Last week Randy Murray began a great series of posts regarding Net Neutrality. If you’re still not exactly sure what this whole Net Neutrality topic is all about I suggest reading Randy’s first post, “A Turning Point For Freedom And The Future” which is the link, followed by his post yesterday, “The Dangers And Risks Of A ‘Managed’ Internet“. They are short, concise, and clear.
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“Android’s Marketshare May Have Just Peaked.” →
Thoughtful (as always) article from Marco Arment on the “iPhone versus Android fight”. In short, Marco’s muse is that it hasn’t been iPhone versus Android, but actually iPhone versus Verizon.
I know that in my circles all my friends — save one — with an Android phone have it because it was free or because they didn’t want to leave Verizon: “It’s not an iPhone,” they say, “but it’s still pretty cool. I mean, it’s got a touch screen and all.”
Brilliant At The Basics of Business (PDF) →
One hundred great, great one-liners of advice and food for thought from Nicholas Bate. Numbers 15, 52, 59, 65, 67, 89, 91, 95, 96, and 99 all really struck a chord with me.
But especially numbers 13,
Stop wishing. Start selling. Stop imagining. Pick up the phones. Stop playing with pipeline percentages. Ring every account and ask for business.
34,
A High Performance Business Team is not about having gone white water rafting together. Nor a list of ‘core values’. Nor a fancy mission statement on the wall. Although any of these might help. It is about absolute and total loyalty to each other. Never talk negatively about a team colleague who is not present; talk to him or her.
and 97:
You may well eventually be able to spend three days out of five on the golf course, but don’t make that your goal. Most entrepreneurs work hard, think, develop relationships, sell, chase money, innovate, have fun, pitch, drink coffee. And sometimes play golf.
How Personal Hotspot Works On The Verizon iPhone →
It’s a top-level setting, and includes the Bluetooth and USB sharing options just like tethering works currently on AT&T, et al. The mobile hotspot won’t be Verizon exclusive for very long.
“Everywhere to Run, Everywhere to Hide.” →
Seth Godin:
Some say that the problem of our age is that continuous partial attention, this never ending non-stop distraction, addles the brain and prevents us from being productive. Not quite.
The danger is not distraction, the danger is the ability to hide.
An Illustrated History of the Batmobile →
Nerd nostalgia.
(Via Khoi.)
“One Click. Books?” →
Great piece from Iain Broome on the simplicity of the Mac App Store, the bloat of the iTunes store, and the potential of iBookstore.
I think we’re all agreed that iTunes is getting more bloated by the minute. But that’s because iTunes houses and plays all our media, is the best way to buy and download new media, and is the only place to sync that media to our iDevices. That is a lot for what started out as an MP3 player, but I would rather have a bit of bloat than a lot of de-centralization.
How People Find Applications →
Ian Mackay on discovering applications in the Mac App Store:
I believe people have one of three things in mind when they are looking for an application to use.
Suitability for a given task. For example: “I want to write a novel.” “I want to create a birthday card.”
Similarity to an existing application. Some applications set a paradigm to which all others are compared (e.g. Microsoft Word, Adobe Photoshop).
Inclusion of a specific feature or design pattern. Usually one that the person uses a lot, so it’s a big time-saver.
Get Access to Those Super Secret Twitter for Mac Preferences →
Tweaky is a GUI utility app for adjusting the super secret defaults preferences that are there in Twiter for Mac (Tweetie 2) but are only visible to those who bought that MacHeist bundle a while back.
The only “super secret” adjustment I care about is the ability to escape out of the Tweet compose window. And that can be done via the Terminal:
defaults write com.twitter.twitter-mac ESCClosesComposeWindow -bool trueApple Wants to Keep its iOS Developers in the Mac Ecosystem →
Ben Brooks has a fantastic addition to my Mac App Store piece, stating the store was launched not primarily for the users but for the current pool of iOS developers:
My guess is that if they truly did this as a simplification of the OS they would have waited until 10.7 — giving everyone a clean breaking point for making the transition.
Apple reached a fork in the road: they could have gambled on iOS developers being willing to develop for the Mac when they release 10.7; instead they chose a safer path of launching now, at the very moment interest in such a distribution channel was at its peak.
And note that most of the new apps in the Mac App Store were ported iOS games.
Cyberspace →
Many thanks to Cyberspace for sponsoring the RSS feed this week. Cyberspace is a Web browser for your iPad and iPhone/iPod touch that is jam packed with useful and thought-out features not found in Safari. It’s got Twitter, OmniFocus, and Instapaper support baked in. As well as in-flight text mobilizer using Instapaper’s engine.
Cyberspace is a universal app, and is just $2 on the App Store.
The iPhone is Coming to Verizon →
And so now my dad can get an iPhone.
The Mac App Store: What you need to know →
A great list of FAQs from Macworld.
OWC’s Replacemnt SSD for the MacBook Air →
They’re not cheap, but they are 22% faster and up to 3 times the capacity of the stock SSDs that ship with the Airs. I have an OWC Mercury Extreme SSD in my MacBook Pro and I love it.
(Via TUAW.)