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I’ve been subscribed to NASA’s Astronomy Photo of the Day for years. I’ve linked to both terrestrial and extra-terrestrial shots that have been featured from this very blog many times though nearly all of them are fantastic. It is sort of like an art blog where the featured painter everyday is God.

After using the iPad exclusively for 10 days (that’s right, I haven’t used my Macbook Pro yet) I am getting a pretty good feel for the iPad. I figured I’d jot down some notes in no particular order. The great The utility of the iPad exceeds a laptop in so many ways. And I believe…

Fun list. I love the "yeah, OK" tone of it.

For those of you that follow me on Twitter or have read my post on the Viddler blog you’ll already know that I was a guest on Wine Library TV on Friday. This episode was a long time coming. Gary and I had tried to align our schedules for a pretty long time but never…

Lead Designer at Viddler, Andrew Smith, has released Pack via the Viddler blog – which is what he uses to compress Viddler’s CSS and Javascript for deployment. Pack is written in Ruby and runs from the command-line. However, you could easily daisy chain it to Capistrano when doing deploys, like Andrew has done for Viddler,…

Not the best syntax in that title but you get the point. Someone’s copy machines are working pretty hard. AppleTV = Google TV. App Store = Chrome Web Store. Amazon S3 = Google Storage. There are a few other examples coming out of Google I/O this week too. Granted, though, that some of these products are…

Google has open sourced VP8 and is using it as a basis for an entire open web media project. We at Viddler believe in our customers having choice. That’s why, hot on the heels of our support for HTML5 playback using H.264 on the iPad/iPhone, we’re announcing support for encoding into VP8 also. I’m really…

Looks like my recent switch back to Google Chrome is already paying dividends. The Gmail team has now moved a much loved lab feature that allows you to drag and drop images from your desktop onto a new message and have it automatically attach and/or insert directly into the message out into the open. I…

As you, the avid reader of my blog, already know I’m addicted to Instapaper. I mention it now and then. So obviously I think this is just genius. Breakfast Instapaper is an application that makes it really quick to bulk add articles from The Guardian, The New York Times, an Australian paper, and Delicious. I…

Twitter has rolled out its advertising platform called Promoted Tweets. It takes actual tweets from participating brands and pushes them onto the top of relevant search results and shoves them into the stream within third party applications. Inclusion of this ad system into third party applications is not mandatory but is certainly welcomed by developers…

Michael Gartenberg on three smaller, but I think fantastic, features of the new Macbook Pros released today by Apple: "Better battery life. An automatic way to switch between discrete and integrated graphics and momentum scrolling." My now 9 month old 15" unibody Macbook Pro has fantastic battery life. However, switching between the discrete and integrated…

At the end of a link from John Gruber’s most-excellent Daring Fireball to Engadget’s review of the Joojoo he wrote: "(Ironically, Engadget’s video demos are only available in Flash. Why would a website devoted to leading-edge gadgetry continue to embed video in a format that can’t be played on the best web-reading gadget? If your…

Just a quick link to the site because I’ve switched to a different template from The Theme Foundry. I was itching to do a theme from scratch myself but thought better of it considering how busy I am currently. I’ll leave designing to designers for now. I also changed the way that ads are displayed…

Several years ago I turned off Growl. I found it to be far too distracting. The little blobs of horribly designed text popping up above my work every few moments reminded me far too much of the Windows’ pop up bubble thing. You know, that incredibly annoying yellow bubble that pops up to tell you…

Wildlife photography isn’t an easy venture. It takes patience, a lot of time and a bit of luck. Unless of course you create your own environment for the shot you want. That is exactly what Alan Murphy has done in his "Fun with a Home Made Nest Box" [sic] wherein he captures some bluebirds in…

I’ve said it before, I believe the NFL’s overtime rules suck. Harsh words, I know. But I’m not alone. That post just-so-happens to be one of the more popular pages on this blog – it being the page people click on when searching for "NFL overtime rules suck" on Google. Today there was a vote…

[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] Marco Arment has now confirmed and previewed Instapaper for the iPad. In the post he says "an iPad without native Instapaper Pro is not a device I want to own." I agree. Instapaper on the iPad is like the drugs . However, having purchased a new Macbook Pro just a little over…

From the department of ‘I never knew I’d really need that’ comes the latest Google Chrome update that makes it dead simple to translate a Web page from many different languages into your native one. I hadn’t realized how many Web sites I’d been missing out on until this update rolled through. Then I found…

[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] Recently Eliza and I signed up for Netflix. Ever since moving into our new apartment I haven’t had the Xbox 360 connected to the Internet because of the location of my cable modem/router and because the Xbox 360 does not come Wifi-enabled by default. This hasn’t been too much of an issue…

Yesterday Google began to release Google Buzz to its Gmail users. Buzz appears to be a compelling service – especially since it plugs right into something many of us use already. For more information about what Buzz is and does visit the Google Buzz site for a nice demo. I can’t have much more of…

For months I’ve been using Chromium the open source browser that powers Google Chrome. Using Chromium had its advantages and disadvantages. I had the bleeding edge of what was offered by the Chromium team – whether it was stable or not. But, I also had to manually update my personal copy of Chromium on a…

[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] This is too awesome for words but I’ll try my best anyway. Jorge Garcia, whose blog I’ve been subscribed to for – well, a long time now, has started a LOST podcast – aptly named Geronimo Jack’s Beard (presumably in tribute to Geronimo Jackson which has been mentioned on LOST a few…

Speaking of icons for popular social media services, Komodo Media, who recently updated their collection, has a set of over 130 icons also.

