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An interesting argument from Farhad Manjoo about why Dropbox is a hard sell as a disruptive business: >There are two reasons for this. First, the perfect syncing service needs to do more than simply store files. Second, the perfect syncing service should be unlimited and free, or as close to it as possible. Dropbox will…
An interesting argument from Farhad Manjoo about why Dropbox is a hard sell as a disruptive business:
>There are two reasons for this. First, the perfect syncing service needs to do more than simply store files. Second, the perfect syncing service should be unlimited and free, or as close to it as possible. Dropbox will have a hard time doing the first of these for technical reasons, and if it does the second, it won’t be a very good business.
>This week Shawn and Ben talk about a new RSS app Caffeinated, OmniFocus vs. Things, and rumors of Apple ditching the dock connector. Brought to you buy the fine folks at: [Jumpchart](https://www.jumpchart.com/) and [Doxie](http://www.getdoxie.com/a/bbpodcast_feb12.php)
>This week Shawn and Ben talk about a new RSS app Caffeinated, OmniFocus vs. Things, and rumors of Apple ditching the dock connector.
Brought to you buy the fine folks at: [Jumpchart](https://www.jumpchart.com/) and [Doxie](http://www.getdoxie.com/a/bbpodcast_feb12.php)
Whats so fantastic about this post from Marco (besides the fact he is right) is that I feel just about as dirty interacting with a media company as I do touching a public bathroom door handle. ((As a property manager, the guy that is asked to make those signs, I can tell you that they…
Whats so fantastic about this post from Marco (besides the fact he is right) is that I feel just about as dirty interacting with a media company as I do touching a public bathroom door handle. ((As a property manager, the guy that is asked to make those signs, I can tell you that they usually only make the problem worse. What does work is buying a fucking garbage can — but to some building owners such an expense is preposterous and offensive. I usually end up billing those owners more in making/replacing signs than a garbage can would have cost. Such is life.))
Rene Ritchie: >We’ve heard that Apple is getting ready to ditch the dock connector as it’s currently sized and implemented on iPods, iPhones, and iPads. The reason isn’t anything political, like a new desire to conform to an outdated micro-USB standard, but typically Apple: to save space inside the iPhone 5 for what are now…
Rene Ritchie:
>We’ve heard that Apple is getting ready to ditch the dock connector as it’s currently sized and implemented on iPods, iPhones, and iPads. The reason isn’t anything political, like a new desire to conform to an outdated micro-USB standard, but typically Apple: to save space inside the iPhone 5 for what are now more important components.
I’ve been wondering how long the dock connector would stick around.
Peter Burrows, Brian Womack and Hugo Miller for Bloomberg: >Google Inc. (GOOG), which won U.S. approval for its acquisition of Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. (MMI), is close to naming Dennis Woodside to run the business when the deal closes, three people familiar with the matter said. [Florian Mueller reporting on Google’s conference call when they…
Peter Burrows, Brian Womack and Hugo Miller for Bloomberg:
>Google Inc. (GOOG), which won U.S. approval for its acquisition of Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. (MMI), is close to naming Dennis Woodside to run the business when the deal closes, three people familiar with the matter said.
[Florian Mueller reporting on Google’s conference call when they announced the acquisition of Motorola](http://fosspatents.blogspot.com/2011/08/first-reaction-to-googlemotorola.html):
>Google said in the conference call that it would operate Motorola Mobility as a separate business, but the price Google agreed to pay is not reflective of the value of Motorola Mobility as a stand-alone business: that’s the kind of price paid by a strategic buyer who plans to use the acquisition target as leverage for its (Google’s) own core business.
The big thing is that Google has been pretty adamant that they won’t meddle, that they won’t mess with Motorola. All a long I’ve thought that to be bullshit — well here’s the first meddling: naming Woodside a Google Ad Sales chief to the CEO post at Motorola. That pick says a whole hell of a lot about Google’s goals.
Jeffery Battersby has a nice rundown of the apps that are out there for doing your taxes on iOS, but is it just me or does that seem like a really odd/weird task to be doing on iOS? I know iOS is very capable and can be used in place of a computer for most…
Jeffery Battersby has a nice rundown of the apps that are out there for doing your taxes on iOS, but is it just me or does that seem like a really odd/weird task to be doing on iOS? I know iOS is very capable and can be used in place of a computer for most people, but man this doesn’t seem *right* to me.
Charlie Sorrel: >It’s hard to imagine a scenario where your SD cards would need to be “waterproof, shockproof and magnet proof,” but Samsung has gone and made some ruggedized cards anyway. Available in several speeds and sizes, the brushed metal cards will look as good out of your cameras as they will in it. I…
Charlie Sorrel:
>It’s hard to imagine a scenario where your SD cards would need to be “waterproof, shockproof and magnet proof,” but Samsung has gone and made some ruggedized cards anyway. Available in several speeds and sizes, the brushed metal cards will look as good out of your cameras as they will in it.
I only want them because they look awesome.
I could only find one microSD and one SDHC in 16GB on Amazon right now, but if you buy them with these links I will get a cut. [16GB SDHC](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B005TUQVR2/ref=nosim&tag=brooksreview-20) and [16GB microSD](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B005TUQUZA/ref=nosim&tag=brooksreview-20).
