August 2010
1 post
April 2010
4 posts
Joss Whedon to Direct The Avengers, Project... →
Based on the track record of Joss Whedon in the world of television, film and other things that are visual and entertaining, it is likely that any project to which he becomes attached is going to go…
Five ways Keynote for the iPad badly misses the... →
You’d think Apple would make Keynote for the iPad work well with the desktop version. Sadly, you’d be wrong.
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Five ways Keynote for the iPad badly misses the... →
My first EVER post on TUAW! All about Keynote and the iPad’s foibles. Check it out!
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iPhone OS 4.0 and multiple user accounts
After sharing one iPad amongst my coworkers for two days now, I’d bet money that Thursday’s iPhone OS 4.0 announcement will bring multiple user accounts to the iPad (and possibly the iPhone). The iPad is too pricey for Apple to reasonably expect every person in a household to own one (though I’m sure they can dream). But because it’s so portable, it’s ridiculously...
How I'd Hack Your Weak Passwords →
Internet standards expert and blogger John Pozadzides knows a thing or two about password security and he knows exactly how he’d hack the weak passwords you use all over the internet.
March 2010
3 posts
Dead Man Driving →
Car crashes happen to other guys, right? Maybe they don’t have your quick reaction time or uncanny ability to multitask behind the wheel. Or maybe they’re simply lesser drivers. If you believe that,…
Ricky Gervais Calls Out Weirdness of The Marriage... →
Gervais: “I feel like someone’s put crack in my drink! What is going on? This is the weirdest show I’ve ever been on.”
February 2010
1 post
Great white sharks more endangered than tigers →
Great White Sharks are now even more endangered than tigers, according to a leading marine biologist.
January 2010
1 post
YouTube Launches Support for HTML5 →
YouTube has just revealed that it is rolling out a new video player that supports HTLM5, one that can be accessed via YouTube’s TestTube idea incubator.
December 2009
4 posts
20 Photoshop Tips and Tricks That You Should Know... →
Photoshop is a heck of an amazing software. You can do all kinds of things with images and go as far as your imagination can take you. Once you are past the beginner level and understand what the…
Top 10 Tracks from the Halo Universe →
Ten Halo franchise songs that will please your ears
iPhone and Snow Leopard Server's failure to... →
With Apple pushing the iPhone as a full-featured smartphone for the enterprise, you’d think it would work perfectly with its own enterprise-focused Snow Leopard Server. You’d be wrong. The iPhone…
iPhone and Snow Leopard Server's failure to... →
So excited!! My first ever published tech article is now up at Ars Technica. Incredibly nerdy stuff, but fun nonetheless. Very pumped!
November 2009
3 posts
Colbert's Best Crackups →
One of the things that makes Stephen Colbert so beloved is his ability to stay in character under the most difficult circumstances. Which is probably why it’s so funny when he does break.
NASA - LCROSS Impact Data Indicates Water on Moon →
Got Water? Yes and a Whole Lot More!
Joss Whedon writes An Open Letter to the... →
The Terminator franchise is for sale. Joss Whedon makes a bid for it.
September 2009
1 post
49 Amazing Resources for Free Vector Graphics →
Your search for free Vector graphics is over. Below we have compiled a list of the best free web sites to freely download Vectors, most of the sites don’t qualify into a category, we’ll call them…
August 2009
7 posts
Fish Bump →
High-fives with a 50ft humpback whale.
How Sam Adams Helped Save Craft Brewing →
Making and drinking beer is serious business, says Boston Beer Founder, Jim Koch. But he’s just as serious about doing right by his neighbors and his band of craft brewing brothers.
An Insider On the Apple Tablet - apple tablet -... →
Despite the rumors, I never fully believed the apple tablet was real, until I heard these words over my phone: Hey, its [redacted]. I may or may not have sat in some Apple meetings for the tablet.
The True Story of the REAL Inglourious Basterds →
Quentin Tarantino’s ultra-violent Nazi revenge movie has plenty of drama but the real story is even better. Kim Masters tells her personal connection to the heroic band of Jewish commandos known as X…
25 things you didn't know about baseball - MLB -... →
An obscure site proves Jarrod Washburn’s fastball is baseball’s best and reveals Tim Lincecum’s best pitch. - Major League Baseball news
5 Secrets of the Photoshop Crop Tool with... →
If you’re used to clicking the crop tool dragging the tool over your image and pressing Enter, it may surprise you to know that there are other options that you can use when cropping in Photoshop….
July 2009
14 posts
Too much
In the past week I’ve jumped between web development, Mac server administration, and iPhone programming. Three incredibly divergent paths of the computer world, most of which have absolutely nothing to do with each other. I need to either focus on one, or get good at all three of them real fast. While option two is the weaker option, I feel it’s the one I’m being urged into.
20 jQuery Tutorials And Plugins To Impress Your... →
most of them have working demos
The best ideas
The best idea is one that you have never ever considered in even the slightest before hearing it. But when you did, it instantly became the coolest thing you’ve heard, causing you to instantly exclaim that is so wonderful I don’t know how I lived before hearing it.
“I don’t get the timing. Why announce it now, when it clearly isn’t close to...”
– “Daring Fireball’s” John Gruber with an excellent point about Google Chrome. The timing is incredibly suspect. While we don’t know now, I think eventually the timing will become incredibly clear.
Out to dinner at Clydes, then Billy Joel and Elton John concert followed by a pal’s going away party. Busy night!
“You have much money and don’t even realize it.” #1stdraftmovielines
“Make sure your laser beam doesn’t cross my laser beam.” #1stdraftmovielines
RT @Lifehacker: Set Up “Push” Gmail on Your iPhone http://tinyurl.com/maa3lv
LOL. Gmail is finally out of beta!
Holy crap, Lance Armstrong might have just nabbed the yellow jersey.
Have a complaint about a pothole or blown street light in Boston? There’s now an app for that. http://bit.ly/PSTP4
Anyone want cinder blocks? Because for unknown reasons I still have some. http://yfrog.com/0v76hj
Cantina Marina! Tonight! At six! Who’s in?
June 2009
101 posts
If anyone has seen or talked to @justinbangs, please have him call me. Thanks.
WWDC ‘09 Session slides and videos now posted! Something to do while I’m waiting for the last of my craigslist stuff to sell.
Anyone have an email address for Gmail Support? Still trying to address my spam-bot problem.
Craigslist sucks. Darned recession. Who wants a tv panel bench mount and my cool glass dining room table?
Selling awesome IKEA TV bench w/mountable back panel and a kick-ass glass dining room table. http://bit.ly/y6mTS and http://bit.ly/836xo
I remember when Saturdays were based around the TV cartoon programming schedule. Need to reprioritize, go back to my roots.(via @feliciaday)
Come on Red Sox - first game I’ve gotten to go to in a while and this is how you repay me? Laaame.
Alright Red Bull. I don’t like you and you don’t like me. But I’m tired damnit so let’s make this work.
I don’t even follow soccer but this is still nuts - U.S. soccer team beat #1 ranked Spain in a shocking upset.
10 UI Design Patterns You Should Be Paying... →
This article goes over 10 interesting UI design patterns that you can use in your own projects. In fact, you may already be using them now without knowing it.
Help tell @msofficeus that using Word to render HTML emails in Outlook is a dumb idea. See http://fixoutlook.org and RT