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Amazon’s Kindle Cloud Reader : Neato. An in-browser reader. Now I can read my Kindle books on every piece of Apple hardware I own. Update: @ nicjohnson informs me they’ve already got Kindle for Mac in the App Store, while John Gruber explains why a non-native web app is probably a response to Apple’s new rules . … Read the rest here

Responsive Web Design or Separate Mobile Site? Eh. It Depends.

Responsive Web Design or Separate Mobile Site? Eh. It Depends. : Josh Clark, author of Tapworthy: Designing Great iPhone Apps , summarizes and opines on many of the debates circulating the community right now regarding responsive design and mobile-optimized content. It’s a good read. … Read the rest here

The Ram

I’d be the first to admit that the geekery of bike components appeals to me as much as the actual cycling. As the author Robert Penn says It’s all about the Bike . I’m currently fiddling away on a road bike project , using a 10 year old Peugeot picked up off ebay as the basis, and choosing replacement parts is great fun. My tastes started off retro, or ‘vintage’ as the cycling crowd would call it (retro to them means the ’80s), preferring steel, honey brown leather and highly polished metal. Recently though, I’ve been getting into the look of more contemporary parts just as much. … Read the rest here

Have Kindle, will travel

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I’m on my way from Florida to the Pacific Northwest. I don’t mean I’m about to set out. I mean, right now I’m in a plane flying across North America from Orlando to Seattle. This in-flight WiFi lark is quite wonderful. There are some other technological inventions that make long journeys more bearable. … Read the rest here

AisleOne’s Antonio Carusone: A Backup System

AisleOne’s Antonio Carusone: A Backup System : I would imagine this is as thorough and redundant as a backup system gets. 6 copies of vital data, 3 copies of unimportant data — spread across Backblaze , Dropbox, iDisk, and a few local drives. There’s a nifty diagram , even. I’m also in the process of assembling a backup system. I went with Crashplan instead of Backblaze because of the option to have a seeded backup drive (scroll down) shipped to your home for the initial backup. Additionally, I purchased a refurbished Airport Extreme to which I’ll attach a Western Elements 2 TB drive . … Read the rest here

Top Tunes 2010

So here it is again: the track listing to my annual compilation, ‘The Best Songs I Bought In 2010 Ever’. I’m quite pleased with this year. It all seems to flow nicely, and there’s a bit more variation than previous years. The Best Songs I Bought In 2010 Ever Throwing Bones by The Phantom Band from the album Checkmate Savage A Rumour In Africa by Errors from the album Come Down With Me We Have Love by Hot Chip from the album One Life Stand Stress Position by Steve Mason from the album Boys Outside The Pact (I’ll Be Your Fever) by Villagers from the album Becoming A Jackal Treat Me Like Your Mother by The Dead Weather from the album Horehound It’s The Weekend by Jason Lytle from the album Yours Truly, The Commuter Sigourney Weaver by John Grant from the album Queen Of Denmark Suffragette Suffragette by Everything Everything from the album Man Alive Evening Of Swing (Has Been Cancelled) by Half Man Half Biscuit from the album CSI : Ambleside Last Broadcast by The Soundcarriers from the album Celeste White Table by Delta Spirit from the album History From Below Hallogallo by Neu! from the album Neu 1 Paradise Circus by Massive Attack from the album Heligoland All To All by Broken Social Scene from the album Forgiveness Rock Record Pure As Snow (Trails Of The Winter Storm) by Mono from the album Hymn To The Immortal Wind I realise I’ve missed out compilations for 2008 and 2009. These exist so for completeness I’ll post them up in due course. … Read the rest here

Amazon launches Simple Email Service

Snook Go to the source

Amazon has launched a new API for sending email "in the cloud" called Simple Email Service . Like other Amazon services, one of the biggest draws—besides using the solid infrastructure—is the pricing. You can send up to 2,000 emails a day absolutely free. After that, you’re looking at 10 cents per thousand emails and 15 cents per GB of data transfer. … Read the rest here

ClagTunes episode 2

I don’t know who’s more surprised, me or you, but here it is: episode 2 of the clagTunes podcast. Thanks to a Christmas present of a Snowball microphone there will be more episodes to come. Visit the clagTunes page for full subscription details, or click one of these links (thanks Huffduffer ): RSS Via iTunes The afore-mentioned microphone was thanks my bro who also records a podcast – an excellent half hour of music on behalf of his barista (how noomeeja is that?). Episode 2 And so to the details of Episode 2. Here’s the track listing: Am I Just a Man by Steve Mason from Boys Outside Qwerty Finger by Everything Everything from Man Alive 9/11 by Delta Spirit from History from Below On the Wheel by Curve from Blackerthreetracker Chase Scene by Broken Social Scene from Forgiveness Rock Record And here’s the download link: Episode 2 (34.1 Mb) Read or add comments … Read the rest here

