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I don’t understand reviews like this one about the Kindle Fire from Amazon by Peter Ha at The Daily: "Like most convergence devices before it, the Kindle Fire doesn’t do anything exceptionally well (except for buying things via Amazon) but the price is right at $200." How in the world is the price right when […]

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xkcd explores what type of person you might be based on the type of map you prefer. Me? Globe or Gall-Peters all the way.

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Now when you’re visiting an Apple Retail Store and you already have an iOS device (iPhone, iPad, iPod touch) in your pocket with [the Apple Store app](http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/apple-store/id375380948?mt=8) installed you can scan the barcodes of the items you want to purchase, pay with a credit card, and walk right out of the store. This is excellent.

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For those of you that jailbreak your phones there is [a hidden feature in iOS 5 that allows Camera.app to create panoramic images](http://www.idownloadblog.com/2011/11/07/hidden-panorama-mode-uncovered-in-the-ios-camera-app/). This isn’t worth jailbreaking for. There are plenty of affordable and good panoramic applications in the App Store and obviously Apple wasn’t happy enough with this feature to include it. So it […]

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[Lookwork](http://lookwork.com/) is a very interesting take on a RSS reader. It is a little too Tumblr-esque for me. By that I mean that it is a very passive way to browse a ton of entries without ever slowing down and viewing each photo or post by itself for any length of time. It is one […]

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Sam Jones after [quoting nearly every word](http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/oct/31/steve-jobs-last-words?newsfeed=true) of [Mona Simpson’s touching eulogy](http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/30/opinion/mona-simpsons-eulogy-for-steve-jobs.html?\_r=1&pagewanted=all) for her brother Steve Jobs: >"His biography, written by Walter Isaacson, is topping many book charts and is even tipped to become the bestselling book on Amazon this year. >The company’s latest offering, the iPhone 4S, is faring less well, however, with many […]

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I’ve been saying this for years but sometimes it takes someone deep in the thick of Silicon Valley, who has succeeded, to come out and make it plain. Mark Zuckerberg, and no one will argue this, has found huge success in Silicon Valley yet even he says that if he could do it all over […]

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How in the world is [Codify](http://twolivesleft.com/Codify/) only $7.99? Watch the video demo. Trs impressive. /via [John Gruber](http://daringfireball.net/linked/2011/10/26/codify).

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Shaun Inman, the guy that has seemingly limitless energy, time, ideas and the ability to execute, has released Day-O a menubar clock/calendar replacement application. I just installed it. Its free and its perfect. My theory; Shaun has a twin and we’ve been fooled for years.

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Now would be a great time to catch up on the artist interview series I’ve been doing for over a year on The Watercolor Gallery. Here is a full list of the interviews I’ve conducted to date. I’m nearing the end of the first batch of interviews. The next batch will be much different. Kannika […]

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[Great tip](http://lifehacker.com/5853873/reopen-closed-tabs-in-safari-on-the-ipad). To restore a recently closed tab on iPad just hold down the new tab button to see a list. iOS 5 and up only. /via [Shawn Blanc](http://shawnblanc.net/2011/10/reopen-tabs-ipad/).

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Everyone and their mother’s dog is linking to Richard Stallman’s rider but it is simply too good to pass up. It is laugh-out-loud funny and so incredibly detailed that I highly recommend, if you haven’t already read it, that you grab your favorite evening beverage and read the entire thing. I recommend a Jameson and […]

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You’ve all been following Roz’s adventures since [I recommended that you do a few years ago](http://cdevroe.com/links/rozsavage/), right? If you haven’t you should know that [earlier this month she became the first woman to row three oceans](http://www.rozsavage.com/2011/10/04/ive-done-it/). >"I’ve done it! After 5 months and 0 days at sea, I am absolutely over the moon to be […]

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WordPress 3.1 exhibited an underlying feature that didn’t reveal itself in the UI in much of any way. Post formats. Post formats are sort of like categories of posts but are used to "handle" different post types in different ways. You can [read more about Post formats over on the WordPress Codex](http://codex.wordpress.org/Post\_Formats). [Crowd Favorite](http://crowdfavorite.com/) has […]

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Good news! [Panic has just published a blog post](http://www.panic.com/blog/2011/10/panic-state-of-the-union-11/) confirming that Coda 2 is going private beta. As a Coda user I am super happy that they’ve gotten to this milestone. I found a few things mentioned in the post interesting. "Coda 2 has now been in development for about a year and a half." […]

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An arrangement of short clips from our trip to Ireland.

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Interesting bit from [this interview with Helen Mirren](http://the-talks.com/interviews/helen-mirren/) on the always great The Talks: >"Well from my perspective, a film costs a lot of money. You could build three hospitals with the cost of one film and I take that very seriously. I take the responsibility of being a person involved in a piece of […]

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Taken on October 16th, 2011 in Acova, Ireland. This was just one of many interesting doorways we saw while in Ireland. This one was in the small village of Avoca just a little over a scenic hour’s drive south of Dublin City Centre.

