January 2009
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Fireball: The John Gruber Story →
With the attempt to figure out precisely what drives this unique individual, this film offers an intriguing mix of fact and fiction about the proprietor of the premiere Internet destination Daring Fireball. (via Ranchero)
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“There is one word that I find most appropriate to describe what Apple has...”
– Tanner Morrison, The Apple Blog
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Fonolo: Skip Phone Menu Systems →
Fonolo has taken the most common phone frustration of going through endless automated phone menu systems when calling major companies and has established a system they refer to as “deep dialing” that allows you to place calls directly to the location in the menu system that you need to get to. The service is currently in beta, with open sign ups, and with hopes of providing the service...
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Twitter Followers: Quantity or Quality? →
Having a high number of followers on Twitter may provide you with a higher “Twitter Authority” but do those numbers add quality to your participation in the service. Not all admirers are created equal.
Quality followers are no doubt your most important followers. These are the ones who are actually following you to listen to what you have to say. The ones who will purchase the items you...
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Amazon Set to Rekindle →
The Kindle is one of those products that I grew intrigued with when released but not enough to make me purchase one immediately because they were none available and because there had been such a high bar set with the capabilities of the device already, that the second version can only get better with it’s look and user experience. Wired on what the Kindle needs:
A new redesigned device...
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Animate your Quad Camera Photos →
Quad Camera is a well designed app for the iPhone that enables you to take continuous shots in a storyboard manner and if you’re wondering what to do next with the final product, why not bring them to life with QuadAnimator.
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2009 Travels
I’ve voiced my penchant in the past in wanting to travel more every year, a pattern which I attribute to my increasing fascination with photography and having a person in my life that shares the same vested interest in exploring new cities. Suddenly researching and planning the trips becomes equally exciting as boarding the plane on the day of. We had such a remarkable experience last summer...
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iPhone Emoticons Without Hacking →
Justine demonstrates a nifty $0.99 app entitled Frosty Place, that allows you to send Japanese emoji icons to anyone with an iPhone all without any hacking involved. A free alternative to achieve similar results is also available.
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Gruber's Setup →
As much as I religiously read his weblog, I stay away from linking anything posted by John Gruber because I automatically assume that everyone subscribes to him. I would hate to reiterate something that is best said from the man himself but I couldn’t help attentively read the behind-the-scene info on the much esteemed Daring Fireball.
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“You’re taking over a country facing huge economic, moral and political...”
– Brad’s open letter to Obama
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Watch Free Full Length Movies Online →
There’s nothing more discomforting than walking in to a theatre with high expectations for a film and receiving quite the opposite results. I’ve had this occur a couple of times, so now for the films that I may not feel strong for, I resort to a site where you can watch full length copies of movies that are still currently at the box office.
It’s very community driven,...
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Simon Hoegsberg’s 100m Photo →
Simon Hoegsberg has shot a photograph he spent the last 17 months making. The photograph is 100 meters long (100 m x 78 cm), and is about the uniqueness of ‘ordinary’ people. (via Heavy Backpack)
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Is Obama President? →
Keep track of Obama’s presidency.
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Why Apple needed the Palm Pre →
Fred Oliveira on why Apple needed the Palm Pre to exist in order to actually get serious about their product again:
The iPhone is a brilliant platform, and has pushed the boundaries of mobile device innovation at a deep level. Regardless of whether it is the best phone to use everyday or not (although I would say it is), it has set a new mark for what defines a phone’s user experience. This is...
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Inaugural Panel Sells Exclusive TV Rights →
Barack Obama’s inaugural organizing committee has struck deals with three television networks to the tune of more than $5 million, giving the networks exclusive access to inaugural events. It’s just another form of generating money that hopefully will be used to revitalize the economy but I can’t help sharing Olivia Munn’s view on this tactic:
In this economy, I...
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The GPS Revolution
In the February issue of Wired magazine that I so conveniently received at home, freelancer Mathew Honan writes an engaging piece entitled The GPS Revolution, where in the effort to explore more of this developing frontier, he becomes a “geo-guinea pig”, using dozens of GPS apps to later report on his three-week experimenting la vida local.
The trouble started right away. While my...
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I Hope So Too →
The New York Times asked more than 200 people in 14 states (half red, half blue) to identify their greatest hopes for what Barack Obama might accomplish during his time as president. Their responses where recorded and displayed in interactive speech bubbles, entitled “29 Hopes”.
