[MyAppleMenu] Apr 12, 2014

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*** Fix A Stalled Time Machine Backup In OS X ***
<http://www.cnet.com/how-to/fix-a-stalled-time-machine-backup-in-os-x/>
Topher Kessler, CNET


> There are several reasons why this may happen, including if you have not backed up in a while, your backup drive is full, problems with the current backup instance, and faults with the backup drive as a whole.




*** FTL: Faster Than Light iPad Game Review: A Cruelly Tense Strategy RPG In Space ***
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/review/games/ftl-faster-than-light-ipad-game-review-3511559/>
David Price, Macworld UK


> It’s not cheap for an iPad game. We should probably acknowledge that. But FTL: Faster Than Light is well worth the money, thanks to its gripping, merciless gameplay and rich depth of content.




*** How To Remove Application Preferences On Your Mac ***
<http://www.macissues.com/2014/04/11/how-to-remove-application-preferences-on-your-mac/>
Topher Kessler, MacIssues


> Since these files contain settings that are loaded and interacted with as the program is run, if a fault exists either in a specific setting or in the structure of the file itself, then a program may experience hangs, crashes, the inability to save and retrieve settings, or other odd behaviors.




*** Tim Cook Calls On Congress To Pass Employment Non-Discrimination Act ***
<http://9to5mac.com/2014/04/11/tim-cook-calls-on-congress-to-pass-employment-non-discrimination-act/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+9To5Mac-MacAllDay+%289+to+5+Mac+-+Apple+Intelligence%29>
Zac Hall, 9 To 5 Mac


> The law to which Tim referred, known as the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, would prohibit companies with 15 or more employees from discriminating based on sexual orientation or gender. 




*** Amazon Embraces Its Inner Geek By Buying Comixology ***
<http://www.techhive.com/article/2142680/amazon-embraces-its-inner-geek-by-buying-comixology.html>
Jason Snell, TechHive


> Comic fans may groan about the sale—it’s always sad when a plucky, groundbreaking start-up is bought out by a corporate giant—but Amazon’s track record with purchases is actually pretty good.




*** Apple Updates Standalone FaceTime App For Snow Leopard Users With Connection Bug Fix ***
<http://9to5mac.com/2014/04/11/apple-updates-standalone-facetime-app-for-snow-leopard-users-with-connection-bug-fix/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+9To5Mac-MacAllDay+%289+to+5+Mac+-+Apple+Intelligence%29>
Mike Beasley, 9 To 5 Mac



*** App Camp For Girls Rocks Macworld/iWorld ***
<http://tidbits.com/article/14657?rss>
Josh Centers, TidBITS


> Most of the press coverage surrounding App Camp for Girls has revolved around bringing more women into tech, and while I think that’s an important cause, it misses the bigger picture of what the App Camp approach could do for general education. The girls at the App Camp panel learned a lot that they will likely never learn in school, things essential to success in almost any field — like generating winning ideas, how to implement the ideas in a compelling fashion, and then selling gatekeepers on the results. I’d encourage anyone with an interest in education to take a close look at, and borrow from, what the App Camp team is doing: teaching practical skills in a fun way.




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*** Book Review: 'Poems That Make Grown Men Cry,' Edited By Anthony And Ben Holden ***
<http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303456104579487343053983048>
Barton Swaim, Wall Street Journal


> Two centuries ago our celebrities were not actors or singers but poets. Poetry has now all but disappeared from public life, with the consequence that we are cut off from an entire mode of thought—not unlike losing math or philosophy. Can it be revived? I don't know, but if a book full of lachrymose men can help, I'm for it.




*** For All It’s Worth ***
<http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/13/books/review/money-by-felix-martin.html?partner=rss&emc=rss>
Heidi N. Moore, New York Times


> Most people are used to owing money to others, but few think about what money may owe us: an equitable society, a functioning political system, a peaceful economy that can stay off the exhausting roller coaster of financial booms and crashes.

> We don’t usually think of money as a tool to accomplish all that, but Felix Martin, an economist and former World Bank official and author of the compulsively readable new book “Money: The Unauthorized Biography,” says that money can give us all those things; it can deliver “both stability and freedom.” The catch is that we must radically rethink money itself. It’s not a fixed, physical thing, he argues, but a virtual “social technology” that should be used to enable a more democratic and equitable world, bring order to the banking system and foster “peace, prosperity, freedom and fairness.” Sign me up.




*** Kamikaze Strategy ***
<http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/13/books/review/the-dismal-science-by-peter-mountford.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0>
Martha McPhee, New York Times


> The mountain of Purgatory haunts the cover of Peter Mountford’s arresting second novel, “The Dismal Science.” The image, which calls to mind the second volume of “The Divine Comedy,” leads the reader into the book, the stark path curling its way up toward Terrestrial Paradise, symbolized by one lonely but verdant tree.




*** Frog Music By Emma Donoghue Review – Melodrama, Motherhood And Murder ***
<http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/apr/12/frog-music-emma-donoghue-review-melodrama-motherhood-murder>
Sadie Jones, The Guardian


> Exotic dancers, pimps, whores and a cross-dressing, bicycle-riding gamine who makes a living catching frogs for the cooking pots of restaurant kitchens. This is the cast of Emma Donoghue's eighth novel, a tale set in the rooming houses and bars of San Francisco in 1876. If those ingredients don't make for sufficient drama, the city is in the grip of both a smallpox epidemic and a heatwave.




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