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December 2013

  1. Quote of the Day: Brent Simmons
  2. ‘Three things I learned from the Snowden files’
  3. ‘Apple Says It Has Never Worked With NSA To Create iPhone Backdoors’
  4. Côte&Ciel Isar Rucksack
  5. So You Thought DigitalOcean Was Great?
  6. ‘The Products Apple Doesn’t Have Time to Improve’
  7. Reminder: December Yearly Membership Discount
  8. ‘The NSA has nearly complete backdoor access to Apple’s iPhone’ [Updated]
  9. ‘What I Didn’t Say’
  10. ‘BlackBerry CEO: Here’s our new strategy’
  11. ‘US Struggling to Keep Pace in Broadband Service’
  12. What is the Future of the Open Web?
  13. ‘Inside TAO: The NSA’s Shadow Network’
  14. ANT Division
  15. Today in Misleading App Store Screenshots: FoxyLocks
  16. ‘Do You Want to Write?’
  17. ‘Automatic Document Redaction with PDFpen’
  18. ‘NSA mass collection of phone data is legal, federal judge rules’
  19. Chill out dudes
  20. ‘A free distraction’
  21. ‘How Does This Not Blow Your Mind?’
  22. ‘Constraint and Creativity’
  23. Quote of the Day: Bruce Schneier
  24. ‘7 Reasons the TSA Sucks (A Security Expert’s Perspective)’
  25. ‘”Patent Pending?” iA’s Militant Stance on Syntax Control in Writer Pro’
  26. ‘White House Tries to Prevent Judge From Ruling on Surveillance Efforts’
  27. ‘Secret contract tied NSA and security industry pioneer’
  28. ‘Apple thinks different for Christmas’
  29. ”Data Brokers’ Are Collecting and Selling Some Very Private Information About You’
  30. Switching to GetFlow.com (So Long OmniFocus)
  31. Sync and Backup over SFTP/S3
  32. ‘That podcast bombshell’
  33. Why Tech Podcasts Bother Me
  34. App Playlists
  35. Daedalus Touch 1.7
  36. So This is Writer Pro
  37. Glassboard Acquired By Second Gear
  38. ‘The best app for managing, editing, and reading PDFs on your iPad’
  39. ‘In the Fukushima Fallout, Meet the Hackers Building a Sensor Network for Global Radiation’
  40. Photos+
  41. ‘A Tale of Two Ads: “Misunderstood” vs. “Scroogled”’
  42. Photoshop Works Both Ways
  43. Quote of the Day: Shawn Blanc
  44. ‘The Case Against Multivitamins Grows Stronger’
  45. The Silence of Snowfall
  46. Tor Best Practices
  47. ‘A directory of direct links to delete your account from web services’
  48. ‘The end of the Facebook era’
  49. ‘Judge: NSA Phone Program Likely Unconstitutional’
  50. Real Beauty
  51. NSA » Some Show With A Stop Watch » And, Well, Ben
  52. Why ‘Positive’ Reviews Are More Prevalent than Negative Reviews (Hint: $$$)
  53. ‘Google Removes Vital Privacy Feature From Android’
  54. Logitech Ultrathin Keyboard Cover for iPad Air
  55. From the archives: ‘If I Were CEO’
  56. Donate to the Internet Archive!
  57. ‘Former Google executive to run U.S. patent office’
  58. Apple’s Steve Park, New Favorite Apple Employee
  59. Your Privacy Costs $30/mo
  60. ‘TSA agent confiscates sock monkey’s pistol’
  61. ‘No Contest: Edward Snowden is Person of the Year’
  62. Punishment vs. Rewards: App Store Reviews
  63. ‘Fine Art Gliclée Prints’
  64. Quote of the Day: John Gruber
  65. ‘NSA uses Google cookies to pinpoint targets for hacking’
  66. A Note About Old Pictures
  67. The Goruck GR1 Pictures
  68. Reform Government Surveillance
  69. ‘Meet Jack. Or, What The Government Could Do With All That Location Data’
  70. Let It Full-Bleed
  71. ‘NSA morale down after Edward Snowden revelations, former U.S. officials say’
  72. The Brooks Review December Membership Special
  73. ‘Cellphone data spying: It’s not just the NSA’
  74. Quote of the Day: Wil Wheaton
  75. ‘Your iPhone Will Talk to Stores While You Shop’
  76. ‘Someone’s Been Siphoning Data Through a Huge Security Hole in the Internet’
  77. ‘The simple fix that could heal the patent system.’
  78. Update to Goruck GR1 Field Pocket Post
  79. ‘Apple’s Star Chamber’
  80. Cano to Mariners for $240 Million Over Ten Years
  81. ‘BitTorrent Sync Hits 2 Million User Mark’
  82. ‘The Value of Content’
  83. ‘Fascinating Historical Events That Happened Around The Same Time’
  84. ‘NSA tracking cellphone locations worldwide, Snowden documents show’
  85. ‘FCC Chair: ISPs Should Be Able to Charge Netflix for Internet Fast Lane’
  86. ‘Tablets at Restaurants: Applebee’s, Chili’s Race to Eliminate Human Interaction’
  87. The Information Launches
  88. GORUCK GR1 Field Pocket
  89. Quote of the Day: Alex King
  90. ‘Touch ID’
  91. Jumping Air Gaps
  92. Quote of the Day: Shane Cole
  93. ‘Australian Spy Agency Offered to Share Data About Ordinary Citizens’
  94. ‘That Viral “Poverty Thoughts” Essay Is Totally Ridiculous’
  95. ‘Encryption Arms Race Escalates’
  96. Goruck SK26, Travelling, and the Bag for Me
  97. ‘The default settings on your device are probably not the best for you’
  98. Looking At Why Privacy Matters
  99. ‘Apple’s iOS brings developers 5x more revenue per download than Android’

