[MyAppleMenu] May 4, 2013

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**** Review: Belkin's Thunderbolt Express Dock Lets You Get Plugged In Easily ****
<http://www.macworld.com/article/2037026/review-belkins-thunderbolt-express-dock-lets-you-get-plugged-in-easily.html>
James Galbraith, Macworld


> At its list price of $300, the Thunderbolt Express Dock isn’t cheap, but you do get lots of ports. The second of the two Thunderbolt ports gives you the ability to add up to five more Thunderbolt devices to the dock by daisy-chaining them together. This Belkin dock also has three USB 3.0 ports, one FireWire 800 port, a gigabit ethernet port, and audio-in and -out ports.



**** Translucent: Yet Another Way To Monitor Your Mac’s System Stats In Real Time ****
<http://mcsolo.com/2013/05/translucent-yet-another-way-to-monitor-your-macs-system-Stats-in-real-time/>
Ron Mcelfresh, McSolo



**** First Apple Store In Berlin, Germany Opens To Enormous Crowds ****
<http://www.imore.com/first-apple-store-berlin-germany-opens-enormous-crowds>
Richard Devine, iMore



**** Why I Use FoxTube ****
<http://www.macstories.net/reviews/seriously-foxtube/>
Federico Viticci, MacStories


> FoxTube, however, is a great complement to the YouTube app that I recommend if you’re looking for more flexibility and customization in certain aspects of the YouTube experience.



**** T-Mobile US Launches TV Streaming App For iPhone ****
<http://www.imore.com/t-mobile-us-launches-tv-streaming-app-iphone>
Joseph Keller, iMore



**** Verizon’s My FiOS App Updated To Bring TV Listings, Remote Control And More ****
<http://appadvice.com/appnn/2013/05/verizons-my-fios-app-updated-to-bring-tv-listings-remote-control-and-more>
Brent Dirks, AppAdvice



**** What’s A Known Source Of Malware Doing In An iOS App? Ars Investigates ****
<http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/05/whats-a-known-source-of-malware-doing-in-an-ios-app-ars-investigates/>
Dan Goodin, Ars Technica


> Trojans, false positives, and the case of accidental cross contamination.



**** I Wish I’d Thought Of That. Operation Starbucks. ****
<http://joshledgard.com/i-wish-id-thought-of-that-operation-starbucks/>
Josh Ledgard


> At a large wooden table sat a man with a laptop. I’m sure you can picture that. But this man had a stack of Starbucks gift cards laid out neatly to form an arrow. The arrow pointed to an iPad that was being used as a sign. The sign read “Test my App and Coffee’s on Jim.”



**** Mac Gems: Lost Photos 1.2 Recovers Forgotten Images Received Via Email ****
<http://www.macworld.com/article/2036790/mac-gems-lost-photos-1-2-recovers-forgotten-images-received-via-email.html#tk.rss_all>
Jackie Dove, Macworld


> The app connects to your IMAP email accounts using a secure connection and extracts all the photos from each account quickly and efficiently. Just type your email address and password into the Lost Photos window, and the app sifts through every message on the server, scraping up any photos it finds and placing them into a folder, named for that email account, on your drive for later viewing.






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**** Gross National Product ****
<http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/books/2013/05/mary_roach_s_gulp_and_david_waltner_toews_the_origin_of_feces_reviewed.html>
Peter Brannen, Slate


> Two new books look at how we turn food into poop—and what happens to it afterward.



**** You Are What You Buy ****
<http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/books/2013/05/against_foodies_alison_pearlman_s_smart_casual_reviewed.html>
L.V. Anderson, Slate


> An academic book about the evolution of restaurants sheds new light on the moral bankruptcy of foodie-ism.



**** How To Read A Graveyard By Peter Stanford – Review ****
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2013/may/03/how-read-graveyard-stanford-review?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+theguardian%2Fbooks%2Frss+%28Books%29>
Thomas Laqueur, The Guardian


> This book was born when Peter Stanford's children made him get a dog. He had been, he says, "as much a cemetery avoider as the next person", but now he had a reason to take walks in the local graveyard where the dog could do its business and the owner could have deep thoughts. All of us will die; fame is unlikely to endure and oblivion is the common fate; detox diets and "countless visits to the gym" are of no avail. The moods of the weather and the whims of the dog, the sound of woodpeckers tapping and the sight of a strange tomb or a bizarre inscription filled Stanford's head with questions: who first thought of erecting individual memorials for the dead; when did we switch from burying the dead en masse in neolithic barrows and move to individual graves? "In short, how do we read a graveyard?"



**** Resetting The Clocks: 'Time Reborn,' By Lee Smolin ****
<http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/05/books/review/time-reborn-by-lee-smolin.html?partner=rss&emc=rss>
Alan Lightman, New York Times


> In one of the more fanciful conceptions of nature, the British physicist and philosopher Julian Barbour proposed that the world is just a “heap of moments,” each an instant of frozen time. There is no order to the moments, no sequence, no cause-and-effect relationship. We exist only from moment to moment. If we experience time passing, it’s because this particular moment has memories of another moment woven into it. Some moments are interesting: they contain complexity, stars and planets, life. Others are boring: they contain only energy, or perhaps nothing at all.

> In his new book, “Time Reborn,” Lee Smolin, a physicist and author of “The Life of the Cosmos” (1997) and “The Trouble With Physics” (2006), recounts Barbour’s cosmology with some admiration and then goes on to offer even more radical ideas of his own.