A fork of the Recent Photos widget by Asad Iqbal for WordPress
I've been planning on figuring out a simple way to show the latest photo from my mobile photos category on the sidebar of my site for a while. Today I did a…
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Building community before the shrine
Craig Mod, for Contents Issue No. 4: I received an email from the company sometime in March.We’re a publisher with four million fans on Facebook. We’d like to talk with you. Fascinatingly…
iOS 6 review on iMore.com
Renie Richie's iOS 6 review on iMore.com is more than thorough.
Last pick of the season?
Overall a good season in our small garden. We're trying to keep it small so that it doesn't get to be too much to maintain. Next year I plan on the garden…
Manhattan
I blame my mother for turning Eliza and I onto pre-dinner Manhattans.
Missing iOS 6 features for some devices
Dan Frakes and Serenity Caldwell at Macworld give a run-through of iOS 6 installation and what this latest release means for each device. Some features won't be available to all iOS 6…
Notes on iOS 6 for iPhone 4 and iPad 2
In case you don't follow me on Twitter; (really, how can you live with yourself?) earlier today I tweeted a few notes about iOS 6 on my iPhone 4 and iPad 2….
The Devour app for iPhone and iPad
Devour, a site I visit just about every day on my iPad, has an app to match.
The NYC soda ban explained
Speaking of Devour… Here is a video by filmaker Casey Neistat for The New York Times to help explain NYC's recent ban on insanely large buckets of soda. /via Devour. PS. To…
Tweetbot filters to silence the junk by Justin Williams
Three cheers for Justin Williams's collection of excellent Tweetbot filters to help silence check-ins, hashtag nonsense, old-style retweets, and even anything dealing with Internet Explorer. Some are fun, most are downright vital….
Automatic Conditional Retina Images
A quick way to handle loading retina images on retina-capable devices which degrades rather gracefully from easily one of the biggest contributors to the betterment of the Internet, Shaun Inman: One line…
Defaulting to being nice does you no good
Shep McAllister over on Lifehacker: But you could try voicing a contrary opinion in a meeting, or occasionally saying no when someone asks you for a favor. I go out of my…
Is the iPhone good enough?
Horace Dediu on the iPhone's value to the market: Therefore, how to tell whether a product is over-serving a market is one of the most important and frequently asked questions I get…
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Mating mosquitos
This happened outside our home-pub this past June. Well, first the boy mosquito gets all dressed up and takes a bouquet of flowers to meet the girl mosquito. She, too, has gotten…
Use Hazel to save Photo Stream photos to Dropbox
I haven't yet had time to implement using Dropbox as a photo management app yet (maybe next week) but I wanted to file this away for when I do; a way to…
Facebook’s mission
What is Facebook's mission? Mark Zuckerberg, in the company's founder letter that was included in their S-1 filing with the SEC prior to going public a few weeks ago. There is a…
Using Dropbox as a photo management app
This is intriguing. Stephen Hacket took a que from Frederico Viticci on ditching iPhoto/Aperture and just using directories stored on Dropbox as a way to manage photos. After reading it, I started…
How many Kindle Fires will Amazon sell?
Interesting thoughts from Horace Dediu. Amazon will sell as many Kindles as they make, but the number they will make will not be the most they could make. His headline just says…
It’s OK. Some of us just look young.
David Karp, founder of the one of the most popular services of all time, Tumblr: Takes thirty employees out to dinner. Gets carded while ordering a beer. Happens to me all the…
I like Amazon and the Kindle
I don't mention Amazon or the Kindle as much as I mention Apple and the iPad on my blog. But don't let that be any indication of my ignorance of how good…
Bourdain on creative control
Anthony Bourdain, remarking on the last season of my favorite travel show: Seven new episodes of NO RESERVATIONS left—interspersed, I’m afraid, by three (count them, THREE) shows made up of “repurposed” material—aka…
Complexity and control, simplicity and peace of mind
Justin Blanton, in a piece only a veteran-nerd-blogger-type like myself could enjoy all the way through, is dancing on two directions to take his blogging technology. On the one hand, he'd like…
How to tear down the walls of your echo chamber
Everyone has an echo chamber that they've unwittingly built up around them. Your interests, friends, environment, and location are all factors in determining what your experiences are, what you know, and what…
How I use lists on Twitter
The way I use lists on Twitter is pretty straight forward. I hand-curate about a dozen lists into categories of things I'm interested in. Over the years I've seen people complain that…
Something I wish George Lucas had said
Steven Spielberg: I’ve resigned myself to accepting that what the film was at the time of its creation is what it always should be for future generations. I think Steven learned a…
What an iPad Mini, or Air, could weigh
MG Seigler compares the weights of some leading e-readers, phones, and tablets to visualize where the iPad Mini, or Air, may stack up: As you can see, this new iPad would be…
Push passed your comfort zone
Derek Sivers: I love that when we push push push, we expand our comfort zone. Things that used to feel intimidating now are as comfortable as home. My MO is to do,…
Shawn Blanc on backing up your computer files
Shawn Blanc: For $10 month and very little energy I have a system that backs up my data redundantly, securely, and thoroughly. And I don’t have to initiate anything to make it…
Square teams up with Starbucks
This is pretty big news. Square (whom I've mentioned before) has partnered with Starbucks to bring mobile payments to every Starbucks in the United States. Square has been leading the way for…