About Apple Rumors

The Angry Drunk says it best:

I’ve reached the point where I greet each new Apple prod­uct rumor with black, soul-crushing depression.

I’ve never been much for rumors. Indeed, I go out of my way not to cover them here or on the Mac Power Users. The fact is, Apple is a company full of smart people and smart people understand that in order to keep the lights on, they need to continue to innovate and ship products. Therefore, Apple will continue to innovate and ship products. I’m happy to wait until they are done. Sadly, the Apple rumors just magnify everything that is wrong with the Internet’s busted click to pay advertising model and Apple rumors will continue as long as people can make a few pieces of silver on it. What we can do, however, as a community, is not click, not cover, and generally ignore this fictitious digital vomit.

Let’s Sing

If you didn’t already know him, Lex Friedman is definitely one of the good guys. Moreover, it appears Lex is one of the smart guys. He and Marco Tabini just released an app, Let’s Sing (Paid Version) (Free Version) that is the love child of Draw Something and Name That Tune. I’m going to have so much fun with this.

Paperless PDF and Update

A lot of people don’t own an iPad or live somewhere that doesn’t have an iBookstore. For them, I’ve just released a PDF version of the Paperless Field Guide. Go nuts. I looked at a lot of ways to deliver this PDF but ultimately decided on a simple PDF file (with embedded Internet links) and a folder containing all the screencasts. I didn’t bury the screencasts in the PDF for a few reasons:

  1. It was going to be Flash-tastic, and I don’t like that.

  2. Separating the video gives buyers the most options. You can put them in iTunes, or store it in a folder. You can also read the PDF separately.

It is a big download, weighing in at almost 900MB. Enjoy.

Overall, I’m thrilled with my first self published book. It is still #1 in the iTunes computer books category and I’m getting tons of great feedback. Moreover, yesterday I started a new Scrivener project. Stay tuned.