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Patrick Rhone has a what I carry Meme going on right now, here is a shot of what I carry. I keep my car key and house keys separate because I can’t stand the jingling when I drive. The wallet is a Holstee that I just got. All I keep in it is ID, credit…
Patrick Rhone has a what I carry Meme going on right now, here is a shot of what I carry.
I keep my car key and house keys separate because I can’t stand the jingling when I drive. The wallet is a Holstee that I just got. All I keep in it is ID, credit cards and a business card, along with the occasional cash that I may have.
I used to carry a pocket Moleskin, but Simplenote on the iPhone killed the need for that.
Updated to include a better picture.
Looks like they did a decent job controlling the privacy of Places, but the thing that would bug me the most (if I was still a Facebook user) is the ability of friends to be able to check me in places. That I don’t like, I would disable that immediately if I were you.
Looks like they did a decent job controlling the privacy of Places, but the thing that would bug me the most (if I was still a Facebook user) is the ability of friends to be able to check me in places. That I don’t like, I would disable that immediately if I were you.
I felt compelled to post this, lest I become known as one Apple’s payroll. Here’s the thing, is Apple supposed to stop its employees from making apps? Tell them what apps they can and can’t make? Could you imagine how pissed people would be if Apple employees had to follow different rules than the rest…
I felt compelled to post this, lest I become known as one Apple’s payroll. Here’s the thing, is Apple supposed to stop its employees from making apps? Tell them what apps they can and can’t make? Could you imagine how pissed people would be if Apple employees had to follow different rules than the rest of us?
This guy is selling crappy joke applications and probably not making much money from it, oh and he happens to work at Apple. Where the hell is the story here?
Wired:
Still, it comes off as hypocritical that a director of the App Store sells apps that some might call inappropriate, said Ben Kahle, developer of Me So Holy, a satiric religious app that Apple rejected in mid-2009 for containing “objectionable material.” Kahle said after he re-submitted the app to the store, an Apple employee called him and said Me So Holy would “never” be approved.
Ok fine I guess that is odd, but he was doing it before he got to Apple. I mean what are people supposed to go back through their lives and delete everything they did that goes against their new companies policy? This is crap journalism Wired, crap.
Clay Johnson (who is quickly becoming my new favorite blogger): Remember: the key to having strong focus is the elimination of distraction. While a lot of space has its plusses, too much space is only creating room for more distractions. Having your mail, twitter, and IMs pop up in one monitor while you truly work…
Clay Johnson (who is quickly becoming my new favorite blogger):
Remember: the key to having strong focus is the elimination of distraction. While a lot of space has its plusses, too much space is only creating room for more distractions. Having your mail, twitter, and IMs pop up in one monitor while you truly work in another is just giving your distractions equal ground to what you’re working on. Even having relatively static things up in extra screen space is a distraction. A todo list in a second monitor is nothing but a constant reminder of other things you could be working on other than the task at hand. Keeping anything up other than what you’re working on is a great way to keep yourself distracted from doing the important stuff you don’t want to do.
If you love news then I don’t have to tell you that the best way (currently) to stay updated is still with RSS feeds. With RSS feeds you need something to pull them down for you, my guess is that you probably use Google Reader, with a smaller subset using something like Newsgator/NetNewsWire, and a…
If you love news then I don’t have to tell you that the best way (currently) to stay updated is still with RSS feeds. With RSS feeds you need something to pull them down for you, my guess is that you probably use Google Reader, with a smaller subset using something like Newsgator/NetNewsWire, and a minuscule percentage of you using Shaun Inman’s Fever°. I used to be a huge Fever° fan, until I realized just how poor it was at mobile usage. I currently use Google Reader through NetNewsWire on my Mac and Reeder on my iPhone/iPad. It is a great client and gets me through the news fast – one problem though, it could be a lot better. In fact news readers as a whole can and should be a lot better than they are.
I am not talking about Flipboard, or making news on the web look like a newspaper or magazine, that’s not what I want. What I want is something that is smart, something that just doesn’t pull down the RSS item, but actually does something with it.
I do have a solution though: tags. Most bloggers tag all of their posts with keywords so that readers can click on those tags to see more of the same. I say that RSS readers should start grabbing those tags and using them to create ‘auto-groupings’ that allow me to see every new item that is talking about iPads and iPhones for example. This seems so simple, yet we still don’t have it.
Alerts for known topics of interest, should be another standard feature. Think of this much like Google Alerts, except for just your news items. I would set one up to alert me whenever a post comes in that has the word ‘breaking’ in the title, the program would then send a Growl notification to let me know.
Fever like scale to see what is being talked about. Fever currently has a scale that tells you the temperature of certain news items, the problem is that the algorithm (to my knowledge) works off of seeing how many people are linking to a particular item, which is a less than accurate way of seeing what is being talked about.
A better way would be to see what tags, and keywords people are using in titles to see what they are really talking about. Such a system should then be able to cull these items together a present them as a one stop look at everything on that topic (this would have been great during the iPhone 4 antenna hubbub).
Instapaper and Twitter integration are a must, we already have this in most news readers but it is so important I think it needs to be said again.
Built in summarization. This is the key, the one thing that would make life so much better. Have you ever used the ‘summarize’ feature built into Mac OS X? It is great, you can take a thousand word post and bring it down to 3 descriptive lines that tell you what the post is really about. I have no clue how it works, but it is damn accurate.
Why then if this service is built into a Mac already, is it not being used to give us a better idea of what the post is really about. I would like to see the article title as it was written and then a two sentence summarized blurb (done by the computer) below it, that way I know if this is something I really want and need to read.
