[MyAppleMenu] Mar 7, 2013

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**** Apps: The New Corporate Cost-Cutting Tool ****
<http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB10001424127887324678604578342690461080894-lMyQjAxMTAzMDAwNjEwNDYyWj.html>
Anton Troianovski, Wall Street Journal


> Apps may be creating new jobs for developers and marketers. But around the edges of the rest of the economy, they're also starting to become a substitute for people who earn a paycheck.

> Businesses often say their main goal in developing smartphone applications is to make things easier for customers and to build brand loyalty. Yet they're finding it doesn't take much effort to turn the smartphones carried by most Americans into payment terminals or data-entry forms.



**** Understanding iOS Passcode Security ****
<http://www.macworld.com/article/2029998/understanding-ios-passcode-security.html#tk.rss_all>
Marco Tabini, Macworld


> Apple, aware that its mobile device would likely be taken to (and lost in) all sorts of public places, baked security right into its hardware, creating a subtle interplay of technologies in which passcodes play a small but crucial role.



**** How To Stop OS X From Sleeping While Certain Apps Are Running ****
<http://www.macgasm.net/2013/03/06/how-stop-from-sleeping-while-certain-apps-are-running-wimoweh-osx/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+macgasm%2Fmain+%28Macgasm%29>
Joshua Schnell, Macgasm



**** Facebook Updates Messenger App With New Group Chat Features ****
<http://www.macgasm.net/2013/03/06/facebook-updates-messenger-app-with-new-group-chat/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+macgasm%2Fmain+%28Macgasm%29>
Andrew Kunesh, Macgasm



**** Path Adds Messaging, Stickers For Messaging, And A Shop To, Um, Buy Stickers For Messaging ****
<http://www.imore.com/path-updates-reminds-me-why-i-dont-use-it>
Rene Ritchie, IMore



**** Things For iPhone, iPad, And Mac Review ****
<http://www.imore.com/things-iphone-ipad-and-mac-review>
Leanna Lofte, IMore


> If you're looking for a to-do list app, Things is not for you. But if you're in need of powerhouse task management system that supports detailed projects, tags, categories, and more, Things may be exactly what you need.



**** Can The iPad Rescue A Struggling American Education System? ****
<http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2013/03/tablets-revolutionizing-education/all/1?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wired%2Findex+%28Wired%3A+Top+Stories%29>
Christina Bonnington, Wired


> Tablets are reinventing how students access and interact with educational material, and how teachers assess and monitor students’ performance at a time when many schools are understaffed and many classrooms overcrowded. Millions of grade school and university students worldwide are using iPads to visualize difficult concepts, revisit lectures on their own time and augment lessons with videos, interactive widgets and animations.



**** How Much, Or How Little, I Use Interface Builder These Days ****
<http://inessential.com/2013/03/06/how_much_or_how_little_i_use_interface>
Brent Simmons, Inesential.com


> Want to fix a color or change the position of a view? I like doing it the way I solve every other problem: I code it.



**** How To Use Multiple Apple ID's With One Computer And iTunes ****
<http://www.imore.com/how-use-multiple-apple-ids-one-computer-and-itunes?utm_source=loopinsight.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+loopinsight%2FKqJb+%28The+Loop%29>
Allyson Kazmucha, IMore


> It'll take a little bit of effort to set up but once you're done, none of your apps, music, tv shows, and movies will be intertwined nor require you to authorize all accounts in the same iTunes library. Here's how.






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**** Please Do Not <i>Chillax</i> ****
<http://www.slate.com/articles/life/the_good_word/2013/03/chillax_wikipedia_and_bridezilla_are_not_puns_against_adjoinages.html>
Simon Akam, Slate


> Adjoinages and the death of the American pun.



**** Seeing At The Speed Of Sound ****
<http://alumni.stanford.edu/get/page/magazine/article/?article_id=59977&src=longreads>
Rachel Kolb, Stanford Magazine


> Lipreading, which makes one sense do the work of another, is a skill daunting to describe.