Geoffrey Wiseman

Instapaper Website Redesign Beta

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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Kaffeologie S Filter for AeroPress

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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Feedly Pro - Freemium Win

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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Airdropping Comics

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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Slidewalk Day

July 22, 2013

I've heard a lot of different words for 'moving walkways' over the years. "Movator", "horizontal escalator", "rolling carpet", "moving sidewalk".

Moving Sidewalks Wikipedia classes them all as "moving walkway", which is a pretty sensible name, but's definitely not...

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iRepair on the Danforth

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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Reviewing the Imaginary

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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It's Batman, Batman and the Brain

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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