An even better Spotify Alfred extension
Jeff Johns has released an update to his Spotify Alfred extension. The man's an addict. He has Alfred extensions for Skype, Bluetooth, Caffeine, and Screen Sharing.
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Definition of Apple fanboy
Jim Dalrymple's definition of an Apple fanboy hits home for me. Especially this particular part of the definition: "someone that loves to get the job done instead of working on their machine"…
Isaac Newton’s notebooks
Speaking of Isaac Newton. The Cambridge Digital Library: "Cambridge University Library holds the largest and most important collection of the scientific works of Isaac Newton (1642-1727). We present here an initial selection…
The Path clock scroll thingy
Hot on the heels of the Path app's menu being reverse engineered into CSS3 and CoreAnimation is the Path app's clock face that appears when you're scrolling down through your timeline being…
Twitvid turning into a social network?
File this under "I doubt this will work." Something must have told the Twitvid team that this is a logical direction to take Twitvid but I don't see it. Broad category social…
What I use an Apple TV for
I saw this link that John Gruber posted about a recent report on the habits of Apple TV owners and, at the end of it, he mentions how some of his Twitter…
iBooks 1.5
I haven't seen this covered much. The new iBooks has some pretty great features including fullscreen mode and a new theme for reading at night. Fantastic update.
It’s happening. Twitter changed.
Remember when I said this yesterday? "What would happen if, say, tomorrow Twitter decided that all Twitter clients (third-party and official) had to show some fairly obtrusive ads or you’d need to…
The history of Twitter for iPhone
From Tweetie 1 to Twitter 4 Jeremy Stanley gives us the history of Twitter for iPhone and some screenshots. /via Shawn Blanc.
Twitter for iPhone, TweetDeck updated for #letsfly
In an effort to unify the experience across multiple devices and platforms Twitter has released updates of Twitter for iPhone and the Mac version of TweetDeck. I think it is a good…
Don’t be a free user? I’m not so sure.
Pinboard founderMaciej Ceglowski suggests demanding to pay for services that you like that might be free. In fear that free services that are popular are not sustainable. It is a great post….
Spring is gone.
Today's cold snowy start made me think of how much I'll miss times like the one pictured above. I'm already looking forward to spring.
Twitter major redesign; Let’s Fly.
Speaking of free services making major changes; Twitter has announced a major redesign that unifies all of their UIs.
Twitter Viewer by Aaron Swartz
Twitter Viewer is a simple service by Aaron Swartz that allows you to link to an entire conversation on Twitter. Twitter should offer this. /via John "I cut in line once" Gruber.
Map Tales
This is great. Map Tales is a simple but great service to share just about anything using a map. Check out Jeremy Keith's examples.
Kitchen Dial has touch-free mode
Kitchen Dial, a simple iPhone application that converts things like quarts to cups and vice-versa, has a touch-free mode where you can tilt the iPhone in different directions to make your selection….
You’re never the focus group. You’re always the focus group.
I have a few friends that are very different from me. While they do use the Internet to look up information from time-to-time and they use their phones to pull up maps,…
Add yourself to LinkedIn’s \”Do Not Contact List\”
I've tried to delete my LinkedIn account on several occasions. But finally there is a way to remove your email account from their contact list (which is different from simply deleting your…
Do sanity checks on your reporting
In my extremely limited experience Board meetings are generally prepared for hours or minutes before they're held. The vast majority of the information may be collected a few days prior but a…
Please leave your name after the post. Beep.
I run into this problem every single day. Every. Single. Day. Brent Simmons simply reminded me that I need to yell a little more about it. He asks: "Take a look at…
The Path menu in pure CSS3 and using CoreAnimation
As I mentioned last week the new Path application for iPhone is arguably the best designed application on the iPhone currently. And when there is a great design, there are going to…
10 steps to better blogging by Dan Frommer
I know, list posts get all the links, but this list by Dan Frommer is worthy. I've been blogging for a very long time and, although I don't do it professionally, these…
Facebook buys Gowalla
The news is spreading that Facebook has acquired Gowalla. Many of the reports are focusing on the team being acq-hired to help with the Timeline or perhaps with Facebook's mobile apps. But…
Goodbye chronological. Hello realtime. Sad face.
In the good old days of the web I was able to subscribe to any site and receive updates via my feed reader for every post that the site made in the…
Path 2.0
Path is a private social networking application that allows you to create a path (comments, photos, location, etc.) and share it with a select number of people. Their most recent update is…
Reasons why you should drink on the job
I've always been a proponent of allowing beer or wine in the workplace. I've never really needed to articulate why I thought it was a good idea but I think this one…
Redesigning Viddler by cutting features
As I said, we're cutting some seldom-used features over on Viddler soon. We created a quick video to show the thinking behind these changes and the upcoming redesign.
This site makes, at most, 39 connections
In a recent tirade against what some are calling Shit-ass Websites (pardon my french I try to keep it clean 'round here) there has been a bit of a backlash towards websites…
Tweetbot’s plus button
Regarding my last and Tweetbot only loading 50 tweets even in Lists. It turns out the little plus button will load the tweets in between the tweets you loaded before and the…
Inside the mind of the octopus
An incredibly interesting read about the mind of the octopus. "The moment the lid was off, we reached for each other. She had already oozed from the far corner of her lair,…