Year: 2011

You may remember that Jorge Garcia and his girlfriend Bethany Shady had a podcast for behind-the-scenes LOST stuff appropriately named Geronimo Jack’s Beard. Well, Garcia and Shady are back with a new podcast for behind-the-scenes stuff on Alcatraz, a new show coming in the spring, named Diego’s Soul Patch.Here isthe iTunes feed. I’ve seen the…

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Joanne Cronin on restaurant reservations that end up in no-shows: This problem isn’t limited just to Irish restaurants as I’ve also noticed similar complaints emerging from English tweeters. Understandably, restaurants are annoyed at these no-shows and late cancellations and the Restaurants Association of Ireland started a press campaign to highlight this issue. Many venues are…

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I found this interesting, perhaps you will too. Molloy & Sons is a weaving business in Donegal, Ireland.Sadly I didn’t visit Donegal during our visit to Ireland this past October. However, I am glad that they have an excellent website, Put This On recently made an episode video about them, and Nowness also made a…

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This makes sense. Sabri Ben-Achour for NPR reports that birds sing different tunes in cities than they do in the country. The buildings, noise and other factors in city life make it hard for birds to hear each other unless they sing at different pitches than the surrounding noise. This doesn’t seem like such a…

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I’m glad someone is finally saying it. Eric Eldon for Aol/Techcrunch: "That’s not 62 million active users, though — a point that everyone covering these numbers seems to have missed. It’s just the number of total users. And specifically, it’s the number of new surnames that Allen’s team has tracked being created on the service. Because…

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Somewhat related to my last, Adi Robertson on The Verge provides a quick step-by-step on how to add personal documents to your Kindle. I’m cataloging these in hopes of one day buying Eliza a new Kindle and I inherit her old one. Shh, don’t tell her.

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Last night I needed to transfer an EPUB file to Eliza’s Kindle from my Mac. It turns out that Kindles no likey the EPUBs. (I didn’t know this, I’ve never really used one.) So, after a bit of searching I found Calibre that, while it doesn’t have the best looking UI, is sort of the…

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Horace Dediu of Asymco thinks so. Him, on Twitter: I’m starting to believe that if and when Apple TV is updated the hardware price will be surprisingly low. As you may very well know Eliza and I use our Apple TV a lot. We don’t use all of the features but we use it daily.…

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At least, not in the same way. Andrew Mayne wrote on Google : "Much of the sales were generated by the news sites and blogs covering the story. This works great once, but is hard to repeat it. Other comedians, even established ones aren’t going to get as lucky. The publicity was a black swan…

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At least, not in the same way. Andrew Mayne wrote on Google : "Much of the sales were generated by the news sites and blogs covering the story. This works great once, but is hard to repeat it. Other comedians, even established ones aren’t going to get as lucky. The publicity was a black swan…

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At least, not in the same way. Andrew Mayne wrote on Google : "Much of the sales were generated by the news sites and blogs covering the story. This works great once, but is hard to repeat it. Other comedians, even established ones aren’t going to get as lucky. The publicity was a black swan…

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At least, not in the same way. Andrew Mayne wrote on Google : "Much of the sales were generated by the news sites and blogs covering the story. This works great once, but is hard to repeat it. Other comedians, even established ones aren’t going to get as lucky. The publicity was a black swan…

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At least, not in the same way. Andrew Mayne wrote on Google : "Much of the sales were generated by the news sites and blogs covering the story. This works great once, but is hard to repeat it. Other comedians, even established ones aren’t going to get as lucky. The publicity was a black swan…

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At least, not in the same way. Andrew Mayne wrote on Google : "Much of the sales were generated by the news sites and blogs covering the story. This works great once, but is hard to repeat it. Other comedians, even established ones aren’t going to get as lucky. The publicity was a black swan…

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At least, not in the same way. Andrew Mayne wrote on Google : "Much of the sales were generated by the news sites and blogs covering the story. This works great once, but is hard to repeat it. Other comedians, even established ones aren’t going to get as lucky. The publicity was a black swan…

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Alex Knight proposes a pretty painless way of sharing screenshots using Apple’s built-in screenshot utility, Dropbox, and an Alfred extension. I think I’d still prefer Skitch but if you don’t this seems like a nice workflow.

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Joseph Parish on The Verge: "Experian Hitwise has released its yearly search term statistics and once again, Facebook and YouTube top the list. The remainder of the top 10 includes three more Facebook-related terms, a couple of Yahoo! variants, craigslist, eBay, and MapQuest. Of course it’s highly unlikely that all the millions of people putting…

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The Tolkien Library features covers for The Hobbit from all over the world. Most of which are fantastic. Oh, and you saw the teaser trailer, right? /via Coudal Partners.

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The Mac OS X Dashboard is something I seem to use less and less. I think the Dashboard widget is a fantastic way to build small applications or utilities to help people keep track of something, do some quick math, etc. but these widgets don’t seem to get as much attention as they deserve. There…

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I’ll leave the comparisons to other languages and frameworks out of this and just say that I’m happy to see that PHP 5.4 will have a built-in web server for doing things like local development without the need for installing Apache. Excellent.

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Wow, I never saw this coming. Skitch, an application I’ve written about many times, is now available on iOS. /via CNet.

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I suggest subscribing to The King Arthur Flour blog. Watch this video (embedded below) on how they use their blog to market their product. But, it doesn’t sound as humdrum as that. You can tell they love what they do.

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If you’re using Tweetbot on your iPhone I suggest following @tweetbot on Twitter. They tweet a bunch of great tips like this one: Tap and hold on an Avatar to quickly Follow, Direct Message, Mute, Add to a List or Report for Spam. #TweetbotTip — Tweetbot for iPhone (@tweetbot) December 17, 2011

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Well, not really.

