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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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Wayne Barz, a man I hold in high regard and (full disclaimer) I get to work with on Viddler from time-to-time at Ben Franklin TechVentures, has a brand new blog entitled Techonomic Man. You have to say it slowly but the name of the blog is pitch-perfect. Barz weighed in on Color’s $41M funding. I […]

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Just when I thought the Internet was already a commodity I visit Atlantic City where people are nickel and dime’d to death – literally. I suppose it shouldn’t be very surprising to me that the resorts in Atlantic City charge you for every single amenity that they can, for every step you take on their […]

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From the Boardwalk.

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From our room in Harrah’s Resort. Taken with Instagram.

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ATLANTIC CITY In any tourist-driven areas the side streets are where the best places are. Where the cabbies, cooks, and old timers hang out. Eliza and I are in Atlantic City for a short getaway (she surprised me) and tonight we went to The Irish Pub, and I’m very glad we did. The Irish Pub […]

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"I could never be disciplined enough to do that everyday." There are a million-and-one tips on how to get things done. Books, applications, methods, processes, workflows. Nearly a year ago I postulated that it could be much easier than that. The best way to get things done is really just by bucking up and doing […]

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Even though there is yet to be an announcement on the WordPress for iOS blog, 2.7.1 has been released on the App Store and it comes with two key updates (at least from this blogger’s chair). Photo and video uploads now work on iPad 2 Made the post status (such as "Draft") more clear in […]

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We’ve all heard it before – and at this point I’m sure we’ve all experienced it – the Internet is having a profound effect on my attention span. From the first days of hypertext to the era of Twitter the messaging of the net is getting shorter and shorter while at the same time increasing […]

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This is what I woke to this morning. Beautiful but unwelcome.

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iPad 2’s infinitely useful PhotoBooth application.

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You know that feeling you get when two of your friends ask you to do something different on the same day? That feeling in your stomach when you don’t know which one to let down? You sit there agonizing over the choice between two friends, two things great things to do! Firefox 4 was released […]

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Yesterday Robert Scoble re-published a video from the days of PodTech, the video podcasting network, that took us down memory lane at Twitter HQ. Robert quipped that he was happy that he stuck to his guns regarding longform videos of this type. He isn’t alone. Not too long after the Twitter video was recorded, at […]

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Hot off the presses; I interviewed Gregg Pollack over on the Viddler blog. Gregg is from EnvyLabs, the Rails 3 Screencasts, Rails for Zombies and now Code School. All of these projects are powered by Viddler.

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"Can I take some time to clean up this code? It is horrendous." The answer should always be yes to this question. However, often times we find ourselves up against walls in the form of budgets, time, due dates and expectation and so the typical "powers that be" at companies often veto the request. My […]

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If you liked MeToday photos (which date all the way back to 2006) or if you’re of the DailyBooth sort you’ll probably like Everyday, an application for iPhone, which reminds you to take a photo of yourself everyday, takes that photo, and also helps you create a video from all of the photos you’ve taken. […]

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