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How quickly things change! I’ve been praising Tumblr over the last several months because it has been an excellent tool to build The Watercolor Gallery with. And it still is, except since I began building The Watercolor Gallery Tumblr has been, well, tumbling down in the minds and hearts of some of their core users. […]

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Speaking of RSS to Twitter (which now supports OAuth by the way) the reason I was able to update that project so easily was due to the generosity of Tijs Verkoyen who has an open source PHP wrapper for just about every API you need.

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[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] My handy dandy little script that makes it easy to parse an RSS feed and send links to Twitter using PHP just got a nice little update. It now supports OAuth and has been cleaned up quite a bit. Oh, version 1.0 is still available.

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[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] Every single "pour" is perfect. /via Laughing Squid.

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[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] Every single "pour" is perfect. /via Laughing Squid.

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[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] Every single "pour" is perfect. /via Laughing Squid.

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[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] Every single "pour" is perfect. /via Laughing Squid.

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[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] Every single "pour" is perfect. /via Laughing Squid.

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[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] Every single "pour" is perfect. /via Laughing Squid.

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[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] Every single "pour" is perfect. /via Laughing Squid.

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It has been a frigid, snowy week here in Pennsylvania which has kept me from doing the jogging I said I wanted to do last week. But I still did great on The Diet this week. My exercise routine was very thin this week. I need to make it a goal to do something active […]

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[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] If only these guys did the packaging for, well, everything.

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ejveal on Viddler graciously shared a snippet of C# to upload video to Viddler. Thanks for that Eric. /via the Viddler Developers Group.

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John Gruber’s lashing of the news media on the Web about their page titles reminded me that I hadn’t cleaned up the titles provided by default by my current WordPress theme. I’ve cleaned up my titles thanks to his reminder. You should too.

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Speaking of diets; my friend and ex-coworker Brandice Schnabel is in a Size 8 pant. Go girl.

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Instagram has hit 1,000,000 users in only a few short months. I’m one of them. /via Dan Rubin on Twitter.

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I can’t believe that week one is already over and that I’m already doing the second weigh in. I don’t know if it is because I’ve done this before or just that this week was a particularly busy one – but time sure does fly. The results for this week are very, very good. The […]

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Reach 1,300 aspiring artists for only $80. This deal won’t last very long. More about the sponsorship here and also the post on the gallery itself.

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The sandwich is delicious but I have a feeling Eliza won’t be kissing me for a month.

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[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] Erica Sudan has made a nice little utility called AirPlayer (look for the download link in the list at the bottom of the page) that makes it dead simple to use your Mac as an AirPlay destination device. Sort of like turning your Mac into a TV with an AppleTV attached. I […]

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[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] Tim Ferriss (whom I’ve mentioned that I met and shared a meal with once), the author of The 4-hour Work Week (which was great and is worth the read), has a brand new book called The 4-hour Body. It is getting a lot of buzz this week and Tim even put together […]

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[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] This is a fantastic video. That is all.

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[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] With Tumblr’s recent downtime I thought it’d be very important to back up The Watercolor Gallery to my computer. I also thought it’d be good to back it up to my Dropbox account. It turns out this is very easy. Simply use the Tumblr Backup application (currently only available for Mac OS […]

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As someone who has somewhat recently began using Git on a daily basis I can say that Git Magic has helped me quite a bit. /via Jeremy Zawodny. [ad#Adsense: Horiz 468]

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You may have noticed that I relaunched The Diet page yesterday with new information, a new challenge for myself, and even a video. Yes, it is true, I’m going back on The Diet and this is my first weigh in. Lets get this out of the way; I’m currently 220 pounds. The last time I […]

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Today I realized a fatal flaw in my blog’s archive. There wasn’t a single post tagged ‘chewbacca’. Consider that flaw fixed. Photo credit: Eliza Devroe.

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[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] I’ve found photos of iPad cases to be very deceiving. What may look like a really great case for the iPad turns out to feel very flimsy and cheap when in use. CrunchGear’s Devin Coldewey has made a video showing off a slew of cases which does a much better job of […]

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Speaking of focusing. "You probably only have to interrupt someone a couple times a day before they’re unable to work on hard problems at all." Paul Graham from an essay in 2005 /via David Kaneda, & 37signals. [ad#Adsense: Horiz 468]

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A little something for the developers out there. Over on the Viddler blog I announced that we’ve just released PHPViddler 2 (which is also on the great Github) which is a brand new PHP class for our brand new API version 2. Its all brand new baby.

