http://www.flickr.com/photos/ntr23/sets/72157604712390523/
Why you don’t want to surf for porn even on your mac
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Apple/?p=1479
Macs are faster AND cheaper…
http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/reviews/4258725.html
Great Social networks to check out
Well guess what? Facebook is what it is and probably will stay what they are for more and more people: a place for friends to cast their net a little wider with each other and stay in looser contact with more people. Myspace was just a free-for-all that got too big too fast (plus it’s slow and annoying).
but now… you’ve got social networks that are getting super-specific and/or super-simple…
yelp.com seems like a review site but really it’s a social network for foodies!
tribe.net needs less ads everywhere but it caters to free thinkers and group based interaction.
last.fm would be too much like pandora.com (both awesome music listening sites) but it’s actually a social network (not to mention an amazing marketing tool for the record industry)
And in the super-simple category:
twitter.com
unfortunately, only the cognoscenti seem to know about twitter and I’m not friends with many of them so my feed is pretty sparse and nobody reads my tweets… but I see the potential and wish I had more use for it. So if you read this and you use twitter, sign up to follow me, “justinsail”
The point being that we’re still quickly finding new ways to cast our net wider and it is utterly fascinating if you ask me!
justin
by the way, there is a business use for twitter too.
iPhone feature wish list
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Apple/?p=1032
Apple is gaining market share!
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Apple/?p=1436
the iPhone is about to change the world…
Well, Apple has finally released their Software Development Kit and It’s gotten over 100,000 downloads in the first week. That represents what is turning out to be pretty darn good access to the device’s functions… which means we’ll get more cool programs.
I’d like to put out my own 2 cents on what would be nice to see… and some ideas as to which developrer should do it…
1) Notes syncing. Hey Bare Bones! Make Yojimbo work on the iPhone please?
2) To-Do lists. Hey Omni! (I know you’re working on it so I won’t push you)
3) Voice-Over IP. AKA Skype…
4) Grand Central visual access. Hey Google! I’m sure you’ve got other plans, but this is a big one for me!
5) FileMaker Pro Mobile. FileMaker is niche but absolutely essential for my workflow.
6) AIM, Gtalk, Yahoo Instant Messaging client. This would be best done by the Adium project but will surely be undertaken by bunches of people, and will be problematic because of a limitation in iPhone programs that doesn’t allow them to run in the background and thus leave a chat program open while you do other things… bummer!
…more on this as I get more ideas!
justin
UPDATE 3/13/08: After writing this column, I just found David Pogue’s similar column of his own where he waxes poetic about the same thing I am. It’s definitely worth a read because he’s a better, more highly paid tech writer than me 🙂
UPDATE: 3/18/08: Get this: 84% of iPhone users use their phone for news and internet… 59% use google on it and 75% of us listen to music with it. Even 31% of us have used it as a mobile TV of sorts. These numbers, especially when compared to other smartphones and run-of-the-mill mobile phones is astounding. Check out the rest of the stats…
Printing to PDF
One of my favorite tips to impart on my clients is how to print to PDF and save things like web receipts to their hard drive for later (if ever) printing. It’s an easy and quick way to make your life easier and save paper… you just click File > Print > PDF > Save as PDF.
And for a more in depth look at why you’d want to use this feature, check out this article about Getting Things Done.
children on the internet! OMG! beware?
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/28/technology/personaltech/28pogue-email.html?8cir&emc=cir