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2012 New Years Resolution

1. Inbox 0 * Archive and label everything. My inbox is no longer a to-do list of unread messages. In addition, I’ve been using Sparrow which makes this even easier. 3. Keep it simple stupid * Less is more. Less peripherals allows me to be more mobile, but it doesn’t

Focus on your app, not email

From the PostageApp blog: After relaying millions of emails for our customers we are now taking the next step: PostageApp is now an end-to-end email delivery engine. Not only can you offload the chore of sending email and making sure things deliver while monitoring the status, but now you can

Louis C.K. releases his sales figures

From his website (not a producer, publisher or agency website): The show went on sale at noon on Saturday, December 10th. 12 hours later, we had over 50,000 purchases and had earned $250,000, breaking even on the cost of production and website. As of Today, we’ve sold

Carrier IQ, Apple, HTC, Samsung as well as AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile sued over Federal wiretap laws

From The Next Web: On Nov. 30, 2011, the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary said in a letter to Carrier IQ that “these actions may violate federal privacy laws.” It added, “this is potentially a very serious matter.” Earlier in the week I mentioned this was a big

Facebook buys Gowalla

Facebook has acquired location sharing service Gowalla for an undisclosed sum, according to a source close to Gowalla. from CNN Money. Acquired a ton of designers. First Sofa and now Gowalla. Business week reported (last year) that Gowalla lost to Foursquare. Update: Found via Daring Fireball: How to delete your

A credit card for efficient people

The card is blue, but the edges are green. Makes it very easy to find in a wallet amongst many.

R.I.P. Steve Jobs

Stay hungry, stay foolish. 1955-2011

Try sleeping with a mosquito in the room

I've got an idea for an app

As more and more people got to know that I’m an iPhone developer, I got to hear the following phrase more often: “Hey, you know, I got a great idea for an app”. It started with tech-savvy people saying this, but now it seems like everybody and their mother

Tablets before and after the iPad

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How do others see my Google+ profile?

Quick tip: To see how other people or circles view your profile type their name or the circle’s name into the box and you can browse your own profile as somilhttps://blog.mattgardner.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Screen-shot-2011-07-13-at-11.26.png1.26.png "G+ View Profile As"

How times have changed

Three years ago I wrote this post where Steve Jobs said that the App Store will launch with over 500 apps. At the time that was remarkable. Today the app store has over 400,000 apps.

Voicemail Hacking - It's Easier Than You Think.

In light of the News of the World scandal here’s a piece about how easy it is to hack someone’s voicemail. I spoke with John Hering CEO of Lookout, the most downloaded mobile security app. He has over 10 years mobile security experience and works to protect people

YES IS FOR WIMPS. GET USED TO HEARING “NO”.

A few weeks ago I posted about the power and benefits of saying or hearing No. If you’re… …not hearing “no”, you’re not really getting your work out there enough, pushing what’s possible, pushing yourself. -Chase Jarvis Hearing “no” is a good thing.

Initial Google+ thoughts

I was one of the few who stormed the front and gained a Google+ beta invite (actually, I got one from my good friend Joel). After breaching the invite only front door of Google’s new social networking website, Google+, I noticed a few things strikingly similar but with a

Performance is a feature

Clearly the most important feature: [Google found that] the page with 10 results took 0.4 seconds to generate. The page with 30 results took 0.9 seconds. Half a second delay caused a 20% drop in traffic. Half a second delay killed user satisfaction. In A/B tests, [Amazon]

The Daily loses $500,000 per week

Robert Andrews of paidContent.org “In the quarter, we have lost about $10 million on The Daily,” News Corp (NSDQ: NWS) president Chase Carey told analysts on the group’s Q3 earnings call. A colleague also said The Daily has seen 800,000 downloads since launch. I’m not the

Finally.

The iPhone is now available in white. Rumor: The unicorn and Sasquatch will be announced soon.

Visa backs Square

Edwin Chan of Reuters: The credit-card company has made an unspecified investment in Square, a two-year-old service that helps businesses and consumers pay with credit cards on a mobile phone or Apple Inc iPhone, both companies said in a statement. I’ve been using the Square with my iPhone since

Charley and the Apple Factory

Simply great. From the guys at College Humor: watch Charley and the Apple Factory on YouTube.

Email of the week

I’m looking for a new apartment. I found a listing on craigslist and requested more info and some pictures—this is what I got in return: Hi, I am out of town. If you want to see the apartment the rear porch door is unlocked. Just go around back

April Fools 2011 around the web

Here’s a collection of April Fools day jokes from around the web. I’ll update this every so often as I find new content. Google Motion — Turn your email into a body of work. Pinboard.in no](GHOST_URL/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-01-at-8.48.18-AM.png "Pinboard

The operation can’t be completed because the item “libsmime3.dylib” is in use.

A little bug when trying to drag & drop install the new Firefox 4 into the applications folder on your Mac. (Or maybe you got to this error another way? Please let me know in the](GHOST_URL/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Screen-shot-2011-03-22-at-12.06.55-PM.png "Firefox 4 error&

Apple said Yes.

One iPad came back with a post it note on it that said “Wife said no.” It was escalated as something funny, and two of the VPs got wind of it. They sent the guy an iPad 2 with a note on it that said “Apple said yes.” via MacRumors

No.

It’s something I heard often as a kid, but something I find that I have a hard time expressing. Nobody wants to hear no, but yes will kill you. If my parents said yes to everything, I would have 43 versions of the spiderman action figure, 6 million pogs,