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According to The Verge Apple has added a Do Not Disturb option to Mountain Lion’s Notification Center. (Wow, that was a lot of capital letters.) Might we also see this feature in the upcoming iOS 6? This is great for my focus training program. I’m very much looking forward to Mountain Lion.

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According to The Verge Apple has added a Do Not Disturb option to Mountain Lion’s Notification Center. (Wow, that was a lot of capital letters.) Might we also see this feature in the upcoming iOS 6? This is great for my focus training program. I’m very much looking forward to Mountain Lion.

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According to The Verge Apple has added a Do Not Disturb option to Mountain Lion’s Notification Center. (Wow, that was a lot of capital letters.) Might we also see this feature in the upcoming iOS 6? This is great for my focus training program. I’m very much looking forward to Mountain Lion.

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Narrated by Tom Waits. I recommend 720p fullscreen. /via David Karp.

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According to The Verge Apple has added a Do Not Disturb option to Mountain Lion’s Notification Center. (Wow, that was a lot of capital letters.) Might we also see this feature in the upcoming iOS 6? This is great for my focus training program. I’m very much looking forward to Mountain Lion.

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If I would have found this mushroom sooner it could have been dinner.

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Lars Martinson’s website usually averaged a hundred hits per day. He submitted an ebook to Reddit and received nearly 50,000 hits in a single day. Great right? Well, not really. He only sold 23 ebooks. He also learned a few valuable lessons and he jotted them down in 3 Things I Learned When My Site’s […]

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I’ve had an Apple TV for a while now and I love it. I use it all the time. And, I’m guessing, with Mountain Lion I’ll be using it a lot more. But I’ve got no reason to upgrade to the latest Apple TV (save the 1080p resolution) since the software updates come around for […]

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Great presentation by Joe Kraus on the Culture of Distraction and how we’re all training ourselves to be less able to focus on any one thing. STOP WHAT YOUR DOING AND WATCH IT NOW. 🙂 My take? I think I’ll develop a training program that works the opposite way. Over a year ago in a […]

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Absolutely stunning photography from Timothy O’Sullivan in the 1860s and 1870s. He would have had an amazing Instagram account.

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Paul Miller, a writer for The Verge, somewhat recently decided to take a year off from the Internet. You can call it a stunt if you’d like to – but it is turning out to be one of the most interesting public experiments I’ve ever seen online. A recent piece and video by Miller was […]

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CNet takes a good look at Samsung’s new Chromebook 5 550. It appears that the launch of Google Drive has done wonders for Chrome OS.

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Casey McCallister has put together some great filters for Adobe Lightroom that resemble the filters in Instagram. Some say they aren’t perfect replicas but I couldn’t see how they could be. I think they’re pretty good. Good idea. And I’m glad he’s charging for them. /via The Verge.

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Yesterday, while I was sick on the couch, I did what I usually do when I’m sick. Watch Contact. I’ve never read the book from which the film was adapted – Carl Sagan’s Contact. But this led me to poke around and I found something I’m thoroughly enjoying. Jodie Foster reading an abridged, and performed, […]

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Pleated Jeans presents – The Middle Ages: Then vs. Now. I still carry around a leg of turkey from time-to-time. /via Laughing Squid.

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I love street food. Jay Torres, who used to work on a food truck, has some great lessons in food truck etiquette to share. Listen up. I’ve been wanting to write something like this for awhile, but I didn’t want to do it while I was still working on a truck. I didn’t want to […]

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Adam Lisagor of Sandwich Video presents AeroPress "Ritual": I laughed out loud (or, LOL’d as the kids say). /via Jay Torres.

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I think everyone who is addicted to their work runs into this problem of constantly feeling like there is more to do. And let’s face it, all of us that have been working with computers since about the time we learned to ride a bike are addicted to our work. We love it. However, by […]

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David Kravets for Wired: Each month, Google removes more than 1 million links to infringing content such as movies, video games, music and software from its search results — with about half of those requests for removal last month coming from Microsoft. Interesting stuff. I’m surprised that number is so low. I’m not surprised that […]

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First, yes please. Now, Matt Mullenweg on what tablets should mean to WordPress: How we democratize publishing on that sort of platform will not and should not work like WordPress’ current dashboard does. It’s not a matter of a responsive stylesheet or incremental UX improvements, it’s re-imagining and radically simplifying what we currently do, thinking […]

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Coda 2 and Diet Coda are now available. 50% off until tomorrow. Just picked up my copy. Take that Duke Nukem.

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Speaking of Kickstarter (I’ve mentioned it many times). gTar, a guitar-playing learning tool that uses an iPhone to teach you how to play, is a new project on Kickstarter that seems to be a smash-hit right out of the gate. It hassurpassedits stated goal of raising $100,000 in less than 24 hours. Who knows where […]

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Justin Kan about his first experience using programming on the job: A couple more hours of applied effort and I had a macro that looped through all the images in a directory tree and laid them out in Excel. I spent the next four days surfing the web and handing out files. The first time […]

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Om Malik sat down with Perry Chen for a really great and in-depth interview about the success of Kickstarter. I think, we’re able to offer people the ability to overcome that one core roadblock — the funding — and then additionally allow people to build this community and nurture an audience around a project. I […]

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A great short film about Pete Rose day-to-day. I hired Pete Rose in Atlantic City in 2003 when I worked for a sports memorabilia company to sign autographs. Out of the 45 or so athletes I worked with during my time there, including many hall of famers and still-working athletes, Pete Rose was one of […]

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An excellent point by Alex Payne on something that always bothered him about TechCrunch: For a publication with “tech” in the name, technology only ever seemed ambiently present in TechCrunch’s reporting. Software and hardware are background music for the site’s real interests: money and power, success and failure, who’s up and who’s down. TechCrunch often […]

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Not-so-hot on the heels of my interview with Panic in September 2009comes Coda 2 and its sister? iPad app Diet Coda – both available on May 24th. Coda 2 looks like an amazingly big update.

