[MyAppleMenu] Mar 1, 2014

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*** The Job After Steve Jobs: Tim Cook And Apple ***
<http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304610404579405420617578250?mg=reno64-wsj&mod=WSJ_hpp_MIDDLENexttoWhatsNewsTop>
Yukari Iwatani Kane, Wall Street Journal


> Unlike Jobs, who always ate lunch with the design guru Jonathan Ive, Cook went to the cafeteria and introduced himself to employees he didn't know, asking if he could join them. Without Jobs breathing down their necks, the atmosphere was more relaxed. Cook was a more traditional CEO who infused Apple with a healthier work environment.




*** "Free-to-play" Misleading Advertising In Europe ***
<http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2014-02-27-free-to-play-misleading-advertising-in-europe>
Brenda Sinclair, Gamesindustry International


> The Consumer Protection Cooperation and EC member states have released a list of common positions on the subject, with misleading advertising at the top.

> "The use of the word 'free' (or similar unequivocal terms) as such, and without any appropriate qualifications, should only be allowed for games which are indeed free in their entirety, or in other words which contain no possibility of making in-app purchases, not even on an optional basis," the group said.




*** Apple’s New Mac Pro Is Built For The Future, And Is Insanely Expensive Add To ... ***
<http://www.theglobeandmail.com/technology/gadgets-and-gear/gadgets/review-apples-new-mac-pro-is-built-for-the-future-and-is-insanely-expensive/article17157347/>
Seamus Bellamy, The Globe And Mail


> The Mac Pro is a compact, beautifully designed powerhouse that video, design and photographic professionals will love to include in their workflow – eventually. For most, the hardware is still so new and so advanced that they’ll be disappointed to find that many of the software tools they rely on daily still haven’t been optimized to leverage the full power of the computer’s impressive internal hardware.




*** Oggl For iPad: Even More Fun With Photo Filters On The Big(ger) Screen ***
<http://thenextweb.com/creativity/2014/02/28/oggl-ipad-review/>
Jackie Dove, The Next Web


> While the app’s venue has expanded, its mission stays the same: Curated selections of your finest work.




*** Fandango (For iPhone) ***
<http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2454386,00.asp>
Michael Muchmore, PC Magazine


> Fandango is a well-designed, easy-to-use app with an integrated ticket-purchasing system that's even used by competing apps such as MovieFone and Apple Trailers.




*** Why Apple Needs To Fix Its Photo-sharing Workflow ***
<http://www.macworld.com/article/2102522/why-apple-needs-to-fix-its-photo-sharing-workflow.html>
Jason Snell, Macworld


> The iPhone is the most popular camera on the planet, and Apple’s justifiably proud of that. Instagram wouldn’t have been worth ten bucks were it not for its wild success on the App Store. And yet, despite all that, it feels like Apple isn’t taking photo-sharing on the Web seriously.




*** Is Snow Leopard 'Vulnerable To Attacks?' Has Apple Really Abandoned It? ***
<http://www.imore.com/snow-leopard-vulnerable-attacks-has-apple-really-abandoned-it-0>
Peter Cohen, iMore


> Apple releases updates to software as they're needed. Mavericks, Lion and Mountain Lion all needed security updates. Snow Leopard didn't. End of story.




*** Buy An Apple TV By March 5, Get A $25 iTunes Gift Card ***
<http://arstechnica.com/apple/2014/02/buy-an-apple-tv-by-march-5-get-a-25-itunes-gift-card/>
Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica



*** Best Personal Finance Apps For iPhone: BillGuard, myFICO, BUDGT, And More! ***
<http://www.imore.com/best-iphone-apps-help-you-take-control-your-personal-finances-billguard-myfico-budgt-and-more>
Allyson Kazmucha, iMore



*** Get To Know The New Google Hangouts For iOS ***
<http://www.macworld.com/article/2103480/get-to-know-the-new-google-hangouts-for-ios.html#tk.rss_all>
Leah Yamshon, Macworld



*** ETA Is A Helpful App For Estimating Your Arrival Time ***
<http://www.tuaw.com/2014/02/28/eta-is-a-helpful-app-for-estimating-your-arrival-time/?ncid=rss_truncated>
Mel Martin, TUAW



*** Tim Cook Advises Climate Change Deniers To Get Out Of Apple Stock ***
<http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-57619770-37/tim-cook-advises-climate-change-deniers-to-get-out-of-apple-stock/?part=rss&subj=news&tag=title>
Nick Statt, CNET


> "We do a lot of things for reasons besides profit motive," Cook said. "We want to leave the world better than we found it."




*** From The Department Of Fitting Facts To The Narrative ***
<http://daringfireball.net/2014/02/fitting_facts_to_the_narrative>
John Gruber, Daring Fireball


> But I think this is a case, maybe the best example so far, of a situation where Apple has done something very differently than if Jobs were still here, and that the company is better off for it.

> I love the whole 30 Years of Mac celebration, and I think it’s very right. Only part of the campaign is about looking back, though. The “1.24.14” 90-second short film, which has received more attention than any other aspect of the campaign, is about what people all around the world are doing with Apple products <i>today</i>.




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*** The Box ***
<http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/mar/01/the-box-by-vona-groarke-saturday-poem>
Vona Groarke, The Guardian



*** Illicit Intermissions ***
<http://www.the-tls.co.uk/tls/public/article1380167.ece>
Judith Flanders, The Times Literary Supplement


> For the relationship between dance and literature is not merely “one of the most striking but understudied features of modernism”, but one of reciprocity: dance drew on modern literature as much as modern literature was shaped by dance.




*** Book Review: 'The Broken Road' By Patrick Leigh Fermor ***
<http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303775504579394841232147208?mg=reno64-wsj&url=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Farticle%2FSB10001424052702303775504579394841232147208.html>
Robert D. Kaplan, Wall Street Journal


> The greatest 20th-century Britons often had a bit of the 19th century in them, if not, at times, the spirit of antiquity.




*** With E-Book Appeal, Apple Sets Its Sights On The Supreme Court ***
<http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-02-28/apples-e-book-war-moves-up-a-notch>
Dimitra Kessenides, Bloomberg


> The appellate brief, in arguing that Judge Cote’s ruling contradicts other Supreme Court and Second Circuit decisions in price-fixing cases, leaves no doubt that Boutrous and his team at Gibson, Dunn are teeing the case up for Supreme Court review, should it come to that.




*** All One Breath By John Burnside – Review ***
<http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/feb/28/all-one-breath-john-burnside>
Sarah Crown, The Guardian


> We may be surrounded by people, Burnside suggests, but when the chips are down, we're on our own, "out at the end of winter, turning away / to where the dark begins, far in the trees". It's an image that sums up the collection's spirit: this is a mid-life, dark woods kind of a book; death-haunted and offering precious little in the way of comfort.




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