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Interesting niche that I know many would love to see filled by Foursquare et al. [Forecast](http://foreca.st/) is a mobile application (iOS/Android currently) that lets you tell your friends _where you will be_ and _when you’ll get there_. Then, when you arrive, you can quickly check into wherever you are via Foursquare. /via [Brian Shaler](http://brian.shaler.name/).

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I’ve been messing around in iMovie recently and a few of the video tutorials I ran across confused me because they showed the events viewer on top of the projects stage. This allowed for a much, much larger editing stage than the default iMovie view. Turns out this is very simple to do. To swaps […]

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A 48-hour solo hackathon for game developers to create a game. Pretty fun. Shaun Inman, who just released The Last Rocket for iOS, put together a quick game called Data Entry Sentry that works on an iPad (or any Webkit browser). Fun to play. I don’t know where he gets the energy.

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I’m sure there are a million uses for [PicPlum](http://picplum.com/) but I can’t think of a single reason why someone with children and extended family wouldn’t choose to use it to mail printed photos automatically each month. PicPlum is everything printing photos usually isn’t; easy and affordable.

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We used her new olive tray.

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After a bit of breakfast.

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I was using Eliza’s new Sigma 10-20mm and happened upon this dragonfly. If only I realized that I had to be at least 1 foot away to truly get him in focus. Oh well, this is how we learn.

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Eliza’s gifts are awesome.

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I’ve been having some software problems lately and I thought it would be interesting to jot down what they are. Or, maybe just cathartic. Fun for me more than for you, dear reader, but alas this is my blog and I can cry if I want to, cry if I want to, you would cry […]

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HP has scuttled several webOS powered devices including the TouchPad and Pre phones. Their press release leaves the future of webOS rather open… HP will continue to explore options to optimize the value of webOS software going forward. Presumably the webOS team inside of HP/Palm isn’t so large that it costs HP a ton of […]

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I’ve switched to using [MPlayerX](http://mplayerx.org/) ([App Store](http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/mplayerx/id421131143?mt=12)) since upgrading to Mac OS X Lion because it can play many more formats than Quicktime and is, in many ways, much better looking than VLC. Today I’ve stumbled across [a slew of hidden settings](https://github.com/niltsh/MPlayerX/wiki/Some-settings-you-can’t-find-in-the-UI) that you can’t find via the UI.

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What happens after you hit Enter on a browser? A lot. And the people over at HTML5 Rocks have taken the time to explain every nitty gritty detail about [how a web browser works](http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/internals/howbrowserswork/). You’ll need to freshen up that beverage before you sink your teeth into this article. If you don’t have time now […]

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Guy half-jokingly tweets that he wants a steak hand-delivered to an airport terminal from one of his favorite restaurants. They show up with a free meal. [Great, fun story](http://shankman.com/the-best-customer-service-story-ever-told-starring-mortons-steakhouse/). Pardon me while I tweet about that new Jeep I’ve been wanting.

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Eliza got me some Aviators.

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We’ll be heading to Ireland in a few months. According to these two screenshots from Google Maps Ireland is ready for our arrival.

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When I switched to the Mac I was surprised how easy it was to install and uninstall applications in OS X compared to the horrible installer workflow and the Add/Remove Programs Control Panel of Windows. For those that are unaware, prior to Lion installing an application on the Mac went something like this; download a […]

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Speaking of Alfred, Jeff Johns (fellow Viddler team member) has released an Alfred Extension to control Spotify.

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As the work day progresses I find myself with more and more "streams" open. Not long after I log onto my computer in the morning Twitter, Skype, iChat, Mail and other streams are open and active and at multiple points throughout the day they steal my attention. However, there are times when I just want […]

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Thank goodness for people that are geeks about different things than I am and are willing to share their findings with the world. That is exactly what Marco Arment is (a geek about different things than I am, willing to share findings) when he reviews Coffee Joulies (which started as a Kickstarter project). When he […]

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Tantek elikshares his thoughts on Web Actions for pages on the web. You may have already seen similar things over the years like share, digg, like, 1 and follow buttons. Now Tantek suggests that we call them all Web Actions and to follow a certain recipe when creating these services. A good read and a […]

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Finishing my book.

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[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] I thought I’d drop a note, for Google more than anything, that I wouldn’t shop at forumsstore.com (which I won’t link directly to). This site comes up on Google as having some fairly great deals on products like DSLR camera lenses. What I will link to is a forum thread where some […]

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Taken in Jermyn, PA.

