I’m not sure how I missed this, but I love having a preview within MarsEdit that looks just like the site. It’s worth the time to set this up if you publish directly from MarsEdit, like me.
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The All-in-One Device
Earlier today, Cisco announced that the Flip line of cameras is no more. Here’s what Marketwire said:
Cisco today announced that it will exit aspects of its consumer businesses and realign the remaining consumer business to support four of its five key company priorities — core routing, switching and services; collaboration; architectures; and video.
Now, I have no doubt that Cisco is trying to focus more on its core strengths. But at the same time, Cisco, as a cooperation, exists to make money. Piles and piles of the stuff. My guess is that the Flip wasn’t helping that happen anymore.
Fifty Years
On April 12, 1961, a young test pilot from the Soviet Union named Yuri Gagarin climbed into a space capsule called Vostok 1.
Space travel fascinates me.
Chernobyl Tours, 25 Years After Accident
Jim Heintz, for the Associated Press:
But Chernobyl is in fact still a dangerous place, as the rules for visitors make clear. Don’t touch any structures or vegetation, don’t sit on the ground or even put your camera tripod there, don’t take any item out of the zone, don’t eat outdoors. Guides make sure the visitors understand that various spots in the zone are more contaminated than others and insist no one wander off the designated paths.
‘The Death Star was my Idea’
These videos combine two of my loves: Star Wars and making fun of Windows.
On Value
Patrick Rhone1 back in 2008:
I would posit that if your principle motivation for anything – your career, your blog, etc. – is money, you will often find the value of those activities lacking. Be not concerned with the money that you gained or lost. Instead, be concerned with the time you had, the experiences and people that filled it, and the lessons and trust you built by using it effectively. And then, resolve to increase the value of that time and trust in the year to come.
‘Adobe has no Bias Between HTML 5 and Flash’
“Liar, liar, pants on fire” comes to mind. Does anyone believe Dave Burkett when he says stuff like this?
‘Going Where no Mac Has Gone Before’
However, the iPhones and iPads seemed to have crept into most Enterprise class companies from the top floor boardrooms as well as the server rooms in the basements. Not only does the current version of iOS 4.3.1 play nicer with Exchange Activesync than Windows Phone 7 and even Android but its extra management features provide comparable security to BlackBerry Enterprise Server managed BlackBerry’s. In fact, the iPhone comes out tops on this fight too since it doesn’t require a Client Access License for it to be managed. Apple has even released a free tool to allow Exchange Admins to lock out other iPhone features if the need be.
CS 5.5
Has a Decent Wordpress iPad app Arrived?
Federico Viticci seems to think so:
Overall, Blogsy was a surprise. The app is far from perfect and it needs a couple more features to become the ultimate WordPress client, but it finally brings quality blogging to the iPad — a device that was desperately waiting for an app like this to change the way bloggers can get things done without giving up on rich content editing, and media. If you consider that Blogsy is a new app with a (hopefully) long road ahead, I think I’ll be able to write posts for MacStories exclusively from my iPad 2 this summer, even more than I already can with the current feature set. Blogsy can only get better from now on, and while we’re all waiting for MarsEdit to show up on the App Store, I believe Fomola has released a great 1.0 version bloggers should check out right now.
GtWthr Brings Sexy Weather Info to the Desktop
I sat down one day with one thing on my mind. I was going to find a way to easily put weather on my desktop using GeekTool. I had seen others in the past that had gotten weather data on their desktop. When I began looking around for it though, I found that some of them required a degree in command line kung-fu to get it to work. I didn’t want to jump through all of those hoops, just for the weather. I knew that there had to be an easier way. GtWthr is what I came up with.
On the Pre 2
But in a way, we can’t forgive it. The Pre 2 is a good phone. It deserves its moment in the spotlight, not a press released followed by what amounted to a footnote in the announcement presentation of other products months later. Instead HP and Verizon are content to let it sit in the back of their stores and warehouses where potential customers have to know that the phone exists and actually want to see it to get a demo. If the Pre 2 had come out on Verizon in October when it was first announced, then we might be singing a different tune. But with the release landing so many months later than we suspect was intended, it’s like HP and Verizon are just going through the motions because they couldn’t afford to stop the wheels of distribution. “We’ve got the phone, we might as well release it,” seems to be the overwhelming attitude.