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Almost two months ago, my wife and I were discussing a noise generator app we’d used while our first child was very young. As we recalled the app and remembered how ugly and simple it was, I decided that it wouldn’t be very difficult to improve upon. A few minutes after our discussion, I tweeted:
Lately I’ve been trying to pay close attention to newsletters and marketing materials that catch my eye. There’s a very fine line between the emails I immediately throw away and the ones that are effective enough to survive the impulse trash action, and I’d like to better understand why certain things make the cut.
There are a few notes on the net for setting up Xcode 3.2 on Lion. Without too much more trouble, getting these old tools working on the latest OS is also possible. Here’s how.
News broke today that Sparrow, a popular email client for Mac and iOS, has been acquired by Google.
Rumors of an iPad mini have been circling for a while, but seem to have really picked up the last few weeks. While I’m not one for making predictions[1], there are certainly a couple of things I’d love to see on a smaller iPad.
This week, I attended the Velocity Conference, a conference focused on “building a faster, stronger web.” Many of the talks focused around gathering metrics, including RUM, synthetic performance data, and system health monitoring. The data points of interest go beyond simple web traffic and hit counts and focus on how users engage a site, how the experience and speed of the site affects conversions, and quickly diagnosing issues when they come up.[1]
