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- RAW iPhone Photo Apps
- The Nock Lanier – Initial Thoughts
- Thoughts on the iPhone Upgrade Program, and Buying iPhones in General
- iOS 10 is A Major Shift for iOS
- Apple of the Future
- Just Glass
- So This Thing About Files on iOS
- Fastmail, end of an era
August 2016
July 2016
- The New Desktop Linux
- Setting up My iOS Only Environment
- State of Desktop iPadding
- Traveling Light: Merino Ankle Socks
- Traveling Light: Warm Weather Gear
- Multitasking and Mental Acuity
- The Arcido Bag Review
- Dividing the Work Between Two iPads
- The iPad Pro 9.7″ Smart Keyboard Cover
- Morning Brain Dump
June 2016
- Comparing iPad Pros
- Finding a Good Apple Pencil Handwriting Note App
- The Primary OS
- Aer Travel Pack
- GORUCK GR Echo
- Traveling Light: Packing It All Up
- Traveling Light: Everything Else
- The Great Content Blocker Showdown
- iOS 10 Security Wishlist
- Traveling Light: Shoes
- Heading to the Coffee Shop
- Crafting My Home Office
May 2016
- Traveling Light: Pants
- Traveling Light: Electronics
- Traveling Light: Dress Shirts
- Membership Drive & Giveaway
- A Couple Great Non-Travel Clothing Options
- Damned if They Do, Damned if They Don’t
- Traveling Light: Undershirts
- New Yorker App and News Apps
- Traveling Light: Jackets
- Traveling Light: Toiletries
April 2016
March 2016
- Tom Bihn’s Sprout Backpack: A Review
- Tomoe River Paper
- The Astonishing File System
- It’s Not About the Tools
- Two iPads Pro
- Going All GORUCK
- The GORUCK GR2
- Two Ulysses “Problems” People Have
- Ulysses Mobile
- Power of Medium
February 2016
January 2016
- On Your Cute Release Notes
- Building a Newsletter With Ulysses
- Why iOS is Compelling
- Moving to 2Do
- Slicks Travel System
- The Better iPad Pro Apps
- Lodinatt Backpack and Shoulder Bag
- Why Ulysses Is My App for Notes and Writing
- Incase City Compact Backpack
- Some Follow Up on Newsletters
- Looking Back to NaNoWrimo
December 2015
November 2015
- Full Time iPad Pro
- iPad Pro Bags
- iOS Shortcomings
- The Ever Resilient WordPress
- Needing Another iPad
- The Smart Keyboard
- The iPad Pro as an iPad
- Mysteries
- Which Do You Enjoy More?
- Apple Pencil
- My Cat
- Using iPad Pro as a Laptop Replacement
- On Mac Content Blockers
- Looking at the Better iPad Pro Apps
- Handwritten Notes
- Where did all the analytics go?
- Shooting at 35mm Only
- Get Your Sleep Now
- Designing the Front Page of Your Site
- Exposure versus Money
- Is Using iOS As Your Primary OS, Masochism?
- They Never Even Tried For Value
- Some Cheap Bluetooth Headphones
- I No Longer Backup, In the Traditional Sense
- A Smattering of iPad Pro Thoughts Twenty-Four Hours Later
- Slack is My World
- The Completionist
- Living with a 12” Screen
- My Love-Hate Relationship with ‘Hey, Siri’
- The Constant Thinning of Electronic Collections
- Flying with Toddlers
- IKEA Desk Lamp
- Tom Bihn Daylight Backpack
- The Netgear Nighthawk R7000
- Apple Watch Band Colors
- Tom Bihn Yeoman Duffel
- Who are you reading this for?
- Where in the House Am I?
- Fine Tuning Keyboards
- My NaNoWriMo Challenge
October 2015
September 2015
- The iPhone 6s Plus Video is Amazing
- Content Blockers Testing Update No. 334.71
- Native Advertising is a Bad Solution
- Ye Olde Content Blocking
- Saving 30% or More of Your Data Transfer With Content Blockers
- A Few More Thoughts on My Top Three Content Blockers
- Which iOS Content Blocker is the Fastest?
- I’ve seen the future, and I want it now
- Initial Thoughts: MacBook v. iPad Pro
- A Look at NetNewsWire 4
- Removing Mental Overhead on Your iPhone
August 2015
July 2015
June 2015
May 2015
April 2015
March 2015
February 2015
January 2015
December 2014
November 2014
October 2014
September 2014
August 2014
- The Design
- Dropbox is a Feature
- So That’s It Then
- Airmail for Mac
- The Fifth Downside
- Tragic Times in America
- SpamSieve
- ReFocus
- Patience and Details
- I Still Can’t Be Ok With Just My iPhone
July 2014
- Compassionate Tools
- Why Reviewing by Numbers is a Bullshit Practice and Needs to Stop
- We Really Can’t Have Nice Things
- For the Love of Gear
- On Hacking
- Chatting
- Working on the iPad
- Keyboard Maestro Macro: Time Zoner
- The E39 BMW M5
- Mobile First
- Smoothing my Workflow
- Indie Developers Get in Touch
- Summer Backpack Troubles
- On the Surface Pro 3
- A Desk of iPad
June 2014
- Facebook’s Explanation: We Wanted to Make Sure You Weren’t Turned Off By Facebook
- Seven Years of Magic
- Google I/O 2014 in Tweets
- Amazon’s Terrible Marketing
- Moving Back to OmniFocus
- Idea for a WordPress Plugin: Blogger Honesty
- Podcasting, Networks, and Audience Building
- My Favorite Device
- On Interruptions
- Testing Your Internet Speed with Keyboard Maestro
- Interruption Survey
- App.net Versus Twitter: The Real Deal
- LaunchBar 6
- Syndication and Theft
- What Task Management Apps Are Missing
- Unread for iPad
- Update on A6000 Post
- More Thoughts on Apple Search
- Two Days with the Sony A6000
- WWDC Around the Web
- Blixt for iPhone
- Changing Your Mind
- Changing the Game
- My 15,000 Words on Coming Back to Twitter
May 2014
- The Future of the Office Space
- After Google Bought Nest, It Removed One of the Company’s Biggest Competitors From Search Results – Kind Of
- The Split Screen iPad
- Reuters’ Bullshit Commuting Post
- Creating New OmniFocus Tasks with a Linked Email Message
- Design Changes
- The Surface and Windows 8 Problem
- Print Sale
- Why I Moved Back to Ulysses III
- Updates From the Past
- Roles of iPad
- The Best Camera
- Working with Flow
- Additional Fujifilm X-M1 Images
- Review: Fujifilm X-M1
April 2014
- What iOS RSS Readers are Missing
- Thoughts on Unread for RSS Reading
- Ulysses III, Version 1.2
- OmniOutliner 4
- Sketch 3
- Thoughts on Project Collaboration Apps
- Improving My Workflow: Desk
- Standing Desks: How to Get Going
- Updates to Writer Pro
- Replacing Flickr with 500px
- Lightroom mobile
- Deckset
- Choosing the Right Camera For The Job: Travel & Hiking
- The Email Scheduling
- Review: Fujifilm 56mm f/1.2 R
March 2014
- Using Keyboard Maestro To Tag Files in Mavericks
- Fast Mail and Loose Privacy
- Bag Cleansing
- The Misguided Don’t Host Your Own Email Argument
- The Multi-Screen Debate
- So, About Hosting Your Own Email
- The Impact of Losing of Steve Jobs
- Syncing 1Password with BitTorrent Sync
- The New Annoyance
- A Note About Transferring Media Temple Ownership
- Showing the Differences of Iridient versus Lightroom
- Why I Am So Hot on Fujifilm Right Now
- How Bad Are/Were iOS 7 Crashes?
