January 2010

Current Status: Packed Powder

I will be MIA for the next few days, riding the back bowls at the best snowboard resort in Colorado: Vail.




Nine Guesses for Text Input Possibilities for the Apple Tablet

Dan Moren thinks the odds of the tablet shipping with a stylus are better than the odds of it shipping with a full-size virtual keyboard. (Via Marco.)




A Bigger Piece of Glass

New website by Tory Hobson, curator of First & 20. This time, a curation of links to rumors, thoughts, hopes, and dreams for Apple’s new Tablet.




jitouch

Hands down the best extension app for Magic Mouse I have used. It runs in the background, doesn’t require a menu-bar icon, and works like a charm. Only costs $6 and comes with a 15-day trial. (Via Jason Fried.)




Unclutter Your Mac in One Week

Though I certainly geek out over this stuff, not everyone in the world cares. My wife, for example, is completely unconcerned by the fact she has over two gigabytes of data on her computer’s Desktop. I, on the other hand, … (More)




“I Am Where I Am Meant to Be.”

Noah Stokes’s story. I love stories.




Action Menu

Action Menu is a jailbreak app which adds some handy features to the iPhone’s copy/paste functionality. Best of which is the in-line access to a list of clipboard favorites. You can add these faves when copying something, or manually within … (More)




iPhone vs. Google Phone

And that’s with the unnecessary AT&T shout out in the status bar. (Via Chris Bowler.) Serious though, I’m with David Chartier — I too would gladly spend an extended amount of time using an “iPhone killing” Android phone to see … (More)




Sean Sperte’s Tweetie Icon

Sized for the Matte Nano jailbreak theme, and much nicer than the one I’ve been using. I’m switching.




DashNote

A nice and simple dashboard widget that syncs with Simplenote. This is currently what I’m using, and what I like most about it is how it’s always available. (Via Michael Mistretta.)




John Carey’s Most Excellent Photoblog

In addition to subscribing to fiftyfootshadows.net, I also recommend that you: (a) download all of John’s desktop wallpapers; (b) set them to rotate every hour; and (c) enjoy.