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If you use the Google you may want to add the CDEVROE.com page to your Circles. So, to recap, you can now subscribe to cdevroe.com in the following ways; RSS feed, @cdevroecom on Twitter, Facebook page, Google page, and carrier pigeon (coming soon). Oh, I’ve got a personal account on Twitter, Facebook, and Google too.

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I like to think that this little number by Fred Astaire, if performed today in a random living room in an unassuming midwestern city using a song from the weekly Top 40, would have been a smash hit on YouTube and gone viral. Then, today, he’d have been a guest on Ellen. Then, tomorrow, he…

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The definition of ignorant is simply"lackingknowledgeorawareness". The realword series features words that are often misused.

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A friend of mine gave me whiskey stones as a gift. They’re great. If you have a whiskey that you’d like to cool down without watering it down you simply toss a few of these perfectly shaped soap stone squares into the glass for a few minutes. Soap stone is a truly enjoyable material too.…

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The CNN for iPad app is nicer than the CNN.com website.

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We’ve been experimenting at work with Mumble. It is a voice chat server that is typically used by gamers. It makes for a great audio backchannel to an otherwise text-only watercooler.

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Many people born over the last half-century have the habit of misusing, abusing, or flat out being ignorant of the true definition of words. Myself included. So I thought I’d start a series here on the blog that, quite simply, points to a few of these that I’ve noticed over the last three decades and…

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As you may well know I love a good New York style pizza. But this recipe from Joanne Cronin reminds me how much better homemade pizza is. "Sometimes there’s nothing quite like pizza. And it’s at its absolute best when it’s a homemade pizza – thin and crispy with your own favourite combinations." Precisely.

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Just as I was saying that the best UI for Netflix was on the Apple TV comes [Netflix 2.0 for iOS](http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=netflix ios&source=web&cd=2&ved=0CDUQFjAB&url=http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/netflix/id363590051?mt=8&ei=qX7pTtDgGcWBgweeheXpCA&usg=AFQjCNHehjzQqOVuI0vmdKUk_Qjn1SthPg). While the Apple TV Netflix UI is still better this version for iOS is vastly improved.

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Jeff Johns has released an update to his Spotify Alfred extension. The man’s an addict. He has Alfred extensions for Skype, Bluetooth, Caffeine, and Screen Sharing.

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Jim Dalrymple’s definition of an Apple fanboy hits home for me. Especially this particular part of the definition: "someone that loves to get the job done instead of working on their machine" When I began my switch to the Macintosh nearly a decade ago my single biggest reason that I trumpeted to friends was that…

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Speaking of Isaac Newton. The Cambridge Digital Library: "Cambridge University Library holds the largest and most important collection of the scientific works of Isaac Newton (1642-1727). We present here an initial selection of Newton’s manuscripts, concentrating on his mathematical work in the 1660s. Over the next few months we will be adding further works until…

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Hot on the heels of the Path app’s menu being reverse engineered into CSS3 and CoreAnimation is the Path app’s clock face that appears when you’re scrolling down through your timeline being reverse engineered by Florian Mielke.

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File this under "I doubt this will work." Something must have told the Twitvid team that this is a logical direction to take Twitvid but I don’t see it. Broad category social networks have, more or less, been done and will, more than likely, stay the same as they are now for a long time.…

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I saw this link that John Gruber posted about a recent report on the habits of Apple TV owners and, at the end of it, he mentions how some of his Twitter followers use the Apple TV. He says: "And lots of DF readers on Twitter[are telling me](https://twitter.com/#!/search/gruber apple tv)they use Apple TV just for…

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I haven’t seen this covered much. The new iBooks has some pretty great features including fullscreen mode and a new theme for reading at night. Fantastic update.

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Remember when I said this yesterday? "What would happen if, say, tomorrow Twitter decided that all Twitter clients (third-party and official) had to show some fairly obtrusive ads or you’d need to pay a few dollars per month to use the service?" It turns out Twitter did change the next day. (I knew nothing of…

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From Tweetie 1 to Twitter 4 Jeremy Stanley gives us the history of Twitter for iPhone and some screenshots. /via Shawn Blanc.

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In an effort to unify the experience across multiple devices and platforms Twitter has released updates of Twitter for iPhone and the Mac version of TweetDeck. I think it is a good thing for the official applications to all feel and work very much the same. However, for obvious reasons long-time users of Twitter may…

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Pinboard founderMaciej Ceglowski suggests demanding to pay for services that you like that might be free. In fear that free services that are popular are not sustainable. It is a great post. But it raises some questions from me. How would paying for a service ensure it won’t sell out? Maciej suggests that free services…

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Today’s cold snowy start made me think of how much I’ll miss times like the one pictured above. I’m already looking forward to spring.

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Speaking of free services making major changes; Twitter has announced a major redesign that unifies all of their UIs.

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Twitter Viewer is a simple service by Aaron Swartz that allows you to link to an entire conversation on Twitter. Twitter should offer this. /via John "I cut in line once" Gruber.

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Kitchen Dial, a simple iPhone application that converts things like quarts to cups and vice-versa, has a touch-free mode where you can tilt the iPhone in different directions to make your selection. This way you don’t have to smudge your iPhone screen with cookie dough. Instapaper ships with a tilt-scrolling feature that, rather than scrolling…

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I have a few friends that are very different from me. While they do use the Internet to look up information from time-to-time and they use their phones to pull up maps, check sports scores, and check email – they don’t use the Internet to communicate. They don’t use Twitter or Facebook – though they’ve…

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