[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] Who says blogs are dead? Lets have a live discussion about tonight’s upcoming episode of LOST Season 6, live, right here in the comments on my blog. To participate simply leave a comment below and wait for some replies. If you want, share a link to this post via Twitter, Facebook, or…

This is pretty great and something I’ve never seen before. [The ColorADD System](http://coloradd.net/codigo EN.htm) is a system of ‘codes’ that can be used to identify colors for people that are color blind. By knowing each color’s specific code, as well as a particular syntax, the person can discern just about any color in the spectrum.…

I’ve got an idea for the Google Reader team. When someone on Viddler, or Twitter or Facebook "follows" me I get an email letting me know. This gives me an opportunity to identify who is following me, learn about them as people instead of just statistics and perhaps even follow them back if I want…

Revision3, the Internet video network that brought you DIGG Nation, The Totally Rad Show, Scam School, and other very popular video podcasts, is offering Conan O’Brien a spot on their network. What’s more they are offering a fair stake in the company itself to Conan if he decided to make the jump. Jim Louderback, the…

The speculation about the upcoming product from Apple, presumably some form of tablet computer, is all over the place. The more I read the more I want. The more I want the more I wish. The more I wish the more I desire a big iPhone. I’ve thought about it a lot over the last…

Interesting comparison between the knowledge of science and the knowledge of man by the always [quotable](http://cdevroe.com/?s=henry david thoreau) Henry David Thoreau: "Science does not embody all that men know, only what is for men of science. The woodman tells me how he caught trout in a box trap, how he made his trough for maple…

My friend Dave Oberheu is a bit of a gaming nut. Having played several games at his house over the years I can tell you from first hand knowledge that Dave probably owns more games than you have ever played. I really like this quote from a recent post on his gaming blog Brettspiel Cafe…

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…

The Boxee Box, a mini-square-ish computer with the sole purpose of running Boxee on a television, is becoming more compelling with every press release. Made by D-Link this little box is being reported to hit the market at under $200 and to have one heckuva remote control. At that size, with that design, that price…

Brilliant photos from Albert Yee the new Weave Bridge at UPenn show that it is pretty stunning. I love when people take the opportunity to make something beautiful in a place where something ‘average’ could have sufficed.

According to Mashable (via Net Applications via The Apple Blog) Chrome has surpassed Safari for third place among browsers in terms of market share. I’m as big an Apple fan as anyone but this is pretty well deserved on speed alone.

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…

The line between what Brightkite offers and what Twitter offers their respective communities is arguably very thin. Both offer fantastic microblogging features including updates and notifications via SMS, the Web, and APIs. Until somewhat recently, however, only Brightkite offered another layer ontop of these features that really separated it from Twitter without question. Geolocation. Brightkite…

Crap. Crap. Crap. In March of this year I wrote: "Editor’s note: I don’t know Mandy Brown but her blog is definitely in the top three well-written blogs that I subscribe to. Every post is excellent. Her blog will, more than likely, make my Best of 2009 list." Well, I forgot to add Mandy Brown’s…

As you’ve probably read Twitter has acquired Mixer Labs who runs GeoAPI, an API for all things location, and plans to integrate that API and its team directly into Twitter’s offerings. Brady Forrest for O’Reilly Radar on the possible implications of this acquisition: "Second, does this herald Twitter’s moves into being a location provider? At…

If you’re in a hiring phase you’ll want to peruse Aaron Swartz’s thoughts on hiring programmers. The process that he walks through could, and should, be used for hiring just about anyone (not just programmers). However, I would add one step to the beginning of the process. Watching that person online. I know it seems…

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…

WordPress.com, to be specific, now has an API that mirrors the Twitter API. This effectively allows any Twitter client, such as Tweetie or Hahlo, to read and write to WordPress.com powered blogs only by changing their API endpoint. Hopefully this feature will be available via a plugin sometime in the near future? /via Tony Schneider.

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.

I’ve seen TeuxDeux recommended by several blogs that I’m subscribed to over the last few weeks so I finally took a few minutes to take a look. Turns out it is exactly what it says it is, a simple, designy to do application that is definitely worth a look.

"Project52 is a personal challenge geared toward getting fresh content on your website. The goal is to write at least 1 new article per week for 1 year." I’ve never liked the word "content" but I love when people set goals before themselves to write more. Anton Peck created Project52 this back in 2007. He…

The moment you’ve all been waiting for is finally here. Video of my LessConf presentation is now available, for free, in its entirety courtesy of the guys at LessEverything. Duration: ~59minutes In this presentation I cover how to measure success for a start up in a global market (read: the Internet). I tried my best…

Google launched its public DNS offering yesterday. Immediate reactions were "ooo, aaahhh, sweeet!" because we all know Google will nail the technology aspects of an fast, open DNS. Immediately following those reactions, however, came the "Oh great, now they know more about me!" statements. But then came this statement by Steven Frank of Panic (whom…

George Vecsey "reporting" for the New York Times has a terrible piece about Tiger Woods’ not being very forthcoming about an accident he recently had right outside his own home. Vecsey goes off on Tiger simply because he feels his pen (err, keyboard) is mightier than Woods’ driver. To Vecsey I say; you’re an idiot.…