Welcome, I'm David Chartier. I do lotsa work for Agile Web Solutions (the 1Password folks), Macworld, and Ars Technica. Read more about and contact me at davebc.com.
I helped create Awards, an iPhone app that lets you reward the people in your life. I also run a series of sites about the Finer Things in Mac, iPhone, PC, and Web. Ask me a question if you'd like.
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Katamati Forever demo for PS3. Lol:
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Apple offers 'find out how' tutorials as podcasts
Apple has re-released the “find out how” tutorial videos from its site as podcasts. Presumably, more videos are on their way to keep aspiring i-everything users occupied.
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Apparently, wishing death upon a president you don’t like is now a very “hip,” American thing to do. Here’s an email forward I got from my uncle:
Dear Lord,
In the past year you have taken away my favorite actor, Patrick Swayze, my favorite actress, Farrah Fawcett, my favorite musician, Michael Jackson, my favorite salesman, Billie Mays, and my favorite athlete, Chris Henry. I just wanted to let you know……….my favorite president……is Barrack Obama. :-)Yes, this is a Christian praying in a simply adorable way for God to kill the elected leader of the US. How cute.
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Sarah Palin needed notes for pre-screened questions at a Tea Party Convention; complex notes like “Energy,” “
budgettax cut,” and “lift Americans’ spirits.” Energy, people. She wrote “energy” on her hand.Forget running this country or any kind of administrative office. I wouldn’t trust Palin to get my next McDonald’s order right.
via thedailywhat
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Religious right selfishly turns boy into pawn in gay-adoption battle | Orlando Sentinel
Stay classy, Florida Family Policy Council of Orlando:
On the left is the picture that the Florida Family Policy Council of Orlando, used to illustrate the gay couple that was awarded custody of a relative. It appeared under the headline: “FL judge violates law, places child in homosexual adoption” (on the right) is the actual couple.
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”I went back for a second helping of Avatar this Sunday. There’s a scene early on in the movie where one of the scientists walks across the lab carrying the “mobile computer slab of the future.” We’ve seen one of these in almost every sci-fi movie of the last 50 years. It comes free with a jetpack, I suppose. Except this time, one month later, my 12 year old son turns to me and whispers “Look Dad, it’s an iPad.
Mule Design Studio’s Blog: The Failure of Empathy
Funny he didn’t say “look, it’s an HP Slate.” This is the position Apple is in now: the iPad is still two months from shipping, but it is already gobbling mindshare in children, never mind the typical computer user and tech press.
via Daring Fireball
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Former Microsoft VP Dick Brass weighs in on why Microsoft 'no longer brings us the future' | Engadget
These are indeed some sad comments from a former Microsoft VP, but as disappointed and upset I am with Microsoft for a number of reasons, I don’t entirely buy his dooms day tale. Microsoft has had some interesting ideas lately. They haven’t made product-sized splashes like the iPhone or iPad, but things like Surface and Project Natal show that someone there is getting through the lab doors with their dreams intact. And Windows 7’s “window snap” makes me genuinely jealous of a Microsoft feature for the first time in almost a decade.
Sidenote: before you comment, yes, I know there are Mac utilities that duplicate the window snap behavior.
Whether Microsoft can actually start getting all the little bits and pieces of these projects right again that it has for so long utterly failed at—like Surface’s terrible first-run experience— is a different story.
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”I keep hearing this thing on the web that the iPad is “a consumption device, not a creation device”. I don’t know why people keep saying that.
Fraser Speirs - Blog - iPad Fallacy #1: “It’s not for content creation”
Don’t forget the zillions of apps already in the store that let iPhone users blog, paint, record audio, broadcast live video, communicate, and otherwise take an active part in the human experience. iPhone OS is about both consumption and frictionless creation.
Some people freak when you take away a few options or toolbars, but 75 million devices sold says that iPhone OS is a hit. I think the iPad’s larger display and more advanced multi-touch input will be an exceptional canvas (nyuk nyuk) for content creators. Just wait.
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