Jacqui Cheng has a good overview of what you should backup before the cutoff date.
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SpaceX Capsule Splashes Down
The unmanned SpaceX Dragon capsule splashed down in the Pacific Ocean off Baja California on Thursday, completing the first commercial flight to the International Space Station, NASA and company controllers reported. The SpaceX Dragon capsule landed at 8:42 a.m. (11:42 a.m. ET), controllers said. SpaceX founder Elon Musk was on hand at the company’s mission control center near Los Angeles as operators monitored the descent.
It’s a new day in space. While I’m not sure how I feel about private companies flying capsules (and eventually, manned flights), I have to give the SpaceX guys a hand for a successful mission.
‘Badge of Honor’
Mike Daisey blasted Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher over their D10 interview of Tim Cook.
Apple Releases iOS Security Whitepaper
The 20-page PDF closes with this:
Each component of the iOS security platform, from hardware to encryption to device access, provides organizations with the resources they need to build enterprise-grade security solutions. The sum of these parts gives iOS its industry-leading security features, without making the device difficult or cumbersome to use.
Apple to Say ‘Cheese?’
iLounge editor Jeremy Horwitz seems convinced that Apple is working on a stand-alone digital camera. On Twitter, he wrote:
So, as briefly noted on Backstage, Apple appears to be working on a standalone camera - the third of three industries Jobs wanted to change.
These days, it seems like fewer and fewer people carry a dedicated, small standalone camera. While there is still plenty of space of DSLRs in the market, point-n-shoots have been replaced by smartphones for many.
The Pinboard Cloud
At the start of the year I decided move Pinboard from the rented servers it was running onto my own hardware. I’ve written before about the tradeoffs of various hosting strategies and my reasons for avoiding virtual servers, so I won’t repeat my rationale here. But I’d like to stress that nothing about these posts is prescriptive. In fact, I have no idea what I’m doing. I do it, I write it up, and then wisdom pours down from the Internet.
The Helvetcia Shirt
25 Years of HyperCard
Speaking of NSFW Videos...
The video for Jay-Z and Kanye West’s “No Church in the Wild” is epic.
Darth L. Jackson
What if Samuel L. Jackson had voiced Darth Vader?
(NSFW language, as you’d imagine.)
My Podcasting Rig [Updated]
In January, I wrote about my podcasting setup, built around the Blue Yeti USB microphone.
I still have my Yeti (well, a replacement, after my original mic fell off the roof of my car and died), and still love it.
But it’s now my at-home setup. My main rig has gotten a big upgrade.
Using Evernote and Dropbox
Back in March, on the sixth episode of the 512 Podcast, I spoke with Myke about my moving to Evernote for notes and “resources” management.
Now, for the most part, I like Evernote. It runs well, is on every device I own, and syncs flawlessly. That said, the fact that it stores everything in HTML does make me hesitate, but HTML is a lot easier to deal with upon export than some truly propriety system or language.