Calling smart programmers and developers, time to start building an easier way for people to consume blogs and news on the internet. Someone wake up Brent Simmons.
Michael Lopp: Meetings must exist, but meetings cannot be seen as the only solution for making progress. If you must meet, start the meeting by remembering the definition of a successful meeting is that when the meeting is done, it need never occur again.
Michael Lopp:
Meetings must exist, but meetings cannot be seen as the only solution for making progress. If you must meet, start the meeting by remembering the definition of a successful meeting is that when the meeting is done, it need never occur again.
Also here is Facebook’s video explaining the new service. Two things about it; first is that this is really not as private as I initially thought, and that is terrible. Second why did they have a video of the nerdiest guys ever talking about how ‘cool’ this is? Places looks to have good privacy controls…
Also here is Facebook’s video explaining the new service. Two things about it; first is that this is really not as private as I initially thought, and that is terrible. Second why did they have a video of the nerdiest guys ever talking about how ‘cool’ this is?
Places looks to have good privacy controls in place, the problem though is that Facebook is wanting everyone to use it all the time and is really going to get annoying about it. Meaning look for the privacy controls to change al á the news feed.
Remember what I was saying about even less privacy now on Facebook? Yeah this is what I was talking about.
Remember what I was saying about even less privacy now on Facebook? Yeah this is what I was talking about.
Not a Gmail user but this update looks pretty nice. Here’s the thing about Gmail though: the mobile interfaces look infinitely better than that of the “full” site that you get on your computer. If the “full” site looked like this I may just use it.
Not a Gmail user but this update looks pretty nice. Here’s the thing about Gmail though: the mobile interfaces look infinitely better than that of the “full” site that you get on your computer. If the “full” site looked like this I may just use it.
$7.68 billion and both boards agreed to it, sounds like a great deal for both sides and should catapult McAfee’s business in the consumer marketplace.
$7.68 billion and both boards agreed to it, sounds like a great deal for both sides and should catapult McAfee’s business in the consumer marketplace.
You know that little CD image that auto-mounts when you plug in a Western Digital Mybook hard drive? Well here is how you get rid of it. [courtesy of Marco]
You know that little CD image that auto-mounts when you plug in a Western Digital Mybook hard drive? Well here is how you get rid of it.
MG Siegler: Facebook is careful to mention the privacy ramifications of this. First of all, you can only tag people you are friends with on these check-ins. Also, by default, your check-ins will only be visible to people you’re friends with (though you can change this to be visible to everyone). You can also opt-out…
MG Siegler:
Facebook is careful to mention the privacy ramifications of this. First of all, you can only tag people you are friends with on these check-ins. Also, by default, your check-ins will only be visible to people you’re friends with (though you can change this to be visible to everyone). You can also opt-out of having friends be able tag you in a location updates. This is found in the privacy page.
I still haven’t had time to go through all the announcements, but they are partnering with Gowalla, and Foursquare for this as expected. Great to see they are taking privacy seriously right away, the problem with Facebook is that everyone is friends with each other, which defeats the purpose.
Brian Rooney: UPS trucks drove 2.5 billion miles last year, but the company says its package flow technology combined with right-turn routes saved 28,541,472 million miles, and three million gallons of fuel. Amazing what eliminating left turns can do.
Brian Rooney:
UPS trucks drove 2.5 billion miles last year, but the company says its package flow technology combined with right-turn routes saved 28,541,472 million miles, and three million gallons of fuel.
Amazing what eliminating left turns can do.
This would be great, but what is up with limiting it to current customers. I can’t even get Verizon service at my home, I know many others cannot as well.
This would be great, but what is up with limiting it to current customers. I can’t even get Verizon service at my home, I know many others cannot as well.
I think they should have to, this theoretical maximum that Comcast offers is a bunch of bull.
I think they should have to, this theoretical maximum that Comcast offers is a bunch of bull.
If they really are shipping it with ChromeOS and not Android giving it away for free (with a Verizon contract) is just about the only way to sell a ton. Otherwise people will want to wait a few months to see what others say about the completely unknown ChromeOS. Black Friday is just cutting it…
If they really are shipping it with ChromeOS and not Android giving it away for free (with a Verizon contract) is just about the only way to sell a ton. Otherwise people will want to wait a few months to see what others say about the completely unknown ChromeOS. Black Friday is just cutting it too close for Christmas sales, especially if Apple slashes the iPad price before then, something I suspect they may do.
Shawn Blanc on a new service he wants: Similarly to the way Instapaper as a service is for articles you wish to read later, ttttask would be a service for things you wish to do later. I am prepared to help find this, who is going to build it?
Shawn Blanc on a new service he wants:
Similarly to the way Instapaper as a service is for articles you wish to read later, ttttask would be a service for things you wish to do later.
I am prepared to help find this, who is going to build it?
I hate email for sure, but these tips from Digg Founder and CEO Kevin Rose just plain suck: Type “Sent from iPhone” under your short responses. People don’t expect long responses when you’re on your phone. Don’t forget to mispell a few words. First, I don’t misspell things on the iPhone that often. Secondly WTF,…
I hate email for sure, but these tips from Digg Founder and CEO Kevin Rose just plain suck:
Type “Sent from iPhone” under your short responses. People don’t expect long responses when you’re on your phone. Don’t forget to mispell a few words.
First, I don’t misspell things on the iPhone that often. Secondly WTF, this is a terrible tip.