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Month: August 2015

  • Apple’s content blocking is chemo for the cancer of adtech

    Doc Searls: On the B2C side, Apple is working on behalf of its paying customers. This is huge. There isn’t a customer on Earth who wants to be tracked like an animal without clear and explicit permission, or to have pages slowed by tracking cookies, beacons and ads fed by unknown and unwelcome servers. Especially […]

    Published August 29, 2015
  • AT&T Hotspots: Now with Advertising Injection

    Shit heads.

    Published August 26, 2015
  • The Fave Knife

    The least favorite knife I own.

    Published August 26, 2015
  • The Tom Bihn Cadet

    Nice review of the Tom Bihn Cadet from Casey Liss. This is a bag that has always intrigued me, that and the Co-Pilot he also mentions. This looks like a good bag for non-backpack people. (Note I'm testing another shoulder bag that is quite different at them moment, if you are in the market that […]

    Published August 25, 2015
  • What mobile ad blocking looks like in the real world

    The gifs are telling — this blockers are going to be huge. I’ve been testing one for a little bit now and it is extraordinary how much faster things are.

    Published August 24, 2015
  • The Shinola Pocket Knife

    The next best thing to the Chris Reeves Sebenza 21.

    Published August 21, 2015
  • You Can’t Do Squat About Spotify’s Eerie New Privacy Policy

    But by all means bitch about the UI in Apple Music instead…

    Published August 21, 2015
  • Building Better Defaults

    Fantastic post from Shawn. And it fits in with how I am using the Due app to help try and build some of these small habits. One of the things that never seems to get down at my house is emptying the bathroom garbage. So I have created a new task in Due which repeats […]

    Published August 20, 2015
  • Acorn 5

    I buy every new version of Acorn, because it is awesome.

    Published August 20, 2015
  • The FluidStance Level

    What is it like to work on a nearly constantly moving surface? Turns out that it isn’t that bad at all.

    Published August 19, 2015
  • Inside Amazon

    Gabe Weatherhead, responding to the Amazon workplace hubbub, and specifically Jeff Bezos’ email regarding the matter: Second, sending a company email on the weekend implies that the company culture encourages working on the weekend and considers it completely normal.

    Published August 18, 2015
  • How Relay FM Proves That Podcasts Aren’t An Overnight Success

    Romain Dillet reporting: “I don’t need new shoelaces, I need new shoes. I thought to myself, if I buy new shoes — they are work shoes, I only wear those shoes at work. If I buy new shoes, I’m committing to myself that I need them because I’m going to be there for a while. […]

    Published August 18, 2015
  • The increasingly long lives of old Macs

    Dan Moren: This longevity goes hand in hand with the decline in specs that I wrote about last month. We’ll continue to use our devices as long as they accomplish what we want them to, not simply when specs suggest we “should” upgrade. I have a 2008 MacBook Pro still in service as a home […]

    Published August 18, 2015
  • Creating a kill-switched VPN on Mac with PIA and Little Snitch

    His Little Snitch rules for mimicking the ‘overcloak’ feature of Cloak is pretty awesome.

    Published August 18, 2015
  • Quickertek-USB Type C Products

    Quickertek has a sweet external battery pack for the new MacBook. It appears to charge the MacBook while it is running and adds 8-48 hours of battery life. The only downside? The price: $300. Still, I would love to get one of these.

    Published August 18, 2015
  • Inside Amazon: Wrestling Big Ideas in a Bruising Workplace

    You know how, as an American, you just always assume that work cultures like the French just look at American workers and laugh. But thier laugh is both pompous and pitiful? That's how I think most American workers are going to view this article about Amazon workers. That system is going to implode.

    Published August 15, 2015
  • Thoughts on traveling 17,000 miles with the Aeronaut

    Nice review of what is one of my favorite travel bags.

    Published August 14, 2015
  • Quick Tip: Disconnect from an existing Wi-Fi network on your Mac

    Son of a bitch, where has this been my entire life?

    Published August 13, 2015
  • Vertical Videos Are the Future…

    Sigh.

    Published August 13, 2015
  • Crossing the iPad Rubicon

    MG Siegler on using the iPad as an only computer: If I have to take out my laptop to do even just one thing, why not just use it for everything? That’s the sticking point for me as well.

    Published August 12, 2015
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