Mind the Gapp

  • ..and the running beat goes on…

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    I changed my modus operandi today. I got up early-ish and went for a run. Generally, I’m not organized enough to get up in the morning and then go for run.

    Time to make some changes though and this is one of them.

    The thing is that running in the morning is generally a LOT better than running in the afternoon. The temp is cooler and it’s a great way to get the motor running in the AM.

    The traffic on our road starts getting a bit crazy @ 7am so I need to get out earlier to avoid that.

    In case anyone is curious below is one of the songs from the playlist I had going. Love the guitars slinking around on this one.

    Hasta la vista…baby.

    https://youtu.be/vygQZ9hYqyE

  • A Montage of the Best Drone Footage of 2016

    This is pretty cool. A montage of video compiled from the entries at the New York City Drone Film Festival (which I had no idea existed until right now).

    It’s really fun to see what people are doing with the technology.

    Anyway, see the post here. 

  • MailButler

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    I was cruising around on MacStories (Federico Viticci’s awesome site) and tripped across an article about MailButler. Here’s the article on MacStories. Anyway, after the read I thought I would give the tool a try. 

    MailButler, in a word, is awesome. While I’m still learning the feature set there are a couple that I’m in love with: 

    • Send later
    • Timer for a send

    The ability to export a note to Evernote is pretty cool as well. I’m going to keep exploring the tool but so far I’m impressed.

    Learn more about MailButler here. 

  • “The people we surround ourselves with either or raise or lower our standards.”

    I normally don’t post this type of stuff but i like this one.

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  • Mary Meeker’s Internet Trends

    Mary Meeker ‘Internet Trends’ report.

    Lots of good info, in particular about markets and advertising. As usual, impressive.

    See the slides here.

    Here’s the video on recode.

  • Apple and VocalIQ

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    See this article about what (potentially) Apple’s been doing with Siri.

    It’s really good to see that, apparently, Apple has been doing some serious work on Siri. I do like the tool but I find it a bit frustrating to use at times. 

    I’ve done some work around the house using Indigo and Phillips Hue to automate lighting and create scenes. I find Siri to be pretty useful. The more of the work that I do with these tools, the more that I think that a tool like Amazon’s Echo with Alexa would make things just a bit easier. 

  • Android’s failure to innovate?

    Not sure that I agree with this article but I do think it’s great analysis.

    I thought this but was pretty interesting:

    While the media has grown enthralled with Facebook’s user growth (despite the fact that it paid $22 billion, or $55 per person, for 400 million WhatsApp users, who have subsequently generated 3 cents each in revenue per year), nobody in the tech media has really recognized the incredible value of iMessages. Google clearly has.

    Revenue of 3 cents per USER per year from WhatsApp on a $22 Billion spend?

  • I love me some ‘CEPHtmlEngineHelper’

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     I don’t know why this just start happening but the Adobe related ‘CEPHtmlEngineHelper’ just started causing the old Mac fan and CPU usage to go crazy.

    Looks like it was resolved in private build by Adobe in February 2016.

    Guess I’ll update the CC 2015 apps and see what happens, eh?

    Update: It appears that the latest updates resolve the problems with ‘CEPHtmlEngineHelper’…

  • “The train that saved Denver”

    Excellent article about the new(-ish) train based transit system that Denver has been building. More impressive is the idea that the region as a whole has been working together.

    I’ve always been impressed by the European model of bike, car, train and plane transportation systems working as an integrated whole. Efficient and easy to use.

    See the article from Politico here.

  • Building a Steinway Piano – Chris Payne

    Got this link via Kottke. Really enjoyed seeing the process of building a piano, in this case a Steinway piano.

    Last fall my wife and I purchased a used Piano after doing a bunch of shopping. Easy to see why new piano’s have such a cost attached to them. Anyway, we bought a used Baldwin to see how much it would get played. Good decision on our part.

    Here’s the link.