Archive for the “High-tech” category

iPhone app buying spree

by Jason on August 31, 2010

My most recent purchases: Simplenote: A replacement app for the built in Notes app, which I never liked (Marker Felt!!!!) and thus never used. I ended up buying and using several apps all at the same time — DocumentsToGo, Notebook, Shovebox, Momento — but I think Simplenote will be the one app to take the (…)

Three Quick Steps for Trimming your Instapaper backlog

by Jason on August 24, 2010

If you are like me and save about a dozen articles a day in Instapaper, then you know that just the thought of attempting to catch up on three or four days worth of saved articles can be discouraging, simply because the list of articles you have to slog through has gotten so long.

To make a long story short

by jasondv on January 22, 2009

That scanned file that was the result of the fortuitous combination of a new MacBook, intense curiosity, and an available x-ray machine multiplied traffic to the old site by a hundredfold and caused my account to exceed the bandwidth cap about a week and a half later.