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This is ambitious and a bit ridiculous… but it must have been a lot of fun to work on. Bold Poker. Something I’d like to see is for an app that is as well-designed as this to handle what is arguably the much more difficult part of poker – the betting. I can’t tell you […]

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Tom Tunguz on how so many big products and entire companies started out as just a hobby. He should know:  Google AdSense’s internal CRM is a Rails app called Toothpaste that I cobbled together one (late) night that now serves the global team. What is your hobby project?

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Jim Dalrymple at The Loop: We aren’t focused on pageviews, but rather posting things that interest us. Of course, the hope is that they’ll interest you as well. This is an interesting topic. And "pageview journalism" is an interesting phrase. The post that Jim links to on ZDNet describes pageview journalism as the act of […]

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The Viddler Blog: Decide who can access your dashboard, setup their own Viddler username and password, and choose what they will have access to in your account. Select who can view and/or manage certain videos or playlists, who can edit account or billing settings, and for those customers with sub-accounts, you can set permissions for […]

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Matthew Panzarino: As photos and other media become a bigger part of Twitter’s strategy in the future, it can’t have this kind of thing completely at the mercy of a service owned by a competitor. Instagram’s being able to simply yank Twitter’s ability to embed images inline on their site and apps is far too […]

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As I mentioned on Twitter, if you have an iPhone you should check out KitCam. Fantastic, well-designed, and complete camera replacement application. /via Mike Rundle on Twitter.

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Me, not even a month ago: I’ve already made a deal with myself not to buy any more products, from Apple or any other company, that do not include a retina-quality display. And. Unlike John, Eliza and I will be waiting for an iPad mini that has a Retina Display. Well, I got her a […]

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Foursquare: Break out of your weekly routine, try a new place, and don’t forget to leave a tip for your friends! The new feature is a bit buried. But when you find it, it can be pretty useful.

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Foursquare: Break out of your weekly routine, try a new place, and don’t forget to leave a tip for your friends! The new feature is a bit buried. But when you find it, it can be pretty useful.

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Foursquare: Break out of your weekly routine, try a new place, and don’t forget to leave a tip for your friends! The new feature is a bit buried. But when you find it, it can be pretty useful.

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Foursquare: Break out of your weekly routine, try a new place, and don’t forget to leave a tip for your friends! The new feature is a bit buried. But when you find it, it can be pretty useful.

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Foursquare: Break out of your weekly routine, try a new place, and don’t forget to leave a tip for your friends! The new feature is a bit buried. But when you find it, it can be pretty useful.

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Foursquare: Break out of your weekly routine, try a new place, and don’t forget to leave a tip for your friends! The new feature is a bit buried. But when you find it, it can be pretty useful.

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Foursquare: Break out of your weekly routine, try a new place, and don’t forget to leave a tip for your friends! The new feature is a bit buried. But when you find it, it can be pretty useful.

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Tom Tunguz, of Redpoint, on financial planning for startups: The financial plan is a concise summary of the way a companyis likely to be managed. It’s helpful for the board to help validate the plan compared to other startups’ plans. The plan is also a great way to level set the management team on the plan […]

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Cap Watkins from Etsy says it isn’t all about look-and-feel: Being design-driven means treating design as a partner (and a leader) in the product creation process. Look at your feature roadmap right now. Are there major initiatives and ideas that were generated directly from your designer or design team? If yes, was design in the […]

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Jonathan Moore recounts the day he saved his son’s life, then makes this point: When we are presented with moments of crisis, large decisions or new opportunities often we find ourselves crippled by the lack of knowledge. We justify inaction with our insecurities in not knowing the right way to move forward. Or we trap […]

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My friend Chris Coleman took the time, as CSS geeks tend to do, to create Mario using only CSS.

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Buster Benson disconnects on Saturdays. I do something similar every Tuesday night. Doing it for an entire day would be interesting though.

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Sorry, I don’t like the word widget either. But, credit where due, Flickr has a new way to display EXIF information. Check out the sidebar of this photo. I like it. Hey, at least someone is doing something over there, right?

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MG Siegler reviews the Surface for AOL TechCrunch: After using it for over a week now, it’s hard to come up with a lot of nice things to say about the Surface. Don’t get me wrong, there are some solid things here. But by and large, it’s a strange, buggy, and clunky product that I […]

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Jakob Nielsen: The UI is littered withswipe ambiguity, where similar (or identical) gestures have different outcomes depending on subtle details in how they’re activated or executed. For example, start swiping from the right to the left and you will either scroll the screen horizontally or reveal the charm bar, depending on exactly where your finger […]

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Stephen Hackett, who is giving up his iPhone for a feature-phone for a year in an attempt to bring some balance to his digital life: I think there is a sizable percentage of nerds out there who realize the weight that technology has on our lives, and are uncomfortable with it at times. Yes, there […]

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Me, in June: Actual judgements about the hardware aside (since, unsurprisingly, these aren’t yet on the market) this looks like the best work to come out of Microsoft since the Xbox 360. This isn’t me grading on a curve either. I’m not giving them extra points for finally making something that looks like it could […]

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The Oatmeal at his best. /via Everyone.

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Soundslice: Soundslice lets you sync tabs with video so you can see (and hear!) them in real time. Gone are the days of ASCII art approximations. I don’t play guitar but I know something awesome when I see it. /via Jason Fried on Twitter.

