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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…
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.
That would drive me nuts, glad Shawn detailed this a bit.
Surprisingly good scores for FaceTime and iMessage, given how seamless and easy they are to use.
Surprisingly good scores for FaceTime and iMessage, given how seamless and easy they are to use.
I’ve always been a fan of Seasonality for it’s massive amount of data that it can show you. If you really like to nerd out on all the weather data, this is the best app for that. I don’t use it everyday, but today we are having quite the wind and rain event. So I’ve…
I’ve always been a fan of Seasonality for it’s massive amount of data that it can show you. If you really like to nerd out on all the weather data, this is the best app for that. I don’t use it everyday, but today we are having quite the wind and rain event. So I’ve been staring at the map view far too much today:
It’s a good app, and with version 3 (as you can see) it now works on the iPhone. The design leaves a bit to be desired for me, but you can’t argue with the data it shows — there’s a ton of it.
Note: You have to go to Map Settings and enable particle mode to get that wind chart, then zoom over to Tacoma, WA.
Micah L. Sifry: On Tuesday, the company will again deploy its voting tool. But Facebook’s Buckley insists that the firm will not this time be conducting any research experiments with the voter megaphone. That day, he says, almost every Facebook user in the United States over the age of 18 will see the “I Voted”…
Micah L. Sifry:
On Tuesday, the company will again deploy its voting tool. But Facebook’s Buckley insists that the firm will not this time be conducting any research experiments with the voter megaphone. That day, he says, almost every Facebook user in the United States over the age of 18 will see the “I Voted” button. And if the friends they typically interact with on Facebook click on it, users will see that too. The message: Facebook wants its users to vote, and the social-networking firm will not be manipulating its voter promotion effort for research purposes. How do we know this? Only because Facebook says so.
Sometimes I just want to focus on writing, I find the iPad is best for focus. Now I need a keyboard to use with it.
As most readers of this site probably know by now, I was never a very big fan of mechanical keyboards. When Shawn Blanc started to get on board with them I would poke fun at him on our podcast on a regular basis.
I just never understood mechanical keyboards, because who wants a loud keyboard?
I was emailed a couple of Word documents to read through yesterday. I started to read through them on my Mac, and then I realized that it would be way better to read through them on my iPad with my feet kicked up. But the files were zipped in the email. So I went ahead…
I was emailed a couple of Word documents to read through yesterday. I started to read through them on my Mac, and then I realized that it would be way better to read through them on my iPad with my feet kicked up. But the files were zipped in the email.
So I went ahead and AirDropped the files from my Mac to iPad. That froze Pages for 10 minutes. Then I put the files in iCloud Drive, they still haven’t shown up on my iPad.
And then I put the files in a BitTorrent Sync’d folder, but the BTSync app on my iPad started to crash on launch.
In the end, I just emailed the files to myself and read them, finally, on my iPad.
Insanity.
I would have been done far sooner if I never bothered with the iPad. And that’s the problem with the iPad — or more aptly — with Apple’s software.
Now that I have a new job I am having to adjust to a new set of communications tools (of which there are many). Something that I continue to notice is that many of the less ‘general’ consumer focused apps are very outdated. They work, but they aren’t updated for the latest and greatest gear.…
Now that I have a new job I am having to adjust to a new set of communications tools (of which there are many). Something that I continue to notice is that many of the less ‘general’ consumer focused apps are very outdated. They work, but they aren’t updated for the latest and greatest gear.
The most prominent of those is the lack of retina ready tools for Mac users with many of these apps — let alone Yosemite-esques designs.
This will slowly drive me nuts.
Good collection, beautifully presented. There is of course my year ’round list of things to spend money on here.
Good collection, beautifully presented.
There is of course my year ’round list of things to spend money on here.
Conor McClure: It just doesn’t make sense anymore. I see photographers buy these new packs like they buy new iPhones—immediately, at whatever price, just because.
Conor McClure:
It just doesn’t make sense anymore. I see photographers buy these new packs like they buy new iPhones—immediately, at whatever price, just because.
I really like the news, I just really don’t like news sites. So I built my own.
