July 2010
Amazon’s strategy is as sensible as any I can think of for the Kindle–make it more like a book and even less like an iPad, thereby catering to all the folks who want the equivalent of a relatively cheap, highly portable digital paperback rather than the costlier do-it-all device that is Apple’s tablet. For all [...]
Today wasn’t a day for paradigm-shifting product announcements from Apple, but you’ve got to be impressed nonetheless. Every product that was updated or launched today showcased the company’s attention to detail, the consistency of its design philosophy, and the complementary nature of its product line.
The New York Times published an article yesterday which tells you just about everything you need to know about the state of the Kindlesphere. On e-book sales: Amazon.com, one of the nation’s largest booksellers, announced Monday that for the last three months, sales of books for its e-reader, the Kindle, outnumbered sales of hardcover books. In [...]
Anyway, I think we should build nothing but shrines there. One of every kind of church. Spare no expense. I thought they should move Shea Stadium there. Thats another kind of shrine. No serious business at Ground Zero from now on. Just contemplation, prayer, reflection and baseball. When they try to blow it up they’ll [...]
What I’d really like is improved handling of event reminders. Including a way to keep my laptop, iPad, and iPhone from all buzzing an event reminder at the same time if they’re in proximity to one another, as well as syncing the dismissal of on-display reminders. Great idea. This definitely passes the “never knew I [...]
I would be shocked if you didn’t pick up a couple of new OS X tricks after reading this Lifehacker article.
I started a pretty serious test-run of TaskPaper as my GTD app this week in place of OmniFocus, so reading this in David Allen’s email newsletter today could not have been more timely. While it’s still too early for me to say for sure if I’m sticking with it, the allure of TaskPaper is exactly what David Allen talks about above. It gives you exactly what you need, but nothing more.
Almost all of my writing starts in TextEdit. I’m an unabashed champion of it and I think it does not get nearly the credit it deserves. I have it set to default to plain text, 90 characters x 50 lines, Menlo 12pt for my font after a long flirtation with Droid Sans. Patrick Rhone has [...]
What Apple’s recent smart playlist bug fix has in common with William Shatner’s infamous “Khaaaaaan” scene from Star Trek II.
I was surprised to see a fair amount of coverage this weekend in mainstream news channels of Jakob Nielsen’s recent study on iPad and Kindle reading speeds which concluded people read content on paper faster than content on e-readers. I am not so sure this study is all that important.