This week, Myke and I chatted about the stages of sleep and the body’s natural clock.
And nocturnal erections. It was uncomfortable.
Ungeniused 019 was made possible by Phraseology, an awesome writing app for the iPad. You can read my review of it here.
NoMoreiTunes is an extension for Safari 5 that stops iTunes Web Preview pages and other links to the iTunes store from automatically launching iTunes on your Mac. On top of that it shows a familiar looking bar on the top edge of the browser viewport which informs you that the plugin has worked and let‘s you launch iTunes when you need it.
This is might be my favorite Safari plug-in. It doesn’t do a lot, but it scratches me right where I had an itch.
Not cool, Path. Not cool at all. Update: Path CEO Dave Morin, in a comment on that post:
We upload the address book to our servers in order to help the user find and connect to their friends and family on Path quickly and efficiently as well as to notify them when friends and family join Path. Nothing more.
We believe that this type of friend finding & matching is important to the industry and that it is important that users clearly understand it, so we proactively rolled out an opt-in for this on our Android client a few weeks ago and are rolling out the opt-in for this in 2.0.6 of our iOS Client, pending App Store approval.
For two and a half weeks, I mulled the Lumia 800’s merits. It’s a beautiful, sturdy phone with a great battery, a good camera, and a decent screen. But was it good enough to replace my year-and-a-half-old iPhone 4? I wondered. Well, it hasn’t. As impressive as the Lumia is, its ecosystem leaves a lot to be desired, and the apps I’ve come to know and love are nowhere to be found in Microsoft Marketplace.
This is yet another cool accessory from Twelve South. If you use your iPad as some sort of dashboard throughout the day, I can see this being very helpful. That said, though, entering text or even tapping on the iPad in this thing seems like it’d get super tiring super quickly.
Telecommunications company Verizon Communications Inc. and Redbox video-kiosk owner Coinstar Inc. said Monday they will launch an online service in the second half of the year that features streaming videos and downloads.
The companies offered few details of the venture, in which Verizon will own a 65% stake and Redbox will hold the other 35%.
As a Verizon customer, I’d prefer better service over a Netflix rival, but that’s just me.
Remember: “its” means “it is” and “it’s” is the possessive form of “it.”
David has put all of wonderful videos on one webpage. If you’re serious about OmniFocus, you need to spend some time on it.
Jacqui Cheng for Ars Technica:
Facebook is still working on deleting photos from its servers in a timely manner nearly three years after Ars first brought attention to the topic. The company admitted on Friday that its older systems for storing uploaded content “did not always delete images from content delivery networks in a reasonable period of time even though they were immediately removed from the site,” but said it’s currently finishing up a newer system that makes the process much quicker. In the meantime, photos that users thought they “deleted” from the social network months or even years ago remain accessible via direct link.
Well, this a room full of sadness.
Editor’s Note: Marco Arment is probably best well-known as the founder and creator of Instapaper, but he also has an impressively popular podcast on the 5by5 network, as well as a weblog, where he writes about technology, coffee and more. Marco and his wife are expecting their first child later in the spring.
Stephen: Marco, thanks for taking some time to talk with me. Between Instapaper, your podcast and a little one on the way I’m sure you’re busy. Anything I’ve missed? Marco: And my blog. But that’s about it. I guess it doesn’t sound like much. This is probably a good time to take on a few more projects, join a startup, and learn how to crochet.