One way to bring life back to the internet is to make it weird again. According to software developer Jonas Hultenius, quirkiness is one of the things that made the early web feel alive. Today’s obsession with metrics and vitality are starving off everyday treasures, small wonders, and genuine oddities. If you were online in…
There has been a fair amount of buzz around Automattic’s acquisition of the ActivityPub for WordPress Plugin. There are also a good number of tutorials on how to install, activate, and set up the plugin. But I haven’t seen a lot about why you would want your blog to be part of the “fediverse”, or…
The iOS platform has been hurting for a good address book app and now with Cardhop it finally has one. I’ve posted before about the lack of usable contact management apps for iOS. To some extent you were stuck between Apple’s underwhelming Contacts app or FullContact. FullContact is a very nice contact management app with…
It’s easy to neglect your personal contacts on your Mac. For starters your phone is probably where you are most likely to reach out to people – make calls, write text messages, set appointments, even fire off an email. This is why I said in a previous post that it’s important to keep your iPhone’s…
I recently got into heated argument with Siri about whether or not I had entered an important contact’s phone number into my Contacts app – the native address book on the iPhone. It turned out that Siri was right (I hadn’t entered the number) but I couldn’t prove it to myself until I was off…
