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Apple and upgradability/repairability
Every time Apple releases new hardware, iFixit is at the ready with their famous tear downs and as of late, their repairability scores. Generally I am skeptical of companies that issue press releases giving Apple a bad score about something because I think they’re doing it for attention (looking at you, Greenpeace). iFixit might be…
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Cutting the cord: a how-to for media companies (warning: I swear a lot)
Media companies have been in a frenzy trying to figure out how they’re going to make money in the age of this newfangled “internet” thing that’s been around for the past couple of decades. Â I’m a pretty benevolent guy, so I’m going to just lay it all down here for media companies to copy down.…
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MongoDB: a love story
I’ll just say it right up front: NoSQL is a bit of a fad. As much as developers don’t like to consider themselves victims of fashion trends, there is this unwritten desire to be working in the vogue languages and technologies, and it’s not at all uncommon for a developer working in these technologies to…
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Getting things done paperless with @OmniFocus
Now I’m no Merlin Mann in terms of my expertise in productivity but being a double major in college and working a number of busy jobs will make you better at managing your time and tasks if you’re going to succeed at it. When I was younger and in school, it was enough for me to just…
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The Instapaper Circlejerk
A lot of the people I follow and respect in the Apple tech circles (Gruber, Dan Benjamin, Siracusa, Matt Gemmell, etc.) are very much enamored with the Instapaper app (an application which allows you to save articles for reading later in an app that beautifully cleans up these articles for reading). Instapaper is always getting…
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On Evernote’s lack of manipulation tools
If you started using Evernote, it probably didn’t take long for you to feel like Evernote’s starting to cramp your style. You can only be so creative if your tools are basically what you can make with a rich text editor. Â To make matters worse, Evernote has remarkably little interest in adding new, more flexible…
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Developing paperless habits: Evernote
Here’s the fun part in which we get into the meat of a paperless lifestyle. You don’t have to use Evernote as your note & snippet repository. It’ll make this article less relevant, but there do exist some direct Evernote competitors. Springpad is a notable one. OneNote is great. Maybe Yojimbo is more your thing.…
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Developing paperless habits: Dropbox
“Why don’t you just wipe your ass with your iPad? –Allison Mitchell Once you have the tools you wish to use to adopt a paperless life, it becomes time to start using the tools. This is by far the most difficult part of the process, because it requires making real, meaningful changes to how you…
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Apple and the 30% cut
I always find it so adorable when I’m talking to someone about Apple’s strategy around the App Store model and they smirkingly explain that Apple’s push toward getting developers to use their app store to sell stuff is all part of a grand scheme to get 30% of their revenue. If you are truly convinced…
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Devil’s in the details indeed
Meant to post this awhile back but I’ve been letting it simmer A post by Mark Vaske re: the Times’s article: The NYT’s article was released at an opportunistic time journalistically speaking after a record quarter and something that is probably historically significant. It reported years old events and figures. Would it have been more…