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According to the biography of Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson Jobs reportedly told Google’s Larry Page: [figure] out what Google wants to be when it grows up. It’s now all over the map. What are the five products you want to focus on? Get rid of the rest, because they’re dragging you down. They’re turning […]

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While the phrase "Apple has changed the education landscape" may be a little premature I certainly believe that today it has provided the world with the tools and devices to do exactly that. Today Apple updated iBooks to version 2 which can now display much more interactive books than it did previously. While iBooks has […]

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This Dashboard widget post (see the others) is more for developers and designers than the average person. Colourmod is a Dashboard widget for Mac OS X that you’ll end up using much more than you think you would. I’m not a designer but as someone who fiddles around on the web I find myself in […]

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I found myselfnoddingmy head in agreement with Shawn Blanc’s It’s Just Stuff: I may drive a Jeep because I’m a Colorado boy at heart, and I may own a charcoal grill because I like things “pure”, and I may own Apple gadgets because I have an affinity for fine software. So yes, you can tell […]

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The post on GAget was mildly popular. I’m happy about that. It means that more people are seeing a useful Mac OS X Dashboard widget than may have otherwise. Especially since Apple hasn’t updated their Dashboard widget directory since very early in 2011. Well, here is another widget I suggest taking a look at. Whenever […]

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This isn’t anything new and it has been covered elsewhere in much more detail. However, there are a few ways to speed up Mail. I’ve tried two. One I highly recommend, the other is up to you because I don’t want to be responsible for any problems that may arise as a result of you […]

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Let me just admit this right off the bat; I don’t use services in Mac OS X. I’ll use an Alfred extension or two in order to make my life a little easier but I’ve never really tried to get services to stick in my workflows. I’m going to change that. This article by Kirk […]

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This edition of real words doesn’t really come from me but rather from Wayne Bartz who manages the Ben Franklin TechVentures incubator in Bethlehem, PA where Viddler was annexed for the first five or so years. He seems a bit miffed at people mistaking an incubator for an accelerator. The best argument I could use […]

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Henry David Thoreau, on January 7, 1852, pretty much nails my thoughts of every evening. We never tire of the drama of sunset. I go forth each afternoon and look into the west a quarter of an hour before sunset, with fresh curiosity, to see what new picture will be painted there, what new panorama […]

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Robert X. Cringely predicts that Eric Schmidt could be Microsoft’s next CEO replacing Steve Ballmer. I’m not saying it wouldn’t or couldn’t happen but I will say it would be an even worse move than when the Board decided Ballmer was a good choice to replace Bill Gates. At the end of his piece he […]

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That artisan style bread recipe I published the other day has spurred on a few people to make their own. It really is very, very easy to make this style of bread. It is rewarding and delicious to boot! So, if you’re reading this and you sorta kinda wanted to try to make your own […]

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Artisan bread isbest described by thinking about the person who makes the bread. An artisan baker is a craftsperson who is trained to the highest ability to mix, ferment, shape and bake a hand crafted loaf of bread. They understand the science behind the chemical reactions of the ingredients and know how to provide the […]

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Jeremiah Warren recreates level 1-1 of Super Mario Bros. using paper and stop motion animation. It is remarkably well done.

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For the last few nights I’ve been playing around with The Night Sky on iOS. It is really fun to use and a wee bit magical. If you want an app on your iPhone that has some wow-factor – this is it. Everyone I’ve showed this app has purchased it immediately after seeing it.

