Month: October 2013
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Do you need 1Password if you use iCloud Keychain on Mavericks and iOS 7?
Shawn Blanc spends a few minutes chatting about whether or not you still need 1Password after upgrading to iOS 7 and OS X Mavericks? With Mavericks support for storing passwords and credit card info in Safari, combined with the iCloud keychain syncing of that info to our iOS devices, I wanted to share about how…
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What I saw this week #9: October 25, 2013
This has been an amazing week at work. I’m very much looking forward to sharing what we’re up to in the future but for now, some links. Comet ISON – Did you know there was a comet up there, right now, about to zing passed us and the sun and back out into space? Don’t…
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Mark Boulton on the case for inline editing
Mark Boulton in the appropriately titled WYSIWTFFTWOMG! One of the other pain points of a complex dynamic website, where ‘pages’ are created with bits of content from all over the place is ‘where the hell do I go to find that bit of content to edit it?’. That is a painful moment in a content…
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What I saw this week #8: October 18, 2013
I’ve read less on my computer this week than many, many weeks due to travel and busy work getting in the way. So this week might be lighter than others. Our Culture of Exclusion – Ryan Funduk is sick of drink ups. It is nearly impossible to hold a meet up of any kind and…
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What I saw this week #7: October 11, 2013
Fall is in full swing and the leaves are all but gone. This time of year has been torn between the desire to be outdoors, soaking up what is left of the season, and being indoors around a fireplace in my pub. There is so much awesome happening each week on the web I’m having…
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Apple naysayers are a good thing for the company
Jean-Louis Gassée postulates that it is a good thing for Apple that pundits and industry types constantly spell out their doom. I recently experienced a small epiphany: I think the never-ending worry about Apple’s future is a good thing for the company. Look at what happened to those who were on top and became comfortable…
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DistroKid
DistroKid allows anyone to quickly upload a music track to iTunes, Spotify, Google Play and Amazon. First track is free, just $19.99 per year thereafter. This seems like a steal of a deal. If Philip Kaplan can get the word out about this then I think it will be a huge success and (more than…
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How I hacked Barley and made paintings on The Watercolor Gallery re-orderdable on the home page
I’m not a great programmer. In fact, at this point in my career I wouldn’t advise paying me to write any complex code. But I’m an excellent hacker. I love to chip away at things with my limited programming knowledge and get something working. I wrote the working prototype for Barley. Which Jeff immediately threw…
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Writing is the how I think
Yesterday Chris Dixon tweeted a link to this thought-provoking blog post by Cal Newport about needing downtime to truly get into deep work. I agree with much of it, such as this nugget: If you’re looking for the next Tao, in other words, ignore the guy checking e-mail while running to his next meeting, and…
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What I saw this week #6: October 6, 2013
There was no link list last week because I was at the beach. And this week I’m a few days late because our team had a half-day with some festivities. My apologies. I hope this week’s video-heavy list makes up for having none last week. 575 Free Movies Online – A boat load of movies…
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Windows. Mac. Android. iOS. It no longer matters what device you choose.
Or, at least it shouldn’t. And it is becoming less and less critical which platform you invest in. In a fair review of the iPhone 5S from Andrew Kim whom, as always, pours over the device and provides a great and visual review, I liked this bit best about picking one platform over another. We seem…