Links from 2013

Anyone who thinks social media is a valid replacement for an RSS-reader, leave the room now.

<blockquote>[A] command-line tool that will help you automate your paperless workflow from your scanner to your e-filing cabinet. Paperless analyzes your scanned documents and processes them through a set of user defined rules. These rules determine how and where to file the document.</blockquote>

<blockquote>[A] tool for organizing and renaming your movies, tv shows or anime, and music well as downloading subtitles and artwork.</blockquote>

<blockquote>For government services, we believe the costs of developing and maintaining apps will very rarely justify their benefits, especially if the underlying service design is sub-optimal.

Departments should focus on improving the quality of the core web service.</blockquote>

<blockquote>‘I am finding it increasingly plausible that existential risk is the biggest moral issue in the world,’ he told me. ‘Even if it hasn’t gone mainstream yet.’</blockquote>

<blockquote>A boot menu and maintenance toolkit for EFI-based machines like the Intel Macs. You can use it to boot multiple operating systems easily, including triple-boot setups with Boot Camp. It also provides an easy way to enter and explore the EFI pre-boot environment.</blockquote>

Bugger.

Burning random stuff for parents.

<blockquote>SmallDVD is a simple DVD authoring utility for MacOSX that will take video files and create a DVD image from them that can be burnt using Disk Utility.</blockquote>

My short piece for the Smithsonian Magazine has made it online: http://t.co/KNvQ5EIxvr

Including handy cross-platform "Aspyr Games With Multiplayer" status

<blockquote>Design, build, and scale APIs for web and mobile apps in minutes instead of days.</blockquote>