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- → Accidental Tech Podcast: Pouring Champagne Onto Rap Stars24 May 2013, 6:53 pm
This week: Money and happiness, Tumblr and Yahoo, the Xbox One, and the messy world of TV-connected boxes. Sponsored by Squarespace and Windows Azure Mobile Services. ∞ Permalink... - 71 Seconds24 May 2013, 11:34 am
The consensus on WWDC’s sellout time this year seemed to be about 2 minutes. As one of the many people who hammered the servers trying to get a ticket, only seeing error messages until being shocked by a “Sold Out” banner far too quickly, it felt like a lot less time — the unofficial “71 seconds” time sounds right to me. It’s a great story. Last year, WWDC tickets became available suddenly, without advance notice, and they took almost 2 hours to sell ou... - → The Magazine: Issue 1722 May 2013, 5:32 pm
I need a nap. Glenn’s free preview of the newest issue: check it out. ∞ Permalink... - → The New York Times Told Me to Take This Down22 May 2013, 3:28 pm
I’m overly sensitive to overreaching, bogus “copyright” claims and legal bullying, but this is just ridiculous. The New York Times should be ashamed that they — the press — demanded, unnecessarily and without any legal basis, that someone else censor a fact about the Times from their site. If anyone at the Times gives a damn about their reputation anymore, they should inform the legal department what exactly the Times does. ∞ Permalink... - → Sponsor: Windows Azure Mobile Services22 May 2013, 11:35 am
Windows Azure Mobile Services makes it fast and easy to build iOS apps that scale. Use Mobile Services to store data in the cloud, authenticate users, and send push notifications. Mobile Services lets you choose from a variety of relational, NoSQL, and blob data storage options. You can authenticate users via Facebook, Twitter, Google, or Microsoft accounts. It’s as simple as copying over your App ID and Secret. And all it takes to send a push notification is push.apns.send(). It’s ... - Wi-Fi connections stalling on AirPort Extreme with 7.6.3 firmware21 May 2013, 5:04 pm
Recently, I’ve had a recurring Wi-Fi issue: A device shows full Wi-Fi signal strength, as it normally does at home. Almost daily, the device stops being able to connect to the internet over Wi-Fi, but doesn’t report this as a connectivity problem — connections just sit there, spinning, waiting, until they eventually time out and fail. (Like AT&T in Manhattan.) This happened most often on my iPhone 5 with the latest iOS version (6.1.4), but it also happened with the previ... - The One-Person Product20 May 2013, 5:18 pm
In 2006, I moved to New York and started working for David Karp doing web development for various media companies. That fall, in a brief gap before starting a new client, David said that we were going to make a prototype of an idea he’d had for a while. He had already bought the domain: tumblr.com, because it was an easy platform for publishing tumblelogs. David Karp in September 2006, a few months after hiring me to build websites with him for clients. In March 2007, Tumblr exploded aft... - → Welcome to Google Island17 May 2013, 11:01 am
Amazing. By Mat Honan. (Via John Moltz.) ∞ Permalink... - → Accidental Tech Podcast: Animated Kale17 May 2013, 10:39 am
In this week’s episode: Our theme song, too many to-do apps, Google I/O keynote reactions, localization, Google kicking Apple’s butt in services, Google Play Music All Access Glass Map Hangouts, and Apple’s quietly updated Javascript bridge. Sponsored by An Event Apart and CocoaConf. ∞ Permalink... - → The Great Google Goat Rodeo16 May 2013, 6:27 pm
By Mark Wunsch, the web developer: There is no unified Google that is “good” or “evil”. There is just an organizational clusterfuck that is unable to decide what it thinks is truly the best way to “organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful”. Is that by forcing web authors into a social network in order to improve directory results? Is that by dipping a toe into the music business? Is that by abandoning standards like RSS and XMPP/Jabber? I d...