- Review: Tom Bihn Founder’s Briefcase
- Should iOS7 Be an Embarrassment?
- A Couple More Fujifilm X-T1 Reviews
- Analysis: Fujifilm X-T1
- ‘The Best Utility Knife’
February 2014
- Quick Review: Tap & Dye Wrist Strap
- Jarvis Standing Desk
- Review: Ona Bowery
- The New Must Have Micro Four Thirds Lens
- Secure Messaging
- Cowork Spaces
- Notes on Fujifilm Lenses
- The Hospital ‘Go’ Bag For Dads (to be)
- Bad Weather Forecasting
- On the Demise of Editorially
- Things Parents Find Normal, Which Non-Parents Find Disgusting
- On Evil
- Confirm Your Email Subscription
- Leica X2
- Baby Girl
- Going In
- Really Really Simple RSS Synchronization
- Does syntax highlighting actually help?
January 2014
- Help Keep the Reviews Coming, A Plan
- The Fujifilm X-E2
- Micro Four-Thirds Gear for Sale
- Lightroom Workflow
- Bigger Sensors
- ‘Ad Blockers: A Solution or a Problem?’
- The NSA Director’s Lies
- GORUCK SK26 Second Opinion
- The Three Billion Dollar Question
- Camera Filters
- Selling My Canon Gear [Updated Pricing]
- Zappos Says Goodbye to Bosses
- ‘App Store ratings are broken, let’s get rid of them’
- When Anonymous Isn’t Really Anonymous
- Long Live the Camera
- Review: The Olympus OM-D E-M5
December 2013
- So You Thought DigitalOcean Was Great?
- Today in Misleading App Store Screenshots: FoxyLocks
- ‘Do You Want to Write?’
- Chill
- ‘”Patent Pending?” iA’s Militant Stance on Syntax Control in Writer Pro’
- Switching to GetFlow.com (So Long OmniFocus)
- Why Tech Podcasts Bother Me
- So This is Writer Pro
- NSA » Some Show With A Stop Watch » And, Well, Ben
- Why ‘Positive’ Reviews Are More Prevalent than Negative Reviews (Hint: $$$)
- Logitech Ultrathin Keyboard Cover for iPad Air
- Punishment vs. Rewards: App Store Reviews
- A Note About Old Pictures
- The Goruck GR1 Pictures
- ‘Cellphone data spying: It’s not just the NSA’
- ‘Tablets at Restaurants: Applebee’s, Chili’s Race to Eliminate Human Interaction’
- GORUCK GR1 Field Pocket
- ‘Touch ID’
- Goruck SK26, Travelling, and the Bag for Me
- Looking At Why Privacy Matters
November 2013
- The Blame Apple Game
- Tech Headlines That Could Be
- Switching to Android, A Practical Guide
- The Hub
- ‘Meet the Spies Doing the NSA’s Dirty Work’
- ‘Leaving Google Chrome: Why I’ve Returned to Safari’
- The Compact Toolkit
- DIY NSA
- Moving for the Sake of Moving
- The Sweet Setup
- Making Money From Copyrighted Work You Don’t Own
- Reversals and Arrogance
- ‘Use One Coin for All of Your Cards’
- ‘Americans’ Personal Data Shared With CIA, IRS, Others in Security Probe’
- WiFi Off
- A7 Speeds and Heat
- ‘Apple Maps: How Google Lost When Everyone Thought It Had Won’
- Scheming for Privacy and Security
- RAW Image Editing on the iPad
- Subsidized by Google
- ‘How the NSA Exposed the Media’s Biggest Bias’
- ‘How to Build an Audience in 743 Difficult Steps’
- Wherein I Post My ‘Highly’ Anticipated Thoughts on the iPad Air
- Shaming the U.S. One PDF at a Time
- Undershirts, Part Two: The Journey gets decidedly more expensive.
- Arming the TSA, and Not With Knowledge
- Let’s make it 2.0 so we can charge for it again.
- More Reasons to Hate Comcast
- Holy BIOS
- The Push
October 2013
- Fantastical 2 for iPhone
- The Ultimate EDC Pocket Knife
- iPad Air Reviews Are Out
- Speeding Up Touch ID
- Thats the Question Now, Isn’t it
- ‘iPad Mini for Content Creation’
- The iPad Air vs. iPad mini Retina
- ‘NSA Monitored Calls of 35 World Leaders After US Official Handed Over Contacts’
- Define Hypocrite For Me
- GPGTools
- Ulysses III v1.1
- ‘A Huge Regression’
- Software as a Feature
- OS X Mavericks
- TV Has Yet to Account for Reality
- There’s Going to Be a Lot of “New” News Outlets
- ‘Apple Patent on Touch Typing, Multitouch Upheld; Allows Ban on Most Androids’
- An Additional Thought on iMessage
- iMessage Privacy
- ‘Siri Response Times’
- ‘Twitter’s Theoretically Temporary URL Messaging Ban Due to Massive Wave of DM Spam’
- Weather Line
- GoDaddy Buys Media Temple
- ‘NSA Collects Millions of E-Mail Address Books Globally’
- Review: The CODE Keyboard
- ‘Why I Think Google’s Shared Endorsements Are a Good Thing for Social Media, Influencers and Consumers’
- ‘An Interesting iOS App Store Upgrade Example’
- ‘Why Microsoft Word Must Die’
- ‘Design Quality and Customer Delight as Sustainable Advantages’
- Touch ID Failures
- ‘Paid Apps Aren’t Dead — but They Are on Life Support’
- ‘Nest Launches Protect, a smoke/CO Detector’
- ‘Review: DSPTCH Sling and Wrist Straps’
- Jackass Release Notes of the Week
- Advertising Bastards
- “Offers in-App Purchases”
- ‘How the NSA Attacks Tor/Firefox Users With QUANTUM and FOXACID’
- ‘FastMail’s Servers Are in the US: What This Means for You’
- ‘Instagram Blog: Hey, You Want Ads? No? Too Bad.’
- iPhone Scanning
- ‘How a Purse Snatching Led to the Legal Justification for NSA Domestic Spying’
- ‘The Reign of Morons Is Here’
- 1Password 4 for Mac Is Here, Kind Of
- ‘Easily Obtained Subpoenas Turn Your Personal Information Against You’
- ‘Battle: Los Angeles’
- ‘Why It’s Time for Apple to Open FaceTime’
- ‘NSA Storing Internet Data, Social Networking Data, on Pretty Much Everybody’
September 2013
- Ignore the Fact that it Looks French
- To-Do Lists Don’t Work
- ‘Underscore Price Dynamics’
- ‘Keeping Your Laptop Plugged in All the Time Will Kill Its Battery Faster’
- Bags… Again
- ‘The Lawsuit Against Google for Email Scanning Will Go Forward’
- Regarding My ‘Ridiculous’ Assertion that RF is Not Wireless
- Editorially, Writing, And Being Boring
- Marco’s Keyboard
- ‘Google to Encrypt ALL Keyword Searches: Say Goodbye to Keyword Data’
- ‘On the New Simplenote’
- ‘Chaos Computer Club Breaks Apple TouchID’
- Touch ID is the Future
- LinkedIn Scumbags
- Identically Sized Circles
- OmniFocus 2 for iPhone
- Begin
- ‘iOS 7 Locks Stolen iPhones to Prevent Resale’
- A Few Thoughts on iOS 7 That Others May Not Touch Enough On and Thus Will Make Me Cranky If I Don’t Post About Them
- Copy-Catting
- Perfect Weather
- ‘What Is Apple’s New Secure Enclave and Why Is It Important?’
