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Is It or Isn’t It? →
Shawn Blanc waxes eloquent on whether the iPad is a PC or not. I say it is because I use a computer and it’s my turn to decide what that means.
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Having a Profitable Music Career →
House shows, ardent fans, and—take a drink—Kickstarter. Via Wendell Kimbrough, an honest, great guy that makes honest, great music.
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LD: My parents recently looked into buying a new PC. [...] They got an iPad 2 and love it. Though they did have to choose between black or white.
kweazy: Gonna suck if they want to do actual work and not just browse the internet or play angry birds.
mikey_clarke: You do realise that a lot of people do in fact just want to browse the Internet and play Angry Birds, right?
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User experience versus Developer Experience →
A lament on the growing number of “native” iPhone apps that are really just custom web browsers. Facebook is the most notable example, but the tumblr app is guilty of this to a certain extent as well.
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The Life and Death of Camino →
A nice summary of a nice browser. Back on our 10.1-running iMac this was really the best browser to use. Even Firefox felt bloated on that machine, but not Camino.
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Anything you put in front of a kid, if they have no interest in being there, is a distraction. Paper and pencil? Doodle time! Science book? Let’s scan the index and try to find pictures of boobs! Graphing calculator? Don’t even get me started.
– Greg Kumparak on a balanced approach to iPads in classrooms. -
Rant time!
Really? Like 5,500 notes and no click-through or source? This makes me stabby.
HEY INTERNET, I MADE THIS. YOU CAN BUY IT HERE.
I guess this means I’ll have to start watermarking my images.
Every time I see a watermarked image, I think either “wow, if they’re that concerned about being ripped off they just shouldn’t be on the Internet” or “is that really necessary?” This is one of the second: it shouldn’t be, but after seeing how much attention this has gotten without being attributed, maybe it is.
People! Pinterest and tumblr have click-through links and source links. USE THEM. Nice people like Emily shouldn’t have to use watermarks. They shouldn’t have to fight to tell people that the picture you just reblogged is actually something they put time and effort and brain power into. Make an effort to find the original source! Saying “found this on Google images” does not count.
Ok, rant over. Thank you for listening.
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everypony, i give you: the oddevan pony.
Word. And here’s my Sonic pony.
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scriptogr.am →
Basically a static site generator like Jeckyl, except it’s hosted and uses files in your Dropbox. I hear of a lot of hackers/geeks doing stuff like this, but it’s never really been an option for me since my primary computer is an iPad and my primary traditional computer isn’t on all the time. Now, however…
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Doctor’s Eleven, by Magmakensuke
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Misconceptions About iOS Multitasking →
tl;dr: it’s not running in the background or killing your battery; don’t worry about it.
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If you are a creative person, perhaps you suffer from the same thing I do which has me constantly wondering if “I’ve still got it” after enough time has passed without either conception of completion of a given idea to suggest I’ve still got something exciting up my sleeve. Of course that’s nonsense and sometimes exactly what you NEED is this kind of amnesty granted by your intuition in order to move forward. You can run yourself into the ground if you never take a breath, the same as you can get into trouble if you let repose bloat and morph into lethargy or apathy.
– Adam Young on creative droughts. He follows this up by saying, “I hate the word ‘bloat.’” -
So long…
There’s about 3 hours left in 2011 here in South Carolina. I’m probably going to do some new years survey thing in the next 24 hours or so. But for right now, I’d like to end this year. And so…
To everyone, my friends, my family, my co-workers, my wife, my God: I have not been all I could have been this year. I have probably let you down at some point this year, and for that I truly apologize. I don’t regret this year; there have been some amazing memories and triumphs this year. But right now I’m painfully aware of my shortcomings. This hasn’t been brought on by one particular thing; it’s just some general depression and anxiety I’m dealing with. And right now I want nothing more than to leave all… (gestures to all of that) this in 2011. In the past.
So here’s to a new leaf, a new beginning. God’s grace is new every day, including tomorrow. Happy new year, everyone; I’ll see you in 2012.
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Here’s how Apple does marketing in a nutshell: Make a great product, then let people know about it.
– John Gruber on why Apple is succeeding only because of “good marketing”. -
Is This #firstWorldProblems or #thatAwkwardMoment?
Either way, it involves twitter being down because of it being new years day in China and that part of the world, but you can’t tweet about it because twitter’s down.
