[MyAppleMenu] Jun 11, 2014

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*** Review: Microsoft Office Online Vs. Apple iWork For iCloud Vs. Google Drive ***
<http://www.infoworld.com/d/cloud-computing/review-microsoft-office-online-vs-apple-iwork-icloud-vs-google-drive-244036>
Woody Leonhard, InfoWorld

> It's fair to say that any of the three online office suites can support almost all office workers, almost all of the time. The sticking point will be the walled garden.



*** Mavericks And The Ancient AirPort Base Station ***
<http://www.macworld.com/article/2361742/mavericks-and-the-ancient-airport-base-station.html#tk.rss_all>
Christopher Breen, Macworld



*** Moneydance Review: Personal Finance Mac App Offers Good Tools With A Few UI Quirks ***
<http://www.macworld.com/article/2361653/moneydance-review-personal-finance-mac-app-offers-good-tools-with-a-few-ui-quirks.html#tk.rss_all>
Jeffery Battersby, Macworld

> Moneydance isn’t perfect, mostly due to its UI anomalies, but overall the application offers good tools for managing your personal finance info. While it doesn’t offer all of the automated download capabilities of apps such as iBank, its collection of reports and easy data entry features make it a tool worth looking at.



*** Europe Begins Tax Probe Into Apple And Starbucks ***
<http://www.theverge.com/2014/6/11/5799576/european-commission-apple-ireland-tax-investigation>
Aaron Souppouris, The Verge

> The European Commission is launching a trio of "in-depth investigations" into potential tax evasion by Apple, Starbucks, and Fiat within the European Union. The probes will ascertain whether the three companies' tax avoidance efforts are within the boundaries of EU rules, or if the corporate rates applied by their respective tax hosts could be considered illegal state aid.



*** Write For Mac Review: Solid Note-taking App Doubles As A Markdown Editor ***
<http://www.macworld.com/article/2362020/write-for-mac-review-solid-note-taking-app-doubles-as-a-markdown-editor.html#tk.rss_all>
Kirk McElhearn, Macworld

> Write for Mac straddles the line between a good note-taking app and a solid Markdown text editor.



*** What Product Designers Can Learn From iOS 8'S iMessage Changes ***
<http://scotthurff.com/posts/what-we-can-learn-from-apples-imessage-changes-in-ios-8>
Scott Hurff

> If you build products for a living, there’s a lot to learn from iOS 8's iMessage changes — both on the user interface side and on the customer development side.



*** For Apple, Marketing Is A Whole New Game ***
<http://adage.com/article/agency-news/apple-marketing-a-game/293605/>
Ann-Christine Diaz, Maureen Morrison, Advertising Age

> Amid criticisms that it has failed to innovate, Apple is increasingly taking marketing into its own hands. It's madly building an internal agency that it's telling recruits will eventually number 1,000 -- the size of Grey Advertising. It's pitting TBWA/MAL against this internal agency with "jump balls" to mine the best creative ideas, a controversial tactic with outside agencies, let alone an internal one. It's going after some of adland's boldest-faced names to staff its in-house shop -- in some cases, it's even poached executives from TBWA/MAL. And, in what once would have been seen as a sacrilegious breach of the Apple-MAL bond, it's been inviting some of the ad industry's top shops to pitch on major projects.



*** Longtime Apple-accessory Distributor Dr. Bott Files For Bankruptcy ***
<http://www.macworld.com/article/2361845/longtime-apple-accessory-distributor-dr-bott-files-for-bankruptcy.html#tk.rss_all>
Dan Frakes, Macworld

> As a distributor, Dr. Bott was known for providing smaller accessory vendors the means of distributing their products much more widely than they could on their own. But the company also handled products for some of the biggest names in Apple accessories, including Griffin Technologies, iLuv, Incase, Incipio, Scosche, and Speck.



*** Daily App: Slow Shutter For iOS Gets The Job Done ***
<http://www.tuaw.com/2014/06/10/daily-app-slow-shutter-for-ios-gets-the-job-done/?ncid=rss_truncated>
Mel Martin, TUAW

> The app has replaced complex settings with Auto mode (waterfalls, moving objects), a Light Trail mode (traffic, fireworks, moving lights) and a Night Mode for shooting in dark places.



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*** Free To Choose? ***
<http://www.thenation.com/article/180109/free-choose?page=full#>
Sophia Rosenbfeld, The Nation

> How Americans have become tyrannized by the culture’s overinvestment in choice.



*** The Slow Web ***
<http://jackcheng.com/the-slow-web>
Jacak Cheng

> Because it’s a great name, and great names are like knots—they’re woven from the same stringy material as other words, but in their particular arrangement, they catch, become junctions to which new threads arrive, from which other threads depart. For me, “The Slow Web” neatly tied together a slew of dangling thoughts.



*** Vermeer's Paintings Might Be 350 Year-old Color Photographs ***
<http://boingboing.net/2014/06/10/vermeers-paintings-might-be.html>
Tim Jenison, Boing Boing

> I set up a simple experiment to test the idea. I don't know how to paint but in a few hours I was able to use the mirror to copy a black-and-white photo. This was my very first oil painting.



*** Killing A Patient To Save His Life ***
<http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/10/health/a-chilling-medical-trial.html?utm_source=nextdraft&utm_medium=email&_r=0>
Kate Murphy, New York Times

> Trauma patients arriving at an emergency room here after sustaining a gunshot or knife wound may find themselves enrolled in a startling medical experiment.



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