- Jumping the Gun
- The Best V-Neck Undershirt, Part One
- ‘Former NSA and CIA Director Says Terrorists Love Using Gmail’
- Touchy ID
- Dropbox Opens Your Files
- ‘NSA Shares Raw Intelligence Including Americans’ Data With Israel’
- ‘Third Suspicious Package Attributed to Ex-TSA Screener’
- The Two Best Things about the iPhone 5S
- Editorially
- ‘How the NSA Spies on Smartphones Including the BlackBerry’
- The Apple Store Experience
- ‘Obama Administration Had Restrictions on NSA Reversed in 2011’
- ‘Privacy’
- ‘1Password and the Crypto Wars’
- ‘I Am the Other’
- ‘Trials and Upgrades Are Still Dead’
- Why Break Encryption, When You Can Build a Backdoor?
- ‘A Mockery of Whom?’
- ‘7 Billion Reasons to Say No’
- The HP LaserJet Pro 200 Color M251NW
- PayPal Freezes Mailpile Campaign Funds
- A Well Constructed Opinion
- ‘Tor Is Less Anonymous Than You Think’
- Meet: The Hemisphere Project
- Microsoft’s Illusion
- Goodbye Dropbox
August 2013
- ‘Text a Driver in New Jersey, and You Could See Your Day in Court’
- Gadget Site Reviews
- Doing it Horizontally
- ‘How Many Leakers Came Before Snowden?’
- ‘What Happens When You Stand for 2 Years’
- Secure Archiving, and Fast Searching of Email
- The NSA Data Mining Conundrum
- ‘Researchers Reverse-Engineer the Dropbox Client’
- ‘Obama’s Bluff’
- ‘OmniKeyMaster: Upgrade Pricing for Mac App Store Customers’
- ‘300 Days With the iPad Mini’
- ‘Square v. Portrait’
- ‘U.S. Enables Chinese Hacking of Google’
- ‘In Surveillance Era, Clever Trick Enhances Secrecy of iPhone Text Messages’
- ‘Why Are There So Few Women Programmers?’
- ‘Fukushima: Vast Amounts of Radioactive Water Creeping Towards Sea’
- Paul Thurrott’s Take
- ‘Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to Retire Within 12 Months’
- ‘In Praise of Laziness’
- ‘German Government Warns Key Entities Not to Use Windows 8’
- One Year of App.net
- ‘Zuckerberg Generously Allows World’s Poor to Fuel Facebook Profits’
- ‘The NSA, Germany, and Journalism’
- The Washington Post is Not Doing Anyone Any Favors
- ‘Artificial Intelligence and What Computers Still Don’t Understand’
- ‘Cameron Proves Greenwald Right’
- Elementary OS
- NSA Compliance
- Keyboard Maestro Macro: Attach and Send
- ‘Shift the Evilness’
- ‘Secure’ Email is the Wrong Approach
- ‘Google: Gmail Users Shouldn’t Expect Email Privacy’
- Deserving Attention
- Android Niceties
- ‘A Low Point in Barack Obama’s Presidency’
- A Democracy Doesn’t Work if the Laws are Secret
- Time to Host Your Own Email?
- Snowden on Lavabit
- Silent Circle Also Shuts Down
- Lavabit Shuts Down
- ‘Change the Airport Security Mindset’
- The DEA’s Collection of American Phone Logs
- ‘Chrome’s Insane Password Security Strategy’
- Dialogue — Handsfree Calling Through Your Mac
- ‘The Government Reveals Their Quantum Internet’
- ‘Delight Is in the Details’
- SearchWP
- ‘Encryption Keys and Surveillance’
- Why Easy Tap Zones Matter
- Three Hop Analysis
- ‘Make Text More Readable With Solarized and Cousine’
- ‘NSA’s Internet Taps Can Find Systems to Hack, Track VPNs and Word Docs’
- Quip
- ‘Why Today’s Top Apps Are Putting You on a Wait List’
- 24
- Google + Coffee
July 2013
- Tip of the Iceberg
- Meet XKeyscore
- Calca
- Keyboard Maestro Macro to Solve Math in Your Text Editor
- Perfect TablePlan
- ‘Mavericks and Tagging’
- I’m Picturing LCARS
- Amazon’s Relationship
- ‘Lawmakers Who Upheld NSA Phone Spying Received Double the Defense Industry Cash’
- Why You Need to be Supporting This Site, or This Is Your Chance to Prove Independent Media is the Future
- ‘Apps Would Disclose Collection of Data’
- ‘Microsoft Word Problems.’
- ‘UK Porn Filter Will Censor Other Content Too’
- ‘Searching the Curatorium’
- ‘Jeff Daniels’ Monologue From The Newsroom’
- ‘The (I)Message We Crave’
- ‘The Northwest Has the Best Summer in the Nation. But Why?’
- ‘The Price of Hypocrisy’
- ‘NSA Says It Can’t Search Its Own Emails’
- ‘Court: Chevron Can Seize Americans’ Email Data’
- ‘Browser Tabs and Battery Life’
- ‘What Happens When We Actually Catch Edward Snowden?’
- The 2013 Brooks Review Membership Drive
- Switching From Gmail to FastMail
- ‘Samsung Galaxy S 4 Active’
- ‘The Fourth Agenda’
- ‘Obama Wins Back the Right to Indefinitely Detain Under NDAA’
- ‘Police Documents on License Plate Scanners Reveal Mass Tracking’
- Three Hops
- Google + Passwords = Plaintext
- ‘Cloud.typography vs. Typekit’
- ‘The NSA Wants America’s Most Powerful Corporations to Be Dependent on It’
- Amazon Item of the Week: Lubricant
- Transporter
- ‘Cancer of Compromise’
- ‘Changing the Creepy Guy Narrative’
- ‘Your iOS Device isn’t as Encrypted as You Think’
- Keyboard Maestro Macro: Based on my Wifi, Do This
- Johnnie Walker “Game Changer” on Vimeo
- ‘The NSA’s Surveillance Is Unconstitutional’
- Keyboard Maestro Macro: Quoting a Website in Markdown
- ‘One Microsoft’
- Fresh Fonts
- ‘How Cryptography Is a Key Weapon in the Fight Against Empire States’
- Heml.is
- ‘Geoff Dyer, Zoe Heller, Gary Shteyngart on Sitting vs. Standing Desks’
- ‘Coffee Shops Look to Oust Laptop Hobos’
- ‘So, You Want to Hide From the NSA?’
- PRISM Break
- Reading List vs. Instapaper
- Your “Open” News
- ‘The Price of Amazon’
- ‘Twitter Wants to Start Tracking You on the Web, Here’s How to Opt-Out’
- A Few Short Thoughts on Some New-ish Apps
- The Email Charter
- ‘This Is You on Smiles’
- Freedom
- ‘Swear Words Old and New’
- ‘PRISM: The Amazingly Low Cost of Using BigData to Know More About You in Under a Minute’
- OmniFocus for iPhone Redesigned
- ‘Motorola Is Listening’
- 'Mavericks' New Wave'
June 2013
- Migrating from Google Reader
- ‘U.S. Bugged EU Offices, Computer Networks’
- ‘NSA Slides Explain the PRISM Data-Collection Program’
- ‘U.S. Army Restricts Access to ‘The Guardian’ Website’
- ‘Where Will Google Reader Traffic Go?’
- ‘Phoenix Jones – a Real Life Superhero’
- ‘Packing the Smart Alec for a Hike’
- ‘iOS 7 as Defense’
- ‘Feed Wrangler’s Smart Streams’
- ‘NetNewsWire: Just What You Wanted’
- ‘Snowden, Through the Eyes of a Spy Novelist’
- ‘Can Apple Read Your iMessages?’
- More on NSA/PRISM and “Freedom”
- ‘Still Trust DuckDuckGo?’ Yep.
