I'm struggling finding a satisfying taxonomy for tagging my posts here. There was even a time when I would enter them but hide from from display because of how unhappy I was with their ability to tie posts together or increasing discoverability for search engines.
That said, I was pretty intrigued when Brett recently blogged about his use of Zemanta to auto-tag posts on his Jekyll-based blog.
Since I'm not using Jekyll, however, I had to be a little more creative …
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One of my businesses uses Highrise as its CRM tool to document all of its sales activities.
As Highrise is a hosted application, I want to make sure that we have access to regular backups of our data. Luckily, Highrise offers a handy export feature for this purpose. Unfortunately, those exports do take a sweet while to generate.
I generate weekly backups using this method and usually trigger their creation when I leave the office on Fridays. When the export is done, Highrise…
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For a change, this post isn't about my beloved standing desk. It's about the DODOcase BOOKback , which I ordered for my iPhone 5 and iPad Mini late last year and have been using ever since.
TL;DR Summary: If you're typically a "no case" user but are occasionally worried about the back of your devices getting messed up, the BOOKback is definitely for you.
The BOOKback is a very simple product. It consists of a thin layer of Moroccan leather that is …
Manton Reese's newest venture is SearchPath , a hosted blog search engine.
Now, most blogging software, like the elephant in the room , already comes with a built-in search engine or at least has one readily available as a plugin.
If you, however, follow a recent trend of going with the a static site generator 1 , your only options would be a custom Google (or Duckduckgo) search or writing enough nerdy material to be invited to participate in NerdQuery …
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While I use my iPhone with the ringer switch set to 'silent' 90% of the time, occasionally it helps to get audible alarms for incoming emails, calls, etc. The ringtones the iPhone ships with are decent, but haven't changed much since the original iPhone shipped in 2007.
Instead of being the umpteenth dude with the " Old Phone" ringtone at the dinner table, how about some minimalist, yet unobtrusive ringtones and notification tones, recorded using acoustic instruments? …
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I have tried to write this article for many months, but couldn't.
Originally, it was intended to be a simple comparison of stands that allow you to lift your portable Apple computer up from your desk, as a means to using an external keyboard, mouse, and display. I had written up notes comparing the new Twelve South HiRise to classics such as the Rain Design mStand and the Griffin Elevator .
As it turns out, I'm no longer using a stand to lift up …
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The web is abuzz this week with what seems to be everyone's favorite new icon set to use as a replacement for OmniFocus' default icons for perspectives: The Perspective Icons from Icons & Coffee.
Perspective Icon Set from Icons & Coffee
For me, personally, the Icons & Coffee set is way too colorful and distracting. I've picked up the Stylistica icon set earlier this year and still greatly prefer it. …
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I was one of the 12,521 backers of the original Elevation Dock on Kickstarter. When my docks finally shipped in early October, I had already been using my iPhone 5 for more than a week. Thus, turning the precision machined pieces of aluminium into paperweights.
On November 5, ElevationLab announced the availability of their Lightning Adapter for pre-order and I ordered two of them. The adapters, which still hover around delivery times of 2-3 weeks, shipped on November …
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My daughter Gwendolyn has been practicing athletic gymnastics for 2 years now. Within those two years, she's been able to train up to a level that let her win a first and a second place at two regional championships.
She's with a talent school that recently went homeless. The parent club housing the talent school forced them to move out for "financial reasons".
At that point, the parents of the 14 gymnasts decided to run a fundraiser to be able to give the talent school …
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BookBook Generations
I've been a fan of the Twelve South BookBook for iPhone cases ever since the first, vintage brown version shipped for my iPhone 4 back in the day.
To be quite blunt, I didn't like the brown, but the black version wasn't available yet. The combination of phone case and wallet was just so very intriguing and useful to me. When Twelve South announced the black version later on, I was using an iPhone 4S and my brown version was already well worn. …