Month: December 2013

Jared Cosulich: > For the last 45 years Sudbury Valley schools (and before that Summerhill) have provided students with a K-12 educational environment where the students can do what ever they want, when ever they want all day long. Those students attend college at a higher rate than the national average too. Wow.

Shawn Blanc on working from his iPad: > Never once have those limitations hindered me from doing some great work from my iPad. In fact, oftentimes it is the limitations of iOS which empower me to do better work. Because constraint breeds creativity. He lists out the apps he is using on his iPad, but […]

Joseph Menn: > As a key part of a campaign to embed encryption software that it could crack into widely used computer products, the U.S. National Security Agency arranged a secret $10 million contract with RSA, one of the most influential firms in the computer security industry, Reuters has learned. Well it was a good […]

Ken Segall has the best take I’ve seen on Apple’s holiday ad: > This ad is a holiday card from Cupertino. It lines up perfectly with the values Apple has communicated for years. It’s not about technology — it’s about quality of life. I don’t think it is the world’s best ad, or even Apple’s […]

Sara Morrison: > While the data brokers say the information is used to put people in very general profiles such as “sports enthusiast” or “avid traveler,” the World Privacy Forum found a list of rape victims for sale at one data broker (the link now goes to an “updating” page. Maybe it’s a coincidence! Or […]

> Dropbox-like Sync and Backup using only SFTP or Amazon S3 Looks like a neat solution, but I haven’t tried it because they don’t have iOS apps. (via Matt H.)

Sid O’Neill, responding to [my post](http://brooksreview.net/2013/12/podcasts-worries) about podcasts: > It seems some people see podcasts as a medium solely for Conveying Information in an Efficient Manner. Cool. I think that if you’re looking for that, maybe written materials (or jacking into the Matrix training program) would be better and faster. Great points in his post.

Jared Sinclair: > App playlists should be rigorously simple: just a list of apps. Not all the apps ever downloaded, but the apps that a given user currently has installed on their device. The assumption is that if somebody has an app on their device, they probably like it. App playlists should be given top-level […]

The Soulmen released Daedalus Touch 1.7 today(isn) and while I still am not in love with the app it has a really awesome feature: custom fonts. No, not custom fonts built into the app — you can add your own fonts. I’ll say that again: you can add *your* own fonts. So how do you […]

Joseph George: > On the software end they created a platform that allowed the data recorded by the counters to be uploaded via safecast.org to online maps where the readings could be viewable by all. The Safecast iOS app also allows people to find out what the radiation level is at their current position, based […]