- ‘Use of Tor and E-Mail Crypto Could Increase Chances That NSA Keeps Your Data’
- Encrypting Stuff Against Starbucks Hacker Bob
- ‘Kickstarter’s Apology’
- Why the Kickstarter Apology Isn’t Good Enough
- ‘The Snowden Principle’
- ‘Scanadu Scout, the First Medical Tricorder’
- ‘Has U.S. Started an Internet War?’
- ‘Kickstarter Allowed Funding for a Sexual Assault Manual’
- If You Think PRISM Doesn’t Matter Because You’ve Nothing to Hide, Read This Now
- ‘Remembering James Gandolfini and Tony Soprano’
- Privacy, Secrecy, the Web, and Ads
- Sky Guide
- Choice Quotes from More PRISM and NSA Articles
- The Battery Life Race
- ‘A Week With iOS Seven’
- Chatology
- ‘Apple’s Commitment to Customer Privacy’
- ‘Real’
- ‘NSA Admits Listening to U.S. Phone Calls Without Warrants’
- Clear Organizer Pouches from Tom Bihn Make Great iPad Mini Stashes
- ‘Stockman Requests Subpoena of NSA’s White House, IRS Phone Logs’
- ‘Senators Skip Classified Briefing on NSA Snooping to Catch Flights Home’
- ‘Secret Court Ruling Put Tech Companies in Data Bind’
- Woe Ye Metadata
- Air to Breathe
- ‘Prosecuting Snowden’
- ‘The View-Master User Interface’
- ‘Fertile Ground’
- The WWDC Keynote
- ‘Here Come the Encryption Apps’
- ‘The Problem With Metadata’
- ‘The NSA’s Dragnet’
- ‘U.S., British Intelligence Mining Data From Nine U.S. Internet Companies in Broad Secret Program’
- Vesper Take Two
- Keyboard Maestro, Markdown Links, and Ulysses III
- ‘TSA Drops Plan to Allow Airline Passengers to Carry Small Knives, Bats, Golf Clubs on Planes’
- ‘NSA Collecting Phone Records of Millions of Verizon Customers Daily’
- Why Paywalls and Big Media Don’t Work as Well as a Reasonable Person Might Assume that they Should Work
- Eavesdropping
- Mac mini Server
- ‘Sent From Byword’
- The Banality of ‘Don’t Be Evil’
- Byword For iOS 2.0
- Felix for App.net (iPad Edition)
- For the Love of the Drive
- Radiator Whiskey – Brooks Review Meetup (Update)
May 2013
- On Writing
- Save Podcasting! Help the Electronic Frontier Foundation
- Taste Testing Large v. Small Ice Cubes
- ‘The Rise of the Mobile-Only User’
- How to End a Press Release
- ‘Big Ice Cubes’
- How Yahoo! is Trying to Get on My Shit List
- Dressing Formally
- Serephine
- ‘Welcome to the One-Screen World’
- ‘Designing Blogs for Readers’
- Keyboard Maestro 6
- Congress Sends a Letter
- ‘Tumblr. + Yahoo! = !!’
- ‘Spelling Alphabet’
- ‘Welcome to Google Island’
- 22 Workplace Tips We Learned From The Office
- ‘Going Native’
- Some ‘New’ Weather Apps
- ‘Evil Eric Schmidt’
- ‘Due.app and Reminder Notifications’
- Someone Should Write a Mail.app Plugin
- Naked Wordpress
- ‘Elegy for the Text Box’
- Amazon Coins
- ‘Reflections on Google Glass’
- The Missouri Drone Journalism Program
- App Pricing
- Navigation Help
- ‘I Hate Dogs’
- Paragraphs
- Kit & Kiya
- Is it a beach ball, or a pinwheel?
- ‘Social’
- W3 Total Failure
- ‘Please Don’t Buy an SLR if You’ll Only Use the Kit Lens’
- The Deciders
- Limitless Surveillance
- Calendaring on the Mac
- Gmail’s Design
- Transporter
- Quietly Admitting
April 2013
- ‘Do US Cities Need More Surveillance Cameras?’
- Betaworks
- ‘This is freedom’
- The Ego-Boosting-Wow-WWDC-Sure-Sold-Out-Fast Meetup (Seattle)
- Stark Contrast
- Twitter Music
- Sunstroke 1.4
- Drafts 3: One Hell of a Notepad
- Horizon 2.0
- Status Board
- ‘Are You the Customer?’
- Beating the Skeuomorph Drum
- ‘Expunging Google’
- News Is Bad for You
- ‘You’d be better off cleaning your gutters’
- Helioslight: Most Powerful Programmable Keychain Flashlight
- In the End, I am Just Not That Nerdy
- ‘How Large Will the Paid Feed Reader Market Be’
- Familiar
- ‘Battery-holding Tube Area’
- ‘Where’s the Fire?’
- A Mac Consultant
- New and Shiny
- New Backpacks
- LCD Font Smoothing
- The Private Network Effect
- ReadKit
- ‘How a Banner Ad for H&R Block Appeared on apple.com’
- ‘Web Privacy, and How Consumers Let Down Their Guard’
- Start Paying
- The Pants Defense of Texas
- ‘As Web Search Goes Mobile, Competitors Chip at Google’s Lead’
- The Weak Gesture
- Ulysses III
- ‘My Divorce From Google – One Year Later’
- Black Maple Hill
- ‘What Does a Tablet Do to the Child’s Mind?’
- ‘The Life and Times of a TV Show Piracy Release Group’
March 2013
- ‘The Pebble’
- ‘Why Developers Shouldn’t Use iCloud Syncing’
- ‘Email Signoffs: End Them Forever.’
- Forecast.io
- More Anti-Google Services
- ‘Google’s Google Problem’
- You Can’t Quit, I Dare You
- ‘Blocked Sites Is Discontinued’
- Maybe
- ‘Rego, the New Place for All Your Places’
- Developer Hostility Towards Users
- The Time I Was Wrong*
- mtrostyle.net
- ‘Apple Is Losing the War – of Words’
- How Mailbox Can Make Me A User
- Blindly Drinking the Kool-Aid
- When Even Billions of Dollars Won’t Support Free
- Bye Google Reader
- No One Should Agree With You
- Bullshit Wait-listed Apps
- ‘Why I Like DST’
- Keyboard Maestro Macro: Publishing to WordPress from iA Writer (kind of)
- Keeping Up-to-Date with Apps
- ‘Umbrella Lottery’
- I did it with the whiffle ball bat
- TypeEngine
- ‘It’s Time to Legalize Cell Phone Unlocking’
- Your Goal Should Be to Almost Finish
February 2013
- Adventures in Privacy: Google Edition (Part II)
- Stop It, Stop It Right Now
- ‘Scheduling Do Not Disturb’
- Getting Help
- Where’s the Style?
- The Free App.net Hoopla
- Breaking: Twitter Users Actually Like Ads
- ‘10 Steps to Prototyping With POP’
- Yonanas
- ‘An Unconventional Way to Comment Your Excel Formulas’
- Write for iOS
- The Power and Fragility of Excel Driven Business
- Talking Publishing with Marco
- The CMS War
- While I Was Out
- Respond To This
- Empty
- ‘Google “flaw” puts users’ details on display’
- Giving App.net A Try
- Why Mailbox Won’t Fix Your Email
- Why Do Dogs Bark?
- A Tattered Line of String — The Postal Service
- Mine
- Mentally Fatigued
- Horizon Calendar
- Time for a Forward Thinking CMS
- Obomba
- Some PDF Tips
- The Dell Debacle
- ‘The Missing Workflow’
- ‘We Should Only Work 25 Hours a Week’
January 2013
- BlackBerry 10
- ‘Facebook Isn’t Worth It’
- ‘Apple Has a Porn Problem, and It’s About to Get Worse’
- The Holy Grail
- ‘Who is She?’
