October 2010
1 post
Copying and Opening URLs in Flow (Screencast) →
August 2010
5 posts
Flow 1.3.4 Now Available →
Hot off of the heels of Flow’s exciting 1.3.3 update earlier this week, we’re happy to say that the next update to Flow, 1.3.4, is now available. As usual, you can grab it via in-app software…
Flow 1.3.3 Now Available →
We’re really excited to announce that Flow 1.3.3, a bug-fix release, is now available via in-app software update and via direct download. Why so excited over a bug-fix release? Here’s why: This…
Flow 1.3.2 Now Available →
Flow 1.3.2, a bug-fix release, is now available via in-app software update and via direct download. This update delivers the following enhancements: [New] The tab and window title now contains…
Support Status Update →
A few notes: We’ve got about 150 still-relevant / unread e-mails left to respond to. This is down from a backlog in the thousands. Since our last post, we’ve been responding to new messages…
Support Sucks. Let’s Fix That. →
So, here’s the thing: we screwed up. I’ll be more specific: I screwed up. This post isn’t like the others before it. This is a personal post (in both authorship and content) from me (Brian)…
May 2010
1 post
What’s Innovation? →
April 2010
2 posts
Kicking and Screaming Into The Future →
Richard Dawkins on Pope Ratzinger →
March 2010
16 posts
The Bottom Line and Great Products →
Why the iPad Will Change Everything - Newsweek.com →
Nails it.
Million Dollar NASA Photos Beaten by Budget... →
Kind of awesome.
“What we want from our technology, in its most elemental form, is to make our...”
– lonelysandwich - Adaptation
He gets it.™
Watch“Science can answer moral questions:
Questions of good and evil, right and wrong are commonly thought unanswerable by science. But Sam Harris argues that science can — and should — be an authority on moral issues, shaping human values and setting out what constitutes a good life.”
Sam Harris, on science and morality. Excellent as always.
Flow 1.2.7 Released →
Hey folks, We’re coming up quickly for a breath of air to tell you that Flow 1.2.7 has been released. While it may just be a bug-fix release, it does resolve our most widely known crasher, so…
"Nowhere in the Bible does Jesus have a sword... →
This is fantastic. Funniest thing I’ve seen in weeks.
Nimble Design - /the/path/of/most/resistance →
Decent description of why file systems need to die.
BBC News - Vatican pair removed in homosexual... →
It gets better and better and better and….
Better.
Love you, religious-crazies. :)
Entering the Larry Craig Pantheon | Talking Points... →
I’m really not sure how this could be any funnier.
An anti gay-marriage legislator leaves a gay club with another man, and drunkenly drives a state-owned car, before being busted for DUI.
Ouch.
Berkshire Hathaway Annual Letter →
Pearls of Wisdom from Warren Buffet. I’d quote from it, but the whole thing is worth reading.
Flow and the MacHeist nanoBundle →
In case you’ve been living under a rock, Flow is part of the current MacHeist nanoBundle. We don’t do discounts or bundles often (read: never), so you know this one’s got to be pretty…
February 2010
23 posts
“I’m not gonna lie to you; I’d try way harder to make it to the...”
– Merlin Mann.
This is why I love you, Merlin.
“How do you stop hubris from creeping in? Executive team in the company spends a...”
– This is why I respect how Apple does business. They get it.
Apple COO Tim Cook
“Most people need less done well, not more done poorly.”
– Brian Christiansen (via marco)
WatchWorth a watch; some great ideas.
Roger Ebert: The Essential Man →
Incredible.
“If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as...”
– Martin Luther King, Jr. (via azspot) (via squashed)
“When the date for the announcement was set, I started hoping that Apple would...”
– northtemple - On iPads, Grandmas and Game-changing
It sure will be.
First, care. | 43 Folders →
Spot on. People have trouble focusing because they don’t give a shit. I’m not arguing that you should give a shit, either; my position is that you should mold you life such that you spend as much time as possible doing things you care about — which includes, of course, loving your work.
Windows Phone 7 Series →
Congratulations to Microsoft for trying something new, but I’m missing what the tech folks are excited about. The user interface is awful.
There’s no logical sense of physical navigation — things just seem to fly off the screen and fly on, apparently from no where. This is bad — it means the user can’t keep the UI “stack” in their head, which makes each...
Judging Stimulus by Job Data Reveals Success →
azspot quotes:
Imagine if, one year ago, Congress had passed a stimulus bill that really worked.
Let’s say this bill had started spending money within a matter of weeks and had rapidly helped the economy. Let’s also imagine it was large enough to have had a huge impact on jobs — employing…
A conversation I have every month or so
Oh my *god* is this accurate.
dwineman:
Me: (tries to visit a local restaurant’s website via iPhone) Restaurant website: I require Flash. Fuck off. Me: I just want to know how late you’re open. Website: Nope. Me: But I’m on my phone. Don’t you have a little “HTML Version” link up in the corner or something? Website: I’m ignoring you. Me: What if I’m on my phone because I’m out, looking for a...
“During her 45 minute PowerPoint-guided presentation, she said the word “growth”...”
– insixitive » Archives » Business School is a Joke
Definitely worth a read. The quote above is the crucial bit. If you’re going to business school and don’t graduate realizing that, you’re screwed.
WatchSharing powerful stories from his anti-obesity project in Huntington, W. Va., TED Prize winner Jamie Oliver makes the case for an all-out assault on our ignorance of food.
(via Jamie Oliver’s TED Prize wish: Teach every child about food | Video on TED.com)
Student Handcuffed for English-Arabic Flashcards... →
This is what happens when, in truth, we’re blindly guessing on how to protect people in the air.
Airport security doesn’t work.
“I do remember one formative influence in my undergraduate life. There was an...”
– Richard Dawkins, “The God Delusion”, “The Root of all Evil”.
I’m working on a paper for a political philosophy class, and I remembered this quote, which I’m rather affectionate of. (If you’re interested, it’s used to explain the dangers of conviction...
Alex Payne — On the iPad →
Consensus among the intelligentsia.
Moreover, I mostly agree with Alex’s conclusion. Apple-approval is a good distribution model for iPhone, and can work well for iPad too. But on iPad, a manual / install-yourself model can have its place, too.
EMKeychain 1.0 Now Available →
This may not be of interest to most of our readers, but if you’re using our Keychain wrapper, EMKeychain, this is for you: EMKeychain v1.0 is now available. With it comes the following changes:
Criticism Welcome.
Peter MacWhinnie: it's a bit uglier though
Brian Amerige: it's a lot uglier.
Peter MacWhinnie: I was being nice
Peter MacWhinnie: I don't know why.
Fraser Speirs - Blog - Future Shock →
I know, dear reader, that I’m mashing this stuff down your throat. But it’s all insightful. And they’re all right.
And not just because they agree with my initial feelings about the iPad.
Because I’m excited beyond words about this. As a developer, I have a chance to have a hand in the development of the next computing paradigm.
Flow 1.2.6 Released →
I’m happy to announce that Flow 1.2.6 is now available. Version 1.2.6 is a free and recommended update for all users of Flow. The update is available via in-app software update and via direct…
January 2010
17 posts
Smart People Get It.
stevenf:
I need to talk to you about computers. I’ve been on a veritable roller-coaster of “how I feel” about the iPad announcement, and trying not to write about it until I had at least an inkling of what was at the root of that.
Before we begin, a reminder: On this blog, I speak only for myself, not for my company or my co-workers.
The thing is, to talk about specific hardware (like the...