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The Verge: Tumblr comes to Windows Phone with lock screen, live tile enhancements
Super win for Windows Phone, of which I’ve been a fan since its UX first showed up on the Zune. You heard me.
tech, humor, and nuance by David Chartier—tech distiller, freelance writer, Macworld contributor, wrangler of Finer Things in Tech
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The Verge: Tumblr comes to Windows Phone with lock screen, live tile enhancements
Super win for Windows Phone, of which I’ve been a fan since its UX first showed up on the Zune. You heard me.
Free Tumblr Idea: go stand in line for stuff—trains, bathrooms, planes, doctors, Samsung phones, DMVs, grande openings—and write reviews of the experience as a comparison to standing in line to buy an iPhone.
I really wish WordPress’ blogging UX wasn’t so terrible and Microsoft-ian. If they threw in a dozen or so more buttons, we could call it a Blogging OS.
People are generally on board with not copying and pasting someone else’s entire article or post because that’s plagiarism.
Yet people are perfectly fine grabbing and sharing someone else’s image or video, often without attribution or even deliberately stripping any remnant of attribution, because… ?
Day One is a fantastic, refreshingly polished journaling app from Paul Mayne for iPhone, iPad, and Mac. I love it for general journaling (aka, a diary), but its flexible nature lends itself to any number of uses from a travel log, a work journal, baby books, a workout or diet log, and much more.
If you’re in the “I really want to try Day One but I have no idea what I’d use it for” camp, Paul rounded up a ton of blog posts people have written about all the unique uses they found.
The Tumblr 3.3 for iOS update picked up link auto-fetch and a camera roll in your camera.
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OMG the smartest thing I’ve ever heardthe most incredible advice you’ll hear all month
Some smart words to consider if you don’t want to sound like an idiot all the time and forever by speaking in too many absolutes.
Been itching to get a good search box on your Tumblr? Manton Reece just gave you a backscratcher (test it on the search box in the sidebar of his post). Bonus points: it acts as a text backup service for all your posts, and the service costs $8 a month.
Just sign up at Searchpath and paste one line of JavaScript in your description or wherever you want it to go. There is a healthy dose of polish to how Reece’s search features work, too. I might just pick this up.
I made a new Tumblr thing.
Thanks to @Isaiah on App.net for the push.