• Devin Reams: The power of Time Machine, Dropbox, and Subversion – You can never be paranoid enough about data.
• Spiral Makes a Difference – clever.
• Visualized: what Motorola Android users want — Engadget – asking for public feedback doesn’t always go how the marketing person envisioned.
• Your iPhone Is Tracking Your Every Move – “Conspiracy or not, it still doesn’t reflect well on Apple’s concern over its users’ privacy.”
• Summer Intern Field Guide – we certainly subscribe to the “throw them in the deep end” philosohy.
• Melodramatic Bullshit – I’m reminded of the movie Disclosure. lots of hubbub about the scandal, but ultimately what saved Douglas’s character’s job was focusing his responsibilities and getting away from the distractions.
• Pulley: Easy Github Pull Request Landing – awesome.
• Dropbox Lack of Security – Miguel de Icaza – good, fair article. Some good points in the comments too. My take on this is simple: if you want to keep your data private, you need to control the whole stack.
• Edgar Martinez deserves to be in the Baseball Hall of Fame: Fan’s take – MLB – Yahoo! Sports – Edgar also won several AAA batting titles before breaking into the bigs, because the Mariners had him blocked by fan-favorite Jim Presley. That probably cost him a chance at 3000 hits.
• Consider the Retina Display – sometime in the not too distant future my dual 30″ monitors are going to need to be replaced. “Upgrading” to 27″ monitors just feels wrong to me.
• Could the iPhone 5 look like a beveled iPod touch? – I’m expecting something like this at some point, but I don’t know if it will be the iPhone 5. I do think the future iPhones will trend towards the thinner iPod touch hardware than the current iPhone 4 design.