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(also, testing out the brand new WordPress for iOS app.)

I’m often asked how I write my posts on iPad. What applications do I use? Do I use an external keyboard? How do I get images onto iPad to include in posts? All good questions. Here is how I write on iPad. First, I use an application called iA Writer. This application gives me a…

Wayne Barz, a man I hold in high regard and (full disclaimer) I get to work with on Viddler from time-to-time at Ben Franklin TechVentures, has a brand new blog entitled Techonomic Man. You have to say it slowly but the name of the blog is pitch-perfect. Barz weighed in on Color’s $41M funding. I…

The success of The Watercolor Gallery thus far has been extremely gratifying. I really enjoy the effort it takes (and believe me it is an effort) to find art to feature, to dig for the details of a painting or an artist online, and to describe what inspires me about it.And so far that effort…

I know, my blog is turning into a Tumblr-a-thon. But I’ve done this before when I used to talk about Brightkite, Ma.gnolia, WordPress, Twitter and other services that I become attached to and care about. This is my blog and I can cry if I want to. Here is how David Karp, founder of Tumblr,…

John Gruber’s lashing of the news media on the Web about their page titles reminded me that I hadn’t cleaned up the titles provided by default by my current WordPress theme. I’ve cleaned up my titles thanks to his reminder. You should too.

Yesterday’s post Slow Down. Focus. was a pretty big hit. At least that is what my analytics tell me today. So, I thought I’d share what I did to help me focus yesterday and that I have a plan to go even further with it today. Single task app management was the key to my…

Zach Inglis, a man whose opinion I hold in fairly high regard, simply went off on Tumblr for a variety of reasons on why he thinks Tumblr sucks. He notes technological, design and even personal reasons – most of which I do not agree with. There is something to learn from this I think. How…

Ran across this post via WordPress.com on how to antique (and distress) furniture with paint. I like how simple the steps are and how it doesn’t permanently damage the furniture – as I have seen suggested elsewhere. [ad#Adsense: Horiz 468]

For those that haven’t already heard or read the transcript of Chris Pearson’s arguments against using the GPL I’ll sum it up for you. Chris has three main problems with the GPL. He didn’t itemize them very well on the podcast but this is what I was able to extract myself. Chris feels… as though…

[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] I’m back to Safari. I still love Chrome but Safari’s latest update made it edge out Chrome for speed. Speed, it seems, is the killer feature for me in Web browsers. Until this latest release the Top Sites page in Safari was too slow for me to find useful. Now, however, it…

No matter how fast your computer is there is a slight delay between asking an application to open and it actually being opened. Depending on the size of the application and how well it was built, this time may vary. I have a still top-of-the-line 15" unibody Macbook Pro and even small applications take a…

This is just wonderful. Marco Arment has recently released a back up application for Tumblr that is currently only available for Mac OS X. This back up application takes a fairly unique approach among blogging platforms in that it backs up your Tumblog using raw files to your hard disk. It saves HTML files directly…

This is odd. Today I was reading on WordPress.com’s blog about "Two New Stats Things", written by the always fantastic and multi-talented Andy Skelton, and since I use WordPress’ free stats plugin as my primary means of tracking statistics here on First initial, last name I figured I’d show my appreciation to Andy and team…

I remember when I first learned about RSS. At the time my personal Web site was running on some homegrown content management system that I built myself using ASP. So I was tasked, unlike many people today, with creating my own feeds. I had to learn what feeds did and why they were beneficial, read…

In November 2008 I put forth a list of things I thought were the best Web sites, applications, and various other things that I came across in 2008. I said "They are simply works that I feel should be awarded with the recognition of being the best that I’ve personally found this year." I’m doing…

Hot on the heels of WordPress’ Twitter API Tumblr has announced their own Twitter-like API for reading and writing to Tumblogs. I love that they came right out and said that they were inspired by WordPress’ move.

