> I’m not Merlin or John, I’m Dave. And now 52T is, too.
I’m excited to see how the site changes (and not just because we use the same WordPress theme)[^bug].
[^bug]: Dave, if you read this, drop me an email and I’ll tell you how to fix the bug in the theme that makes the header bar not go all the way to edge of the screen on an iPad. Figured it out last night.
Amazon continues its push for ubiquity.
Amazon wants you to buy their content, regardless of where you end up watching it.
Maybe this is why Verizon already dropped the charges for Tethering apps? Of course, the question on everyone’s minds has already been address by [GigaOm](http://gigaom.com/mobile/fcc-tells-verizon-you-cant-block-tethering-apps-verizon-settles-for-1-25m/):
> Unfortunately for customers of AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile, which also charge fees on some plans to use the handset as a hotspot, the FCC’s consent decree was based on Verizon’s purchase of 700 MHz spectrum that came with a mandate that Verizon let other devices and applications run on that spectrum
I really do not see any reason not to switch to Verizon when my contract expires.
> The arrival of AirPlay in Mountain Lion last week meant that Mac users could start watching content from Hulu’s free website on their large-screen TVs without paying a monthly bill. That’s not something Hulu’s owners — Disney/ABC, Comcast/NBC, and News Corp./Fox — or their partners could long abide.
I think Philip Elmer-Dewitt nailed it.
iTunes match style matching from Amazon[^price]. Another way to match and backup your music.
[^price]: It’s also the same $25.
Dan Wetzel explains what happens to one reporter who criticized NBC’s Olympics coverage:
>Guy Adams works as a writer for The Independent, a national newspaper in Great Britain. He lives in Los Angeles. Throughout the Olympics, he’s taken to Twitter and ripped NBC repeatedly for its coverage of the Games in America.
> Namely, he’s criticized the network’s reliance on using tape delays, a frustration shared by millions of viewers.
> Only in a marriage of old media and social media, Guy Adams no longer has a Twitter account. It was suspended Tuesday …
Wow.
Tidbits demonstrates a way to do it without using the command line. I will probably stick to using [Brett Terpstra’s method](http://brettterpstra.com/fixing-virtual-hosts-and-web-sharing-in-mountain-lion/) though.
I’ve noticed that since Wednesday I’ve started to receive “rate limit” messages from [Instapaper](http://instapaper.com). Though I found one [StackExchange](http://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/29291/hitting-rate-limit-page-on-instapaper) posting about it, I have not seen a lot of mentions about it on Twitter. My theory is that my method of using Instapaper[^insta] is not how they would prefer people use the site.
I hope the last couple of days have been a blip[^ml] and/or the rate limit rates are relaxed. I’ve been using Instapaper since [John Gruber first linked it in 2008](http://daringfireball.net/linked/2008/01/30/instapaper) and have been a subscriber since the iOS app has had an option to subscribe. I really would prefer to keep it as my only “Read Later” service. If, however, I am causing too much strain on Instapaper’s servers by sending it too many things, there are other “Read Later” services I can use to spread out my articles[^rl]. Hopefully it will not come to that, but at least I have options in the market if it does.
[^rl]: *E.g.,* I could send sports and politics stuff to [Readability](http://readability.com) and tech stuff to Instapaper.
[^ml]: I did send a metric buttload of Mountain Lion stuff to Instapaper and that will not be happening again any time soon.
[^insta]: Since I normally go through RSS feeds in short 2-3 minute bursts, I send any article I think I *might* want to read to Instapaper. The decision takes about half a second. I will then sit down in both morning and evening and pick articles out of my Instapaper queue to read. This means I probably end up reading only 30-40% of the stuff I send to Instapaper.
I really want to like Stamped, but it has felt like a ghost town for the past few months. Hopefully this new update, and the [new profile pages](http://stamped.com/kivus), brings some people back.
If I was writing my [Resurgence of the Email Newsletter](https://johnkiv.us/2012/07/20/the-resurgence-of-the-email-newsletter/) this week, I’d have to add this to the list. I’m looking forward to the release of issue 1, which should be later today.
No real surprises, but [TechHive](http://techhive.com) sums them up nicely.
I hope this is just the lingering feud between Twitter and Facebook and not a precursor to Twitter blocking all third party clients.
[Gabe from MacDrifter]() lists a number of good resources for both BBEdit and Sublime Text.
I moved from TextMate to BBEdit when I upgraded my Macbook and was learning Ruby. Some of these links would have been helpful during that.
> But how did it happen so quickly? Does Marco special-case certain popular pages like this in an effort to boost perceived performance? Or perhaps one of the subtle improvements over the years has been some kind of automatic server-side de-duping of archives. This would save Marco a bunch of space on his servers while also improving performance for users.
These meta-reviews of Siracusa’s review are awesome.
Though I’ve seen posts that touch on the problems with Apple’s Mac App Store, this is the first one that tackles the issue head on:
> Apple’s stance seems to be pretty typical of them: comply with the new rules or leave. This usually works for them, but this time, they’ve made a critical strategic error: leaving is often a better option, or the only option, for the affected developers. Many of them have already left, and many more will.
His also addresses how this might harm iCloud’s adoption rate by developers:
> This even may reduce the long-term success of iCloud and the platform lock-in it could bring for Apple. Only App Store apps can use iCloud, but many Mac developers can’t or won’t use it because of the App Store’s political instability.
Really solid piece. Highly recommended.
I have found that the “auto-update” functionality in Dropbox has some problems[^nowork], so people who have upgraded to [Mountain Lion](http://click.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/stat?id=r*bqlTuiXSo&offerid=146261&type=3&subid=0&tmpid=1826&RD_PARM1=http%253A%252F%252Fitunes.apple.com%252Fus%252Fapp%252Fos-x-mountain-lion%252Fid537386512%253Fmt%253D12%2526uo%253D4%2526partnerId%253D30)[^aff] might want to go to the website and download it manually.
[^nowork]: And by problems, I mean it never works.
[^aff]: Affiliate Link
Another solid video from Pat Dryburgh. This year’s version features a cameo from [the man himself](http://twitter.com/siracusa).
Go [get it](http://click.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/stat?id=r*bqlTuiXSo&offerid=146261&type=3&subid=0&tmpid=1826&RD_PARM1=http%253A%252F%252Fitunes.apple.com%252Fus%252Fapp%252Fos-x-mountain-lion%252Fid537386512%253Fmt%253D12%2526uo%253D4%2526partnerId%253D30)[^aff].
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A good refresher for most web programmers. I’m a little embarrassed to admit that I did not know them all.
(via [The Loop](http://www.loopinsight.com/2012/07/23/10-css-rules-web-designers-should-know/))