Category: Tech

Simple Email Groups at EasyList.io

If you’re looking for a simple way to create email groups or private email lists, try my EasyList.io service. It’s currently in beta testing. It’s a simpler alternative to Google Groups. You can create a list in seconds. It’s designed...

/ October 27, 2013

Apple’s Turned the PC Market on its Head

The iPad’s devastation of PC market share (“Tablets To Grow 53.4% This Year, Says Gartner, As The Traditional PC declines 11.2%“) combined with Apple’s free release of Mavericks OS X struck me at how much the company’s flipped the dynamics of...

/ October 24, 2013

Experimenting with Patreon for Crowdfunding

Patreon is a new crowd funding site which I learned about from Jack Conte’s wonderful XOXO talk (below). Conte was an overnight YouTube sensation searching for a way to earn a living from delighting hundreds of thousands of followers. Patreon...

/ October 23, 2013

Marco Arment’s Dev Talk at XoXo Fest

As a frequent indy software developer (Geogram, Filtered, EasyList, et al.) I greatly enjoyed Marco Ament’s talk at Xoxo and wish him the best with his upcoming podcast app, Overcast.fm:

/ October 19, 2013

FastMail Says It’s Free of NSA Surveillance

FastMail steps up with more explicit statement about its customer privacy: Robert Norris, Fastmail technical lead, said: “Australia does not have any equivalent to the US National Security Letter, so we cannot be forced to do something without being allowed...

/ October 10, 2013
Parking Theme to Sell Your Domain Name

How to Park, List and Sell Your Domains

Here are some of the tools that I use to simplify automation of parking, listing and selling my Internet domain portfolio. You can see the results in action here: http://federal.ninja and domains for sale. 1. Parking Page: Use a parking...

/ October 3, 2013

Kick the NSA and Google Out of Your Office with O.N.I.C.S.

The great folks where I cowork, Office Nomads, launched O.N.I.C.S. for intra-office delivery of appreciations, treats, love notes, kindnesses, invitations and other awesome things. That’s what they say – but it’s clearly a cleverly designed countermeasure against NSA & Google...

/ October 3, 2013