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Tumblr Archives
One of my biggest gripes with Tumblr has finally been improved with V5 and that has to do with how the system previously displayed your archives.
If you came across a blog that you enjoyed and felt you attained value from and wanted to explore more, it was just completely daunting having to horizontally scroll through the archives, which consisted of a page of endless squares that lacked...
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Blogging for the right reasons
The answer to the question as to why you blog can go so many ways. For me it’s all been about creating a place where I can think, plan and reflect on ideas that I regard intriguing and where I can revisit them after some time and learn from them.
This is what fascinates me about blogs I subscribe to. When the author is genuine in their writing and makes you feel that you walked away...
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Create iLife Photo Film Strip in Photoshop →
Neat tutorial in how to create that beautiful photo film strip as seen in Apple’s iLife ‘06 package design.
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1 of 6 reasons why the Palm Pre is special →
Have you ever tried to listen to Pandora while checking Gmail on your iPhone? Can’t do it.
The Palm Pre solves that problem of the iPhone’s limitation of running multiple apps. It treats applications as “cards” and makes it easy to flip through the deck of cards, view them at once and shuffle them. The apps are live even when minimized, and you don’t lose your...
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Encouraged Commentary →
Rather than having the traditional text box at the bottom of the page where readers can contribute with comments to a post, Jim Jeffers has taken a novel approach on the practice where instead you are able to highlight specific points in a post and reply to them directly all powered by jQuery. Using it is simple and he uses his site as a working demo of it:
just select the text you want to...
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Photos for Sale
My passion towards photography has matured tremendously in the past year and I like to think that it conveys to every single shot that I take and share. If there’s a word to describe the in-between space of practicing photography as a hobby and a profession, then that’s where I position myself. I’m right in the middle. The more you practice it, the more your perception of the...
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Barack Obama’s Journey to the White House →
Google Map of Barack Obama’s entire life, from Honolulu to the White House.
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“Simplifying isn’t meant to leave your life empty — it’s meant to leave space in...”
– Leo Babauta, The Power of Less
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Bokeh Type →
A beautiful experiment by Cameron Adams that turns characters you type into out of focus lights. (via Valhalla Island)
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iPhone's SMS app needs some work →
The iPhone is a magnificent device but there’s always room for improvement when it comes to certain app nuisances. Justin Blanton on SMS:
The lack of mark-as-unread is most annoying when I receive a text message while inside another application; when this situation arises, a modal window appears with the text message, and gives me two choices: close and reply. If I choose “reply,” I’m...
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“Make no mistake, Happy Cog is the best company I’ve ever worked for. I’ve had...”
– Jason Santa Maria ∞
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Keep it "Apple-like"
We Mac users are very finicky when it comes to using software. Regardless of whether we’ve falling for the next new application to come out and it simplifies our lives in way like no other program has, we immediately have second thoughts on continuing to use it because it may not possess that inherent Apple like feeling and look to it that we admire. Dan Benjamin on Google’s Picasa for...
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Prettify* — Nice icons and wallpapers →
Garrett’s latest side project entitled Prettify, is his response to being unable to find a “good place for icons and wallpapers that appeal to his taste”.
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Flipping Typical →
A functional site that allows you to explore the popular typefaces you currently have installed on your computer and compare them all at once.
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The Ultimate Warrior
Growing up, it took a lot of explaining from family what they meant saying that the wrestling matches I eagerly watched “were not real”. The blood gushing, the punching and chair smashing on heads could not appear more credible, especially when it came from my all time favorite wrestler, The Ultimate Warrior.
I owned several versions of his action figures, all varying with gaudy...
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The Woork Handbook →
Antonio always publishes practical tutorials on web creation techniques and approaches to the medium and now he’s compiled it all in one free eBook with topics ranging from CSS, HTML, Ajax, web programming, Mootools, Scriptaculous and and so much more.
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JPG Magazine Says Goodbye →
If you share the love for photography and were a JPG member, it was undoubtedly likely that you would become a better photographer by expanding your knowledge and photographic skill set. Each issue is packed with inspirational photos, informative how to’s, and fascinating interviews but this morning I received an unfortunate email informing that the community-driven magazine is saying...
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I Hardly Know Her →
Simple web application for a different approach in viewing Flickr photos. Just add the Flickr username to the URL and you’re set. (via Jim Whimpey)