- Home Screens: Hardik Pandya24 May 2013, 9:00 am
This week's home screen comes from Hardik Pandya (Twitter)(App.net)(website), a consultant, student, blogger and photographer from the Netherlands that writes about technology and other issues of interest. So Hardik, show us your home screen.Day One This has to be one of the most used apps on my phone. I have started logging my life for last year now and I have about 500 entries. I use Terpstra's Slogger tool and even make hand-typed entries twice or thrice a day. This one is for the lifetime. ... - Replacing Photoshop with Pixelmator23 May 2013, 2:05 pm
With Adobe's new subscription model, a lot of people are asking if they should switch to something less expensive. I've been using Pixelmator for years and it has a lot more firepower than I need. Since you can buy Pixelmator for $15, which is just a few months of an Adobe subscription, Pixelmator's looking even better. Michael Cohen at TidBITS did a nice article looking at this very question and came to the same conclusion I did: For most people Pixelmator will get the job done. ∞Permalink... - Put Your Mac to Sleep with iOS Drafts23 May 2013, 12:47 am
Occasionally, I have sensitive things on my Mac's screen and occasionally I leave an office, or conference room, or courtroom and forget to shut the lid on that Mac. While I've got my Mac set to lock itself down after a few minutes, I thought it would be nice to have a way to force the issue. Mac Power User listener Mariusz wrote me about Polish Mac Geek Milosz Bolechowski who pulls this off with Drafts, a Dropbox File, and Hazel. I thought it was pretty clever so I duplicated it tonight. This ... - Markdown to .docx on iOS22 May 2013, 10:00 am
Craig Scott, the developer behind my beloved iThoughtsHD has started releasing a series of iOS apps that feel, to me, a lot more like iOS Automator Actions than apps. The first app, makeDoc, takes the contents of your clipboard text (including Markdown) and spits out a Microsoft Word file. The other, makeSlides, does the same thing to create a PowerPoint file. I don't have much use for making PowerPoint files. (Indeed, I have an irrational dislike of PowerPoint.) But making Word files is, sadly,... - TextExpander touch 2.021 May 2013, 10:34 am
The new version of TextExpander touch is now available for download and it's fabulous. The big new features are rich text and fill in snippet support. Although this is a version 2.0, it is free for people who already purchased the prior version. The fill-in snippet support is huge for me. I use fill-in snippets every day. Federico did a nice extended review at MacStories and I made a short screencast showing off the new version. Enjoy. TextExpander touch 2.0 from David Sparks on Vimeo.... - Fifty-Seven Bucks Per Visitor20 May 2013, 11:48 pm
Horace Dediu breaks down the Apple Store numbers to figure out Apple earns $57 for every warm body that walks through the door. ($12 of that is profit.) So how does the popular press turn that into a call for Tim Cook's head? ∞Permalink... - MPU 138: Syncing and Sharing20 May 2013, 12:55 pm
After 4 years, Katie and I go back to the subject of syncing data on this week's Mac Power Users episode. In it, we cover the relative merits of Dropbox and iCloud and also expand the discussion to syncing all sorts of data between Macs and iOS devices. This is also the episode where Katie threatens to eviscerate me with a Klingon pointy-sword. ∞Permalink... - Watching FoldingText20 May 2013, 12:00 pm
HogBay Software makes some great Mac and iOS software. (I've got WriteRoom on my iPad home screen right now.) So I've been watching the development of FoldingText with some interest over the past several months. The application is now at version 1.2.2 and available in the Mac App Store for $25. FoldingText is a simple text editor with a few tricks up its sleeve I've never seen before. As the name implies, it folds text. While this is a common feature and high-powered text editors such as BBEdit... - Sponsor: Doo.net20 May 2013, 9:00 am
This week I'd like to thank doo.net for sponsoring MacSparky.com. doo is a Cloud based paperless management service. You can connect all of your document sources and doo does the hard work of indexing and organizing your documents for you with automatic intelligent tagging. This provides the basis for an extremely efficient search. Moreover, with cloud-based document storage, you can access all your documents no matter where you are and what device you are holding. The new version 1.2 now even i... - Reeder to OmniFocus Inbox with Two Taps19 May 2013, 4:27 pm
MPU Listener David Hall found a clever use for Reeder's defeault address to send link setting. He put in his OmniFocus Mail Drop address and now can send an article straight into OmniFocus without leaving Reeder. I'm in. ∞Permalink...
