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I’m really excited to see Reeder 3 go live tonight in the App Store. Shawn Blanc and Ben Brooks wrote great reviews of it. I just set it up on my iPhone to sync with my Fever install. No more Google Reader. Pretty slick update to an already great app.

June 13, 2012Ben Brooks, reading, reviews, RSS, Shawn Blanc, software

I’ve solved my podcast problem

Since I started using Rdio I’ve run into a prob­lem: I never open iTunes. This is mostly okay as Rdio replaced my local iTunes library. The down­side is that my pod­casts live in iTunes. By not open­ing the app the pod­casts never update and I… Continue read­ing →

November 26, 2011Instacast, iTunes, podcasts, reviews, software

The Hit List Review

A few weeks ago I wrote about how I’m using The Hit List as my task app. Before, I used OmniFocus which was good but was just too much for my needs. I don’t need the flex­i­bil­ity per­spec­tives offer, the sync was pretty slow, and… Continue read­ing →

August 3, 2011design, reviews, software, The Hit List

WaPo tries to seat TBD.com at the kids’ table

The arti­cle pub­lished today by The Washington Post about TBD.com, is pretty sad. It is rarely a good thing when make your child­ish atti­tude clear in the first 8 words. That’s not a lede, it’s a put down. Also, who the heck decided to put the term… Continue read­ing →

August 6, 2010business, community, journalism, reviews, TBD, Washington Post

AT&T Takes the Fall for the iPhone’s Glitches

Yeah, I’m sure every­body want’s this to hap­pen: AT&T, send some engi­neers to redesign the iPhone to make bet­ter use of the country’s fastest wire­less net­work. From the New York Times of all places.

December 13, 2009Apple, reviews

End of year reviews and the grading system

This would be ideal: In my ideal man­age­ment world, a review is sim­ply a doc­u­men­ta­tion of well-known facts, your per­for­mance over the year. It also con­tains con­struc­tive advice and insight regard­ing how your boss believes you can improve on that per­for­mance. My dream is that you… Continue read­ing →

August 30, 2009business, reviews

Minimalism and my ideal news experience

As I’ve men­tioned before I’ve been using Shaun Inman’s Fever for a while now as my sole RSS reader. The more I use it the more I come to love it and in the last few days I’ve real­ized why: it does exactly what I… Continue read­ing →

August 9, 2009reviews

A new Che film

Somehow this slipped by me when it came out, but appar­ently there is a new movie about the life of Che Guevara in which Benicio Del Toro again plays Che. The movie weighs in at almost 4 and a half hours long (which could be… Continue read­ing →

February 3, 2009reviews

Michel Foucault — Discipline and Punish

I’m cur­rently read­ing and enjoy­ing Foucault’s Discipline and Punish. Taken from Wikipedia is the summary/main infor­ma­tion: Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison is a book writ­ten by the philoso­pher Michel Foucault. Originally pub­lished in 1975 in France under the title Surveiller et punir: Naissance de la Prison, it was… Continue read­ing →

January 31, 2009books, literature, reviews

A critique of Morrison

Finally, another human on this planet that does not think that Toni Morrison is the great­est writer alive. B.R. Myers writes of Morrison’s new novel A Mercy that: How shal­low and vague that is; how glibly it breezes through the life of the mind. A Mercy… Continue read­ing →

January 29, 2009books, Education, literature, reviews
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