February 2010
16 posts
January 2010
53 posts
My thoughts on the Apple iPad
I bought my mom an iPod touch as an experiment in Apple usability.
Mom: “I love it, it’s so easy to use, but I wish the screen was bigger”
BOOM
Gold Mine
This thread is a fucking gold mine:
…I wonder how many reportes[sic] from outside the Mac press will show up next time they release a ‘groundbreacking’[sic] digital device?”
Think Different is dead.
“…I have a cd walkman and a burner already, and besides that now that I...”
– Commenter named “SPG” on Mac Forums > Archive > Archives of Old Posts > MacRumors News Discussion (archive) > Apple’s New Thing (iPod)
“A workplace poster explaining what the company calls its “healthy discount...”
– Whole Foods eyes discounts for healthy staff - FT.com
(via Freakonomics Blog) (via marc)
I agree with the first commenter who stated:
I like the intentions, but BMI is a pretty poor way of telling health. Someone with a larger amount of muscle or is taller will be considered overweight much...
“SCARY KIDS SCARING KIDS FAREWELL TOUR!”
– Ottobar Weekly Email.
Related: THANK GOD
Consider this my Apple Tablet combo-breaker post
Interesting read from my friend,Jamie in Toronto.
A Journey to Sky Mall Headquarters
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-1-24) →
Billy Talent (16)
Spoon (12)
Pearl Jam (8)
The Dillinger Escape Plan (8)
Rage Against the Machine (7)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Big day for The Dillinger Escape Plan
My boys up in New Jersey just dropped a whole new world of face-melting, mind-bending metal.
Ben Weinman’s tweet
Pick up the Farewell, Mona Lisa single here. I heard this song with Ben in their tour bus when they were here in Richmond. To quote him: “this is some end of the world shit”
My boy Aaron is wicked smart. →
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-1-17) →
Thrice (46)
Rage Against the Machine (23)
Fucked Up (12)
Wilco (7)
Radiohead (6)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
MacBook Pro battery
ioreg -w0 -l | grep Capacity
| | "MaxCapacity" = 4255
| | "CurrentCapacity" = 4137
| | "LegacyBatteryInfo" = {"Amperage"=496,"Flags"=7,"Capacity"=4255,"Current"=4137,"Voltage"=12554,"Cycle Count"=282}
| | "DesignCapacity" = 5600
Ouch. Off to the Apple Store.
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tumbljack:
One of my favorite aspects of software is that it often pushes those who don’t believe in themselves as artists to become just that.
Interesting. But it’s the kind of “art” only other “artists” can appeciate.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-1-10) →
Every Time I Die (20)
Frodus (19)
Botch (16)
Radiohead (15)
Helmet (11)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Now, that’s respectable
marco:
Alex Payne, in Don’t Be A Hero:
If someone is working at four in the morning, something is deeply wrong. Figure out what’s broken and delegate the work out evenly across your team such that it doesn’t happen again. Don’t pat your hero on the back for “pulling another late-nighter”.
This is one reason why, when looking for a job a few years ago, I didn’t consider working for any...
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Watchmobelux:
Here’s an in-depth look at iHome+Sleep from Mac|Life on the CES show floor.
Man, those hardware integration features are DOPE!
Watchhapa:
Check around the two-thirds the way through for G4TV’s run down of the iA5 and the iHome+Sleep app.
What they forget to mention is that this is one of the first hardware enabled applications available.
Macworld takes note of iHome+Sleep →
mobelux:
A nice write up from David Chartier about iHome+Sleep.
Launch days are always fun.
