[MyAppleMenu] Jan 24, 2014

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*** Macintosh ***
<http://hypercritical.co/2014/01/24/macintosh>
John Siracusa, Hypercritical


> I’m eternally grateful to the people who created the Mac, and to the countless others who kept it alive and shepherded its rebirth. In this age of iOS, it’s heartening to hear Phil Schiller say, “Our view is, the Mac keeps going forever.” That’s just fine with me.




*** The Macintosh Is 30, And I Was There For Its Birth ***
<http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2014/01/macintosh-30th-anniversary/?utm_source=loopinsight.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+loopinsight%2FKqJb+(The+Loop)&utm_content=FeedBurner>
Steven Levy, Wired


> The assignment was my idea. I had been covering the computer world for a couple of years, and while the rest of the world paid little attention, Silicon Valley was buzzing with anticipation about Apple’s mysterious new machine. I managed to overcome editorial skepticism at <i>Rolling Stone</i> to get an OK to cover the launch, something of a stretch for the magazine of music and youth culture. But I was stunned when Apple did not embrace my idea right away. Its reps insisted — on orders from Jobs, I later learned — that my coverage was contingent on putting the Macintosh (or, presumably, Jobs) on the cover of <i>Rolling Stone</i>. And that wasn’t going to happen.

> Finally, Jobs relented, and in November, I found myself at Bandley Three, the modest building in which the Mac team was frantically trying to squash software bugs and lock down features before the launch. It was to be one of the greatest days of my life in reporting.




*** Thirty Years Of Mac ***
<https://www.apple.com/30-years/>
Apple


> Thirty years ago, Apple introduced the Macintosh with the promise to put the creative power of technology in everyone’s hands. It launched a generation of innovators who continue to change the world. This 30‑year timeline celebrates some of those pioneers and the profound impact they’ve made.




*** The Mac At 30: Tales From The Berkeley Mac Users Group ***
<http://www.macworld.com/article/2089320/the-mac-at-30-tales-from-the-berkeley-mac-users-group.html#tk.rss_all>
Dan Miller and Christopher Breen, Macworld


> Before the Genius Bar and before Apple’s own online forums, when the Mac was young and its users needed help, there were user groups: Part social clubs and part volunteer tech-support staffs, they disseminated tips, troubleshooting advice, news, and arguments about the Mac. They distributed loads of early Mac shareware and became important stops for vendors promoting new Mac products (including one Steve Jobs when he was trying to get Next Computer off the ground).

> And in that early Mac age, no user group was bigger or more important than the Berkeley Macintosh Users Group, known to all as BMUG. Founded in 1986 and lasting for 14 contentious years, it at one point reportedly boasted more than 13,000 users, with satellite groups in Boston and Japan. While the original group formally dissolved in 2000, a smaller group (BMUGWest) still meets. And so, to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the Mac, Macworld joined the group for dinner after one of its meetings and asked a few of the more senior members to look back over their three decades with the Mac.




*** The Techtopus: How Silicon Valley’s Most Celebrated CEOs Conspired To Drive Down 100,000 Tech Engineers’ Wages ***
<http://pando.com/2014/01/23/the-techtopus-how-silicon-valleys-most-celebrated-ceos-conspired-to-drive-down-100000-tech-engineers-wages/>
Mark Ames, PandoDaily



*** Watch What You Eat, Using Your Phone As A Guide ***
<http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/23/technology/personaltech/watch-what-you-eat-using-your-phone.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0>
Kit Eaton, New York Times


> One of the best is Calorie Counter & Diet Tracker by MyFitnessPal. Free on iOS and Android, it’s full of features for tracking food intake and exercise.




*** The Apple Inquisition ***
<http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303448204579336941892062778?mg=reno64-wsj&url=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Farticle%2FSB10001424052702303448204579336941892062778.html>
Wall Street Journal


> The case has grown into an unusual challenge to the legal and constitutional authority of court-appointed monitors, which were rare as recently as a decade ago. They've since become multimillion-dollar operations that can loot companies and are a fabulous gig for white-shoe lawyers with the right judicial contacts. Mr. Bromwich has an unlimited budget and wants to bill at $1,100 an hour to lecture Tim Cook and Al Gore about the appropriate "tone" to take about bogus antitrust charges.

> When the Second Circuit hears arguments the first week in February, the judges ought to begin by disqualifying Mr. Bromwich as biased. They might also remove Judge Cote, though Apple isn't asking. To vindicate the rule of law and the separation of powers, they might also consider knocking down the monitor racket, which as the Apple inquisition shows is an invitation for abuse.




