Author Archives: alexknight

I have used Skitch for many years for taking screenshots on my Mac. I never used it because I couldn’t be bothered to use the built-in screenshot capability of OS X, but because it was so easy to annotate and share images. In addition to making that process easy, all it would take to uploadContinue reading “A Quick and Painless Way of Sharing Screenshots with Dropbox”

Jökull Sólberg Auðunsson is the author of Calepin, the Dropbox powered blogging engine built off of the open-source Pelican, and also serves as interactive tech director at Icelandic agency. Over our email discourse, we discussed the recent static blogging engine craze and how it seems to be picking up steam, how his product Calepin cameContinue reading “An Interview with The Creator of Calepin”

Ever since the release of the most recent MacBook Air, Apple has made something very clear to people: solid state storage is the future across their entire product lineup. Apple is certainly no stranger to solid state storage technology. Ever since they moved away from magnetic storage in their iPod lineup, but perhaps more importantlyContinue reading “Thoughts on The Apple Anobit Acquisition”

iA Writer touts itself as one of those distraction free writing environments. Whether you think the terminology to describe these kind of apps is gimmicky, there is some merit to it. I’ve only ever tried one other full-screen writing app on my Mac, and that was OmmWriter Dãna. Of course there has been a healthyContinue reading “My Love Affair with iA Writer”

Whether you prefer to develop native or web apps, there is without a shadow of a doubt still a huge advantage of native apps. This got me thinking though. The line is slowly blurring between what we now consider “web” apps and what we consider “native” apps. One good example of this is the newestContinue reading “Blurring the Line Between Native and Web Apps”

I’ve been using Google Chrome off and on since its inception. It doesn’t quite offer me the experience that I prefer, so I keep going back to Safari on my Mac. There are many reasons for this, but there’s one thing that’s been bothering me for a while. If you know what RSS is, thenContinue reading “Does Google Care about RSS?”

Many of Twitter’s most passionate users have long clamoured for an option to let them pay for the service (yours truly included). The problem is I don’t think this will ever happen. The reality is that the advanced users who have been using the service since near the beginning — although probably make up aContinue reading “Twitter Has to Do What is Right for Their Business”

After several years of getting accustomed to the kind of retail experience offered by Apple stores, all other retail stores seem to pale in comparison. If I just compare Apple’s retail environment to other electronic hardware stores such as Best Buy, the similarities end at the fact that both sell hardware, software and services. IContinue reading “This is Your Idea of a Good Retail Experience?”

There are a lot of people in your life — perhaps family or even friends — who try to give you their “advice” about many things that you do. In less than eight months from now, I will be turning 30 and I somehow figured that by now people would trust that I have thingsContinue reading “Going Against the Grain”

I’ve spent many years both working with and using, a combination of native and web apps. When you’re working for a mid-sized company or larger, many times it’s far more difficult to get things done at the speed and quality you really want. It seems like the larger the company, the worse off the productContinue reading “Making Bold Moves in Product Design And Execution Are Crucial”