Julianne Pepitone:
CNNMoney contacted the creators of the 50 highest-funded Kickstarter campaigns with estimated delivery dates of November 2012 or earlier to determine their shipping status. We found that only eight of those 50 projects hit their deadline.
Sixteen of the 50 projects haven’t yet shipped. Among the 26 projects that shipped but went out late, the median delay was two months, although some outliers took much longer.
Michael Schechter:
As you you start toying with contexts or looking at the way others create their own, there’s really no right or wrong way to go about this. It’s more about finding what works best for you and what doesn’t. In my case, I needed to boil everything down as far as I could; others crave a hierarchy that has thought of everything, most will fall somewhere in-between the two. I’ve found tremendous value in determining the contexts that are essential and in naming tasks consistently for recall, but that’s just what works for me.
Snapheal is the photo editor for Mac that first showed up on the App Store in December 2011. It was updated few days ago to version 2.1, bringing the brand new look, noticeable performance boost and the whole set of new handy tools. Mashable called Snapheal “Inexpensive alternative to Photoshop” and just recently Apple named it one of “2012 Best Mac App Store Apps”. So what’s this app about?
Snapheal is incredibly simple, yet powerful tool for removing extra objects from images, getting rid of skin imperfections and performing other complex edits with no special knowledge required. It does quite an amazing job in erasing unwanted stuff from pictures, like stones, wires, people, signs, text and more. Just highlight the extra object with a brush or lasso; click “Erase” button and seconds later imperfection disappears. There is a very handy “Clone & Stamp” tool to enhance the fixed area, but usually its not required.
I felt really weird reading Jeremy Allaire’s dream diary on All Things D.
Also, this is how his company is described:
Jeremy Allaire is the founder, chairman and CEO of Brightcove, a leading provider of cloud platforms for distributing media and apps, with a suite of platform APIs, SDKs and Web services aimed at Web and app developers and the businesses they help to drive.
I’m not all that sure I understand what he does for a living.
Well, Viticci wins the “most badass post of the day” award today.
A great speech that will hopefully be followed by strides in the right direction when it comes to gun control and care for those with mental health issues.
Jordan Crook at TechCrunch:
It would seem that the real difference lies in what Instagram does with your personal data. The company promises that you’ll still have complete control over who can see your content and where it is shared, but Facebook and Instagram will certainly be getting a bit more comfortable with one another where user information is concerned.
Blerg.
Adam Brault:
I’ve realized how Twitter has made me break up my thoughts into tiny, incomplete, pieces—lots of hanging ideas, lots of incomplete relationships, punctuated by all manner of hanging threads and half-forked paths. I am perfectly fine with unfinished work—in fact, I doubt I’ll ever be a better finisher than I am a starter. But I’ve found that my greatest joy, deepest peace, and most valuable contributions come from intentionally choosing where to let my focus rest.
Google recently enabled CardDAV syncing with Google Contacts, and has a nice support document on how to set this up with an iOS device.
While this is quite easy to configure (and works really well in my experience), the same thing can be done on the Mac, bringing your Google contacts to your computer.
Update: Here’s how you can set this up on iOS devices.
There are several different ways to add a Google Contacts to Contacts.app, but I’ve found this to the most reliable.
A stunning front page from The New York Times.
If you’re running Mountain Lion Server, you should bookmark this site.
David Zax at MIT Technology Review has been without an iPhone for a week:
That’s not to say that I haven’t enjoyed some benefits from being iPhone-less. It’s true that “spare change” time–the time waiting in line to order, or waiting for the subway to come–now gets funneled into thinking about projects I’d rather be thinking about than yet another compulsive check of my inbox. There’s undoubtedly something to be said for that. But so far, the brief bliss of moments like these is mostly overshadowed by the dozen other ways I’ve inconvenienced myself. I’m obviously and unequivocally at a net loss.