December 2009
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John Mayer's One Week Digital Cleanse →
Interesting idea from musician John Mayer: a one-week digital cleanse. Whilst I can’t say I’m going to be taking part in this (one thing I’ve master this year is the ability to go digital-cold-turkey for a few days), I’d strongly encourage folks who feel a little over-run with digital media to consider it.
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About that Seekrit Project
If you’ve been following me on Twitter, you’ll know that I’ve been somewhat-lamely teasing about a seekrit project for quite a while. Whilst it’s not yet ready for submission to Apple (and as such, I can’t yet say when you’ll be able to get your hands on a copy in the App Store), I’ve been dying to start publicly talk about it.
Whilst I’m still...
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“When I worked at Microsoft almost two decades ago we made fun of IBM for having...”
– Secret language - Joel on Software (via lkm & chartier)
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The Best of Bootie 2009 →
Back in January 2008, I was in San Francisco for Macworld and spent an awesome evening at the DNA Lounge for Bootie SF. If you’re not familiar with the awesome musical mashup that is Bootie, be sure read this wikipedia article lest you confuse this post’s title for a 4Chan thread.
The folks at Bootie are generous enough to offer the best mashups of the year for free download, and...
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President Obama, It's Time To Fire the TSA →
A great article by Joel Johnson at Gizmodo, here’s a choice quote:
It’s been nearly a decade since terrorists used airplanes to attack our country, and last week’s attempt makes it clear that the lack of terrorist attacks have nothing to do with the increasing gauntlet of whirring machines, friskings, and arbitrary bureaucratic provisions, but simply that for the most part,...
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“In most cases, the reason I don’t do special requests has to do with the...”
– I don’t normally re-blog things verbatim, but this quote (courtesy of Buzz Andersen) certainly struck a chord with me.
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What's the consensus on In-App Twitter posting?
With my side-project tantalisingly close to reaching 1.0, I’m looking at a few features that will appear in the 1.1 release. Whilst I’m aware that work on 1.1 features sounds a little crazy, I’m awaiting bugfixes in the API in question before I can ship - hence this extra thinking and breathing time.
One feature that I very-much want to add in 1.1 is the sharing of items via...
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“I don’t understand why blogs have “Report as abusive” buttons...”
– Tom Morris, via Twitter
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“New #TSA rule: Babies no longer permitted to sit on laps. Must fit into overhead...”
– Jeff Jarvis, via Twitter
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LOST: The Final Season →
If you’re a LOST fan, Apple have a free 2m35 trailer available on the iTunes Store for the 6th and final season. Season Passes (in both SD and HD) are also now available: though, you’ll be waiting until February for the shows to appear.
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Ten things that annoy the f*ck out of me on... →
Fantastic article by Jeff Croft - particularly item number 5:
5. People threatening to unfollow me — This may come as a huge surprise to your self-centered ass, but guess what? I don’t do this for you. Don’t waste any of your precious 140 characters telling me you’ll unfollow me if I don’t do this or that, because I. Don’t. Give. A. Fuck. Go ahead, unfollow. You won’t hurt my feelings. I promise.
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“Shipping a 1.0 product isn’t going to kill you, but it will try”
– Rands - posted purely as a reminder to myself as I burn the midnight oil to get a side-project out.
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Learn To Fucking Spell →
Paddy Donnelly has a beautifully illustrated blog post on the basics of how to spell. From “to” to “too”, “they’re” to “their”, this is music to my ears: and available as a printable image too.
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“Jailbreak frees 31 in Philippines” — is there anything the iPhone...”
– Fraser Speirs, via Twitter
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New social networking rule
No one, under any circumstances, for any reason, is ever obligated to defend his or her “following” list to anybody.*
*Especially people who aren’t on it.
Amen to that. (via Neven Mrgan)
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“If WebKit begins to present a serious threat of undermining the app store...”
– Steven Frank
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“A smidgen of well written copy goes a long way to reassure the nervous prospect....”
– From today’s microcopy-specific 24ways article.
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Snapping pages with LittleSnapper from Google...
Since publishing my writeup on Google Chrome, one of the common things that folks have observed is that LittleSnapper isn’t fully integrated with the application (and there’s no ‘Snap Page from Google Chrome’ support right now).
That’s not entirely true, however as there’s a nice little extra that we’ve already got in LittleSnapper for you to use that...
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WatchBritish Tabloid newspaper The Sun put together this very excellent parody of an iPhone ad: The UK’s best handheld for 40yrs (via Dave Caolo)
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A week with Google Chrome
In the five years that I’ve used a Mac, I’ve had two browsers of choice: Camino, and then with Safari 3’s arrival Safari. I know that folks swear by Firefox, but I don’t - and typically find myself swearing at Firefox. Whilst the Mozilla folks have done a fine job of making it look like a Mac app, it never seems for feel and behave like a Mac application. Part of my Safari...
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Mac Gift Guide: 10 Buying Ideas for Apple Fans →
There’s plenty of great ideas in this Mashable list. I’ll admit I’m also being far-from-modest by linking to it as the piece also uses my photo of Christina, Grant and I sporting our Iconfactory tees.
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The CrunchPad – the greatest tablet there never... →
Charles Arthur, Technology editor at The Guardian, takes a look at what proved to be the demise of Michael Arrington’s pet project.
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TUAW reviews Monkey Ball 2 →
I’ve not yet had a chance to buy or play Monkey Ball 2, but it certainly seems as though the new version answers a number of shortcomings in the original release last summer. It’s $9.99 on the App Store.
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Ramp Champ for iPhone - Free for a Limited Time →
The Iconfactory’s excellent iPhone game Ramp Champ is free for a limited time, to coincide with the new 1.1 update. I’ve been beta-testing the update for a few weeks, and it’s a great release: especially the improved performance on older devices.
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Google phasing out Gears, phasing in HTML5 →
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Square - Payments for the iPhone →
Congratulations to Buzz Andersen and everyone else involved in Square, that announced today. I’m looking forward to trying this out the next time I’m stateside.