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I hope [Treshr](http://treshr.com/) matures and people use it. I’ve already signed up. I have some things I’d love to give away rather than throw out.

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Taken on October 17, 2011 in Treanmanagh, Ireland. Sunrise over Lough Caragh in County Kerry as seen from our house in Treanmanagh. Incredible.

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Courtesy of Instagram.

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There is a lot of talent inside of Microsoft. It is everything that happens above the talent that inhibits that talent’s ability to make really great things. While [the Arc Touch Mouse](http://www.microsoft.com/hardware/arc-touch-tutorial/) is very, very interesting and seemingly well done it is still based off an old "mouse" (read: move around your desk and move […]

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Not space.

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From Rainbow Bridge.

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A wee pick-me-up.

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To be a little wine. 24gal.

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It isn’t easy to think differently. You can apply this now famous phrase to just about anything in your life and, no matter what you apply it to, it makes for a trying – yet exciting – life or work. I was never much a fan of Steve Jobs. I was always so much more […]

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Domenick’s Pizza on Main Street in Carbondale and Jermyn are both fairly good places to get a slice. About as close to New York style pizza as you’ll be able to get in either of these towns.

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Given that [the iPhone 4 is already the leading camera in use by Flickr users](http://www.flickr.com/cameras/) this may seem like a no-brainer but I believe that, in a relatively short period of time, the iPhone 4S will be the most popular camera in the world. A little over [a year ago I wrote about how it […]

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Jealousy at this point is natural.

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Well, since the new iPhone is called the iPhone 4S and not iPhone 5 I guess we’ll just have to wait and see how [my guesses](http://cdevroe.com/notes/iguess-iphone5/) stand up. But, I won’t let myself off that easy. Lets see how I did. – **The camera lens will be on the opposite side of the Apple logo.** […]

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I don’t get it. During Apple’s press event, no matter which live blog I was following, the writers were constantly "yawning" whenever the event would – in their opinion – "drag on". Apple has just given launch dates for some of the most sophisticated, affordable, and approachable technology the world has ever seen and they […]

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Interesting observation by Shawn Blanc: "It’s interesting that the iPhone 4S, though it has an extra hour of 3G talk time, has 100 less hours of standby time." He wondered what could the iPhone 4S be doing when "off" that the iPhone 4 does not? I doubt it is the A5 chip since the iPad […]

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Mmm, tasty.

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I’ve managed to avoid much of the rumor mill around the new iPhone that is, well, rumored to be unveiled on October 4th. Based simply on my own observations while using an iPhone since June 29, 2007, using the iPhone 4 since its first day, and looking at iOS 5 a little – I’ve come […]

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A tribute.

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At 10pm I feel like putting on a pot of coffee and working all night. By 11pm I wonder why I haven’t been in bed for an hour. The plight of an early riser.

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Congratulations to all of my friends at [Github](http://github.com/) for [reaching the 1 million user milestone](http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/github\_hits\_1\_million\_users.php). Github is easily one of the very best services for developers on the web. If you don’t yet have an account and you are a developer; stop waiting.

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This [graph showing the relative size of Facebook’s Photos feature](http://1000memories.com/blog/94-number-of-photos-ever-taken-digital-and-analog-in-shoebox) compared to Flickr, Instagram and other pools of photos is almost comical. There are services that fit in between the size of Flickr and Facebook (such as Photobucket) but it is an interesting way to look at things.

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This doesn’t fit on [The Watercolor Gallery](http://h2ocolor.com/) so I thought I’d share it here. Krger is an amazing artist but what makes his work even more amazing is the scale at which he works. This painting of Mick Jagger is 71"x71". Amazing detail at that size.

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I haven’t used the new Gowalla enough to have formulated a strong opinion but I thought I’d jot down my initial thoughts. Here are some bits from [their blog post announcing the new Gowalla](http://blog.gowalla.com/post/10513121010/a-new-gowalla). Here is the bit I really like: >"The cornerstone for this update is Gowalla’s new Social Guides. We’ve taken the best […]

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So says [the blog](http://blog.macromates.com/2011/whats-next/). I’ll believe it when I see it. /via [Shawn Blanc](http://shawnblanc.net/2011/09/textmate/).

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A very, very nice update of [WordPress for iOS](http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/wordpress/id335703880?mt=8) was been released. The application for iPhone and iPad now has a simple content editor and the QuickPhoto feature can now post images from your Library instead of going straight to the camera. Although I wish the app supported Markdown format (rather than just HTML) I’ll […]

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Matt tried to make me look good.

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It is about time. Paying for things using a phone has been a dream of mine for some time. I’m a debit card type of guy not a cash carrying type of guy. Being able to ditch my wallet altogether and use my phone to pay for something would make things even easier. [Google Wallet](http://google.com/wallet/) […]

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A chilly night.

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What Derek brings to HQ.

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Moving out of this building next month.

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I saw this and immediately thought of a company that they could buy.

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