How to Fully Document a Car Accident with Evernote and Your iPhone

February 16, 2010

With few exceptions, getting hit by some joker who was talking on his phone while driving is a bit of a bummer. In the span of a few seconds, you’ve just inserted an unplanned, hour-long (or more) meeting into your day and a whole host of administrative bullcrap to deal with over the next few [...]

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iPhone Home Screen Cleanup Project Complete

February 9, 2010

I know I said that I was planning on keeping a sort of a running monologue about this iPhone cleanup business, but the best laid plans of mice and men, as they say.
Anyway, before I get to spewing, here’s the end result of my iPhone Home Screen Cleanup Project:

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Why Your Follower Count on Twitter Actually Matters

February 9, 2010

As I write this, I’ve got something like 1690 followers on Twitter. Relative to some, this number is quite large and to others it’s a drop in a very large bucket. I know it’s gauche to discuss such things and that deriding such behavior is a popular pastime for a great many Twitter purists. These [...]

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What Your Blog Software Says About You

February 3, 2010

They say you can tell a lot about a person by the shoes they wear. Doyle Brunson, arguably the greatest poker player that’s ever lived, says that showing him your eyes is the same thing as showing him your cards. It’s been said that the best way to get to know somebody is by looking [...]

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iPhone Home Screen Cleanup Project: Day 2

February 2, 2010

I know I hinted at updating you guys on this project somewhere in the middle, but I’m thinking it might be somewhat interesting to see how this whole situation progresses on a daily basis. This also coincides with another experiment I’m conducting on this here blog in full view of the handful of folks who [...]

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iPhone Home Screen Cleanup Project: Day 1

February 2, 2010

Having been inspired by my good buddy Patrick Rhone’s iPhone Home Screen Experiment over at the peerless MinimalMac, I’ve decided to give my home screen a good scrubbing using roughly the same procedure as Patrick. The reader’s digest version is that any app that gets launched two or more times in the next week gets [...]

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How Simplicity is Screwing You

February 1, 2010

In the last few seconds, you (yes, you) have blinked your eyes at least a couple of times. You didn’t notice it happening, in all likelihood, nor did you explicitly instruct your body to close your eyes for a split second to keep them moist and free of debris. Yet, even this involuntary action involved [...]

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What Happens When Nerds Die?

January 28, 2010

I have to admit that, while I’ve experienced the passing of several family members and close friends in my life, I’ve never been at the elbows of the “what are we going to do with their stuff” discussion. I always assumed it was something that you’d fork over a pile of cash to a probate [...]

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How to Make Your Reminder System Totally Useless

January 26, 2010

We all have calendars. I have a calendar. My wife has a calendar. Do you have a calendar?You probably have a freaking calendar.
Of all of the amazing affordances offered by the technological advancement if recent years, calendars and other time management applications have come a very long way. Things like wakeup calls, egg timers and [...]

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What Are You Creating?

January 25, 2010

I was with a very good friend of mine the other day at at T-Mobile retail store near I live. He had accidentally put his cell phone through the washing machine and needed a replacement (we’ve all done it, I think). I was trying like hell to get him to buy a new Cliq or [...]

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