Macdrifter on Siri Dictation
Clever post. Personally, my experience dictating to my iPhone has not been as accurate as what is shown here.
Shawn Blanc Reviews the Galaxy Nexus
Shawn Blanc delivers an incredibly detailed review of the Nexus. This is classic Blanc and one of his best posts this year.
Amazon Kindle Fire vs. iPad 2 – Marco.org
Anyway, the main attraction of Amazon’s Kindle Fire vs. iPad 2 page is the big comparison table. Other people’s feature-comparison checklists always leave out factors that are important to me, so I made my own additions that Amazon is welcome to include on their page:
Marco gets brutal.
I stumbled across this cable organizer in a GigaOm article tonight. A perfect complement to a MacBook for the Apple-design inspired.
Source: quirky.com
New Look on Delicious
Delicious has been a work in progress since the beta re-launch, with our attention primarily on completing the migration from Yahoo!. We’re focused now on innovating Delicious to empower web discovery, and actively building the team and dedicating the resources to make it happen. New features and site updates will start rolling out more rapidly, so keep watching this space.
My fingers are crossed. It looks like the new team at Delicious is righting the ship.
How MarsEdit Got Its Name
Always love to read stuff like this.
Day-O is a simple menu bar clock replacement with a simple calendar for your Mac.
Thanks, anindiearmy
I just installed this menu bar app a couple minutes ago, and I love it. It perfectly fills the gap it was designed to address and does nothing more, nothing less.
Source: onethingwell
Matt Mullenweg: What’s Next for Apple
Hello — you can detect when a cable is plugged in, don’t make me switch between 15 sources when only one is connected. My TV takes 5-10 seconds longer to turn on than my iPad. “Smart TVs” look like “smart phones” did in 2005 — completely lacking in imagination or joy.
But to really imagine the strategic importance of this you need to think beyond a super-sized Thunderbolt display and imagine what replaces iMac, one of Apple’s most beautiful creations. People’s need for a desktop is seriously declining for the first time since pundits started predicted the decline of the PC a decade ago. The post-PC ecosystem is in place now — touch, battery life, mobile-first applications, ubiquity of internet access, flash memory… Mobile works and is getting better, and you won’t have what we call a desktop 10 years from now.
Now imagine Apple has a shining 55″ monolith smack dab in the middle of your house. How big of a wifi antenna could they put in there? Could they crush all that lame Cisco teleconference stuff with TV FaceTime? Is there room for a few disk drives that don’t need to worry about skipping plus a SSD to make it fast? If you look at the direction Apple has been heading with Time Capsule locally caching software updates it’s not hard for something similar to work in the other direction, a digital hub that’s your media server for the house, a large-format display, a time capsule, and an Airplay target all in one. Imagine just one power cable coming out of it, and everything else wireless, just like the iMac, and a few killer apps we can’t even imagine yet.
Terrific insights on where Apple’s product strategy may go next from Matt Mullenweg.
via: Shawn Blanc
Selectively turn off Lion’s “Resume” feature when opening an app
Lion introduced a new iOS-like Resume feature that allows apps to reopen with all documents, windows, and settings right where you left them. But if you want to override this setting on an app-by-app basis, simply hold the Shift key when starting an app. It will open to its native ‘clean slate,’ with none of the documents or windows you had open the last time you quit the app.
Thank you.
Source: finermac
Thank You
If my Dad was alive today, one of the ways you could describe him would be to call him an “early adopter”, but back in the late seventies and early eighties I don’t think that term was in vogue. He was simply someone who loved technology. I have great memories of spending time with my Dad and family enjoying the latest gadget he had brought home whether that was an early VHS, a Laserdisc player, an Atari 2600, or the latest Canon SLR.
One day he got us something that was pretty special: the Apple II. I was just a young kid then but I became totally enamored with the machine and spent many memorable hours on the computer with my family and friends doing everything from logging on to BBS systems, to playing games, to practicing math problems, to watching my Dad use VisiCalc for his work.
Not so many years later, I vividly recall waiting anxiously at the counter of the local Computerland as I waited for my Dad to sign the paperwork so our family could “test drive a Mac” for the weekend. Needless to say, it didn’t take very long for my Dad to buy one, and we were collectively awed by this new computer and it individually touched each of us in a unique way.
Those two computers sparked something in me that fueled a love and passion for technology which has never left me. In the years since, I have lovingly used all types of technology but have a special place in my heart for the many Apple products that I have owned over the years.
Today, I am the Dad now and I have come to realize I am walking in my Dad’s footsteps as I watch my sons and daughter dive into our iPad, Mac, and iPhones much in the same way that I did with the Apple II and Macintosh. The gleam and excitement in their eyes when they use this generation of Apple products I imagine looks as mine likely did when I was their age.
Your work has inspired all of us.
Thank you Steve.
