Category Archives: Devices

What Mac apps should I use?

By Clay Newton | Published: August 25, 2010

My friend Alex is setting up a new Mac and asked what apps he needed to get. I know there are tons of “apps to get” lists, but here’s the list I gave him. It’s a short list, because I think that people tend to install a bunch of stuff they will rarely use. Chrome [...]

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How do you turn on Safari developer tools?

By Clay Newton | Published: February 8, 2010

Safari has a great set of developer tools built into it, but they are turned off by default. Here's the trick to turning them on. Open Terminal Paste this at the command line: defaults write com.apple.Safari IncludeDebugMenu 1 DONE, enjoy.

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iPhone app best practice: Lite

By Clay Newton | Published: July 31, 2009

Techcrunch recently posted an overview of an internal study the appfarm performed and blogged about. It seems there is some debate in the wild about whether it is a good idea to provide free, lite, versions of paid apps. The gist of the story? Launch a free lite version of your app at the same time [...]

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Publishing to YouTube from the iPhone 3GS = WIN.

By Clay Newton | Published: June 22, 2009

I got my new iPhone on Friday. I have been smitten with my gen1 iPhone since forever, and I skipped the 3G upgrade because I was content … adding 3G + GPS just wasn't enough to make me shift. But with the iPhone OS 3.0 upgrade & the full set of newness coming down with the [...]

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Awesome App Store Hyperwall

By Clay Newton | Published: June 9, 2009

I wish I'd been there, because this visualization of the App Store is pretty friggin' cool. What you see below is just a subset of the actual spectacle: twenty 30" cinema displays with a chromatic array of App Store icons. As apps are purchased on the App Store, the icon pulsates on these displays. It's [...]

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My biggest Leopard borkd feature to date

By Clay Newton | Published: November 14, 2007

In general, I have really been loving Leopard. There are some hiccups and some of my apps (like Mail) have been acting up a bit. That said, I feel like the experience has been really positive overall. Here’s something I don’t like This is what I get when I try to download iCal events. It [...]

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Veddy Tweetsteresting

By Clay Newton | Published: July 29, 2007

Here is a very interesting use of Twitter: the LA Fire Department using tweets to communicate the goings on of the crew. Thanks @Scobelizer for passing the word. I was a reluctant critic of the Twitter fad when it hit the streets like wild fiyah at SXSW Interactive 2007. Since then, I have become an [...]

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I am smitten!!!

By Clay Newton | Published: June 21, 2007

On Tuesday, I finally got around to recharging my cell phone, only to find that the SIM was ded. Grrr. I really wanted to buy an iPhone, but honestly, my brokedness just can’t afford one at this juncture. The second gen is sure to be mo’ betta anyway. So I walk into the store and, [...]

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Yahoo! Go. How far does it … go??

By Clay Newton | Published: April 21, 2007

Over the past week, an awesome co-worker of mine and I were rapping about rad work stuffs, and he whipped out his Blackberry and bopped over to Yahoo! Go. The potential on this thing is quite amazing. It’s chock full of widgetry, quick and delicious looking, but I am sad. I am sad because those [...]

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