July 2012
20 posts
More On Email
My post last week on email clients being largely unchanged since the beginning of email itself spurred a lot of discussion in my own email inbox. I wanted to publicly address a couple of these…
Many people have emailed me to ask if I have heard of either .Mail or Mail Pilot. I have and, while both projects agree with me on the lack of innovation in email clients and I support their...
Minimal Mac | RSS Sponsorships — Good News, Bad... →
I have some good news and some bad news for those looking to sponsor Minimal Mac.
First, the Good News: New sponsorship slots have been posted for the month of August. This is still, by far, a great way to get your app or product in front of 100,000 eyeballs.
Now, the Bad News: Most of those slots have already sold. Only the August 25 – September 1 slot remains. If you are even remotely...
“As complex software evolves, usually it turns into less than the sum of its...”
– Mountain Lion and the Simplification of OS X — Shawn Blanc
Static Made | Emails to My Unborn Daughter →
For the past five years, I’ve been writing emails to my son. Shortly after he was born in 2007, I created an email account in his name so I could write to him throughout his childhood and then turn the account over to him when he was of age. Upon opening the account for the first time, he’d be greeted with an archive of his childhood as seen through his father’s eyes.
Wow. Just… Wow.
If...
Three Years
You know what I totally missed? The three year anniversary of Minimal Mac! Minimal Mac was officially launched on July 20, 2009 at 11:00pm
Here’s the first post.
Gosh, what a trip it has been. In those three years it has gone from zero to over 1.5 million average page views per year, over 15,000 subscribers to the RSS feed, almost 33,000 Tumblr followers, and over 3700 followers on...
Apple - OS X Mountain Lion Available Today →
Go and catch yourself a new kitty.
If you are looking for a good review/overview, Mr. Hackett at 512 Pixels has it dialed in.
If you are looking for a smart thought piece on Mountain Lion and the Simplification of OS X, Mr. Blanc has you covered.
If you are looking for me to say any more about it, well, you will have to wait. I personally like to wait a week or so before installing such new...
On Email
What we are talking about — Seemingly endless discussion about the acquisition and demise of an email client. Yes, an email client.
What we should be talking about — Short of world peace, true bi-partisan cooperation, the vast global social-economic divide, or the many other far more pressing issues? How about something other than an email client.
But, since you all insist…
Sparrow was just...
Remote SSH using Back To My Mac →
onethingwell:
If you have more than one Mac running OS X Lion and you’re signed in to the same iCloud account on all of them, you can SSH between them via iCloud’s IPv6 network.
First, find your Back To My Mac account number by running
dns-sd -E
Then SSH to another machine like so
ssh -2 -6 username@computer-name.[account number].members.btmm.icloud.com
That’s hard to remember and a hassle...
Rands In Repose: One More Thing →
…it’s not secrecy, it’s theatre.
I grew up in theater. Quite literally. My Mother was a full-time theater major in college and also a full time-actress. Being a single mother (and my being a quiet, well behaved, kid) meant that I spent a lot of time backstage or in a seat in the audience. I’ve seen hundreds of shows and thousands of performances over my lifetime.
I was also...
Why I Prefer the Featureless App — Lifehacker →
It turns out the featureless apps provide a system that works well for me.
Evening Edition | The perfect commute-sized way to... →
It’s a summary of the day’s news, written by an actual journalist, with links to the best reporting in the world, published once a day. It’s optimized for your phone or iPad so you can read it on the train home or on the couch. It can be the starting point for a deep-dive or just enough so you sound erudite at your next cocktail party. What it’s not, and what it will never be, is another chirp...
“When we change your mindset from getting the best deal to getting the best...”
– Pay Too Much | ALLENTUCKER
(via Kottke)
Minimized – My favorite apps at their smallest |... →
I use Apple’s 11” MacBook Air, so screen real estate is precious to me. When I saw Ged Maheux tweet this image from Gavin Nelson, comparing the relative size of three minimized Twitter clients, I wondered about other apps. With that in mind, I’ve minimized the main window of the apps I use most often. I also took a screenshot to represent how they look on MacBook Air’s small screen.
This is a...
Tweetbot for Mac →
Look, at least I’m man enough to admit that I might have picked the wrong day to take an indefinite Twitter break.
This seems off to a promising start. I have not used it. MacStories has a good rundown though.
Minimal Mac | RSS Sponsorships →
I’ve opened up sponsorship slots for Minimal Mac again. The next four weeks are open and available. The next round I open will be at a higher rate commensurate with the value gained from sponsoring the site (It is currently $349.00 which is a steal in comparison to other similar offerings.).
Therefore, I recommend you do so today if you have an app, product, or service you would like to get...
Log tweets to a Dropbox file →
onethingwell:
An IFTTT recipe that logs your tweets to a plain text file in your Dropbox.
Via 512 Pixels.
This might be my favorite IFTTT recipe yet. And if you don’t know what IFTTT is and aren’t using it for all sorts of useful things, you are missing out.
It's Mike Vardy...: Your Two Brains →
My guest post for Mike Vardy about the brain that you are feeding and the one you are starving.
