Facebook trying a phone again
I agree in a big way. There is such a low chance of this actually making a big dent in anything.
Diet Coda, remote text editor and file management utility for the iPad is out today.
As you’d expect from Panic, the app is highly polished, and there are some great UI flourishes—the ‘super loupe’ text selection tool shown above is particularly slick.
It’s on sale for $9.99/£6.99—half price—today, too.
Purchased as soon as I woke up. It’s awesome, and you need it.
What Is My IP Address? - ifconfig.me
This might be the nicest IP info tool I have seen - not only does it have a ton of info, it has a great interface for getting information via curl - you have access to all the same data, in JSON or XML.
"Millennials are increasingly viewing life through a game lens, even just [using] #winning or #fail. Game vernacular has become a part of youth vernacular. By putting that competitive layer on top of it — a lot of people are inherently competitive, so if the path to winning is being informed, there could be a really great civic benefit."
—Jason Rzepka, MTV’s vice president of public affairs, explains the decision to create a fantasy sports game-like experience around the 2012 presidential election.
(via poptech)
(via poptech)
Diet Coda
So, Panic software updated their Coda app today. Coda is one of the best apps for development on the Mac, and they now bring it to the iPad with DietCoda.
This app looks super super well done. They have re-thought interactions, bundled in Prompt (my favorite SSH client), and brought actual remote file capabilities to the iPad. I see myself using it for the file management and built in terminal more than coding - however, now my entire IDE is one app, and that is worth the $10 alone.
This is a creating app, if I have ever seen one. When it comes out 5/24, I will absolutely be buying it.
"Once my helpers stopped liking, I had expected the viral phenomenon of Facebook to generate more and more likes as the contagion of their likes spread to their friends and colleagues via their own Facebook pages."
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Column: I put my family business on Facebook. Here’s what happened. · TheJournal.ie
Well there is your problem - As much as I think most Social Media People are generally not the answer, just waiting for something magical to happen is also a pretty dumb strategy. Would you just throw up a billboard with no other planning? If you had questions on how to leverage your billboard, would you ask someone or just do it.
How Facebook Hacked The NASDAQ Button
OK, ok, only sort of a hack. And there are like 300 easier ways to do that.
However, none of that matters. Slick hack, which is the best way to take your company public at a valuation of over a BILLION dollars.
(Although at $33.59, let’s hope there are more tricks in their bag)
(via ideasatrandom)
HTTPS Everywhere | Electronic Frontier Foundation
I was just talking to a friend about this last night - if you are not running this, or have not configured your important sites to run HTTPS, its trivial to steal your session - think of that the next time you are browsing the web at Caribou.
Steve Wozniak leaves cable internet behind, lives life completely wireless
During a business forum in Perth, Australia, Steve Wozniak revealed that he doesn’t have a fixed broadband connection to his home in California.
I hope to pull this off one day. I have been looking at options for my new apartment, and it make me sad. All the ‘4G’ mobile broadband providers have shit service if you need a decently sized pipe, and otherwise is a coin flip between Comcast and CenturyLink.
Match Made in Heaven
My favorite note-taking company buying my favorite iOS writing app? This is going to open up the one thing that Evernote has been missing, which is the ability to write notes by hand. You could see them moving in this direction with the Skitch acquisition, but by buying Penultimate should really push that into a reality in the near future.
And the best get better…