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Yesterday’s post Slow Down. Focus. was a pretty big hit. At least that is what my analytics tell me today. So, I thought I’d share what I did to help me focus yesterday and that I have a plan to go even further with it today. Single task app management was the key to my […]

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The world of information is speeding up. It has been since the beginning of man. What used to take years to get from one end of a continent to the other now takes an instant of time to span the globe in all directions. This is a good thing. Now more than ever in history […]

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Tumblr is going on its 15th hour of downtime (that I’ve noticed). In an effort to let everyone know what is going on they’ve only sent 1 tweet about it. No emails. Nothing on the "downtime" page. On Twitter they only have 40,000 followers and as far as I know they have millions of users. […]

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[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] My brother-in-law Perry and I made this driftwood iPad stand over the weekend while I was visiting my sister’s family in New Jersey. The driftwood is from their recent trip to the Oregon coast. We followed these instructions on how to build your own wood iPad stand. With some slight improvisations to […]

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Gowalla went and did exactly what I thought Brightkite should have done. I sincerely hope it works out well for them.

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[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] I’m with Gruber – I have no idea if this will help Google and Logitech sell anymore Google TVs or Logitech Revues but I love this commercial.

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The new Reeder for Mac beta is out and it is wonderful. It ties together Reeder for iPhone and Reeder for iPad (both of which I’ve bought and paid for). I’m 100% sure that I will be purchasing Reeder for Mac too – when its fully baked. My fears are being squelched. Sort of.

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As a small company you fight battles on many fronts. All types of things demand your attention and sometimes things fall through the cracks and you miss something even if it is very important to you. That is what happened at Viddler when we didn’t realize we had incorrectly setup our robots.txt file, making Viddler […]

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From the Google Chrome team comes one of the better designed websites/applications I have ever seen on the Web to-date. It is a book, of sorts, that explains the Internet, the Browser, and everything in between in a way that even our Moms can understand. Illustrated by Christoph Niemann.

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[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] As much as I like Griffin Technologies Slap wristband for the iPod Nano I like the TikTok wristband much better. So I’ve contributed to the project on Kickstarter. Now I guess I need to buy a Nano. /via DaringFireball.

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A feature that I’ve wanted from Twitter ever since I ditched Brightkite in April 2009 has finally been released – @mention notifications. Huzzah. Side note: Remember Brightkite? Oh what could have been. /via Eric Brophy.

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Usually when there is a war there is a winner and a loser and a lot of casualties in between. It would seem that in the browser wars there is no clear winner, no clear loser, and the bodies are piling up. With no end in sight. Here are the statistics for the last 30 […]

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[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] With Conan back on the air and Jimmy Fallon approaching his prime late night television is at its finest in years. Here, please, enjoy Jeff Goldblum and Biz Markie singing Just a Friend.

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[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] I’ve been using an iPhone for 3 1/2 years. I’m not of the sort that installs or purchases a lot of applications – but I have tried out a few over the years and some have stuck. They’ve stuck so well that I use them on a daily basis. Here is a […]

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I’m less happy with the result of this painting process than I have been for any of my other paintings to date. The result is pretty horrible and it is no where near what I had intended. I thought that I should take some images of the process for this piece so that I can […]

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[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] Last night was Conan O’Brien‘s first episode of his new show Conan on TBS. Jack White was the music guest. Perfect. Here is the video.

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Remember my link to Chalk? Sam Samhuri took the time to dissect exactly how it was built. Impressive. Both the app and the write up.

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[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] Driscoll Middle School came up with an amazing trick play. It managed to score them a touchdown. /via Laughing Squid.

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Over on The Watercolor Gallery I’ve teamed up with the great folks at Field Notes Brand notebooks to do a special giveway where you can win a mixed 3-pack. Go check it out!

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[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] Doing JavaScript for mobile platforms? Maybe you should check out Zepto.js. Update: Via Kyle Slattery on Twitter: Sencha. I haven’t yet had any experience using jQuery mobile (I simply do not do too much JavaScript anymore) but I wanted to make sure that any "competitors" to such a popular framework gets some […]

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