Mac Power Users Episode 97, Repair and Recycle with iFixit’s Kyle Wiens, is up. Kyle talks about how iFixit came to be and explains the best ways to responsibly recycle your electronics. I learned a ton. Get the episode over at 5by5. Also, don’t forget to subscribe in iTunes.
ScreencastsOnline Monthly Magazine ▻
Don McAllister is one of my heroes. He built a business where no one said a business could exist. He’s been creating amazing screencasts for years and managed to turn it into a full-time gig. Now Don has started publishing his own magazine through the iPad newsstand. It includes some fantastic screencasts, Don’s Liverpool accent, and articles by others from the Mac community, including yours truly. The first issue is free. Check it out. Moreover, share it with some of your less nerdy friends who want to get better at using their Apple technologies.
As part of a bigger story, I love this explosion of independent publishing.
Hapy Birthday TRS 80 ▻
In 1978, I learned to program on a TRS-80. It went something like this.
10 Get on orange Schwinn 10-speed bike
20 Ride to Radio Shack
30 Progam many lines of basic including one seriously kick ass text adventure
40 Ride back home when store closed
50 Goto 10
Facebook Shenanigans ▻
One company’s investigation showed 80% of their Facebook ad clicks were bots. What worries me about Facebook is that the only way for them to earn the bucket loads of cash everyone thinks they should is a frontal assault on the privacy rights of their millions and millions of users. Creepy.
RSS Sponsor: The Theme Foundry
My thanks to the Theme Foundry for sponsoring this week’s RSS feed.
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70% Off Readdle iOS Apps ▻
Today Readdle turns 5 and you get 70% off their apps. My favorite is Scanner Pro.
BGR Reports AT&T Directing Customers Away from iPhone ▻
So I guess the Apple-AT&T marriage is firmly heading towards the seven year itch. It probably serves Apple right for cheating with every other carrier in town.
TextExpander Expense Snippet
I spent most of yesterday in court. As I fired off my TextExpander expense reporting snippet, it occurred to me, “people may like this.” This snippet creates a fill-in form with all the relevant boxes. I can use it in any text application, I usually do it in a blank Byword or Pages documents and staple receipts and the other relevant pieces of paper. Download it here.
MPU 96: Web Automation Tools ▻
Mac Power Users Episode 96, Web Automation Tools, is up. Katie an I put our propeller beanie caps on and talk about Yahoo Pipes and IFTTT. Get the episode over at 5by5. Also, don’t forget to subscribe in iTunes.
The Verge, Ltd. Pipe
There are two firehose-type websites that I like, The Verge and Ars Technica. While I don’t have time to read everything these sites publish, I do like to check them when time allows. The trouble is that they cover some subjects for which I have zero interest. Things like Windows, Android, and lawsuits get posts. I don’t want to read (or see) them.
So I made a Yahoo Pipe to filter them out. In Monday’s Mac Power Users episode on web automation, I’ll talk about my Verge, Ltd pipe. It isn’t very complicated. I fetch the RSS feed from The Verge and Ars Technica and combine them (with the Union tool). Then I run them through an ever-growing list of filters to spit out a much leaner feed out the other end. Here is the public link.
