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Snell, of Six Colors, writing for TidBITS on the feature in Photos for OS X Beta that allows you to store your original photos and videos in iCloud and only keeping smaller versions locally on your Macintosh to save space: It remains to be seen exactly how Photos determines whether you have enough space, and whether it’s just…
Uber, today: Good news! Uber is launching in the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton area at 5:00pm today! For an area that seems to be the last to get anything new this is a welcome change. And the company founder’s antics aside, this will end up being a good thing for the area.
On the heels of Paperholm comes BRUTAL LONDON by Zupa Grafika.
The last two scrapples were on Tuesday; you can find them here and here. I’m finally getting the hang of Evernote. The key, for me at least, is managing multiple notebooks. It’d be nice if I could password protect a notebook. A way to have a notebook be a bit extra secure. Holding the original iPhone in my…
My boy Stammy wrote a really nice, in-depth blog post on how he and his team at Twitter designed the new Twitter Video feature. Absolutely a must-read: It irks me when designers talk about making specs and handing them over to engineering. The process of “making specs“ implies that there is no conversation with your engineering counterparts when…
Helena Price on Medium: What if we made more active decisions about how we spent our Internet time? If we weren’t bogged down maintaining our inboxes and social networks, who would we set out to meet or get to know better? If we weren’t so busy clicking links or browsing photos in our feeds, what would we choose…
Om Malik did a short email interview with Charles Young of Paperholm; which I linked to just a day or so ago.
Charles Young, no relation to the West Wing’s own Charlie Young I presume, is building a paper city one daily model at a time.
What an incredible photo mosaic of Comet C/2014Q2 Lovejoy! I also recommend doing some further research on Lovejoy himself and the other comets he discovered. /via Coudal Partners’ Fresh Signals.
Great quote from Dave Winer: A good blog exists independently of people reading it.
I’ve reached my capacity on Picturelife.* I want to rent more space but I’m hesitant because every other company that has attempted what Picturelife is doing has failed or been acquired and scuttled. Some of the other options I’ve looked at is Dropbox, Box, Amazon, and Flickr. Both Dropbox and Box have options for unlimited space (or, effectively so) and…
Marco Arment had a rough day. He published a thoughtful, yet quick, post about Apple’s software quality. Most of us that follow and use Apple products nodded our heads in agreement as we read his post and moved onto the next one in our feed readers. Everyone who knows anything about Apple software knows that lately they’ve been…
Reddit continues to be the best place to find public interviews with interesting people. Elon Musk did an AMA yesterday — fascinating stuff. Here is part of his answer to how he has managed to learn so much so quickly. One bit of advice: it is important to view knowledge as sort of a semantic tree — make…
For good reason! Bill Gates shows us an amazing machine that turns feces into drinkable water. And that is not all. The by-products of this process, in addition to the water, are power and ash that can be used. Here’s Bill: I watched the piles of feces go up the conveyer belt and drop into a large bin….
You can put this app in the “I’ll likely never, ever use it” category but man does this look very well done. /via Mark Christian/Mike Davidson on Twitter.
Fred Wilson uses 2014 as a lens to see not only what happened but what is happening: the “sharing economy” was outed as the “rental economy.” nobody is sharing anything. people are making money, plain and simple. technology has made renting things (even in real time) as simple as it made buying things a decade ago. Most of…
In a world where every new e-mail client must support Gmail or die, this is a breath of fresh air. JMAP, from FastMail, is an API that improves upon IMAP. It is open. And free. JMAP does everything. Instead of separate protocols with different syntax for sending email than for receiving it (and separate protocols again for contacts…
See Scrapple 1. I’m begrudgingly using Evernote. It is working. But I wish the sync capabilities were equal to Simplenote’s. Tip: Close your inbox. Only open it when you’re reading and/or writing email. Do not leave it open in between. I would like to have a Russian dash cam installed in my car. My drive into work has…
Over the last few weeks Aaron Draplin’s video for Lynda.com made the rounds. However, over on the great Metafilter there is a post by filthy light thief chocked full of Draplin stuff.
Over on the Barley blog we wrote: today we’re very excited to let you know that a brand-new media uploading and management experience is now available This was a lot of fun to work on. But it is even more fun to use. It will make my life a hundred times easier curating The Watercolor Gallery.
Stephen Thomas goes long on Metafilter: So: Nominally, MetaFilter is a venue for people to talk about things other people have done, intelligently and with respect for each other (if not necessarily for the thing being discussed), and a small number of people are paid well to ensure this is what happens. All of this, it seems, adds…
James Somers: If you’ve ever typed anything into a Google Doc, you can now play it back as if it were a movie — like traveling through time to look over your own shoulder as you write. For a while now Google Docs, or Drive, or Docs Drive, or whatever they are calling it today, has recorded every…
It has been 14 days since I said I’d be committing for 30 weekdays straight. I’ve committed code 12 out of those 14 days. (This weekend Eliza and I painted our living room so you’ll have to forgive me for not pulling out my computer.) What have I accomplished? What have I learned? These last 14 days have…
Simon (simurai): Flick Scrolling in short: An idea of a new gesture that extends scrolling content on a touch-screen. Instead of letting momentum stop the scrolling, you can decide exactly where it should stop. Pretty cool. I’d really like this on my iPad.