January 2012
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Fully Customizable Edit In Place jQuery Plugin →
Jeditable is an in-place editor plugin for jQuery. With few lines of JavaScript code it allows you to click and edit the content of different html elements. User clicks text on web page. Block of text becomes a form.
July 2011
2 posts
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Apple's X Factor with Final Cut Pro X
The Final Cut Pro X uproar reveals one key to Apple’s succes that they’ve applied for years.
It started with Mac OS, then iMovie X and now Final Cut Pro X. Each time they’ve refined the process, calculated the blowback and confused competitors.
Dramatic product resets are a strategic tactic - take an existing product, strip it bare, ship a new bare bones feature set with an...
June 2011
4 posts
iMac To Wirelessly Charge iPods, iPhones, and... →
Apple’s patent application describes the system as “Wireless power utilization in a local computing environment.” It is based on the “mid range wireless power transfer physics” and makes use of wireless near field magnetic resonance (NFMR) power transmission to power devices up to 1 meter distant.
Very cool!
Paul Thurrott's gambit - Apple's Evolution vs....
Paul Thurrott recently talked about why he is unimpressed with Apple’s latest iOSand Lion announcements. Hardly surprising considering his known disdain for most things born in Cupertino. John Guber explained why Thurrott is right and is missing the point.
Having been a developer using OS X since the developer previews of 10.0, when it was just Next/OpenStep with a Finder-like GUI veneer,...
iPhone's Achilles heel
I’ve owned every version of iPhone. Was in line on launch day, during a hot North Carolina summer day.
The iPhone is one of the greatest phones every designed, minor flaws and all.
My iPhone lays deactivated and turned off tonight.
Why?
Despite the new hotness of Verizon, carrier lock-in forced me to leave. After years of pitiful AT&T service, I tried Verizon, the supposed savior...
Short logic: Groupon IPO: Pass on this deal →
shortlogic:
Groupon has filed its S-1 and hopes to raise $750M in its initial public offering. Given they’re currently losing a staggering $117M per quarter, despite revenues of $644M, they’ll be burning through that cash almost as soon as it hits their account.
At the moment, it’s costing them $1.43 to…
May 2011
2 posts
Cleverness kills products.
The following dialog must make sense to the developers, decision maker and security nerds at Mozilla.
It will baffle normal users of their product. But, its sure clever!
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Cloud music + Airfoil rocks!
Tiring of syncing, copying, backing up my large music collection I’m pushing it to Amazon’s Cloud Drive and using the Cloud Player to listen to it.
One component of iTunes that I can not live without is streaming music to numerous speakers around the house.
No worries - Rogue Amoeba’s Airfoil to the rescue. With this slick application you can hijack audio from any application...
April 2011
4 posts
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Shiny bobbles. Productivity fallacies. Ship it.
My personality lends itself to constant experimentation and willingness to reevaluate my work methodology.
Sheer laziness often leads me to solutions that are simple, stable and sustainable — code, deploy and forget is what I strive for.
Google Reeder and Twitter are my biggest distractions. Reading posts from one of many developers I admire, touting technology XYZ being the end all be...
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How the iPhone Knows Where You Are →
Great read.
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Ship greatness always.
Checking out Tweetbot tonight cemented a philosophy for me — “ship greatness always”.
Who thought there was room for yet another twitter client this late in the game.
Tapbot did and their product is awesome.
It reminded me of how most markets Apple now dominates were owned by others. For years in many cases. MP3 players, mobile phones and netbooks. The latter they tore apart with the iPad and...
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Rebooting Mailtemplate.
Everyone struggles with direction from time to time. Over the few years life has been an exciting and terrifying roller coaster. Ending old relationships, starting new ones. Tackling projects undreamed of a few short years ago.
For 10 years I was architect and partner in a struggling web service, Mailtank. It started as a freelance contract to replace an internal tool used to power Mactank, a...