Cutting the cord I hate mowing the grass. Its not the exercise or movement; its just a time-sink that you have to do many times a year. If my neighborhood didn't have restrictions on the presence
Rethinking Airplane Mode One of the best parts about the forced confinement of a commercial airplane ride is that you have plenty of time to think about increasingly irrelevant things and wonder exactly why it is
People People -> Ideas -> Software They were scared. It wasn't that it showed in their eyes, they had become too good at hiding it for you to see it that easily, but the hesitation in their voice, the
Siri at the beach Recently I posted an article speculating how a Siri API would function if it were to be announced at WWDC. Well, yesterday was keynote day and it was announced. This doesn't mean I
WWSD - What Would Siri (API) Do? As we approach WWDC 2016, a lot of posts have been floating around that imply Siri will have an official API in just a few short days. Given it will be almost half
Microsoft Microsoft to release SQL Server on Linux? I'm not going to lie, this makes me want to like Microsoft. They keep doing things like this and it keeps confusing the Mac and Linux guy that lives inside my head and
Productivity The Real Meaning of "Minimum" Mark Kawano writing for Inc: If a product in development isn't ready to be released, the deadline is pushed back. If an idea isn't perfect, or isn't considered truly magical and delightful internally,
smartphones Ducking Autocorrect Gideon Lewis-Kraus writing at Wired on the History of Autocorrect: Given how successful autocorrect is, how indispensable it has become, why do we stay so fixated on the errors? It's not just because
Mobile Payments Apple's first step towards mobile payments? From The Next Web: Apple has introduced a new service that allows users to add money to their App Store, iTunes Store or iBookstore account at its physical retail stores. No longer do
Apple Apple + IBM = I never saw this one coming From Apple's PR page: Apple® and IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced an exclusive partnership that teams the market-leading strengths of each company to transform enterprise mobility through a new class of business apps—
Productivity Rand's isn't the problem; I'm the problem Michael Lopp on his Rands in Repose blog: We spend a lot of time asking too much of our tools when, in fact, what we really need is just good practices. I’m
Amazon The problem is also the solution Ben Thompson on the relationship between book publishers and Amazon: I’ve worked with publishers, and here’s the thing: Amazon is right. It’s not that publishers don’t add value,2
mobile Mobile Disruption from the bottom up Clayton Christensen spends much of his time discussing his disruption theory. The central tenant of this theory is that distruption starts from the low-end, low-cost, low-margin part of the market and works its
Design Design as work John R. Moran on Rampant Innovation discussing design: The core object of the Lean philosophy is waste. Quality is fundamentally about variability. And design is about intent. Intent means purpose; something highly designed
3D Printing Casting the mold Despite being 37--almost 38--years of age, there is one thing that thus far in my life has not yet happened to me. While its something most everyone deals with at some point in
forms Building better forms LukeW has been one of my favorite bloggers for years. Rich data, non-obvious ideas and excellent solutions, all in one place. His latest video, reprising some of the research he has presented at
Social Media An entrapment lawsuit waiting to happen... From Ars Technica... According to information provided on their Blogger, Twitter, and Facebook accounts, the PGPD will be documenting the planned takedown with frequent updates during the arrests, tweeting photos and arrestee information.
drug use My first "startup" Fifteen years ago, my first job out of college was in tech support for a large printer "manufacturer." That job taught me a lot, both good and bad, but the best
Google Chrome So long, farewell, good riddance Today, a Canary build of Google Chrome removed something kind of important from the browser: the URL. Of course it still supports them, but the time where users actually see URLs is ending.
Mobile Payments Mobile Payments and College Students From Marketwired An April poll of 2,503 college students around the country revealed that 42 percent would "probably not" or "definitely not" make more mobile payments if they
Supreme Court Lawyer loses his mind in front of the Supreme Court From NPR: DuMont replied that people make a choice — they "choose" when they carry their cellphones with them — and thus they should have "no expectation of privacy" if they
credit cards Credit card security in the hands of the consumer I can't help but look at this solution and have two things... First, better in the hands of the user who knows when they are using their own card than in the hands
Apple The end of Apple's explosive growth? Andrew Cunningham, writing for Ars Technica: Apple's past growth has been driven mostly by entering entirely new product categories, like it did when it introduced the iPod in 2001, the iPhone in 2007,
Mobile Payments Not About the Benjamins The last couple of years have been a fascinating story about the failure of mobile payments to achieve any signficant traction in the mobile payments space. Until the last few months, retailers and