- The Three-Day Weekend »25 May 2013, 3:09 pm
Bob Sullivan: Memorial Day weekend marks the beginning of summer and all it evokes: vacations, slower workweeks, casual dress codes, getting the pool ready and pulling out the outdoor furniture. It would seem an ideal time to take a break, but our ability to unplug and relax is under assault. A three-day weekend? We can [...]⌘ Permalink... - The Loop Magazine, Issue 2 »23 May 2013, 5:28 pm
Be sure to check out Issue 2 of The Loop Magazine, for articles from Joe King, Matt Gemmell, Matthew Panzarino, Peter Cohen, Rene Ritchie and yours truly. It’s out today at the link above. ⌘ Permalink⌘ Permalink... - The 23-Ton Lego X-Wing »23 May 2013, 4:04 pm
Angela Watercutter at Wired: The newest addition to the grand list of Coolest Things Ever is being unveiled in New York today: the Lego X-Wing, the largest Lego model ever built. The model of the classic Star Wars fighter being unveiled in Times Square has a wingspan of 44 feet and comes complete with R2-D2 [...]⌘ Permalink... - Evernote Adds Reminders »23 May 2013, 11:03 am
Andrew Sinkov at Evernote: For the millions and millions of people around the world that use Evernote everyday to achieve their goals, we’re excited to announce a new part of Evernote that will keep you on track every step of the way. Reminders are here. Our three most requested features rolled into one small package: [...]⌘ Permalink... - The 512 Podcast 064 – I Like Hot Dogs On Everything »22 May 2013, 5:48 pm
This week, Myke and I tackle a long list of short topics, including BBQ, Tumblr, the Fitbit Flex and more. This episode is brought to you by: Squarespace, the secret behind exceptional websites. Go to squarespace.com/70decibels to start your free trial and use the offer code 70decibels5 at checkout to get 10% off your first [...]⌘ Permalink... - Designing Blogs for Readers »22 May 2013, 3:58 pm
If you have a blog, be sure to check out this post. I’m already making a list of tweaks for 512. ⌘ Permalink⌘ Permalink... - On OmniPresence »22 May 2013, 12:42 pm
The new service from OmniGroup allows for easy, cloud-based file sharing between iOS and OS X versions of the company’s apps. You can sign up or host it yourself. ⌘ Permalink⌘ Permalink... - Chris Hadfield’s Post-Landing Interview With NASA »22 May 2013, 11:11 am
How is this guy so cool? ⌘ Permalink⌘ Permalink... - Old Mac of the Month: The iBook (Dual USB)21 May 2013, 3:58 pm
This Old Mac of the Month entry is written by Brian Ashe, a Jack-of-all-trades/master-of-none when it comes to computers, networking, web app development, hardware, and design of all kinds. His website is perpetually coming soon and he neither tweets nor blogs but he loves hearing from strangers. image courtesy of Apple PR As Steve Jobs [...]... - Preserving the Apollo Rocket Engines »21 May 2013, 3:21 pm
Remember when Jeff Bezos recovered those Apollo rockets? There’s a team in Kansas now working to restore them. ⌘ Permalink⌘ Permalink...
- ✚ Jeffrey Abbott’s Sweet Mac Setup24 May 2013, 1:03 pm
Who are you, what do you do, etc…? My name is Jeffrey Abbott. I spend my time writing, editing, and making photographs in Huntsville, Alabama. I currently work for a large international software company that has a local office nearby. … (More)... - @KimKierkegaardashian23 May 2013, 4:23 pm
Combining the dour wisdom of the philosopher Kierkegaard with the modern philosophy of the … something something Kim Kardashian: To win a crowd is no art; for that only untruth is needed, nonsense, & some knowledge of human passions. LIKE … (More)✚... - A Daughter’s Love23 May 2013, 3:59 pm
This is a piece from NPR’s StoryCorps about a daughter’s love for her unique mother. You should listen to the audio instead of skimming through the text. This is a guest post by Nate Spears, who has taken over the … (More)✚... - ✚ Those two movies that come out at the same time that are about the same stuff23 May 2013, 12:01 am
What causes this bizarre (to the film industry outsider) phenomenon? I think it’s that studios keep a close eye on what their competition is doing, and the weird “hotness” factor comes into play when someone thinks his studio is going … (More)... - One of those headlines22 May 2013, 12:55 pm
Yes, that is a one-liner. I doubt I will have time for anything substantial today so please accept this gem of a headline as my apology. And for dessert, here’s my favorite silly classified ad. Thanks for all the nice … (More)✚... - ✚ Lionel Messi Never Dives21 May 2013, 6:18 pm
I’m going to take this unique opportunity to introduce you guys to something that’s going on across the pond. If you have zero interest in sports, then just move on to the next item in your RSS feed now! If … (More)... - Science comedy is the best comedy.20 May 2013, 4:30 pm
Since Shawn does Youtube Fridays on occasion, I thought I’d switch it up and do a Youtube Monday. Post title stolen from a comment on the video itself. Here’s the setup: capuchin monkeys like cucumbers, but they like grapes more. … (More)✚... - ✚ Introductions20 May 2013, 1:44 pm
Good morning. I’m Nate Spears, and I’m going to be posting a bit while Shawn takes some well-deserved time off. Shawn gave me a very kind intro, and I thought I’d expand on that a bit so you have some idea … (More)... - ✚ See You Next Week20 May 2013, 11:20 am
By the time you read this, my laptop lid will be closed and my iPhone’s push notifications turned off for the week. I don’t know if it’s like this for others, but for me, taking time off is one of … (More)... - How to Know When Apple Finally Gets iCloud Right20 May 2013, 10:36 am
Gus Mueller outlines some excellent benchmarks for when we’ll know Apple has taken the next serious step with iCloud: WWDC 2013 is fast approaching, and chances are good that we’ll get some sort of preview and song and dance about … (More)✚...
