October 2009
Do you use Instapaper?
If you do, post your username and I’ll be sure to read some of the stuff you save for later. I need more material to read anyway… My name on there is ZackShapiro by the way. Feel free to add me. Thanks.
September 2009
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Focusing in
I’ve made the executive decision to limit my blog to three topics: Journalism, Technology and Sports. I’ll leave music to the music blogs because I want to write mainly. I hope you’re looking forward to the shift in my blog. I know I am.
Safari or Firefox?
Sometimes I really cant’t decide which is the better browser. I use both interchangeably. What do you use?
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“Apple’s assault could even eat into sales of home consoles like Nintendo’s Wii,...”
– Apple’s Shadow Hangs Over Game Console Makers This recession that we’re in is favorable for Apple and the App Store for a variety of reasons. First, why spend $60 for one game on the Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3 when you can get 60 or more games for the same price on the iPhone/iPod Touch?... 6 tags
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Detroit is up 10-0 over the Washington Redskins
Can the Lions hold on and get their first win in two seasons?
The Mountain Goats - This Year 1 tag
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“For all the good that @comcastcares does on Twitter in order to help unhappy...”
– Steven Hodson quoted in Your Social Media Strategy Won’t Save You 4 tags
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Broadway Calls - Suffer The Kids My favorite song... Would you pay for your news online?
If you came upon a news source that you were interested in but it cost a certain amount, either a flat fee per year or a monthly fee, to access the entirety of the site’s content, would you pay for it?
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Revamped Journalism Courses Attract Hordes of... →
At a time when the newspaper industry is in free fall and thousands of jobs are being cut each year, one would think that the halls of the nation’s journalism schools would be awfully quiet. Think again. Many universities report that journalism enrollments are up this year. Over the past few weeks, a lot of these budding journalists have been blogging, broadcasting, and tweeting their way...
Creating single page PDFs
I posted the other day about this but I didn’t specify exactly what I’m trying to do. Thanks to those who tried to help out with an answer or a link. I have a multi-page PDF that I need to condense down to one page. I need all of the information on all of the pages but I need it on one page for easy printing/mobility. Please tell me there’s a way to do this?
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“A woman once asked me: “What was your greatest time on earth?” And I said: “From...”
– Mel Brooks - What I’ve Learned 1 tag
Jonah Smith - Lights On (The Brooklyn Sessions) ... PDFs
Is there an easy way to turn multiple page PDF files into 1 page PDFs?
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Apple Seeking More Info From iPhone 3.1 Users... →
From MacRumors:The iPhone Blog reports that Apple is taking steps to investigate numerous reports of reduced battery life from iPhone OS 3.1 users. The company’s AppleCare division has reportedly begun contacting users complaining about the problem in its support forums, asking users a series of 11 questions about their battery life issues. An undisclosed number of users who have posted on...
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Pronunciation mems
Is meme pronounced “meem” or “mem?”
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New Zunes! (meh)
Maybe it was my horrible experience with Dell and Windows at 13 that drove me away forever, maybe it’s the unquestionable superior products that Apple puts out time and again that make me scoff at anything Microsoft attempts to do. Even their commercials are bad. Besides, what the hell is Seinfeld doing shoe shopping will Bill Gates? He should be at home where he belongs, naked in a bathtub...
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Interview: Jack Ivers of Agile Partners, makers of...
It’s been quite a while since the last update, what have you guys been working on for GuitarToolkit? Yes, it has been a while … we’ve been very busy with two other music apps - Star6, which is a sample-based musical instrument, and another app, a companion to GuitarToolkit, which has been submitted but hasn’t yet reached the store. But we’ve also been working on...
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iPhone apps and spellcheck
When an app is downloaded on the iPhone, it’s name should be automatically added to the list of words the phone will capitalize or correct if spelled wrong.
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Celebrities
peroty: marco: I wish people cared as much about anything else as they do about the trivialities of celebrities.
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Obama isn't allowed free speech
What’s so bad about Obama calling Kanye West a jackass? That’s what Kanye is, after all. We’ve got this silly little thing called free speech and whenever the president seems to step out of line, but perfectly within the bounds of free speech, the media jumps on him. First it was the Gates thing where Obama said the police “acted stupidly” and now it’s the...
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The Mighty Mighty Bosstones - The Impression That... 4 tags
Misleading App Store reviews
As an app publisher I’d like to keep on top of the comments that are coming in about my application but one or two star reviews without any sort of text to guide me or potential app buyers aren’t constructive to the whole app-buying process. The ability to leave comments as you delete an application hinders applications as a whole. The chances are that you’re removing the...
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Question of iPhone Developers
My number of applications sold multiplied by the $1.70 that I get for each sale doesn’t match up on my total profit numbers. Any idea what causes this or why this would be?
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Feature request: Tumblr keyboard shortcuts
Since we have the luxury of scrolling with J and K, what about adding these kinds keyboard shortcuts to the mix, Tumblr Developers? NT - New Text post NP - New Photo post NQ - New Quote post NL - New Link post NC - New Chat post NA -New Audio post NV - New Video post
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Facebook Advertising
I’m the Social Media Outreach Editor for the University of Colorado’s newspaper, the CU Independent and I’m thinking about advertising through Facebook. My job is to manage the social media sites since we are an online-only newspaper (or news source, since there’s no paper). Facebook is a website that college students use at almost all hours of the day so advertising our...
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