- The HiRise Stand for MacBooks
- ‘Dropbox Selective Sync’
- “Analyst”
- ‘Depression and Me’
- ‘Lame Duck Board’
- ‘How to Pair Socks From a Pile Efficiently?’
- Fatal Design Flaw of the Workspaces
- ‘Why the Fuck?’
- APPS Act
- ‘Wouldn’t Have Acted’
- Some Winter Desktops
- Archived Data, In the Cloud
- Designing Technology
- More Data Detectors Please
- False Balance
- “Open in” Is Not the Solution
- The Dyneema Smart Alec
- Keyboard Maestro as OmniFocus’s Little Helper
- Mobile News Reading and Delivery
- Microsoft’s Office Suite and Printers Sitting in a Tree…
- The Future of Design
- The Apps that Stuck in 2012: iPad Edition
- The Apps that Stuck in 2012 — iPhone Edition
- VIPR Teams
- ‘Apple’s QA Guys Are Sleeping’
- American Internet
- App Silos
- But These Ads are Pretty Ads
- Don’t Call it a Paywall
- One Computer
December 2012
- Follow-Up On Black iPhone 5 Nicking
- Quote of the Day: Terence Eden
- ‘Why I’m Quitting Instagram’
- ‘Keyboard Maestro Macro: Append to Evernote Note’
- Delay Standby
- Updated Items for the week ending December 28, 2012
- Thirty
- Keyboard Maestro Macro / AppleScript: Mail This Selected Item
- The Goruck GR1
- Updated Items for the week of December 21, 2012
- Keyboard Maestro Macro: All Caps to Title Case
- ‘The Answer Is Just a Click Away’
- Moving Out of the Big City
- Lifting the Limitations
- ‘What Instagram’s New Terms of Service Mean for You’
- A Few Thoughts on Dropbox, Apple, and Linchpins
- ‘Answers About Android’
- ‘Recognizing We Have a Problem’
- ‘The Web We Lost’
- A TSA Christmas Special
- ‘I’m Sticking With Apple Maps’
- Trade Unions of America
- Making Money on the Web: Ads versus Paywall
- ‘Pageview Journalism’
- The Most Interesting Section of the Fortune Interview of Larry Page
- More on Retina Displays and How Disruptive They Are
- Keyboard Maestro Macro: Append to Quote File
- Skydrive and Verbs
- ‘Why I’m writing on the iPad’
- ‘T-Mobile USA Plans to Ditch Phone Subsidies’
- ‘Apple and Twitter’
- The Surface Solution
- ‘iOS Keyboard Has Room for Improvement’
- The Periodical Co
- StickNFind
- Laker Compendium
- ‘The TSA as We Know It Is Dead’
- The Sketchnote Handbook
- The Search For the Best Everyday Pocket Knife (Part Two)
- ‘It Wasn’t Always Like This’
November 2012
- The Design of a Site Meant to be Read
- Fantastical for iPhone
- Keyboard Maestro Macro: Docu Store
- A Better Way to Append the Date with Keyboard Maestro
- Newsstand, Publishing, Apps, and Developers
- Some Pocket Knife Follow-Up
- The Snowball
- iTorch Pro Flashlight
- An Alternative Take on the Hard Graft Flat Pack
- ‘Bond Watch’
- Ben’s Affiliate Linked Gift Guide for 2012
- Keyboard Maestro Macro: Appending a Date to a File Name
- ‘Airport Security Is Killing Us’
- The Yoga 13
- ‘Tom’s Smart Alec Design Update’
- Systematic Destruction of Twitter
- ‘A Guide to Legal Marijuana Use in Seattle’
- ‘Twitter’s Descent Into the Extractive’
- The Future of Search
- The Search For the Best Everyday Pocket Knife (Part One)
- ‘U.S. Postal Service Reports $15.9 Billion Loss’
- The Keyboard Maestro Basics
- Keyboard Maestro, Your Savior
- ‘Rampant Abuse of Push Notifications’
- Microsoft’s Guy
- ‘Hanging Up on iPhone’
- Self-Publishing
- Linked Lists
- Stuff in iOS 6 That Drives Me Nuts
- The FLOTE
October 2012
- What If, No That Couldn’t Happen… Could It?
- The Everyday Pocket Knife
- A Pain in My Chest
- Hard Graft Flat Pack Shore, for 15″ retina MacBook Pro
- “Curation”
- BusyCal 2
- The TBR Daily Summary Email
- Organizing an iPhone 5 Homescreen
- The Future Is Hypocrisy
- Update Your RSS Feed
- Thoughts on Roaming
- The Email Newsletter Brigade
- Beating a Dead Horse that Keeps Coming Back to Life
- CDMA versus GSM Call Quality
- The Gray
- Crossposting
- ‘Netbot: Tweetbot Reborn for App.net’
- Woz
- Whiny Things On App.net That Drive Me Nuts
- Pricing App.net
September 2012
- Assorted iPhone 5 Thoughts
- The Apple Weather App
- Note on RSS Feeds
- Why Your OS Name Matters
- Soulver is Amazing
- About Switching to Verizon
- Black 5 and Nicking
- Tip for Journalists
- Paywall Update
- Looking at iPhone
- Thoughts on Switching to Verizon from AT&T
- Apple’s Brand is Intertwined with iPhone Cameras and Microphones
- Ridiculous Statements from the Tech Press Regarding the iPhone 5, After it was Announced
- Belkin WeMo
- The Pricing of Subscriptions
- The Kickstarter Conundrum: Who’s Taking the Risk? You.
- Little Things: Photo Printing
August 2012
- This Week in TSA Bumbling
- Innovation, Patents, and Drugs (I Assume Samsung is on Drugs)
- The Amazon Retail Domination Strategy
- Why I Think This Win for Apple Is Good for Everyone
- Good Men Doing Nothing
- The Elevation Dock
- Deprecating @BenjaminBrooks
- Twitter’s API Changes
- Retina Font Choices
- The Redirect
- Finding a Good Flashlight App for the iPhone
- Jambox Speaker Shelf
- Galaxy Returns
- Trey’s Lightroom Presets
- Apple Branded Search
- The New Digg
- Quick RSS Feed Note
- Extending the Life of my G4 Mac mini
July 2012
- The Polarizing ‘New’ Apple Ads
- Reviewing S°lar, a Weather App
- Following Up On: ‘The Mac App Store’s Future of Irrelevance’
- ‘The Mac App Store’s Future of Irrelevance’
- Mountain Lion
- Raise Your Prices
- Photo Archiving and Remote Photo Libraries
- Automatically Clear the Full Log of Your Mac Download History
- On Paid Apps Being Acquired, Apps Abandoned
- The Nexus 7
- Announcing Two Members Only Features
- A One, Two Punch for Yahoo!
- Google, Mayer, and the Future
- Free App Idea: Open Road
- Tap! Magazine
- The New TBR Business Model
- Today, in RIM
- Is Retina a Pro Only Feature?
- The Elusive iPad ‘mini’
- ‘Corrupt App Store Binaries Crashing on Launch’
- Redux: Rules From a User to Software Developers
June 2012
- If You Use Two Macs and Dropbox to Sync Yojimbo…
- Google Glass and Reality
- (Poorly) Supporting Legacy Devices
- The Retina MacBook Pro: Sexy is Back
- My Nervous Mac Buying Spree
- Ballmer’s Rebound
- Little Thing: Desks
- Apple and Lights
- Assorted Thoughts on the Mac mini
- Reeder 3.0 for iPhone
- My One (and only) WWDC Post So That You Can Ignore it if You Want
- How the ‘Apple Will Update Every Mac at WWDC’ Rumor Could Easily Be True
- Little Thing: Wireless Routers
- Agenda 3.0
- Are We Using Geofencing Wrong?