November 2013

  1. ‘Christmas Special: Mail Plugins Bundle’
  2. The Blame Apple Game
  3. ‘Why You’re More Likely To Buy Something When Shopping On Your iPad’
  4. ‘Apple Has Twice The Global “Ad Impression Share” Of Android’
  5. ‘The best recipe manager for iPhone, iPad, and Mac’
  6. ‘Here Comes Boreas: The Weather Channel Brands Winter Storms’
  7. ‘End the N.S.A. Dragnet, Now’
  8. Bitcoin Survival Guide
  9. ‘How Hacker News Ranking Really Works: Scoring, Controversy, and Penalties’
  10. Avoid QuizUp
  11. Quote of the Day: Craig Grannell
  12. Tech Headlines That Could Be
  13. The New Glif
  14. ‘Okay, Google, you officially beat Siri’
  15. Switching to Android, A Practical Guide
  16. What our privacy is worth
  17. The Hub
  18. Bruce Schneier AMA
  19. Network Plus Sit/Stand Desk
  20. ‘Meet the Spies Doing the NSA’s Dirty Work’
  21. Quote of the Day: John Carey
  22. ‘That 60W-equivalent LED: What you don’t know’
  23. ‘Microsoft Bringing Message Encryption To Office 365’
  24. ‘Things You’re Not Supposed to Do With Google Glass’
  25. ‘No. This is a trap.’
  26. Poster Bookmarklets
  27. ‘Leaving Google Chrome: Why I’ve Returned to Safari’
  28. The Compact Toolkit
  29. DIY NSA
  30. You Can’t Leave, Yet [video]
  31. Quote of the Day: Fraser Speirs
  32. ‘New technology: a koan’
  33. Begin 1.5
  34. Apple Store for iPad
  35. Moving for the Sake of Moving
  36. Email Field Guide
  37. The Sweet Setup
  38. Quote of the Day: Michael Lopp
  39. URL Scheme Security in Drafts
  40. ‘Truth And Lies About Apple’
  41. Quote of the Day: Thomas Brand
  42. ‘Our Commitment to Protecting Your Information’
  43. Making Money From Copyrighted Work You Don’t Own
  44. Reversals and Arrogance
  45. Seattle’s Surveillance Network
  46. Hackett on iPad Air
  47. Daring Fireball: The Retina iPad Mini
  48. Endless Alphabet on the App Store on iTunes
  49. ‘Use One Coin for All of Your Cards’
  50. Digital Detectives
  51. ‘Americans’ Personal Data Shared With CIA, IRS, Others in Security Probe’
  52. WiFi Off
  53. How Strange
  54. ‘Create a private “Dropbox” file host using BitTorrent Sync’
  55. Quote of the Day: Andrew Kim
  56. ‘Desk or Garage Design?’
  57. ‘Why I’ve all but given up on Windows’
  58. A7 Speeds and Heat
  59. Amazon Item of the Week: Spyderco Tri-Angle Sharpmaker
  60. Sapphire Displays
  61. ‘Privacy Happens at the Endpoints’
  62. ‘NSA’s Vast Surveillance Powers Extend Far Beyond Counterterrorism, Despite Misleading Government Claims’
  63. ‘Apple Maps: How Google Lost When Everyone Thought It Had Won’
  64. How To Size iOS 7 Wallpaper
  65. Quote of the Day: David Heinemeier Hansson
  66. Stuxnet, America’s Nuclear Plant-Attacking Virus, Has Infected the International Space Station
  67. BitTorrent Sync 1.2 Now Available
  68. Scheming for Privacy and Security
  69. RAW Image Editing on the iPad
  70. Patent Trolls and Scam Artists
  71. Subsidized by Google
  72. iPad Air Speed
  73. The Fastest Way to Train iOS Autocorrect
  74. A Googler’s Thoughts on the Nexus 7
  75. iOS 7 Keyboard Shortcuts
  76. ‘How the NSA Exposed the Media’s Biggest Bias’
  77. Filterstorm Neue
  78. ‘How to Build an Audience in 743 Difficult Steps’
  79. Hard Graft Flat Pack For Sale Now
  80. ‘Does Microsoft need a turnaround expert?’
  81. ‘iOS 7 Parallax Wallpaper Pack’
  82. Wherein I Post My ‘Highly’ Anticipated Thoughts on the iPad Air
  83. Quote of the Day: Al Gore
  84. BitTorrent Sync is Now Open to Developers
  85. Shaming the U.S. One PDF at a Time
  86. Undershirts, Part Two: The Journey gets decidedly more expensive.
  87. Server-side Mail Rules
  88. Arming the TSA, and Not With Knowledge
  89. Quote of the Day: The Macalope
  90. ‘Tom Bihn Co-Pilot Bag Review’
  91. ‘iPad Air Benchmarks Versus Other Apple Devices’
  92. Let’s make it 2.0 so we can charge for it again.
  93. More Reasons to Hate Comcast
  94. Hypocrites
  95. What it’s like to carry an 8lbs Bag
  96. Most Exciting
  97. One-Strapping
  98. Ummm, What?
  99. Holy BIOS
  100. Patent Wars
  101. The Push
  102. Patent War

