April 2010
This was the ad that greeted me yesterday when I visited Amazon’s home page. As far as I can remember, I’ve never seen this ad before, but it’s possible it has just been out of circulation for a while. That said, no doubt in my mind it is designed to be a subtle jab at the iPad.
As I mentioned in a previous post, Safari on the iPad supports bookmarklets in the Bookmarks Bar. If you’re looking to add the “Share on Tumblr” bookmarklet, I don’t believe Tumblr has an updated Goodies page that supports dragging the bookmarklet to the iPad Bookmarks Bar, so here’s how you do it. It’s a little cumbersome, but once you understand the concept you can do it for any bookmarklet.
I loved this comment from Henry Blodget of Business Insider in the wake of the latest emails from Steve Jobs about the Apple and Adobe wars: This habit of Steve’s of responding to emails is remarkably winning, by the way. He somehow manages to be god-like and accessible at the same time, which makes him [...]
I wanted to provide a short update about a project I have been working on recently that I am very excited about. It is called E-Books for Troops and is a non-profit initiative that I co-founded with Len Edgerly of The Kindle Chronicles and The Reading Edge podcasts. The goal of E-Books for Troops is to become the leading non-profit organization dedicated to providing free e-readers and e-books to the members of our military who are deployed overseas.
Configure the Bookmarks Bar in Safari for bookmarklets and bookmark groups.