Jason Fried:

When you make something you make something else. Just like they say you can not not communicate, you can not not make something else. Everything has a by-product. Observant and creative entrepreneurs spot these by-products and see opportunities.

This is exactly how Delight is in the Details came to be. It started as a topic for several episodes of my members-only podcast, and then I picked it up and turned it into something so much more.

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Mark Jardine:

Seven months ago, we started working on a big update for Calcbot. We were hoping to release it sometime in the summer. Two months in, Apple announced iOS7 at WWDC. We knew this was a huge change. It would make every single one of our apps look dated so we had to make sure our flagship app was ready for it. All of the design work that went into the Calcbot update was rendered obsolete in one keynote and so we focused our energy on updating Tweetbot for iPhone. Playing with the beta of iOS7 over the next few weeks brought us to the realization that this would not just be a “re-skin”. We really had to just start over with the new foundation and concepts of iOS7.

From the In Focus blog, some stunning photography of hot air balloons over the past 100+ years. My favorite shots from this collection are the ones from nearly a century ago, even though airship design and photography gear has significantly advanced since then. (Via Kottke.)

From my armchair, I say Nick is probably pretty close to the money here. We know Apple likes patterns, and chances are pretty good that everything they’ll announce on Tuesday will be something that is — more or less — “expected”. And by “expected” I mean “better versions of existing products”. The question is, which products will be upgraded and how much?

Will the iPad and iPad mini be upgraded. Of course, but with what? Touch ID on the former and Retina display on the latter? Hopefully. And what about the Thunderbolt Displays? Will they get an upgrade? Gosh, I sure hope so.

Now here’s a good announcement.

Oh my. I’ve been a very happy customer with Media Temple for 6 years now, and I’ve happily and heartily recommended their services to anyone who’s asked. I even have a Media Temple banner on my site’s sidebar.

And so today’s acquisition by GoDaddy is a bit disheartening for a few reasons.

First of all, it’s always scary when a company you rely on heavily gets bought by another company. Suddenly the future is uncertain. Naturally, Media Temple says that nothing will change, but we all know that that’s what they all say. And so I take their statements with a grain of salt.

Secondly, the acquisition is disheartening because I have virtually zero respect for the GoDaddy brand.

However, I’m not going to make any hosting changes at the moment. There are several very fine hosting options out there — WP Engine, Digital Ocean, and MacMiniColo all come to mind — but I have 9 websites hosted across 3 different Media Temple servers right now (one of which is a new project in active development). Stopping everything to migrate servers and databases is neither important nor appealing to me at the moment.1

Secondly, if you read the links below from Media Temple’s FAQ and Virb’s announcement, they both talk about a “new GoDaddy” that has a desire to transform their brand into something fresh and different.

Brad Smith wrote in his announcement to the Virb customer base:

Throughout my conversations with the teams at GoDaddy, it’s wildly apparent they are on a mission to transform the company with fresh thinking, new advertising, and an inspiring new strategy. It truly is a “new” GoDaddy. I cannot wait to watch (mt) and GoDaddy shine brightly together.

If you’re a Media Temple customer here are a few more links of note regarding the acquisition:

• Media Temple posted an FAQ about what will and won’t be changing.

• Virb, the cool website building company that was acquired by Media Temple a few years ago, did not want to be part of the GoDaddy deal and has been sold back to its original founders.

• Chris Coyier of CSS-Tricks shares his positive perspective of a Media Temple customer who has a good impression of GoDaddy.

• Checking out the latest design of GoDaddy.com, it has changed significantly. It’s a much more professional- and classy-looking home page since the last time I saw it.

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In case one podcast wasn’t enough for you this week, you’re in luck. I was also a guest on this week’s episode of Mikes on Mics. Mike Vardy, Mike Schechter, and I “attempted” to talk about focus but talked about all sorts of really great topics including schedules, defining success, and my 100-year-old grandfather’s motto to “break a sweat every day”.

I was a guest on my pal Rick Stawarz’s podcast, Farmer’s Market, and we talked about some of the essential OS X apps that any generally computer-savvy person ought to be using to get the most out of their Mac (cool stuff like as application launchers, password managers, task managers, etc.).

Mobile computers are popular because they’re convenient. One day we looked up and realized we were mostly using our iPhones and not using our laptops all that often anymore.

Mobile computers (smartphones and iPads) are cheaper (you can get an iPhone 4S for $0), they’re always nearby (mine’s usually in my pocket), always connected to the Internet, and they’re easier to use for casual computing like checking in on email and social networks, jotting down a few notes, and checking off a few tasks or adding a few new ones (which are all the computing needs of most people).

P.S. I read David’s article and then wrote and posted this link all from my iPhone.