[MyAppleMenu] Sep 28, 2013

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*** Transmit 4 Review: One Of The Best FTP Clients For The Mac ***
<http://www.macworld.com/article/2048707/transmit-4-review-one-of-the-best-ftp-clients-for-the-mac.html#tk.rss_all>
David Chartier, Macworld


> Transmit is jam-packed with file transfer features for the 21st century, but presents them in a surprisingly easy and accessible package.




*** The Whoa Factor: Slow Motion On The iPhone 5S Put To The Test ***
<http://readwrite.com/2013/09/27/iphone-5s-slo-mo-slow-motion-review#awesm=~oiHNsTIzVW89PL>
Taylor Hatmaker, ReadWrite



*** ReadQuick And Velocity Review: Increase Your Reading Speed Using Your iOS Device ***
<http://www.macworld.com/article/2049253/readquick-and-velocity-review-increase-your-reading-speed-using-your-ios-device.html>
Brian Beam, Macworld


> Both Velocity and ReadQuick take a similar approach to solving this problem by presenting written text one word at a time on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch. If you’re like me, you’re probably thinking that this sounds a little odd. However, it only took me a few minutes to get accustomed to words flying across the screen before I was sold on the concept.




*** Third-gen Apple TV Netflix Users Get 'Super HD' Option For Movies ***
<http://www.tuaw.com/2013/09/27/3rd-gen-apple-tv-netflix-users-get-super-hd-option-for-movies/>
Michael Grothaus, TUAW



*** Prey Provide Find Me For All Major OSes ***
<http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/83913>
Mark Gibbs, Network World


> Prey is an open source device tracking app that supports not only iOS and OS X but also Android, Linux, and Windows.




*** OmniGraffle 6: A Huge Leap For The Mac Diagraming App ***
<http://mac.appstorm.net/reviews/graphics/omnigraffle-6-a-huge-leap-for-the-mac-diagraming-app-2/>
Matthew Guay, Mac AppStorm


> OmniGraffle 6 is just the beginning of their wave of upgrades for their Mac apps, and they’ve done a fantastic job updating it and making it more powerful while revamping the UI to look more modern — at least within the constraints of today’s standard UI design on the Mac.




*** Design Lessons From iOS 7 ***
<http://blogs.hbr.org/2013/09/design-lessons-from-ios-7/>
Sean madden, Harvard Business Review


> After six years of iteration on the original iPhone OS, iOS 7 is a refreshing reset. Without a doubt, Apple’s new operating system will look and feel dramatically different a year from now. It will take advantage of the hardware in new and innovative ways and has the potential to once again reshape our expectations of what our mobile devices are capable of. The big question for Apple will be whether or not consumers are willing to travel along this road of iteration once more.




*** How To Quickly Check A File's Checksum In OS X ***
<http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-57604815-263/how-to-quickly-check-a-files-checksum-in-os-x/>
Topher Kessler, CNET


> When you download application installers and other files from the Internet, you may see a verification checksum associated with it. Here is how to use that number.




*** VMware Fusion 6 ***
<http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2410299,00.asp?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ziffdavis%2Fpcmag+%28PCMag.com%3A+New+Product+Reviews%29>
Edward Mendelson, PC Magazine


> The reason I prefer VMware Fusion, and the reason it's our Editors' Choice, is that it's less intrusive, less in-your-face, than Parallels, even though Parallels is more beginner-friendly. Also, VMware has a long track record of reliability, which Parallels can't match, even though recent versions seem to be far more trouble-free than earlier ones.




*** Apple To Pay $40 To iPad 3G Owners Shut Out Of All-you-can-eat Data Plans ***
<http://gigaom.com/2013/09/27/apple-to-pay-40-to-ipad-3g-owners-shut-out-of-all-you-can-eat-data-plans/>
Jeff John Roberts, GigaOM


> Apple and AT&T are set to resolve a long-running class action suit over the companies’ decision in June, 2010 to end unlimited data plans for the iPad 3G tablet.




*** Static Analysis ***
<http://indiestack.com/2013/09/static-analysis/>
Daniel Jalkut, Indie Stack


> It turns out, simulating the static television snow of my analog youth is extremely challenging to do, even on a fancy iPhone.




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*** Easy Money ***
<http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/culture/2013/09/easy-money-my-experience-on-who-wants-to-be-a-millionaire.html?src=longreads>
Keith Romer, New Yorker


> They were giving away money. That was the reason I took the long subway ride from Brooklyn to Harlem one Sunday morning in August. Once I arrived, though, it was all too clear that I wasn’t the only one who had heard about the opportunity. The open audition for “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?” was supposed to run from noon to five, but already, a little after eleven, a line of would-be millionaires snaked out of the lobby of the Apollo Theatre and down the sidewalk. We were a diverse bunch of dreamers. I waited in line behind an effete Jewish guy and an older African-American man who was discussing the pros and cons of Obamacare, and just in front of a petite young Korean woman, who did her best to respond politely to a lady who seemed unable to keep herself from sharing the strange, likely fictitious, details of her own life, most notably the masters degree in reverse psychology that she claimed to have earned from Nassau Community College. Before we were admitted, en masse, to the theatre, the reverse psychologist wandered off, drawn away by another, even more powerful dream.




*** All That We Hold Dear ***
<http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/29/books/review/dara-horns-guide-for-the-perplexed.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0>
Jami Attenberg, New York Times


> In a recent New Yorker article about his time as a Google Glass Explorer, Gary Shteyngart discussed the challenge of setting a novel in the current moment, given the speed of social upheaval and technological advances. “To write a book set in the present, circa 2013,” he declared, “is to write about the distant past.” Dara Horn’s ambitious fourth novel, “A Guide for the Perplexed,” bears this exact burden: it is set partly in contemporary Egypt, post-­revolution, and much of its plot involves a technology not unlike Google Glass itself.




*** Bitter Fruit ***
<http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/29/books/review/the-people-in-the-trees-by-hanya-yanagihara.html?partner=rss&emc=rss>
Carmela Ciuraru, New York Times


> In 1976, Dr. D. Carleton Gajdusek won a Nobel Prize for identifying a fatal disease in a remote tribe in Papua New Guinea. By the time of his death in 2008, Gajdusek had achieved another kind of notoriety, having been imprisoned for sexually abusing one of the dozens of native children he had adopted. Hanya Yanagihara’s suspenseful first novel, “The People in the Trees,” is based loosely on this true story, with a number of horrifying twists.




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