I agree that iOS’s back button on the upper left is a pain if you have small hands but iOS dev’s are good at supporting the left swipe gesture that does the same thing. You essentially get a back button that’s the entire length of the left edge. very easy to use. I personally don’t like the system wide back button in…

I carried a notebook most of the time for my old job, and I just wanted to chime in for everyone saying, “I’d never use this,” or “I don’t have enough situations where I’d need a notebook.”

What goes on paper ought to be consumable knowledge. Unless you are a very gifted scribe, your longhand notes are probably too messy and imperfect for long-term storage. Written notes are the kind of instant scratchpad information that is too volatile for digital storage and might elude your short-term memory. In my…

Clear shipping tape folded back on itself forms the pocket to keep the Zebra telescopic pen with the notebook. Most of the notebooks are Moleskine plain hard cover Reporters at 3.5x5 inch format. The two most recent are from Dick Blick - half the price and also made in China (Moleskine farms out its manufacturing to…

Apply that rule to scuba. That would make it sc-uh-ba instead of sc-oo-ba since the “u” stands for “underwater”. I also pronouce it as gif and not jif but you do change letters just because you abbreviate the word, son. I guess instead of “el-oh-el” you say “lowl”?

Probably too much to ask. I’m in one of the “magic ZIP codes” (Indianapolis) and I’m sure it’s because there are two Amazon fulfillment centers within 50 miles of my house.

A million plus years of evolution as long-distance walkers and our feet don’t work right if they flex? I don’t buy that at all. Lots and lots of people do all their hiking with running shoes or even more flexible footwear.

I personally enjoy my weekly review. I look forward to getting clear, current, and creative. As I mentioned, I find cathartic to have a clean desktop, all of my projects living happily in a OneNote notebook, and my tasks scheduled for particular days in Outlook. It helps me relieve any stress that’s built up over the…

Seriously though, these are good tips. As “things” get hectic, its nice to block out time to re-prioritize and adjust schedules and to-do lists.

It’s not your boss’s experience, so it can’t be valid? This list isn’t based on experience or feedback from users. It’s based on their own metric, which includes inspecting and appraising 700,000+ vehicles and comparing their reliability to the industry average. It’s also a long-term project, so it’s not limited to…

Helvetica, the McDonalds of typefaces.

After reading these stories, I count myself very fortunate that for the first half of my high school career, my tuba section leaders were girls (and probably would have continued to be, had they not graduated, opening the chair to my imperial rule for the next two years). I had nothing but respect and admiration for…

WTF?!?! Men...why do we have to ruin everything???

PG and Yorkshire Gold are the way to go.

PG and Yorkshire Gold are the way to go.

Let’s get this out of the way – tea bags suck

Let’s get this out of the way – tea bags suck

If you read his updates on facebook and see what he’s really eating on his tours, you know he’s not following this diet at all.

Dude, from your own links, this is cauliflower:

Female trumpet player here, too. Just cosigning and offering a virtual fist bump. I’m in my fifties, so when I was young and starting out on the trumpet, you can imagine how much harassment I got. Especially since I was always first chair. Fortunately, I had many teachers who thought it was great that I outplayed the…

I actually conduct clinics at colleges about how to deal with exactly this kind of issue. Let me know if I can be of assistance if you want to pick it back up! I’ll tell you this though, it never gets better, no matter how good you are. You just get better at dealing with it. Having a network of women helps, having…

This is a huge problem in my field too. I’m feminine, so people assume I’m incompetent! I’ve had substitute musicians who are playing in my band offering to explain to me how to play a part that was WRITTEN FOR ME before they ever heard me play. Their assumption? I was a college student and I needed their (first time…