No Ponies???

Sleep Cycle App. It's awesome. It's got a slew of gentle sounding alarms.

Be careful following those links. I first saw this next Tuesday, clicked, and now I'm back here.

I'll admit the article does make a good point. Most of us have fallen into the trap of spending so much time coming up with a perfect system (or researching a perfect app) to solve a problem that we end up losing time overall.

I was able to put it on my Blogger blog.

Ah, that was not your fault, that was my fault. I said list view in the post, but didn't read his comment closely enough to see that he was using column view. Yes, as described in the post, this is only in list view.

WHAT?

There's a downside to this: Finder has to scan all those directories to add up the sizes, and that can be slow. If you have an SSD, though, it's fast and *very* handy; but it can really bog down on remote drives.

I often take screenshots with my phone before leaving the hotel's WiFi, but I'm good with maps ;) Try downloading AllSubway (no connection required) to get maps of most major subway systems.

My tip is to bring your smartphone, download an offline map of the city you're staying in with one of the many available apps that do such a thing, disable GPS (to save battery), and wander. Even with GPS disabled, your map will still be able to show your location (it picks up your location using wi-fi, although it…

Go to Rick Steve's site. Download his free audio walking tours. Bring earbuds for everyone.

To see stuff that isn't on the beaten path, I usually just wander without a map. Avoid taxis and subways unless you have mobility issues. I almost always walk everywhere in Paris, for example. Even if its 10 miles in a day, I can just take a break in a coffee shop I'm passing by. That's how I first came across the…

I would just get all meta and say something like "I normally just spill my drinks on people all the time, and since I haven't done that yet, this seems to be going alright. How's your day?"

But then you have to actually stick around long enough to have the conversation. :D

+1 for Cubby. Definitely a great alternative, although it was a lot better initially when you got unlimited computer-to-computer syncing for free. Now you have to pay for it. The plans are a little weird. Still, if you want unlimited computer-to-computer syncing and 100GB of cloud storage you get a really good deal…

Yeah, definitely not. It's not that they're totally incredible headphones, it's that they're incredible for being only $7. If you have to ship them overseas, their cost probably goes up to a point where you're better off getting more expensive earbuds.