*** Apple's Mac Still Influences, 30 Years After Debut ***
<http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2014/01/23/apple-mac-30-years/4803157/>
Anick Jesdanun, Associated Press



*** Disney's Where's My Mickey? Goes Free For First Time Ever As Apple's App Of The Week ***
<http://appadvice.com/appnn/2014/01/disneys-wheres-my-mickey-goes-free-for-first-time-ever-as-apples-app-of-the-week>
Aldrin Calimlim, AppAdvice



*** Apple Silently Removes Keynote Remote From The App Store, Recommends Users Update To Keynote 2.1 For iOS ***
<http://9to5mac.com/2014/01/23/apple-silently-removes-keynote-remote-from-the-app-store-recommends-users-update-to-keynote-2-1-for-ios/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+9To5Mac-MacAllDay+%289+to+5+Mac+-+Apple+Intelligence%29>
Michael Steeber, 9 To 5 Mac


> Coinciding with today’s update to Keynote for Mac and iOS, Apple has silently removed the old Keynote Remote application from the App Store. Although a direct link to the application still works, some readers are reporting that they are no longer able to download the app, and it no longer appears in search results.




*** Textkraft: Powerful Text Processor For The iPad ***
<http://www.tuaw.com/2014/01/23/textkraft-powerful-text-processor-for-the-ipad/?ncid=rss_truncated>
Mel Martin, TUAW


> I think the feature I'm most happy with is the cursor keys. There's no more fiddling with stabbing my finger on the screen and trying to move the cursor to the correct position. Textkraft also provides delete-forward, something missing on the stock iOS keyboard, and a key that I use all the time.




*** How I Went From 100 To 0 Things (Or How I Was Robbed Of All My Stuff) ***
<http://levels.io/100-to-0-things/>
Levels.io


> There was one computer left in the house on which I immediately started changing all my passwords and resetting my two-factor authentication of all my online accounts. From Gmail to iCloud to YouTube, It literally took 12 hours to reset everything, and I still missed a few accounts.




*** Tomb Raider Reboot Now Available For Mac ***
<http://www.imore.com/tomb-raider-reboot-now-available-mac>
Peter Cohen, iMore


> Feral Interactive on Thursday released the Mac version of Tomb Raider, the rebooted action game featuring Lara Croft. The game makes its debut on the Mac App Store today, while it will be released on other download services including Steam on January 30th.




*** Apple Updates iWork For iCloud Apps With Flat Design And Other Improvements ***
<http://appadvice.com/appnn/2014/01/apple-updates-iwork-for-icloud-apps-with-flat-design-and-other-improvements>
Brent Dirks, AppAdvice



*** Apple Executives On The Mac At 30: 'The Mac Keeps Going Forever.' ***
<http://www.macworld.com/article/2090829/apple-executives-on-the-mac-at-30-the-mac-keeps-going-forever.html?utm_content=buffer58862&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer>
Jason Snell, Macworld


> “Every company that made computers when we started the Mac, they’re all gone,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s Senior Vice President of Worldwide Marketing, in an interview on Apple's Cupertino campus Thursday. “We’re the only one left. We’re still doing it, and growing faster than the rest of the PC industry because of that willingness to reinvent ourselves over and over.”




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*** Belltown Diary ***
<http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/belltown-diary/Content?oid=18729221>
Cienna Madrid, The Stranger


> After another pause that really caused me to sweat, he walked out of my tiny yard, which has a fence around it separating it from the rest of the gardens, gently closed my gate, and disappeared. The next day, I received my second housewarming gift: a lock for my front gate. I now keep mace by the front door, too.




*** Happiness And Its Discontents ***
<http://chronicle.com/article/HappinessIts-Discontents/144019/>
Mari Ruti, The Chronicle Of Higher Education


> All of this can make us feel so anxious about feeling anxious that when we catch ourselves getting a little stirred up, a little excited, even in a good way, we end up suppressing our feelings because we fear that our ardor might deliver us straight into the lair of ... anxiety. In that sense, we are getting a general education in emotional numbness; essentially, we are taught to fear aliveness in all of its manifestations.




*** Changing Our Stories ***
<http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2014/jan/23/changing-our-stories/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+nybooks+%28The+New+York+Review+of+Books%29>
Tim Parks, The New York Review Of Books


> Can people change their lives? Can novelists change the kind of stories they write? The two questions are not unrelated.




*** Almost Everything In “Dr. Strangelove” Was True ***
<http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2014/01/strangelove-for-real.html>
Eric Schlosser, New Yorker


> Half a century after Kubrick’s mad general, Jack D. Ripper, launched a nuclear strike on the Soviets to defend the purity of “our precious bodily fluids” from Communist subversion, we now know that American officers did indeed have the ability to start a Third World War on their own. And despite the introduction of rigorous safeguards in the years since then, the risk of an accidental or unauthorized nuclear detonation hasn’t been completely eliminated.




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