Page not found. Error 404. Those of us that build Web sites for a living have all had to deal with creating these pages. Planning for people to stumble across a URL that we don’t plan on is fairly important to the user’s experience on your site. However, many 404 pages could be done better.…

I’ve been playing with recent developer preview releases of Google Chrome for Mac and I got to thinking about how important it is for Google to get the Mac version of Chrome right. Not for Google, really. For us, the users. As it stands Safari is far and away the best browser available on the…

I’ll be spending the rest of this week over on my Tumblr. I really need to give it a thorough run if I will ever know if Tumblr can replace my WordPress powered blog. Join me, won’t you?

Leah, the curator at House Obsession, recently visited an early 1800s Stone Mill located in central Pennsylvania. You may file this under ‘could stare at all day’. Since she doesn’t link to the full-sized photos from the images themselves, I’ve done so here. I hope this is ok Leah. Full sized photos: Stone mill, stone…

For those that may have missed it, or for those of you that use Tumblr on a regular basis and wish to see this site’s posts show up in your Tumblr Dashboard – You can follow me on Tumblr. I’ve made some adjustments over there recently and I like the results. As a side note:…

Since I’m posting mobile photos and notes to this site rather than a third-party service I figured I’d make those pages a little more condusive to viewing on a mobile platform. Also, to make my life a little easier, I’ve also set up a few little scripts to do things like Twitter a link to…

I’ve done it before and I’m doing it again – I’m bringing all of my media back to this site (now called First initial, last name by the way). I’m going to be making small adjustments, enhancements, and do some all-out-late-night hacking in order to get this site up to snuff to handle notes, links,…

You may have seen me quip about MarsEdit the other day on Twitter. Really, though, it is an excellent piece of software that should be given a go by anyone that writes a lot. I’m spoiled by a rich-editor in WordPress, that saves drafts automatically and even has multiple revisions, and so I’m sticking with…

Is cultural influence reciprocal? As 2009 begins many reflect on what has happened this past year. I’ve read many reflections, updates from last year’s resolutions, countless thoughts on World events, and some have jotted down a list of the places that they traveled to in 2008. I had the privilege of traveling to many places…

It is [no secret](http://cdevroe.com/?s=benjamin button) that I want to see The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. Due to traveling to and from my brother’s house in North Carolina – circumstances, unusual or otherwise – have kept me from getting to the theatre. Sameer Barkawi, friend and film-student (oh, and actor), has written his thoughts on…

City Hall – Carbondale, PA Last night my friend Sameer Barkawi, mentioned here a few times, and I wanted to take our cameras for a spin around our hometown of Carbondale, Pennsylvania. He recently picked up a Nikon D90 and I was using Eliza’s Canon Digital Rebel XTi. I put a few of the photos…

It is only mid-November but I’m confident in my choices for this years "Best of 2008 as told by Colin Devroe". This isn’t a list based on popularity, consensus, or a set of rules. They are simply works that I feel should be awarded with the recognition of being the best that I’ve personally found this…

Brightkite, in their infinite generosity, sent me a few stickers that I could give away here on my site.  When I got them in the mail yesterday I immediately began to think of a fun way to give them away, and I think I’ve come up with an easy and fun way. Photo credit: Chris…

My friend Sameer. At the midnight premier for The Dark Knight.

"Tasty bits for your iPhone".  Ok, I’ll bite.  I’m linking to this site for a few reasons.  The first, is that it is a site that combines iPhone applications with sushi.  Any site that can do that, gets a link from me (so pay attention iPhone application vendors). Second, is that I wanted to say…

I admit it. I’m as guilty as anyone.  When Twitter goes down I throw up my arms in disgust and shake a fist at the west (cuz that is where Twitter HQ is in relation to me). But I think it is time to stop complaining and start helping.  How?   What if we created…

I admit it. I’m as guilty as anyone.  When Twitter goes down I throw up my arms in disgust and shake a fist at the west (cuz that is where Twitter HQ is in relation to me). But I think it is time to stop complaining and start helping.  How?   What if we created…

