Category Archives: software

Sad Macs for Sad Times

By Dave | Published: October 12, 2011

For the longest time, I’ve used the infamous Blue Screen of Death from Windows as the lock screen wallpaper on my iPhone. It’s always elicited awesome (and even perplexed) reactions from people who see it. In light of recent events, I’ve temporarily updated my lock screen wallpaper to use the almost-as-infamous Sad Mac background. The [...]

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Here’s what I want in a third-party browser in iOS 4 and iOS 5

By Dave | Published: October 11, 2011

  This piece was originally posted on gdgt. Check it out, here. A number of third party browsers have been developed and released for Apple’s iOS. Despite the requirement that they must use WebKit, most of the browsers have executed some pretty interesting ideas and provided a lot of enhancements over the basic Safari browser [...]

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Safari Reader — One of my favorite features in iOS 5

By Dave | Published: October 11, 2011

  This piece was originally posted on gdgt. Check it out, here. Been using various iOS 5 betas (and now the GM) for awhile now. One of my favorite features (besides proper notifications, of course) is Safari Reader. Basically, it strips away all the cruft from a webpage and simply displays the content you want [...]

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It’s Monday, but it isn’t…

By Dave | Published: July 19, 2011

I’ve been messing around with the ridiculously cheesy (but pretty fun) Songify app on the iPhone which auto-tunes spoken word and applies it to a backing musical track. I thought I’d make my own musical debut. Rebecca Black, watch out! It’s Monday. (Only it isn’t, because I’m dumb and recorded this song this morning — [...]

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Best iPhone app

By Dave | Published: June 25, 2010

This is quite possibly the greatest iPhone app of all time.

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Where Do You Go?

By Dave | Published: May 20, 2010

Where do I go in San Francisco? Based on 768 Foursquare checkins. I’ve written about Where Do You Go before, but I thought it was interesting to follow up with things in my new neighborhood. More info at Where Do You Go.

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Civilization V announced!

By Dave | Published: February 26, 2010

Looks like Sid Meier and the gang at Firaxis have announced Civilization V, the latest game in the greatest video game series that has ever existed! Here’s the trailer. It’s going to be an extraordinarily long wait until Fall 2010.

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I probably have more photography apps on my iPhone than anything else.

By Dave | Published: July 9, 2009

This one is called ShakeItPhoto. Yay pseudo-polaroids! Posted via email from Dave Schumaker’s Posterous

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