October 2013

  1. ‘Clone Dropbox with a Raspberry Pi and BTSync’
  2. Schneier on Security: NSA Eavesdropping on Google and Yahoo Networks
  3. Portable Electronics Frequently Asked Questions
  4. Quote of the Day: Moron Rogers
  5. ‘I Challenged Hackers to Investigate Me and What They Found Out Is Chilling’
  6. Dark Mail Alliance
  7. ‘Think You Can Live Offline Without Being Tracked? Here’s What It Takes’
  8. ‘NSA infiltrates links to Yahoo, Google data centers worldwide, Snowden documents say’
  9. Transporter Sync
  10. Fantastical 2 for iPhone
  11. The Ultimate EDC Pocket Knife
  12. Quote of the Day: Dave Pell
  13. iPad Air Reviews Are Out
  14. Speeding Up Touch ID
  15. When Gizmodo Takes Down The New York Times
  16. TBR’s Stuff for Sale
  17. ‘To Air is Human; to Mini, Divine’
  18. ‘Is There a Dark Side of Google?’
  19. Thats the Question Now, Isn’t it
  20. ‘iPad Mini for Content Creation’
  21. The iPad Air vs. iPad mini Retina
  22. ‘NSA Monitored Calls of 35 World Leaders After US Official Handed Over Contacts’
  23. Off
  24. Styles in Ulysses III
  25. Define Hypocrite For Me
  26. ‘iPad mini or iPad Air?’
  27. ‘Mail in Mavericks Changes the Gmail Equation’
  28. GPGTools
  29. Ulysses III v1.1
  30. ‘Liebeck V. McDonald’s: The Big Burn’
  31. ‘Scroll Hijacking’
  32. ‘Edward Snowden is No Traitor’
  33. Leaf on Car
  34. Amazon Item of the Week: PYLE-PRO PLPTS25 Laptop Computer Stand for DJ
  35. ‘Apple Crosses Its Hardware Rubicon’
  36. ‘NSA Surveillance Creeps Onto Tech’S Lobbying Agenda’
  37. Quote of the Day: Jim Dalrymple
  38. ‘A Huge Regression’
  39. Software as a Feature
  40. Transporter 2.0 is Here
  41. OS X Mavericks
  42. TV Has Yet to Account for Reality
  43. ‘Experian Sold Consumer Data to ID Theft Service’
  44. There’s Going to Be a Lot of “New” News Outlets
  45. ‘Apple Patent on Touch Typing, Multitouch Upheld; Allows Ban on Most Androids’
  46. That’s Not Enough
  47. ‘France in the NSA’s Crosshair’
  48. In Praise of One of the Greatest Concluding Lines Ever Written
  49. Android Headed Away from ‘Open’
  50. An Additional Thought on iMessage
  51. iMessage Privacy
  52. ‘Siri Response Times’
  53. ‘Twitter’s Theoretically Temporary URL Messaging Ban Due to Massive Wave of DM Spam’
  54. ‘Calorie burner: How much better is standing up than sitting?’
  55. ‘Receive direct messages from anyone, even those not following you, on Twitter’
  56. Weather Line
  57. Quote of the Day: Ian Bogost
  58. GoDaddy Buys Media Temple
  59. ‘What Stuck and What Didn’t?’
  60. ‘NSA Collects Millions of E-Mail Address Books Globally’
  61. Review: The CODE Keyboard
  62. ‘Why I Think Google’s Shared Endorsements Are a Good Thing for Social Media, Influencers and Consumers’
  63. ‘An Interesting iOS App Store Upgrade Example’
  64. ‘Run While You Have to, Stop When You Can’
  65. ‘Why Microsoft Word Must Die’
  66. ‘Snaphack saves Snapchat messages’
  67. Meanwhile, in Belgium…
  68. ‘Mark Zuckerberg Buys 4 homes for privacy’
  69. ‘Air Gaps’
  70. ‘Is T-Mobile’s ‘Free’ International Data Roaming Worth Switching For?’
  71. ‘Google Sets Plan to Sell Users’ Endorsements’
  72. ‘Design Quality and Customer Delight as Sustainable Advantages’
  73. The Fallacy of Success
  74. GORUCK GR0
  75. Touch ID Failures
  76. ‘Paid Apps Aren’t Dead — but They Are on Life Support’
  77. ‘The small improvement in iPhone battery capacity’
  78. AriZona Iced Tea’s Open Letter to Miley Cyrus from Dashiell Driscoll
  79. ‘Nest Launches Protect, a smoke/CO Detector’
  80. ‘Review: DSPTCH Sling and Wrist Straps’
  81. ’50ft X’
  82. ‘Why It’s Important to Publish the NSA Programs’
  83. Jackass Release Notes of the Week
  84. Quote of the Day: David Rohde
  85. Advertising Bastards
  86. “Offers in-App Purchases”
  87. ‘How the NSA Attacks Tor/Firefox Users With QUANTUM and FOXACID’
  88. ‘FastMail’s Servers Are in the US: What This Means for You’
  89. MOAR ADS
  90. Secret Messages
  91. ‘Instagram Blog: Hey, You Want Ads? No? Too Bad.’
  92. The Man Who Owns the Moon
  93. iPhone Scanning
  94. ‘How a Purse Snatching Led to the Legal Justification for NSA Domestic Spying’
  95. ‘The Reign of Morons Is Here’
  96. 1Password 4 for Mac Is Here, Kind Of
  97. Begin is Now Free
  98. ‘Easily Obtained Subpoenas Turn Your Personal Information Against You’
  99. ‘Battle: Los Angeles’
  100. ‘Why It’s Time for Apple to Open FaceTime’
  101. Double Dissolution
  102. ‘Today, or Tomorrow, What About Next Week?’
  103. ‘Let’s rally for Lavabit to fight for the privacy rights of the American people.’
  104. ‘NSA Storing Internet Data, Social Networking Data, on Pretty Much Everybody’
  105. ‘Recommended by 4 Out of 5 Dentists’