- Little Thing: Device Chargers
May 2012
- It’s the Little Things
- Revamping iOS Multi-Tasking
- Survival Knives
- Where I Get an Arc90 Employee to Call me Dumb and Fox News in One Tweet
- An Important Update About Readlists
- The iBaby Monitor
- A New Service to Take Writer’s Content and Redistribute it as an eBook to the Web, Thus Avoiding Visiting the Writer’s Site
- Review: Bang On
- Review: Justnotes
- The Value of Ballmer
- The Best Diaper Bag
- iCloud is the Difference Between Great and Excellent
- Evernote’s Endgame
- ‘I Can’t Go For That’
- Updated Thoughts on the Panasonic GX1
- Taking a Cut
April 2012
- Gamification is for Dicks
- The Nest
- Dark Skies Ahead
- Ruffled Feathers
- I Am Condemning Free on Principle, So Should You
- ‘Why Airport Security Is Broken—and How to Fix It’
- Instagram’s Business Model
- Drafts for iOS
- Wait a CEO Said That?
- Obviousness vs. Tutorials
- Paper App
- Baseball Season
- State of the iPad App Store: Calendar Apps
- Anil Dash Calls Foul
- State of the App Store: Weather Apps
March 2012
- Reset to Default
- Modahaus Steady Stand
- Calendar Redux
- The Updated Ristretto from Tom Bihn
- Dictating to Your Mac
- Shit, Meet Fan
- An iPad Bar
- That Clicking Sound
- Blogging About Blogging
- You Can Sign-up, But You Can Never Leave
- Marketing Bullshit
- The Panasonic GX1
- Readability, Instapaper, My Hypocrisy, and Trust
- The Readability Fallacy
- Readability for iOS
February 2012
- Promoted Tweets in Twitter for iPhone
- My Thoughts About Different Tech Companies Over the Years
- ‘Mountain Lion Is Not More Like iOS’
- Friday Gripe: Redirections
- Clear
- Twittelator Neue for iPhone
- Some Thoughts on the Jawbone Era
- It’s About Trust and Apple Broke It
- What is the Everyman’s PC?
- Looking at the Wrong Specs
- Reviewing PDFPen for iPad
- Smart Alec Review: Part III
January 2012
- You Don’t Say?
- Use Launch Center to Go Directly to Adding a New Task in OmniFocus
- Do you have the paperback or the hardcover?
- The Google Privacy Changes
- Let’s Ditch Google for DuckDuckGo
- Ultrabook Rules
- If I Were CEO
- The Apps that Stuck in 2011 — iPad Edition
- Apple Aiming at Kindle Singles
- The Apps that Stuck in 2011 — iPhone Edition
- The Picture Says It All
- Headphones
- Responding to the Dynamic Duo
- Quick Thought: Dedicated Instapaper Device
- Tech Headlines
- The Copycat Business Plan
- iPad + Keyboard or MacBook Air?
December 2011
- ‘It’s Time to Give GoDaddy a Break’
- Smart Alec Review: Part II
- Microsoft’s iOS Apps
- The Failed Promise of ‘The Verge’
- Backpacks and Messenger Bags
- Time’s Non-Award-Award
- What Twitter for iPhone 4.0 and Twitter’s New-New Design Tells Current Users
- Personal Activity Monitors
- The Arctic Butterfly
- Finally, Finally, Finally
- Personal Information Tracking via The Fitbit
- Some Knife Follow-Up
November 2011
- The SOG Fielder
- The Flying with Electronics Survey Says…
- The Computer-less Scanner: Doxie Go
- Instacast HD, Your Podcast Dashboard
- Apps are Critical
- Readability and Collection of Money for Others
- A Review of “the First Serious iPad Competitor”, aka the Kindle Fire
- Secret Labs
- The Problem with Siri Downtime
- Branding
- The Mac Experience and the Mac Pro Experience
- Mophie Juice Pack Reserve
- Apple Needs a Touch More Search
October 2011
- Siri, Reminders and OmniFocus
- 3G MacBook Follow-up
- Meet Mike Elgan: An Idiot
- The Argument for 3G MacBooks
- This Occupy Wall Street Stuff
- My Continued Wallet Saga
- Miscellaneous Thoughts on the New iPhone 4S
- An Instapaper 4.0 Review with Some Insight from Marco Arment
- AT&T iPhone 4S Activation Woes
- OTA Everything
- The Annoyment Center
- The Syndicate
- To Inspiration
- It’s Cheaper to Change Carriers for AT&T iPhone 4 Users, Than Upgrade to the iPhone 4S on AT&T
- The Apple Social Network
September 2011
- Amazon and Apple
- The Small Monitor Experiment
- On the Assumption that a Pundit Knows What Apple “Needs”
- Hip-Checked
- Meticulous
- The Dosh 6-Card ‘Luxe’ Wallet
- Thoughts on Metro
- The Masked Social Network
- Death Spiral
- Fireballs and WordPress
- Tablets are Empowering Users
- CEOs, COOs, and CFOs
August 2011
- The Microsoft PC
- Code Editors for iPad: Textastic vs. Koder
- The Amazon/Kindle Tablet: Speculating on Speculation
- Some Apps I’m Playing With
- Mr. Chairman
- Mac Pro Fast
- Why Do People Buy iPads?
- What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
- Software Update Versus the Mac App Store
- Lion Is More Painful Than Vista? Hardly
- “Protecting the Ecosystem”
- MacBook Air SSD Benchmarks: 2010 vs 2010
- Facebook Messenger, SMS and iMessage
- “Unlimited” T-Mobile Plans
- Let’s Substitute iTunes Passwords for Passcodes on iOS
- Hourly Wages and App Pricing
- It Gets More Idiotic
- Digital Interruptions
- Buyer’s Remorse Over Windows
- Review: Sparrow
July 2011
- How I Evaluate and Decide to Purchase New iOS Apps
- Some Additional Lion Thoughts
- Time for the Big Cat
- Review: The All New Calvetica
- Patina
- Basecamp versus Google+?
- Thoughts on Goog+ After Using It
- Google+ and “Privacy”
- The “Cloud” and “Privacy”
- Review: Keyboard Maestro 5
June 2011
- The HP Camry
- Google + (-Me)
- Review: Moom
- Some 1Password Follow-up
- The ‘Mobile’ Web
- Review: Agenda
- Buying New Tech
- The “New” Nokia N9
- The Good, the Bad, the Ugly: iOS App Icons
- The Cable Internet Racket
- Dismissing iWeb
- Apple’s Magnum Opus
- Footnotes
- WWDC: The Big Stuff
- PayPal’s Missed Opportunities
- On Software Patents
May 2011
- Review: iA Writer for Mac
- Review: Worthwhile for iPad
- Like a Headless Chicken
- Site Navigation
- An Open Letter to Executives
- Mobile WordPress Blogging
- Quick Takes on Five Apps #13
- Apple’s Cloud Music Service
- Just Works
- On Dropbox Security
- Review: OmniOutliner for iPad
- Translation of FCC Commissioner Meredith Attwell Baker
- Quick Takes on Five Apps #12
- The Ballmer Days Are Over
- The New Yorker iPad App
- “Screwed” vs An Evolving Market
- Follow Me, Follow You on Twitter
- Interesting Things Microsoft Can Do With Skype
- The Myth of Profits
- You Can’t Replace Email if You Require Email
- Via
- Why the 13″ Air Is Better Than the 13″ Pro
- BlackDeath
- Thinking About Macs as Cars and Trying to Figure Out What the Hell You Should Buy
- “Less Software”
- Checking Off My ‘Bugs Me’ List
- What would you buy first?
