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Goodbye, Facebook
Last night I effectively deleted my Facebook account by ratcheting up my privacy settings to the highest possible level. Oh, the calamity! All I can do now is accept invitations to events: anybody who hits my Facebook profile will find a link here, followed by a few old-skool-ish contact details: mobile number, email, and Twitter username. I’m…
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The Blanding of the Internet?
Ben Brooks writes: What I fear… is that perhaps Instapaper, Reeder, Safari Reader, Readability, NetNewsWire, Google Reader, Flipboard, and any other app that allows you to read a site without seeing the actual site are starting to chip away at the personalities each site offers. They are making the web a bit bland. Ben goes…
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Kevin Hartnett on the internet-as-bogeyman: At a certain point, it seemed like every time my wife and I had friends over the conversation turned to the ways the Web was ruining all of our lives: how it was destroying our productivity, sapping our sex drives, devouring our precious time on earth. But in 2011, I…
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Mac App Store Buyer’s Guide, Day One
So, the Mac App Store is open for business. What’s most glaring seems to be what’s absent: no big new apps from Panic, Real Mac, Delicious Monster, or any of the studios you’d expect would be there to rake in the day one dollars from the Mac faithful. That said, as my buddy Sighmon suggests,…
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Minimalism and the Mac
I’ve been meaning to write something about simplicity and the Mac for a while now, but have been super snowed-under with projects (note to any editors I’m currently messing around: I’m on it – promise!). Basically, I’m sensing that something’s changing within the Apple user/developer community: following Jobs’ Back to the Mac event, more of…