September 2013

  1. Ignore the Fact that it Looks French
  2. Favd: Share Your Pictures
  3. To-Do Lists Don’t Work
  4. ‘Underscore Price Dynamics’
  5. ‘Start Your Day Off Right With Begin’
  6. ‘Keeping Your Laptop Plugged in All the Time Will Kill Its Battery Faster’
  7. Quote of the Day: Seymour Hersh
  8. Quote of the Day: Tim Carmody
  9. Bags… Again
  10. ‘The Lawsuit Against Google for Email Scanning Will Go Forward’
  11. Quote of the Day: Dustin Curtis
  12. Regarding My ‘Ridiculous’ Assertion that RF is Not Wireless
  13. Editorially, Writing, And Being Boring
  14. Marked 2 has Launched
  15. ‘Review: Simplenote for iOS 7’
  16. Marco’s Keyboard
  17. Quote of the Day: John Moltz
  18. ‘Google to Encrypt ALL Keyword Searches: Say Goodbye to Keyword Data’
  19. A Touch ID Hackers Thoughts on Touch ID Security
  20. ‘On the New Simplenote’
  21. Quote of the Day: Bruce Schneier
  22. ‘Another iOS 7 Bug Lets Anyone Make Calls From Locked iPhones–And This One Has No Quick Fix’
  23. ‘Chaos Computer Club Breaks Apple TouchID’
  24. Touch ID is the Future
  25. LinkedIn Scumbags
  26. Identically Sized Circles
  27. OmniFocus 2 for iPhone
  28. Begin
  29. ‘iOS 7 Locks Stolen iPhones to Prevent Resale’
  30. A Few Thoughts on iOS 7 That Others May Not Touch Enough On and Thus Will Make Me Cranky If I Don’t Post About Them
  31. ‘Obama Administration Urges FCC to Require Carriers to Unlock Mobile Devices’
  32. Copy-Catting
  33. ‘Surviving Whole Foods’
  34. Perfect Weather
  35. ‘What Is Apple’s New Secure Enclave and Why Is It Important?’
  36. Blur
  37. Jumping the Gun
  38. CatPaint
  39. The Best V-Neck Undershirt, Part One
  40. ‘If I had to leave the Mac? I’d switch to Elementary OS’
  41. ‘Former NSA and CIA Director Says Terrorists Love Using Gmail’
  42. Google Knows Your WiFi Passcode
  43. Race for Ad Dollars
  44. John Sculley on Steve Jobs Leaving Apple
  45. Touchy ID
  46. Dropbox Opens Your Files
  47. Stupid Shit of the Week
  48. ‘NSA Shares Raw Intelligence Including Americans’ Data With Israel’
  49. ‘Third Suspicious Package Attributed to Ex-TSA Screener’
  50. The Two Best Things about the iPhone 5S
  51. Sunstroke 1.6
  52. ‘Dave Pell on Building the NextDraft Platform’
  53. Editorially
  54. ‘How the NSA Spies on Smartphones Including the BlackBerry’
  55. The Apple Store Experience
  56. ‘Obama Administration Had Restrictions on NSA Reversed in 2011’
  57. ‘Privacy’
  58. ‘1Password and the Crypto Wars’
  59. ‘Patent Troll Tries to Save Itself, Gets Pounded by Newegg’
  60. Epic Privacy Browser
  61. ‘I Am the Other’
  62. ‘Trials and Upgrades Are Still Dead’
  63. Why Break Encryption, When You Can Build a Backdoor?
  64. ‘Why should I host in a data center?’
  65. ‘A Mockery of Whom?’
  66. Quote of the Day: Trevor Timm
  67. ‘We’re unable to offer upgrade pricing for Mac App Store purchases’
  68. ‘7 Billion Reasons to Say No’
  69. The HP LaserJet Pro 200 Color M251NW
  70. PayPal Freezes Mailpile Campaign Funds
  71. Meet Perch on Vimeo
  72. A Well Constructed Opinion
  73. ‘Tor Is Less Anonymous Than You Think’
  74. Quote of the Day: Bruce Schneier
  75. How Shawn Blanc Sells His Old iPhones
  76. Meet: The Hemisphere Project
  77. Microsoft’s Illusion
  78. Goodbye Dropbox

