August 11, 2013
The Instapaper website is going through a re-design now that it's a Betaworks project instead of Marco Arment's. There's a post on instapaper's blog as well as on Marco's referencing the redesign, but neither one actually shows it:
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August 10, 2013
When you make coffee in an Aeropress, you use a filter on the end of the press which prevents the coffee grounds from going into your cup. These filters are cheap, plentiful, and use very little paper, so there are limited reasons to switch to something...
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August 5, 2013
Although the RSS landscape is crowded with interesting competitors right now, Feedly made the transition from Google Reader the smoothest and offered a free product that did most of what I wanted, so while I tried some of the alternatives, most of...
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August 5, 2013
Unread is an iOS RSS reader under development by Jared Sinclair, whose Riposte (made with Jamin Guy) is my preferred iOS app for App.net (ADN). Color me interested for now.
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July 29, 2013
I am somewhat hopeful that ComicGlass or ComicZeal will adopt AirDrop, making transfers of comics from computers to iOS devices a simpler proposition.
At the moment, there are basically a few choices, all of which have some problems.
First Party...
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July 22, 2013
I've heard a lot of different words for 'moving walkways' over the years. "Movator", "horizontal escalator", "rolling carpet", "moving sidewalk".
Wikipedia classes them all as "moving walkway", which is a pretty sensible name, but's definitely not...
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July 19, 2013
My cracked the screen on her iPhone 4 a few months ago, and had it replaced by a store whose name escapes me up in North York.
A while later, she started having problems with her proximity sensor, which she tried to get fixed using iRepair at their...
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July 18, 2013
Now that the gap between information being somewhere and information being everywhere is infinitesimally small, we reward companies who have information first, even when that information isn't very good. We reward them by reading their terrible news...
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June 24, 2013
Amazon has updated their 'Associates Program' affiliate system terms and conditions, and they helpfully provide a page that compares the new terms with the old. One of the changes mentions that software programs are explicitly forbidden unless they...
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June 21, 2013
While watching The New Batman Adventures S1E10 with my son, I was amused by this exchange:
Batman:
What are you doing tonight?
Barbara Gordon / Batgirl (dramatically):
The same thing we do every night, Pinky.
Batman:
What?
Barbara:
Never mind.
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