VSCO Cam for iPad
VSCO Cam is now available for iPad. Good catch by Shawn Blanc: With this update, your VSCO Cam Library now syncs across devices. You can tell if a photo is synced by…
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Why podcasts are suddenly “back”
Marco Arment: What’s apparent from most of the recent podcast stories is that most of their reporters have talked to very few sources and either don’t listen to podcasts themselves or have…
Tools and Toys reviews the iPad Air 2
Josh Ginter for Tools and Toys: Overall, the thinness of the new iPad Air 2 makes it the best iPad to hold, use, and carry with you on a daily basis. The…
Amazon Echo, err, Alexa
Amazon has this new tube-thing you can talk to called Echo. You can ask it questions by simply talking out loud. Similar to Apple’s Siri, Microsoft’s Cortana, or Google’s OK Google features….
David Mark on Echo
David Mark writing for The Loop: I think Amazon will sell a ton of these. I’m going to pull a Dalrymple and say “Nope”.
What’s Behind the Great Podcast Renaissance?
Kevin Roose for New York Magazine: According to Edison Research, 39 million people listened to a podcast in the last month, the highest number on record. See.
Podcasting is the next big thing
Fred Wilson: As is often the case, a simple little thing turns out to be the big thing. That little thing is that almost every car that has been sold in the…
Seven days of travel feet
Seven out of 365 days of #travelfeet have passed. It has been an interesting week. The small group of friends that have joined in the fun have added over 125 travelfeet photos….
Twitter is not a replacement for blogs
Marco Arment: Too much of my writing in the last few years has gone exclusively into Twitter. I need to find a better balance. And… By knocking down a few walls and…
Muir Icons: Volume II
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…
P. Morris, Beloved
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….
Don’t blame Powerpoint
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…
Finding friends on Twitter
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…
How Apple Pay works
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…
HTML 5 is now a W3C Recommendation
This was slated for 2022 at one point. I’m very happy to see things leveling off with this recommendation by the W3C. As Jeremy Keith said in his comments about this event…
No more Platinum albums?
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….
Rockets are hard
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:…
Slow reading email
Matt Haughey writing on this #tildeclub space: One long-standing pet peeve with Gmail (and all similar email apps) is that they don’t offer a “slow” reading option. Email is a fast, efficient,…
Om on the blogging challenge so far
Om Malik: The blogging challenge, however has brought a rigor and discipline that was missing for most of the year. Almost three weeks into the challenge, I feel like a slugger in…
Some podcasts from Bijan Sabet
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…
Travelfeet 1
#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…
YouTube Pop-up Bookmarklet
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…
365 days of travelfeet
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…
Don’t Call It Wordsmithing
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…
jk on Ello
Last night, also, I read this post on Ello by @jk. I like the way he’s using Ello.
The golden age for independent content
Matthew Haughey waxing nostalgic on the incredibly retro tilde.club: That made me think back to posting 4–5 times a day on my own blog, and RSS (and The Time Before Google Reader…
Trouble at the Koolaid Point
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…
What is Tilde Club?
In case you went all o_0 when you saw #tildeclub in my last post. Here is the story of its origin.
Which type of glass to use for which type of beer?
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.
WordCamp San Francisco 2014
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…