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I don’t buy a lot of iPhone applications. My reasons are that I don’t have a lot of extra money for such things and that many times I end up getting rid of an application a few weeks after installing it. In other words; why buy applications that I will not end up using long […]

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My friend Dan Rubin hasn’t written on his site in 13 months. However, the other day he came out of hiding and compared his less-than-frequent updates to the way he approaches washing the dishes. I’m linking to his most recent post for no other reason than to say welcome back Dan. Oh, his site is […]

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My friend Dan Rubin hasn’t written on his site in 13 months. However, the other day he came out of hiding and compared his less-than-frequent updates to the way he approaches washing the dishes. I’m linking to his most recent post for no other reason than to say welcome back Dan. Oh, his site is […]

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My friend Dan Rubin hasn’t written on his site in 13 months. However, the other day he came out of hiding and compared his less-than-frequent updates to the way he approaches washing the dishes. I’m linking to his most recent post for no other reason than to say welcome back Dan. Oh, his site is […]

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My friend Dan Rubin hasn’t written on his site in 13 months. However, the other day he came out of hiding and compared his less-than-frequent updates to the way he approaches washing the dishes. I’m linking to his most recent post for no other reason than to say welcome back Dan. Oh, his site is […]

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My friend Dan Rubin hasn’t written on his site in 13 months. However, the other day he came out of hiding and compared his less-than-frequent updates to the way he approaches washing the dishes. I’m linking to his most recent post for no other reason than to say welcome back Dan. Oh, his site is […]

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My friend Dan Rubin hasn’t written on his site in 13 months. However, the other day he came out of hiding and compared his less-than-frequent updates to the way he approaches washing the dishes. I’m linking to his most recent post for no other reason than to say welcome back Dan. Oh, his site is […]

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Do you like peanut butter? Then I highly recommend you try out Crazy Richard’s Peanut Butter. Creamy, chunky, the choice is yours but I will say that it is the best peanut butter I’ve ever had. Ingredients: Peanuts. I love that. Find it at your local grocer. Then come back and thank me.

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My friend Dan Rubin hasn’t written on his site in 13 months. However, the other day he came out of hiding and compared his less-than-frequent updates to the way he approaches washing the dishes. I’m linking to his most recent post for no other reason than to say welcome back Dan. Oh, his site is […]

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After going outside it appears there are, and this isn’t an actual head count just a best guess, hundreds of thousands of lady bugs swarming around our apartment building alone. Due to other friends reporting the same in their area I’m calling it a plague.

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[viddler id-cec0aceb h-280 w-420] Welcome to Random 60 season 2! Sorta. Today we have a special guest, Kyle Slattery, who is a friend and fellow Viddler team member. Today’s topic, haircuts. I just got my haircut and I usually just tell the lady at the hair place to cut as much off as she’d like […]

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[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] When Eliza and I were hunting for good photos and videos of what the rooms looked like aboard the Carnival Miracle for our vacation we really couldn’t find what we were looking for. Sure, there were some photos but many of them weren’t very good. The ones that were good didn’t really […]

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So I’m an old fart. It is something that I’m beginning to come to grips with and so should all of you. That being said, I’m beginning to get annoyed with the way some people choose to use and misuse hashtags. I’m well aware that this is a free country, that Twitter is a free […]

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In late August I opened iChat, as I typically do, only to see that no one was online. Having quite a few people in my buddy list this makes for a strange occurrence. I rarely see an empty buddy list. A few hours go by and I check it again, still – no one. After […]

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Instapaper, a read-later service by Tumblr‘s Marco Arment, has been popping up in front of me for months. I’ve seen two of my friends, Justin and Jonathan, rave about it. So I thought it was time I gave it a spin. This morning I’ve installed the bookmarklet from the site, installed the free version of […]

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I’m happy to announce that I’ll be speaking at LessConf in Jacksonville, Fla. on October 17th. The title for my talk is still tentative but the main subject will be about how startups should measure success. I have a lot to say about how startups measure success in a global market like the Internet. Too […]

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Own a bakery? Want to notify your customers when fresh baked goodies are ready via Twitter? Look no further than Baker Tweet. A simple device that sends canned Twitter updates with the push of a button. Love it. This has me wanting to work on my own device that will update Twitter for no other […]

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[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] Nothing is stated on their Twitter account. Their staff blog is silent (yet not down). Of course, neither is Marco Arment’s Tumblog (he’s a staff member). And yet my dashboard is down, my Tumblog is down, and so are many others. The message appears to suggest that they know about this downtime. […]

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Want an easy way to learn how aperture, shutter speed, and ISO affect a photo using an SLR camera? This simple flash application shows you a live preview of what a photograph would look like while you slide the values of all three up and down. A great way to learn.