- ‘Welcome to Google Island’17 May 2013, 2:54 pm
Mat Honan, for Wired, on what Google’s Island “is”: I was thirsty, so I drank the electrolyte solution down. “This is delicious,” I replied. “I know,” he {Larry Page} replied. “It also has thousands of micro sensors which are now swarming through your blood stream.” “What… ” I stammered. “Your prostate is enlarged. Let’s go hangout now. There’s some really great music I’d like to recommend to you.” It’s everything I feared it would be… [...]T... - 22 Workplace Tips We Learned From The Office16 May 2013, 5:50 pm
Kevin Fallon has the list: Know how to motivate. Robert: There’s something about an underdog that really inspires the unexceptional. I love that show. Hands down this was the best episode — I did that prank at my office and it might be the funniest thing I have ever seen. This feed is delayed by 7 days, become a Brooks Review member to remove the delay and support my ad-free opinionated writing.This feed is delayed by 7 days, become a Brooks Review member to remove the delay and support ... - Quote of the Day: Jim Lipsey16 May 2013, 3:59 pm
“Why doesn’t Google buy up a mobile device company and offer their own phone rather than resell a Samsung handset?” — Jim Lipsey This feed is delayed by 7 days, become a Brooks Review member to remove the delay and support my ad-free opinionated writing.This feed is delayed by 7 days, become a Brooks Review member to remove the delay and support my ad-free opinionated writing.... - ‘Going Native’16 May 2013, 1:51 pm
James Martin slamming the always changing world of web apps: Why are web apps worse than native apps? Because they encourage you, big-shot startup entrepreneur, to experiment on me instead of thinking through the job that I’ve hired your software to do. For the most part I really cannot stand to use non-native applications. If there is a native app — and it is even reasonably decent, yeah I’m using it. Just about the only [...]This feed is delayed by 7 days, become a Brooks Review memb... - Some ‘New’ Weather Apps16 May 2013, 11:43 am
Marco reminded me that I’ve been sitting on a few weather apps that I tried recently. Let’s get started. Haze Haze believes that a subtly animated background image behind the temperature makes for a better iOS weather app. I assume. There’s no doubt that Haze is a pretty looking app, but what void does it fill? The data is mostly buried, requiring far more tapping and swiping than Apple’s weather app. Haze’s differentiator is to [...]This feed is delayed by 7 days, become a Bro... - Quote of the Day: John Gruber15 May 2013, 3:28 pm
“It’s always a sign of trouble when you’ve built something you don’t want to use yourself.” — John Gruber This feed is delayed by 7 days, become a Brooks Review member to remove the delay and support my ad-free opinionated writing.This feed is delayed by 7 days, become a Brooks Review member to remove the delay and support my ad-free opinionated writing.... - ‘Evil Eric Schmidt’15 May 2013, 10:09 am
Google Executive Chairman Eric “Uncle Creepy” Schmidt made an appearance on an NPR show, and oh boy… On the idea of Google’s slogan (“Don’t be evil”) he had this to say: SCHMIDT: Well, it was invented by Larry and Sergey. And the idea was that we don’t quite know what evil is, but if we have a rule that says don’t be evil, then employees can say, I think that’s evil. Now, when I showed [...]This feed is delayed by 7 days, become a Brooks Re... - ‘Due.app and Reminder Notifications’15 May 2013, 9:52 am
Just Blanton on why he loves the repeating notifications in Due.app: As you can imagine, this is great for (recurring) tasks that don’t necessarily need to be completed by/at the specified time, but instead can be done within some hours-wide window; e.g., a daily workout routine, weekly status updates you send to your manager, a reminder to call a friend on Saturday (set it for 9AM and have it bug you every hour until you [...]This feed is delayed by 7 days, become a Brooks Review member to re... - Someone Should Write a Mail.app Plugin14 May 2013, 4:46 pm
When I first saw a post about hacking The Onion, I didn’t think much of it. But when I saw David Sparks post about it I immediately thought: this is a software problem that should be fixable. My first thought was to jump into Keyboard Maestro and create a macro that would show you the link you clicked on before anything actually opens the link. But I couldn’t figure that out… Then I thought — [...]This feed is delayed by 7 days, become a Brooks Review member to remove the delay a... - Naked WordPress14 May 2013, 4:35 pm
This is a really fantastic tool for learning how to read and use WordPress themes. The code is heavily commented and easily explains what does what. <?php wphead(); // This fxn allows plugins, and WordPress itself, to insert themselves/scripts/css/files // (right here) into the head of your website. // Removing this fxn call will disable all kinds of plugins and WordPress default insertions. // Move it if you like, but I would keep it around. [...]This feed is delayed by 7 days, become a Bro...
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