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Now would be a great time to catch up on the artist interview series I’ve been doing for over a year on The Watercolor Gallery. Here is a full list of the interviews I’ve conducted to date. I’m nearing the end of the first batch of interviews. The next batch will be much different. Kannika…

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Shaun Inman, the guy that has seemingly limitless energy, time, ideas and the ability to execute, has released Day-O a menubar clock/calendar replacement application. I just installed it. Its free and its perfect. My theory; Shaun has a twin and we’ve been fooled for years.

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How in the world is Codify only $7.99? Watch the video demo. Trs impressive. /via John Gruber.

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An arrangement of short clips from our trip to Ireland.

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Good news! Panic has just published a blog post confirming that Coda 2 is going private beta. As a Coda user I am super happy that they’ve gotten to this milestone. I found a few things mentioned in the post interesting. "Coda 2 has now been in development for about a year and a half."…

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I hope Treshr matures and people use it. I’ve already signed up. I have some things I’d love to give away rather than throw out.

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Taken on October 16th, 2011 in Acova, Ireland. This was just one of many interesting doorways we saw while in Ireland. This one was in the small village of Avoca just a little over a scenic hour’s drive south of Dublin City Centre.

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Interesting bit from this interview with Helen Mirren on the always great The Talks: >"Well from my perspective, a film costs a lot of money. You could build three hospitals with the cost of one film and I take that very seriously. I take the responsibility of being a person involved in a piece of…

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Taken on October 17, 2011 in Treanmanagh, Ireland. Sunrise over Lough Caragh in County Kerry as seen from our house in Treanmanagh. Incredible.

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There is a lot of talent inside of Microsoft. It is everything that happens above the talent that inhibits that talent’s ability to make really great things. While the Arc Touch Mouse is very, very interesting and seemingly well done it is still based off an old "mouse" (read: move around your desk and move…

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It isn’t easy to think differently. You can apply this now famous phrase to just about anything in your life and, no matter what you apply it to, it makes for a trying – yet exciting – life or work. I was never much a fan of Steve Jobs. I was always so much more…

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Given that the iPhone 4 is already the leading camera in use by Flickr users this may seem like a no-brainer but I believe that, in a relatively short period of time, the iPhone 4S will be the most popular camera in the world. A little over a year ago I wrote about how it…

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Domenick’s Pizza on Main Street in Carbondale and Jermyn are both fairly good places to get a slice. About as close to New York style pizza as you’ll be able to get in either of these towns.

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Interesting observation by Shawn Blanc: "It’s interesting that the iPhone 4S, though it has an extra hour of 3G talk time, has 100 less hours of standby time." He wondered what could the iPhone 4S be doing when "off" that the iPhone 4 does not? I doubt it is the A5 chip since the iPad…

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I don’t get it. During Apple’s press event, no matter which live blog I was following, the writers were constantly "yawning" whenever the event would – in their opinion – "drag on". Apple has just given launch dates for some of the most sophisticated, affordable, and approachable technology the world has ever seen and they…

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Well, since the new iPhone is called the iPhone 4S and not iPhone 5 I guess we’ll just have to wait and see how my guesses stand up. But, I won’t let myself off that easy. Lets see how I did. – **The camera lens will be on the opposite side of the Apple logo.**…

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I’ve managed to avoid much of the rumor mill around the new iPhone that is, well, rumored to be unveiled on October 4th. Based simply on my own observations while using an iPhone since June 29, 2007, using the iPhone 4 since its first day, and looking at iOS 5 a little – I’ve come…

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At 10pm I feel like putting on a pot of coffee and working all night. By 11pm I wonder why I haven’t been in bed for an hour. The plight of an early riser.

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I haven’t used the new Gowalla enough to have formulated a strong opinion but I thought I’d jot down my initial thoughts. Here are some bits from their blog post announcing the new Gowalla. Here is the bit I really like: >"The cornerstone for this update is Gowalla’s new Social Guides. We’ve taken the best…

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This doesn’t fit on The Watercolor Gallery so I thought I’d share it here. Krger is an amazing artist but what makes his work even more amazing is the scale at which he works. This painting of Mick Jagger is 71"x71". Amazing detail at that size.

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This graph showing the relative size of Facebook’s Photos feature compared to Flickr, Instagram and other pools of photos is almost comical. There are services that fit in between the size of Flickr and Facebook (such as Photobucket) but it is an interesting way to look at things.

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Congratulations to all of my friends at Github for reaching the 1 million user milestone. Github is easily one of the very best services for developers on the web. If you don’t yet have an account and you are a developer; stop waiting.

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A very, very nice update of WordPress for iOS was been released. The application for iPhone and iPad now has a simple content editor and the QuickPhoto feature can now post images from your Library instead of going straight to the camera. Although I wish the app supported Markdown format (rather than just HTML) I’ll…

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So says the blog. I’ll believe it when I see it. /via Shawn Blanc.

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It is about time. Paying for things using a phone has been a dream of mine for some time. I’m a debit card type of guy not a cash carrying type of guy. Being able to ditch my wallet altogether and use my phone to pay for something would make things even easier. Google Wallet…

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Chris Coleman on Twitter last night: All of the things that are great on iOS are the same things that are absolutely worthless in OS X Lion. Since upgrading to Lion I’ve come to love many of the iOS-lessons-learned that Apple had decided to bring "Back to the Mac" and so I was puzzled by…

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I saw this and immediately thought of a company that they could buy.

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If This Then That is a web service that allows you to plug into a few other web services and trigger actions based on certain criteria. Example: If I take a photo using Instagram store it in Dropbox as well. /via Kyle Neath on Twitter.

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Although I’ve seen this done with modern photography tricks I don’t recall ever seeing 3D mapping done on old images. The result is captivating. /via Laughing Squid.

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Sixteen months or so ago I suggested that you subscribe to the Astronomy Photo of the Day. You’ve been subscribed ever since, right? On 1 September the featured photo was of M27 a nebula first cataloged simply as being ‘not a comet’ by Charles Messier in 18th century France in his catalog of things that…

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Geoff DiMasi on how to rid yourself of too many decision-based distractions in order to spur innovation: >"In my estimation, the best way to make innovation happen is to make time for it by making many other things in your life routine. >Put your keys in the same place when you get home each day.…

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Footnotify is a great extension for Safari or Chrome that enhances the default way these browsers handle footnotes. I’ve been using it for a week and I can’t imagine not having it now.

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Pla Jean. Steamed mussels. These came from a new place in Scranton, PA called Thai Thai. Excellent food.

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I warned you. These two kittens are going to the ASPCA tomorrow if we can not find a home for them. Desperate times call for Sarah McLachlan measures. Oh, Sarah, don’t sue me. Everyone should totally buy your music.

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Today Independents Hall, a coworking space in Philadelphia, turns 4 years old. To think, I was there on day one. Congratulations to all involved that have worked very hard and made a big difference in Philadelphia. Alex Hillman, cofounder of Independence Hall, covers it a bit more thoroughly.

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