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Spring Cleaning: A Round-Up of New and Updated AppleScripts

Justin — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 19:32:07 +0000

New and Recently Updated AppleScripts for apps including Apple Mail, Day One, Outlook 2011, OmniFocus, and Evernote

Current Forecast for Streaming Movies from iTunes: Partly Cloudy

Justin — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 04:33:25 +0000

Your previously purchased movies are available to stream from the cloud to your iOS. Unless they aren't.

“The Human Condition”

Justin — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 02:33:22 +0000

Here are some items that I came across this week which I felt showed some of the better aspects of our human nature.

Find Great Music With Spotify Search Playlists

Justin — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 20:51:54 +0000

Spotify Search Playlists help you quickly find music that gets your head nodding and makes your ears happy!

On Anthony Shadid

Justin — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 20:25:52 +0000

Though I wasn’t aware of journalist Anthony Shadid before I learned of his recent death, I find myself inspired by his work now: A Pulitzer Prize-winning correspondent for the Washington Post (and more recently the New York Times), Shadid died at the age of 43 of an asthma attack while on assignment in Syria, prompting an outpouring of grief [...]

Quick Hit: Hallelujah / Ode to a Sunny Day (Unofficial Mix)

Justin — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 19:21:47 +0000

UPDATE — Final Mix Released! (See BElow) Long-time readers know that I’m a big fan of Karsh Kale, my old neighbor and the current heavyweight champion of making music with cool people all around the world. For Valentine’s Day, Karsh shared an early mix from a recent collaboration with Blackstratblues (a.k.a., guitarist Warren Mendonsa’s new [...]

AIR’s Latest Musical Trip to the Moon

Justin — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 17:59:45 +0000

AIR released their latest album earlier this week — and it’s a new soundtrack for a 110 year old movie masterpiece.

Thank You, Macdrifter!

Justin — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:42:19 +0000

Gabe Weatherhead, the writer and publisher of Macdrifter.com, asked me to share some details about my writing workflow with his readers. The resulting interview is now available there. If you haven’t checked out Macdrifter before, you’re in for a treat! Gabe regularly posts original features and interviews, links to interesting content, ideas for using the [...]

Don’t Fail, Whale!

Justin — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 04:09:44 +0000

Fredrick Douglass once likened people who claimed to support freedom — but who discouraged agitation — to people who want to grow crops without plowing up the ground. 140 characters or not, it seems like an appropriate response to the news that Twitter has developed the ability to censor tweets on a country-by-country basis. I [...]

A Wordless Joy

Justin — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 21:07:07 +0000

“The Artist” is a modern French interpretation of an old black-and-white silent movie, which is to say that you’d be hard-pressed to come up with a film idea which would have to travel a more difficult road in order to find a wide American audience.1 However unlikely the concept, though, “The Artist” is poised to [...]