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As you, the avid reader of my blog, already know I’m addicted to Instapaper. I mention it now and then. So obviously I think this is just genius. Breakfast Instapaper is an application that makes it really quick to bulk add articles from The Guardian, The New York Times, an Australian paper, and Delicious. I […]

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HP is buying Palm for a cool $1.2B. Let the wild speculation and general blanket statements fly! However, I do like the way Marshall Kirkpatrick scoured Twitter and took the best tweets about the deal and featured them with commentary and context. Pretty nice. /via Daring Fireball and Read Write Web.

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[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] Quite possibly the most impressive emulator I’ve seen in recent memory. Super Mario Crossover allows you to play Super Mario using Mario, Mega Man, Link and more – all with their own individual controls, sounds and gameplay. Superb. /via Chris Coleman.

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So, you’re new to Facebook. Welcome! You’ve just joined a website with over 400,000,000 members and climbing. Needle, meet haystack. Before you update your status, "install" an application, or like that photo of that person you haven’t seen since High School – here are a few rules from Colin & Eliza Devroe – the Facebook […]

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So, you’re new to Twitter. Welcome! You’re about to tweet your first tweet – but there are some things you need to know first. Some rules to live by if you will. @cdevroe and @elizard, Twitter experts with over 20,000 tweets between them, have created the following rules which are inarguably true and beyond contestation. […]

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The latest version of Transmit makes me believe there is still hope for great software on the Mac. It is the first application I’ve downloaded that is truly great in months.

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In my "Is there a future for Mac software?" post I postulated: "I sometimes sit and wonder what sort of applications could have been made for the Macintosh if, say, Apple had opened up an App Store that supported iPhone, iPad, and Mac? Would the river of money have been split into three smaller tributaries? […]

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In my "Is there a future for Mac software?" post I postulated: "I sometimes sit and wonder what sort of applications could have been made for the Macintosh if, say, Apple had opened up an App Store that supported iPhone, iPad, and Mac? Would the river of money have been split into three smaller tributaries? […]

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In my "Is there a future for Mac software?" post I postulated: "I sometimes sit and wonder what sort of applications could have been made for the Macintosh if, say, Apple had opened up an App Store that supported iPhone, iPad, and Mac? Would the river of money have been split into three smaller tributaries? […]

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In my "Is there a future for Mac software?" post I postulated: "I sometimes sit and wonder what sort of applications could have been made for the Macintosh if, say, Apple had opened up an App Store that supported iPhone, iPad, and Mac? Would the river of money have been split into three smaller tributaries? […]

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In my "Is there a future for Mac software?" post I postulated: "I sometimes sit and wonder what sort of applications could have been made for the Macintosh if, say, Apple had opened up an App Store that supported iPhone, iPad, and Mac? Would the river of money have been split into three smaller tributaries? […]

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In my "Is there a future for Mac software?" post I postulated: "I sometimes sit and wonder what sort of applications could have been made for the Macintosh if, say, Apple had opened up an App Store that supported iPhone, iPad, and Mac? Would the river of money have been split into three smaller tributaries? […]

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In my "Is there a future for Mac software?" post I postulated: "I sometimes sit and wonder what sort of applications could have been made for the Macintosh if, say, Apple had opened up an App Store that supported iPhone, iPad, and Mac? Would the river of money have been split into three smaller tributaries? […]

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Meet Flip comes out of hiatus with GIZMORON. Flip always seems to make the wrong decision, doesn’t he?

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Another instant classic from Savage Chickens.

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This is the BeetleCam. Created by Burrard-Lucas Photography it is a DSLR camera mounted on top of a camouflaged RC car. Not exactly revolutionary – but using it on the African plains is simply awesome. You can read about the BeetleCam Project in detail via The Digital Photography School website and see the photos it […]

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Tonight’s episode of No Reservations, Food Porn 2, will be the first episode in many episodes that I will be watching "Live". I figured I might as well take the opportunity to do something fun. A live chat. I’ll be using FriendFeed, yes that FriendFeed, to make this dead simple to update. There is no […]

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Reportedly this is the new iPhone that is due out this summer. Reportedly it has a ridiculously fine, nearly as good as print, screen. Reportedly it has a front-facing camera that could be used for all sorts of new applications. Reportedly the two-button volume controls, as opposed to the current single-button volume controls, could be […]

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Special guest, and Viddler Systems Administrator, James Cross and I discuss kid toys.

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No question this time. Just Mountains. Special guest is Viddler’s Lead Designer Andrew Smith.

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Michael Gartenberg on three smaller, but I think fantastic, features of the new Macbook Pros released today by Apple: "Better battery life. An automatic way to switch between discrete and integrated graphics and momentum scrolling." My now 9 month old 15" unibody Macbook Pro has fantastic battery life. However, switching between the discrete and integrated […]

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Twitter has rolled out its advertising platform called Promoted Tweets. It takes actual tweets from participating brands and pushes them onto the top of relevant search results and shoves them into the stream within third party applications. Inclusion of this ad system into third party applications is not mandatory but is certainly welcomed by developers […]

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[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] I’m back to Safari. I still love Chrome but Safari’s latest update made it edge out Chrome for speed. Speed, it seems, is the killer feature for me in Web browsers. Until this latest release the Top Sites page in Safari was too slow for me to find useful. Now, however, it […]

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Just adding Steve & Irene’s, a simple hoagie shop in Childs, PA, to my favorite places within two hours of home list. Eliza and I ordered two hoagies for lunch today and they were both fantastic. I’d recommend the Pittsburgh or the Child’s. Both come with spicy ranch and either french fries or onion rings […]

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Taken yesterday going south on Broad St. It was a hot but beautiful day in Philadelphia. Wish I could have stayed longer. At least I got a Pat’s Steak & Cheese.

