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Simplenote. The notes app Apple should have came up with

Being a web oriented writer, I don’t have too much to ask from a text app, just one that has a built in word and character counts and a simple interface. I don’t find the need for text formatting or all the other fancy stuff that many word processing apps offer. Most of the stuff I do don’t even warrant text formatting although there’s that thing with embedding links in text.

Apple’s Notes in iOS is as simple as it gets but it requires me to copy out the text and put it into Pastebot because it doesn’t have word count, which is important in what I do. Notes also uses Marker Felt which tries to look friendly but reminds me of Comic Sans too much.

Along comes Simplenote. It’s the Notes app Apple should have came up with for the iOS. I’ve been using it for a while but it’s been recently updated. I suggest you read Shawn Blanc’s review of it.

The makings of a future Death Star at Rasuna Epicentrum

The builders are clearly working their way up from the bottom. However, the view that the 47th floor offers is spectacular. 

It made me theorize that perhaps something very special is being planned for the upper deck. 

Maybe I was standing in the future death star nerve center of the great patriarch’s bid to snatch the country from the grasp of the House of Representatives. 

Maybe Mr. Bakrie, the apotheosis of Indonesia’s sleaze-ridden political culture, will seize control and run operations from a gleaming, high-tech, top-floor base. 

Simon Pitchforth

The makings of a future Death Star at Rasuna Epicentrum

That was pretty easy to switch. /via @gedeon

LOL

The State Department on Friday urged Americans to respect its warning against traveling to North Korea, saying in a cheeky Twitter message that there are not too many former U.S. presidents left available for rescue missions.

The Associated Press: US implores Americans not to visit NKorea

Twitter wit.

(via nickdouglas)

Cee Lo Green’s funky little ditty. With an awesome video.

What we’re about isn’t making boxes for people to get their jobs done, although we do that well. We do that better than almost anybody in some cases. But Apple’s about something more than that. Apple at the core, its core value is that we believe that people with passion can change the world for the better.

Steve Jobs /via Zee

peetypassion:

BRABUS iBusiness Is an Apple Fan’s Dream Mobile Office

The iBusiness is most definitely “the business.” The German-engineered, four-seater luxury sedan is the type of car for people who have drivers, and that’s a very good thing, because there’s no chance you’ll be paying much attention to the road in one of these babies unless you’re being paid to.

Each car comes packed to the gills with outstanding multimedia capabilities, including two iPads in the rear seats with matching Bluetooth keyboards for each. The iPads are capable of controlling every aspect of the S600′s COMAND system, including the radio, navigation system and telephone, in addition to BRABUS’ own custom multimedia functions. Don’t think you’ll be limited to offline or 3G use, either, because the car boasts its own wireless internet via UMTS and HSDPA connections.

As if that wasn’t enough, there’s also a Mac mini in the back seat that uses a drop-down 15.2-inch TFT display, Magic Mouse and USB 2.0 ports accessible to both passengers for real computing power. Finally, because you wouldn’t want to use iTunes on the Mac mini or the iPod apps on your two iPads, there’s a 64GB iPod touch in the center console that also controls the whole shebang using a custom BRABUS iOS application.

Seems that Twitter today updated their direct message email notification. In the new format, the content of the message finally takes priority billing and it includes much more information about the message itself such as the line that says, “Direct message sent by (sender) to (receiver) on (date).”

While the information was already there in the older format, this one line makes it that much easier for people to identify the nature of the email.

You can now send a direct message back to the sender (provided the person also follows you) by clicking on a button on the email and it will take you to the Twitter page already set up to send the message once you’ve signed in.

It also includes an instruction to send a direct message via SMS should you prefer to do so.

If you haven’t set up to receive your Twitter direct messages by email, you should, it makes messaging that much more effective and efficient. You can set this up by going to Settings > Notices> and clicking on the check box for Direct text email.

If you wish, you can also set up to receive direct message via SMS by going to Settings > Mobile, and activating device updates. By default you will not receive updates from anyone unless you go to their Twitter pages and turn on tweet notification, so your phone won’t be flooded with constant updates from everyone you follow.

Footnote: If you’ve set up to receive direct message via third party services such as Topify, there’s a chance your message won’t be shown. This could be a side effect of the new email format from Twitter. I don’t know for sure, but it’s certainly possible.

My suggestion is if you use such a service, keep direct messages out of it. If the service goes down for maintenance or breaks down, you won’t get your DM emails. At least with Twitter, you rely on it directly instead of on some middleman.

thedailywhat:

Calvin and Hobbes Homage of the Day: Comic book writer Brian Azzarello and artist Lee Bermejo pay loving tribute to Bill Watterson’s legendary strip with a supervillainous two-page parody in Superman/Batman #75, which hit stores yesterday.

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[reddit / ign.]