Jamie Thingelstad

Gorgeous view from Mt. Tamalpais. What a great tiny get away from San Francisco.

I grabbed this 8-frame panorama with Pano on my iPhone.

I just posted a 7 character URL that Twitter “shortened” to 12 characters and obfuscated in the process. 🤷‍♂️

Abrasive Ale is so good. Megahops!

I didn’t think this type of thing ever happened any more. On a ridiculously full flight and have two open seats next to me?

Sunday morning, tuned into Ely, MN for Pathways with Ray Nargis.

Guy on bus is listening to his Android phone using white iPod earbuds. Is that allowed? 😀

I got my Grantwood MacVelope today for my 11" MacBook Air. I like it. It’s fun, small and will protect the Air when I don’t want to carry a larger bag.

Plus, it is cool looking. 😊

Just yesterday Amazon released the Kindle application into the Mac App Store. They also released a new version of the iOS Kindle application. Time to install and update. On the iPhone I noticed that they had a new icon that put the Kindle brand front and center.

Nice. I then went to the Mac App Store and found the old icon?

Huh? The same app, released within a day or two of each other? Maybe someone missed an email.

I’ve got a lot of applications on my iPhone. They are spread over multiple pages, and some of them are in folders with similar applications. I also get notifications from a lot of applications. I’ve found that it would be really nice if there was a way on my iPhone to see all the applications that had badge notifications for me to see. But where would you put it? I thought about it for a bit and it hit me that it would be really cool if when you swiped left to the Spotlight screen to do a search, it could show the applications that have outstanding notifications. Something like this.

If you start to type those icons would go away and the typical search results would show instead. I think that would be pretty slick!

Let me nitpick for a moment. I’m a huge fan of Omnifocus and I use it on my Macs, iPhone and iPad. I’ve bought it for everything I use regularly and I use it dozens of times every day. One of the key things that Omnifocus does so well is synchronize all of your task data across all the devices you use. It works great. I’ve never had it lose anything and I can really trust that nothing gets lost.

However, when I synchronize my phone I’m always irked with the screen. The problem: synced.

We also “synced” on the iPad.

Yes, I’m being picky. The problem is that “synced” is not a word. Don’t believe me? Ask the OED.

That’s right. It isn’t a word.

There isn’t a great solution. Apple decided to use “Sync in Progress” when connecting to iTunes. That seems a lot better than “Updating with synced data” to me.

From yesterday’s junk mail. Why not a more direct message, like “Stuck in a contract? We’ll pay to get you stuck in our contract!”