[MyAppleMenu] Aug 6, 2014

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*** Options For Managing Finder Windows In OS X ***
<http://www.macissues.com/2014/08/06/options-for-managing-finder-windows-in-os-x/>
Topher Kessler, MacIssues



*** Foursquare 8.0 Review: The Ultimate Food-finder ***
<http://www.theverge.com/2014/8/6/5973627/foursquare-8-review-the-ultimate-food-finder>
Ellis Hamburger, The Verge

> The new app cuts through Foursquare’s massive corpus of data to answer one question: what if your food-finding app knew your favorite restaurants, but also your favorite foods?



*** Capo Touch 2.0 Review: Use Your iPad To Learn How To Play Your Favorite Songs ***
<http://www.macworld.com/article/2459645/capo-touch-2-0-review-use-your-ipad-to-learn-how-to-play-your-favorite-songs.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter#tk.rss_all>
James Galbraith, Macworld

> Supermegaultragroovy’s Capo is a great tool to help guitarists learn new songs. With versions available for both Mac and iOS, Capo allows users to easily learn songs by altering a song’s speed without changing its pitch, generating chords for the song, and more. The recently released Capo touch 2.0 brings the Mac app’s innovative chord recognition features to iOS for the first time.



*** EtreCheck Review: Get A Full Status Report On Your Troubled Mac ***
<http://www.macworld.com/article/2457680/etrecheck-review-get-a-full-status-report-on-your-troubled-mac.html>
Marco Tabini, Macworld



*** Drive-cloning Utilities: The Best Mac Apps For Making A Bootable Backup ***
<http://www.macworld.com/article/2461362/drive-cloning-utilities-the-best-mac-apps-for-making-a-bootable-backup.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter#tk.rss_all>
Joe Kissell, Macworld

> What a clone offers that the likes of Time Machine and CrashPlan do not is immediate recovery: You can get back to work almost instantly after a drive crash or other severe problem with your startup volume.



*** Improve Your Presentation Skills: The Emergency Road-show Toolkit ***
<http://www.macworld.com/article/2460362/improve-your-presentation-skills-the-emergency-road-show-toolkit.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter#tk.rss_all>
Joe Kissell, Macworld



*** Slingbox M1 Review: A Pricey Streamer, But Worth It For Frequent Travelers ***
<http://www.engadget.com/2014/08/05/slingbox-m1-review/>
Ben Drawbaugh, Engadget

> While it does still have a higher upfront cost than competing products, it can also stream content that no other device can -- namely, live sports and any other content you've already paid for through your cable subscription.  If you're a big sports fan or a frequent traveler, this could be a worthwhile purchase.



*** China Said To Exclude Apple From Procurement List ***
<http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-08-06/china-said-to-exclude-apple-from-procurement-list.html>
Bloomberg

> Ten Apple products -- including the iPad, iPad Mini, MacBook Air and MacBook Pro -- were omitted from a final government procurement list distributed in July, according to officials who read it and asked not to be identified because the information isn’t public. The models were on a June version of the list drafted by the National Development and Reform Commission and Ministry of Finance, the officials said.



*** Apple, Samsung Agree To End Patent Suits Outside U.S. ***
<http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-08-05/apple-samsung-agree-to-end-patent-suits-outside-u-s-.html>
Adam Satariano and Joel Rosenblatt, Bloomberg

> Still, they said in the statement that they aren’t ending the legal battles completely, nor have they reached any cross-licensing agreement. 



*** Push For Pizza Is Yo For Food Delivery ***
<http://techcrunch.com/2014/08/05/push-for-pizza-is-yo-for-food-delivery/>
Kyle Russell, TechCrunch

> Instead of picking from a menu of options, you can choose from two staples: cheese or pepperoni. The pizza, delivery, and tip are all paid for before the delivery person arrives. It’s like the Yo of food delivery apps — it rips out the layers of fat that we assume “should” be there, leaving the bare essentials of what we actually want to do with it.



*** Take This Code And Sign It ***
<http://indiestack.com/2014/08/take-this-code-and-sign-it/>
Daniel Jalkut, Indie Stack



*** Why Some Schools Are Selling All Their iPads ***
<http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2014/08/whats-the-best-device-for-interactive-learning/375567/>
Meghan E. Murphy, The Atlantic

> Four years after Apple introduced its popular tablet, many districts are switching to laptops.



*** Navigate OS X Menus With Your Mac’s Keyboard ***
<http://www.macissues.com/2014/08/05/navigate-os-x-menus-with-your-macs-keyboard/>
Topher Kessler, MacIssues



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*** Maybe There’s A Whole Other Internet ***
<http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/06/books/book-review-whiskey-tango-foxtrot-may-be-the-novel-of-the-summer.html>
Dwight Garner, New York Times

> What puts this novel across isn’t its lucid, post-Patriot Act thematics, however, as righteous as they are. Instead, it’s that the storyteller in Mr. Shafer isn’t at war with the thinker and the word man in him; he’s got a sick wit and a high style.



*** Self-published Book Of The Month: The Gift Of Looking Closely By Al Brookes ***
<http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/aug/05/self-published-book-of-the-month-al-brookes?CMP=twt_gu>
Alfred Hickling, The Guardian

> A novel about assisted suicide written in the second person is not an easy feat to bring off without alienating readers. But Brookes succeeds.



*** Up All Night At The Museum Of Natural History ***
<http://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/night-natural-history-museum>
David Shapiro, New Yorker

> Sean and Sara had come to the museum’s first-ever sleepover for grownups, an event that gave a hundred and fifty guests nearly unfettered access to its forty-five halls for a night. The sleepover included dinner, snacks, and plenty of scheduled programming. It cost three hundred and seventy-five dollars; tickets were sold out within three hours. “We don’t know anything about the guests besides their names and addresses,” a museum staffer said. He hinted at the evening’s overarching questions: What would the guests be like? Would they be concealing anything in their bags? Where in the museum would they sneak off in the middle of the night, and what would they do there?



*** How Microsoft Dragged Its Development Practices Into The 21St Century ***
<http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/08/how-microsoft-dragged-its-development-practices-into-the-21st-century/>
Peter Bright, Ars Technica

> In the Web era of development, Waterfalls are finally out. Agile is in.



*** Stop Fetishizing Me: Why Being An Asian Woman In The Dating World Has Never Been Harder ***
<http://www.salon.com/2014/08/05/stop_fetishizing_me_why_being_an_asian_woman_in_the_dating_world_has_never_been_harder/>
Paula Young Lee, Salon

> What we object to – what all women object to, really, — should be obvious, for nobody likes being reduced to a preferential lust object.  A target instead of a human being. This is the <i>cri de coeur</i> of Asian women everywhere: Stop fetishizing me!



*** In Darwin’s Footsteps ***
<http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/05/science/in-darwins-footsteps.html?_r=0>
Jonathan Weiner, New York Times

> Their goal, as they relate in their new book, “40 Years of Evolution,” was to study finches in the genus Geospiza — the birds that gave Darwin some of his first inklings of evolution by natural selection — and to try to reconstruct part of their evolutionary history. Instead, they made an amazing discovery.



*** Little Green Men Might Not Be So “Green” ***
<http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2014/08/seti_let_s_search_for_aliens_by_looking_for_their_pollution.html>
Sara Imari Walker, Slate

> In the distant future, industrial pollution—a sure sign of our technological activity—could potentially be detected from hundreds of light years away. Might extraterrestrial civilizations one day discover us by our pollution? Conversely, if aliens are anything like us, might we detect the existence of extraterrestrial civilizations by <i>their</i> pollution?



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