Month: May 2012

Pat Dryburgh filled in for me this week and talked about iPhone and Apple TV rumors with Shawn.

Tapping the link is just going to download the zipped file for my Keyboard Maestro macro, so let me explain what you are getting. First, credit where credit is due, a big thanks to [Greg Pierce for getting me a working AppleScript for this](https://twitter.com/agiletortoise/status/207954077345267712) (I was using an Automator action before, which was pretty slow). […]

Danny Sullivan: >Eight years ago, Google viewed paid inclusion in general as some type of evil the company should avoid and in particular something that could cause shopping search to have poor relevancy or be biased. >What happened to cause such a change? Oh, me, me, me! Google changed the definition of paid inclusion. Clever. […]

New update for Dark Sky is out and it adds 24-hour forecasts. I was worried they might be cluttering up the UI too much, but it was done very well. A nice slide up or to the side depending on your device and you get the 24-hour forecast nicely broken down. A really nice addition […]

Tim Cook on Apple: >It’s my oxygen. Nice reporting by Macworld.

Neat site with a lot of Coda 2 themes. I particularly like that the site’s design switches to the coloring of the selected theme so that you can preview it. Also, [here is a link to another site](http://justinhileman.info/coda-colors/) with Coda 2 themes — this one has the excellent Solarized themes.

Mark Lukach takes a look at standing desks for *The Wirecutter* and points out the [Kangaroo Pro Junior](http://www.ergodesktop.com/content/kangaroo-pro-junior). I had never heard of this desk that modifies any desk and converts it to a stand/sit desk. I think I am going to order one, but would like to hear from you guys if you have […]

This isn’t the best Nerf gun in the world, but I just use it to shoot at my cat when he starts scratching the furniture. It’s an effective deterrent (though it only has an effective range of about 15 feet) and shoots accurately. Oh, and it’s less than $9 with Prime shipping. If you own […]

Ki Mae Heussner for GigaOm on the AdKeeper site that allows web readers to save an ad for later (yeah, I know): >But they’re finding that consumer behavior isn’t changing as fast as they’d hoped. Well, color me surprised. >[…]they’ve decided to spread some of the $40 million they’ve raised on other ways of connecting […]

Micah Lee and Peter Eckersley writing for EFF.org on the ‘crystal prison’ that is a locked os (like iOS) and the excuses given by companies that do this: >When technology and phone companies defend the restrictions that they are imposing on their customers, the most frequent defense they offer is that it’s actually in their […]

Oliver Reichenstein: >Promising to make you look wired and magically promote your content in social networks, the Like, Retweet, and +1 buttons occupy a good spot on pretty much every page of the World Wide Web. Because of this, almost every major site and world brand is providing free advertising for Twitter and Facebook. But […]

Marcelo Somers: >Facebook advertising doesn’t work because they focus on showing you ads based on who you are, not what problem you are trying to solve. Great post about advertising in general. What people are learning is that “targeting” and “click-throughs” aren’t nearly as important as “buying”. That’s why Google rakes in the dough: they […]