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Apple’s iCloud Drive sounds great. with iCloud Drive, you can safely store all your presentations, spreadsheets, PDFs, images, and any other kind of document in iCloud. Then access them from y...

https://txfx.net/2015/07/14/apple-icloud-drive-deletes-your-files/

My history with portable Macs has been all over the place. I started in 2005 with a 15 inch PowerBook G4. In 2007 I upgraded to the ridiculously large 17 inch MacBook Pro. It weighed 6.8 pounds. ...

https://txfx.net/2015/04/16/the-2015-13-inch-retina-macbook-pro/

I use Sublime Text 3 as my main text editor. It’s fast, keyboard-friendly, and finds a nice balance between a GUI and JSON-driven configuration. But the real power comes from the third party pa...

https://txfx.net/2014/11/08/my-sublime-text-3-packages/

In which I attempted to sign up with healthcare.gov and was stymied by its apparent inability to grok the structure of my family (consisting of me, my wife, and two sons). I don’t know why ever...

https://txfx.net/2013/11/05/healthcare-gov-and-impossible-family-structures/

One of the leading anti-GMO voice in Europe, Mark Lynas, has just publicly renounced his previous position and turned completely around on the issue. I want to start with some apologies. For the ...

https://txfx.net/2013/01/12/prominent-anti-gmo-activist-recants/

A tiny package arrived today. Max Spiker on Twitter sent me a Raspberry Pi (Version B). I plan to use it up as a WordPress server and do posts about serving WordPress with (very) limited resource...

https://txfx.net/2012/12/05/raspberry-pi-headless-setup/

Adobe just released an open source monospace font: Source Code Pro. Looks good!

https://txfx.net/2012/09/27/adobe-source-code-pro/

Inconsolata-dz is a version of the wonderful Inconsolata open source font with straight quotes that are actually straight, instead of “cocky” like in stock Inconsolata. Fellow WordPress hacke...

https://txfx.net/2012/08/09/inconsolata-dz/

There’s an easy solution to Apple UK being in the awkward position of having a court order to take out “advertisements” outlining that they lost the lawsuit alleging that the Samsung Galaxy...

https://txfx.net/2012/07/19/apple-forced-to-say-samsung-didnt-copy-the-ipad/

Congratulations! You bought a big, fancy, expensive SLR camera. You’re fighting the camera phone movement and are making physical sacrifices in order to capture better images. Well done. But yo...

https://txfx.net/2012/04/12/how-to-hold-a-camera/

Mosh is a modern remote terminal application. You can literally slam your laptop lid shut in the middle of a session, re-open it, and be right where you left off. IP address change? No problem. L...

https://txfx.net/2012/04/11/mosh-the-mobile-shell/

“I hereby resign as CEO of Apple.” Those words, written two days ago by Steve Jobs, shouldn’t hit as hard as they do. Jobs’ health issues have been public knowledge for a long time, and h...

https://txfx.net/2011/08/26/on-leadership/

If you are one of the people who creates amazing experiences and unforgettable moments on the web, watch this video. Go ahead, feel proud. You’ve earned it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4vkV...

https://txfx.net/2011/05/05/the-web-is-what-you-make-of-it/

Danny Sullivan at Search Engine Land revealed a few days ago the results of an internal Google “sting” to see if Microsoft’s Bing search engine uses Google search result data as a factor in...

https://txfx.net/2011/02/05/bing-google/

I get asked this a lot: “should I buy an iPad or should I buy a Kindle?” The TLDR; answer is: no, you should buy both. When the iPad was announced, I immediately thought “LCD? Well that wil...

https://txfx.net/2010/09/14/ipad-vs-kindle/