[MyAppleMenu] Jul 20, 2014

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MyAppleMenu
<http://www.myapplemenu.com/>
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*** Apps Offer Useful Complexity With Simple Interface ***
<http://seattletimes.com/html/businesstechnology/2024106979_ptechpracticalmacxml.html>
Jeff Carlson, The Seattle Times

> Ask any software developer (or designer or writer or builder) and you’ll learn that often the most difficult things to implement well are the ones that appear simple.
> Two very different examples come to mind, with applications that remain clean and approachable while simultaneously offer useful complexity.

The two apps reviewed are OmniFocus and Overcast.



MyAppleMenu Reader
<http://www.myapplemenu.com/reader/>
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*** His Google Maps Obsession ***
<http://www.bostonglobe.com/magazine/2014/07/19/his-google-maps-obsession/US3QtMOhYhGv806ssTXDgP/story.html>
Erin Blakeley, The Boston Globe

> Now we sit in the car while my husband hunches over his phone, tapping out our route. You’d think he was charting our course across the Atlantic, but he’s actually just searching for the best way to get to P.F. Chang’s. The P.F. Chang’s we’ve been to a million times. The one we’d be on our way to if he weren’t looking at his phone.



*** Content And Its Discontents ***
<http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/20/books/review/the-peoples-platform-by-astra-taylor.html?_r=0>
Tim Wu, New York Times

> But the effects are real: The web has reduced professional creators to begging for scraps of attention from a spoiled public, and forced creators to be their own brand.



SushiReader
<http://www.myapplemenu.com/sushireader/>
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