Month: September 2015

Come for the battery, stay for the video stabilization.

It’s out now, and it’s my new go to for RSS on the Mac. What a beautiful looking app.

Good insight.

Script Scrap may be the fastest, but you won’t want to use it.

MG Siegler on Live Photos: That is, static pictures which suddenly come alive. But the true power comes from the re-creation of a memory, in front of your eyes, on your iPhone. It sounds like I’m overplaying it, but I’m not. As a parent, it’s one of my favorite features.

One thing that I keep hearing, is people trying to figure out if Live Photos are a gimmick or not. No one has had access to Live Photos long enough to know for sure, but I can say, that when I get little moments like you see in the video of a live photo below […]

Holy shit: CPU SPEED IS KNOCKING ON THE DOOR The single core CPU performance of the iPhone 6s and 6s Plus is roughly comparable to that of the 12″ MacBook Retina. The multi-core CPU performance is ‘knocking on the door.’ GPU SPEED MATCHES OR EXCEEDS 13″ APPLE LAPTOPS The iPhone 6s and 6s Plus blow […]

Updated my content blocker test with Adblock Plus (slow) and Blockr 1.0.1 (much improved). Also updated the data savings post.

Jack Marshall: Mr. Murphy said he’s taken Eyeo up on its offer, and plans to implement an option within his app whereby “acceptable” ads will be displayed to users. The feature will be switched on by default, Mr. Murphy said, and he will receive a flat monthly fee from Eyeo in return. Mr. Murphy declined […]

Michelle Dean: The problem, Armstrong says, was that because she felt so beholden to them, she was agreeing to do just about anything to keep the advertisers happy. I hate the title of this post, but it encapsulates so well what I talked about in the native advertising post. It’s not that people who do […]

Some great responses here to my native advertising post from Alvaro Serrano, well worth the read.

DHH with some interesting thoughts on Evernote and Dropbox: Both Evernote and Dropbox are facing increasing indifference from customers and competition from simply Good Enough features in someone else’s more complete offering. “You’re a feature, not a product”, as Steve Jobs famously dismissed Dropbox (see The case against Dropbox and Evernote, The First Dead Unicorn […]

Shawn Blanc: The way you default to concentrating when you are doing something enjoyable can give you some insight into how you may best be able to concentrate when doing all of your work.

It’s not a solution to any advertiser problems and instead will introduce a whole new world of trouble.

Steven Aquino: Therein lies the rub. For as much as I adore the MacBook, the problem is that it’s still a laptop. In my experiences with laptops, I’ve found that their form factor works against me, accessibility-wise. As someone with low vision, I often need to get super close to the screen in order to […]

Now that we know which content blockers to use, we better understand what they are doing.

Dan and Tom are friends of the site, but regardless of that — this looks like an awesome product. I sure hope it gets made.

Great post.

Peace, 1Blocker, and Purify will save you the most bandwidth.

DHH: The natural response to having your livelihood threatened is universally to FREAK OUT. It doesn’t matter if you’re a French farmer or cabbie or if you’re an internet writer or publisher.