August 2013

  1. ‘Text a Driver in New Jersey, and You Could See Your Day in Court’
  2. Quote of the Day: Marco Arment
  3. Gadget Site Reviews
  4. HTTP Status Codes
  5. Fast-Flashlight for iPhone
  6. Doing it Horizontally
  7. ‘How Many Leakers Came Before Snowden?’
  8. ‘Reviewing Documents With OmniFocus And Hazel’
  9. ‘What Happens When You Stand for 2 Years’
  10. Secure Archiving, and Fast Searching of Email
  11. The NSA Data Mining Conundrum
  12. ‘Researchers Reverse-Engineer the Dropbox Client’
  13. ‘Obama’s Bluff’
  14. ‘OmniKeyMaster: Upgrade Pricing for Mac App Store Customers’
  15. ‘To Make Journalism Harder, Slower, Less Secure’
  16. ‘300 Days With the iPad Mini’
  17. ‘Square v. Portrait’
  18. ‘U.S. Enables Chinese Hacking of Google’
  19. ‘In Surveillance Era, Clever Trick Enhances Secrecy of iPhone Text Messages’
  20. ‘Why Are There So Few Women Programmers?’
  21. ‘Fukushima: Vast Amounts of Radioactive Water Creeping Towards Sea’
  22. Paul Thurrott’s Take
  23. ‘Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to Retire Within 12 Months’
  24. ‘In Praise of Laziness’
  25. Amazon Item of the Week: Ghost in the Wires
  26. ‘German Government Warns Key Entities Not to Use Windows 8’
  27. ‘Scripts for WordPress and BBEdit’
  28. One Year of App.net
  29. ‘Zuckerberg Generously Allows World’s Poor to Fuel Facebook Profits’
  30. Transporter Hosting and Colocation
  31. ‘The NSA, Germany, and Journalism’
  32. Quote of the Day: Shawn Blanc
  33. Mailpile
  34. The Washington Post is Not Doing Anyone Any Favors
  35. Mugshots from the 1920s
  36. ‘Artificial Intelligence and What Computers Still Don’t Understand’
  37. Quote of the Day: Cindy Cohn and Mark M. Jaycox
  38. The Hyper-bolic-loop
  39. ‘Cameron Proves Greenwald Right’
  40. Elementary OS
  41. NSA Compliance
  42. Keyboard Maestro Macro: Attach and Send
  43. ‘Shift the Evilness’
  44. ‘Secure’ Email is the Wrong Approach
  45. ‘Google: Gmail Users Shouldn’t Expect Email Privacy’
  46. Deserving Attention
  47. Android Niceties
  48. ‘A Low Point in Barack Obama’s Presidency’
  49. A Democracy Doesn’t Work if the Laws are Secret
  50. Time to Host Your Own Email?
  51. Quote of the Date: The New York Times Editorial Board
  52. ‘Google, Build Up This Wall’
  53. ‘Firefox’ Complicated and Very Secure Way of Retrieving Passwords’
  54. Snowden on Lavabit
  55. Silent Circle Also Shuts Down
  56. Lavabit Shuts Down
  57. ‘Change the Airport Security Mindset’
  58. The DEA’s Collection of American Phone Logs
  59. ‘Chrome’s Insane Password Security Strategy’
  60. Dialogue — Handsfree Calling Through Your Mac
  61. Quote of the Day: Bruce Schneier
  62. ‘The Government Reveals Their Quantum Internet’
  63. ‘Delight Is in the Details’
  64. SearchWP
  65. ‘Encryption Keys and Surveillance’
  66. ‘The Public/Private Surveillance Partnership’
  67. Why Easy Tap Zones Matter
  68. Three Hop Analysis
  69. ‘NSA Collects ‘Word for Word’ Every Domestic Communication, Says Former Analyst’
  70. ‘Make Text More Readable With Solarized and Cousine’
  71. ‘Has the Gov’t Lied on Snooping? Let’s Go to the Videotape’
  72. ‘Security Audit’
  73. ‘Big Transparency for the NSA’
  74. ‘NSA’s Internet Taps Can Find Systems to Hack, Track VPNs and Word Docs’
  75. Quip
  76. ‘Why Today’s Top Apps Are Putting You on a Wait List’
  77. Two four
  78. Google + Coffee

July 2013

  1. Tip of the Iceberg
  2. Meet XKeyscore
  3. Calca
  4. Keyboard Maestro Macro to Solve Math in Your Text Editor
  5. Perfect TablePlan
  6. ‘Mavericks and Tagging’
  7. I’m Picturing LCARS
  8. Amazon’s Relationship
  9. Quote of the Day: Peter Buffett
  10. ‘Lawmakers Who Upheld NSA Phone Spying Received Double the Defense Industry Cash’
  11. Why You Need to be Supporting This Site, or This Is Your Chance to Prove Independent Media is the Future
  12. ‘Apps Would Disclose Collection of Data’
  13. ‘Microsoft Word Problems.’
  14. ‘UK Porn Filter Will Censor Other Content Too’
  15. Reminder: Become a Member Before Saturday
  16. ‘Searching the Curatorium’
  17. ‘Jeff Daniels’ Monologue From The Newsroom’
  18. ‘The (I)Message We Crave’
  19. ‘The Northwest Has the Best Summer in the Nation. But Why?’
  20. Quote of the Day: Connor Thomas O’Brien
  21. ‘The Price of Hypocrisy’
  22. ‘NSA Says It Can’t Search Its Own Emails’
  23. ‘Court: Chevron Can Seize Americans’ Email Data’
  24. ‘Browser Tabs and Battery Life’
  25. ‘What Happens When We Actually Catch Edward Snowden?’
  26. The 2013 Brooks Review Membership Drive
  27. Quote of the Day: Bruce Schneier
  28. Shawn Today, Episode 400
  29. Switching From Gmail to FastMail
  30. ‘Samsung Galaxy S 4 Active’
  31. ‘The Fourth Agenda’
  32. Quote of the Day: Matthew M. Aid
  33. ‘Obama Wins Back the Right to Indefinitely Detain Under NDAA’
  34. ‘Police Documents on License Plate Scanners Reveal Mass Tracking’
  35. Three Hops
  36. Google + Passwords = Plaintext
  37. ‘Cloud.typography vs. Typekit’
  38. ‘The NSA Wants America’s Most Powerful Corporations to Be Dependent on It’
  39. Quote of the Day: Seth Godin
  40. Amazon Item of the Week: Lubricant
  41. Transporter
  42. ‘Cancer of Compromise’
  43. ‘Changing the Creepy Guy Narrative’
  44. ‘Your iOS Device isn’t as Encrypted as You Think’
  45. Keyboard Maestro Macro: Based on my Wifi, Do This
  46. Johnnie Walker “Game Changer” on Vimeo
  47. Quote of the Day: Edward Snowden
  48. ‘The NSA’s Surveillance Is Unconstitutional’
  49. Keyboard Maestro Macro: Quoting a Website in Markdown
  50. ‘One Microsoft’
  51. Fresh Fonts
  52. ‘How Cryptography Is a Key Weapon in the Fight Against Empire States’
  53. Heml.is
  54. ‘Geoff Dyer, Zoe Heller, Gary Shteyngart on Sitting vs. Standing Desks’
  55. ‘Coffee Shops Look to Oust Laptop Hobos’
  56. ‘So, You Want to Hide From the NSA?’
  57. PRISM Break
  58. Reading List vs. Instapaper
  59. Your “Open” News
  60. ‘The Price of Amazon’
  61. ‘Twitter Wants to Start Tracking You on the Web, Here’s How to Opt-Out’
  62. A Few Short Thoughts on Some New-ish Apps
  63. The Email Charter
  64. ‘This Is You on Smiles’
  65. Freedom
  66. ‘Swear Words Old and New’
  67. Quote of the Day: Marco Arment
  68. ‘PRISM: The Amazingly Low Cost of ­Using BigData to Know More About You in Under a Minute’
  69. OmniFocus for iPhone Redesigned
  70. ‘Motorola Is Listening’
  71. 'Mavericks' New Wave'