I admit it. I’m as guilty as anyone.  When Twitter goes down I throw up my arms in disgust and shake a fist at the west (cuz that is where Twitter HQ is in relation to me). But I think it is time to stop complaining and start helping.  How?   What if we created…

I admit it. I’m as guilty as anyone.  When Twitter goes down I throw up my arms in disgust and shake a fist at the west (cuz that is where Twitter HQ is in relation to me). But I think it is time to stop complaining and start helping.  How?   What if we created…

I admit it. I’m as guilty as anyone.  When Twitter goes down I throw up my arms in disgust and shake a fist at the west (cuz that is where Twitter HQ is in relation to me). But I think it is time to stop complaining and start helping.  How?   What if we created…

I admit it. I’m as guilty as anyone.  When Twitter goes down I throw up my arms in disgust and shake a fist at the west (cuz that is where Twitter HQ is in relation to me). But I think it is time to stop complaining and start helping.  How?   What if we created…

I admit it. I’m as guilty as anyone.  When Twitter goes down I throw up my arms in disgust and shake a fist at the west (cuz that is where Twitter HQ is in relation to me). But I think it is time to stop complaining and start helping.  How?   What if we created…

My friend Sameer Barkawi, distinguished actor, and fellow writer at TUG.n (though I’ve been absent for a while) recently jotted his thoughts down about Iron Man.  Here are a few key points from the review. "Would I recommend this film? I think so. It’s not a strong recommendation, though. Consider it an appetizer for the…

Leonard Lin takes out the laundry. Lin decides not to sit idly by while "tech journalists" and "experts" tee off on some of the engineers and programmers behind a few of the more widely used social applications about "scaling issues". First, he speaks about Michael Arrington’s crack at Blaine Cook of Twitter.  In short, Arrington…

Leonard Lin takes out the laundry. Lin decides not to sit idly by while "tech journalists" and "experts" tee off on some of the engineers and programmers behind a few of the more widely used social applications about "scaling issues". First, he speaks about Michael Arrington’s crack at Blaine Cook of Twitter.  In short, Arrington…

Leonard Lin takes out the laundry. Lin decides not to sit idly by while "tech journalists" and "experts" tee off on some of the engineers and programmers behind a few of the more widely used social applications about "scaling issues". First, he speaks about Michael Arrington’s crack at Blaine Cook of Twitter.  In short, Arrington…

Leonard Lin takes out the laundry. Lin decides not to sit idly by while "tech journalists" and "experts" tee off on some of the engineers and programmers behind a few of the more widely used social applications about "scaling issues". First, he speaks about Michael Arrington’s crack at Blaine Cook of Twitter.  In short, Arrington…

Leonard Lin takes out the laundry. Lin decides not to sit idly by while "tech journalists" and "experts" tee off on some of the engineers and programmers behind a few of the more widely used social applications about "scaling issues". First, he speaks about Michael Arrington’s crack at Blaine Cook of Twitter.  In short, Arrington…

Leonard Lin takes out the laundry. Lin decides not to sit idly by while "tech journalists" and "experts" tee off on some of the engineers and programmers behind a few of the more widely used social applications about "scaling issues". First, he speaks about Michael Arrington’s crack at Blaine Cook of Twitter.  In short, Arrington…

Leonard Lin takes out the laundry. Lin decides not to sit idly by while "tech journalists" and "experts" tee off on some of the engineers and programmers behind a few of the more widely used social applications about "scaling issues". First, he speaks about Michael Arrington’s crack at Blaine Cook of Twitter.  In short, Arrington…

To be completely honest, I’m no where near "done" on this redesign but spending a few minutes each day is just killing me. So I thought I’d do some live testing, and ask for some preliminary feedback. If you have anything you’d like to gripe about, please do so in the comments. Oh, and watch…