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You'll have to forgive me for wanting to quote Brandice's entire post about the iPhone 5 since I totally agree with everything she says but I'll do my best to take out a few key snippets: I read comments online about how it’s so light it almost feels too insubstantial or breakable. I think it might be a…
Kontra: Mapping is indeed one of the hardest of mobile services, involving physical terrestrial and aerial surveying, data acquisition, correction, tile making and layer upon layer of contextual info married to underlying data, all optimized to serve often under trying network conditions. Unfortunately, like dialect recognition or speech synthesis (think Siri), mapping is one of those technologies that…
Today I'm receiving an iPhone 5 that is Verizon-ready. I'll be upgrading from an iPhone 4 on AT&T. Below are my live notes, as they happen, during this experience. It should be fun! Notes, in order. (the page will refresh automatically when I publish new notes) [liveblog]
Three cheers for Justin Williams's collection of excellent Tweetbot filters to help silence check-ins, hashtag nonsense, old-style retweets, and even anything dealing with Internet Explorer. Some are fun, most are downright vital. You'll need Tweetbot (you are using Tweetbot on the Mac, iPhone, and iPad, right?) /via David Chartier.
Speaking of Devour… Here is a video by filmaker Casey Neistat for The New York Times to help explain NYC's recent ban on insanely large buckets of soda. /via Devour. PS. To Devour editor Larry Angel (if you're reading this) – I'd love it if I didn't have to hunt down the original URLs for these videos. Perhaps…
Devour, a site I visit just about every day on my iPad, has an app to match.
In case you don't follow me on Twitter; (really, how can you live with yourself?) earlier today I tweeted a few notes about iOS 6 on my iPhone 4 and iPad 2. I've taken those tweets and put them below. iOS 6 note: The new Maps application is pretty fast even on the iPhone 4. iOS 6 note:…
Dan Frakes and Serenity Caldwell at Macworld give a run-through of iOS 6 installation and what this latest release means for each device. Some features won't be available to all iOS 6 devices. Naturally. Here is one example, though, that I lament. Flyover and turn-by-turn navigation features of the new Maps app are available on only the iPhone…
I blame my mother for turning Eliza and I onto pre-dinner Manhattans.
Overall a good season in our small garden. We're trying to keep it small so that it doesn't get to be too much to maintain. Next year I plan on the garden yielding about double what it did this year without making it any larger than it is.
Renie Richie's iOS 6 review on iMore.com is more than thorough.
Craig Mod, for Contents Issue No. 4: I received an email from the company sometime in March.We’re a publisher with four million fans on Facebook. We’d like to talk with you. Fascinatingly well-written story about a publisher that started with a Facebook fan page (rather than a website of their own) and quickly grew to 4,000,000 fans. As…
I've been planning on figuring out a simple way to show the latest photo from my mobile photos category on the sidebar of my site for a while. Today I did a quick search for a plugin that would simply add a widget that I could drag/drop into place to do exactly that. I came across the Recent…
I haven't yet had time to implement using Dropbox as a photo management app yet (maybe next week) but I wanted to file this away for when I do; a way to use Hazel to save Photo Stream photos to Dropbox. Or, via AppleScript if you prefer. /via Stephen Hackett.
This happened outside our home-pub this past June. Well, first the boy mosquito gets all dressed up and takes a bouquet of flowers to meet the girl mosquito. She, too, has gotten all dolled up. She wears pearls and lipstick. The happy couple flies away to a nice location to feed off someone who has just been drinking…
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Horace Dediu on the iPhone's value to the market: Therefore, how to tell whether a product is over-serving a market is one of the most important and frequently asked questions I get asked. […] If you have to add features and drop prices at the same time then it’s likely that the market does not value the improvement….
Shep McAllister over on Lifehacker: But you could try voicing a contrary opinion in a meeting, or occasionally saying no when someone asks you for a favor. I go out of my way to be a nice guy but I've also never been accused of being quiet or of not voicing my opinion. Being nice doesn't always mean…
A quick way to handle loading retina images on retina-capable devices which degrades rather gracefully from easily one of the biggest contributors to the betterment of the Internet, Shaun Inman: One line of JavaScript and a few mod_rewrite rules and we have no fuss Automatic Conditional Retina Images. /via Chris Glass.
This is intriguing. Stephen Hacket took a que from Frederico Viticci on ditching iPhoto/Aperture and just using directories stored on Dropbox as a way to manage photos. After reading it, I started to think about why I continue to suffer with use Aperture. I rarely use it edit my photos, and really prefer it over iPhoto just for…
What is Facebook's mission? Mark Zuckerberg, in the company's founder letter that was included in their S-1 filing with the SEC prior to going public a few weeks ago. There is a huge need and a huge opportunity to get everyone in the world connected, to give everyone a voice and to help transform society for the future….
David Karp, founder of the one of the most popular services of all time, Tumblr: Takes thirty employees out to dinner. Gets carded while ordering a beer. Happens to me all the time David. All the time. And I'll be 32 in a few short weeks.
Interesting thoughts from Horace Dediu. Amazon will sell as many Kindles as they make, but the number they will make will not be the most they could make. His headline just says "Kindles" but should probably say "Kindle Fires". I think Amazon will sell a lot of Kindles and Kindle Paperwhites.
I don't mention Amazon or the Kindle as much as I mention Apple and the iPad on my blog. But don't let that be any indication of my ignorance of how good the Kindle product line really is. Eliza has had a Kindle for a long time. Loves it. Adores it. Prefers to read on it more than…