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Like Mahdi Yusuf’s month-long foray using DuckDuckGo Farhad Manjoo spends a week with Bing. His first impressions were good: The new Bing is like the old Google—your results are presented on a clean, uncluttered page consisting of a lot of links and a few unobtrusive ads. But, like so many others, he realized how trapped […]

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GitHub just released GitHub for Windows. Remember what I said about GitHub for Mac? And about git getting easier? It goes ditto for this application.

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Fellow Viddler team member Jeff Johns explains how to use the Viddler API to generate Open Graph tags. One possible use case? Making your video thumbnail, and playable video, appear on Facebook’s News Feed whenever someone links to your website.

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Interesting project by Adobe – Shadow is a way to share your current browser’s location with a bunch of different devices. In the demo embedded here it shows how easily it would make testing a site layout or web app on all of your devices at once. Pretty slick.

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Matt Honan of Gizmodo: The site that once had the best social tools, the most vibrant userbase, and toppest-notch storage is rapidly passing into the irrelevance of abandonment. Its once bustling community now feels like an exurban neighborhood rocked by a housing crisis. Yards gone to seed. Rusting bikes in the front yard. Tattered flags. […]

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Justin Kan pontificates about experience and how he at one point thought experience was worthless. However, once he had some experience he began to believe it to be very valuable. It does come with some drawbacks and this one is a biggie: It’s been said before, but when you have a lot of experience in […]

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Brought to you by the guys at Simplenote,Simperium"is a service for developers to move dataeverywhere it’s needed, instantly and automatically." Impressive demo video as well as samples that include a video demonstration and code on Github for each one. /via Shawn "I know a lot about keyboards" Blanc.

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Like many Marco Arment thinks it is time to streamline U.S. currency: 1 cent: I don’t care whether we keep these. I’ll still keep them in a bowl and eventually bring them to a Coinstar machine for Amazon credit. 5 cents (5x previous denomination) 25 cents (5x) $1 (4x): I don’t care whether it’s a […]

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The problem with advertising is that the customers will always be the advertisers and they will always want value for their ad spend and value typically comes from compromising the viewer’s experience. Countless well-meaning, tasteful, and respectable people have taken a swing at making friendly advertising that is both respectful of the viewer and valuable […]

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Mahdi Yusuf after spending four weeks using DuckDuckGo in place of Google for search: This brings something very interesting to light, I have gotten really good at processing information returned from Google searches. I can quickly determine what is a useful result and what isn’t. After using DuckDuckGo for one week I can concur with […]

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Anthony Bourdain on the different types of people that like his show No Reservations: Generally speaking, there are two distinct audiences for this show: people who like to look at images of food and are interested in where it comes from and how it got to the plate—and people who like to travel—or like the idea […]

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Beth Callaghan of All Things D asks Twitter inventor and Square Co-Founder Jack Dorsey twenty rapid-fire questions and some of his answers are pretty great. The best answer? Name your favorite guilty pleasure. Cheez-Its. I respect Jack quite a bit but this puts it over the top for me.

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Steven Thompson took his journal from 1976 and made it into a blog. It took off. He was offered a publishing deal. But he turned it down and decided to run a Kickstarter campaign instead. I thought it would be a clever idea to do my 1976 high school journal as a blog but I […]

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Andrew Wilkinson for The Next Web about building Flow without venture capital: At MetaLab, everyone is responsible for their own schedule. No bunk beds in the office or ramen-fueled overnight programming melees. We usually clock between four and six hours a day, and most of us don’t even get to the office before noon. We […]

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Yours truly in August of last year on The plusses and minuses of Google+  – filed under minuses: For any social networking service the single biggest reason they fail is lack of adoption. While Google has become the fastest growing site of-all-time that doesn’t mean that people are using it. In my Circles (get it?) […]

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Taken on March 13, 2012 in Jermyn, PA. Sadly the only photos I’ve been publishing are through Instagram of late. I haven’t had the time to post process any images but I heroically opened Aperture and managed to throw this one together. Hopefully I’ll find a little more time for photography and processing over the […]

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Chris Bowler on finding, and even trying to build, a service that helps him to store more link types for later: The issue is that none of the services I’ve seen fit allmy requirements. Instapaper is primarily a tool forreading later. Same for Readability. But I come across items on my iOS devices that require another […]

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Sebastian Krger does it again with ‘Sean Penn’: His work is amazing.

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Interesting topic. Cities, such as they are, were primarily built around the movement of cars. This resulted in a bunch of noisy, ugly, polution-creating highways running directly through cities where parks, rivers, and other quality of life areas could be. Ben Welle of The City Fix: Freeway removal is really about shifting priorities from moving […]

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My friend Kyle Neath on the GitHub blog: Today we’re rolling out a new and improved flow for creating repositories on GitHub. Remember when I said this, shortly after GitHub released GitHub for Mac: If Git is easy to use more people will use it and therefore more people will sign up and pay for […]

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So, let me get this straight. The guy that wrote, produced, and directed an amazingly successful blockbuster movie about how greedy, evil people were mining the natural resources of another planet to the detriment of thehabitatand natives is now funding mining on extraterrestrial bodies? Got it. /via The "I said hot when I meant warm" […]

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My friend Abby wishes people would slow down and take the time needed to explain things. Details have such little value to many people. No one wants to hear the whole story, they just want you to get right to the point. […]In my mind it would be helpful to explain how I arrived at […]

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The Oatmeal takes a crack at how to get more likes on Facebook. Incidentally, the answer to that question is also the answer to how to build a business; make great stuff.

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