Weblog nirvana for me would be integration of River5, Pocket, and Drummer. Right now I use Radio3 to bridge between River5 and Pocket to send what I find to read in my RSS subscriptions to my preferred web reading app. On the iPad i can share selections of text from Pocket to Drafts for inclusion into a web post that I ultimately publish to my blog. I think this total integration is where Dave was going with Radio3 at one time. #
Drummer opens well in Safari on my iPad Air. When Dave first released his web-based outliner the iPad did not support a mouse, but now it does and that makes a world of difference. I am writing this with the iPad connected to the Magic Keyboard and this combo works every bit as well as with a laptop computer. From an iPadOS perspective I think a negative of using Drummer in Safari might be that you can’t integrate with Shortcuts. Most of what I write for my blog on the iPad is done in Drafts and published with a Drafts action, mostly because of how well it integrates with apps like Pocket.#Manton has added a way to associate a blog in micro.blog to a OPML file edited in Drummer. Using a separate OPML file from the one used by the Drummer publisher is best. The process includes a script to ping micro.blog to let it know a change has been made. I see no reason why that script couldn't be put behind a toolbar button, just like the one for Twitter. With this step Drummer is closer to the "web publishing switchboard" I have long sought, and for me this moves Drummer from something to watch toward critical for my workflow. A challenge for me is mobile. I don't think we will see a mobile app version of Drummer any time soon, so we have to see how well the current incarnation works on the iPad. #
Good morning sports fans. The Red Sox keep rolling and I lost in fantasy football thanks to Leonard Fournette. #
- Today is the Google Pixel launch event, and much like Apple's event yesterday, we pretty much know what is going to be announced. One big difference with Pixel 6 is how much marketing Google has been doing, I think I've seen more advertising for this PIxel than any other.#
- Unfortunately, I have a meeting at the same time as the event, so I've not been able to watch closely.#
- For me the biggest surprise has been the price. The Pixel 6 starts at $599 and the Pixel 6 Pro starts at $899 and I was expecting these prices to be much closer to $1,000. I've read elsewhere that these prices are only at the Google Store and that it appears the phone carriers are only selling versions with mmWave 5G.#
- Today is launch day for Android 12. Just clicked System Update on my Pixel 4, and an update is available to Download and install. I expect this to be the production update. It's a 3.84 MB download because I already have the Android 12 release candidate, which was the final beta, installed. Update is in progress.#
- The launch video is now getting in to a lot of detail and it's feeling long. I am going to want to know which of these features will be available on my Pixel 4a. Most of what they are highlighting in the video are features that are optimized for Tensor, which is the Google designed processor in the Pixel 6.#
- My first impression having watched the ending of the presentation is that Google has hit it out of the park with this release of Android 12 and the Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro. I've been running Android 12 for several weeks and I really like all of the UI improvements. The Pixel 6 and 6 Pro are priced very favorably and is going to put to test the question of whether a well designed Android phone can seriously compete with the iPhone. It looks like Google is all-in on marketing the Pixel 6. The question is, when one walks in to a Best Buy or a AT&T store which phone do people in those stores steer customers toward? Another question is going to be build quality. Google has suffered in the past with defective devices that leave bad impressions so they must step up their quality control game. Only time will tell. #
Weblog nirvana for me would be integration of River5, Pocket, and Drummer. Right now I use Radio3 to bridge between River5 and Pocket to send what I find to read in my RSS subscriptions to my preferred web reading app. On the iPad i can share selections of text from Pocket to Drafts for inclusion into a web post that I ultimately publish to my blog. I think this total integration is where Dave was going with Radio3 at one time. #
Drummer opens well in Safari on my iPad Air. When Dave first released his web-based outliner the iPad did not support a mouse, but now it does and that makes a world of difference. I am writing this with the iPad connected to the Magic Keyboard and this combo works every bit as well as with a laptop computer. From an iPadOS perspective I think a negative of using Drummer in Safari might be that you can’t integrate with Shortcuts. Most of what I write for my blog on the iPad is done in Drafts and published with a Drafts action, mostly because of how well it integrates with apps like Pocket.#Manton has added a way to associate a blog in micro.blog to a OPML file edited in Drummer. Using a separate OPML file from the one used by the Drummer publisher is best. The process includes a script to ping micro.blog to let it know a change has been made. I see no reason why that script couldn't be put behind a toolbar button, just like the one for Twitter. With this step Drummer is closer to the "web publishing switchboard" I have long sought, and for me this moves Drummer from something to watch toward critical for my workflow. A challenge for me is mobile. I don't think we will see a mobile app version of Drummer any time soon, so we have to see how well the current incarnation works on the iPad. #
Good morning sports fans. The Red Sox keep rolling and I lost in fantasy football thanks to Leonard Fournette. #
- Today is the Google Pixel launch event, and much like Apple's event yesterday, we pretty much know what is going to be announced. One big difference with Pixel 6 is how much marketing Google has been doing, I think I've seen more advertising for this PIxel than any other.#
- Unfortunately, I have a meeting at the same time as the event, so I've not been able to watch closely.#
- For me the biggest surprise has been the price. The Pixel 6 starts at $599 and the Pixel 6 Pro starts at $899 and I was expecting these prices to be much closer to $1,000. I've read elsewhere that these prices are only at the Google Store and that it appears the phone carriers are only selling versions with mmWave 5G.#
- Today is launch day for Android 12. Just clicked System Update on my Pixel 4, and an update is available to Download and install. I expect this to be the production update. It's a 3.84 MB download because I already have the Android 12 release candidate, which was the final beta, installed. Update is in progress.#
- The launch video is now getting in to a lot of detail and it's feeling long. I am going to want to know which of these features will be available on my Pixel 4a. Most of what they are highlighting in the video are features that are optimized for Tensor, which is the Google designed processor in the Pixel 6.#
- My first impression having watched the ending of the presentation is that Google has hit it out of the park with this release of Android 12 and the Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro. I've been running Android 12 for several weeks and I really like all of the UI improvements. The Pixel 6 and 6 Pro are priced very favorably and is going to put to test the question of whether a well designed Android phone can seriously compete with the iPhone. It looks like Google is all-in on marketing the Pixel 6. The question is, when one walks in to a Best Buy or a AT&T store which phone do people in those stores steer customers toward? Another question is going to be build quality. Google has suffered in the past with defective devices that leave bad impressions so they must step up their quality control game. Only time will tell. #