In episode 193, writer of many books James Floyd Kelly talks about how he gets it all done and shares some excellent geek dad tips, including how to build your very own wireless Atari 2600 emulator including controller. Check it out. ∞
Listen & read notes →GOkey
About every six months I buy something dumb on KickStarter or Indiegogo. A few days ago, I got sucked in on the GOkey. It is a keychain dongle that includes a small battery for a brief charge, a Lightening cable for connecting your iPhone…
Continue reading →Beats Music
A few months ago I sat in the speaker room at MacWorld Expo talked at length with Chris Breen about music streaming services. Chris is a musician and firm believer in streaming your music instead of buying it. I explained how I tried a…
Continue reading →Jazz Friday: Mercy, Mercy, Mercy
Cannonball Adderley (Wikipedia) is one of best alto saxophonists from the hard bop era. As a sideman, he played with Miles Davis including the Kind of Blue album. After he left Miles Davis, Cannonball started his own successful quintet. Cannonball viewed himself as a…
Continue reading →Home Screens: Tom Merritt
This week’s home screen features Tom Merritt (Twitter) (Website). Tom is one of the premier tech broadcasters. Tom currently produces The Daily Tech News Show. I also enjoy Tom’s Sword & Laser podcast where he and Veronica Belmont covers fantasy and science fiction books.…
Continue reading →In Support of Net Neutrality
I generally avoid politics here but today’s FCC vote (3-2) that would allow Internet providers to charge for premium access is a bad thing. Innovation starts in a garage, not in 50-story buildings. Ending net neutrality puts future up-and-comers at risk and feels, ultimately, like…
Continue reading →Notebook Version 4
Circus Ponies’ Notebook is one of the most mature productivity apps on the Mac. Its developer, Jayson Adams, is a stand-up guy that has been pouring himself into this application for a long time. Over the past several years, Jayson and his team have…
Continue reading →iThoughts for iOS Update, New and On Sale
For nine months, Craig Scott, has been hard at work with a ground-up redesign of iThoughts for iOS. The new version is universal (working on both iPad and iPhone) and looks great in its iOS 7-ified brilliance. There are quite a few new features…
Continue reading →New Sonos App
Sonos released it’s updated iOS app and having spent some time with it, I approve. We continue to see repercussions from the iOS 7 redesign with companies not only giving their apps an iOS 7 coat of paint, but also rethinking how their apps…
Continue reading →Efficiency vs. Delight
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the role of delight in application design and how it relates to (and sometimes trumps) efficiency. I wrote a small piece about this and Macworld published it today. ∞
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