March 2009
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"She Follows Me, She Follows Me Not" →
via Jenn
Macworld 2010 moves to February →
Sensible move: IDG are shifting Macworld to avoid a clash with CES, scaling down the Expo to one Moscone Hall (North) and moving the conference to Moscone West, along with a Saturday Expo opening too.
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What's new in iPhoto 8.0.2 →
I wouldn’t normally link this were it not for the fact that iPhoto 8.0.2 finally corrects the most glaringly-stupid flaw in iPhoto ‘09: you couldn’t previously link people’s faces with their Address Book entry.
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“I would like to change the world, but they won’t tell me the source code.”
– Twitter / Danny Choo (via chartier)
Coding Horror: Don't Like It? Code it Yourself! →
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“All you need to remember is this: perceived speed is the only test of speed.”
– - Carsonified Blog » Speed: The Secret Code of the Baristi
I’m linking to this after my Safari PDF rant. Downloads still feel quicker when you’re given more feedback instead of an indeterminate spinner. It’s the same speed, however it’s perceived to be faster as...
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WWDC? →
carpeaqua:
Of course I’m going. It’s like Woodstock for development nerds.
I won’t be out in San Francisco for WWDC, though keep an eye out for a few Realmac HQ escapees in the form of Dan, Ben, Danny and Keith.
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“June, I can just see it: Apple launches 2 new OS’s, a new phone, and Steve...”
– Neven Mrgan / 43folders (via marco)
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“I don’t know how well the developers are doing in the MacHeist equation, but...”
– Sci-Fi Hi-Fi: Weblog: What We Can Learn From MacHeist (via chartier)
“Sarah Jessica Parker is 44 today. Not sure how old she is in horse years”
– Josh Donoghue (via Twitter)
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“I always am hesitant to show Favrd to Twitter newbies — like taking a struggling...”
– Mike Rose
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WSJ reports Twitter to launch 'fee-based services... →
“So why is Flying Meat participating in MacHeist time around, when I blasted it a...”
– Acorn is in MacHeist, via Gruber.
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What I learned from SXSW 2009 | Grant Robertson →
PR Fail - a collection of bad things. →
Awesome Tumblr created from any Tweets hashtagged #prfail or pages tagged on Delicious.
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Conversation Between Me and My Body →
Genius - the punchline is particularly apt. I’ve been steering clear of alcohol since my return from SXSW.
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MacHeist Kvetching 2009... →
Alternate side of the story from TUAW’s Christina Warren (a.k.a. my sister).
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RE: MacHeist →
An update from Marco Arment who’s heard from MacHeist’s Phil Ryu.
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Vintage Dharma Initiative Ad →
Brilliant. Too bad the Dharma food labels were taken down by ABC a few years ago: it would be awesome to label things at Realmac HQ with Dharma logos.
Elliot Jay Stocks' First EP Now Available. →
Congratulations to Elliot for releasing the first of two Sourhaze EPs.
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MacHeist and the ethics of software discounts →
Marco Arment on MacHeist, which is running again. I’m posting the link purely for reading: Realmac are taking part this year, so I’m not going to comment further.
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“Ryanair, Europe’s largest low fares airline, today (12th Mar) invited passengers...”
– Ryanair - News : Passengers to Suggest Next Discretionary Charge
This isn’t a joke. Ryanair really are running this competition. Some totally hilarious suggestions so far…
Honest dialog with a 419 scammer - Boing... →
It may be fake, for all we know, but it’s funny nonetheless.
Gary Vaynerchuk on Twitter and Monetisation →
Choice quote from the video:
If you don’t realise that search.twitter.com is the most important website on the internet right now, then you’re a clown.
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Readability - An Arc90 Lab Experiment →
Awesome bookmarklet for making pages more readable (via Jeremy Keith)
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The Nine Apps on my iPhone
I find myself becoming more and more fussy about the number of applications I keep on my iPhone - mostly because I don’t need 9 screens of mediocre apps. I simply keep the ones I actually use on the device, and keep a small pool of ‘notables’ within iTunes - hence my previous complaints about the App Store. So, without further ado: here’s a quick run-down of the (shipping)...