“But I don’t ever walk there. I just use their software, because it’s good.” — Brent Simmons
They have now caught up (not really) to where OmniFocus was in 2008. Things is nice looking and all, but I really have to question your motivations if you are still using it at this point. ((On a side note, I bet someone on Twitter that we would see TextMate 2 before Things Cloud Sync…
They have now caught up (not really) to where OmniFocus was in 2008. Things is nice looking and all, but I really have to question your motivations if you are still using it at this point. ((On a side note, I bet someone on Twitter that we would see TextMate 2 before Things Cloud Sync — we could argue beta verses alpha, but I think I won that one.))
I agree with everything Mr. Skoda says in this post. Everything.
I agree with everything Mr. Skoda says in this post. Everything.
Matthew Panzarino: >One of the biggest additions is the re-introduction of Tweetie’s swipe actions, allowing you to quickly perform several Twitter functions after a swipe on a Tweet. Hell yeah.
Matthew Panzarino:
>One of the biggest additions is the re-introduction of Tweetie’s swipe actions, allowing you to quickly perform several Twitter functions after a swipe on a Tweet.
Hell yeah.
I hate that the iPro makes you use a case. That seems like a bad design decision to me. Nice compariSon though — I had been wondering.
I hate that the iPro makes you use a case. That seems like a bad design decision to me. Nice compariSon though — I had been wondering.
Gabe over at Macdrifter on the excellent Moom app: >The rest of Moom is great though. Moom is kind of like LaunchBar, but for window management. I don’t realize how much I use it until I sit down at my wife’s mac and curse myself for not installing it earlier. He’s got some great tips…
Gabe over at Macdrifter on the excellent Moom app:
>The rest of Moom is great though. Moom is kind of like LaunchBar, but for window management. I don’t realize how much I use it until I sit down at my wife’s mac and curse myself for not installing it earlier.
He’s got some great tips too.
Microsoft’s IE blog: >When the IE team heard that Google had bypassed user privacy settings on Safari, we asked ourselves a simple question: is Google circumventing the privacy preferences of Internet Explorer users too? We’ve discovered the answer is yes: Google is employing similar methods to get around the default privacy protections in IE and track…
Microsoft’s IE blog:
>When the IE team heard that Google had bypassed user privacy settings on Safari, we asked ourselves a simple question: is Google circumventing the privacy preferences of Internet Explorer users too? We’ve discovered the answer is yes: Google is employing similar methods to get around the default privacy protections in IE and track IE users with cookies.
Yeah, but it’s probably in the least evil way possible… Probably.
Overall a really nice review by Glick. His ‘random quibbles’ and ‘things I liked’ sections are all ditto for me. I am still using Osfoora, but there are some very large omissions I would like to see added in, such as: live streaming and related tweets when viewing a conversation.
Overall a really nice review by Glick. His ‘random quibbles’ and ‘things I liked’ sections are all ditto for me. I am still using Osfoora, but there are some very large omissions I would like to see added in, such as: live streaming and related tweets when viewing a conversation.
Dr. Drang solves the mystery of why LaunchBar still shows iChat and doesn’t seem to be able to index ‘Messages’ in it’s place. ((Some of you may be thinking: Ben said he was done with posting links to anonymous blogs. This is true, but Dr. Drang is pseudonym and that for some reason doesn’t bug…
Dr. Drang solves the mystery of why LaunchBar still shows iChat and doesn’t seem to be able to index ‘Messages’ in it’s place. ((Some of you may be thinking: Ben said he was done with posting links to anonymous blogs. This is true, but Dr. Drang is pseudonym and that for some reason doesn’t bug me. Likely because I can say that ‘X wrote Y’.))
There’s a new feature that Frakes talks about called: VIP: >We all have particular people—our family members, our boss, our bookie—whose messages are more important than others. While Mail in Lion let you use combinations of rules, labels, and mailboxes to make a particular person’s messages easier to identify or view, Mail in Mountain Lion…
There’s a new feature that Frakes talks about called: VIP:
>We all have particular people—our family members, our boss, our bookie—whose messages are more important than others. While Mail in Lion let you use combinations of rules, labels, and mailboxes to make a particular person’s messages easier to identify or view, Mail in Mountain Lion adds a new feature that’s custom-made for such purposes: VIPs
I already do this by flagging email based on a rule, but this looks way better.
Nick O’Neill on Forbes “stealing” an NYT article: >I had that experience myself at AllFacebook with this article. It was an article that I wrote following 6 months of research on copywriting. The reality is that in the world of newsfeeds and streams, titles matter more than ever before. The best content in the world…
Nick O’Neill on Forbes “stealing” an NYT article:
>I had that experience myself at AllFacebook with this article. It was an article that I wrote following 6 months of research on copywriting. The reality is that in the world of newsfeeds and streams, titles matter more than ever before. The best content in the world will fall flat without a great title. Nothing illustrates it better than this recent Target article.
This is, unfortunately, very true. I written things I thought were just OK and had them blow up because the title was “clever” and then written something I spent days on and it fizzles because the title wasn’t that great.