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Month: January 2017

  • Introducing Linea

    Anyone who’s worked at a whiteboard knows that it’s a great place to experiment with ideas. Being able to quickly get rid of mistakes is just as important as capturing a thought. You know your fingers will be dirty at the end of a good session. You can snag Linea here. It’s a really well […]

    Published January 31, 2017
  • Check If Your Netgear Router is also Vulnerable to this Password Bypass Flaw

    Swati Khandelwal: This is the second time in around two months when researchers have discovered flaws in Netgear routers. Just last month, the US-CERT advised users to stop using Netgear’s R7000 and R6400 routers due to a serious bug that permitted command injection. I love the new Netgear routers, but I wouldn’t use one at […]

    Published January 31, 2017
  • Democrats boycott hearings of two cabinet nominees, demand the truth

    Laurel Raymond reporting on the reaction to Democrats delaying nominations: “We did not inflict this kind of obstructionism on President Obama,” said Sen. Pat Toomey (R-PA), one of the other two senators in the room. Toomey labeled the Democrats’ boycott “a completely unprecedented level of obstruction. This is not what the American people expect of […]

    Published January 31, 2017
  • Washington State AG Filing Suit Against Immigration Ban

    Jim Brunner: State Attorney General Bob Ferguson said he will file a federal lawsuit Monday seeking to invalidate key provisions of President Trump’s executive order temporarily barring all refugees and immigration by citizens of seven majority Muslim countries. I’ve been particularly proud of how Washington State politicians are reacting to Trump. From the Governor, to […]

    Published January 30, 2017
  • Where your elected officials stand on Trump’s immigration order and Cabinet picks

    Philip Bump: My colleague Aaron Blake has a running tally of where Republican members of Congress stand on the most immediately controversial of those issues: the immigration travel ban. We’re going to take that a step further. Using the Sunlight Foundation’s tool to identify legislators by Zip codes, we’re detailing where the people who represent […]

    Published January 30, 2017
  • iPad Productivity Report — 1/30/17

    Managers, why aren’t you using an iPad Pro already?

    Published January 30, 2017
  • Introducing The Trump Score

    Aaron Bycoffe: The Trump score is a simple percentage showing how often a senator or representative supports Trump’s positions. To calculate it, we add the member’s “yes” votes on bills that Trump supported and his or her “no” votes on bills that Trump opposed and then divide that by the total number of bills the […]

    Published January 30, 2017
  • Trump’s Muslim Ban Isn’t Just Inhumane—It’ll Make America Dumber

    One thing people seem to have missed is that “make American great again” doesn’t mean the same thing to Trump as it does to literally anyone else in the world. This is just the tip of the iceberg.

    Published January 30, 2017
  • President Trump, we know what you’re up to

    Michael Nutter: We see all of these purposely hurtful, distracting and egomaniacal tactics for what they are — publicly available literature would indicate that you may apparently be displaying signs of malignant narcissism and narcissistic leadership . Apparently?

    Published January 30, 2017
  • Trial Balloon for a Coup?

    This is terrifying. And no, it’s not talking about removing power from fuckface.

    Published January 30, 2017
  • Textastic 6

    Quick note about a great app.

    Published January 27, 2017
  • The Life-Changing Magic of Doomsday Prepping

    This isn’t the crazy Silicon Valley prepped post everyone has been sharing, no this is a far more realistic take on the matter. Michael McGrath for GQ on his Bug-Out-Bag: My BOB organizes my anxiety; it gives shape and focus to my dread. It reminds me not to take things for granted, and underlines the […]

    Published January 27, 2017
  • Protest Works. Trump’s Meltdown Proves It.

    Jamelle Bouie: This isn’t just cause for schadenfreude; it is an important revelation: constant, high-profile criticism works. Protest works. Yep, you should see my two year old freak the fuck out when I just keep telling her “no”.

    Published January 25, 2017
  • Improving OmniOutliner on iOS

    My love note to the future of OmniOutliner.

    Published January 25, 2017
  • It Was Not A Great Start to the Week for My iPad

    Oh, the frustration is real.

    Published January 24, 2017
  • The Omni Group in 2017

    Ken Case: One of the ways in which we can do that is to improve the way we interact with the apps to have a more efficient user experience. For example, we can make better use of iPad Pro’s larger screen by replacing some of the popovers in our interface with slide-in panels on the […]

    Published January 24, 2017
  • OmniFocus Users

    Marius Masalar on OmniFocus users: The second group of people manage their tasks like monks manage their religion. Completing tasks is almost an unhappy occurence for them, because the more they get done, the less they have to tag, file, order, annotate, schedule, and otherwise micromanage. As far as I can tell, this second group […]

    Published January 24, 2017
  • DU/ER 5 Pocket A/C Pants

    Supremely comfortable pants.

    Published January 24, 2017
  • iPad Productivity Report — 01/23/17 🔒

    I really want that Westworld tablet/phone thing. Also some follow up on Workflow.

    Published January 23, 2017
  • Full Time VPN

    Protecting your privacy with full time VPN, and a massive amount of annoyances.

    Published January 20, 2017
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