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Flickr recently released an official application for the iPhone (link opens iTunes). I agree with John Gruber, the design of the application is well done in many areas but it doesn’t feel very "Flickr-like" and isn’t as good as Flickr’s mobile site for the iPhone. My biggest gripe, besides the application crashing every few minutes, […]

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If you follow me on Twitter, Facebook,Tumblr or my wife on Flickr than you know that we’ve picked up a new car. We decided on a 2007 Honda Civic LX. After our major Jeep FAIL last week we knew we needed something. For many months we’ve wanted to have a smaller, more economical and eco-friendly […]

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This is excellent. After our interview was published yesterday Steven Frank of Panic has now posted a call for help on his Tumblog. He’s asking what the community thinks Panic should do to become more transparent. "In short, what can we do to help you better?" Asking the community to help forge Panic’s new communication […]

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My thoughts on transparency in software development got me thinking about a particular application that I use on a daily basis, Coda. I think it is safe to say that most Coda users, of which I consulted six for this post, are not just Coda users, they are Coda plus other software users. Why? Because […]

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I wish I thought of this! The Museum of Animal Perspectives is, exactly what it sounds like, a collection of videos taken from the perspective of animals by literally putting a camera on an animal. Awesome.

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I assure you this link is SFW. Ever wonder why men’s dress shirts have two buttons and only one hole? Ben Gray knows and is willing to let you in on the secret. Via Pat Dryburgh.

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With Snow Leopard comes a markedly better way of handling window minimization into the Dock however Chris Clark feels as though it could be done better. His proposal is to minimize the windows directly behind the application icon on the Dock. I like it.

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After climbing a tree at Lehigh University in an attempt to capture a cicada I ended up finding several skins left on a tree at about eye level. Go figure. There is tons of information on Cicadas on Wikipedia. Worth perusing.

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The only review of the latest version of Mac OS X you’ll ever need to read, John Siracusa’s review of Snow Leopard.

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Corporate transparency has always been a lesson in balance, a constant struggle between altruism and self-preservation, and proves itself to be a different challenge to each company striving to stay as transparent to their customers as possible while maintaining their foothold in their space. Nearly no other business is impacted by corporate transparency more than […]

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For our 10th anniversary, which was on the 27th of August, we received an incredible gift from Eliza’s mother Carla – an anniversary party in our favor. Since she told us many months in advance that she was going to throw us this party we were able to help with some of the planning and, […]

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My good friend Gary Vaynerchuk‘s new book "Why Now Is A Good Time To Crush It! And Cash In On Your Passion", also called "CRUSH IT!", is set to ship on October 13th. The new Web site for the book includes a sample chapter which gives a pretty good glimpse into the style and message […]

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With so many lessons to learn from, and so many companies doing such a bad job or being dug in too deep, now seems like the perfect time to start a bank. Leveraging some of that information Matt Mullenweg weighs in on starting SafeBank and what it would do differently. Interesting read and comment thread.

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A late lunch with a few friends on a hot Thursday.

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(via fightfirewithariot) Except this is exactly what is happening. Tumblarity has increased the amount of content on Tumblr, that is indesputable, but it probably hasn’t increased the amount of unique or even good content in equal measure to the junk. I would also argue that Tumblarity doesn’t build incentive to interact with the community by […]

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Hands on video with Juan A. Pons from Outdoor Photo Gear using a Canon EF 1200 f/5.6L lens which measures 38 inches, weighs in at 36 pounds, and costs $120,000. Interestingly enough, the footage makes me think it is worth the money.

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[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] "If it tastes good, it is probably bad for you." We’ve all heard this saying and for the most part it is true. Although I tend to like all food (my vice in life) – most of the food that you crave, that you pine for, that you’d be willing to walk […]

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I think this is a genius feature. Tag channels by Tumblr combines a normal tag search with a slider to filter your results based on the number of times something was "liked". Tumblr is moving faster than anyone in their space and still managing to put out high-quality features.

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Better writing about the iPhone 3GS’ camera you will not read. Via John Gruber.

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Better writing about the iPhone 3GS’ camera you will not read. Via John Gruber.

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Better writing about the iPhone 3GS’ camera you will not read. Via John Gruber.

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Better writing about the iPhone 3GS’ camera you will not read. Via John Gruber.

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Better writing about the iPhone 3GS’ camera you will not read. Via John Gruber.

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Better writing about the iPhone 3GS’ camera you will not read. Via John Gruber.

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Better writing about the iPhone 3GS’ camera you will not read. Via John Gruber.

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Eliza spotted this little guy yesterday. Left him alone. I have enough pictures of cross orbweaver spiders.

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As if we could hide from the Broph in a pub.

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Jonathan Christopher of Monday By Noon talks about snippets and zen-coding, a "Set of plugins for HTML and CSS hi-speed coding", in a nice piece about his experience with same. I’ve been dabbling with zen-coding plugins with Coda for about a week. Loving it.

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Retweeting, or the act of relaying a tweet to your followers with attribution to the original author using ‘RT @username msg’ in a message on Twitter, is about to change a bit. Biz Stone has shared their vision for how Retweeting could become integrated into Twitter. I like this. First of all, Retweeting has become […]

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The Google Reader team has added Tumblr to its new "Send to:" list. Nice.

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