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Luke Kanies: Your culture has the same need to dial into your audience. As the founder, it doesn’t matter what you think of the company’s culture. It’s not for you. But for better or worse, you do get to decide who your culture is for. A lot of these failures of culture are actually the…
Luke Kanies:
Your culture has the same need to dial into your audience. As the founder, it doesn’t matter what you think of the company’s culture. It’s not for you. But for better or worse, you do get to decide who your culture is for. A lot of these failures of culture are actually the CEO making bad decisions about who the culture is for.
Good read.
I am trying to clear out some old knives. I’ve given many of them away, but this lot has yet to find homes and I believe they are above my threshold in value for gifting to others or Goodwill, or simply not a knife fit for those I would gift things to. So here they…
I am trying to clear out some old knives. I’ve given many of them away, but this lot has yet to find homes and I believe they are above my threshold in value for gifting to others or Goodwill, or simply not a knife fit for those I would gift things to. So here they are, and all are in excellent shape (and sharpened to a razor edge).
The list:
All prices are what they are, if you want to make an alternate offer go for it, but yeah, just send me an offer. I can only ship to the USA, and shipping cost is reflected in the price.
John Voorhees: The Annotate and Edit buttons in the center of PDF 6’s toolbar let you switch between the two modes. Annotate mode includes the ability to add text, shapes, stamps, and handwritten notes to PDFs. You can also highlight existing PDF text and add strikethroughs and underlining, all of which were already available in…
John Voorhees:
The Annotate and Edit buttons in the center of PDF 6’s toolbar let you switch between the two modes. Annotate mode includes the ability to add text, shapes, stamps, and handwritten notes to PDFs. You can also highlight existing PDF text and add strikethroughs and underlining, all of which were already available in PDF Expert.
This looks like a hell of a good update.
An efficient means of delivery an absurd amount of caffeine. Oh, and it’s organic.
Yes, this is a post about coffee, which is among the most annoying of topics on generally tech focused blogs. But, let now assure you that I am not a pretentious coffee drinker, I use a Keurig and I fucking love it — so yeah.
Anyways, a coworker posted a link to this Buzzfeed video of their staff drinking “Death Wish Coffee”, it’s great. I quipped that it looked great, and if it comes in K-Cups, I’d get it to try. And of course seconds later my coworkers delivered, because of course it comes in K-cups.
Not really a lot to see here except for this exquisite opening from Ron Amadeo: Google, never one to compete in a market with a single product, is apparently hard at work on a third operating system after Android and Chrome OS. That is such a perfect summary of Google.
Not really a lot to see here except for this exquisite opening from Ron Amadeo:
Google, never one to compete in a market with a single product, is apparently hard at work on a third operating system after Android and Chrome OS.
That is such a perfect summary of Google.
Get it [here](https://www.arcido.com/products/faroe). You must be a member to view this content.
Get it [here](https://www.arcido.com/products/faroe).
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Diving into photo link sharing on iOS.
This week, I want to talk about images for the internet — when you have an iPad Pro and nothing else. Specifically, I want to dive into how I prep images for blog posts, and how I share a link to an image on services which don’t support native image embedding.
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Ben Thompson: None of that lock-in exists in China: Apple may be a de facto monopolist for most of the world, but in China the company is simply another smartphone vendor, and being simply another smartphone vendor is a hazardous place to be. That’s really a hard thought to fathom from a US-centric perspective, wow.
Ben Thompson:
None of that lock-in exists in China: Apple may be a de facto monopolist for most of the world, but in China the company is simply another smartphone vendor, and being simply another smartphone vendor is a hazardous place to be.
That’s really a hard thought to fathom from a US-centric perspective, wow.
I mean, people sometimes.
Common argument: Tim Cook should be replaced as CEO, because something something negative about innovation at Apple, or not understanding products. If you ask them who should be CEO, there’s never an answer.
When I called for Steve Ballmer to be ousted from Microsoft, I did so by showing a series of charts reflecting the stock value of the company — the metric by which CEOs are judged (rightly or wrongly). With Ballmer it was basically maintaining a steady and boring course.
Jason Karaian: At current prices, Apple’s forthcoming annual dividend alone is worth as much as a third of the companies in the S&P 500. With the money it will pay in dividends this year, Apple could buy up all the shares in companies like Tiffany (free diamond bracelet with every smartwatch purchase), Foot Locker (free…
Jason Karaian:
At current prices, Apple’s forthcoming annual dividend alone is worth as much as a third of the companies in the S&P 500. With the money it will pay in dividends this year, Apple could buy up all the shares in companies like Tiffany (free diamond bracelet with every smartwatch purchase), Foot Locker (free VaporMax shoes with every MacBook), or Chipotle (free burrito with every iPad).