I linked to my new site when I launched it, but I didn’t write about it much. I didn’t want to say too much, as I just wanted to see what happened. That and I was pretty busy at the time.
I do think it is worth taking a moment to address the site and some of the motivations, goals, and ideas behind the site.
After far too long, I am changing my career.
Eight years ago, well a little longer than that, I wasn’t working. I was a little over a year out of college and was “freelancing” in various fields, but really just sleeping in late and staying up late doing only enough work to pay the minuscule bills I had at the time. I was fortunate enough to have a father who kind of let me do whatever while helping to support me. I didn’t have any money, but back then I really didn’t need any money either.
Ah, I miss those days at times.
I don’t know much, but I do know they go to sleep at some point.
I can’t offer much great parenting advice, but there is one bit that I always find myself chanting when I am bleary eyed and trying to get a kid to sleep: “At some point, no matter what, this kid will go to sleep.”
That’s the only thing I know to be true. Sure, sometimes that sleep may mean you only sleep for an hour or two before work, but — at some point — that kid will sleep.
“So if hearing that the CEO of Apple is gay can help someone struggling to come to terms with who he or she is, or bring comfort to anyone who feels alone, or inspire people to insist on their equality, then it’s worth the trade-off with my own privacy.” — Tim Cook
Nick Arnott: To their credit, CurrentC does employ SSL pinning to protect the application's traffic, but at this point it's hard to know if that's to protect their users, or their questionable data transmissions.
Nick Arnott:
To their credit, CurrentC does employ SSL pinning to protect the application's traffic, but at this point it's hard to know if that's to protect their users, or their questionable data transmissions.
I think Gabe is wrong about interleaved replies, clearly, but the rest of his advice is spot on. I’ve long thought email clients should only ask for the recipient at the bottom of the screen, or when you go and hit send. I used to draft emails like this, but fell out of practice. Consider…
I think Gabe is wrong about interleaved replies, clearly, but the rest of his advice is spot on. I’ve long thought email clients should only ask for the recipient at the bottom of the screen, or when you go and hit send.
I used to draft emails like this, but fell out of practice. Consider that changed now I am back to drafting outside of email apps (you guys will never guess which app I am going to use). (First iOS email app to add an extension system for “draft reply in…” wins.)
Add these iCloud bugs, which I see with Twitterrific to the “it takes 15 seconds to delete an app” bug and iOS 8.1 can be very annoying.
Add these iCloud bugs, which I see with Twitterrific to the “it takes 15 seconds to delete an app” bug and iOS 8.1 can be very annoying.
John Gruber: I don’t know that CVS and Rite Aid disabling Apple Pay out of spite is going to drive customers to switch pharmacies (Walgreens is an Apple Pay partner), but I do know that CurrentC is unlikely to ever gain any traction whatsoever. CurrentC stores your payment information in the cloud and uses QR…
John Gruber:
I don’t know that CVS and Rite Aid disabling Apple Pay out of spite is going to drive customers to switch pharmacies (Walgreens is an Apple Pay partner), but I do know that CurrentC is unlikely to ever gain any traction whatsoever.
CurrentC stores your payment information in the cloud and uses QR codes. LOL.
Keeping around the old iPad mini represents an opportunity for everyone.
There have been a lot of arguments going around the web about why the original iPad mini is still being sold. The ‘zombie iPad’ they call it.
With Apple’s standard practice of not shafting iOS owners the year after they buy a device, it’s likely that iOS 9 will have to work on this iPad mini. And the problem, developers say, is that it is a bear to develop for such an old and slow device. The refrain seems to be that support for this iPad won’t be dropped until 2017 meaning we will have to endure, I don’t know what, until then.
Good overview from Viticci. Add this to Flare 2 and I am now 99% sure that not only do I not need Lightroom, but that I don't even need a Mac to edit my photos. I can't wait to get this entire workflow laid out.
Good overview from Viticci. Add this to Flare 2 and I am now 99% sure that not only do I not need Lightroom, but that I don't even need a Mac to edit my photos. I can't wait to get this entire workflow laid out.