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Why Not Tumblr

Posted By: Christineon: June 20, 2011In: About Smarterware

I love Tumblr, somewhat for its social features, but mostly for its ease of publishing. A good blogging tool gets out of your way, and makes it so easy for you to publish your ideas and disc... Read more

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‘Reminder: Call Dad’ Is Another Notch In Google’s Belt Of Social Fail

Posted By: Christineon: June 20, 2011In: About Smarterware

Couldn’t disagree more with TechCrunch on this one. Google has certainly had its social fails—see A Case Against Drop-down Identities—but this was not one of them. My fathe... Read more

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Get Drunk Not Fat

Posted By: Christineon: June 19, 2011In: About Smarterware

In the spirit of Eat This, Not That!, a list of alcoholic beverages sorted by their calorie to alcohol ratio. See also Get Drunk Not Broke. Read more

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Pre-order the New Lifehacker Book on Amazon

Posted By: Christineon: June 18, 2011In: About Smarterware

From cover art to hack revisions and additions, I’m very pleased with what Wiley and Adam have done with the third edition of this book. I don’t have an exact date, but if you pr... Read more

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The New York Times: Business Cards Go Paperless, or Almost

Posted By: Christineon: June 18, 2011In: About Smarterware

This NYT piece quotes me saying that business cards are going the way of the dinosaur. After it published, I asked my wife if she gives out business cards in her (non-tech) job. “Oh ye... Read more

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I Had a Degree in Computer Science Before I Owned a PC

Posted By: Christineon: June 16, 2011In: About Smarterware

Yesterday on TWiG I said something in passing that needs clarification: I mentioned the rumored Nexus 4G’s phone specs are better than the first computer that I ever owned, in 1997 or... Read more

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Email Is Harder on Recipients Than Senders…

Posted By: Christineon: June 09, 2011In: About Smarterware

… and it’s too easy and cheap to add recipients. TED’s Chris Anderson discusses why email sucks, why it’s getting worse, and how the battle of the overloaded inbox is... Read more

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Mitch Wagner on Practicing Professional Selflessness

Posted By: Christineon: May 26, 2011In: About Smarterware

Mitch, what’s with the hippy-dippy selflessness baloney? You keep singing kumbaya like that, soon you won’t be able to pay for all that Apple crap you keep buying, not to mention your ho... Read more

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Is Sitting a Lethal Activity?

Posted By: Christineon: April 21, 2011In: Workspace

This is your body on chairs: Electrical activity in the muscles drops — “the muscles go as silent as those of a dead horse,” Hamilton says — leading to a cascade of harmful metabolic... Read more

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Redesign by Subtraction

Posted By: Christineon: April 06, 2011In: About Smarterware

One of Edward Tufte‘s mantras is “Zero out the interface,” and I took that to heart when I “redesigned” this site by removing everything extraneous—header... Read more

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Tapioca Straitjacket

Posted By: Christineon: April 06, 2011In: Webapps

From Jon Evans’ epic rant about Facebook Comments: God forbid that they even pay lip service to the notion that users might perhaps be given options—for then they might start to use... Read more

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Todo.txt Touch in the Amazon Appstore

Posted By: Christineon: March 22, 2011In: Android

Good news! The Amazon Appstore for Android launched today. Bad news: even though I submitted it last Thursday, they haven’t yet approved the latest version 0.6 of Todo.txt Touch, so th... Read more

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SXSW 2011 Recap

Posted By: Christineon: March 21, 2011In: About Smarterware

Even though the conference is literally falling apart under its own weight, I enjoyed the best SXSW Interactive last weekend of all six years I’ve been attending. Two keys to that: red... Read more

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Where to Find Me at SXSW This Weekend

Posted By: Christineon: March 08, 2011In: About Smarterware

I am getting old; this weekend will be the sixth year I head down to South by Southwest Interactive in Austin, TX for a weekend of events I’m really looking forward to—beyond buy... Read more

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I’m Getting an iPad 2

Posted By: Christineon: March 02, 2011In: Gadgets

Ever since I sold my Kindle, I’ve been set on buying a tablet computer to read books, long web articles, and watch video. I waited to hear what the newest offerings would be from Apple... Read more

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