[MyAppleMenu] Apr 16, 2014

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*** Adobe Lightroom Mobile Review: A Strong Start, But Still A Work-in-progress ***
<http://www.macworld.com/article/2143801/adobe-lightroom-mobile-review-a-strong-start-but-still-a-work-in-progress.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter#tk.rss_all>
Melissa J. Perenson, Macworld


> It’s hard to find an app these days that shakes up the status quo, but Lightroom mobile achieves just that for digital imaging on the iPad. It’s the first app that makes me feel the iPad can be a serious, useful companion in the image editing and selection process. That said, the syncing issues I experienced were very frustrating, some interface choices confound, and many features just don’t go far enough to satisfy. Still, in spite of its limitations and flaws, Lightroom mobile is the new must-have app for photographers and photo enthusiasts alike.




*** Review Of Insight Notes: Secure Simple Notes For iOS ***
<http://www.medgadget.com/2014/04/review-of-insight-notes-secure-simple-notes-for-ios.html>
Dan Buckland, MedGadget


> Sometimes a clinician just wants a way to keep secure, HIPAA compliant, notes on their iPad without having to purchase an entire EMR system to install. Hoping to fill that niche is Insight Notes, an app to keep simple secure notes on the iPad, with an optional backup and export service.




*** How To Put Films On An iPad: With Or Without iTunes ***
<http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/how-to/apple/3512138/how-put-films-on-ipad/>
Jim Martin, PC Advisor


> There are several ways you can transfer videos to your iPad, one of which is to use iTunes to sync films (and TV shows) to the tablet.

> Although we’ll show you step by step how to do that, there are easier ways, especially if you need to use a computer other than the one with which you sync your iPad.




*** App Review: Nike+ Running For iPhone Goes Far Beyond Basic GPS Tracking ***
<http://www.sportsbusinessdaily.com/Daily/Issues/2014/04/15/Media/App-Review.aspx>
Arnie Sheridan, SportsBusiness Daily Global



*** Union To Protest Apple Overseas Cash Pile At SF Apple Store On Tax Day ***
<http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2014/04/15/union-to-protest-apple-overseas-cash-pile-at-sf.html>
Silicon Valley Business Journal


> Bay Area security officers with SEIU United Service Workers West will hold a protest outside the Union Square Apple store in San Francisco today to bring attention to the billions in cash the company holds overseas to avoid U.S. taxes.




*** Apple Upgrade Tracks Customers Even When Marketing Apps Are Off ***
<http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2014/04/15/302990800/apple-upgrade-tracks-customers-even-when-marketing-apps-are-off>
Martin Kaste, NPR


> When Apple updated the iPhone's operating system two months ago, it changed it to allow marketing apps to keep tabs on your location even when they're off. When you close an app, it "deputizes" the phone's operating system to keep listening for iBeacon signals on its behalf.




*** How To Quickly Look Up Words In OS X ***
<http://www.macissues.com/2014/04/15/how-to-quickly-look-up-words-in-os-x/>
Topher Kessler, MacIssues



*** Speed Through Rome In The Latest Subway Surfers Update ***
<http://www.imore.com/speed-through-ancient-rome-latest-subway-surfers-update?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter>
Simon Sage, iMore



*** Lego Robot Plays Freemium iPad Games While Creator Sleeps ***
<http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2014-04/15/lego-jurassic-park-robot-ipad>
Nate Lanxon, Wired UK


> The small setup uses an old iPad mounted on top of Technics wheels. The machine is powered by an Arduino board and connects to a Windows laptop. The result is that throughout the night the machine moves the iPad back and forth underneath a nodding donkey-style tapping mechanism, which, when wrapped in tin foil and wired to the ground pin of an Arduino, tricks the iPad's capacitive touchscreen into thinking it's a human finger.




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*** Why Do Chinese People Have Slanted Eyes? ***
<http://www.asymptotejournal.com/article.php?cat=Special_Feature&id=140&curr_index=1>
Amanda Lee Koe, Asymptote



*** Book Review: Trying Not To Try ***
<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-vognar/book-review-trying-not-to_b_5073253.html>
Daid Vognar, The Huffington Post


> In his new book <i>Trying Not to Try</i>, the University of British Columbia Asian Studies and Embodied Cognition professor Edward Slingerland treats us to a work of seminal importance. Yet never was there such an important book that takes itself so lightly. Slingerland explains the correspondence between ancient Chinese philosophical ideas about wu-wei, or doing by not doing, and modern neuroscience. In doing so in erudite fashion, he also manages to discuss Woody Allen, magic mushrooms, his daughter's storybooks, Luke Skywalker and how hard it is to get a date when you're desperate.




*** Book Review: 'The Perfect Wave' By Heinrich Päs ***
<http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303532704579479783942699974>
John Gribbin, Wall Street Journal


> Does the neutrino, the 'outlaw' particle that weighs less than one millionth of the weight of an electron, hold the secret to the universe?




*** The Underrated, Universal Appeal Of Science Fiction ***
<http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2014/04/the-underrated-universal-appeal-of-science-fiction/360627/>
Chris Beckett, The Atlantic


> Why do so many readers still look down on the genre of Orwell and Atwood?




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