UI/UX on Android much worse than on iOS

I think the difference is pretty obvious. The one on Android pretty much looks like a programming class project.

a post in Android Gripes. 

The biggest asset of iOS platform is the user experience so far.

Skype 5 for Mac - A Disastrous UX

It seems Skype has noticed that there is a discrepancy in quality between the two versions, and has decided to make the two versions more similar to each other. Unfortunately, instead of making the Windows version of Skype better, they’ve decided to fix the discrepancy by making the Mac version of Skype more like the Windows version.

This is exactly how I felt when I saw the new version of Skype for Mac. Written by Lukas Mathis.

Syncing Todolicious via Dropbox

Todolicious is a simple mac app that handles your tasks easily. It doesn’t support folders, tags or any other GTD structures. If you often have 30 tasks in your todo list, probably, it is not what you’re looking for. I usually try to keep my list less than 10 items.

If you use multiple macs, you definitely need to sync your todo list among your computers. Unfortunately, Todolicious doesn’t support syncing natively but Dropbox is here to help. The file you need to sync is ~/Library/Application Support/Todolicious/storedata. You don’t need to copy the data file to your DropBox folder. You can use symbolic links to utilize syncing. Peter Coxhead has a great article explaining this approach. 

1. Leave the folder or file where it is. 
2. Create a symbolic link. 
3. Move the symbolic link to your Dropbox folder.

There are a couple tricks that you need to take care of, go ahead and read the article first. Specifically, second approach under the title of “Synchronizing Existing Folders and Files”.

The only drawback of this approach is that you shouldn’t edit your todo list in 2 different computers at the same time. You might end up having glitches in the data file. So I don’t recommend this approach for real-time syncing. The application should be restarted if the todo list has been edited in another computer. 

* If you are not a Dropbox user, you can use my referral link to sign-up. You will get free 250 MB storage in addition to 2 GB.

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a thrilling scene.

i came across this photo, please let me know if you know the credits.

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unnaturally beautiful shot of sf by lisa.