A way to link to a specific part of a YouTube video:
WAIT… CAN’T I DO THIS MYSELF BY ADDING THAT BIT AT THE END?
Yup.THEN WHY IS THIS HERE?
A) Not everyone knows about it yet, B) even if they do, they forget how to do it, and C) laziness.
It’s funny in this case, but great inventions, products, and services are often born out of a desire to help with forgetfulness and/or laziness. See also this chart: Geeks and Repetitive Tasks.
Some people will think this is sacrilege, the rest of us will think it is awesome.
Horace Dediu:
[C]apital spending has provided reliable foreshadowing of iOS device production. This is itself because Apple invests in the equipment used in the manufacturing processes for its devices. The more spending on equipment, the more production capacity is brought to bear and the more units are produced. Since iOS devices tend to be supply constrained, the more units are produced then the more are sold.
It’s one thing to have a hot product, it’s another thing to be able to (mostly) keep up with such high demand while also turning a crazy profit.
The pieces are in place for continuing the existing rate of growth.
Success breeds success. And in this case, the more successful Apple is the more successful they can continue to be.
Marco Arment was a guest for the latest episode of On The Verge. I enjoyed the whole 20-minute segment but I have to say that it gets especially great when Marco and Joshua start bantering about Android and iOS.
And here’s another video interview with Marco from the summer of 2009. He answers a lot of the same questions that come up in On The Verge, but this was back when Marco was still working full-time as the lead developer at Tumblr, there was no Instapaper for iPad (because, you know, there was no iPad).
In a way, what makes this poster even cooler is the fact that Denver never did host the 1976 winter Olympics — they withdrew because hosting the Olympics costs a lot of money.
After Denver withdrew, Whistler, B.C. was offered the games but they declined. The International Olympic Committee then offered the games to Innsbruck, Austria and that’s where the games were held. Here’s one of the posters from the Innsbruck games.
While you hold your breath for Coda 2 and Diet Coda, here’s a link to my review of Coda 1:
Coda is a text-editing, CSS-styling, WebKit previewing, file-managing, FTPing, terminal-accessing, web-site-building and publishing application for the Macintosh.
And, Coda has no duct tape.
I wrote the Coda review over 4 years ago, and Coda has been my only text editor ever since.
My thanks to JetPens for sponsoring the RSS feed this week. I’ve been buying my pens from these guys for years — they have only the best pens that you can’t find anywhere else.
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Great tip from Brett Terpstra. Just punch this into the Terminal and restart the Finder:
defaults write com.apple.finder QLEnableTextSelection -bool TRUEIf the standard bow tie knot isn’t for you, maybe this’ll suit you better.
Steven Sande at TUAW reviews the Logitech Ultrathin Keyboard Cover:
Combining the protection of Apple’s Smart Cover and the typing ease of the Apple Wireless Keyboard into a wafer-thin cover is a great idea, and Logitech’s execution of the concept is essentially perfect. Without a doubt, this is the best iPad Bluetooth keyboard on the market at this time.
If I were going to get an iPad-keyboard-case-type-thing, Logitech’s Ultrathin Keyboard Cover is probably what I’d spring for. I don’t want one of those keyboard-cases that permanently attached to the iPad because I use my iPad without a Bluetooth keyboard far more than I use it with one.
But, I use the Origami Workstation from Incase along with my Apple Bluetooth keyboard and it is all just great.
Though, one thing I like about the Logitech Ultrathin is that it has specialized iPad keys (like one to go to the Home screen, one to activate Spotlight search, etc.). The AmazonBasics iPad keyboard has these buttons as well, and in my time of trying it out I found that I used the specialized keys quite regularly.
Pre-orders for the latest round of sweet t-shirts ends when I send them off to print on Monday morning. If you want one, there’s no time like the present.
Ben Maurer’s answer to the Quora question about the safest way to send someone $1,000 in cash:
Get 10 new $100 bills. Cut them into thirds. Put all of the left sides in one envelope, right sides in another, and middles in a third. Send the envelopes separately.
It’s clever because the Department of the Treasury allows you to redeem damaged currency. It’s illegal because you aren’t supposed to willfully mutilate currency.
Ben and I had a fun time talking about laser tag, iPhone rumors, and Mac App Store sandboxing rumors. (This week’s episode of The B&B Podcast was almost a live-only show when we realized half-way through that there was a technical difficulty with the recording. Fortunately some friends of the show helped us out and all was not lost.)