[MyAppleMenu] May 13, 2013

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**** Blurring Objects You Want To Hide In iMovie '11 ****
<http://www.macworld.com/article/2038541/blurring-objects-you-want-to-hide-in-imovie-11.html#tk.rss_all>
Christopher Breen, Macworld



**** Heroes And Castles 3.0 Features New Characters, New Campaign, New Map And More ****
<http://appadvice.com/appnn/2013/05/heroes-and-castles-3-0-features-new-characters-new-campaign-new-map-and-more>
Aldrin Calimlim, AppAdvice



**** Bill Gates Talks About His Last Visit With Steve Jobs, And A Cancelled Dinner! ****
<http://www.imore.com/bill-gates-talks-about-his-last-visit-steve-jobs-and-cancelled-dinner>
Richard Devine, iMore



**** Five Overlooked OS X System Tweaks ****
<http://www.macworld.com/article/2038098/five-overlooked-os-x-system-tweaks.html#tk.rss_all>
Kirk McElhearn, Macworld


> If you like to find new ways to tweak OS X, you sometimes need to look in unexpected places. For example, the Accessibility pane of System Preferences, which houses a number of features to help users who have limited seeing, hearing, and mobility, contains some nifty features that all users should know about. Here are five system tweaks that you might want to try on your Mac.



**** Subtitles Automatically Downloads Subtitles For Movies On Your Mac ****
<http://lifehacker.com/subtitles-automatically-downloads-subtitles-for-movies-500885215>
Shep Mcallister, Lifehacker



**** My.Agenda iPhone App Review: A Stunning Scheduler Tool ****
<http://www.tapscape.com/myagenda-iphone-app-review/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+tapscapeRSS+%28Tapscape%29>
Tucker Cummings, Tapscape



**** Steve Jackson's 'Sorcery!' Bows On iOS Devices ****
<http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/columnist/saltzman/2013/05/12/sorcery-apple-ios/2139039/?>
Marc Saltzman, USA Today



**** Tail Wagging ****
<http://mattgemmell.com/2013/05/12/tail-wagging/>
Matt Gemmell


> The deeper problem is injudicious design, which excessive skeuomorphism can be emblematic of. Design which falsely promotes one embodiment over the essence of content and function. A lack of creativity and insight, masquerading as a deliberate aesthetic choice.






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**** Margaret Atwood: The Literary World's Technology Mascot ****
<http://www.newrepublic.com/article/113122/margaret-atwood-literary-worlds-technology-mascot>
Leon Neyfakh, New Republic


> It is very easy to sound like a cheeseball when talking about social media. This is especially true if you’re talking about how it’s changing the world, or how it’s making all of us more creative, or how it’s opening up previously unimaginable ways of relating to others. There are lots of people who talk this way, and for the most part, they are cheeseballs.

> Margaret Atwood, 73, the Booker Prize-winning author of “The Handmaid’s Tale,” is not one of these people. But she walks a much finer line than you’d expect, especially since she is known primarily for her work as a conjurer of dark, dystopian fiction about the future.



**** The Dark Arts ****
<http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/features/2013/05/20/130520fi_fiction_marcus>
Ben Marcus, New Yorker



**** Laptop U ****
<http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/05/20/130520fa_fact_heller>
Nathan Heller, New Yorker


> Has the future of college moved online?



**** Goodnight, Sweet Print ****
<http://www.theweeklings.com/ted-heller/2013/05/09/goodnight-sweet-print/>
Ted Heller, The Weeklings


> I’m sure that publishers (and book cover designers) loathe the advent of the Kindle and Nook if only because, well, there goes a tremendous free source of advertising (the book on the lap, the book basking in the sun on the beach towel, the book bulging suggestively out of the handbag). That form of advertising, though, never worked for me.



**** How To Think More (But Not Better): Alain De Botton’s School Of Life ****
<http://lareviewofbooks.org/article.php?type=&id=1657&fulltext=1&media=#article-text>
Lisa Levy, Los Angeles Review Of Books


> Is the very idea of an intelligent self-help book a paradox? It is certainly trying to serve two demanding masters: philosophical speculation and practical action. After all, readers don’t pick up self-help books just to ruminate on life’s dilemmas, but to be guided to solutions. The new series of self-help books published by the London-based School of Life, co-founded by the Swiss-born popular philosopher Alain de Botton, echoes the school’s lofty approach to problems, claiming to be “intelligent, rigorous, well-written new guides to everyday living.” Yet to peruse the School of Life’s calendar of classes is to fall into a vortex of jargon pitched somewhere between the banal banter of daytime talk shows and the schedule for a nightmarish New Age retreat.