June 2013

  1. Migrating from Google Reader
  2. ‘U.S. Bugged EU Offices, Computer Networks’
  3. ‘NSA Slides Explain the PRISM Data-Collection Program’
  4. ‘U.S. Army Restricts Access to ‘The Guardian’ Website’
  5. ‘Where Will Google Reader Traffic Go?’
  6. ‘Phoenix Jones – a Real Life Superhero’
  7. ‘Packing the Smart Alec for a Hike’
  8. ‘iOS 7 as Defense’
  9. ‘Feed Wrangler’s Smart Streams’
  10. ‘NetNewsWire: Just What You Wanted’
  11. Quote of the Day: Jennifer Stisa Granick and Christopher Jon Sprigman
  12. ‘Snowden, Through the Eyes of a Spy Novelist’
  13. ‘Can Apple Read Your iMessages?’
  14. Quote of the Day: Brian Merchant
  15. More on NSA/PRISM and “Freedom”
  16. ‘Still Trust DuckDuckGo?’ Yep.
  17. ‘Use of Tor and E-Mail Crypto Could Increase Chances That NSA Keeps Your Data’
  18. Encrypting Stuff Against Starbucks Hacker Bob
  19. ‘Kickstarter’s Apology’
  20. Why the Kickstarter Apology Isn’t Good Enough
  21. ‘The Snowden Principle’
  22. Quote of the Day: Steve Wozniak
  23. ‘Scanadu Scout, the First Medical Tricorder’
  24. Quote of the Day: Bruce Schneier
  25. ‘Has U.S. Started an Internet War?’
  26. ‘Kickstarter Allowed Funding for a Sexual Assault Manual’
  27. If You Think PRISM Doesn’t Matter Because You’ve Nothing to Hide, Read This Now
  28. ‘Remembering James Gandolfini and Tony Soprano’
  29. Privacy, Secrecy, the Web, and Ads
  30. Sky Guide
  31. Choice Quotes from More PRISM and NSA Articles
  32. The Battery Life Race
  33. ‘A Week With iOS Seven’
  34. Quote of the Day: Marco Arment
  35. Chatology
  36. ‘Apple’s Commitment to Customer Privacy’
  37. Real
  38. Quote of the Day: Brice Schneier
  39. ‘NSA Admits Listening to U.S. Phone Calls Without Warrants’
  40. Clear Organizer Pouches from Tom Bihn Make Great iPad Mini Stashes
  41. ‘Stockman Requests Subpoena of NSA’s White House, IRS Phone Logs’
  42. ‘Senators Skip Classified Briefing on NSA Snooping to Catch Flights Home’
  43. Quote of the Day: Bruce Schneier
  44. ‘Secret Court Ruling Put Tech Companies in Data Bind’
  45. Woe Ye Metadata
  46. Air to Breathe
  47. ‘Prosecuting Snowden’
  48. ‘The View-Master User Interface’
  49. ‘Fertile Ground’
  50. The WWDC Keynote
  51. Quote of the Day: Daniel Ellsberg
  52. Quote of the Day: Timothy Lee
  53. ‘Here Come the Encryption Apps’
  54. ‘The Problem With Metadata’
  55. Quote of the Day: Edward Snowden
  56. ‘The NSA’s Dragnet’
  57. Quote of the Day: Matt Gemmell
  58. ‘U.S., British Intelligence Mining Data From Nine U.S. Internet Companies in Broad Secret Program’
  59. Vesper Take Two
  60. Keyboard Maestro, Markdown Links, and Ulysses III
  61. ‘TSA Drops Plan to Allow Airline Passengers to Carry Small Knives, Bats, Golf Clubs on Planes’
  62. ‘NSA Collecting Phone Records of Millions of Verizon Customers Daily’
  63. Why Paywalls and Big Media Don’t Work as Well as a Reasonable Person Might Assume that they Should Work
  64. Eavesdropping
  65. Mac mini Server
  66. ‘Sent From Byword’
  67. The Banality of ‘Don’t Be Evil’
  68. Byword For iOS 2.0
  69. Quote of the Day: Marco Arment
  70. Felix for App.net (iPad Edition)
  71. For the Love of the Drive
  72. Radiator Whiskey – Brooks Review Meetup (Update)