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At the end of a link from John Gruber’s most-excellent Daring Fireball to Engadget’s review of the Joojoo he wrote: "(Ironically, Engadget’s video demos are only available in Flash. Why would a website devoted to leading-edge gadgetry continue to embed video in a format that can’t be played on the best web-reading gadget? If your […]

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Just a quick link to the site because I’ve switched to a different template from The Theme Foundry. I was itching to do a theme from scratch myself but thought better of it considering how busy I am currently. I’ll leave designing to designers for now. I also changed the way that ads are displayed […]

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Yesterday we had the opportunity to go fishing for the first time this year. I didn’t catch a thing and only had a single bite but it is early in the season and that isn’t really why I went. My main objective was to get my new pole and reel set up and to test […]

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Every developer’s bane is a problem that seemingly has no cause or solution. Most times, after wasting hours and hours and hours trying to solve the issue, I will discover that there was a cause and there is a solution – but it is the time wasted, the sweat, the tears and the fist pounding […]

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Make no mistake, Crichton’s posthumously published Pirate Latitudes is an adventure book. This book has everything you’d expect in a pirate adventure; pirates, warships, KRAKEN!, cannons, lewd women, drunken brawls, and hurricanes. However it still manages to lack a certain sense of wonder or tension. This may perhaps be because of popularity of Pirates of […]

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Special guest Nick Ogozaly and I ponder whether or not people should expand their horizons by learning to play an instrument in this episode of Random 60. What do you think? Sound off in the comments. Originally recorded in December 2009. First-frame photo credit: Eliza Devroe.

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Warning: This post may have a slight taste of jealousy when you bite into it at first but I tried my best to only use a teaspoon. iPhone was, as Scott Forstall recently put it, a gold rush for developers. Simple, relatively inexpensive applications for iPhone that hit the top paid, popular or featured lists […]

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[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] Many of the third-party iPad applications I’ve seen so far have me wishing that I wasn’t so sure that I’m not getting one. Game Table for iPad is no exception. It includes Checkers, Chess and a deck of cards (and some chips) for only $.99. I love this bit. "Game Table is not […]

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Several years ago I turned off Growl. I found it to be far too distracting. The little blobs of horribly designed text popping up above my work every few moments reminded me far too much of the Windows’ pop up bubble thing. You know, that incredibly annoying yellow bubble that pops up to tell you […]

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This is how I found my seedlings this morning. I’m fairly certain they will not recover so I lost about two weeks of growth. The culprit? My cat Pickles. The blame? Me. I put these little guys in a position that he could easily access and I knew that he would eat them if he […]

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Wildlife photography isn’t an easy venture. It takes patience, a lot of time and a bit of luck. Unless of course you create your own environment for the shot you want. That is exactly what Alan Murphy has done in his "Fun with a Home Made Nest Box" [sic] wherein he captures some bluebirds in […]

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Apple has just released guided video tours of using iPad. There are guided tours for just about every application that will ship with the device.

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In this week’s Monday By Noon article Jonathan Christopher covers establishing style guides in code to make collaboration between multiple developers easier. Although it may seem like an anal attempt at control style guides can go along way in making a lot things easier in the project workflow. Reading through and fixing bugs in someone […]

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Took this while jogging yesterday before the rain. This is a very big evergreen tree.

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Yesterday I said that I’d share the many ways in which I use Smart Albums in iPhoto. Instead of sharing all of the ways in one post I figured I’d break them up. One of my Smart Albums helps me to locate possible duplicate photos. Here is why and how this works. I stress possible […]

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He’s a good lookin’ dude. Hard to believe this was four years ago and that, next month, he’ll be 8.

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When the iPad was announced I said I was surprised at its name. In a list entitled ‘Surprises’ I wrote: "The name. I’ve tried to let iPad sink in and I still think it will (it will have to) but I am still surprised." Then, I few days later Neven Mrgan changed my perspective on the […]

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Mike Matas, the designer behind things like Delicious Library, many of the iPhone’s interfaces, Photo Booth, and most recently the iPad’s Maps and Photos applications, has a brand new Web site. Stunning and cool.

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Tumblr has announced that there are now premium themes available for Tumblr. Premium meaning that they cost money and are generally much more refined then the over 350 free themes already available for Tumblr. Two things: First, I love that Tumblr is doing things to monetize their platform for both themselves and their design-savvy community. […]

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Apple vs. Microsoft was a tech war for the ages. The two companies battled each other vigorously. Who won? Some would say Microsoft clearly won based on marketshare while others think they simply sold out and made an inferior product to Apple. However, the clear winner was neither company – it was us, the consumers, […]

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[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] Marco Arment has now confirmed and previewed Instapaper for the iPad. In the post he says "an iPad without native Instapaper Pro is not a device I want to own." I agree. Instapaper on the iPad is like the drugs . However, having purchased a new Macbook Pro just a little over […]

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