[MyAppleMenu] Oct 18, 2014

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*** Streaming Music Has Left Me Adrift ***
<http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/19/magazine/streaming-music-has-left-me-adrift.html?smid=tw-nytmag&_r=0>
Dan Brooks, New York Times

> It’s hard to imagine now, but there once was a time when you could not play any song ever recorded, instantly, from your phone. I call this period adolescence. It lasted approximately 30 years, and it was galvanized by conflict.



*** Apple's Quiet Attempt To Shake Up Wireless Carriers Could Benefit Us All ***
<http://www.technologyreview.com/view/531901/apples-quiet-attempt-to-shake-up-wireless-carriers-could-benefit-us-all/>
Rachel Metz, Technology Review

> Apple’s SIM card that lets you switch wireless carriers on the fly could lead to cheaper communications.



*** To Siri, With Love: How Apple’s Siri Became One Autistic Boy's B.F.F. ***
<http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/19/fashion/how-apples-siri-became-one-autistic-boys-bff.html>
Judith Newman, New York Times

> It’s not that Gus doesn’t understand Siri’s not human. He does — intellectually. But like many autistic people I know, Gus feels that inanimate objects, while maybe not possessing souls, are worthy of our consideration. I realized this when he was 8, and I got him an iPod for his birthday. He listened to it only at home, with one exception. It always came with us on our visits to the Apple Store. Finally, I asked why. “So it can visit its friends,” he said.



*** Apple Users Complain iOS 8 Messes Up AirPrint On iPhones And iPads ***
<http://mashable.com/2014/10/17/ios-8-airprint/>
Rex Santus, Mashable

> A commonly reported problem is an error message ("URF error") that halts printing.



*** Taking Apple’s Lead ***
<http://sixcolors.com/2014/10/taking-apples-lead/>
Jason Snell, Six Colors

> We can argue about whether or not this collapsed toolbar/title bar thing is a good idea. What bugs me is not that it exists, but that it only exists in a few of Apple’s apps. In Mail and Preview and TextEdit and even the new iWork apps, the old style prevails. The inconsistency rankles. If Apple thinks the tool/title bar is the future, why do many of its apps not follow the format?



*** Retina 5K iMac Will Not Act As External Display, Standalone Apple 5K Display Unlikely Soon ***
<http://www.macrumors.com/2014/10/17/retina-5k-imac-external-display-no/>
Eric Slivka, MacRumors



*** To-do App Wunderlist Updated For Both iOS And OS X Yosemite ***
<http://appadvice.com/appnn/2014/10/to-do-app-wunderlist-updated-for-both-ios-and-os-x-yosemite>
Brent Dirks, AppAdvice



*** Apple Removes All Bose Products From Its Online Store ***
<http://appleinsider.com/articles/14/10/17/apple-removes-all-bose-products-from-its-online-store?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter>
Neil Hughes, AppleInsider



*** iCloud Drive: What Is It, How It Works & Its Fundamental Problem ***
<http://www.macstories.net/mac/icloud-drive-what-is-it-how-it-works-its-fundamental-problem/>
Graham Spencer, MacStories

> In my opinion, Apple should get rid of these weird app folders and simply save files to the root of iCloud Drive, or into user-created folders if the user chose.



*** This Autocorrect Gaffe Was The Best Thing About Apple's iPad Presentation ***
<http://www.dailydot.com/lol/autocorrect-its-road-trip-ipad/>
Ramon Ramirez, The Daily Dot

> But when Lagunas embedded his custom text, the phrase “Utah road trip” autocorrected to the entirely innocuous “It’s road trip.”



*** Yosemite & iOS 8 How-to: Set Up And Use Handoff ***
<http://9to5mac.com/2014/10/17/handoff-yosemite-ios-8/>
Sarah Guarino, 9 To 5 Mac



*** 1Password 5.0 ***
<http://tidbits.com/article/15160?rss>
Agen G. N. Schmitz, TidBITS



*** iWork Updated For Yosemite And iCloud Drive ***
<http://tidbits.com/article/15154?rss>
Michael E. Cohen, TidBITS

> If you liked the apps before, there is nothing but good news in the latest set of upgrades. If you found the iWork apps seriously lacking compared to what the apps offered before last year’s retooling, you may not find these updates any more compelling. Nonetheless, all the apps are deeper than a cursory examination might reveal, and the enhancements that Apple has just delivered are real improvements to a suite that was already surprisingly capable.



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*** A Collection Of Poems That Offers An Unlikely Kind Of Hope ***
<http://www.npr.org/2014/10/18/345290779/a-collection-of-poems-that-offers-an-unlikely-kind-of-hope>
Craig Morgan Teicher, NPR

> What's most remarkable in these poems is that, while they never stop speaking through gritted teeth, never quite make the choice between hope and fear, they are always beautiful, full of a music that is a cross between the sinuous sentences of Carl Phillips, the forceful descriptions of Mark Doty, and hip rhythms of Terrance Hayes.



*** Nell Zink’s ‘Wallcreeper’ ***
<http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/19/books/review/nell-zink-wallcreeper-review.html?ref=books&_r=0>
Robin Romm, New York Times

> Wake up, this book says: in its plot lines, in its humor, in its philosophical underpinnings and political agenda. You snooze and we all lose. Zink’s work may be, at times, cerebral and a little distancing, but its vitality and purpose are invigorating.



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