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I’m Marco Arment, founder of Instapaper and former lead developer of Tumblr.About • Contact • Twitter Some of my favorite posts. I co-host a podcast.
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→ FiOS speeds to increase

After years of living in areas unserved by FiOS, I finally got it in 2011. My 35/35 Mbps plan is by far the best internet connection I’ve ever had. Looks like I’ll be able to upgrade it t...

20 h ago

→ Now I’m very confident there will be another Mac Pro

From today’s episode of Amplified, Jim Dalrymple’s podcast on 5by5: [30:39] Dan: Is there any chance that Apple’s going to can the Mac Pro? Jim: No. [4 seconds of silence] Dan: OK&#...

22 h ago

→ WWDC app may be showing a new UIKit iPhone theme for iOS 6

Cult of Mac posted screenshots of the WWDC app. The same visual style is also in the purported iOS 6 Maps photos. I’d love to see a modern refresh of the iPhone UIKit widget styling. The blue-g...

23 h ago

→ Sweep the Sleaze

Information Architects arguing against the pervasive third-party “share” buttons that publishers and bloggers vomit all over their post headers and footers: Or do you seriously think that...

1 day ago

→ Tim Cook at the D Conference: Between the Lines

Great article from Dan Frommer on the not-very-subtle hints that Tim Cook dropped last night. Within a year, I’d expect an Apple TV set, Facebook integration in iOS 6 and Mountain Lion, and the...

1 day ago

Review: Tonx Coffee

People always ask me how they can make great coffee. I’ve never had a good universal answer. The real answer is to get an expensive grinder1 and an inexpensive AeroPress, then brew freshly roas...

2 days ago

→ Sponsor: Go Couch to 5k by Radiant Tap

Regular, light running is the best way to keep your body fit. Go Couch to 5k is the perfect app to get you off the sofa and introduce you to the world of running. It shows animated (near) real-time s...

2 days ago

→ Three Things That Should Trouble Apple

Great article by Guy English. A big one I’d add: Apple’s software quality is declining. I’m not just talking about the most recent releases of everything, or the last couple of mont...

2 days ago

→ The 16:9 iPhone

Rene Ritchie goes into great detail with excellent mockups of what apps may look like in 16:9 on the rumored taller-screened iPhone. I still don’t like it. Video looks better in landscape, but ...

2 days ago

Speculation on the next Mac Pro

The Mac Pro seems like a ridiculous computer in the age of quad-core laptops. Even I thought so when I switched to a MacBook Pro last fall. But I had some major issues that have only been partially r...

5 days ago

→ JC Penny’s “Fair and square” pricing isn’t working

Bob Sullivan reporting on the radical pricing strategy implemented by former Apple Retail head Ron Johnson: No more coupons or confusing multiple markdowns. No more 600 sales a year. No more deceptiv...

5 days ago

→ More on Apple’s Removal of Airfoil Speakers Touch From the App Store

John Gruber gets the story about this App Store removal of a very good app from our friends at Rogue Amoeba. After some interesting back-and-forth with a few informed sources, I think Apple’s removal...

6 days ago

→ Old Farts Know How to Code

Nick Bradbury: The startup culture is similar to professional sports in that it requires a fleet of fresh-out-of-college kids to trade their lives and their health for the potential of short-term glo...

24 may 12

→ Coda 2 released, half-price today

Huge update: So, you code for the web. And in Coda 1, we revolutionized that process, and put everything you needed in one place. An editor. Terminal. CSS. File management. SVN. But we knew we could ...

24 may 12

→ Safari Reading List adds offline support in Mountain Lion

I’ve known about this for about a week (thanks, various Twitter and email tips). I wouldn’t be surprised if offline support showed up in iOS 6, too. It’s a glaring feature omission,...

23 may 12

→ Sponsor: Newton Academy

Newton Academy is a revolutionary school training students for careers developing apps for iPhone and iPad. Apple is selling more than 500,000 of these magical devices every day. The App Economy is s...

23 may 12

→ Next iPhone may have 3.999-inch, 1136x640 screen

9to5Mac: We know of two next-generation iPhones in testing with a larger display: the iPhone 5,1 and iPhone 5,2. These phones are in the PreEVT stage of development and are codenamed N41AP (5,1) and ...

23 may 12

→ Build and Analyze: The Opposite of Instapaper

Speaking of ways I recently said things that were easier than writing, on today’s podcast, Dan and I discussed Flattr, API versioning, web frameworks, and my formerly secret App Store experimen...

21 may 12

→ My On The Verge interview

On The Verge’s bizarre combination is a lot of fun: extremely geeky topics, hosts, and guests with a well-funded late-show format. ∞ Permalink

21 may 12

→ Macworld’s review of the Accelsior PCIe SSD

Their findings support Bare Feats’: this looks like a great option for Mac Pro owners. ∞ Permalink

18 may 12

→ Responsive Images and Web Standards at the Turning Point

I like the proposed <picture> markup except for the tag name. “Picture” is much more specific than “image”, and I bet a very large portion of images used on the web are ...

15 may 12

→ Sponsor: Igloo Software

Work isn’t a place – it’s what you do. And you might work on a lot of devices – a Mac, an iPhone, an iPad – in a lot of places. You might work on the road or maybe from home (with your Ae...

15 may 12

→ World Aeropress Championship winning recipes

The AeroPress recipe (really) at the World AeroPress Championship (yes, really) that took home the Gold AeroPress (these are all real things) this year is remarkably simple. I tried it, and the resul...

15 may 12

The rumored thin 15” MacBook Pro with Retina, USB 3

9to5 Mac posted a rumor about the next 15” MacBook Pro being in a much thinner (but not wedge-shaped) case, having a Retina display of an unspecified resolution, and having USB 3 ports. It soun...

14 may 12

→ Build and Analyze: I Had A Baby, You Launched An App

This week’s podcast: the new 5by5 Radio app, why Apple may not want to add paid upgrades to the App Store, the infinite market for podcast clients and to-do apps, Instacast’s in-app-purch...

14 may 12

→ I’m on On The Verge this Thursday in NYC

I should pack the audience full of my friends so fewer Android fans can pelt me with crappy phones. ∞ Permalink

14 may 12

→ Adobe has a change of heart, will patch CS5

Good. This is the right move. ∞ Permalink

12 may 12

→ Why Flipping Through Paper-Like Pages Endures in the Digital World

I gave some quotes for this article on why artificial, skeuomorphic pagination is still desirable on modern digital touch content. ∞ Permalink

12 may 12

→ Critical Photoshop CS5 security vulnerability won’t be patched

Update: Adobe changed their mind and will patch CS5. Good. What an awful move by Adobe: Adobe released a security upgrade for Adobe Photoshop CS5 and earlier for Windows and Macintosh. This upgrade a...

11 may 12

→ iOS 5.1.1 upgrade stats

David Smith’s iOS version stats from his apps: The data for 4 days shows a clear and very consistent progression. Users are updating at a rate of roughly 7.5%/day, leading to a total adoption o...

11 may 12

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