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“Vague, but exciting”
20 Apr 2012You don’t have to fully understand something to be excited by it:
on the original proposal by Tim Berners-Lee for what became the web, his boss wrote: “vague but exciting” j.mp/Ykc5Q
— Mathew Ingram (@mathewi) April 15, 2012
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Jonathan Ive on new products & competition
13 Mar 2012I could read about what Jony Ive thinks all day long:
Q: What are your goals when setting out to build a new product?
A: Our goals are very simple – to design and make better products. If we can’t make something that is better, we won’t do it.
Q: Why has Apple’s competition struggled to do that?
A: That’s quite unusual, most of our competitors are interesting in doing something different, or want to appear new – I think those are completely the wrong goals. A product has to be genuinely better. This requires real discipline, and that’s what drives us – a sincere, genuine appetite to do something that is better. Committees just don’t work, and it’s not about price, schedule or a bizarre marketing goal to appear different – they are corporate goals with scant regard for people who use the product.
Full interview at thisislondon.co.uk
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Francis — This Must Be Blood
02 Mar 2012I can’t stop listening to these five tracks.
Or listen on Spotify.
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Screenbugger
17 Feb 2012When it comes to reporting bugs, a screencast is worth a thousand words. I built Screenbugger to record and share screencasts quickly and easily (on Mac OS X only so far, though).
- Open Screenbugger and Quicktime starts capturing your screen right away.
- When you’re done, Screenbugger moves the screencast to your
Dropbox/Publicfolder. - Then, you can copy the public Dropbox URL to share with the world.
It’s nothing groundbreaking, but it does make it a lot easier to record a screencast and share it (especially if you do it all the time). And it took me a few hours to build it, so I made it $1. Get it right here: kevinebaugh.com/screenbugger. Thanks!
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Jason Fried
27 Jan 2012If Jason Fried wasn’t already a personal hero of mine, this quote would have put me over the edge:
I don’t read fiction. I find it a waste of time. There are so many amazing things that are real; I don’t need to spend any time on a made-up story.
That’s from a 2009 post in Inc called The Way I Work. It’s well worth five minutes (the above quote is misleading: the post isn’t about books, it’s about how the company culture he created at 37signals).
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Back to the Future Ringtone/Texttone
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Twitter & http(s):// in displayed links
20 Jan 2012Twitter displays links without the http:// or https:// prepended. This saves space and is a little easier on the eyes.
What’s convenient, though, is that when you copy that link, the http:// or https:// is prepended for a split second, so that the URL in your clipboard is a full one.
Check it out in this slowed down screencast:
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Miike Snow ‘Happy To You’ out in March
20 Jan 2012I love both of the tracks released so far by Miike Snow off their upcoming album Happy to You (coming out in March).
Stream them (and presumably more tracks as they’re added to this set) here:
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