Thom Yorke – After The Gold Rush
Neil Young cover. Happy cover friday day.
Awesome cover.
Month: June 2011
Here, at least, light blue beats dark blue.
The Roots – The Seed (2.0)
Hi Bijan, knowing your love of music I thought I would reach out and see if you had any plans to attend the Newport Folk Fest this year. We are in Boston’s backyard and putting together a team of influential tumblr’s to attend. It would be great to you and the family out to the fort enjoying the music, the history and the sun. The lineup this year is fantastic…The Decemberists, Elvis Costello, M. Ward, Gogol Bordello, Mavis Staples, Middle Brother and Gillian Welch. Best, Andrew
thanks for the heads up. i’d love to attend. i’ll do my best.
A day with iOS 5 beta
Earlier this week Apple introduced iOS 5.
I installed the beta yesterday. Here are my observations so far:
0. Its fairly stable. It hasn’t crashed or stalled out yet. I do feel like every now and then the keyboard is a bit funky or inaccurate. Earlier today it took me three tries to hit the “s” key. I never had that problem with iOS4.
1. Notifications are sweet and pretty much a direct copy of Android’s notification system. Long overdue and I’m thankful for this feature.
2. Camera. Making the camera accessible on the locked screen is awesome. Built in cropping is very helpful.
3. Keyboard shortcuts. One of my favorite things about the blackberry was the ability to create keyboard shortcuts. Now when I type in “sig”, I get my full signature. I also have shortcuts for “i’ll call you later today” and my mobile number. I’ll set up more later for sure.
4. Some of my favorite apps arent working yet with iOS 5. It’s to be expected since this build is a day old! Right now I can’t get tumblr or ex.fm working.
5. iCloud. I can’t get this to work. When I try to sign in with my Apple ID, I get an error message saying something like “your MobileMe account isn’t ready for iCloud”. I’ve seen others having success with iCloud so I’m wondering if i’m doing something wrong. Any help here would be great.
6. Twitter integration is so smooth. It’s built right into iOS.
7. I haven’t tried iMessage. I’m not sure why I would since it’s not cross platform with Android users. My favorite SMS 2.0 app remains Kik (disclosure: we are investors in Kik).
8. There aren’t any wallpaper items in this beta.
9. I haven’t tried iOS 5 on my iPad yet. I’m interested to see what the split keyboard feels like.
10. The notes section in Calendear entries is improved. Before it would cut it off after a short number of characters from a desktop sync. Now you can see full notes.
That’s it for now. Have you tried it yet? Find any goodies?
Update: just got a tweet tip on how migrate to iCloud for existing mobileme users. thanks!
A big piece of the story we tell ourselves about who we are, is that we are willing to invent. We are willing to think long-term. We start with the customer and work backwards. And, very importantly, we are willing to be misunderstood for very long periods of time.
Jeff Bezos (via davemorin)
The individual members of the Cupertino City Council seemed like they were in awe the entire time the infamously charismatic Apple CEO spoke (which isn’t surprising), asking Jobs for free Wifi and iPads for constituents as well as for an Apple store that’s actually in Cupertino and not in the Valley or Los Gatos. Jobs shyly responded to the requests, “I think we bring a lot more than free Wifi.”
Brett Dennen | San Francisco
Enjoying the sun for four days straight definitely is a welcome break from the long Berlin winter.
I’m on my way to SF for a few days. Had to reblog this one. Thanks David.
The Asteroids Galaxy Tour – The Golden Age
this came on in my turntable.fm room last night. been in my head ever since.