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Of course. The must have feature for me is their smart folders. Basically I have one that grabs anything that's either "starred" or tagged with "np" that pulls it into a certain folder that "needs to be posted" — so I can throw any link from anywhere into Pocket and tag it with NP and it'll show up there for me to post or when I am reading my feeds and think I see something worth posting I star it and it shows up in there as well. I have others for other "categories" of posting (like slow news day or for fun) and I have it grab from tags from pocket or pinboard as well so that there's always like one place that stores all my "reading" and I can quickly grab things to post or go through. Plus, I like not having to switch apps when I wanna go through everything in my read later queues — cause a lot of that is stuff I saw on Twitter and wasn't sure I wanted to post or not or wanted to check out for maybe posting later but didn't have time.

I do a lot of work from that app.

 

I have a question...has anyone had any success making a banner for their YouTube page? For the life of me, I can't get the dimensions right. It would look great on a TV, but is cut off on mobile and a computer. I need it to AT LEAST look good on mobile, and preferably on a computer too. Couldn't care less how it would look on a TV...

 

does this help at all?
Create or edit channel art - YouTube Help
Quick Spec Sheet - YouTube Help
Social Media Cover Photo Dimensions That Work (2016 Edition)

 

I'm pretty sure I've tried these recommendations before. I'll try again when I'm at a computer to be sure though. It must have more to do with the picture that I'm working with, cause I messed with it A LOT and still can't find a way to get it to fit mobile.

 

Doesn't Reeder have the integrations? I save stuff to Instapaper from there all the time. Just can't select the folder so I have to do some organizing later. I think you can also send your instapaper stuff to have in Reeder. Unless I'm getting something mixed up which could be likely.

 

How Jeff Bezos Became a Power Beyond Amazon - Fortune

Sometimes Bezos’s creativity gets the better of him. Prakash says the owner suggested a gamelike feature that would allow a reader who didn’t enjoy an article to pay to remove its vowels. He called it “disemvoweling,” and the concept was to allow another reader to pay to restore the missing letters. The idea didn’t go far, Prakash says, noting that “Marty wasn’t very keen.” Bezos, an unrepentant believer in the power of brainstorming, says, “Working together with other smart people in front of a whiteboard, we can come up with a lot of very bad ideas.”

Post people seem to value most that Bezos provides them air cover while they fiddle with ways to survive the transition from print to digital. Hiring has ramped up significantly under Bezos, providing more resources for serious journalism too. Ryan, the publisher, credits Bezos with demanding risk taking—without fear that failure will be punished. “That provides a sense of invigoration, particularly when other publications are in this mode of ‘If this doesn’t work, there’ll be hell to pay next quarter.’ ” So long as Bezos is enjoying himself, in other words, there is no next-quarter deadline for the Post anymore, just more opportunities to reinvent journalism, preferably in a way that eventually makes money.

 

My Heroic and Lazy Stand Against IFTTT

Because many of you rely on IFTTT, and because this email makes it sound like I'm the asshole, I feel I should explain myself.

In a nutshell:

1. IFTTT wants me to do their job for them for free
2. They have really squirrely terms of service

The stones Maciej has with his blog/service is kinda amazing.

 

That last paragraph.

"For users left stranded, I recommend taking a look at Zapier or Botize, which offer a similar service, or at one of the dozens of new sites that will spring up next week to capture the market that IFTTT is foolishly abandoning."

He does not mince words.

 

The Dropcam Team

I can’t publish Dropcam’s revenue, but if you knew what percentage of all of Alphabet’s “other bets” revenue was brought in by the relatively tiny 100-person Dropcam team that Fadell derides, Nest itself would not look good in comparison. So, if Fadell wants to stick by his statement, I challenge him to release full financials (easy prediction: he won’t).

The ~50 Dropcam employees who resigned did so because they felt their ability to build great products being totally crushed. All of us have worked at big companies before, where it is harder to move fast. But this is something different, as evidenced by the continued lack of output from the currently 1200-person team and its virtually unlimited budget. According to LinkedIn, total attrition to date at Nest amounts to nearly 500 people, which suggests that we were not alone in our frustrations.

 

Goodness this is always tough to read. Acquisitions, man. I love that Silicon Valley has been working that in though.

 

Come to think of it, this could be a pretty trendy bumper sticker on Bay Area Priuses (Prii, as Toyota prefers it).

 

CNBC's secure password tutorial sent your password in the clear to 30 advertisers

(Hand slapping head emoji)

 

That's why I like the direction Apple is heading. It really feels like they are working towards a place where they couldn't get to or release your data even if they wanted to. The celebrity iCloud "leaks" (whether that was the source or not), shifted the tide for security on Apple devices in an awesome way.

 

To SoundCloud, Love Dave

You can slice it, package it, or spin it however you like, but the bare fact is that you’re making money off of songs you aren’t paying for. Worse, you’re doing it while perpetuating an air of exclusivity around the concept of making money. All while you’re pretending to be a friend to the little guy. There’s nothing artist-friendly about this approach.

But wait! There’s more!

Airplane Mode has a SoundCloud Pro account to get access to unlimited uploads and a few other features that make the service useful. This account costs us $15 per month. So not only are you getting our music for free and paying us nothing, we’re actually paying you to take it. What an excellent deal. For you.

 

The blogs are full of malice this week. I love it. Soundcloud is in trouble. This is just the latest version of it. Obviously getting the majors happy is step one. Indies will often come second to them (unless you're bandcamp—I love bandcamp). Soundcloud really should have held off until they had the indie thing fully on lock. Then again, maybe they couldn't wait. It's no secret they've been hurting for cash. This service seems like a last ditch effort to make some money. Personally, I hope it works. This maybe isn't a great start though.

 

Curious. Is there a thread related to Omnifocus?

 

Not yet!

 

A friend shared with me this tool by Ben Dodson that allows you to pull full-sized artwork from the iTunes store.

 

How do I create a new thread?

 

Click on the forum you want to create the thread in and then click on the "Post New Thread" button

(disclaimer: this is for website, idk how mobile interface looks although I'd imagine it's similar)

 

The Senate’s Draft Encryption Bill Is ‘Ludicrous, Dangerous, Technically Illiterate’

On Thursday evening, the draft text of a bill called the “Compliance with Court Orders Act of 2016,” authored by offices of Senators Diane Feinstein and Richard Burr, was published online by the Hill. It’s a nine-page piece of legislation that would require people to comply with any authorized court order for data — and if that data is “unintelligible,” the legislation would demand that it be rendered “intelligible.” In other words, the bill would make illegal the sort of user-controlled encryption that’s in every modern iPhone, in all billion devices that run Whatsapp’s messaging service, and in dozens of other tech products. “This basically outlaws end-to-end encryption,” says Joseph Lorenzo Hall, chief technologist at the Center for Democracy and Technology. “It’s effectively the most anti-crypto bill of all anti-crypto bills.”

Kevin Bankston, the director of the New America Foundation’s Open Technology Institute, goes even further: “I gotta say in my nearly 20 years of work in tech policy this is easily the most ludicrous, dangerous, technically illiterate proposal I’ve ever seen,” he says.

 

Did someone say Omnifocus

 

Anyone that has a Thunderbolt USB port, do you ever use it, and if so, what for?

My new laptop has one, but I don't think I have any cables that fit it. I'm still not even exactly sure how it works or what it does.

 

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