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The Great Nerd Migration⇢
This week on the 512 Podcast, Myke returns from his trip to the Himalayan Mountains to discuss iPad keyboards and App.net with me.
This episode was made possible by the new Squarespace 6.
Notification Center Mutes When Screens are Mirrored⇢
Nice touch, Apple.
RSS Sponsor: Boom⇢
Thanks to Global Delight for sponsoring the 512 Pixels RSS feed this week! — SH
Boom is a volume booster app for your Mac.
It increases the system audio volume to produce better-quality audio from the built-in speakers. The system-wide graphic equalizer can further enhance your Mac’s audio quality.
Boom won the Macworld Best of Show award for its simplicity, elegancy and well-crafted user interface. It is priced at $6.99 and can be purchased from the Global Delight Online Store or through the Mac App Store. There’s also a free 7-day trial.
‘iPhone 5 preorders to begin on September 12th’⇢
Another dumb headline that should have the word “rumor” in it somewhere.
JewelryBox⇢
If you’re using RVM to manage Ruby on your Mac, and wish there was a GUI tool to do so, this might be right up your alley.
via Kevin Lipe
Priorities
Over the last few days, I’ve been tweeting about one of Josiah’s “little friends” who — without much warning — entered the final days of his battle with brain cancer late last week.
This morning, this little 3-year-old boy passed away.
(To make it hit closer to home, this kid had the same thing our son has, and they ended up at St. Jude after reading about Josiah and his diagnosis.)
Over the last 39 months, we’ve seen a lot of families come and go from St. Jude. Some kids respond really well to treatment and live cancer-free after chemotherapy and radiation. Other kids, however, don’t share that fate, succumbing to the disease, despite receiving literally the best care in the world.
The Olympics, in GIFs⇢
The one of the guy back-flopping in to the pool is painful.
A Quick Thought on App.net
I haven’t had a lot of time to play with the new site, but one thought has come to mind.
I don’t worry if it will be successful. I do worry that it will become successful and Twitter will bring down the hammer on App.net for blatantly ripping them off.
Odgaard Speaks to Ars Technica on TextMate 2’s Status⇢
Nice article, but the photo of him on vacation feels a little backhanded.
WTF has NASA done for you?⇢
On Going to Mars — Or, How NASA Is About Steal Another Generation’s Childhood
Adam Mann at Wired has outlined seven plans that have been circulated over the years to get man to Mars:
As every space enthusiast knows, we will land people on Mars within 20 years.
Of course, we’ve been 20 years away from Mars for the last half-century. Between 1950 and 2000, NASA and various independent groups have come up with more than 1,000 detailed studies for manned Mars missions. Yet not a single one has come very close to fruition. At least on paper, Mars remains an eventual NASA goal, with their latest Curiosity rover seen in some ways as a precursor to human missions.