October 2008
13 posts
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All this business about the capabilities of the new Nvidia hardware and the fact that Apple isn’t utilizing it to its fullest reminds me of the situation in late 2006 when it was noticed that the MacBook Pros contained wireless cards that conformed to the 802.11n draft spec but were reined in to 802.11g speeds. Then, at MacWorld Expo in January 2007, Apple introduced the Airport Extreme Base...
Classics.app →
I’m sorry, but if you care so much about the classics (or want to be taken seriously), at least get the titles of your books right.
Update: October 24, 2008 1:50 PM
As Phil points out in the comments, this was a design decision and the titles of all books are correctly displayed on the title page. The title bar as you’re reading still displays the shortened title. I am sure it...
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I’m happy for Ian about Handshake being accepted into the App Store. It looks like a really useful application, and I agree with Gruber that this should be an included feature of the iPhone.
But you know what else should be an included feature of the iPhone? The ability to download podcasts without connecting to iTunes.
The debating back and forth about Apple having the Podcaster...
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Reducing Duplication in Your GTD Lists
One of the perennial GTD questions is about duplication of lists. Duplicating your projects list to have a list of that project’s next actions, copying your next actions from your projects’ actions to contexts. Personally, I have found that I usually work from my projects list anyway and don’t do this duplication that it seems that people consider endemic to canonical GTD. I...
Simple Economics
I have finally heard enough of this “simple economics” bullshit to call it out. In an ideal world, yes, tax cuts for the rich would trickle down in this wonderful waterfall of wealth that would eventually make its way down to the middle class and the poor. That would be fantastic.
But what that kind of naive thinking doesn’t take into account is that at the top of those giant...