Stupid giveaway ideas notwithstanding, holy shit.
Neil Hughes: The fact that these high-profile removals have gone largely unnoticed could be a sign that the apps simply were not widely used. In contrast, removing iPad support from an iOS app, for example, would likely be noticed immediately and generate headlines. Largely unmentioned in this post is whether or not any of these…
Neil Hughes:
The fact that these high-profile removals have gone largely unnoticed could be a sign that the apps simply were not widely used. In contrast, removing iPad support from an iOS app, for example, would likely be noticed immediately and generate headlines.
Largely unmentioned in this post is whether or not any of these Apple Watch apps were good, like even passably good…
The updated, with a statement from Google, makes it seem like Google knows something most don’t. But by in large, the apps listed have no real value on the Watch. Even Google Maps, it didn’t have the level of integration Apple Maps has.
They seriously are upping their game. Still runs Windows though.
They seriously are upping their game. Still runs Windows though.
How obsessing over traveling light has now spread to everyday and it’s awesome.
When I wrote my series of articles on the gear I use to travel light, I ended it with an even stronger affinity towards the gear I use when I travel. In almost every case this clothing was better than the clothing I wear on a normal day.
Let’s just take the most basic of all wardrobe items: jeans. For many of you reading this post, jeans are probably right up there with with a t-shirt as a core thing you wear almost everyday (if not everyday), and something you also feel exceedingly comfortable in.
Exploring better typography on iPad.
Today I want to talk about typography — or more specifically how to get better typography on your iPad. One of the biggest stumbling blocks for people who care about typography, but want to use iOS, is that it is not very clear how, or if, you can get the typefaces you love on to the iPad. Clever apps like Ulysses, allow you to send it any font file and the app will make it a part of the fonts you can choose from — it’s handy if all you care about is seeing your favorite writing typeface in the world’s best writing app.
But what about if you want to do some print design, or even use the corporate typefaces in Pages and such?
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Yeah, [I’d uninstall Ghostery as quickly as you can](https://twitter.com/1BlockerApp/status/858578767039651841). FWIW, 1Blocker ([iOS](https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/block-ads-trackers-more-with-1blocker/id1025729002?mt=8&uo=4&at=1l3v36d), [Mac](https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/block-ads-trackers-more-with-1blocker/id1107421413?mt=12&uo=4&at=1l3v36d)) is your best option. Second, I think we can all agree on a new internet rule: if the company name ends with an exclamation mark, run away.
Yeah, [I’d uninstall Ghostery as quickly as you can](https://twitter.com/1BlockerApp/status/858578767039651841). FWIW, 1Blocker ([iOS](https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/block-ads-trackers-more-with-1blocker/id1025729002?mt=8&uo=4&at=1l3v36d), [Mac](https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/block-ads-trackers-more-with-1blocker/id1107421413?mt=12&uo=4&at=1l3v36d)) is your best option. Second, I think we can all agree on a new internet rule: if the company name ends with an exclamation mark, run away.
Charlie Savage: > The decision is a major development in American surveillance policy. It brings to an end a once-secret form of wiretapping that privacy advocates have argued overstepped the Fourth Amendment’s ban on unreasonable searches — even though the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court upheld it as lawful — because the government was intercepting communications…
Charlie Savage:
> The decision is a major development in American surveillance policy. It brings to an end a once-secret form of wiretapping that privacy advocates have argued overstepped the Fourth Amendment’s ban on unreasonable searches — even though the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court upheld it as lawful — because the government was intercepting communications based on what they say, rather than who sent or received them.
The single most amazing thing about this post is that DEVONthink actually adds the items to the library quickly. (Do note how he’s not entirely sure where in the list they are added, the app is confusing by design.) UPDATE: Wanted to post that Viticci pointed out that my aside about not knowing where the…
The single most amazing thing about this post is that DEVONthink actually adds the items to the library quickly. (Do note how he’s not entirely sure where in the list they are added, the app is confusing by design.)
UPDATE: Wanted to post that Viticci pointed out that my aside about not knowing where the file would end up isn’t accurate. See his tweet [here](https://twitter.com/viticci/status/857974372304289792). What I mean in that comment was that he would add a file in the video and then scroll around on the list to find it. To me that seems counter intuitive to how the app should handle this. Why not just select the new file added right away in this case? That’s what the app should do, but doesn’t. Thanks to Federico for pointing out the vagueness of my comment.
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I wrote up a review of a knife for Tools & Toys, go check it out if you were missing my knife writing.
I wrote up a review of a knife for Tools & Toys, go check it out if you were missing my knife writing.