August 2011
8 posts
Evolution of Apple's Laptop Packaging
If you follow me on Twitter, you may have seen that I had some water troubles due to hurricane Irene. My basement basically takes on water like the Titanic after it hit the iceberg, so in preparation for the storm’s onslaught, I went down and did some strategic rearranging. Amongst the things I decided to take out of the basement permanently are the boxes from every new laptop I’ve...
2011 Won't Be Like 1985
I’ve had two days to digest both the news that Steve Jobs was resigning as CEO of Apple and the torrent of news articles and blog posts that followed. Two days to contemplate what the post-Jobsian landscape might look like for the company and the world. Two days to hone a fitting tribute to a monumental man.
But I’ve got nothing.
Maybe it’s because I don’t think...
An Interview with Shawn Blanc →
What’s your hardware/software setup look like?
A brand new, specced-out MacBook Air, an iPad 2, and an iPhone 4.
I do 95% of my writing on the Air using Byword and MarsEdit. I do most of my reading on the iPad using Instapaper and Reeder. And I do most of my Twitter checking on my iPhone with Tweetbot.
This is pretty much my exact setup (excepting of course that Shawn writes a hell...
Speaking of AppleScript
While I was writing the previous post, Gabe at Macdrifter posted a link to this AppleScript for Python Programmers guide. I immediately Evernoted it.
I also found this nifty little command line utility to convert an AppleScript to HTML. Adding the CSS to Tumblr was easy, but I’m still working on an automated solution for creating the HTML and then getting it into MarsEdit. For now I have...
Byword and Marked: Perfect Together
I love me some Markdown. If I’m writing it on my iPhone/iPad, it’s in Elements. But on the Mac, I like Byword. It’s simple, effective and visually striking. And while it does have a nicely done preview mode, you can’t view it concurrently with the marked up document. That’s mildly annoying.
Enter Marked by the always awesome Brett Terpstra. Marked is an application...
Disruptive →
Patrick Rhone on what companies (like HP) should be doing instead of trying to copy the iPad:
Create. A. New. Option.
Make the iPad as irrelevant as the iPad seems to be doing to the consumer PC.
Spot on.
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Find Patterns in text on Lion →
Not something I see myself using regularly, but a nice little tip by Matt Gemmell.