- Fontcase 2.0
- It Was a Very Good Year
- “Blue da ba dee da ba di”
- Quick Takes on Five Apps #11
April 2011
- Ripping Open a Link-Bait Fool
- Speculating on Apple’s Traffic Database
- Answering Reader Questions About My MacBook Air
- iPhone Weather App Follow-Up
- Seasonality Go, Weather Done Better(ish)
- Finding a Good Weather App for the iPhone
- Turning Left
- Quick Takes on Five Apps #10
- Butcher’d Twitter-Tweetdeck Analysis
- Bullet Point
- Businessweek for iPad
- AppSuration and Unique Traits
- Quick Takes on Five Apps #9
- Don’t Mimic Real-World Interfaces
- OmniFocus Solarized Themes
- Welcome to the staticDimension
- Review: Notesy
- Quick Takes on Five Apps (#8)
- Rules From a User to Software Developers
- Snap Judgments
- A Successful Failure
- Quick Takes on Five Apps (#7)
- Hey, Thanks TiVo
- My Workflow from 5/23/06
- AntiTrusting
March 2011
- My iOS Wallpapers
- Homescreen Organization Methodology
- Why There Won’t Be an LTE iPhone This Year
- ⌘+1 (How I Blog with Keyboard Maestro and TextMate)
- Why Your App Name is Dumb
- Quick Takes on Five (Perhaps, Three) Apps #6
- Twi$$er
- Creating Markdown Links with Keyboard Maestro
- Quick Takes on Five Apps (No. 5)
- AT&T-Mobile
- Raising the Bar
- A Touch of Video
- Smart Cleaning
- A Toy
- Random Thoughts Gleaned From the SXSWi Trade Show Floor
- Fragility of Free
- Quick Takes on Five Apps (No. 4)
- The Very Difficult Problem of Notifications
- Post-PC Device Elitism
- Quick Takes on Five Apps (No. 3)
- A Reason Against the White iPad 2
- Additional Thoughts on the iPad 2
- Finish Him…
- A Yeti Review
February 2011
- TUAW Doesn’t Get It
- Answering Reader Email: MacBook Pros and Airs
- Quick Takes on Five Apps No. Two
- Moving iTunes Backup Folder
- I Feel the NEED, The Need for Speed
- The Droid is Dead
- Sprint & T-Mobile’s Fate
- Responding to Richard Gaywood of TUAW
- Microsoft, It Is Time to Pull Your Heads out of Your Asses and Start Marketing Windows Phone 7
- Readability’s App Rejection
- Quick Takes on Five Apps
- A New Bag of Mine
- A Really Good (Brain) Dump
- One Percent More
- Thirty Percent
- Delegate a Task in OmniFocus With Email
- Name that file…
- MG Siegler’s iPad Life
- SimplyNoted
- A Not Quite Full Review, of a Not Quite Great Twitter App: Twitterrific
- (dv)’d
- My Home Desk [video]
- Quick Hit: Microsoft & Nokia
- Micro-Payment Dilemma
- The Stylus
- ‘A Mans Desk’
- Iain Broome’s iPad Life
- The Daily, Hourly, Minutely, Secondly, Real-timey
- Derek Lunde’s iPad Life
- Recommended Podcasts
- A Lion with a Vista
- Running an Applescript at Specified Times
- I Just Noticed This
- A Better Way to Track Device Sales
- A Few Thoughts on Readability and Paying for Content
- The Fall of a Titan — So Long Sony
January 2011
- Federico Viticci’s iPad Life
- OmniFocus Quick Tip: Using Start Dates
- An Open Letter to Twelve South
- Is AirPlay the App Store for the Apple TV?
- Stand Tall
- Meetings and the 1960s
- The iPad: The Best Thing to Happen to Meetings Since the 1960s
- Why the iPad 2 Rear Camera is Likely FaceTime Only
- Survey Results
- Automatic Email Message Filing in Mail.app
- “Worth”
- I Smell a Winner
- Some Quick Interleaved Reply Tips for iOS and Mail.app Users
- My Favorite iOS Games
- Quick Blog Note
- The Privacy Illusion
- TBR Giveaway: OmniFocus for Mac
- The Apple TV
- Why I Am Switching to Interleaved Email Replies and Why You Should Too
- What the Verizon iPhone Means for AT&T iPhone Users
- Mac App Store & Trials
- Twitter for Mac, Worth the Wait?
- iPhone 4 + Water = Oh God!
- iWork.com Updates
- Are We Making the Web A Bit Bland?
- Apple TV 2 and the: “Ready to Play in Xxx Minutes” Bug
- Behind the Scenes
- Getting my Central Hub In Order
- [SOLVED] The Mac App Store and the ” MZFinance.NoGUIDTokenFailureKey_message ” Error
- Microsoft Needs to Learn from Apple’s Near Death
- My Year in Stats
- Traveling, Miami, Airplanes and Paid WiFi
- Twitter for iPhone FAIL
December 2010
- Back to the Future (Our Future)
- TBR to the Future
- Confusion Happens When Print Tries to Imitate Web
- F is for Failure
- Instafixed
- InstaFavor [UPDATED]
- A Thinner iPad Does Not Make a Better iPad
- The Mighty Eagle Soars
- Support versus Workarounds
- Giving the Gift of iOS
- Quick Notes on the Squarespace iPad App
- RIP Things
- Why I Don’t Use Flipboard, but My Dad Does
- Mac OS X Dock Positions
- Review: The Glif
- First Ever TBR Give Away
- 2001: A Microsoft Failure
- iOS and My Calculator Solution
- Mini Review: Keyboard Maestro
- Review: CNN’s iPad App
- Random Thought: The Eventual Demise of Power Buttons
- Save Yourself Some Typing When Visiting TBR
- On Caps Lock
- Some Great Little Mac Apps
- “The Wikileaks scandal is more than just a diplomatic scuffle; it’s a war for the future of the Internet”
- P.R. in a Digital World
- All New Archives
- The Publishing Industry: Just Waiting to be Rescued
- One Month in Here Is How I Feel About the MacBook Air
- Things Android has that iOS Needs
- An Argument for a More Selective App Store
- Mac Must Have: Hazel
- Mac Twitter App Round Up
November 2010
- The Human Factor vs. The Machines [TSA Thoughts]
- Random Tweets That Amuse
- What Does Steve Jobs Think of Email?
- Samsung Galaxy Tab Properly Reviewed
- Thanksgiving
- TSA and Constitutional Rights
- Thoughts on Diaspora
- TBR Goodies for Your iPhone
- Welcome Back Old Friend
- What to Expect: iOS 4.2 on the iPad
- Is Google Dying a Slow Death?
- Additional Thoughts on My Microsoft Store Visit
- Samsung Galaxy Tab
- Impressions from the Bellevue Microsoft Store
- TSA Touched ‘My Vagina Through My Pants’ & More Daily Doses of TSA Outrage
- SSD: External Storage
- To Minimalist Computer Geeks (Like Me)
- Hi, My Name is iTunes and I am a Hoarder
- Faceboooo
- Random Thoughts, Musings & Miscellany on Being a Mac User
- Tomorrow Steve Jobs Justifies My MacBook Air as a Primary Machine Argument
- Holiday Buyers Guide (Send Your Spouse/S.O. Here)
- More Writing Tools [Reader Suggested]
- Looking at Different Writing Tools for Macs
- Four Worthless Samsung Galaxy Tab Reviews and One Useful
- Smartening Up iPad News Apps
- 10.6.5 and AirPrint Saga Continues [UPDATED]
- AirPrint Sharing a No Go in 10.6.5
- The Effect Printing Has on iOS
- AirPrint Lives On [Updated]
- Quick Thoughts on ‘Computing Environments’ & Fiddling
- Redux – Mobile Working Thoughts
- Facebook Distaste
- Julio Ojeda-Zapata’s iPad Life
- Recommended Safari Extensions
- A Lions Prey (See Ya Finder)
- Ping! What is it good for? Absolutely nothing! …Sing it again…
- Quick Review: Booq Taipan Slim
- Why this iPhone 3G Lawsuit is Bogus
- Lucky 13: A MacBook Air Review
- Quick Look: Notational Velocity Forked
- Shawn Blanc’s iPad Life
October 2010
- The Value of ‘Pro’ v. ‘Lite’
- Trials, Demoes & App Stores
- The 11 (inch MacBook Air that is)
- RE: Where Gruber Thinks the MacBook Air Fits In
- Lightening Review: iPhoto ‘11
- Chris Bowler’s iPad Life
- The Forgotten Souls of 1 Infinite Loop
- “So it’s not an ability thing, just a speed thing?”
