A reminder of why we love photography
James Duncan Davidson: The light did its thing a few times. For a little bit, it looked like the sunset was going to get lost in clouds rolling in from the west….
Blog
Posts, notes, and things worth sharing.
Longer thoughts, quick observations, photographs, and links. All in one place, newest first.
My island on this ocean
Me, over four years ago: As it stands I post what I’m currently doing to Twitter, I am testing out Pownce with mobile blogging, events, links, and files, I post mobile phone photos to Flickr (as well…
Tent.is
Tent.io is a decentralized Twitter-esque social networking "protocol". Tent.is is for those of us that would like to use Tent.io but don't feel like managing our own server. I have no idea…
These are my woods
More exploring is sorely needed.
Simplenote for iOS updated for iPhone 5
Simplenote for iOS, an app I use every single day, is now iPhone 5 ready. Grab it!
A smile only a mother could love
Alexandar Safonov's bull shark photos are awesome. All of his work is.
Bret Victor: Learnable Programming
Bret Victor: Because my work was cited as an inspiration for the Khan system, I felt I should respond with two thoughts about learning: How could I possibly avoid linking to this? See also:…
How Flat Work Environments Kill Successful Companies
Matt Van Hoven: Bottom line, flat structures create confusion about where power lies, because eventually someone has to be in charge – whether because a client demands it or a job won't…
iPhone as a plane ticket, a Passbook experience
Scott McNulty flies across country using the new Passbook app in iOS 6: It seems to me that Passbook is a clever idea, but honestly having my eTicket with the QR code…
Mayer: Yahoo won’t bother unless a product can ship within 6 months, reach 100 million people, and add $100m to the company’s top line
This was eluded to in Kara Swisher's aforelinked piece but it wasn't spelled out quite as well as this, by Nicolas Carlson at Business Insider: Mayer's rule: If a new product can't…
Tapbots on App.net
Tapbots is on App.net. If Tweetbot worked with ADN it'd, quite simply, change everything for ADN. /via Steve Streza on Twitter (which says something, I think).
Tim Cook’s letter about Apple Maps
Tim Cook: We launched Maps initially with the first version of iOS. As time progressed, we wanted to provide our customers with even better Maps including features such as turn-by-turn directions, voice…
About switching to Verizon
Ben Brooks: I haven’t noticed the lack of simultaneous data, as I figured I would rarely notice it. I have yet to not have LTE coverage in the areas I have roamed…
Are rare steaks really better?
Tom Mylan for Gilt Taste: In the game of food dork one-upsmanship, the rarer you order your steak, the more of a real gastronome you are—it means you like your meat good…
Some people just don’t like ads
Giancarlo Ditrapano in an interview with Casey Neistat (aforementioned) regarding advertising on his very popular YouTube channel: In April, YouTube began allowing all of its the users the option of earning ad…
Instagram updated for iOS 6 and iPhone 5
If you use Instagram and you updated to iOS 6 or bought an iPhone 5; you may now update. Seeing the first few comments in addition to the likes on a photo…
Make an app, game, movie, music budget
People make budgets for everything. Vacations, new cars, gas, a new home, gym memberships, etc. Some even budget in a morning coffee from their favorite barista everyday before work. Why is it,…
Marissa Mayer’s plans to turn Yahoo around
Marissa Mayer held a company-wide meeting today at Yahoo. The purpose of the meeting was stated, in a memo to the company, as being "radically transparent" about the plans to turn Yahoo…
Mushrooms
From the backyard. I'm looking forward to shooting a lot more this fall with the iPhone 5.
The rise of enterprise marketing
Chris Dixon has a good post about the shift from sales-driven software efforts to product-driven software efforts. Thus enterprise software went from being about sales (one-to-one) to being about marketing (one-to-many). Marketing…
Apple Maps: The FAQ
Kontra: Mapping is indeed one of the hardest of mobile services, involving physical terrestrial and aerial surveying, data acquisition, correction, tile making and layer upon layer of contextual info married to underlying…
Brandice on the iPhone 5
You'll have to forgive me for wanting to quote Brandice's entire post about the iPhone 5 since I totally agree with everything she says but I'll do my best to take out…
Chad Williams on iOS 6 features you may not know about
Chad Williams has a great list of features in iOS 6 that are new that you may not have heard about: The auto-dim feature got significantly improved in iOS 6. The best…
Enable Messages to accept iMessages for your phone number
Glenn Fleishman for TidBITS on how to turn on Messages for your phone number on your Mac: The Messages app in Mountain Lion can now send and receive iMessages using an iPhone’s…
How to put Apple EarPods back in the case
YouTube user TechisGeek has a video showing how to put Apple EarPods back in the case. You'll only need to watch the first 45 seconds before you say "I got it." I…
iPhone 5 vs. Canon 5D Mark III
Dustin Curtis: The results are pretty amazing – the iPhone takes worse photos but it certainly stacks up against a $4,000 professional camera. And, although the photos from the iPhone are significantly…
James Duncan Davidson on Maps in iOS 6
Speaking of Duncan… James Duncan Davidson on Maps in iOS 6: I might be in the minority here given the raised pitchforks in many quarters, but I like the new maps in…
Jean-Louis Gasse on Apple Maps
Jean-Louis Gasse on Apple Maps: The ridicule that Apple has suffered following the introduction of the Maps application in iOS 6 is largely self-inflicted. The demo was flawless, 2D and 3D maps, turn-by-turn…
My guesses about iPhone 5. How did I do?
In September 2011 I jotted down a few guesses about what an iPhone 5 could be. What we ended up with was the iPhone 4s being announced. Well, I thought I'd look…
Notes about the first-run iPhone 5 experience
Today I'm receiving an iPhone 5 that is Verizon-ready. I'll be upgrading from an iPhone 4 on AT&T. Below are my live notes, as they happen, during this experience. It should be…