Portable Dual Display Setup – The best of both worlds?

Luna Display turns any iPad into a wireless, 2nd display I love my desktop, dual 4K display setup. When I’m coding a website and checking how it looks in a browser, having a second display means I don’t have to switch back and forth between windows. I code in one window and preview the output […]

Friday Listen: The Unfolding by Chequerboard

I’ve had The Unfolding by Chequerboard playing in the office pretty much all day. Nice beat. I could code to that. ~@mwender

Today’s Apple Event – Quick Takes

Apple Watch Series 3 now with cellular is my favorite from today’s new tech For many years now, I’ve made Apple Events a scheduled interruption to my workday. To make sure I had time for today’s, I was up in my office and clocked in before five. Now, fresh off viewing the show, here are […]

Links of Interest – supplied by Hacker News

I happened to look at Hacker News today, and I found so many interesting reads, I couldn’t stop opening new tabs. So, I thought I’d save them here for later and let you reap the benefits too. Mercedes-Benz will electrify its entire car lineup by 2022 – TechCrunch Here’s the deal: Mercedes-Benz chief Dieter Zetsche said that […]

Links of Interest: Small Business Phone System, Spotify shortcut, and more

Time to clean out some of those links I’ve been waiting to share with you over on my Pinboard: Spoke Phone is an app that “turns mobile phones into a business class phone system in 3 minutes or less.” If you’ve got a distributed workforce, Spoke Phone looks like a quick way to add a […]

Illdy – Free One Page WordPress Business Theme

I’m adding Illdy to my list of nice looking WordPress themes. It features a one-page layout that has spots for portfolio items, testimonials, news, and more.

Semplice – Designers best kept secret.

Really nice WordPress portfolio showcase system: Semplice – I’ve got a couple designer friends that I’d recommend they check this out.

Semplice is the first fully responsive case study portfolio system based on WordPress. Built by designers, for designers.

Source: Semplice – Designers best kept secret.

Reclaiming an old domain: quickweb.com

Season 6 of the Startup podcast debuted this morning. The first episode tells the story of Rick Schwartz who earned the title of “Domain King” by building a million dollar portfolio of dot com domains. Listening to the story reminded me of a nice domain I bought years ago and still own: quickweb.com Back in […]

Mevo Camera

Here’s some cool tech for livestreaming your next event: Mevo Camera Pro-level production at your fingertips. Edit your shots in real-time on your mobile device or tablet. Zoom, pan and cut with ease using just your Mevo camera and app (available on iOS and Android). Don’t want to do the work? Mevo’s intuitive autopilot editing […]

Links of Interest: Thin iPhone Case, a GIF camera, and more

Here’s a roundup of some of my recent bookmarks: I love minimal iPhone cases. These from totallee seek to strike a balance between protecting your phone and going completely naked. In particular, their thin case in jet white looks to be a perfect way to show off a jet black iPhone without getting it scratched […]

Codea – Coding on your iPad

From time-to-time, I get curious to check and see what professional level tools are available for iPad. Specifically, I’m always interested to see how far things have come with regards to being able to write code on an iPad. The holy-grail for me would be an easy way to do web development, and I’ve yet […]

Mashup-Template.com – Free HTML5 Templates

Nice set of free HTML5/CSS3 templates for use in your private and/or commercial projects: Mashup Template.

Beautiful free HTML5/CSS3 templates that can be used for any commercial projects. All Templates are responsive design and built on a light version of Bootstrap

Source: Free HTML templates to create your website in minutes

Found! My 24hr Lost AirPods Saga

Find My iPhone App lets me down when it comes to finding my AirPods Shortly after receiving my AirPods, they became an indispensable part of my daily commute and office routine. In many ways, AirPods really are a quintessential Apple product. They’re simple in concept and pretty close to flawless in execution*. They simply work. […]

We Called it Gutenberg for a Reason

Fresh off the heels of the WP Tavern post that I linked to last week, Matt Mullenweg has written a nice treatise on the WordPress Gutenberg project.

Creating great software will never make every person happy. We’re not creating The Perfect Product, we’re choosing a path between many good options, weighing all of the inevitable trade-offs that come from a change, listening, shipping, and then doing it all over again. Iterating. My life’s work is improving WordPress. I firmly believe that Gutenberg is the direction that will provide the most benefit to the maximum number of people while being totally in line with core WordPress’s philosophies and commitment to user freedom.

Source: We Called it Gutenberg for a Reason | Matt Mullenweg

“We’re entering totality” – Alaska Airlines

Behind the Scenes with Alaska Airlines’ Great American Eclipse Flight

By now you’ve probably seen video of the Great American Eclipse as seen from a plane. Now you can read about all the planning that went into the flight on the Alaska Airlines blog.

The Light Phone

I get a kick out of products like The Light Phone. Our smart devices have made life so complicated that something like a phone with a reduced feature set becomes a novel idea. The Light Phone is a discreet credit card sized mobile phone designed to be used as little as possible. It is the […]

Melinda Gates on Technology and Kids – WAPO.com

Melinda Gates shares her thoughts on technology’s effect on kids.

WordPress Gutenberg Discussion on WP Tavern

Change is on the horizon for how we write posts and pages inside WordPress. The Gutenberg project aims to provide a new WordPress writing experience that will make it easy to craft content with rich layouts. Continue reading →

Feather – Simply beautiful open source icons

Feather is a nice set of plug-and-play, open-source SVG icons.

Anchor – Easy Podcasting

I love tools that democratize creative expression, like WordPress for example. With regards to podcasting, Anchor aims to make creating and publishing your own audio content as easy as writing a blog post. The app lets you broadcast your voice, music, and conversations for free. Then you can share your audio via social media or […]