Patrick Rhone is giving out free Mac tech support via Twitter. If he can fix your problem in 140 characters or less it’s free. Otherwise, it’s $25. Either way you look at it, that’s a good deal.
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Daily Drop Cap →
Use Dropbox to Create a Yojimbo iPhone App →
Not being able to sync text notes between my iPhone and Yojimbo has never bothered me. But there have been many occasions where I wish I could send photos to Yojimbo more easily.
Well Ken Clark just wrote up a very simple and clever way to get pictures from your iPhone into Yojimbo using Dropbox and their new iPhone app. And it works like a charm.
“Luck. Quality. Marketing.” [iTunes Link] →
Nice and lighthearted presentation by Loren Brichter on the success of Tweetie for iPhone at Stanford’s iPhone app class. When one of the students asks about charging for upgrades, Loren answers:
You actual can’t charge for upgrades. It’s something I’ve been talking to Apple about. Right now all the point-upgrades have been free, but if you want to charge for an upgrade you have to release a whole new app.
And there’s no upgrade path for people, which stinks. Cuz I would like to release Tweetie 2 and charge ninety-nine cents for it. But either I release it completely for free and don’t make any money, or charge $2.99 for everyone.
That was six months ago.
Flickr Gallery of Sydney’s Red Dust Storm →
Absolutely gorgeous photos, most of which are straight out of people’s cameras. Curator, Tom Coates, summed it up best:
Difficult for me to describe how beautiful this one is in any way that would exceed the photo itself.
One Billion-Pixel Mosaic of the Galactic Center Region →
Oh my stars. (Via Jordan Smith.)
Daring Serif Style for NetNewsWire →
A re-link in honor of NetNewsWire 2.0 for iPhone. Because “when reading lots of text on a MacBook Pro, I prefer a serif. lots of text on iPhone, sans. Lots of text in a book, coffee.” (Via me.)
Geoff Teehan’s Home Screen Proposal →
“Rise of the Tablog” →
Man, I think Nick is spot on:
The result of all this is that it’s even harder to find blogs that you can read for pleasure.
Rule 389 →
Maybe Lamond’s best advice yet.
Share on Tumblr From Fever →
How to add Tumblr sharing to your Fever feed reader. (Via LKM’s Stuff.)
Widescreen Hack for Yojimbo 2 →
John Hicks updates his 3-panel widescreen hack to work with Yojimbo 2.0.
“Writing in the Age of Distraction” →
Cory Doctorow:
The single worst piece of writing advice I ever got was to stay away from the Internet…
Cory’s advice reminds me a lot of Natalie Goldberg’s tone in Writing Down the Bones: just write.
Custom Fluid Style for Simplenote →
John Hicks wrote some custom CSS to better use Simplenote in Fluid. Also, the Simplenote crew has posted hi-res versions of their icon. Even though it’s exponentially more ugly at 550 pixels than at 57, at least it will match your iPhone.