February 2012
9 posts
“Apple had just one customer. He passed away last year.”
– Seth Godin — Seth’s Blog: Who is your customer? (via minimalmac)
January 2012
4 posts
“Make good stuff, then make it easy for people to buy it. There’s your...”
– Jonathan Coulton, definitively. (via merlin)
Best Yelp review yet... RE: "Yelping with Cormac:... →
yelpingwithcormac:
Twin Falls, Idaho
Cormac M. | Author | Lost in the chaparral, NM
Three Stars. *First Review.
He walked into the empty cafe and looked at the vinyl booths and the linoleum counters and picked up a menu to glance at it and then put it down again in one smooth motion. His leadgray eyes settled on…
WatchI think I just drooled… (via SolarKindle sunlight-powered Kindle battery pack hands-on | The Verge)
For anyone that already feels bad about giving up...
With the coming of a new year there is a lot of talk concerning resolutions. This always makes me think of one of my favorites from church history, Jonathan Edwards, and the resolutions he wrote as a young man concerning his life in God.
Many new year’s resolutions fizzle out quickly–and are often related to superfluous things.
If you need some resolution for the new year, try some of these...
December 2011
8 posts
It Feels Like Trust—The Apple Store App And Self... →
This is a great Christmas morning message. Trust between tech companies and their customers is becoming more important every day. Merry Christmas everyone!
“I think this is just the difference between putting your dog down and letting it...”
– - Gruber on WebOS announcement
Daring Fireball Linked List: HP to Contribute WebOS to Open Source
The Macalope Weekly: Debatable | Macworld →
Another great Macalope Weekly with content like…
This week we look at things that are debatable, just perhaps not in the way that some people intended. For example, can anyone at Business Insider look themselves in the mirror each morning? Debatable. Also, are online debates where readers vote for a winner worth anything? At all? Debatable. Finally, if a scandal can’t be pinned on Apple,...
Barnes and Noble needs to talk up this Nook Tablet... →
Read the short piece; it’ll make you realize that the Kindle Fire is junk…
Second, I compared the Kindle Fire and the Nook Tablet. Side by side, identical movie playing in perfect sync from the same Netflix stream.
There’s not a shred of doubt: The Nook Tablet’s Netflix video looks a lot better.
Now, without the side-by-side comparison, you wouldn’t complain about the Fire’s video....
November 2011
9 posts
Insane… What’s Smaller Than Apple? | Visual.ly (via The Brooks Review)
A Brief Rant on the Future of Interaction Design →
We live in a three-dimensional world. Our hands are designed for moving and rotating objects in three dimensions, for picking up objects and placing them over, under, beside, and inside each other. No creature on earth has a dexterity that compares to ours.
The next time you make a sandwich, pay attention to your hands. Seriously! Notice the myriad little tricks your fingers have for ...
OS X and iOS are not jails →
Does living within the law mean I’m living in a prison? Some people might make that argument, but my counterargument is those people are whackadoos.
October 2011
15 posts
A Sister’s Eulogy for Steve Jobs - NYTimes.com →
I don’t want to share this; I want to keep it to myself… But I feel somewhere deep down that I have to put this out there. Don’t read it, please, if you don’t want to. Don’t read it…
This is a test post, but read it anyway!
the understatement: Android Orphans: Visualizing a... →
The included graph is the reason why I will not be staying on the Android platform long term.
Review: Walter Isaacson's 'Steve Jobs' | TUAW -... →
I cannot wait to read this book!
My Dinner With Android - Four months with Android:... →
(via Instapaper)
The $5 App That Justifies my $500 iPad — Shawn... →
Agreed!
WatchHad to share this goat video since I have made all my coworkers watch it! (via Goat Fails at Being a Goat - CollegeHumor Video)
“So, 24 years ago, Apple predicted a complex natural-language voice assistant...”
– Apple’s 1987 Knowledge Navigator, Only One Month Late - Waxy.org
Atlantis Hotel, Dubai
Cody: You wouldn’t stay there!?
Casey: NO! NO NO NON ON ONONONOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONO. NO.
Cody: But…
Casey: NO.
Cody: There’s a water slide!
Casey: Through SHARKS. A water slide THROUGH SHARKS.
Cody: You wouldn’t ride that?
Casey: NO! WHAT IF IT EXPLODED!
Cody: If that tube exploded I would grab a shard of glass, kill all the sharks and ride a whale to victory.
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“There’s always the hope that if you sit and watch for long enough, the beach ball will vanish and the thing it interrupted will return.”
xkcd: Eternal Flame
Thank You Steve
minimalmac:
aaronmahnke:
This is my favorite photo of Steve Jobs. Leaning forward to connect with his wife after his keynote presentation at the 2011 WWDC. You can almost feel the relief and accomplishment radiating from him.
When I see this photo, I see a man who bent every fiber of his will toward a goal so lofty, so seemingly unattainable that no one thought it was possible, and at the...
“The thing is, it’s really hard to talk about how Steve loomed in my world. I...”
– R.I.P. Steve
September 2011
12 posts
Gruber on Flash FMS 4.5
I have been preaching this message since I built my first CDN (!!!) (content distribution network):
This is the wrong approach for video publishers to take, though. They should be sending HTML5/H.264 video to any user agent that supports it, and only falling back to Flash Player for user agents that don’t support HTML5 and H.264. Flash Player should be the fallback exception, not the other way...