ClagTunes episode 2

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I don’t know who’s more surprised, me or you, but here it is: episode 2 of the clagTunes podcast. Thanks to a Christmas present of a Snowball microphone there will be more episodes to come. Visit the clagTunes page for full subscription details, or click one of these links (thanks Huffduffer ): RSS Via iTunes The afore-mentioned microphone was thanks my bro who also records a podcast – an excellent half hour of music on behalf of his barista (how noomeeja is that?). Episode 2 And so to the details of Episode 2. Here’s the track listing: Am I Just a Man by Steve Mason from Boys Outside Qwerty Finger by Everything Everything from Man Alive 9/11 by Delta Spirit from History from Below On the Wheel by Curve from Blackerthreetracker Chase Scene by Broken Social Scene from Forgiveness Rock Record And here’s the download link: Episode 2 (34.1 Mb) Read or add comments … Read the rest here

On Speaking

Back in 2004, Christopher Schmitt asked me to share a CSS panel at SXSW alongside

Boxee Box UK Pre-orders

We’re getting very close to the release of the Boxee Box, so Boxee have a published a list of retailers who are stocking it at launch. UK folks be aware, that the release date is now November 15th (not 10th). What’s more, I’ve been told that D-Link are only shipping 250 units to the UK for that date, with more coming later on. I’m not sure whether that’s a normal amount for a device like this, but it sounds very small. … Read the rest here

ClagTunes episode 1

I done a podcast! In each episode, ClagTunes will feature five of my favourite tracks; four of which I will have bought since the previous episode of the podcast, plus one bonus track from the archive, so to speak. I don’t know how often each episode will come along. Essentially it’ll be when I’ve got four new tracks I want to tell you about, so I guess every month or so. But no promises. You can visit the clagTunes page for full subscription details, or click one of these links: RSS Via iTunes Thanks to Huffduffer for making all that very easy. … Read the rest here

Ten years of

If you’re looking for something to give you inspiration, not just visually, but on a business level too, this is the book you need to buy: It’s not often I get so excited about a book (the last one was Jon Burgermans Pens are my friends ) but “I’m all over this” as the young people like to say. Threadless: Ten Years of T-shirts from the World’s Most Inspiring Online Design Community could’ve just been a published collection of illustrations from Threadless shirts, and still would’ve been a must-buy. The variety and quality of Threadless designs are stunning, and I’ve always touted them as an inspiration source in talks like “How to be a Creative Sponge”. It goes much further than that though. … Read the rest here

Apple TV 2, double

After the announcement of the new Apple TV my disappointment was perhaps inevitable. I try not to let the rumours build up my expectations of a unannounced product, but in the case of the AppleTV I couldn’t help it. 2 weeks later, and I’m coming around to the idea. I’ve calmed down about the whole rental thing, and realised that I’ve missed the ramifications of Airplay. Thinking of Apple TV 2 as more of an airport express that does video and photos, and it suddenly starts to feel right. The ability to stream from Macs and iOS devices is very appealing, and could well be the winning aspect . … Read the rest here

Boxee Available for Pre-Order in U.S. and Canada

Boxee Available for Pre-Order in U.S. and Canada : U.S. customers can pre-order at Amazon , and Canadian customers can pre-order at Best Buy and Future Shop . Available soon in most of Europe. The big sell, in Boxee

Changing the Default Audio Quality for Bluetooth Headphones on a Mac

Changing the Default Audio Quality for Bluetooth Headphones on a Mac : So, I grew tired of dealing with wires when listening to music at my desk and purchased these Sony bluetooth headphones . It turns out, however, that OS X defaults to low-quality audio for bluetooth headsets and headphones. But that

TypeCon 2010

TypeCon2010 in Los Angeles was my first typography conference. It felt good. I was made welcome, made new friends and renewed old acquaintances . I was there to soak up what’s happening now in typography, and to represent Fontdeck , who were very pleased to be a sponsor of the conference. Luke Dorny, Ale Paul, Grant Hutchinson & Corey Holms TypeCon felt like a tiny SxSW with far prettier schwag. As in Austin, the conference was as much about the corridor talk as the presentations, although 400 people (as opposed to 14,000) lent itself to a far more intimate atmosphere, but there was the same vibe of being allowed to geek out among like-minded souls. … Read the rest here

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