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I’ve been having some software problems lately and I thought it would be interesting to jot down what they are. Or, maybe just cathartic. Fun for me more than for you, dear reader, but alas this is my blog and I can cry if I want to, cry if I want to, you would cry…

I’m pretty surprised by the statistics that show how people watch Netflix (and Hulu). Arguably the worst experience is on the computer and the best experience is on the Apple TV. And yet the worst is the most and the best is the least. /via Dan Frommer.

Titles this cool don’t come around too often.

Many command line elitists may not be all that excited about GitHub for Mac, an application for managing your local and GitHub-hosted Git repositories by the GitHub team, but I’m sure they’ll respect what I feel is its ambitious goal. You see, with one application GitHub has just expanded its potential customer base many times…

Inside sources, rumors, conjecture and even reasonable assumptions based on experience and knowledge – all lead to what can only be called educated guesses. For years I’ve been following the speculations thrown-out by industry pundits in order to formulate my own opinion of what’s to come at Apple’s next event. This year is no different…

No, I did not embark on some Houdini-style test of my endurance – I tried standing at my desk for an entire week. Overall it was pretty nice but I’m back to sitting down this week. I thought I’d share my experience and so I jotted down notes every day while I stood. Day one:…

My words have been in print before (and several other times that I’ve never taken the time to jot down on my blog, sorry).Well, it has happened again. In the May issue of Hacker Monthly my piece Why you should never ask permission to clean up code (which has received over a quarter-of-a-million views to-date)…

Fraser Speirs dives headlong into describing why he thinks eBooks should be less expensive than hardcover or paperback books. Of course you, dear reader of this fine blog, remember my Why eBooks cost more than paperbacks piece, right? /via Gus Mueller.

During Kickstarter’s first two years I’ve watched a few projects and backed only one (which was the largest project to-date I believe). I think I’m going to make a point to visit weekly to fund some interesting projects. Maybe even make it a goal to successfully back 12 projects a year, or something. Awesome idea,…

This is simply an excellent Viddler Spotlight video for anyone with a small business – particular the real estate business. Viddler’s very own Billy Disney sat down with the guys at Lehigh Valley Homes TV to chat with them about their use of video. Fantastic stuff. If you have any reason whatsoever to use video…

I recently chirped on Twitter that I would love to see Multitouch Multitasking Gestures on iPad ship by default. As it stands you have to turn Development Mode on using Xcode in order to use them. John Gruber quoted Guy English on the caveats to these gestures and while I agree they aren’t perfect –…

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…

[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] The Hobbit: Part 1 is coming in 2012 but it is being filmed right now. How can you keep up with the news? Here are a few resources I’ve tucked away to check in on now and then. The Hobbit Blog – Official blog The Hobbit on Facebook – Official Facebook page…

Even though there is yet to be an announcement on the WordPress for iOS blog, 2.7.1 has been released on the App Store and it comes with two key updates (at least from this blogger’s chair). Photo and video uploads now work on iPad 2 Made the post status (such as "Draft") more clear in…

"I could never be disciplined enough to do that everyday." There are a million-and-one tips on how to get things done. Books, applications, methods, processes, workflows. Nearly a year ago I postulated that it could be much easier than that. The best way to get things done is really just by bucking up and doing…

Yesterday Robert Scoble re-published a video from the days of PodTech, the video podcasting network, that took us down memory lane at Twitter HQ. Robert quipped that he was happy that he stuck to his guns regarding longform videos of this type. He isn’t alone. Not too long after the Twitter video was recorded, at…

Last night I grabbed the sample of a book that I was debating the purchase of from the iBooks Store on my iPad. When I read through only a few pages of the book I knew I wanted to purchase the entire book. But then I saw the price and it confused me. It wasn’t…

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,…

I’ve already said all I’ve wanted to say about why I don’t think Tumblr’s team and investors should be focused solely on traffic. But, it appears they still are. Bijan Sabet, partner at Spark Capital and one of the lead investors in Tumblr, today on his tumblog: "i gotta talk to @davidkarp about this. if…

I have been a supporter of OpenID for a long time. But I agree with the decision by 37signals to drop it. What could have been never happened and, as it would seem that not much is being done to fix that, it would be better to just get rid of it so as to…

As I just announced on the Viddler blog, Apostrophe – the amazing CMS built by my friends at Punk Avenue, now includes deep support for Viddler. Huzzah!

I have to say, this makes very little sense. It is the Chrome team’s prerogative to add or remove any feature from their browser that they’d like to but the reasons they’ve given simply do not make much sense. At least not from my desk or the desk’s of others. John Gruber, as he typically…

How quickly things change! I’ve been praising Tumblr over the last several months because it has been an excellent tool to build The Watercolor Gallery with. And it still is, except since I began building The Watercolor Gallery Tumblr has been, well, tumbling down in the minds and hearts of some of their core users.…

Instagram has hit 1,000,000 users in only a few short months. I’m one of them. /via Dan Rubin on Twitter.

