[MyAppleMenu] Apr 18, 2014

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*** Google Wins A Game Of “Escape From East Texas,” Linking Rockstar To Apple ***
<http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/04/google-wins-a-game-of-escape-from-east-texas-linking-rockstar-to-apple/>
Joe Mullin, Ars Technica


> A federal judge issued an order today decreeing that Google's court battle against a "patent troll" owned by its competitors must be fought out in California, not in Texas.

> The ruling is a substantial victory for Google because venue matters in patent litigation. The search giant was facing the possibility of fighting a powerful trolling entity in the Eastern District of Texas, long considered a district friendly to patent holders. The patent owner in this case is the Rockstar Consortium, formed when Apple, Microsoft, Sony, Ericsson, and Blackberry teamed up to spend $4.5 billion to buy patents belonging to Nortel, a bankrupt Canadian telecom company.




*** An Experiment In iAd ***
<http://blog.metarain.com/post/83086723160/an-experiment-in-iad>
Metarain Blog


> iAd is now something feasible. We think that they are heading in the right direction and may also be a good platform to integrate with.




*** Ask The iTunes Guy: Glitchy Tracks, Numbers Game, And Too-large Libraries ***
<http://www.macworld.com/article/2143863/ask-the-itunes-guy-glitchy-tracks-numbers-game-and-too-large-libraries.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter#tk.rss_all>
Kirk McElhearn, Macworld


> You know the one where you get a track from iTunes Match and it’s not perfect? How about the one where you’ve just got too much stuff in your iTunes library and it slows iTunes down to a crawl? Or that thing where there are numbers at the beginnings of track names and you’d really like to get rid of them? Well, read on to find out how to fix these problems.




*** OmniOutliner 4 Pro Review: Top-notch Mac Outliner Gets A New Interface ***
<http://www.macworld.com/article/2144602/omnioutliner-4-pro-review-top-notch-mac-outliner-gets-a-new-interface.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter#tk.rss_all>
Tom Negrino, Macworld


> The current version makes creating and styling outlines easier, and improves the process of getting thoughts out of your head and into a document. There isn’t a better outline program for your Mac.




*** Hands-on With Flickr 3.0, With New Features That Make Flickr Cool Again ***
<http://www.techhive.com/article/2144942/hands-on-with-flickr-3-0-with-new-features-that-make-flickr-cool-again.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter#tk.rss_all>
Leah Yamshon, TechHive


> This is clearly an app for the art of photography.




*** FaceTime Not Working For Many iOS 6 Users ***
<http://www.macrumors.com/2014/04/17/ios-6-facetime-issues/>
Juli Clover, MacRumors


> It appears that users who are running iOS 6 are unable to place or receive FaceTime calls, with reports of problems dating back to yesterday. Devices running iOS 7 appear to be functioning as normal, and Apple's System Status page is not reporting any outages.




*** Sketch 3 For Mac Adds Reusable Symbols And Presentation Mode, Improves Export Tool ***
<http://betanews.com/2014/04/17/sketch-3-for-mac-adds-reusable-symbols-and-presentation-mode-improves-export-tool/>
Nick Peers, Beta News



*** Review: Dropbox’s Carousel Photo-Sharing App ***
<http://www.technologyreview.com/news/526606/review-dropboxs-carousel-photo-sharing-app/>
Rachel Metz, Technology Review


> Dropbox’s new photo app, Carousel, is smartly designed, but that won’t ensure success.




*** The Vaccines On The Go App Is Critical For Accurate Education Of Vaccinations ***
<http://www.imedicalapps.com/2014/04/vaccines-app-vaccinations/>
Jay Agarwal, iMedicalApps


> The app includes information about the actual vaccine, the diseases caused by not getting vaccinated, side effects of the vaccinations and any other information that parents may find useful.




*** Apple Begins Selling Refurbished iPad Mini With Retina Display Starting At $419 ***
<http://appleinsider.com/articles/14/04/17/apple-begins-selling-refurbished-ipad-mini-with-retina-display-starting-at-339>
AppleInsider



*** Wake Up Your Mac With Your iPhone ***
<http://www.macissues.com/2014/04/17/wake-up-your-mac-with-your-iphone/>
Topher Kessler, MacIssues



*** Innoveracy: Misunderstanding Innovation ***
<http://www.asymco.com/2014/04/16/innoveracy-misunderstanding-innovation/>
Horace Dediu, Asymco


> I define <i>innoveracy</i> as the inability to understand creativity and the role it plays in society. Hopefully identifying individual innoveracy will draw attention to the problem enough to help solve it.




