August 2011

The Prius myth that won’t go away.

August 29, 2011

This weekend, a friend of ours commented on the environmental impact of the Toyota Prius, in which the Prius compares unfavorably to the discontinued H2. We’ve heard this claim before, but didn’t know where those claims started, nor what they were really based on other than fingering the Prius’ larger battery as the culprit. It [...]

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Compact keyboard stands for the iPad.

August 28, 2011

Talking about stands for the iPad that would work just as well regardless of iPad orientation, and regardless of whether your work surface is a tabletop or your lap, we proposed a unique design back in May: …a more convenient accessory for the iPad would be a well-designed “clip” that attaches to Apple’s bluetooth keyboard [...]

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Week of tweets: 2011-08-28.

August 28, 2011

Isn't this the second time Maxim decided to switch its iPad publisher? Why not just publish for iPad in-house? http://t.co/WuGPOOs # Amy Winehouse's family says no illegal substances were found in her system after death. Riiiight. # Dear Apple bloggers: you know Steve Jobs hasn't died, right? # Questioning the sanity of driving to Long [...]

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Splashtop Remote lets us run OS X on our iPad.

August 22, 2011

Last November, when we talked about using the iPad almost exclusively since its debut, we touched on three things that we felt were still missing by the platform. The first was tethering to a computer for backups/updates, which sounds like it will be resolved come the release of iOS 5. The second, APIs, is an [...]

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Week of tweets: 2011-08-21.

August 21, 2011

We have 150 Google+ invitations. How much can we sell those for? # #Starbucks giving out free apps in the US: http://t.co/RBqhkyi # Post Offices 1700-1900. Pretty quick population density explosion on the west coast. http://t.co/vECht8M # Nice Safari/Chrome extension to place footnotes in a pop-up box for sites utilizing Markdown: http://t.co/MYkl40O # Defender of [...]

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Week of tweets: 2011-08-14.

August 14, 2011

Props to the US Navy for supporting minimalist shoes for physical training. US Army still has reservations. http://bit.ly/nAprlR # People on the CTA are fascinating. # Always surprised at how short the iPhone 4's battery life is when, you know, the phones's actually being used. # AT&T 3G service in Chicago sucks. # OmniFocus calendar [...]

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