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Roger Ebert gives six reasons why he thinks movie revenue was way down in 2011. Here is one of them: 3. The theater experience. Moviegoers above 30 are weary of noisy fanboys and girls. The annoyance of talkers has been joined by the plague of cell-phone users, whose bright screens are a distraction. Worse, some […]

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Om Malik on the tech start-up scene in Berlin: The lack of classical German industries means it is a city with fewer jobs than other parts of Germany. It also means the city has lower wages compared to the rest of Germany and much of Europe. The sprawling nature of the city means that Berlin […]

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You may remember that Jorge Garcia and his girlfriend Bethany Shady had a podcast for behind-the-scenes LOST stuff appropriately named Geronimo Jack’s Beard. Well, Garcia and Shady are back with a new podcast for behind-the-scenes stuff on Alcatraz, a new show coming in the spring, named Diego’s Soul Patch.Here isthe iTunes feed. I’ve seen the […]

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Joanne Cronin on restaurant reservations that end up in no-shows: This problem isn’t limited just to Irish restaurants as I’ve also noticed similar complaints emerging from English tweeters. Understandably, restaurants are annoyed at these no-shows and late cancellations and the Restaurants Association of Ireland started a press campaign to highlight this issue. Many venues are […]

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I found this interesting, perhaps you will too. Molloy & Sons is a weaving business in Donegal, Ireland.Sadly I didn’t visit Donegal during our visit to Ireland this past October. However, I am glad that they have an excellent website, Put This On recently made an episode video about them, and Nowness also made a […]

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This makes sense. Sabri Ben-Achour for NPR reports that birds sing different tunes in cities than they do in the country. The buildings, noise and other factors in city life make it hard for birds to hear each other unless they sing at different pitches than the surrounding noise. This doesn’t seem like such a […]

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I’m glad someone is finally saying it. Eric Eldon for Aol/Techcrunch: "That’s not 62 million active users, though — a point that everyone covering these numbers seems to have missed. It’s just the number of total users. And specifically, it’s the number of new surnames that Allen’s team has tracked being created on the service. Because […]

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Somewhat related to my last, Adi Robertson on The Verge provides a quick step-by-step on how to add personal documents to your Kindle. I’m cataloging these in hopes of one day buying Eliza a new Kindle and I inherit her old one. Shh, don’t tell her.

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Last night I needed to transfer an EPUB file to Eliza’s Kindle from my Mac. It turns out that Kindles no likey the EPUBs. (I didn’t know this, I’ve never really used one.) So, after a bit of searching I found Calibre that, while it doesn’t have the best looking UI, is sort of the […]

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Horace Dediu of Asymco thinks so. Him, on Twitter: I’m starting to believe that if and when Apple TV is updated the hardware price will be surprisingly low. As you may very well know Eliza and I use our Apple TV a lot. We don’t use all of the features but we use it daily. […]

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At least, not in the same way. Andrew Mayne wrote on Google : "Much of the sales were generated by the news sites and blogs covering the story. This works great once, but is hard to repeat it. Other comedians, even established ones aren’t going to get as lucky. The publicity was a black swan […]

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At least, not in the same way. Andrew Mayne wrote on Google : "Much of the sales were generated by the news sites and blogs covering the story. This works great once, but is hard to repeat it. Other comedians, even established ones aren’t going to get as lucky. The publicity was a black swan […]

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At least, not in the same way. Andrew Mayne wrote on Google : "Much of the sales were generated by the news sites and blogs covering the story. This works great once, but is hard to repeat it. Other comedians, even established ones aren’t going to get as lucky. The publicity was a black swan […]

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At least, not in the same way. Andrew Mayne wrote on Google : "Much of the sales were generated by the news sites and blogs covering the story. This works great once, but is hard to repeat it. Other comedians, even established ones aren’t going to get as lucky. The publicity was a black swan […]

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At least, not in the same way. Andrew Mayne wrote on Google : "Much of the sales were generated by the news sites and blogs covering the story. This works great once, but is hard to repeat it. Other comedians, even established ones aren’t going to get as lucky. The publicity was a black swan […]

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At least, not in the same way. Andrew Mayne wrote on Google : "Much of the sales were generated by the news sites and blogs covering the story. This works great once, but is hard to repeat it. Other comedians, even established ones aren’t going to get as lucky. The publicity was a black swan […]

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At least, not in the same way. Andrew Mayne wrote on Google : "Much of the sales were generated by the news sites and blogs covering the story. This works great once, but is hard to repeat it. Other comedians, even established ones aren’t going to get as lucky. The publicity was a black swan […]

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Alex Knight proposes a pretty painless way of sharing screenshots using Apple’s built-in screenshot utility, Dropbox, and an Alfred extension. I think I’d still prefer Skitch but if you don’t this seems like a nice workflow.