May 2013

  1. Quote of the Day: Dustin Curtis
  2. On Writing
  3. Save Podcasting! Help the Electronic Frontier Foundation
  4. Quote of the Day: Chris Bowler
  5. Taste Testing Large v. Small Ice Cubes
  6. Quote of the Day: @Jeswin
  7. ‘The Rise of the Mobile-Only User’
  8. How to End a Press Release
  9. ‘Big Ice Cubes’
  10. How Yahoo! is Trying to Get on My Shit List
  11. Dressing Formally
  12. Quote of the Day: The Macalope
  13. Quote of the Day: Amanda Hess
  14. Serephine
  15. ‘Welcome to the One-Screen World’
  16. ‘Designing Blogs for Readers’
  17. Keyboard Maestro 6
  18. Congress Sends a Letter
  19. Quote of the Day: Michael Lopp
  20. ‘Tumblr. + Yahoo! = !!’
  21. ‘Spelling Alphabet’
  22. ‘Welcome to Google Island’
  23. 22 Workplace Tips We Learned From The Office
  24. Quote of the Day: Jim Lipsey
  25. ‘Going Native’
  26. Some ‘New’ Weather Apps
  27. Quote of the Day: John Gruber
  28. ‘Evil Eric Schmidt’
  29. ‘Due.app and Reminder Notifications’
  30. Someone Should Write a Mail.app Plugin
  31. Naked WordPress
  32. ‘Elegy for the Text Box’
  33. Quote of the Day: Marco Arment
  34. Amazon Coins
  35. ‘Reflections on Google Glass’
  36. The Missouri Drone Journalism Program
  37. App Pricing
  38. Navigation Help
  39. ‘I Hate Dogs’
  40. Quote of the Day: Jim Ray
  41. Paragraphs
  42. Kit & Kiya
  43. Is it a beach ball, or a pinwheel?
  44. ‘Social’
  45. W3 Total Failure
  46. ‘Please Don’t Buy an SLR if You’ll Only Use the Kit Lens’
  47. The Deciders
  48. Limitless Surveillance
  49. Calendaring on the Mac
  50. Gmail’s Design
  51. Transporter
  52. Quote of the Day: John Carey
  53. Quote of the Day: Paul Kafasis
  54. Quietly Admitting

April 2013

  1. ‘Do US Cities Need More Surveillance Cameras?’
  2. Quote of the Day: George Saunders
  3. Betaworks
  4. ‘This is freedom’
  5. The Ego-Boosting-Wow-WWDC-Sure-Sold-Out-Fast Meetup (Seattle)
  6. Stark Contrast
  7. Twitter Music
  8. Sunstroke 1.4
  9. Drafts 3: One Hell of a Notepad
  10. Horizon 2.0
  11. Status Board
  12. ‘Are You the Customer?’
  13. Beating the Skeuomorph Drum
  14. ‘Expunging Google’
  15. News Is Bad for You
  16. Quote of the Day: Garrett Murray
  17. ‘You’d be better off cleaning your gutters’
  18. Quote of the Day: Jason Katzer
  19. Helioslight: Most Powerful Programmable Keychain Flashlight
  20. In the End, I am Just Not That Nerdy
  21. ‘How Large Will the Paid Feed Reader Market Be’
  22. Familiar
  23. Quote of the Day: Pat Dryburgh
  24. ‘Battery-holding Tube Area’
  25. Quote of the Day: Dan Moren
  26. ‘Where’s the Fire?’
  27. Quote of the Day: Bruce Schneier
  28. A Mac Consultant
  29. New and Shiny
  30. New Backpacks
  31. Quote of the Day: koeselitz
  32. LCD Font Smoothing
  33. The Private Network Effect
  34. ReadKit
  35. ‘How a Banner Ad for H&R Block Appeared on apple.com’
  36. Quote of the Day: Matt Drance
  37. ‘Web Privacy, and How Consumers Let Down Their Guard’
  38. Start Paying
  39. The Pants Defense of Texas
  40. Quote of the Day: Seth Godin
  41. Quote of the Day: Chris Bowler
  42. ‘As Web Search Goes Mobile, Competitors Chip at Google’s Lead’
  43. The Weak Gesture
  44. Quote of the Day: Marcus Fehn
  45. Ulysses III
  46. ‘My Divorce From Google – One Year Later’
  47. Black Maple Hill
  48. ‘What Does a Tablet Do to the Child’s Mind?’
  49. ‘The Life and Times of a TV Show Piracy Release Group’

