I love in-depth pieces like this. A lot of TLC went into this feature and it feels nice to use (although when I launched the official Twitter client to check it out I actually had trouble finding it – click into the photo/camera, then you can switch to video).

Seeing that framegrab of how open Lockette is just before Wilson released the ball… I still don’t like the play call, but I see it more as a great play by Butler more than a mistake by Wilson.

I’ve never used a case for my iPhone(s) previously, but I picked up one of these a few weeks ago and I like it. I particularly like the way the plastic stops at the metal edge leaving the rounded glass edge fully exposed (so you get a nice smooth finger-on-rounded-glass feeling when using the back gesture). Granted this reduces protection, but I mainly wanted something to make the phone less slippery.

I went with white for my space gray phone, it is pretty translucent and barely lightens the gray color. (thanks Dave)

Time to update those “flushdns” (and “dnsflush”) aliases.

I’ve been a Mac user since 1984 and a power user since the late 90’s. I use very little of Apple’s software because I’m not their target audience. In many situations Apple’s software breaks when you push it hard enough; in particular the “it just works” part breaks in some way that cannot be fixed/addressed.

Apple makes software for most of us, not all of us. TextEdit doesn’t try to be BBEdit and that’s OK. Where things break down is when Apple purports to solve a difficult problem and does so in a way that leaves aspects of it opaque and un-fixable by end users/developers. The initial iCloud/CoreData sync is a great example of this.

I love Apple hardware. I love the OS. I love the apps that developers create for the platform. All software and all platforms have bugs and problems and I’m OK with that. I don’t think that Apple has any more problems than anyone else. However through 20+ years of experience I also have taught myself to discount and avoid certain Apple features because I have a hunch they will be problematic.

I love posts like this. However, mine would need to be broken up into “travel” and “local” (with a good deal of cross-over).

Worth revisiting, his speech back in July.

MLB.com has an awesome no frills list of trades, free agent signings, etc. If you’re trying to catch up on where everyone went since the end of last season, this is a great place to start.

Michael has a good, if somewhat depressing, roundup of the recent Apple bumbles. Once again making me glad I don’t sell in this ecosystem.

Wow! The BusyMac folks sure have been busy! I know, I know… I couldn’t help myself. As a BusyCal user for years I’m looking forward to playing with this, it sounds awesome.

UPDATE: Wow, I’m blown away. I imported my contacts from iCloud, Twitter and Facebook. It took me 15 minutes to manually link the few contacts that weren’t auto-linked. Then the Combine Linked Cards view (this should be on by default IMO) made all the dupes go away. So cool!

We’ve been fighting our way through this at Crowd Favorite over the last year. Everyone working with the best of intentions, yet still some things are still hard.

This might be Justin’s best post to date on GlassBoard.

Roger Angell for the New Yorker on game 7. What a game, what a series.

Some good tips in here from Steve. I picked up a Quirky cable wrap after seeing his last spring.

This is a great read for parents of daughters (like me).