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Paul Miller, on Notes and Text
His text setup is pretty similar to mine — including using the Simplenote app on iOS, with some nice Dropbox apps on the side.
Obama Targets Humans Rights Abuses Made Possible With Technology
Scott Wilson at The Washington Post:
President Obama issued an executive order Monday that will allow U.S. officials for the first time to impose sanctions against foreign nationals found to have used new technologies, from cellphone tracking to Internet monitoring, to help carry out grave human rights abuses.
Social media and cellphone technology have been widely credited with helping democracy advocates organize against autocratic governments and better expose rights violations, most notably over the past year and a half in the Middle East and North Africa.
CS6 Pricing Announced
For the most part, Adobe is offering its CS packages at the same price as its 5.5 offerings as well, with pricing for the Design Standard ($1,299) and Master Collection ($2,599) packages remaining unchanged. One notable exception is the Production Premium package for video professionals, which is being bumped up $200 to $1,899 thanks in part to the addition of new applications Adobe Prelude and Adobe Speed Grade. Lastly, Adobe’s $1,799 Web Premium package is being dropped from the company’s lineup, replaced with the $1,899 Design and Web Premium package.
On Almost Losing Discovery
RSS Sponsorship Available Next Week
We’ve got the next couple of weeks open over at The Syndicate, the RSS sponsorship network of which 512 Pixels is a founding member. If you have a service, product or app you want to get in front of over 170,000 awesome readers across a dozen awesome sites, get in touch!
4 A.M.
As soon as I felt it vibrate, I pulled my phone out of my pocket.
It was just after 4 a.m. on Monday, October 7, and I was walking across the University of Memphis’ main campus with my college newspaper’s managing editor, lugging a box of papers and a tape gun, thinking about the body I had seen pulled out of a car just a few hours earlier. I shifted the weight of the box to look at my phone.
Paying For Android Apps
Whilst watching a recent episode of All About Android on the TWiT Podcast network, I noticed that as one of the hosts was demoing Plume – a twitter client for his Android tablet – he said that he was using the free version of the app, even though it had ads and that he might upgrade to the paid version as he uses the app a lot.
This remark struck a chord with me. A Twitter client is a pretty important application for most users on their mobile devices, especially for someone who is connected with thousands of people. It becomes a communication and research tool. My Twitter app is very important and considering how much I am going to be using it, I would not hesitate in paying for it—especially if I was happy with the app after using a ‘lite’ version.
The New Command Line
Google’s search box is the new command line.
In 2004, John Gruber said that the browser’s location bar was the new command line, correctly predicting the massive wave of web apps we all now enjoy using every day.
I think in the 8 years since his article, a lot has changed, including the way we use the web itself. I watch co-wokers search for things like “Yahoo mail login” and “what time is sunset?” and then move on to whatever they wanted to do.
Tumblr to Show Ads
Starting May 2, the micro-blogging platform will show ads to its millions of users.
They chose option 1.
iPhone Outsold All Verizon Android Phones, Combined
‘Bartending with @ismh’
Jeffrey Inscho was kind enough to have me on as a guest on episode 8 of the Static Made podcast. We chatted about all sorts of stuff, so be sure to check it out.