- Additional, Additional Thoughts: Do I Become an Air Instead of a Pro?
- Additional Thoughts on the New MacBook Air
- Thoughts on the Mac App Store
- The Touch Gestures in Lion Look Like a Pain
- How the New 11-inch MacBook Air is Not the New 12-inch PowerBook
- Thoughts on Stand Up Desks
- Tired of Gruber? Here Are 4 Writers you Should be Reading.
- Paperless Office Tips
- Screw you Microsoft
- Internet Didn’t Kill the Newspaper Star
- Tyler Galpin’s iPad Life
- What an iPad Competitor Needs
- Briefly on Using the MiFi With an iPad
- More On Apple’s Retail Dominance Strategy for the iPad
- Right Click Off
- How Apple is Positioning the iPad to Slaughter the Competition
- Instapaper Buttons
- Mac OS 10.7 Dreams
- Seeing Blue
- Quick Blog Notes
- New Site Feature: Suggested Reading
- Did Microsoft Just Pull a Don Draper?
- Patrick Rhone’s iPad Life
- Don’t Have a Mobile Theme Please
- On the Slow Mac Posts
- QoTD: Ten dollars and the App Store
- 4 Quick OmniFocus Tips
- Sony’s Google TV controller outed on ABC’s Nightline
- The iPad as a Blueprint for the Future
- Dave Caolo’s iPad Life
- The State of Macworld (the Publication)
September 2010
- Exclusive First Look: RIM’s Playbook Prototype*
- The Dropbox Syncing Text Editor iPad App Smackdown
- Stephen Hackett’s iPad Life
- Seven-Inch Tablets Are Just Plain Wrong
- Quote of the Day: Resources
- Review: Writer.
- Why HDR on the iPhone Is a Good Thing and How to Use It
- The Most Used
- Three Really Annoying Questions
- Are Verizon Execs Dickheads?
- Is the iPad Still a Single Taskers Dream With iOS 4.2 & Multitasking? Yep.
- QoTD: The cult of busy
- For Most People the iPad Is Better Than the Kindle
- I Remember When: Tribute to Mac OS X’s Tenth Birthday
- Need Help? Start Listening.
- Twitter for iPad – Extended Look
- OmniFocus: Why You Don’t Need All 3 Versions
- Calendar Apps Suck, Here Are My Suggestions
- Random Thoughts from my Trip
- An Email Rule I Would Love to Have
- The Reason Behind All My Email Filters
- My Priority Inbox in Apple Mail.app
- Apple’s iPod Event – In Steve Jobs Quotes
- Last Minute September 1, 2010 Apple Event Predictions
August 2010
- Less Stress One Bankers Box at a Time Part II
- Reviewing Products
- What’s in My Simplenote
- Less Stress One Bankers Box at a Time
- Review: Elements Text Editor for iOS
- Review: Simplenote 3
- On Cupholders and Feature After Thoughts
- What I Carry – Fridays & Weekend Bag
- What I Carry [Updated]
- A News Reader Wish List
- Broken RSS
- Using the Tools as Intended & Respecting Each Other
- Site Updates – Readability
- Technology Saved This Hikers Ass
- New iPad Bag – Booq Boa Push
- Home Office De-Cluttered
- Google Predictions
- Companies (Google) Don’t Exist to Help Consumers
- Flipboard is Just Not that Great
- Google: Being Evil, Betrayal of a Motto [Rant Warning]
- Firing the Right Guy: Papermaster
- How Apple Could Kill Google’s Holiday Buzz
- 6-4-3 or How I Spend My Day
- OmniFocus v Things – Mac / iPad / iPhone
- Making iDisk Usable
- Using Your iPad With Your Mac / PC – to Help You Focus
- OmniFocus for iPad (Quick Thoughts)
July 2010
- The Intangibles of an SSD Start-up Disk
- Where the Greatest Opportunity Lies: Microsoft
- Hard Graft Pocket iPad Case
- Final Thoughts on the iPhone 4
- I Can No Longer Recommend the DODO Case for iPad
- The Case of a Free Case – Is it Enough?
- Paid Comments, Do They Make Sense?
- Steve Jobs Gives Consumer Reports the Bird
- Thoughts on the iPhone 4 Apple Press Conference
- Email Mistakes That Irritate Smart People
- Why USB Syncing Needs to End
- Backup Reminder – A look at my Backup system
- SSD Performance in Macbook Pro (late 2008 Unibody)
- Small Biz: 5 Quick Tips for Success
- The Danger Of What Could Come – Apple Post Steve Jobs
- Small Biz: DIY or Hire a Pro?
- Hybrids are not the Future
- FaceTime – iPhone 4’s Biggest Feature
- Thoughts on Foursquare and Venture Funding, Revenue, Profits & Cash Flow
- Reachability & Honesty – The New Business Model
June 2010
- Changing with Technology – Welcome to the Future
- iPhone Halo Effect
- My Life Without Facebook
- iPhone 4 Reception Issues
- Right of Passage (iPhone 4 Launch Day)
- Initial iPhone 4 Thoughts
- Over-the-Air vs Wi-Fi Syncing: Looking at Things & OmniFocus for iPhone
- Apple also Sent me This
- iPhone 4 To Be Delivered Early?
- On Governments Getting into the Ad Game
- Email: We Are All Doing It Wrong
- Making the iPad Shine
- Thoughts on the Impact of Starbucks’ Free Wi-Fi
- Yeah, but What About the Battery?
- Why the Apple iPhone 4 Kills Google’s Android
- What I Got Right / Wrong With My WWDC Predictions
- WWDC Announcement: iPhone 3GS now $99
- WWDC Announcement: iPhone 4
- WWDC Announcement: iBooks on the iPhone
- WWDC Announcement: iPhoneOS Renamed: iOS 4
- WWDC Announcement: iMovie for iPhone
- My WWDC 2010 Predictions
- I Deleted My Facebook Account Last Night
- What AT&T‘s Data Plans Mean for Video Conferencing
- Apple to Save the News Biz?
- Thoughts on What Steve Jobs Said at D8
May 2010
- Google vs. Apple – Gaining Perspective
- Perspective: A Flash Reality Check
- Perspective: So You Need a New Computer?
- Perspective: Privacy on the Web
- Perspective: We Need a Social Aggregator – of Sorts
- Perspective: The Challenges Facing Microsoft
- Review: Booq Tiapan Shadow
- My Thoughts on How to Save the News
- New Server / Host
- Server Downtime
- Review: Zinio for iPad
- The Verizon iPhone Hubbub
- Clueless Managers and Their Technology Bumblings
- All You Need is One…Monitor
- Reflections on the iPad's Screen
- An Ode to Instapaper
- Microsoft Kin One and Two review
- The iPad – One Month In
- Why Do Banks Insist Upon Internet Explorer?
- AT&T's Insane International Data Rates for the iPad
- WordPress App for iPad is Missing a Major Feature
- The Relevance of Printing
April 2010