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Year: 2016

  • The Pok3r

    A grown up version of the Poker II, and so much more.

    Published December 8, 2016
  • My ‘he will keep telling other people about this stuff’ Gift List

    I mean, this is a gift list, there’s not much more to say.

    Published December 7, 2016
  • United Airlines will charge extra fee for use of overhead bins

    United has a new ticket fare, where no luggage is included in the price (except what fits at your feet). If you want overhead bin space, or to check, you pay. I actually love this, though I would much rather checked luggage be free and overhead charged for everyone. If you have been on a […]

    Published December 6, 2016
  • Basic Privacy

    Quincy Larson: To be clear, everything I recommend here is 100% free and 100% legal. If you bother locking your doors at night, you should bother using encryption. It’s a good set of first steps to take. I am curious how many people use Signal over iMessage… even I don’t use Signal for any messages […]

    Published December 6, 2016
  • Analyzing How People Type

    Pretty neat research looking into how people type, and how that impacts typing speed. I’d love to see more done with this research — and across keyboard types.

    Published December 5, 2016
  • Twitterrific Gets Better

    John Voorhees: Center Stage is great for casual browsing of media in your timeline, but I expect I will use it most at events like WWDC. When I’m in San Francisco for Apple’s developer conference, I don’t want to miss friends’ photos and videos of the event, but I also don’t have time to read […]

    Published December 5, 2016
  • iPad Productivity Report – 12/5/2016

    A year of being iPad only, and iPad ergonomics.

    Published December 5, 2016
  • Misen

    It’s a solid knife, but nothing revolutionary.

    Published December 2, 2016
  • The Compass 1 versus Compass 2

    This new stand is a piece of shit.

    Published November 30, 2016
  • iPad-only: Month One

    Matt Gemmell shares another great thought about the iPad as a computer: You grab the actual tool itself, and you’re away. It doesn’t care that it’s actually a computer. I’m not sure it even really knows. Really well put. When your computer is just a glass slab with insane battery life, it basically becomes whatever […]

    Published November 29, 2016
  • Clarks Desert Boots

    I mean they’re boots, and a quite like them.

    Published November 29, 2016
  • iPad Productivity Report – 11/28/2016

    Can your relatives work from an iPad, a flowchart for iPad selections, and cellular or not?

    Published November 28, 2016
  • Android Encryption Woes

    Matthew Green: On the other hand, you might notice that this is a pretty goddamn low standard. In other words, in 2016 Android is still struggling to deploy encryption that achieves (lock screen) security that Apple figured out six years ago. And they’re not even getting it right. That doesn’t bode well for the long […]

    Published November 25, 2016
  • Ive at Apple

    John Gruber’s stance on Ive’s role at Apple, which is apparently a thing people are worried about: I think if you want to argue that Ive is one step out the door at Apple, you also have to argue that he’s one step out the door of being a designer. That doesn’t sound right to […]

    Published November 22, 2016
  • The Wrist

    What belongs on your wrist: Apple Watch, or watch? I say watch.

    Published November 22, 2016
  • iPad Productivity Report – 11/21/2016

    Which iPad, how’s the Pok3r, and reader questions.

    Published November 21, 2016
  • Outlier Strongworks

    These are replacing my jeans.

    Published November 16, 2016
  • Feeling Hamstrung

    John Gruber on preferring a Mac to iPad: I think I’m more productive on a Mac than I am on an iPad. I can’t prove it, but even if I’m wrong, the fact that I feel like it’s true matters. I always feel slightly hamstrung working on an iPad. I never do on a Mac […]

    Published November 16, 2016
  • The iPhone 7 Plus is my only computer

    Justin Blanton: Much of what makes this possible is that I can delegate in one way or another most of what I think of, and can get away with being extremely terse in my emails. At this stage of my career my day-to-day job requires minimal work-product; if I was coding all day, designing websites, […]

    Published November 16, 2016
  • When traveling, my iPad is essential and my Mac is the add-on

    As a follow-up to my member’s post this week, here’s an article where Jason Snell better articulates what he still needs a Mac for: It’s all gotten a lot better, and for maybe 90 percent of what I need to do, my iPad Pro can do it–in many cases as good or better than my […]

    Published November 15, 2016
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