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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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(also, testing out the brand new WordPress for iOS app.)

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In a rented Best Western conference room. Classy.

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I talked the best smack but ultimately lost miserably.

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Not everyone but closer than usual.

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Hot on the heels of my words in Hacker Monthly is my post, which was published in 2008 but is still relevant today, on How to: Delete all photos off an iPhone showing up on Macworld’s article _Quickly delete iPhone photos from your Mac_. Thanks to the Macworld team for reaching out and including my […]

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No, I did not embark on some Houdini-style test of my endurance – I tried standing at my desk for an entire week. Overall it was pretty nice but I’m back to sitting down this week. I thought I’d share my experience and so I jotted down notes every day while I stood. Day one: […]

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I just backed my second Kickstarter project, The Oona. The Oona is a stand for just about any smartphone and it looks like it’ll be a hit.

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My words have been in print before (and several other times that I’ve never taken the time to jot down on my blog, sorry).Well, it has happened again. In the May issue of Hacker Monthly my piece Why you should never ask permission to clean up code (which has received over a quarter-of-a-million views to-date) […]

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My favorite launcher application, Alfred, has been updated to version 0.9. I suggest buying the Powerpack but it is free if you want to kick the tires. Calling it a launcher application is sort of limiting. Alfred can help you play music, give you quick access to your clipboard’s history, and even help you attach […]

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Bryce Roberts on the fact that great companies don’t need to be built, or moved to the Bay Area in California in order to succeed. "The idea that every tech company needs to be in the Bay Area is dead and buried. May it Rest in Peace." In a recent video interview at Streaming Media […]

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In a recent post for Charisma discounting Harold Camping’s prediction that May 21st, 2011 would be "the end-times" J. Lee Grady wrote: "Jehovah’s Witnesses taught that Jesus would begin His millennial reign in 1914. When that didn’t happen, they pointed to the outbreak of World War I and began teaching that this was the "beginning […]

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Fraser Speirs dives headlong into describing why he thinks eBooks should be less expensive than hardcover or paperback books. Of course you, dear reader of this fine blog, remember my Why eBooks cost more than paperbacks piece, right? /via Gus Mueller.

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Helloooo spring!

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During Kickstarter’s first two years I’ve watched a few projects and backed only one (which was the largest project to-date I believe). I think I’m going to make a point to visit weekly to fund some interesting projects. Maybe even make it a goal to successfully back 12 projects a year, or something. Awesome idea, […]

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If money were of no consequence, and I had even the slightest bit of artistic ability, I think I’d be an Urban Sketcher. Until then, I’ll keep trying.

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[viddler id-300fcba8 h-213 w-501] An excellent super-slow-motion video by Dylan Pfohl. A pretty good example of what can be done with a Canon T2i too.

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The upgrades to Viddler Business accounts are pouring in. We are monitoring them on the iPad 2.

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This is simply an excellent Viddler Spotlight video for anyone with a small business – particular the real estate business. Viddler’s very own Billy Disney sat down with the guys at Lehigh Valley Homes TV to chat with them about their use of video. Fantastic stuff. If you have any reason whatsoever to use video […]

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