed for "pornographic" images and, in a new claim, "possible child pornography."






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**** Outlining In Reverse ****
<http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/21/outlining-in-reverse/?smid=tw-share>
Aaron Hamburger, New York Times


> Over the course of my 17-year writing career, I began to give up on outlining — that is, <i>before</i> I write. I’ve come to prefer a more organic approach to creation, first laying out my raw material on the page, then searching for possible patterns that might emerge. But now, <i>after</i> I’ve completed a first draft, I compose an outline. I’ve found that this is the surest way to make sense of the work. I originally thought I was a genius for having invented reverse outlining, but I’ve since learned that many writers do this in some form or another.



**** In The Dairy Case, Ripe Prose ****
<http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/23/dining/creative-cheesemongers-pen-clever-descriptions.html?pagewanted=all&_r=1&>
Jeff Gordinier, New York Times


> Although not universally acknowledged as members of New York’s creative class, the people who sell cheese arguably deserve a place of recognition alongside the poets and the playwrights, the folk singers and the indie screenwriters.

> In case you haven’t noticed, some of the most amusing and captivating writing in the city is being produced in the service of cheese.



**** How He Met My Mother ****
<http://jsnell.intertext.com/post/41236447881/how-he-met-my-mother>
Jason Snell, Snell-o-Vision


> In that moment, my understanding of my relationship with my older half-siblings changed completely. Before, with barely any inkling of the complexities of adult relationships, I just knew they had a different mother, and that it was awkward when they came to visit my dad and his new family.

> What I hadn’t understood was that my mother was the Other Woman, and that my father met her nearly a year before my half-brother was born.



**** Inaugural Poems You May Have Missed ****
<http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2013/01/22/richard_blanco_one_today_and_other_inaugural_poems_from_yahoo_news_reviewed.html>
Katy Waldman, Slate


> But “One Today” is not the only lyric giving the lie this week to our suspicion that inaugural poems are too tricky to pull off.



**** Suicide Watch ****
<http://www.the-tls.co.uk/tls/public/article1195457.ece>
Freya Johnston, The Times Literary Supplement


> As Kelly McGuire points out in Dying To Be English: Suicide narratives and national identity, 1721–1814, the word has a vexed history. Deploying a pronoun as a prefix in order to describe both an action and a person (a person who is at once victim and perpetrator), it is something of a botched job. 



**** Don’t Replace Religion; End It ****
<http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2013/01/22/is-atheism-a-religion/atheism-should-end-religion-not-replace-it>
Penn Jillette, New York Times


> Religion cannot and should not be replaced by atheism. Religion needs to go away and not be replaced by anything. Atheism is not a religion. It’s the absence of religion, and that’s a wonderful thing.



**** Love And Lectures, Living On From The Grave ****
<http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/23/books/artful-by-ali-smith-a-novel-with-a-ghost.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0>
Dwight Garner, New York Times


> In Anthony Minghella’s 1990 film, “Truly Madly Deeply,” one of the great weepies in cinematic history, a bereaved woman (Juliet Stevenson) is visited by the ghost of her dead, cello-playing boyfriend (Alan Rickman). It doesn’t go well. He brings friends over. She asks: “Are you telling me there are dead people in my living room watching videos?”

> The Scottish novelist Ali Smith’s slim new book, “Artful,” is equal parts ghost story and academic treatise: it reads like a clumsy but seductive blend of “Truly Madly Deeply” and Vladimir Nabokov’s “Lectures on Literature.”