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Joseph Parish on The Verge: "Experian Hitwise has released its yearly search term statistics and once again, Facebook and YouTube top the list. The remainder of the top 10 includes three more Facebook-related terms, a couple of Yahoo! variants, craigslist, eBay, and MapQuest. Of course it’s highly unlikely that all the millions of people putting […]

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The Tolkien Library features covers for The Hobbit from all over the world. Most of which are fantastic. Oh, and you saw the teaser trailer, right? /via Coudal Partners.

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The Mac OS X Dashboard is something I seem to use less and less. I think the Dashboard widget is a fantastic way to build small applications or utilities to help people keep track of something, do some quick math, etc. but these widgets don’t seem to get as much attention as they deserve. There […]

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I’ll leave the comparisons to other languages and frameworks out of this and just say that I’m happy to see that PHP 5.4 will have a built-in web server for doing things like local development without the need for installing Apache. Excellent.

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Wow, I never saw this coming. Skitch, an application I’ve written about many times, is now available on iOS. /via CNet.

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I suggest subscribing to The King Arthur Flour blog. Watch this video (embedded below) on how they use their blog to market their product. But, it doesn’t sound as humdrum as that. You can tell they love what they do.

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If you’re using Tweetbot on your iPhone I suggest following @tweetbot on Twitter. They tweet a bunch of great tips like this one: Tap and hold on an Avatar to quickly Follow, Direct Message, Mute, Add to a List or Report for Spam. #TweetbotTip — Tweetbot for iPhone (@tweetbot) December 17, 2011

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Well, not really.

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If you use the Google you may want to add the CDEVROE.com page to your Circles. So, to recap, you can now subscribe to cdevroe.com in the following ways; RSS feed, @cdevroecom on Twitter, Facebook page, Google page, and carrier pigeon (coming soon). Oh, I’ve got a personal account on Twitter, Facebook, and Google too.

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I like to think that this little number by Fred Astaire, if performed today in a random living room in an unassuming midwestern city using a song from the weekly Top 40, would have been a smash hit on YouTube and gone viral. Then, today, he’d have been a guest on Ellen. Then, tomorrow, he […]

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The definition of ignorant is simply"lackingknowledgeorawareness". The realword series features words that are often misused.

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A friend of mine gave me whiskey stones as a gift. They’re great. If you have a whiskey that you’d like to cool down without watering it down you simply toss a few of these perfectly shaped soap stone squares into the glass for a few minutes. Soap stone is a truly enjoyable material too. […]

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The CNN for iPad app is nicer than the CNN.com website.

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We’ve been experimenting at work with Mumble. It is a voice chat server that is typically used by gamers. It makes for a great audio backchannel to an otherwise text-only watercooler.

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Many people born over the last half-century have the habit of misusing, abusing, or flat out being ignorant of the true definition of words. Myself included. So I thought I’d start a series here on the blog that, quite simply, points to a few of these that I’ve noticed over the last three decades and […]

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As you may well know I love a good New York style pizza. But this recipe from Joanne Cronin reminds me how much better homemade pizza is. "Sometimes there’s nothing quite like pizza. And it’s at its absolute best when it’s a homemade pizza – thin and crispy with your own favourite combinations." Precisely.

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Just as I was saying that the best UI for Netflix was on the Apple TV comes [Netflix 2.0 for iOS](http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=netflix ios&source=web&cd=2&ved=0CDUQFjAB&url=http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/netflix/id363590051?mt=8&ei=qX7pTtDgGcWBgweeheXpCA&usg=AFQjCNHehjzQqOVuI0vmdKUk_Qjn1SthPg). While the Apple TV Netflix UI is still better this version for iOS is vastly improved.

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