Several days ago, I asked Patrick Rhone (on Tumblr) his thoughts on minimal computing with iOS. Quite surprisingly, Episode 3 of his new “Enough” podcast answers my question.
If you aren’t listening to this show, you really are missing out.
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What Dave Caolo Took to Macworld
I’m super jealous of that 11.6" Air, but not of those headphones.
Yahoo Shedding More Jobs
Yahoo disclosed plans on Tuesday to layoff around 140 employees in the latest in a series of job cuts.
The reduction comes a month after the Web portal let around 600 workers go as part of a strategy by Carol A. Bartz, the chief executive, to pare costs and reinvigorate a stagnant business. Previous rounds of layoffs took place in 2009 and 2008.
Tuesday’s cuts were focused on Yahoo’s marketing team, according to a person briefed on the matter who was not authorized to speak on the record.
Twenty Days
I am ecstatic to announce that Pixelmator grossed a gigantic $1 million on the Mac App Store. And that happened in only 20 short days.
What is even better is that the app is getting rave reviews on the Mac App Store (4.5 stars with over 275 ratings on the US store, 5 stars with over 128 ratings in the UK, and 4.5 stars with over 129 ratings in Germany). And, thanks to the Mac App Store, more people than ever are choosing to download Pixelmator.
‘The Apple-centric ForkBombr’
Be sure to check out episode 37 of the DadCast. I was a guest again, talking about the Mac App Store, the Verizon iPhone and my new, big-ass desk.
As a programming note, the mic I’ve been using sucks, so I ordered a Snowball this morning.
Verizon iPhone: $30 Unlimited Data
It’s official: Verizon is going to offer iPhone buyers a $30 unlimited data plan. The carrier’s heir apparent and chief operating officer, Lowell McAdam, told us the news ahead of the company’s meeting with investors.
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But you’d better act fast. Speaking later Tuesday morning, Mr. McAdam said the iPhone unlimited plan will be a temporary offer and that the carrier will follow AT&T’s move to tiered pricing in the not too distant future.
Hoarding
That’s the fundamental point I really want to get across in this post, how applications like Evernote have encouraged us to become information hoarders.
Since it’s so easy to clip and save information throughout the day off the glutton of information that is the Internet, we almost feel compelled to store away facts and blog posts, photos and wikipedia articles because we can.
I mean damn, I can take a photo of a business card and send it to Evernote just in case I want to contact the annoying sales guy at the conference that gave me his business card 11 times, but do I actually NEED to?
Seven Years In
NASA:
Opportunity and its twin, Spirit, which passed its seventh anniversary on Mars this week, both have made important discoveries about wet environments on ancient Mars that may have been favorable for supporting microbial life.
Its amazing that those things were built for a 90-day mission. While Spirit is out of commission right now, Opportunity continues to make amazing discoveries on Mars.
These two little rovers may be the most impressive engineering NASA’s ever completed.
She’s Got it Where it Counts
Brett Kelly, on Facebook
The thing is, I’m one dude with a finite amount of time and attention and I simply can’t maintain 500 friendships. I don’t believe anybody can — at least not the type of friendships I’m interested in maintaining.
I just can’t maintain 500 relationships — I don’t want to.
[Shamelessly duplicated from TBR]
iPhone Wallpapers
Dave Lawrence has posted some new iPhone wallpapers, including one inspired by the Newton. Great stuff.
Update #2: Charity: water Birthday
With less than a week until my 25th birthday, there’s still time to donate to my charity: water birthday campaign!