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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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A nice bridge downriver from Hellertown.

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This can be applied to just about anything; none of us know how long it will take us to get something done. This is especially true with writing software but lets think about an everyday task, shall we? What about washing the dishes? How long is it going to take you to wash the dishes […]

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It is easy to fall into the trap of being a copy cat. From infancy we’re trained to become copy cats. Write your alphabet like this, wash your clothes like this, get a job like this, become successful like this! It is all pretty absurd and altogether rather unavoidable in some cases. The trap I […]

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Board Room with a view.

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At least it isn’t raining.

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Pow is an open source, zero-configuration Rack server for Mac OS X. If you do web development on the Mac you will want to give this a gander.

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I had a lunch meeting at Top of the 80’s in Hazelton. The place has quite the view.

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Fan of Hacker News? Use Chrome? Georgify does a nice job of making Hacker News much more readable.

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I use the iTunes Miniplayer in Alfred (of which I have a Powerpack license and highly recommend that you do too) pretty extensively. One gripe that I had with the Miniplayer was that the keyboard shortcuts were not consistent as you used it. This is what would happen. I’d envoke the Miniplayer by first envoking […]

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I recently chirped on Twitter that I would love to see Multitouch Multitasking Gestures on iPad ship by default. As it stands you have to turn Development Mode on using Xcode in order to use them. John Gruber quoted Guy English on the caveats to these gestures and while I agree they aren’t perfect – […]

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I’m often asked how I write my posts on iPad. What applications do I use? Do I use an external keyboard? How do I get images onto iPad to include in posts? All good questions. Here is how I write on iPad. First, I use an application called iA Writer. This application gives me a […]

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Can you believe it has been 25 years since RAD? I loved that movie as a kid. Now Marc Dewey is trying to make a documentary about RAD. Help him fund it via Kickstarter.

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Justin Blanton finds that his Slugger WordPress plugin, which he adapted from my own Slugger plugin back in early 2007, is still useful today when publishing from WordPress for iOS on either the iPhone or iPad. I concur as I use WordPress for iOS extensively.

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[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] The Hobbit: Part 1 is coming in 2012 but it is being filmed right now. How can you keep up with the news? Here are a few resources I’ve tucked away to check in on now and then. The Hobbit Blog – Official blog The Hobbit on Facebook – Official Facebook page […]

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