Year: 2018
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Seeing every social tool begin to see growth is very reassuring. I think a decentralized future – one where no one network owns all people or content – is coming. It won’t just be Mastodon or just blogs or even just Micro.blog. It will be them all and others.
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Photos for Mac isn’t a long term photo library option
Bradley Chambers, writing for 9to5Mac, about his photo library backup strategy: If there is one thing I am obsessed with when it comes to technology, it’s my pictures. I keep them extremely organized and culled. He then goes on to say, regarding his use of iCloud Photo Library as a sort of backup: This service…
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Real Twitter
Over the weekend Andy Baio tweeted a URL to a search result that shows Twitter the way it used to be: This magical link shows your Twitter timeline in true chronological order—without retweets, liked tweets, or any algorithm nonsense. (On mobile? Click “Latest.”) Enjoy! Erin Sparling owned realtwitter.com and pointed it to that URL now.
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Repost: Aaron Parecki \”blogchain\”
👉 Aaron Parecki: what if instead of webring we called it blogchain
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Repost: Aaron Parecki \”blogchain\”
👉 Aaron Parecki: what if instead of webring we called it blogchain
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Repost: Aaron Parecki \”blogchain\”
👉 Aaron Parecki: what if instead of webring we called it blogchain
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Repost: Aaron Parecki \”blogchain\”
👉 Aaron Parecki: what if instead of webring we called it blogchain
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Repost: Aaron Parecki \”blogchain\”
👉 Aaron Parecki: what if instead of webring we called it blogchain
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Repost: Aaron Parecki \”blogchain\”
👉 Aaron Parecki: what if instead of webring we called it blogchain
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Repost: Aaron Parecki \”blogchain\”
👉 Aaron Parecki: what if instead of webring we called it blogchain
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Keeping a record of your thoughts and media and owning it
Go ahead and read Matt Haughey’s post on why he left Twitter. But I wanted to pull out this bit: I didn’t like that everything I wrote ended up being hard to find or reference, and even hard for me to pull up myself when I wanted, where a blog makes it pretty dang easy…
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Matt Haughey on the mobile WordPress app
Matt Haughey vents his frustrations with WordPress: Over the past week I’ve written a bunch of posts while out and about using the iOS WordPress app, often with photos of things I was seeing. But unless I was on WiFi or had 5 bars of LTE connectivity, I would get a Posting Failed, Retry? message.…
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Learn 1Password
Shawn Blanc, writing at The Sweet Setup: Learn 1Password will be a deep dive on one of our most irreplaceable apps. We’ll show you how 1Password works, and we’ll go through all the different ways you can use it: from a digital will, to sharing important information with your team members and family members, to…
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Things about Windows 10 #2: Moving non-existent windows
Well, I had said I’d try to keep this series positive but every now and then you run up against a problem. It turns out Windows 10 is fairly terrible at remembering window sizes and placement when connecting to or disconnecting from an external display. So far I’ve had issues going both ways and having…
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Magic Leap hype
First line in this Wired piece about the Magic Leap One: In retrospect, Magic Leap CEO Rony Abovitz realizes that all the hype was a big mistake. “I think we were arrogant,” he says. Umm, yeah. /via Daring Fireball.
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Magic Leap One Creator Edition
Adi Robertson for The Verge: But the Magic Leap One’s 50-degree diagonal field of view, while larger than the competing Microsoft HoloLens, is still extremely limited. And the image quality feels roughly on par with the two-year-old HoloLens. It’s generally good, but with some tracking and transparency issues. Given how much effort Magic Leap has…
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Used my Dell XPS 13” 9370 to edit a drone video today. Zero lag dealing with several gigabytes of 4K video. So glad I chose this little thing.
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I need to find a place with gigabit Internet speed for a few days. I have so much data that I need to get down and up. I’m downloading tens-of-gigabytes of application software, uploading hundreds of gigabytes to OneDrive and then again to Google Drive (which is why I hope this is real). Ugh.
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Things about Windows 10 #1: Task Bar Previews
There is so much blogger coverage for Apple’s hardware and software products that I feel there needs to be a few more in the Microsoft and Google world. To that end I’m going to start a few new series here on my personal blog; Things about Windows 10, Things about Android. Generally, I’ll be keeping…
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I wish I could play video games without spending any time at all playing them. Does that make sense? Like, if while playing games real time just stopped.
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Windows 10’s tablet mode needs work
Zac Bowden: A good tablet is about more than just good hardware, you need a good OS experience to go along with it. Unfortunately, Windows 10 doesn’t have a good tablet experience to offer, not when compared to iOS on the iPad at least. I agree. As I said in February. If they invested in…
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I read a chapter of Hitchhiker’s Guide each day at lunch. I can’t recall ever laughing out loud this much at any other book.
