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From 2012: Sarah Perez: Checkmark Brings Better Geofenced Reminders to iPhone, Mac Version in the Works
Checkmark is yet another one of those buzzy iPhone apps which people were talking about, blogging about and raving about, even before it officially launched. And today, it launched.
I used Checkmark back when it was new, and I
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Thunder Lightning Strike (365 Albums)
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A few words about the Talk Show from 11 years ago
As I alluded to earlier, I’ve been going through some old links I saved years ago. You’ll be seeing some links here over the next few days commenting on things people wrote in yesteryear.
From 2012: John Gruber: A Few Words About the Talk Show
A few administrative points regarding the new The
I looked at 17,702 links I’ve saved since 2009 to see how bad “link rot” really is
I’ve been saving links to Pinboard since 2009, which has added up to 17,702 links saved. I’ve
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Painkillers (365 Albums)
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A Weekend in the City (365 Albums)
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Something to Tell You (365 Albums)
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SCARING THE HOES (365 Albums)
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I unexpectedly find myself defending color
Ben Lovejoy: Unpopular Opinion: iPhone Colors Don’t Matter to Most People
But in all honesty, I could buy any of the colors and it wouldn’t really make any difference. The total time my iPhone remains caseless, with its color visible, is about two minutes per year – between removing it from the box and
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All is Violent, All is Bright (365 Albums)
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I love the pieces, hate the whole
Heatmap News: Is There Really a Working Class Backlash to Biden’s Climate Law?
when voters are asked about the individual provisions of the Inflation Reduction Act, including EV subsidies, tax incentives to install solar panels and industry subsidies for wind and solar power generation, they support them by double-digit margins. A recent Washington
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Disney would prefer I see ads
Ben Thompson: Disney Earnings, A Split Disney?, ESPN’s Advertising
Advertising takes away the trade-offs: more customers mean more money, both in terms of increased inventory and also increased leverage on your advertising infrastructure; meanwhile, the lower prices made possible by ads lead to decreased churn. At the same time, the upside for advertising
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The same conversation for a decade
Harry McCracken: Why the iPad Remains a Beautiful Disappointment
All along, we’ve known that Apple wants the iPad to be capable but distinctly different from the Mac. Yet, as the iPad gets more powerful and the Mac gets more modern, it isn’t clear that even Apple has a coherent view of where that
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Two Vines (365 Albums)
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People get to be wrong
I was linked to yet another cringy “this is how ChatGPT has already disrupted every single aspect of our lives” threads on Twitter, and I thought about posting something to Mastodon like:
Twitter should let people automatically block anyone who’s writing “thought leader” threads about ChatGPT if that person was writing these same threads
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Mac gaming should catch up with Linux (yes, Linux)
Liam Dawe: 5 years ago Valve released Proton forever changing Linux gaming
Gamers using Linux (be it desktop or Steam Deck) in 2023 are now in a place where they can get excited alongside friends who use Windows or traditional consoles, because they know there's a good probable chance at release that whatever
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Facebook removed news from Canadian's news feeds. It changed nothing
Steve Scherer: Exclusive: Meta's Canada News Ban Fails to Dent Facebook Usage
Daily active users of Facebook and time spent on the app in Canada have stayed roughly unchanged since parent company Meta started blocking news there at the start of August
These "pay to send traffic to someone else" laws
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Gone Now (365 Albums)
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