[MyAppleMenu] Oct 8, 2014

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*** Privacy Vs. User Experience ***
<http://dcurt.is/privacy-vs-user-experience?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+dcurtis+%28Dustin+Curtis%29>
Dustin Curtis

> Apple is going to realize very soon that it has made a grave mistake by positioning itself as a bastion of privacy against Google, the evil invader of everyone’s secrets. The truth is that collecting information about people allows you to make significantly better products, and the more information you collect, the better products you can build.



*** How To Use Handoff With Your iPhone And iPad ***
<http://www.macworld.com/article/2691815/how-to-use-handoff-with-your-iphone-and-ipad.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter#tk.rss_all>
Christopher Breen, Macworld



*** Fiery Feeds RSS Reader App Updated With Support For iOS 8, iPhone 6 And iPad ***
<http://appadvice.com/appnn/2014/10/fiery-feeds-rss-reader-app-updated-with-support-for-ios-8-iphone-6-and-ipad>
Aldrin Calimlim, AppAdvice



*** Google Updates YouTube Creator Studio With Support For iPad And iPhone 6 ***
<http://appadvice.com/appnn/2014/10/google-updates-youtube-creator-studio-with-support-for-ipad-and-iphone-6>
Aldrin Calimlim, AppAdvice



*** DEVONthink/DEVONnote 2.8 ***
<http://tidbits.com/article/15132?rss=&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=tidbits>
Agen G. N. Schmitz, TidBITS

> In addition to updated Yosemite-friendly interface elements, the three editions of DEVONthink add a sharing extension that enables you to clip text and Web addresses with a single click (rather than using drag and drop).



*** How To Generate And Manage App-specific Passwords With iCloud ***
<http://www.imore.com/how-generate-and-manage-app-specific-passwords-icloud>
Allyson Kazmucha, iMore

> Essentially, any apps that don't support two-step verification, if you have it enabled, will instead need an app-specific password in order to link up to your iCloud account. This ensures that your primary Apple ID password isn't collected or stored by any third party apps.



*** Transporter Can Now Backup Your File Version History ***
<http://www.imore.com/transporter-can-now-backup-your-file-version-history?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter>
Chuong H Nguyen, iMore



*** Tight Dirndls, Heavy Beers, And Grabby Hands: The Life Of An Oktoberfest Waitress ***
<https://medium.com/@Thrillist/tight-dirndls-heavy-beers-and-grabby-hands-the-life-of-an-oktoberfest-waitress-aa0fb0aae0c8>
Erin Snell, Medium

> I tried my luck at carrying beers as the waitresses do. After lifting just one load of 10 sloshing beer mugs, a crowd cheered for me and snapped Facebook-worthy photos. I found new respect for the Oktoberfest waitresses – and probably a few strained muscles in the process. Sure, I managed one round, and could imagine doing it for a few hours. But those brave women do it all day, for 16 days. They haul beer by the ton – quite literally.



*** Reflect+ Can Refresh Your Photos In Amazing Ways ***
<http://www.tuaw.com/2014/10/07/refect-can-refresh-your-photos-in-amazing-ways/>
Mel Martin, TUAW

> The app can add water or a beach to a barren landscape, add realistic haze and fog, or 50 other effects like lens flares, birds, star fields, the moon and planets, and then filter the image to provide different lighting and tonal washes.



*** Yo Update Lets You Send Your Friends Your Location ***
<http://www.imore.com/yo-update-lets-you-send-your-friends-your-location?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter>
Joseph Keller, iMore

> Yo, the app that lets you send the word "Yo" to your friends, has been updated today with the ability to send your location. The update also takes advantage of actionable notifications in iOS 8 to make replying faster.



*** Google News & Weather App Debuts On iPhone ***
<http://www.imore.com/google-news-weather-app-debuts-iphone?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter>
Chuong H Nguyen, iMore



*** Best Writing Apps For Mac ***
<http://www.imore.com/best-writing-apps-mac?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter>
Allyson Kazmucha, iMore



*** Adobe’s E-book Reader Sends Your Reading Logs Back To Adobe—in Plain Text ***
<http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/10/adobes-e-book-reader-sends-your-reading-logs-back-to-adobe-in-plain-text/>
Sean Gallagher, Ars Technica

> Adobe’s Digital Editions e-book and PDF reader—an application used by thousands of libraries to give patrons access to electronic lending libraries—actively logs and reports every document readers add to their local “library” along with what users do with those files. Even worse, the logs are transmitted over the Internet in the clear, allowing anyone who can monitor network traffic (such as the National Security Agency, Internet service providers and cable companies, or others sharing a public Wi-Fi network) to follow along over readers’ shoulders.



*** Three Theories Why iOS 8 Adoption Is Slow On The Uptake ***
<http://www.macworld.com/article/2692561/three-theories-why-ios-8-adoption-is-slow-on-the-uptake.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter#tk.rss_all>
Caitlin McGarry, Macworld



*** Square Cash For iOS 8 Based iPhones Now Allows Users To Transfer Money Via Bluetooth ***
<http://www.imore.com/square-cash-ios-8-based-iphones-now-allows-users-transfer-money-bluetooth?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter>
John Callaham, iMore



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*** How Jonathan Franzen Almost Stopped Me Writing My Novel ***
<http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/oct/08/how-jonathan-franzen-almost-stopped-me-writing-my-novel>
Paul Daley, The Guardian

> Jonathan Franzen. What a bastard. Thanks to him, about this time three years ago I seriously considered walking away from the novel I had been writing for a year (and contemplating for many more).



*** The Empire Reboots ***
<http://www.vanityfair.com/business/2014/11/satya-nadella-bill-gates-steve-ballmer-microsoft>
Bethany McLean, Vanity Fair

> There’s a sense in the world outside Redmond, Washington, that Microsoft’s best days are behind it, that the sprawling colossus, which employs more than 100,000 people, doesn’t know what it is, or even what it wants to be. Gates and Nadella are adamant that’s not the case, and they are both adept at the sort of big-picture corporate-speak designed to persuade people that the company not only has its act together but also has a vision. In their view, this new world of unlimited computing power, where your devices can connect you anytime, anywhere, should rightfully belong to Microsoft. They even have a catchphrase: “Re-inventing productivity.”



*** Why You Should Write A Letter To Yourself Tonight ***
<http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2014/10/why-you-should-write-yourself-a-letter-tonight.html>
Bessel van der Kolk, New York Magazine

> When you write to yourself, you don’t have to worry about other people’s judgment — you just listen to your own thoughts and let their flow take over. Later, when you reread what you wrote, you often discover surprising truths.



*** Wild And Craggy, Just Like Thoreau ***
<http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/07/science/earth/a-mountain-to-honor-thoreau-.html?referrer=&_r=0>
John Markoff, New York Times

> But the mountain cannot be named for Thoreau or anyone else. Since 1964, the government has decreed that except in extraordinary circumstances, unnamed features in federal wilderness areas will remain that way.
> Now a group of 11 writers, printmakers, poets, wilderness enthusiasts, Thoreau devotees and fellow travelers is trying to correct what they say is a historic oversight. On Sept. 26, they made the trek to the summit of the unnamed mountain for a minor act of civil disobedience: a ceremony to name it for Thoreau.



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