March 2013

  1. ‘The Pebble’
  2. ‘Why Developers Shouldn’t Use iCloud Syncing’
  3. Quote of the Day: John Gruber
  4. Quote of the Day: Laird Hamilton
  5. ‘Email Signoffs: End Them Forever.’
  6. Quote of the Day: Frank Chimero
  7. Forecast.io
  8. More Anti-Google Services
  9. ‘Google’s Google Problem’
  10. You Can’t Quit, I Dare You
  11. ‘Blocked Sites Is Discontinued’
  12. Quote of the Day: The Macalope
  13. Maybe 2
  14. Quote of the Day: Marco Arment
  15. ‘Rego, the New Place for All Your Places’
  16. Developer Hostility Towards Users
  17. The Time I Was Wrong*
  18. mtrostyle.net
  19. ‘Apple Is Losing the War – of Words’
  20. How Mailbox Can Make Me A User
  21. Quote of the Day: Bruce Schneier
  22. Blindly Drinking the Kool-Aid
  23. When Even Billions of Dollars Won’t Support Free
  24. Bye Google Reader
  25. Quote of the Day: Kontra
  26. No One Should Agree With You
  27. Quote of the Day: Philip Messing and Chuck Bennett
  28. Bullshit Wait-listed Apps
  29. ‘Why I Like DST’
  30. Keyboard Maestro Macro: Publishing to WordPress from iA Writer (kind of)
  31. Keeping Up-to-Date with Apps
  32. Quote of the Day: Tim Sniffen
  33. ‘Umbrella Lottery’
  34. Quote of the Day: Thomas Hawk
  35. I did it with the whiffle ball bat
  36. Quote of the Day: Richard Branson
  37. TypeEngine
  38. ‘It’s Time to Legalize Cell Phone Unlocking’
  39. Quote of the Day: John Gruber
  40. Your Goal Should Be to Almost Finish

February 2013

  1. Adventures in Privacy: Google Edition (Part II)
  2. Stop It, Stop It Right Now
  3. Quote of the Day: John Gruber
  4. ‘Scheduling Do Not Disturb’
  5. Getting Help
  6. Where’s the Style?
  7. The Free App.net Hoopla
  8. Quote of the Day: John Moltz
  9. Breaking: Twitter Users Actually Like Ads
  10. ‘10 Steps to Prototyping With POP’
  11. Quote of the Day: Marco Arment
  12. Yonanas
  13. Quote of the Day: John Gruber
  14. Amazon Item of the Week: Krave Garlic Chili Pepper Beef Jerky
  15. ‘An Unconventional Way to Comment Your Excel Formulas’
  16. Write for iOS
  17. The Power and Fragility of Excel Driven Business
  18. Quote of the Day: Shawn Blanc
  19. Talking Publishing with Marco
  20. The CMS War
  21. Quote of the Day: Mat Honan
  22. While I Was Out
  23. Respond To This
  24. Empty
  25. ‘Google “flaw” puts users’ details on display’
  26. Giving App.net A Try
  27. Why Mailbox Won’t Fix Your Email
  28. Why Do Dogs Bark?
  29. A Tattered Line of String — The Postal Service
  30. Mine
  31. Mentally Fatigued
  32. Quote of the Day: Noah Stokes
  33. More on Interleaved Email Replies
  34. Quote of the Day: @barmstrong
  35. Bonus Quote of the Day: Jim Dalrymple
  36. The B&B Podcast #92: Yam Benjamin
  37. Quote of the Day: Brent Jackson
  38. Horizon Calendar
  39. Time for a Forward Thinking CMS
  40. O bomb a
  41. Quote of the Day: Harry Marks
  42. Some PDF Tips
  43. The Dell Debacle
  44. Quote of the Day: Bill Gates
  45. ‘The Missing Workflow’
  46. ‘We Should Only Work 25 Hours a Week’
  47. Quote of the Day: Tom Morris

January 2013

  1. The B&B Podcast #91: The Penultimate Episode
  2. BlackBerry 10
  3. ‘Facebook Isn’t Worth It’
  4. Quote of the Day: Bruce Nussbaum
  5. ‘Apple Has a Porn Problem, and It’s About to Get Worse’
  6. The Holy Grail
  7. ‘Who is She?’
  8. Quote of the Day: Andrea
  9. The B&B Podcast #90: The Core Power Tools
  10. The HiRise Stand for MacBooks
  11. Quote of the Day: Patrick Rhone
  12. ‘Dropbox Selective Sync’
  13. “Analyst”
  14. ‘Depression and Me’
  15. Quote of the Day: Paul Graham
  16. ‘Lame Duck Board’
  17. ‘How to Pair Socks From a Pile Efficiently?’
  18. Fatal Design Flaw of the Workspaces
  19. Quote of the Day: Martin Luther King Jr.
  20. ‘Why the Fuck?’
  21. APPS Act
  22. Quote of the Day: Choire Sicha
  23. The B&B Podcast #89: Twitter, Coffee, and Cookies
  24. ‘Wouldn’t Have Acted’
  25. Quote of the Day: Adam Brault
  26. Some Winter Desktops
  27. Archived Data, In the Cloud
  28. Quote of the Day: Chris Bowler
  29. Designing Technology
  30. More Data Detectors Please
  31. False Balance
  32. Quote of the Day: Paul Shawcross
  33. “Open in” Is Not the Solution
  34. The Dyneema Smart Alec
  35. Quote of the Day: Tim Lee
  36. Quote of the Day: Lawrence Lessig
  37. Keyboard Maestro as OmniFocus’s Little Helper
  38. Mobile News Reading and Delivery
  39. Quote of the Day: Dan Pallotta
  40. Microsoft’s Office Suite and Printers Sitting in a Tree…
  41. The Future of Design
  42. The Apps that Stuck in 2012: iPad Edition
  43. The Apps that Stuck in 2012 — iPhone Edition
  44. Quote of the Day: Don Melton
  45. VIPR Teams
  46. Quote of the Day: Chuck Skoda
  47. ‘Apple’s QA Guys Are Sleeping’
  48. American Internet
  49. Quote of the Day: Marco Arment
  50. App Silos
  51. But These Ads are Pretty Ads
  52. Don’t Call it a Paywall
  53. One Computer
  54. Quote of the Day: Benjamin Franklin

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