A Penguin in the Orchard

Links for 2009-06-30 [del.icio.us]

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:00:00 PDT

Top 20 iPhone Travel Apps - National Geographic Adventure Magazine
Applications for traveling with the iPhone.

Links for 2009-06-17 [del.icio.us]

Thu, 18 Jun 2009 00:00:00 PDT

How to Pitch to a VC or Angel
A post from the serialized book "Startup 101." Good advice on presenting to VCs or angel investors, including perspective and slideshow rules.

Thoughts on using the new shuffle

Tony Steidler-Dennison — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 18:03:58 +0000

I purchased a new black iPod shuffle on the Friday after the announcement. The package arrived the following Tuesday after a short 21-hour trip from China. I put it to work the following day in the gym and have been using it regularly since. I have some firsthand thoughts, both good and bad. Nothing I read [...]

Hoping For … [updated]

Tony Steidler-Dennison — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 14:32:02 +0000

My own wish list for the iPhone 3.0 announcement today. Cut and paste: check Better power management Background apps: sorta - push notification Bluetooth stereo: check App management tools Not a long list, but one that would seem to be entirely realistic. Additional good stuff: landscape in all apps, MMS, voice memos, search all Apple apps (including IMAP email searches on the [...]

Links for 2009-03-16 [del.icio.us]

Tue, 17 Mar 2009 00:00:00 PDT

Get the most out of Finder views

New Desktops

Tony Steidler-Dennison — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 13:48:42 +0000

Minutes ago, the Apple Store rolled out a full slate of Mac desktop updates. These include additions to the iMac, Mac Mini, Mac Pro, Time Capsule, and AirPort Extreme. As I’ve noted, I plan to make one of the new iMacs my own. It’ll likely be the 2.93 GHz 24″.

Overlapping Goodness

Tony Steidler-Dennison — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 16:49:04 +0000

It’s definitely a good day when a birthday coincides with the first game of spring training. Tomorrow. 12:05 pm CT. Marlins at Cardinals.

One Piece To Go

Tony Steidler-Dennison — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 15:17:50 +0000

Google has added another smart feature to their lineup: tasks. That’s not actually news (it’s been available fir at least a couple of weeks), but I just added a tasks icon to the home screen on the iPhone. It’s now possible to keep my todo list synched with Google from the iPhone. That means Google [...]

Timely Change

Tony Steidler-Dennison — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 15:55:24 +0000

We’re within sight of upgrading the main machine at home from a Mac Mini, purchased in December 2006, to a new 24″ iMac. Unlike some of the other Apple products we’ve purchased - products that were upgraded within weeks after the purchase - it seems that our timing may be right on this one. In the [...]

Switching from the thumbs

Tony Steidler-Dennison — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 00:00:33 +0000

I’m really still adjusting to the finger typing of the iPhone. I was a master thumb-typer on the Blackberry, but it’s tough to do on the iPhone. One app that’s made it a bit easier is TouchType. It allows a user to compose email and Tweets, with spell-check, in a separate window, using the landscape mode [...]

Another Start

Tony Steidler-Dennison — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 19:47:53 +0000

It’s another start for the site. I’ve killed off the other blogging projects for the sake of a better focus here. I hope to do much more original stuff here than I’ve done in the past few years. New look. New feel. New commitment.

Climbing

Tony Steidler-Dennison — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 18:53:17 +0000

The new book climbs to almost #610,000 on Amazon. It might be a bit of a niche …

Cleaned and Waiting

Tony Steidler-Dennison — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 15:51:41 +0000

I cleaned up some of the apps on the iPhone this morning - stuff that looked attractive and useful when I downloaded them, but that seldom get used. I’m now down to three screens, all of which contain apps I actually use regularly. The app I’ve waited for with the most anticipation is the uSirius [...]

links for 2009-02-17

Tony Steidler-Dennison — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 14:02:53 +0000

memeorandum Online news is changing. Increasingly, stories are broken and analyzed in near real-time and away from established news sites. memeorandum offers you a window into this new world of news, focusing primarily on U.S. politics and current affairs. It auto-generates a news summary every 5 minutes, drawing on experts and pundits, insiders and outsiders, media professionals and [...]

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Tue, 17 Feb 2009 00:00:00 PST

OpenCongress
OpenCongress is a free, open-source, non-profit, and non-partisan web resource with a mission to help make Congress more transparent and to encourage civic engagement. OpenCongress is a joint project of the Sunlight Foundation and the Participatory Politics Foundation.
memeorandum
Online news is changing. Increasingly, stories are broken and analyzed in near real-time and away from established news sites. memeorandum offers you a window into this new world of news, focusing primarily on U.S. politics and current affairs. It auto-generates a news summary every 5 minutes, drawing on experts and pundits, insiders and outsiders, media professionals and amateur bloggers.

links for 2009-02-06

Tony Steidler-Dennison — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 14:03:29 +0000

Great Command Line 1-Liners Nice searchable list of Linux and Mac/BSD terminal one-liners. (tags: linux reference commands terminal mac bsd)

Links for 2009-02-05 [del.icio.us]

Fri, 06 Feb 2009 00:00:00 PST

How to Create a Twitter Background Image
Great Command Line 1-Liners
Nice searchable list of Linux and Mac/BSD terminal one-liners.

links for 2009-02-05

Tony Steidler-Dennison — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 14:02:49 +0000

How to Create a Twitter Background Image (tags: twitter design tools)

Links for 2009-01-30 [del.icio.us]

Sat, 31 Jan 2009 00:00:00 PST

Lifehacker's Boxee Setup
Setting up Boxee on Apple TV.

links for 2009-01-30

Tony Steidler-Dennison — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 14:02:54 +0000

Lifehacker's Boxee Setup Setting up Boxee on Apple TV. (tags: apple_tv television media video apple)

links for 2009-01-27

Tony Steidler-Dennison — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 14:03:15 +0000

iPhone Dev 101: Downloading and Installing the iPhone SDK - The … The SDK is just a waste of space on your hard drive unless you know the programming language associated with the iPhone. To program on the iPhone, you will need some Cocoa (Objective-C) knowledge. There are a ton of resources available online and in [...]

Links for 2009-01-26 [del.icio.us]

Tue, 27 Jan 2009 00:00:00 PST

iPhone Dev 101: Downloading and Installing the iPhone SDK - The ...
The SDK is just a waste of space on your hard drive unless you know the programming language associated with the iPhone. To program on the iPhone, you will need some Cocoa (Objective-C) knowledge. There are a ton of resources available online and in book form -- I'll cover these and more in the next post in the series. If you already know a programming language like C/C++/Java, then you should just need a refresher course on the classes, methods, and basic expressions.