Speaking of diets; my friend and ex-coworker Brandice Schnabel is in a Size 8 pant. Go girl.

[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] Tim Ferriss (whom I’ve mentioned that I met and shared a meal with once), the author of The 4-hour Work Week (which was great and is worth the read), has a brand new book called The 4-hour Body. It is getting a lot of buzz this week and Tim even put together…

You may have noticed that I relaunched The Diet page yesterday with new information, a new challenge for myself, and even a video. Yes, it is true, I’m going back on The Diet and this is my first weigh in. Lets get this out of the way; I’m currently 220 pounds. The last time I…

As someone who has somewhat recently began using Git on a daily basis I can say that Git Magic has helped me quite a bit. /via Jeremy Zawodny. [ad#Adsense: Horiz 468]

Today I realized a fatal flaw in my blog’s archive. There wasn’t a single post tagged ‘chewbacca’. Consider that flaw fixed. Photo credit: Eliza Devroe.

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…

A little something for the developers out there. Over on the Viddler blog I announced that we’ve just released PHPViddler 2 (which is also on the great Github) which is a brand new PHP class for our brand new API version 2. Its all brand new baby.

Tumblr is going on its 15th hour of downtime (that I’ve noticed). In an effort to let everyone know what is going on they’ve only sent 1 tweet about it. No emails. Nothing on the "downtime" page. On Twitter they only have 40,000 followers and as far as I know they have millions of users.…

A feature that I’ve wanted from Twitter ever since I ditched Brightkite in April 2009 has finally been released – @mention notifications. Huzzah. Side note: Remember Brightkite? Oh what could have been. /via Eric Brophy.

[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] With Conan back on the air and Jimmy Fallon approaching his prime late night television is at its finest in years. Here, please, enjoy Jeff Goldblum and Biz Markie singing Just a Friend.

Remember my link to Chalk? Sam Samhuri took the time to dissect exactly how it was built. Impressive. Both the app and the write up.

I was going to wait until The Watercolor Gallery hit 150 or even 200 pieces in its archive before I gave another update but several key things are going on and I want them documented. For context see the announcement post, the 30 pieces update, the tools of The Watercolor Gallery, and the post celebrating…

Acorn, my photo editor and general image-manipulation application of choice for the Mac, has been updated and now includes a Tilt-Shift filter. Above is an image I took with my first-generation iPhone in July 2007 in Philadelphia while attending BlogPhiladelphia. Acorn’s Tilt-Shift filter made an old photo interesting again. Well done Gus.

For years Viddler has had a Learn More page that was used to introduce newcomers to what Viddler was capable of. For most of that time it didn’t feature a video explaining what Viddler does but rather was a somewhat interactive page that simply showed you what we did. It didn’t make much sense. Now…

Congratulations to Letters of Note for hitting it’s 1 year anniversary. Last year Letters of Note made my The best of 2009 as told by me list winning The Best New Blog Award. What I said then still stands now: "Letters of Note is pretty much the perfect blog. Blogs, unless they are personal journals,…

After a little over a week of posting over on The Watercolor Gallery I thought I’d write down a short and sweet update. You know, for posterity. Lets just say I’m enjoying myself. I’ve wanted to put together a site like this for longer than I can remember. Tumblr has made this incredibly easy. So…

This is quite simply a must-read for anyone that works at a desk and is the least bit ambitious. Worry isn’t work, by Dan Pallotta. /via the speechless Justin Blanton.

The How to: Delete photos off an iPhone post is the single most popular post on my blog. After several hundred thousand views and 133 comments so far – it finally happened. Some guy named Kirk proposed to me. Sorry Kirk, I’m taken. But I am glad you found the information useful.

I saw this quote from Joe Keohane on Matt Mullenweg’s blog. I’m sure Matt had his own reasons for publishing this quote to his blog and I’m fairly certain they are totally different than mine. He kept his to himself and I will too. "In reality, we often base our opinions on our beliefs, which…

Harvey Pekar, comic book writer and much much more, recently died. Anthony Bourdain has a rather lovely blog post about Pekar and Cleveland. "His continuing compulsion to wonder what’s wrong with everybody else was both source of entertainment and the only position of conscience a man could take." Also be sure to check out Bourdain’s…

Drew Strojny, former NFL player for the Eagles, Giants and Rams, had been moonlighting as a designer and open-source WordPress theme developer for years. The theme business, which is supported via support-membership-subscriptions (great business plan) is really taking off.  So much so that he and his wife are doing that full time via The Theme…

Photos by Seed Morphologist Wolfgang Stuppy of seeds from angiosperms.* /via NPR. *Flash is required but the photos are still boner-worthy.