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“Facebook has been pretty ballsy. Not just in their famously spurning large...”
– Facebook’s Got Balls (via iamdanw)
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“If you’re into industrial design, you’ll probably enjoy Objectified...”
– SXSW Review: Objectified - Cinematical
Twitter Turns Three →
Happy Birthday Twitter.
phpMyID: roll your own OpenID provider →
Great ‘How to’ from my Download Squad colleague Todd Ritter.
Bring Down IE 6 →
Campaign from .net magazine to finally bring the circus that in Internet Explorer to an end. Nicely designed too.
Click: A Visual Tour of Camera Interfaces →
Aaron Brazell's SXSW Photos →
Fantastic set of photos from a mad week in Austin (via Jenn)
“The phone increasingly seems like a thing Apple had to make to get people...”
– Ben Kraal (via iamdanw)
SXSW 2009: Contxts lets you share contact details... →
42 Even More Ludicrous Control Schemes Apple Might... →
(via davebc)
SXSW 2009: Talking Alltop with Guy Kawasaki →
Milk Concept Cartons →
mattmcinerney:
Milk Concept by David Fung. Really nice use of Archer. via
Agreed.
“Why won’t someone else build a Tweetdeck-like offering”
– Tweetdeck Funding…a Sign of Twitter Insanity (via iamdanw)
Foursquare is the Breakout Mobile App at SXSW →
via Jenn
iPhone Camera Usage on Flickr →
davebc:
The iPhone ranks among the top five most popular cameras on Flickr. How long as it been this way? I know the iPhone shot up the cameraphone charts a while ago, but now it’s hanging with Canon and Nikon in terms of sheer quantity.
Dear Apple: please, oh please, make the next iPhone’s camera not suck so hard.
New Realmac Avatars from the Jam Factory →
jamfactory:
The wonderful Realmac Software expands it’s team again, so I was charged with the task of creating a new avatar!
This is Luke Hefson, who’s the new Support & QA man @ Realmac Towers. I was told that “it turns out luke is well into Amphibians.” so that was that - Lukes avatar was forever destined to be an amphibian!
Check out Keith’s new avatar...
Download Squad are in the house at SXSW! →
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Basic Filtering of Tweets in Twitterrific
After seeing Dan’s post on avoiding SXSW tweets in Firefox using Greasemonkey, I figured I’d share some tips for Twitterrific on the desktop, as there’s actually some seekrit things you can do to filter out tweets containing specific terms.
Simply enter the following into the Terminal and hit return:
defaults write com.iconfactory.Twitterrific tweetTextFilter -string...
HowTo: Avoid the smug SxSW tweets
iamdanw:
Not going to SxSW? Couldn’t give a rats arse about how much drunken networking fun your friends are tweeting about? No problem, the solution is easy.
Install Greasemonkey
Install Twitter Filter
Add ‘sxsw’ to your blacklist filter
Enjoy the peace and quiet with a nice cup of tea.
If you follow me on Twitter, you may want to do this…. :-)
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Duty Calls - XKCD →
I post this link to XKCD as it’s amusingly relevant to a ‘Core Conversation’ I’ll be attending (and taking part in) with Download Squad / TUAW Weblogs Inc. capitan Victor Agreda Jr. at SXSW: “The Organic Audience: Growing a Fanbase by Communicating”. I’m not sure exactly what Vic’s got prepared for it, but I’ll be on hand - and Chris Ullrich...
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Twinkle Douchebags →
Twinkle Douchebags. Does what it says on the tin. Very well.
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Tumblr IRL @ SXSW →
tumblr staff:
We’re going to Austin!
Come join us at South by Southwest for the biggest party we’ve ever thrown! We’ve booked the Cedar Street Courtyard this Sunday from 8:00 on, with special guests and open bar for anyone with a tumblelog.
See you there.
“You may not provide a link to this web site from any other web site without...”
– Newspaper sites: do not link to us - Completely absurd T&Cs on many big UK newspaper sites that forbid you from sending them traffic. (via iamdanw)
Apple rejects Twitter app because there's swearing... →
This is fucking ridiculous. Fact.