life | Kris Smith has read these articles about "life" | www.croncast.comThis is the keyword feed for "life" from my read items in Google Reader. If you would like to search or subscribe to category/keyword rss feeds for items that I have shared with Google Reader visit http://www.croncast.com/c4_reading.phpThe Return of Paying for Software from PeopleOverProcess.com- July 28, 2008 Over the weekend, I finally picked up an iPhone for myself thanks to my lovely wife who woke up and, no crap, said first thing when does your Verizon contract end She's obsessed with the thing. Small Change for Small Applications When it comes to making money with software, the iPhone App Store is the glossiest example of trend I feel creeping up on us: people paying for software. Yes, people have been paying for software forever, but the expectations for most consumer software of late has...http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/cote/~3/348624864/ Kyolo Adds No-Hassle Speech Bubbles to Digital Pics Image Editing- July 13, 2008 Some pictures just cry out for a little cartoon-like commentary to strengthen their messagea fact your editors know all too well. Free web service Kyolo helps non-Photoshop-ninjas quickly add speech bubbles to any picture with serious simplicity. Resize the speech bubbles, rotate the angular pointers, change the font sizes, and then save the resulting images. There's a definite potential for over-use, as any long-time blog reader knows, but it's a handy tool for inside jokes, quick blog posts,..http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/lifehacker/full/~3/333775685/kyolo-adds-no+hassle-speech-bubble... Two Month Kindle Review (and full text of my Washington Times interview)- July 7, 2008 Shared by Mike I need to write my own reviewwhy I bought, returned and re-bought story A few weeks ago, I was contacted by Kelly Jane Torrance, a reporter for the Washington Times. She was working a piece about the Amazon Kindle ebook reader, and had seen my Kindle unboxing and initial review video. We conducted an email interview, part of which went into her final article in the Washington Times (The Carry-On Library - beware popups). Of course, all of my lengthy replies didn't make it into.http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Tinyscreenfuls/~3/329076777/ Ira Glass on Working Through the Suck- July 7, 2008 YouTube - Ira Glass on Storytelling 3 Video featuring terrific advice from This American Life's Ira Glass on having the tenacity to get better at the creative work you're passionate about even through the times when you know what you're making isn't as good as you'd like. I admire Ira's courageousness in using himself as an example of how to do it wrong. (Also, now that I'm aware of that tic where radio people punch every third word, I'm hearing it all the time.) via Big Contrarian ..http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/43Folders/~3/328931537/ira-glass-working-through-suck You need to read Cory Doctorow's Little Brother- July 2, 2008 Shared by Mike Amen. I completely agree with Rick's thoughts about if he were able to read it as a teen. Would have changed me as well. A couple weeks back, my friend Mike Marusin from Naperville updated Twitter that Cory Doctorow would be appearing at Andersen's Bookstore in my old hometown, Naperville, IL, for a book signing. He'd just published Little Brother, and I was jealous that Mike got to meet Cory. I've long been an admirer of Cory's, and a few days later I stopped by Cory's site...http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/tins/~3/324200320/you-need-to-read-cory-doctorows-little-br... |