May 2010
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Fav/Archive
Here’s an interesting new service from Tim Van Damme and Phillip Bowden. How many people use Twitter faves as a method to remember items they want to read/research later?
I’m guessing it’s a lot!
April 2010
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The Crux of the Switch →
Joshua Kofman, from back in January, posted this detailed piece on switching between applications in OS X. He gives a lot of background along with his personal preferences, and the entire post may be helpful for those wishing for a better experience in this area.
He also included a tip that I was unaware of, for reopening the window of an app you had closed. That is to say, you have not Quit the...
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Transmit 4
Wow. Panic releases Transmit 4 and despite being an update to an already great piece of software for relatively boring tasks, they manage to generate a lot of excitement. It’s a testament to the consistent high quality of their work.
My favourite addition is the ability to access my Favourites without even having the app open. The new Disk Feature is perfect, and I imagine the addition...
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Only in America
Seeing as Apple doesn’t take proper precautions for their lovely neighbours to the North, sometimes we have to call on a 3rd party to obtain that which we covet hardware for market research. Such transactions can be fraught with peril though, dependant as we are on our brethren in the US of A:
Also, I opened your iPad and played with it for a few hours, slept with it last night, and now...
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WatchSo much goodness in one short video. If this doesn’t make you want to love your coffee, nothing will.
[ via jorgeq ]
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Debunking the Myths of the Telecommute →
There is nothing earth shattering in this article for those us on the “bleeding edge”, the early adopters. But this first hand account of working for corporate America from home nicely summarizes the benefits of our changing work environment.
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The Appeal Is Simple
markdicristinaa:
It’s for purists.
And simple is just right.
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Design Swap →
I love the concept of this site: two designers create a design for the other half’s blog/site. It’s off to a great start, and the lineup of talent promises some interesting work.
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Scary Questions
Daniel Jalkut ponders some scary questions while detailing Apple’s recent abandonment of their downloads page:
Does Apple plan to introduce a new App Store for “authorized” Mac apps? Are they simply disinterested in the Mac since the iPod, iPhone, and iPad have taken one such an important role in their public relations? These are some of the questions that run through the minds of Mac...
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Cheesy Tech News Sites Are Not the Problem
We are. You, me, all of us. Our insatiable lust for The Next Thing™ enables the market for the newest news. As long as we are seeking, there will be shady characters willing to capitalize on our desires, obviously even at the expense of others.
But the blame is on us. So, rather than complaining about their lack of ethics, let’s make them go away.
Stop feeding the monster.
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“Every commercial product which competes directly with an Apple product...”
– Stanislav Datskovskiy in Non-Apple’s Mistake, in which he blames the current situation of Apple’s Golden Cage on the rest of the industry and the complete lack of anyone else creating good products.
Brilliant.
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Every Time Zone
What a fantastic site over at everytimezone.com. The purpose: make it easy for people to figure out what time it is somewhere else. With the sliding scale, it’s an excellent approach to a common headache.
It looks like there are still some bugs to work out though — my time should be the same as San Francisco.
[ via Beautiful Pixels ]
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“At best, iAd will provide advertisements for things I’m not really that...”
– Kyle Baxter gets it.
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Atomic Stapler: Why iAds misses the mark →
Josh Holloway makes a few interesting points regarding Apple’s newly announced iAds platform.
There was a ton of speculation about Apple’s entry into mobile advertising leading up to last week’s iPhone OS 4 event, and now that we know more about iAds, there’s a lot of excitement about how it could change the future of advertising forever. While I see a lot of potential in iAds, I really …
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CSSDesk
Check out this very nifty web tool, aptly named CSSDesk. This utility from Josh Pyles is intended to allow you to quickly test out a bit of CSS and HTML.
The tool is still in alpha.
[ via Maxvoltar ]
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“A young guy and his mom get in line behind us. The guy is wearing a “WWSJD”...”
– Classic Shawn Blanc, his diary entries of the first week of iPad ownership are a fun read.
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“Between Apple and Google, I’m rooting for Google. Google behaves in predictably...”
– rentzsch
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“Apple got part of it right–ads need to be meaningful and useful–but being...”
– Amen Kyle Baxter, amen.
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Multi-user? Two Days with the iPad →
This is the first iPad article I’ve read that asks the biggest question that is on my mind.
The only question is if Apple will allow for multiple users per iPad, or if they’re expecting 1 iPad per person. I have a feeling it’s the latter.
Jeremy Bell expresses the same desire as I have. In the process of setting his iPad up, he realized that his wife and he want to share the device, but...
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Bullet the Blue Sky [Live]
I know, I know — U2...
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Frictionless Publishing: It's Just Text, Except...
Over the past couple of weeks, there has been a decent amount of discussion on the subject of Tumblr, Posterous and the rise of the micro-blog. Without recapping all the details, the general feeling of many is this: these services make it so easy to post that the quality of the content produced by the users of these services is very low.
And with the rise of blogs like “f*&%yeahwelshcorgis”,...
“I used to stress a lot about my business, my clients, the amount of work I was...”
– Sam Brown ~ I love work, just not hard work.
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Sitting at a New Desk
Josh Holloway has a problem:
It’s very odd: I read about and follow everything having to do with graphic design, web design, software development, writing, filmmaking, etc., and yet I don’t actually do any of those things.
He is not alone in this. This Internet and the culture that has grown with it make consumption very, very easy. Creating, less so.
But Josh has the desire to change this,...
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iPad Peek →
It’s an all-iPad Monday morning. Don’t have one yet and curious how your site appears on the device? Check out iPad Peek — it appears to be fairly accurate.
Things Blog | Cultured Code →
Just in time for everyone’s iPad to arrive, Cultured Code releases an update to Things (1.3.2). It’s not yet cloud syncing, but it does update the LAN sync so that multiple devices can sync to the same library.
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