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Sebastian de With: Part of a continuing effort to make some nice replacement icons for applications for usage in the OS X Yosemite Dock. This time around, mostly requests from Twitter. In Volume I he covered the Creative Suite from Adobe. In Volume II he covers some of the apps I’m more likely to use.

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Speaking of packaging albums in all-new and innovative ways… P. Morris releases an album that you can only listen to with someone else who also has their webcam on. Think Chatroulette. Brilliant. /via Andy Baio.

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Powerpoint is pretty terrible. The reason why many of us think so is because it is misused by so many. You can’t blame the tool, says Wayne Barz: Many have wished for and striven for the death of the powerpoint presentation. I have always disagreed with this point of view. There is no doubt that […]

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Today I used Twitter’s Find Friends feature that connects to Gmail to get a list of your contacts and subsequently searches Twitter for them. I have just over 2,550 contacts in my address book. Many are duplicates, due to how Gmail handles adding these addresses to your contact list. But, a cursory glance at the […]

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Kirk Lennon: One of the objections I’ve seen to Apple Pay is “How is it faster/easier than just sliding my card?” The truth is, it isn’t always. It’s rarely going to take longer than sliding a card, but it’s not always going to be radically faster either. However, it is much, much more secure. Merchants […]

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Hugh McIntyre for Forbes: In 2014, not a single artist’s album has gone platinum. Not one has managed to cross that million sales mark. Streaming/internet radio is eating digital downloads for lunch. And I think this trend is going to continue until things hit some sort of basement. But then, and I honestly believe this, […]

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Yesterday Orbital Sciences had a bad day. One of their rockets exploded during a mission to deliver goods to the International Space Station. Rockets are hard. Elon Musk in Wired in 2012: The results are pretty crazy. One of our competitors, Orbital Sciences, has a contract to resupply the International Space Station, and their rocket […]

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I should have tagged Bijan in my list of podcasts but he posted a few suggestions anyway. His are both photography related: I’m really enjoying Marco’s latest creation, Overcast and as a result I’m listening to more podcasts these days. I too am enjoying Overcast.

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#travelfeet 1: After being in business for two years, we now have Plain business cards. We get asked all the time for business cards and we simply kept putting it off. Probably due to our relative distaste for business card culture. Oh, and all new plainmade.com coming very soon.

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This is a bookmarklet that I wish I had written. But Michael Wheeler has beat me to it: For those who find themselves wanting to pop a YouTube video out into its own window, this is the tool for you. Using the bookmarklet below, you can pop a YouTube video out into a resizable window […]

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I took a few weeks off of Instagram. Then, I thought, if I were to come back I’d like to have some reason to post. Something with a few constraints (beyond the square crop) and something regular. So, I’ll be posting #travelfeet for 365 days straight. I hope. I’m going to try. My niece and […]

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Ken Ziegler: As copywriters, we have a duty to our profession to remind our peers that there is no such person as a wordsmith in practically any office where copywriters operate with self-respect, dignity, and the freedom to express themselves in words without fear of being slandered by the most terrible of all imaginable portmanteaus. […]

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Last night, also, I read this post on Ello by @jk. I like the way he’s using Ello.

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Kathy Sierra: I now believe the most dangerous time for a woman with online visibility is the point at which others are seen to be listening, “following”, “liking”, “favoriting”, retweeting. In other words, the point at which her readers have (in the troll’s mind) “drunk the Koolaid”. Apparently, that just can’t be allowed. Such a […]

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In case you went all o_0 when you saw #tildeclub in my last post. Here is the story of its origin.

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Digg has a roundup of beer glass types and which brews to drink with them. Notice, 8 out of 10 glasses are recommended for IPA. IPA tastes great in anything.

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Ma.tt: On Sunday at 11AM I will deliver my State of the Word address, our annual look at where we’ve been and the road ahead, and even if you can’t make it you can livestream the SoTW and the entire weekend for just $10 from the comfort of your own home. I wish getting to […]

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Wine Library: Without fail, one of the greatest ‘hands-on’ approaches to learning about wine, spirits (or brews for that matter), is to coordinate a guided tour while enjoying the spoils that come with “vacation”. Actual vineyard growers, winemakers, and owners will more quickly and pointedly debunk myths and elucidate the most important facts about your […]

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Mike Hankey: Here’s the first astrophoto I’ve published since the spring. This is a spiral galaxy called NGC 7331 and its located approximately 40 million light-years away from Earth. This galaxy is similar in size and structure to our own galaxy and is sometimes called the Milky Way’s twin. The fuzzy dots surrounding the picture […]

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Google, yesterday: Today, we’re introducing something new. It’s called Inbox. Years in the making, Inbox is by the same people who brought you Gmail, but it’s not Gmail: it’s a completely different type of inbox, designed to focus on what really matters. That “years in the making” part screams “we thought of this before Mailbox but didn’t […]

