[MyAppleMenu] Mar 9, 2013

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**** Adobe Reader For iOS Update Brings Smart Zoom, Night Mode And More ****
<http://appadvice.com/appnn/2013/03/adobe-reader-for-ios-update-brings-smart-zoom-night-mode-and-more>
Aldrin Calimlim, AppAdvice



**** The Original Angry Birds And Angry Birds HD Are Now Free For The First Time In The App Store ****
<http://www.imore.com/original-angry-birds-and-angry-birds-hd-are-now-free-first-time-app-store>
Chris Oldroyd, IMore



**** Review: Despite Flaws, Voice Search Has Potential ****
<http://seattletimes.com/html/businesstechnology/2020518541_ptechvoicesearchxml.html>
Anick Jesdanun, The Associated Press


> If you don’t need perfection, both Siri and Google Now are decent assistants, especially considering that typing on small touch-screen keyboards can be frustrating.



**** Restrict Printer Usage In OS X ****
<http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-57573352-263/restrict-printer-usage-in-os-x/>
Topher Kessler, CNET


> With the OS X printer configuration, you can impose limits on which accounts are allowed to print to specific printers on your system.



**** Apple Finally Fixes App Store Flaw By Turning On Encryption ****
<http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-57573334-37/apple-finally-fixes-app-store-flaw-by-turning-on-encryption/>
Declan McCullagh, CNET


> Apple has finally fixed a security flaw in its application store that for years has allowed attackers to steal passwords and install unwanted or extremely expensive applications.

> The flaw arose because Apple neglected to use encryption when an iPhone or other mobile device tries to connect to the App Store, meaning an attacker can hijack the connection. In addition to a security flaw, the unencrypted connections also created a privacy vulnerability because the complete list of applications installed on the device are disclosed over Wi-Fi.



**** How To Monitor Your Mac’s Connections With Little Snitch ****
<http://mac.tutsplus.com/tutorials/security/how-to-monitor-your-macs-connections-with-little-snitch/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+mactuts+%28Mactuts%2B%29>
Ian Spence, Mactuts+






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**** It’s For Your Own Good! ****
<http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2013/mar/07/its-your-own-good/>
Cass R. Sunstein, The New York Review Of Books


> If the goal is to ensure that people’s lives go well, Mill contends that the best solution is for public officials to allow people to find their own path. Here, then, is an enduring argument, instrumental in character, on behalf of free markets and free choice in countless situations, including those in which human beings choose to run risks that may not turn out so well.



**** The Art Of Losing ****
<http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2013/03/07/the-art-of-losing/>
David McConnell, The Paris Review


> Writers often hate talking about the book they’ve just written. On the one hand, books are an exercise in preservation, an old-fashioned sort of external hard drive. But for the author personally, a book can also be an elaborate act of forgetting. 



**** Nasty Bits: 'The Dinner,' By Herman Koch ****
<http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/10/books/review/the-dinner-by-herman-koch.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0>
Claire Messud, New York Times


> North American readers care inordinately that fictional characters be likable. This preference is strange, given that few real people are thoroughly nice and that those few aren’t interesting. Surely what actually matters is that characters clear this vital hurdle: that they be interesting.



**** Love Knots: 'The Blue Book,' By A. L. Kennedy ****
<http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/10/books/review/the-blue-book-by-a-l-kennedy.html?partner=rss&emc=rss>
Wendy Lesser, New York Times


> Her latest novel, “The Blue Book,” presents us with multiple complicated lives that in the end are woven together into a single coherent tapestry.



**** ‘A History Of Future Cities’ By Daniel Brook ****
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/a-history-of-future-cities-by-daniel-brook/2013/03/08/506b0d24-7f6e-11e2-8074-b26a871b165a_story.html?wprss=rss_books>
Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post


> This uncommonly interesting and intelligent book considers how two powerful human urges — to imitate the things we admire and/or envy, and to be in the vanguard of modernization — have played out in the histories of four of the world’s oddest and most prominent cities: St. Petersburg, Shanghai, Mumbai and Dubai. “A History of Future Cities” is not a linear account of how these cities developed but is divided into four stages in which they sought to become more modern and, specifically, more Western.