January 2011
The Geni Team is a Little Bit Bigger →
I’m happy to announce that I have joined the team at Geni.com.
Podcast: Freemium Apps →
Thoughts on a Jobsless Apple →
These are a few things I’ve been thinking about lately. I tried to handle it tastefully. I have no desire to speculate or discuss Steve’s health.
Podcast: App Store Exclusivity →
This is a conversation about a very controversial topic. I think Josh and I cover a lot of interesting aspects.
App Sumo Giveaway Contest: Win Four Mac Apps →
We’re giving away some pretty cool apps. Get on it!
Nintendo 3DS Launching On March 27 For $250 →
Why would you buy this instead of an iPod Touch or iPhone?
Free as in Beards →
Gruber makes an excellent point in this post.
Open source advocates are often the ones who confuse free-as-in-beer and free-as-in-freedom.
Podcast: Patrick Rhone on “Bigger and Better” →
Here is the last of this batch of episodes with Patrick. It was great to have him on the show. A very interesting person with lots to say.
The Weekly Roar #252 →
Grant’s Topics
J. Ray and Clay!
Fish
23andMe
Car tomfoolery
Jesus Day
WEBAPPZ!
Marty’s Topics
Dog days of winter
Rack it up
MWAM: Basic Black
AAOW: Sundroid
Wikipedia Article of the Week
Red Hair
Telephone
Plugs
GrantBrunner.com
Macgasm
They Said Server Closet
MEK Photos
Direct download: twr252.m4a
Podcast: Patrick Rhone on the Macbook Air and iPad →
Good conversation.
“Writer/directors Friedberg and Seltzer are a scourge. They’re a plague on our...”
– Josh Rosenblatt of the Austin Chronicle
[NSFW] Dickerdoodle Winners →
Always hilarious.
Exclusive First Look At Telltale's Jurassic Park →
GameInformer has their coverage of the new Jurassic Park game up online. Can’t wait.
tpdsaa:
Submitted by Chris.
Advertising people are so dumb.
More about the Chrome HTML Video Codec Change →
This is what I hear: “Blah blah blah… Fuck Apple and Microsoft… Blah blah… Use WebM… Blah… Don’t like it? Tough.”
Podcast: Patrick Rhone on Minimalist Tools →
Josh, Patrick, and I discuss cheap and free minimalist tools. Very fun stuff.
Safari Extension links Safari with Twitter for Mac →
Post to Twitter is a Safari 5+ extension for Mac users. This extension, coupled with Twitter for Mac, makes your Twitter experience on the Mac a whole lot better.
What Post to Twitter does: - Installs a toolbar icon in the Safari browser, and once clicked on, you can post to twitter the current page you are on with a title and link. - Allows you to post to twitter the current page with a title...
Podcast: Patrick Rhone on Minimalist GTD →
Josh and I were lucky enough to sit down with Patrick (Of Minimal Mac fame) to discuss minimalism with GTD.
Braid now available on the Mac App Store →
If you don’t own this game yet, go get it now. It’s beautiful.
Apple might bring back the hardware orientation... →
I think it’s a good idea. The mute button isn’t so great.
My Review of id Software's Rage HD for the iPad →
Very well done.
Supposed iPad 2 Video →
Via /.
This looks so, so fake. I don’t buy it for a second.
DisplayPad →
I was turned on to this great app by Patrick Rhone from Minimal Mac. If you want to know about more cool things like this, keep an eye on the Macgasm podcast starting tomorrow. He’ll be with Josh and me as we shoot the shit.
Podcast: Corey Tamas on the impact of indie games... →
Many thanks for Corey Tamas of Macgamer for stopping by on the Macgasm Podcast.
Google to drop h.264 support in Chrome →
Fucking boo, Google. Nobody in their right mind wants to use WebM. h.264 is small and good looking. Stop shoving your sub-par and obscure video technology down our throats.
FileMaker Go for iPad — Stylish, functional, and a... →
It’s a great app, and they’re having a big sale on the desktop for everyone who buys FileMaker Go on iOS.
Should You Buy The Verizon iPhone? →
If you travel in any way, don’t buy this phone. It won’t work in Europe.
Believe it or not, TechCrunch, Europe and the United States are not the only two places in the world. There are plenty of places outside of Europe that use CDMA.
Single, Female, Mormon, Alone →
Oddly, my trip to Planned Parenthood provided much that the church had not in recent years. During my exam, the clinician explained every move before she made it, asked permission to touch me during the most routine procedures. I was mystified: by her compassion, by the level of attention paid to my body — as if it were fragile, or sacred. Only then did it occur to me how many terrified and...
Jenny McCarthy Loves ‘Exploiting My Baby’ In Life... →
This is a post from Teresa Strasser. I know she is actually happy about this, but I think the title of the post is so perfect.
Dullards like McCarthy actively hurt society when they discuss bunk science that they don’t even seem to understand in the first place. Teresa should be ashamed that her name is now linked with such a wicked person.
How Google Speeds Up The Chrome Release Cycle →
If nothing else, I’m so glad that Google is in the market pushing other browser devs to kick butt.
On the CDMA iPhone 4
Competition is great. The area I live in has ZERO AT&T signal. Not just bad signal, but NO signal. That said, Verizon isn’t great. They might suck a little bit less than AT&T, but telecoms are big sloths that absorb money.
This is a good time to go back and find all of the people who said things like “There is no way Apple would let Verizon announce this,” and then shame...
Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome →
It sounds just about as uninteresting as Caprica. BSG is over. Let it be.
The Perils Of Lineage →
Penny Arcade takes on Infinity Blade.
A lack of new blood donors is a big problem →
In fact, less than 7% of all Blood Bank members are under the age of 35!
I had no idea. That is bad times. If your area has a blood bank, go donate some blood. It makes a huge difference.
Lego iPhone Case is Awesome →
Via Gruber
So freaking cool. Very Macgasmic.
The Mathematics Of Beauty →
The folks from OKCupid always provide amazing analysis of the data they collect. In this post, they explain that it’s better for women to have a dichotomy of reactions from men than for all men to kinda like them.
Instapaper Auto-Archive Safari Extension →
safariextensions:
If you’re a user of Instapaper, you might miss the auto-archive feature they used to have. It would automatically archive an article when you clicked on it to read it. At the time that they removed the feature, I created FIFO Links, which uses HTML5 storage to accomplish the same thing. The catch with FIFO Links is that it didn’t provide shared storage; it only worked in one...
Australians can now legally have their genetics... →
Aussies are bizarrely conservative. Glad that they are loosening up a little bit.
Via /.
First look at the Jurassic Park game from Telltale... →
I’m very excited. Check out these scans from the first article ever written about it. Screencaps are there too.
All Racked Up →
marthy:
Has been a project long time in the works. I looked years ago into getting a server rack to put my equipment in, but at the time it was cost prohibitive. Along with some help from coworkers I was able to obtain and organize this server rack.
Marty Keefe and his magical server rack: A feat of engineering.
Macgasm Podcast: Corey Tamas on Games in the Mac... →
Listen to Josh Schnell, Corey Tamas, and me discuss how the Mac App Store affects games.
Use Paypal, Damnit!
It drives me crazy when online merchants don’t use Paypal. I really want to buy your product. Unfortunately for me, the money I want to use is in Paypal. Oh, I’ll just wait four days to transfer the money to my checking account so I can use my debit card. Or not. You know, whatever.
FileMaker Go for iPhone — Great looking Databases... →
My Favorite Mac Sites Part II | Macgasm →