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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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What do I think about this recent "movement" to uninstall Flash? Glad you asked. I think it is great. Flash has certainly been a tool to help us get to where we are today and no one could argue with its ubiquity. It is a tool that was good enough to get the job done […]

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Or, the video in which my head explodes. For more information, see the Viddler developers page. Note: If you are using Google Reader you may not be able to see this video. The Reader team is dragging their feet on supporting Viddler’s latest embed code. Come on over to my site to see it.

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Last week at Viddler we launched a brand-new tool called Viddler Subscriptions. Using this new tool you can quickly create a "video store" that makes it quick and easy to charge your customers to subscribe to your videos.No more worrying about building a web site, hosting your own videos, collecting and processing credit cards, refunds… […]

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I’ve been using Chalk by 37signals on my iPad all day and I love it. Here is the announcement post by Jamie at 37signals.

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I was going to wait until The Watercolor Gallery hit 150 or even 200 pieces in its archive before I gave another update but several key things are going on and I want them documented. For context see the announcement post, the 30 pieces update, the tools of The Watercolor Gallery, and the post celebrating […]

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Acorn, my photo editor and general image-manipulation application of choice for the Mac, has been updated and now includes a Tilt-Shift filter. Above is an image I took with my first-generation iPhone in July 2007 in Philadelphia while attending BlogPhiladelphia. Acorn’s Tilt-Shift filter made an old photo interesting again. Well done Gus.

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In a post entitled ‘Back to the PC’ Horace Dediupostulates that the title of the recent Apple media event – ‘Back to the Mac’ – was a fantastic play on words. Where we all assumed it meant that Apple was refocusing everyone’s attention on the Mac from the iPhone/iPod/iPad, Dediu suggests something else. Jobs himself […]

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My friend Gary Vaynerchuk, whom I’ve mentioned before, has a brand-new book that is now available for pre-order. It is called The Thank You Economy and it is an excellent follow-up to Crush-It! which made both The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal Best-Seller lists. Here is the description of the book from […]

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I thought I’d take a few moments and jot down a few thoughts on Tumblr. And I’ve done just that, over on Tumblr.

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Back in late August I was celebrating over 30 works of art in The Watercolor Gallery’s archive. Today I’m celebrating over 100. It is an amazing milestone for me personally as it hasn’t been easy to try to create a valuable gallery in such a short period of time. To celebrate hitting this milestone I’ve […]

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The new Tumblr queue just went live and it is fantastic. My being able to curate The Watercolor Gallery is solely based on Tumblr’s queue feature and now it just got even better. To be specific, I really loathed the fact that Tumblr would tell you how many minutes it was until a post would […]

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Fred Wilson quips about how he doesn’t like to say "I told you so" because he thinks it sounds mean but, deep down, really wants to say it.Fred’s direct involvement in some of the best services on the Web (besides Viddler sadly (hint Fred hint) shows that the guy can see a winner a mile […]

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Fred Wilson quips about how he doesn’t like to say "I told you so" because he thinks it sounds mean but, deep down, really wants to say it.Fred’s direct involvement in some of the best services on the Web (besides Viddler sadly (hint Fred hint) shows that the guy can see a winner a mile […]

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Fred Wilson quips about how he doesn’t like to say "I told you so" because he thinks it sounds mean but, deep down, really wants to say it.Fred’s direct involvement in some of the best services on the Web (besides Viddler sadly (hint Fred hint) shows that the guy can see a winner a mile […]

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Fred Wilson quips about how he doesn’t like to say "I told you so" because he thinks it sounds mean but, deep down, really wants to say it.Fred’s direct involvement in some of the best services on the Web (besides Viddler sadly (hint Fred hint) shows that the guy can see a winner a mile […]

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Fred Wilson quips about how he doesn’t like to say "I told you so" because he thinks it sounds mean but, deep down, really wants to say it.Fred’s direct involvement in some of the best services on the Web (besides Viddler sadly (hint Fred hint) shows that the guy can see a winner a mile […]

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Fred Wilson quips about how he doesn’t like to say "I told you so" because he thinks it sounds mean but, deep down, really wants to say it.Fred’s direct involvement in some of the best services on the Web (besides Viddler sadly (hint Fred hint) shows that the guy can see a winner a mile […]

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Fred Wilson quips about how he doesn’t like to say "I told you so" because he thinks it sounds mean but, deep down, really wants to say it.Fred’s direct involvement in some of the best services on the Web (besides Viddler sadly (hint Fred hint) shows that the guy can see a winner a mile […]

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For years Viddler has had a Learn More page that was used to introduce newcomers to what Viddler was capable of. For most of that time it didn’t feature a video explaining what Viddler does but rather was a somewhat interactive page that simply showed you what we did. It didn’t make much sense. Now […]

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