February 2012
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Portlandia
Lia and I took a road trip this weekend to catch the last stop on the Portlandia tour in Nashville, Tennessee. We had a great time time. Here’s a short video of one of the songs.
One thing I didn’t know about Fred Armisen is that he is one heck of a drummer. Here’s a clip from someone else in the Nashville of Fred showing off!
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The Super Sweet 1Password Trick →
I can’t believe I haven’t been using this trick until now!
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iTunes U Overview →
A nice overview of the updated iTunes U from an Apple Distinguished Educator.
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Apple’s iCloud Is No Dropbox Killer (It’s Much... →
With Google, however, the philosophy is that file creation itself can be migrated to the cloud. An online office suite is “good enough,” if not as good, as a native one. And “good enough” will win due to ease of use. With almost a completely opposing view, Apple’s iCloud is doing the reverse: bringing the capabilities of the cloud to the richer, more robust native apps. This includes not just...
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WatchA short video of Lia and our pilot landing us safely in some windy weather.
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TidBITS Entertainment: Introducing Bookle, an EPUB... →
minimalmac:
Enter Bookle — a straightforward, elegant EPUB reader for Mac OS X that maintains your library of EPUBs, available now from the Mac App Store for $9.99. Bookle 1.0 is intentionally simple, since Peter and I wanted to get something out quickly and then react to requests from users, but it has all the core features needed to read DRM-free EPUBs.
As an author of books delivered in...
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Ten Things To Think About When Designing Your iPad... →
While this post is directed more towards native iPad app development, many of the suggestions are also applicable to any sort of app or web development. I especially liked the part on minimizing user input based on what you already know about the user. That’s a topic we covered at length in my mobile web design course.
No one wants to spend a lot of time setting up a $1.99 app. Leverage...
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A Writer's Reaction to iBook Author's EULA →
A lot of people seemed upset with iBooks Author’s EULA after Apple’s announcement of the program. Basically, it gives content creators the ability to distribute free books in just about any way they’d like, but specifies paid books are only available though the iBooks store. The author of this article brings up some good points:
Folks are calling the software “Author” but its...
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benjaminpaton: 5 things Tumblr can do that you... →