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This might get a little long in the tooth so you may want to top-up that beverage. Google has run me over like a freight train. Over the last few weeks I’ve been living on it instead of Twitter, Facebook, Foursquare. In fact, I made the prediction that Google could replace many of the most […]

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I’m pretty surprised by the statistics that show how people watch Netflix (and Hulu). Arguably the worst experience is on the computer and the best experience is on the Apple TV. And yet the worst is the most and the best is the least. /via Dan Frommer.

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Speaking of Weta, did you know that you can purchase the ring of power for only $2,500 USD? Sounds like abargainto me.

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Interesting read: The History of Webkit by Zach LeBar.

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A great video out of Weta Workshop that played in front of a limited theatre release of The Lord of the Rings recently. Watch in HD and in full screen for the full effect. Looks like a great place to work for an artist of almost any type. /via TheOneRing.net.

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Foursquare is currently winning in the check-in services space but I believe it is still anybody’s game because there is still a lot of work to do. Even though I "know" people that work at Gowalla and their sense of design is practicallyunparalleledin the check-in service space – Foursquare simply works better and that is […]

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Fantastic photo gallery of people on their mobile phones by Joe Holmes. /via Jason Kottke.

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This isn’t news to anyone. But I thought that Meagan Fischer had an interesting way of stating this in a recent post. "For me, that’s the real beauty of writing. Ideas can be noisy, heavy things. Trying to ignore them is like trying to ignore a bored cat. It will sit on your chest while […]

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Titles this cool don’t come around too often.

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[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] The answer is: more than you probably expected and far more complicated.

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My cat Pickles goes crazy when he sees string. Whether it be the pull-string for our window shades, a loose string from a piece of clothing – just about any string he’ll go bonkers for. So much so, in fact, that he’ll nearly injure himself and others to get the string. Nothing else matters in […]

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[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] But it sure did look cool. I was bent on getting the Tik-tok and iPod Nano to use as a watch since the very first day I came across the Kickstarter project. I didn’t care if it would make sense as a watch – I thought it looked awesome. So, I did […]

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It was a hard fought battle.

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I’m always looking for validation of my hair-brained ideas. In Kyle Neath’s post on his designing GitHub for Mac I found this nugget which backs up my assumptions that I made about GitHub for Mac being a big deal. "Eventually, I (well, many of us) decided that better native clients (OSX, Windows, Linux, Eclipse, Visual […]

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Many command line elitists may not be all that excited about GitHub for Mac, an application for managing your local and GitHub-hosted Git repositories by the GitHub team, but I’m sure they’ll respect what I feel is its ambitious goal. You see, with one application GitHub has just expanded its potential customer base many times […]

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I just did something I’ve been waiting months to do. I purchasedReeder for Mac from the App Store. It isn’t very often that I am so anxious to pay for something that I have been using for free. In fact, I can’t remember any other application that I’ve wanted to purchase more than Reeder for […]

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Those probably keep the predators guessing.

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[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] Steve Jobs said that, starting yesterday, you could get iTunes in the Cloud (a way to easily download music to all of your iOS powered devices) as they were beta testing it. I couldn’t figure out how. Here’s how: Download iTunes 10.3 manually from their site and you’ll be up and running […]

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Yesterday I tweeted that you may not need to reboot in order to upgrade to Lion. That isn’t exactly true. After watching yesterday’s Keynote from Apple I realized where the Engadget editor made the mistake. Typically when you insert a disc to upgrade Mac OS you need to reboot to the disc for the installation […]

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Inside sources, rumors, conjecture and even reasonable assumptions based on experience and knowledge – all lead to what can only be called educated guesses. For years I’ve been following the speculations thrown-out by industry pundits in order to formulate my own opinion of what’s to come at Apple’s next event. This year is no different […]

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My friend and Viddler teammate Jeff Johns is working on an unofficial RunKeeper API.

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I’m not a font nerd. In fact, I know little else about fonts besides whether or not I like one when I see it. The moment I saw Jessica Hische’s Brioche I knew that I liked it. And at $79 it is a no-brainer. I’ll be picking it up soon.

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[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] The hardest part about my yearly trek to Massachusetts to catch 50 pounds of cod fish is usually the packing of the fish for storage in the freezer. Even though Eliza and I have a very good Foodsaver sealer I always dread the amount of tedious work it takes to properly pack […]

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Neat app from Microsoft. Photosynth.

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A nice sight after 12 hours of fishing.

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A sailing school vessel thirty miles off the coast of Gloucester, Massachusetts.

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