These are the iPhone apps which I use most frequently:
* I’m excluding games and Facebook.
It's all ball-bearings nowadays.
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July 26th, 2013 @ 6:56 am
Here are the five apps I use most frequently on my MacBook Air:
May 10th, 2013 @ 7:16 am
Five things I would feel compelled to replace immediately if they stopped working:
- iPhone (Apple)
- electric toothbrush (Braun)
- bedroom DVR (DirecTV)
- MacBook Air (Apple)
- bedroom television (LG)
January 13th, 2013 @ 6:08 am
The MacBook Air is the best laptop ever made. There’s really no arguing this point. But when I upgraded from Lion to Mountain Lion, suddenly it started to take for-freaking-ever to wake up when it went to sleep. Before the upgrade I could reliably open the machine and immediately type my password to start working. […]
January 12th, 2013 @ 5:44 am
One of the (many) cool things Obama has done since he became POTUS is allow anyone to submit a petition to the White House. If you manage to get 25,000 people to sign your petition, you are guaranteed a formal response from the Obama Administration. There are petitions from nutjobs in Texas who want to […]
August 29th, 2012 @ 10:33 am
For over a year now I’ve had a problem with my contacts on my iPhone. It’s a very strange bug. I get a phone call and if I save the contact to my address book, it appears in my phone correctly under the “recent calls” list, but not in the Contacts app. And it never […]
If you need to strip all non-numeric characters from a string (except for the period character) using JavaScript, try:
string.replace(/[^\d.]/g, "");
April 19th, 2012 @ 8:50 am
It seems to me that it would be a no-brainer for Apple to update iTunes so that I could easily post a song to my Twitter account. The app could automatically insert a link to purchase the track in the iTunes store (or not, if it’s a song that doesn’t exist there).
Pentametron scours Twitter looking for tweets that are in iambic pentameter and then combines them into sonnets.
April 4th, 2012 @ 10:32 am
There’s a really good article in this week’s New York Times Magazine on the hyperaddictive, time-sucking, relationship-busting, mind-crushing power and allure of silly digital games. (hat tip to @sprokolopolis)
April 3rd, 2012 @ 11:38 pm
I can’t say enough good things about f.lux. It’s a small and free little app that automatically changes the intensity of your laptop’s screen based on the time of day. If you frequently find yourself using the computer long after you should be asleep, you need this app.
April 2nd, 2012 @ 9:13 am
Ever since my son was born I have been saying that I don’t think he’ll ever need to “drive” a car. I really think that by the time he’s old enough to drive, the idea of sitting behind the wheel and steering and using the gas pedal will be silly to him. I’m not saying […]
March 20th, 2012 @ 9:26 pm
Have you noticed your MacBook Air fan has suddenly started running continuously, and loudly? You may need an SMC reset. See also: Intel-based Macs: Resetting the System Management Controller (SMC)
Let’s take a look at my current connection costs here in Los Angeles: Service Purpose Approximate Monthly Rate DirecTV HD Satellite TV + 2 HD DVRs $135 AT&T mobile phones + data $235 Verizon land line (for alarm system) $24 Time-Warner Cable Internet $50 So I’m paying almost $450.00/mo to stay “connected”. Eek.
October 13th, 2011 @ 8:14 am
A few years ago my buddy Bob gave me the fantastic Peter Bogdanovich documentary Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: Runnin’ Down a Dream It’s pretty awesome and I highly recommend it, even if you’re not a die-hard Petty fan. The four hour documentary, which spans two DVDs, comes with a bonus CD and a bonus […]