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App.net has a new API feature called Stream Marker.Dalton Caldwell: Multiple times a day, I switch between my laptop and my phone. It’s frustrating that I have to ask myself “have I seen this post?” as I scroll through My Stream. Today we’re adding support for Stream Markers to the API. This will allows clients […]

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Stan Schroeder for Mashable: Apple has launched an initiative called “Blue Sky,” which encourages employees to devote some of their time to personal pet projects. I hope this is true. And I have absolutely no inside dirt at Apple anymore so this could have always been the case. But if not, this could help out with […]

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Good tip from Rob LeFebvre on Cult of Mac: You might notice that your hard disk is constantly spinning on your Mac. If you check Activity Monitor, you might find out that the CPU is also being used up by the Finder, which typically doesn’t use a lot of CPU. Turns out that the culprit […]

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Cabel Sasser is one talented dude. Side note: Perfect use of Soundcloud.

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Anthony Bourdain, who has it in his contract with Travel Channel that he must explicitly approve all uses of his name/face, etc: So it came as a shock and a disappointment to turn on the TV for the last two episodes of my show, and see that someone had taken footage that me and my […]

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PDN: Steinmetz photographs from a motorized paraglider which he describes as a “flying lawn chair”. Using the slowest and quietest powered aircraft in the world, he is not only able to take off and land without an airfield or government permission but is also likely to land in someone’s yard and be invited in for […]

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Wayne Barz: I spend a lot of time with start up companies.   To be specific, I spend more time with start up companies than I spend with my wife.  That is actually true and explains why despite 22 years of marriage, I think I understand start up companies better than I understand women.  With […]

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Michael Lopp: In my years at Apple, the Caffe Macs chatter about Forstall was that he was the only legit successor to Jobs because he displayed a variety of Jobsian characteristics. Comparing anyone to Steve Jobs is a tall order but Lopp does a good job in his most recent piece about innovation being a […]

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Instagram recently released web profiles for all users. Of course, your Twitter stream has probably been full of people linking to theirs recently*. Oh, here is mine. You may have seen so many people mention their Instagram web profile that you’re sick of it. But don’t underestimate the importance of this feature to Instagram’s growth. […]

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Rohan Anderson: So after breakfast we all ventured out to the front yard to say hello and goodbye to the birds. The girls loved the soft feathers and the sounds they made, but when it came time to kill them they knew what needed to happen. I was rather proud of them, they saw my […]

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Watercooler 1.0 is a Twitter and App.net client byTroy Gaul. It looks interesting but I might wait for 1.1 based on the reviews before I pick up a copy. /via John Gruber.

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This Monday marks the 140th and final episode of No Reservations to air on Travel Channel. On the one hand, I’m sad to see what is easily one of my most favorite shows go off the air, but on the other I realize that after doing something for so long it is good to shake […]

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Gizmodo did a side-by-side comparison of Google’s new Voice Search app on iPhone and Siri. Google wins every single time. I’ve been using Google a bit on my iPhone 5 over the last 24 hours or so and it is blazingly fast. Siri, obviously, is far more integrated into iOS and can open applications, set […]

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From space Sandy didn’t look like much more than a few clouds. But, she was much more than that. /via Jason Kottke who still does not have power 4 days after Sandy made landfall.

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My favorite iPhone application for shooting black and white photos, Hueless by Curious Satellite, just got a massive update. Even though the update would be worth paying for again it is available for free to current customers in the App Store. I’m looking forward to seeing what Curious Satellite does with the upcoming Huemore.

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Though iOS 6.0.1 is a .x.x release it actually has a fair number of bug fixes. Fixes a bug that prevents iPhone 5 from installing software updates wirelessly over the air Fixes a bug where horizontal lines may be displayed across the keyboard Fixes an issue that could cause camera flash to not go off […]

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John Gruber on the iPad mini: It’s really light and easy to hold one-handed. The hardware design — chamfered edges, less tapered back, metal rather than plastic buttons — strikes me as better, more elegant, than that of the full-size iPad 3/4. But it’s disappointing to go non-retina after using the retina iPad for the […]

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Heilemann, who has been writing about Star Wars for years and is a self-proclaimed Star Wars historian, jotted down his thoughts on the deal and he agrees with me: On second glance, it’s a staggering deal. Remember, this isn’t ‘simply’ Star Wars; it’s all of Lucasfilm, including the Indiana Jones franchise, and films like Willow […]

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Turns out Shawn noticed the very same things that I did.

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Shawn Blanc: The iPad mini is the first iOS device (iPod touch not included) that I haven’t pre-ordered or waited in line for. Partly because I’m prejudice against that non-Retina display, but also because I just don’t see the iPad mini being worth it for me. As an additional device to use for reading and […]

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Richard Dunlop-Waters of The Brief: As of yesterday, 25 percent of the nation’s cell sites were not operational, across 158 counties in 10 states. And around 25 percent are also still without broadband access. Outages will only get worse and Sandy travels across the country. In case that quote doesn’t make it obvious, that is […]

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This time-lapse video of Hurricane Sandy over New York City starts getting interesting around the 1:00 mark. It starts gettingdevastatingaround the 2:00 mark. Pay close attention to the water level. /via Laughing Squid.

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When I first read the news that Disney was acquiring Lucasfilm, ILM, and Skywalker Sound all in one deal I tweeted that I didn’t understand how all of these companies – along with the rights to Star Wars, partial rights to Indiana Jones, Lucas Arts and much, much more – were only worth $4 billion. […]

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