[MyAppleMenu] Jan 3, 2014

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*** iOS 7 Only Is The Only Sane Thing To Do ***
<http://berzniz.com/post/72083083450/ios-7-only-is-the-only-sane-thing-to-do>
Tal Bereznitskey


> I’m porting an app that was originally targeting iOS 3 to an iOS 7 support only. Almost three years later, so much have changed.




*** What You Need To Know About Thunderbolt 2 ***
<http://www.macworld.com/article/2083257/what-you-need-to-know-about-thunderbolt-2.html#tk.rss_all>
James Galbraith, Macworld


> How different is Thunderbolt 2 from its predecessor? Here’s what you need to know.




*** Starbucks Now Allows iDevice Users To Redeem 'Pick Of The Week' Using iOS 7'S Camera ***
<http://appadvice.com/appnn/2014/01/starbucks-now-allows-idevice-users-to-redeem-pick-of-the-week-using-ios-7s-camera>
Joe White, AppAdvice



*** Set Snooze Times For Notifications In OS X Mavericks ***
<http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-57616482-263/set-snooze-times-for-notifications-in-os-x-mavericks/>
Topher Kessler, CNET


> You can select from a number of different snooze times for notification alerts in the latest version of OS X.




*** Magic Trick #1 Is A Card Trick For Your iPhone ***
<http://www.tuaw.com/2014/01/02/review-magic-trick-1-is-a-card-magic-trick-for-your-iphone/>
Mel Martin, TUAW



*** New Eyes For Hands-On Surgery ***
<http://www.apple.com/ipad/life-on-ipad/new-eyes-for-hands-on-surgery/?sr=hotnews.rss>
Apple


> Liver surgeries are particularly complicated and difficult. And surgeons are often without valuable information in their operating room. That's why Dr. Itaru Endo and Fraunhofer MEVIS have developed an iPad app that displays interactive patient data during surgery to save time -- and lives.




*** Twitter Updates Tweetdeck For Mac With Photo Support In Direct Messages Plus More ***
<http://appadvice.com/appnn/2014/01/twitter-updates-tweetdeck-for-mac-with-photo-support-in-direct-messages-plus-more>
Aldrin Calimlim, AppAdvice



*** Apple’s New Mac Pro Uses 74% Less Aluminum, 68% Less Power And 84% Lighter Packaging ***
<http://techcrunch.com/2014/01/02/apples-new-mac-pro-uses-74-less-aluminum-68-less-power-and-84-lighter-packaging/>
Matthew Panzarino, TechCrunch


> Apple has today released its environmental report for its new Mac Pro machine, which details some fairly large savings on power and raw materials.




*** Nimblstand: Making The Apple Wireless Keyboard Even More Useful ***
<http://www.tuaw.com/2014/01/02/nimblstand-making-the-apple-wireless-keyboard-even-more-useful/?ncid=rss_truncated>
Steven Sande, TUAW


> The simple design works perfectly with your existing Apple Wireless Keyboard to let you use that keyboard with your iPad or iPhone, providing a stable and easily transportable stand for the iOS device. 




*** This Week 1.2 Adds iPad Support ***
<http://www.macstories.net/news/this-week-1-2-adds-ipad-support/>
Federico Viticci, MacStories



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*** How Netflix Reverse Engineered Hollywood ***
<http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/01/how-netflix-reverse-engineered-hollywood/282679/>
Alexis C. Madrigal, The Atlantic


> If you use Netflix, you've probably wondered about the specific genres that it suggests to you. Some of them just seem so <i>specific</i> that it's absurd. Emotional Fight-the-System Documentaries? Period Pieces About Royalty Based on Real Life? Foreign Satanic Stories from the 1980s?

> If Netflix can show such tiny slices of cinema to any given user, and they have 40 million users, how vast did their set of "personalized genres" need to be to describe the entire Hollywood universe?




*** Locked In Rooms Of Their Own ***
<http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/locked-in-rooms-of-their-own/Content?oid=18547685>
Paul Constant, The Stranger


> The real answer to all my hand-wringing is that I should just work harder to make sure that everyone is included. I regret not doing better.




*** Book Review: ‘Little Failure: A Memoir’ By Gary Shteyngart ***
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/book-review-little-failure-a-memoir-by-gary-shteyngart/2014/01/02/b3a7b3d4-636f-11e3-a373-0f9f2d1c2b61_story.html>
Lisa Zeidner, Washington Post


> “We all come out from Gogol’s overcoat,” Fyodor Dostoevsky famously said about the roots of Russian literature. Wildly surreal and replete with snarky social commentary, Nikolai Gogol’s story “The Overcoat” features a poor nebbish who is easy to mock — yet still lovable. Like Gogol, the best-selling Russian-born American novelist Gary Shteyngart delights in raining misfortune on his antiheroes’ heads as they navigate the farcical obstacle courses of their lives. In his memoir “Little Failure,” the pathetic dweeb is Shteyngart himself. Real name Igor, a.k.a. “Little Failure,” “Weakling,” “Jew-nose” or — due to his bad asthma — “Snotty.”




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