A new Apple TV in September
Mark Gurman, as per usual, has the skinny on the next Apple TV. We have two Apple TV’s in the house and two at work. At home we use the Apple TV…
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Brooklyn PA
Eliza and I visited with a few friends in Brooklyn PA a month or so ago. Nice place to go for a walk but man oh man there were a lot of…
Photos from WordCamp Scranton
WordCamp Scranton happened in mid-July. I mentioned it once or twice.
SelfControl
SelfControl: Just set a period of time to block for, add sites to your blacklist, and click "Start." Until that timer expires, you will be unable to access those sites–even if you…
Alternote
I use Evernote on my desktop, tablet, and phone. I don’t particularly care for their applications* but the service and structure works well enough that I’ve been productive using them. Jeremy Brown,…
Kayaking Dunn Pond
I shared a photo on Instagram/Facebook of a recent paddle on White Oak Pond and within seconds a perfect stranger suggested I paddle Dunn Pond due to its similarities. I love White…
Summertime swim
This is what can happen when two little girls grab your camera and shoot over 100 photos in a matter of minutes. 🙂
Walking to lunch
Last week a few of us walked to Ale Mary’s — which I recommend if you haven’t tried it yet — and I took my GoPro along. I’m digging these.
Franklin’s in downtown Wilkes-Barre
Yesterday we had a client meeting in Wilkes-Barre and so we decided to grab lunch downtown just before it. Our intent was to visit Maer’s BBQ but, to our surprise, it…
Shooting San Francisco with GoPro
This summer I’ve found myself shooting with my GoPro Hero3 a lot. And not just while kayaking. I really dig the perspective and most of what is captured is fairly Instagrammable. I’ll…
Wi-Fi Assist in iOS 9
Bradley Chambers, commenting on a new feature in the latest beta of iOS 9 that will allow the iPhone to switch to cellular data when a Wi-Fi connection gets weak: This is…
The best iPad keyboard
The Sweet Setup: The Belkin Qode Pro is the Cadillac of iPad keyboards. It comes with a shell for the iPad to clip into that works in conjunction with the keyboard itself….
Timex Datalink
In this “year of the smartwatch” I’m happy I stumbled across the Timex Datalink. From Wikipedia: The Datalink line was introduced in 1994 and it was co-developed with Microsoft as a wearable…
Bakery 47
Will Freeborn, whom I’ve featured on The Watercolor Gallery, recently put together a bit of stencil work for a local bakery in Scotland. I thought it was a cool post on his…
We Call This Home
Walter Chang traveled the world for 3 years and then made this video and wrote this on Medium: Yet, traveling in this manner is really an educational experience and an investment in…
Windows 10 privacy problems
David Auerbach, writing for Slate: By default, Windows 10 gives itself the right to pass loads of your data to Microsoft’s servers, use your bandwidth for Microsoft’s own purposes, and profile your…
Facebook is the new AOL
Leo Marini on Quartz: Indonesians surveyed by Galpaya told her that they didn’t use the internet. But in focus groups, they would talk enthusiastically about how much time they spent on Facebook. …
NEPA BlogCon 2015
Last year Coalwork sponsored NEPA BlogCon, which I wrote about on the Coalwork blog at the time, and this year we’re sponsoring the conference again. From their press release: NEPA BlogCon is…
Stammy’s blog
Paul Stamatiou, on 10 years of blogging: For me blogging here is an outlet for creativity and an eternal personal project where I can tinker with design ideas and various web technologies….
Tweet no more
Kurt Wagner on Re/code: Trevor O’Brien, who joined Twitter a year and a half ago from YouTube and oversees product for Twitter’s iOS and Android apps, is departing the company, according to…
Aerial photos of cruise ships
Jeffery Milstein specializes in aerial photography. Here is his collection of cruise ships. /via iGNANT.
Jay Torres on Apple Watch
Jay Torres discusses the Apple Watch on Mark Miller’s series Watchscreen: I now always have my phone on silent and rely on my Watch to let me know of any texts. It’s…
Michelangelo on not being interrupted
Maria Popova on her incredibly good blog Brain Pickings: Indeed, he knew value of undisturbed creative labor and protected it fiercely, unafraid to stand up to the most powerful man in Europe….
No one will ever read this but
This is great. ~karlen on tilde.town reads aloud bits on the web that says “no one will ever read this but”. My only wish was that this site linked to the source. /via…
Windows 10 launch
Microsoft is reporting 14,000,000 Windows 10 installs in 24 hours. Not bad. Me, in May: I want Microsoft to do great things. I want Windows Phone to be as amazing as it…
Spacial Interfaces
Interesting write-up on Medium by Pasquale D’Silva Creative Director at Elepath. He says this about Spotify: One of the most spatially confusing, while popular pieces of consumer software. To describe how Spotify’s…
Stop Hacking Your Life
Kyle Eschenroeder over at The Art of Manliness: Then there is the person scrolling through Lifehacker collecting listicles. Reading and re-reading the same hacks spewed out a thousand times. This is the…
Web Design: The First 100 Years
Maciej Ceglowski, operator over at Pinboard, in a talk in 2014: The Web belongs to us all, and those of us in this room are going to spend the rest of our…
Stock GoPro Videos
Good move from GoPro. They’ve created a licensing platform for stock videos made by GoPro users. Christopher Heine for Adweek: At launch, GoPro Licensing will feature more than 600 videos from amateur…
Kyle Ruane on WordCamp Scranton
Kyle Ruane, on his personal blog: It’s no secret that the more this region (Scranton, Wilkes-Barre, everywhere in-between) becomes comfortable with technology and success within that industry, the greater our ability will be…