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Finished culling all photos into a single library. Old school style of year, month, day directories. Nearly 80,000 images and videos all told.
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My checklist for setting up Windows 10
Once I had decided to switch from macOS to Windows 10 I knew that I would need to unlearn old tricks and learn some new ones. The oddest one that can only happen through brute force is to teach my pinky to do what my thumb used to. On macOS the CMD button modifier is…
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Xamarin.Forms 3.1
David Ortinau on the Xamarin Blog: Earlier this year, we surveyed Xamarin.Forms developers about the kinds of custom controls and extra platform code being written repeatedly that should be considered for support “in the box”. From these conversations, we created an initiative to deliver as many as we could in the next several releases. Just…
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Still working through my new photo library, syncing, back-up strategy but I believe I’ll have a much better solution than Apple provided me when I’m finished. And, of course, I’ll document it on my blog.
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My clipboard managers: 1Clipboard & Clip Stack
I use two clipboard managers currently. On Windows 10 I use 1Clipboard: A universal clipboard managing app that makes it easy to access your clipboard from anywhere on any device. It says “any device” but I do not believe it has any mobile apps. Since I now use the Microsoft Launcher for Android I may…
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Spotify vs. Apple Music
Sean Wolfe, compares Spotify vs. Apple Music for Business Insider: The subscription prices are generally the same, there isn’t much disparity in the music that’s available, and on the surface the services all appear pretty similar. But there are some important differences that will decide which music app is right for you. This is a…
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If you share Google Calendars and want them to show up in Windows 10’s calendar app, this is the tip you need.
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My opinion of Microsoft Surface, 6 years later
Me, in 2012, writing about the first time I saw a Surface device: I could have played with it longer. But I wouldn’t want to. The Surface is terrible. Even if you’ve never picked up an iPad or an Android-powered tablet you would think the Surface is pretty slow, hard to use, and heavy; three…
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What I saw this week #52: July 13, 2018
More accurately, what I’ve seen somewhat lately. I’ve been off my blogging game lately as I’m making the switch from Mac to Windows. So I’m busy moving photo libraries, installing apps and services, configuring options, and learning keyboard shortcuts. Here are a few things I wish I had more time to write about, but do…
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My experience buying a Windows laptop
After 16+ years working, writing, playing, making, listening, watching on a Macintosh, I’m switching back to Windows. Within a few days from today I will no longer be a Mac user. In fact, the only Apple product I will be using regularly will be my 2014 iPad Air 2 which I plan to replace soon.…
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My half-written draft on how I chose a Windows computer needs to be finished and published. I need to find the time this week.
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Friendly reminder: If you use Gmail, check your Google Drive storage. If you run out, you will not get any email and Google will not notify you. So you have to check yourself. Log into drive.google.com and click Storage.
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I’ve been getting more value out of Twitter lately and as a result I’ve been tweeting a bit more (on my “new” c2dev2 account). I don’t know what this means.
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Twenty-four years of computing and I’ve never met a printer that I liked.
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Spent the day on Windows 10. Not bad and getting better with every release. Looking forward to fully switching soon.
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Best mouse of 2018
Windows Central on the Logitech MX Master 2S: This really can be considered the king of all mice, with its excellent ergonomics, functionality, and portability. I got mine in 2017 and it was the best mouse that year too. Still love it.
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Connecticut – June 2018
Connecticut – June 2018 Eliza and I had a great time in Connecticut last weekend. Definitely visiting again.
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New ways to monetize on YouTube
Announcements are beginning to pour out while VidCon is happening. YouTube: The number of creators earning five figures a year is up by 35 percent and the number of creators earning six figures is up by 40 percent. As in previous years, the vast majority of the revenue is coming from our advertising partners. We’ll…
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Early thoughts on IGTV
Instagram launched what some are calling a direct competitor to YouTube, IGTV. First, I’ll start by listing some reasons I think this is the perfect time for Instagram to have launched this product. Second, I’ll list why I don’t think this will kill YouTube – but why it might move some of the content creators…
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We got blogging right 20 years ago – Jack Baty
Jack Baty: Looking at my blog from 2003 makes me think we got blogging right early on. Yep. Everything else has been additive. But a blog from 20 years ago, like mine, would be just as good today as then.
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Digging Connecticut.
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Enjoyed Ocean’s 8. My only gripe is that it should have been a more difficult heist. Seemed all too easy. Probably because women are better at everything. ☺️
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Mandy Pennington teaches SEO at the May 2018 NEPA Tech meet up
This last month’s NEPA Tech meet up was very well attended, produced, and an all-around great time – as per usual. I’ve seen Mandy do several presentations over the last few years and so I knew going into this we were in for an informative and fun session. SEO could be a boring, drab topic…