Writings

My iPad mini just got a lot more productive. Federico’s review is right here.

Cleaning up some external hard drives and found this project from my Photoshop course back in college. It comes at a time when I’m really getting into comics.

I’d love it if they would pre-emptively send me that Synology I’ve had my mouse hovering over so many times.

Evernote just released a major update of their web clipper for Chrome. This update is specific to Chrome for the desktop right now but I’m sure it’ll roll out to all the other major browsers soon. Version 6 brings a huge chunk of the toolset typically found in Skitch straight into Chrome with the click of a button. You can now markup any web clip as soon as you’ve made your selection. Another massive change comes in the form of telling the Web Clipper what chunk of content you want and how you want it formatted in a concise manner. This has always been unclear to me in previous versions of the extension.

I filled in for Frasier Speirs on this week’s episode of Out of School with Bradley Chambers aptly titled “How Do We Get This On A Chromebook?”. We discussed PowerSchool, the pending upgrade to Casper 9 and the recent deployment of Chromebooks that we implemented at work. It was a good time as always talking with Bradley about IT in education.

Federico Vitticci’s in-depth review of Editorial for iPad is as profound as the application itself so I’m not going to say anything more than go buy the application if you need to write anything on the iPad. It’s really good.

Earlier today I shared my new iPhone lockscreen online and was asked where it came from.  I realized I’ve kept my favorite desktop/wallpaper site to myself. I think it stemmed from a “first rule of fight club” mentality. I’ve used Simple Desktops for years and it’s absolutely my favorite website for finding fresh, minimal desktop (and mobile) desktops. Today I noticed that they have Mac, iPhone and Android apps.

Sam Spurlin found a fantastic quote and summed up something that crosses my mind from time to time these days. While I’m not rushing through life I really look forward to what’s to come.

 Marco posted about this yesterday and wow, this refresh is amazing. BetaWorks is really doing great things with Instapaper.