As you may have seen, 37Signals announced an affiliate program yesterday. a lot of companies do this, but 37Signals’ terms are very fair — maybe too fair: for whatever people you refer to them, they give you 50% of their first monthly fee, and 5% from then on. As I said,
A year ago, during his interview with Steve Jobs and Bill Gates at All Things Digital, Walt Mossberg noted that Apple had let .Mac stagnate. Jobs acknowledged it, and promised that Apple would be “making up for lost time” in the near future. Although Apple updated .Mac in August 2007
I first watched Apple’s Knowledge Navigator concept video a year ago, and have watched it many times since. Every time I watch it, though, I still get that child-like wonder feeling in my stomach, the feeling that accompanies a rare thought: “This is the future.” Apple, under John
Since I bought my Macbook Air and moved everything on to it from my Time Machine backup, my ambient light sensor flat hasn’t worked. The screen would not dim or brighten, and the keyboard backlight would not turn on and off no matter what. I tried several recommended fixes
I like discussing what I use to get work done, and it is a slow Sunday afternoon, so why not. If you are at all interested in seeing what my setup looks like, here’s your chance. Hardware From December 2005 to March 2008, I owned, and thoroughly enjoyed, a
A friend of mine is a verifiable Indiana Jones-nerd, and so we waited three and a half hours in line last night to see the first showing of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. The line was already quite long when we got there, longer than
When Steve Jobs announced the iPhone at Macworld 2007, the part of his presentation that stuck with me was in the beginning, where he criticized current smart phones. The problem with them, he said, was the controls were permanent. Once the phone was shipped, its control buttons were fixed in
I am just a few days away from finishing my sophomore year of college, which means that after five classes, a job, and freelance web design on the side, I am finally about to be free for the summer. Free to find new hobbies, foods, read another Ayn Rand book,
While watching the first season South Park DVDs Friday night, I found that — to my delight — Trey Parker and Matt Stone offered mock introductions to each episode. Sitting before a fire with their dog “Scratch” (the type of dog changed throughout each introduction — one second it’d be a small
Gizmodo is reporting that Sprint is launching a $100 million advertising campaign for the Sprint Instinct, their attempt at an iPhone competitor. Gizmodo has two of the spots, and I suggest you watch them. The ads put the Instinct and iPhone side by side for comparison, with overly-loud and
I bought my Macbook Air in late March 2008, and wrote a mostly glowing review of it. But things, as they say, change. I wrote that review over a month ago, so it is time to revisit the Macbook Air and decide what I really love, and what I don’
Paul Graham published an essay this week on why he thinks successful startups are ones that “be good,” and act more like non-profits than a profit-seeking organization. It’s a great piece, and one you should read if you haven’t already, but there is one subsection was