As I mentioned the other day, I’ve simplified by moving to PlainText + Dropbox + Notational Velocity, but this new Lists feature has me re-thinking that.
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Re: Repeating Tasks in iOS
Ben Brooks, on the new Things for iPhone update:
What should be telling though is that I didn’t know what the repeating task interface looked like for OmniFocus on the iPhone, nor did I know that Things didn’t have one.
I tend to think that people just don’t really need to set that many repeating tasks on their iPhones.
I live by repeating tasks. I use them for bills, server maintenance and more. Having them on my phone is vital, since I don’t spend all day at my computer. The ability to create them on the go is vital to me, and (coupled with OTA sync) makes OmniFocus a more attractive product.
Jesse Gardner, on Quitting Facebook and Twitter
It was part of Gardner’s series of 30-day challenges for 2011:
First, I realized that for all of their flaws, these social sites provide a means of communication with family that’s far away, and that’s something I missed quite a lot. My family doesn’t live nearby, so I kept asking my wife what was going on with family members and she’d show me pictures from Facebook. I also had lots of video and photos of Ethan and our family capers that I wanted to share, and Facebook makes that easy.
On News Corps and The Daily
Is The Daily’s content good enough to ignore any moral issues you may have with giving money to News Corp? For me: No.
Agreed.
Macgasm Podcast: A Jobsless Apple
Wanna listen to me talk about John Sculley and an Apple without Steve Jobs at the helm for about 8 minutes? Today is your lucky day.
Also, I say “Tennessee” like a hick. Sigh.
Engadget Reviews the Verizon iPhone
It’s not the next generation Apple device, it’s not a wowee-zowee LTE experiment, and it isn’t a revolution in mobile computing. What it is, however, is a big chance to give a large portion of America’s smartphone users a crack at a phone they’ve likely been lusting after for some time. It’s also an opportunity to give relief to long-suffering AT&T customers in the form of a usable, reliable phone (not to mention a good way to kill many of the jokes the current phone’s calls have created). While it isn’t all rainbows and flowers (the data speed issues or the voice / data considerations could be a dealbreaker for some), it does kind of feel like Apple and Verizon did the impossible: they made the best smartphone in America just a little bit better.
On Feedback
Developers, take note. I will always support a business that’s accessible, approachable, and welcoming of feedback over a faceless, distant one. No matter how good of an ad campaign the latter can muster. And I imagine I’m not alone.
No, Ian, you’re not alone.
Thinking: the Competitive Advantage
Marshall Kirkpatrick, the lead writer for ReadWriteWeb:
Sometimes news blogs are so real-time that it feels like 30 extra seconds of thinking more before publishing could be competitive advantage.
Rupert Murdoch, on the iPad and Journalism
At The Daily launch today in NYC:
New times require new journalism. Our challenge was to take the best of conventional journalism… and combine it with the best of new technology. Simply put, the iPad demands that we completely reimagine our craft.
There is a growing segment of educated and sophisticated consumers who do not read daily newspapers, but still consume media. This restricts their interests to what has been predefined.
On Ferris Bueller
Derek James for Cracked, on a great theory about Ferris Bueller’s Day Off:
Cameron creates Ferris in his mind. Ferris is the total opposite of Cameron: he’s fun, spontaneous and has a loving family and foxy girlfriend. At the beginning of the film, the imaginary Ferris convinces a bed-ridden Cameron to “borrow” his dad’s Ferrari 250 GT California and cruise all over Chicago. Given Cameron’s crushing social incompetence, it’s likely that Sloane is fictional too and represents a girl that he has a crush on.
On the iPad 2 LCD
Joshua Schnell, on 9 to 5 Mac’s iPad 2 LCD:
If “acquiring” an “iPad 2 Display” from someone allegedly on a “Chinese production line” counts as a leak, then we’ve got ourselves a rumor. 9 to 5 Mac has teamed up with iFixYouri to get their hands on what appears to be the iPad 2 display.
If you haven’t noticed all the “appears” and “alledgedlys” just yet, now’s the time to make sure you’re noticing them, because there’s not much proof that these things are legit. 9 to 5 Mac hasn’t even tested the device yet. They’ve just posted some photos online. Apparently “acquiring” iPad parts, which are likely stolen, is easier these days than finding someone who knows what to do with them.