Category: Links

Nik Fletcher has a good look at Twitter’s latest stunt. What’s most concerning to me is that they always wait for holidays to slip out this ‘news’. That’s shady no matter how you spin it.

I’ve deleted all of their apps from my devices.

Dave Paola on owning less:

For that, I recommend starting small and taking baby steps: keep an open box somewhere in your house or apartment, and whenever you come across something that you haven’t touched in awhile, put it in the box. At the end of every month, casually look through the box and ask yourself if you really need any of the stuff.

I constantly try to do this, but I’ve mostly failed at this point.

Manton Reece is winding down his Twitter apps at the end of the year. This kind of stuff is bad for Twitter. Not opening up the search of all tweets to third-parties was not a shocking move, but it’s just another move to close down access to Twitter.

I am actually amazed third party Twitter clients are still allowed.

This is a great rant:

…hand puppets would be better podcast hosts than half the tech podcasts…

One thing I didn’t know about Flare 2 is that the effects are updated automatically whenever they add new ones. Two new ones “Analog Gallery” and “Vintage Galore” were added.

Once again, they are nice. Vintage Galore is particularly nice if you remove the “paper” effect from it. I love this app more and more.

I hadn’t thought to look in Settings to change this. Glad I read this.

A few people sent me links to a recent security analysis of BTSync, knowung that I use and love it. This is the official response, and I feel fine with continuing my use of the tool.

I’ve been using San Francisco as my default font since it came out, replacing a short run of Avenir. This is a dead simple way to install it — have fun.

Wow.

I am now using this to change the font in Yosemite from Helvetica Neue to Avenir Next. It looks really sharp, but there are some things that just appear as jibberish the font family doesn’t have the correct characters.

I don’t know how long I will keep this, but I am a big fan and the change is pretty easy to do once you build the fonts.

See also:

• San Francisco
• Input
• Fira
• Lucida Grande

Try at your own risk.

Shawn Blanc:

All in all, I’m so glad to have a native VSCO Cam app for my iPad. Though it’s not a life-changing revolution to my photography workflow, it certainly is something I’ll be using.

No extension (still) for use in Photos.app means it is still a Siloed area and there are far better options than VSCO cam at this point for photo editing on your iOS devices.

I’ll have a full post next week about how I am no longer using my Mac for photo editing.

Thord D. Hedengren:

The angle and strain of an iPad writing setup, featuring an external bluetooth keyboard, and a decent stand, isn’t a valid reason to use a laptop. They’re the same. No, scratch that, the iPad’s potentially better, since you can move the components around any way you like.

Amazing bit of work, bringing a lot of power to Spotlight.

Daniel P. Bolger:

What went wrong in Iraq and in Afghanistan isn’t the stuff of legend. It won’t bring people into the recruiting office, or make for good speeches on Veterans Day. Reserve those honors for the brave men and women who bear the burdens of combat.

Nice review of one of the neatest backpacks out there. I didn’t expect to like this bag, but I truly do.

Chris Bowler:

Although I switch tools far less often than I used to, it still happens. In this case, it feels like a change for the right reasons.

Ulysses is immensely good, starting to see the trend of a lot of writers switching to it.

Dan Goodin:

Researchers have uncovered a seven-year-old malware operation that combines advanced cryptographic attacks, zero-day exploits, and well-developed keyloggers to target elite executives staying in luxury hotels during business trips.

This is why I run a VPN if I am on any network that I didn’t build.

President Obama:

So the time has come for the FCC to recognize that broadband service is of the same importance and must carry the same obligations as so many of the other vital services do. To do that, I believe the FCC should reclassify consumer broadband service under Title II of the Telecommunications Act — while at the same time forbearing from rate regulation and other provisions less relevant to broadband services.

I’m glad he finally took the stand he campaigned on. This is the right and only move.

Speaking of Shawn Blanc, this is a great set of tips for getting the most out of OmniFocus. I just setup his Keyboard Maestro workflow and it is great, though I made one for my ‘Waiting’ perspective too. I also added in a bit of window moving magic to place them where I want.

Just be sure to not close out the main window, or you’ll have to add all that guff back.

That would drive me nuts, glad Shawn detailed this a bit.