Jim Willis

• Homeless: Can you build a life from $25? | csmonitor.com
  In a test of the American Dream, Adam Shepard started life from scratch with the clothes on his back and twenty-five dollars. Ten months later, he had an apartment, a car, and a small savings.
  (tags: poverty economics culture inspiration)

It’s Not about EDGE, It’s about the Edge — Here’s where it all comes together. Starbucks already has media servers in its stores. These servers host the songs that Starbucks plays. But they aren’t simply jukeboxes. They also have magic that allows a customer in a Starbucks cafe to purchase a song they just heard or that was recently played and have that song downloaded locally – not downloaded over the Internet from Apple’s iTunes Store. That means that Apple is wrapping DRM (digital rights…

In a test of the American Dream, Adam Shepard started life from scratch with the clothes on his back and twenty-five dollars. Ten months later, he had an apartment, a car, and a small savings.

• Digital Arts – Features – Create amazing psychedelic art in Photoshop
  Rob Carissimo reveals how to layer and blend images in Photoshop to create a hazy, dreamlike effect that’s straight from 60s California.
  (tags: grommets photoshop tutorial)

… has once again resulted in me losing about 30 minutes of work. OmniFocus rarely crashes, but when it does, it tends to do so when I’m doing the difficult work of “the weekly review.” I went back and forth with support from Omni a couple times when this happened last month and they sort of dissmissed my problem as:

“well, your data is written to the database as soon as it’s entered so there’s no reason why you’d have to go to the previous backup in the event of a crash since it…

Rob Carissimo reveals how to layer and blend images in Photoshop to create a hazy, dreamlike effect that’s straight from 60s California.

Can we do it? Yes, we can!

What’s wrong with this song? When is it going to start rocking?

3-year-old Jay at the breakfast table noticing the 17th century choral music that’s been playing for the past 20 minutes.

Sean Reilly, a developer from Moneydance commented on an earlier piece I wrote about how the application auto-categorizes downloaded transactions. I noted that Moneydance does not auto-categorize, but he is correct, it does auto-categorize up to a point.

I want to point out how Mint and Moneydance approach auto-categorization differently and why I think Mint’s method is superior. When auto-categorizing downloaded transactions, Moneydance uses a more exact match in the merchant field of…