While there are a number of articles out there on how to do this, they all felt overly confusing for what should be a pretty simple task.
ln -s ~/Dropbox/Library/Preferences/com.panic.Coda.plist ~/Library/Preferences/com.panic.Coda.plistln -s ~/Dropbox/Library/Application\ Support/Coda ~/Library/Application\ Support/CodaThat’s it! your synced and ready to go
Having some fun with Mixel, the new social collaging app for iPad from Khoi Vinh
I was skeptical but it’s loads of fun, and its free so what do you have to lose?
While most people walked away from today’s Kindle annoucements thinking this was Amazon starting a war with Apple and the iPad, there was a little part of the annoucments that suggest they may have a different target in mind
Turns like amazon had a little trick up its sleave that it showed everyone at todays much anticipated Tablet annoucement. Amazon Silk is a web-kit based browser for their new Kindle Fire tablet. The big difference with this browser is that it works with amazons cloud infrastructure to speed up the rendering of web pages.
This sounded really revolutionary at first but the more and more I think about it its really not much different that what google page speed service or cloud flare are already doing, except flipping it around a bit and removes the control this caching away from the web developers.
Don’t get me wrong, I am excited for this innovation and I am glad Amazon is trying to push the limits of how mobile web browsing works. But as Gruber mentioned, if this takes off this would give Amazon a gold-mine of data (even in aggregate) about peoples browsing history an habits and as Chris Espinosa puts out them in a position were they could really take on google in a whole new way, using what started out as android code.
Big day for amazon..
We’ve all been reading a lot about Netflix plans to spin off there DVD by mail business into a new company called Qwikster. Everyones talking about their theories as to why they would make such a drastic move. Yet, no one seems to be talking about what I think is the biggest reason for this change, Facebook.
This didn’t really occur to me until I saw Reed Hastings get up on stage during the keynote at Facebooks, f8.
One of the most important features of netflix has always been the recommendations, and as Hasting’s himself said on stage, sharing is 100 times more powerful than machine based recommendations.
The problem with keeping the DVD by mail business integrated is that the account model for that business is a household account. But sharing and syncing with facebook demands an indivdual accout model.
If netflix has its way, in this new streaming only model individuals within one household will each have their own account and your netflix account will be synced with your facebook account from day one, sharing everything you watch with all of your friends automatically.
Sharing is that important to Netflix, so important that they are willing to go through this transition that they know will anger their users.
So important that they know, without it, they don’t stand a chance.
I think it’s a lot like photography, “the best camera is the one you have with you”. The best writing tool is the one you have with you
-written on the new Tumblr iPhone app
Dean Martin's burger recipe -
From The Celebrity Cookbook (1967), Dean Martin’s recipe for hamburgers:
No ice. TV tray. Classy. (via @lettersofnote)
Tags: burgers Dean Martin food
Dear Photograph,
I looked good in a tux.
@TJ
I get excited when I saw a nice long post in my google reader on daring fireball and quickly added it to Instapaper to read later. I thought finally someone is going to articulate all the ideas I’ve had about apples latest and greatest offering in a way I was just not capable of. Sadly like so many before him, gruber falls just a tiny but short on this one.
I don’t care if it’s coded to run in web browser or in a so called “native app”. Focusing in to much on that misses the more important difference, the difference about where data is stored.
The way I see it this:
Google’s approach to data is, there’s just one copy and it’s stored up in the “cloud”. When you run a program like google docs your reading and writing directly to the cloud.
Apples iCloud on the other hand has many copies of the file, one for every device. The core of their offering is a clever set of Apis that makes sure all these local copies stay in sync with each other.
The main reason for the two approaches in my mind comes down to just one word…Flash! No, no not the web plugin Apple loves to hate, what I’m talking about of course is flash storage. Take a look at the differences in hardware from apple and google. At first the obvious differences between a chromebook and an iPad revolve around touch, apples got it googles doesn’t. But what I think is more telling is the storage space, iPads have at least 32 gigs, and chromebooks have almost nothing!
Apples bet its future on the importance of big and fast flash storage built into its machines. If iCloud allowed you to work with copies of files directly on the server there would be no need for all those gigs.
Forget about touch screen this, web based that… If you want to know the real difference between Apple’s approach and Google’s, it’s the data, stupid!
One of the biggest features mentioned for the new feature of iOs received little more then a listing on the screen during the keynote was the enhancements to airplay.
While some people have begun to put the pieces together, there hasnt really been enough stories about this feature which makes the Apple TV the ulimate iPad accessory (or is it the other way around).
While we dont know much, and some of whats known is covered under NDA suffice it to say that apple’s opening up the flood gates on this one. Its not as simple a feature as it might sound, and at least one game developer has the right idea.
Its nice to see that even the big boys can have problems…..
#nothingsperfect