My buddy Matt Alexander, teasing his new startup:
In essence, Need is a hybrid between a men’s lifestyle retailer and publication. It’ll be launching in the second-half of 2013 and we’ll have some genuinely amazing people on board. We’re working with both independent creators, writers, photographers, as well as some of the US’ top large-scale brands and creative firms.
Matt’s worked super hard on this project for a long time, and I’m excited to see it launch later this year.
Ask anyone who’s ever tried to knock in a nail with a screwdriver: having the wrong tools is a major hindrance. Access to the right tools saves time, increases the quality of your work and adds to the pleasure of doing a job well.
The trouble for designers & developers is that there are so many tools out there, it’s hard to know what’s worthwhile, let alone being able to afford half of the resources we want.
My Army training tells me that reading this is going to be a hot mission.
Nilay Patel at The Verge:
13 hours and 29 minutes. That’s all you really need to know — that’s how long the new MacBook Air running Safari lasted running The Verge Battery Test, which cycles through a series of websites and images at 65 percent brightness. Run time in Chrome was shorter, at 11 hours and 29 minutes, but both are still ridiculously impressive. In fact, it’s the record for a laptop running our test without an external battery.
Well, sign me up.
Chris Clark, on iOS 7:
Best to embrace it, the good and the bad, and get back to work.
I can’t remember a more controversial Apple keynote. 1
While the original iPhone announcement or even the move to Intel were exciting, they weren’t as controversial as this year’s WWDC, it seems.
OS X Mavericks seems like a home run. 2 The now 13 year-old OS has received vastly-updated memory and power consumption subsystems that more closely reflect the needs of notebook users, while new Features like Maps and a revised Notification Center should make regular users happy.
Tom Witkin:
I’m elated to share that I, along with Poster, will be joining Automattic. I’ll be working with the mobile team where I’ll be both designing and coding.
I missed this news when it was announced, but am excited at the possibilities here. I use Poster frequently to post to 512, and hope its excellence will spread across the WordPress platform.
It is US-only, iPhone-only, requires an Office 365 subscription, and is pretty rough around the edges. Sounds like a winner.
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The new version of the App.net-based messaging app has some excellent release notes.
Live from San Francisco, Myke and I discuss WWDC and wrap up the 512 Podcast for the final time.
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