*** Tint Color Misuse ***
<http://www.manton.org/2014/04/tint_color.html>
Manton Reece


> These kind of usability mistakes turn the great potential of tint color into a disadvantage. It’s like underlined text on the web that can’t be clicked. Apps should use tint color to improve usability, not to become even more difficult to use than if everyone rolled their own button styles.




*** Play & Manage iTunes Radio Stations With Siri ***
<http://osxdaily.com/2014/04/17/play-manage-itunes-radio-siri/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+osxdaily+%28OS+X+Daily%29>
OS X Daily



*** Flickr App For iOS Updated With New Interface And Fresh Editing Tools ***
<http://www.imore.com/flickr-app-ios-updated-new-interface-and-fresh-editing-tools?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter>
Andrew Martonik, iMore



*** How To Move Documents From Dropbox To iWork And iCloud ***
<http://www.imore.com/how-open-files-dropbox-pages-keynote-and-numbers>
Allyson Kazmucha, iMore


> Want to take your spreadsheets, documents, and presentations from Dropbox and start using them with Apple's iWork suite of Numbers, Pages, and Keynote, and store them in iCloud? Luckily, both Dropbox and Apple make it easy to do. Here's how!




*** Evernote Business Notebook Lets You Share While Keeping Your Personal Notes Private ***
<http://www.imore.com/evernote-business-notebook-lets-you-share-while-keeping-your-personal-notes-private?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter>
Simon Sage, iMore



*** Apple Is Going Green For Earth Day 2014 ***
<http://appadvice.com/appnn/2014/04/apple-is-going-green-for-earth-day-2014>
Bryan M. Wolfe, AppAdvice


> On April 22, Apple will cover its Apple Store logos with green. Additionally, employees at some stores will be given new Earth Day shirts to wear. At the company’s main campus, a “large-scale internal event” is being held in the afternoon.




*** MacBook In The Cloud: Work With The Same Files On Multiple Macs ***
<http://www.macworld.com/article/2144563/macbook-in-the-cloud-work-with-the-same-files-on-multiple-macs.html#tk.nl_mwdaily>
Serenity Caldwell, Macworld


> It turns out, however, that you can make your laptop into the perfect satellite computer with just a few tweaks—and save its precious hard drive space, to boot. Here are a few tips for syncing your computers with the cloud.




*** InDesign Alternatives For Mac: Can Anything Unseat Adobe For Page Layout? ***
<http://www.imore.com/indesign-alternatives-mac-can-anything-unseat-adobe-page-layout>
Peter Cohen, iMore



*** Dropbox Acquires Loom ***
<http://www.macstories.net/news/dropbox-acquires-loom/>
Federico Viticci, MacStories


> With a notice posted on their website today, Loom, a photo storage and management service originally launched in July 2013, announced that they’ve been acquired by Dropbox and will be joining the company.




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*** Updike – Review ***
<http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/apr/18/updike-biography-adam-begley-review>
Blake Morrison, The Guardian


> Adam Begley's fine biography reveals a writer enthralled by the detail of his own experience.




*** Where Peter Chang Cooks, They Will Follow ***
<http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/16/dining/where-peter-chang-cooks-they-will-follow.html?ref=dining&_r=0>
Pete Wells, New York Times


> Now, instead of worrying that Mr. Chang’s menu will disappear overnight, his admirers play a different kind of shell game. On any given day he will probably be cooking in a Peter Chang restaurant, but which one?




*** It’s The End Of The World As We Know It . . . And He Feels Fine ***
<http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/20/magazine/its-the-end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it-and-he-feels-fine.html?_r=0>
Daniel Smith, New York Times


> “I had a lot of friends who were writing about climate change and doing a lot of good work on it,” he told me during a break from his festival duties. “I was just listening and looking at the facts and thinking: Wow, we are really screwed here. We are not going to stop this from happening.”




*** Anxiety Of Influence: How Facebook And Twitter Are Reshaping The Novel ***
<http://www.newstatesman.com/culture/2014/04/anxiety-influence-how-facebook-and-twitter-are-reshaping-novel>
Alex Clark, New Statesman



*** Sitting It Out ***
<http://www.thesmartset.com/article/article04171401.aspx>
Wayne Curtis, The Smart Set


> They might have the appropriate Bistro Collection Café Chairs. But everything else is slightly awry and amiss, as if designed by someone whose understanding of European café culture arose from having once, long ago, seen the Disney film <i>The Aristocats</i>.




*** The Wrongs Of Spring ***
<http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/the-wrongs-of-spring/Content?oid=19012979>
Rebecca Brown, The Stranger


> But it isn't like that for everyone.

> Maybe, really, it isn't like that at all.




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