I know a cool app when it anticipates my needs. Here I wanted to file a list of websites. Leopard Mail to the rescue with its new note feature. So I select and copy the web info, copy it into a note, save the note as an email, and file it. Or share it. I have saved these actions as a script, so the whole workflow takes a second or two.
1/27/08
1/24/08
1/21/08
OSX Mail app trick 1
The new Mail app on Leopard OSX has some nice features. In this one, you can use the "quick look" feature to see what's in an attachment without opening or moving it to the desktop.
1/19/08
1/14/08
1/9/08
State of embarrassment
I never thought I would see the day when Minnesota was below the national average in anything related to education. Can our governor find his presidential aspirations worth this?
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Apple pie
So I sent in my iPod Nano for a battery replacement a month before the warranty is up. I just received a new Nano. Nice!
1/6/08
One stop Apple rumors
Here's the best link for Apple rumors related to the MacWorld announcements next week.
1/4/08
RIP DRM
Today Sony announced it will drop its digital rights management from tunes, to be sold by Amazon. That's the death of DRM.
1/2/08
1/1/08
12/30/07
2008 Prediction
So this is what I do to kill a couple hours on a quiet Sunday aft. It's true that an idea isn't very real to me until I can see the blurb. Blame my years in the book biz.
12/29/07
12/28/07
12/26/07
12/22/07
Marginal utility
I love these bits that explain concepts that I just don't get and make them plain as day.
"Data has this really weird quality. In economic terms data has an increasing marginal utility. Anyone who took Econ 101 knows that most physical objects have a decreasing marginal utility. When it is raining my first umbrella keeps me dry, a second may be handy if the first blows out, but a third is unlikely to be used. This is true of shirts, steaks, houses, of almost anything you can think of except data." LINK
"Data has this really weird quality. In economic terms data has an increasing marginal utility. Anyone who took Econ 101 knows that most physical objects have a decreasing marginal utility. When it is raining my first umbrella keeps me dry, a second may be handy if the first blows out, but a third is unlikely to be used. This is true of shirts, steaks, houses, of almost anything you can think of except data." LINK
12/21/07
Jeeves on Design
Stephen Fry has begun writing a column on the Guardian. Nice moment to inaugurate a new tag on the topic of design, specifically deep design.
Deep design is all about function. It's form follow function, but the structural functions, features, and benefits—not merely the surface or cosmetic needs.
"So, yes, beauty matters. Boy, does it matter. It is not surface, it is not an extra, it is the thing itself. Le style, c'est le truc, as De Buffon would have written today." LINK
Deep design is all about function. It's form follow function, but the structural functions, features, and benefits—not merely the surface or cosmetic needs.
"So, yes, beauty matters. Boy, does it matter. It is not surface, it is not an extra, it is the thing itself. Le style, c'est le truc, as De Buffon would have written today." LINK
12/19/07
Garrison, Gervais, and Mayo
What a great hour or so of radio: Simon Mayo interviews Garrison Keillor and Ricky Gervais. Click the link and click on Wednesday. The link is good until next Wednesday.
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