Month: November 2014

This is how Amazon really should look.

Really interesting post from Matt Henderson on how he is dealing with passing on his digital information if/when he passes. This is something that I have always wondered about. Two really interesting services he found.

Nik Fletcher has a good look at Twitter’s latest stunt. What’s most concerning to me is that they always wait for holidays to slip out this ‘news’. That’s shady no matter how you spin it. I’ve deleted all of their apps from my devices.

Dave Paola on owning less: For that, I recommend starting small and taking baby steps: keep an open box somewhere in your house or apartment, and whenever you come across something that you haven’t touched in awhile, put it in the box. At the end of every month, casually look through the box and ask […]

Manton Reece is winding down his Twitter apps at the end of the year. This kind of stuff is bad for Twitter. Not opening up the search of all tweets to third-parties was not a shocking move, but it’s just another move to close down access to Twitter. I am actually amazed third party Twitter […]

This is a great rant: …hand puppets would be better podcast hosts than half the tech podcasts…

One thing I didn’t know about Flare 2 is that the effects are updated automatically whenever they add new ones. Two new ones “Analog Gallery” and “Vintage Galore” were added. Once again, they are nice. Vintage Galore is particularly nice if you remove the “paper” effect from it. I love this app more and more.

I hadn’t thought to look in Settings to change this. Glad I read this.

A few people sent me links to a recent security analysis of BTSync, knowung that I use and love it. This is the official response, and I feel fine with continuing my use of the tool.

I’ve been using San Francisco as my default font since it came out, replacing a short run of Avenir. This is a dead simple way to install it — have fun.

Wow.

I am now using this to change the font in Yosemite from Helvetica Neue to Avenir Next. It looks really sharp, but there are some things that just appear as jibberish the font family doesn’t have the correct characters. I don’t know how long I will keep this, but I am a big fan and […]

Shawn Blanc: All in all, I’m so glad to have a native VSCO Cam app for my iPad. Though it’s not a life-changing revolution to my photography workflow, it certainly is something I’ll be using. No extension (still) for use in Photos.app means it is still a Siloed area and there are far better options […]

Thord D. Hedengren: The angle and strain of an iPad writing setup, featuring an external bluetooth keyboard, and a decent stand, isn’t a valid reason to use a laptop. They’re the same. No, scratch that, the iPad’s potentially better, since you can move the components around any way you like.

Amazing bit of work, bringing a lot of power to Spotlight.