Fantastic illustration by Martin Ansin for Taming Light, a Kubrick-inspired art show in Dublin.
Via Matthew Rex.
Monday, November 23, 2009
Chrome OS Demo. Google will continue changing the world.
Via Daring Fireball.
Monday, November 23, 2009
Marco On Merlin
Three things about Marco Arment
The minute I met Marco, I could see the crazy fire in his eyes. Marco’s intense. And, like a lot of developers I’ve known, Marco feels things strongly, says things strongly, and he strikes me as a guy who really believes that some things are right and other things empirically are not. He’s got a big voice and a lot of clear thinking to back it up. […]
I mention all this because of a phrase I find myself saying more and more often these days — a phrase that, to my chagrin, seems to baffle or annoy most of the people who, in my estimation, desperately need to hear it more than pretty much anything:
This shit matters. […]
Your job. Your obsessions. The ways that the things driving your ambitions, attention, and decisions manifest themselves in the artifacts you share with a world full of strangers. It really, really does all matter.
So, yes. Thanks, Marco, for the fire in your eyes and your unnecessarily dedicated obsession to making the things you think people need.
This is the Merlin Mann I love. You should read, not just this paragraph, but the whole piece. I can’t wait for Inbox Zero.
From what I’ve read and learned by and about Marco, I can say that I trust every word he says. We exchanged emails way back when tilt-scrolling was an innovation attributed to him, where he asked for some suggestions. I didn’t know Marco then, he was really cool on his response. I admire him greatly.
Reblogged from kung fu grippe.
Monday, November 16, 2009
Rarely seen Steve Jobs: In 1991, Fortune invited Jobs and Bill Gates to discuss the PC’s future. Jobs was leading Next, and Gates was already a billionaire. They met at Jobs’ Palo Alto home on a Sunday evening.
Of course Steve owns an Eames Lounge Chair.
Via Fortune.
Friday, November 06, 2009
Life database
Thoughts can come once and never come back. Many times, the ones you forget weren’t that important, however ideas aren’t worthy of oblivion.
I regard ideas highly, they don’t belong in a “Everything” bucket, where you throw and come back to delete when clutter strikes. I’m also a firm believer that an idea or task will arise for each and every piece of information you stumble upon.
Now, I don’t want to get all GTD on you, but it’s a system proven to work for many people. Thinking in projects and areas or contexts doesn’t mean buying the latest and greatest piece of software out there, or delving into the steepest learning curve ever, it’s exactly the opposite. It means organizing and archiving your thoughts easily, somewhere you know you will find and process later. Someplace they won’t be lost and forgotten, it’s only natural.
Dump all your thoughts, either on a legal pad, index cards or a plain text file and carry it with you. These ideas are not your next startup or the quickest way to riches. It’s a post you want to write, like the one your reading now; software to buy, films to watch, music to listen, books to read, feeds to subscribe to, travels to make, problems to solve.
Cultivation. Ideas generate more ideas. Feed your mind with your surroundings, learn.
What’s your life database?
Tuesday, November 03, 2009
The app that keeps on giving.Now testing: New text parser with much higher filtering accuracy and inline image support.
Reblogged from Marco.org.
Tuesday, November 03, 2009
iPhone Apps Have to Pay Their Way
So there’s love and there’s business. And now there’s a new business in town: the business of making iPhone apps. Slightly lost in the brouhaha surrounding the SDK announcement was the fact that Apple has also, in effect, announced an iPod SDK due to the fact that the iPod touch runs OS X.
I’ll repeat that, in case you’re still not getting it: the most popular portable music device in the world, the one everyone has, the default choice, the cultural icon, the device which Apple sells millions of each quarter, the device which has previously been closed off to all butCapcomPopCap, EA and Nike now has an SDK.
Granted, not every iPod sold is an iPod touch and the installed base of OS X capable devices is still less than two million worldwide. I’m willing to speculate, though, that the OS X platform is the future of every iPod with a screen. They renamed the traditional iPod “classic” and the word “classic” has connotations in the Apple lexicon. You know what I’m talking about here. […]
The only scenario I hope I don’t see, except as a special offer, is the last one. [iPhone version bundled for free with the desktop app.] Possibly the worst business decision we could make as Mac developers is to devalue iPhone applications to the same level as Dashboard widgets.
Via the awesome devs behind Cultured Code in 2008, when they dived into Things touch.
Fraser warned about it two years ago, and Gruber called it last week, how will it turn out next year?
Tuesday, November 03, 2009