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Well, this is cool. Ello has raised some capital and in doing so they’ve filed as a “Public Benefit Corp.” and made everyone involved sign a mission statement. Jonathan Shieber for Aol/Techcrunch: The company filed in Delaware as a Public Benefit Corp., which Ello says makes it legally impossible under US law for investors to require […]

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Yesterday I watched John Gruber’s presentation at XOXO via YouTube. I’m very familiar with the Daring Fireball story — having been a member and supporter of John’s excellent site since the very beginning — but his presentation was great nonetheless. One bit he spoke about was an analogy between hairpieces and web design. It was […]

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Speaking of John Gruber, he just published his review of the iPad Air 2 — a review I’ve been patiently waiting for. I spent a lot of time in this review comparing the new Air 2 to the iPad 3/4. I think that’s fair, because normal people aren’t supposed to even consider replacing their iPads […]

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Austin Mann: Apple’s sharing all kinds of software updates with us these days, and a few of them are especially exciting for power user iPhone photographers. Here are my thoughts on how the new features affect how we create and share images with our iPhones. People that muck about with photos on their iPhones / […]

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Dave Winer recorded a short podcast in response to Marco’s argument about whether or not we should trust Twitter. He says: Apple screwed their developers too. It happened more than once. Good to listen to the other side of this. We’ll see how it plays out over time.

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Starting today, Product Hunt allows following and I’m right here. You know what to do.

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Will Stauffer-Norris: This is the fourth pig carcass that has washed up in Dead Pig Eddy. The bloated creature rocks gently up and down against the beach about 10 feet away from our brewing morning coffee. The pig must go, it’s decided, so Lao Tang and Bob tie a piece of p-cord to a stiff […]

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I love that Toni Schneider is blogging regularly. In a recent post he tries to find the balance of having an open, collaborative office space and one that allows for private time to execute. Ideally, an office would offer both. Open spaces for collaboration/inspiration and private spaces for taking that inspiration and turning into action. […]

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Finally, a meet up that is going to be less about technology and more about blogging. I’m excited for next month’s NEPA WordPress Meet up. Don’t let the name fool you, this one is simply a place for bloggers to chat and enjoy each other’s company. At Coalwork. I have very fond memories of blogger […]

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Daniel Jalkut on finding the right stuff to publish to a personal blog: I find it sort of charming when people write “whole person” blogs that may contain material spanning from their personal emotions, to the culture they appreciate, to the work that they do, and the politics they believe in. But I also find […]

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Marco says no way. Even though the WSJ is reporting that Twitter is going to try to appeal to developers this week at a conference… he writes: Twitter will never, and should never, have any credibility with developers again. Enjoy it while it lasts, but be ready for it to disappear at any moment. I’m […]

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Last night I was reading Empire Magazine’s awesome piece with the cast of The West Wing (my favorite TV show of all time). I caught this nugget from Bradley Whitford: Early on in my career I got a part in Revenge Of The Nerds II: Nerds In Paradise. If I hadn‘t done that I wouldn‘t […]

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Elizabeth Speirs: Over the years I’ve ended up hiring and training a lot of people in their first jobs as a manager, and I always tell them they have two responsibilities: to set clear expectations and to reduce uncertainty for their teams. I try to do the same thing with my team and also with […]

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Joe Casabona, fellow Coalworker, recently joined the Crowd Favorite team. I’ve “known” Alex King, the founder of Crowd Favorite, for many, many years. But since Joe joined Coalwork I’ve been digging around their stuff more. I’m digging what I’m seeing. I think Plain will begin using a few of their products and solutions for upcoming projects.

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I’ve recently pushed passed 38,000 tweets and I’m not really sure how I feel about it. To continue to get the most value from Twitter over the years I’ve tried to change the way I use it as often as I felt as though I needed to. I’ve followed hundreds and thousands of accounts at […]

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This is great. Om is picking up the blog challenge and pulled in three others. I thought it was a great idea and instead of doing it all by myself, I roped in three guys to the 30 day blog challenge. I think world needs a lot more classic blogging — from links to photos […]

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Speaking of Matt Mullenweg (I’m catching up on his blog)… he has a great suggestion for how companies that benefit from WordPress can contribute to its longevity. He suggests: I think a good rule of thumb that will scale with the community as it continues to grow is that organizations that want to grow the […]

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Matt Mullenweg: It started with a tweet from Colin Devroe. You go Matt.

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People aren’t updating to iOS 8 as quickly as was first thought. The main reason? Free space on the device. John Gruber: It’s all about the over-the-air update requiring 5 GB of free storage space, and many people not having that much free space, and not knowing how or simply not wanting to deal with it. […]

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If you know a student, or a faculty member, you may want to point them to the GitHub Student Developer Pack: There‘s no substitute for hands-on experience, but for most students, real world tools can be cost prohibitive. That‘s why we created the GitHub Student Developer Pack with some of our partners and friends: to […]

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