Darrin Rich: Archive

Minimal Mac: Microsoft's Biggest Miss →

minimalmac: One of the benefits of a long car trip with my wife is the opportunity to have really great and insightful conversations with the smartest person I know. Yesterday, on the first leg of our trip, we spent some time discussing Microsoft’s many missed opportunities. The failure to take the iPhone…

Feb 17th

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RIP iChat, 2002-2012 →

Dear iChat, This isn’t really a eulogy. It isn’t goodbye. You’ve simply gone to a better place: iMessage for Mountain Lion. I know you’ll be happy there, watching on proudly as the kids (on iPhones) jabber back and forth in the translucent bubbles you passed down to them. The spirit of I…

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Email Etiquette: cc & bcc are not your friends

This is a guest post by Maura Thomas - a speaker, trainer, and author of Personal Productivity Secrets from Wiley Publishing. Learn more at RegainYourTime.com. Do you work at a company where everyone is copied on everything? My work has shown me that so much email a company generates is unnecessary, ineffective, and primarily unread. Many of these are sent as a cc or a bcc. The fact that...

Jan 6th

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Andrew's Hot Chocolate: Lovely Users [not] →

preppeller: [Updated with latest reply at bottom] Almost all of the email we receive is from absolutely lovely users who are very happy for our help, some is even just email praising Alfred or praising what we have done. Every so often, you have to support slightly difficult users. As you all know, I take…

Dec 20th

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What’s the scoop on PPO? HMO? HSA? | DIME →

Dec 15th

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I think this bird is trying to get in and kill me

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“Honestly? If you’re out today, maybe get maced. How is Black Friday not the...”

– The Callus Somebody pepper sprayed like 20 people—including a ton of kids. There’s something to be said for unmasking the violence inherent in the system. As Americans, we have access to cheap stuff secured through the occasionally-violent exploitation of other people’s labor. But it’s not quite...

Nov 26th

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PopClip for Mac →

minimalmac: PopClip is a faster, easier way to work with text on your Mac. Just select some text with your mouse, and PopClip appears. (Yep, it’s just like iOS!) I was wondering when someone would beat Apple to the punch on this (because I’m betting Apple will implement this in Mac OS at some future point).

Nov 13th

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Nov 12th

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Cobalt for Espresso →

Cobalt is my favorite theme in Textmate. Loving that it’s available for espresso

Nov 12th

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createlivelove: Unbelievable Dubstep Dance! This dood has crazy skillz!

Nov 11th

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I’m so mean to my dog. But just couldn’t resist

Nov 11th

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Yes, even my wife can be a dork like me :)

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Switched to the Anti-Godaddy

My first domain ever was with Godaddy. Since then I have acquired a small handful of domains. I have always hated the checkout process that includes constant pushing of additional products. Navigating the site is a mess although has gotten better the last year or so. I recently had issues with a clients domain so had to call support. The experience was like calling the cable company. Not very...

Nov 7th

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