Month: June 2014

Less Google = Better Mac

Apple Hits Google Where It Hurts With Bing Integration In iOS 8 And Mac OS X by Selena Larson (ReadWrite)

DuckDuckGo, the Internet’s most popular private search engine, is going to be a built-in option in Safari on iOS 8 for iPhones, iPads and iPods and OS X Yosemite. This means users can select DuckDuckGo as the default Safari search engine in favor of Google, Yahoo and Bing on their Apple devices.

I find it telling that iOS (iPhone/iPad) and OS X (Mac) have built-in support for Vimeo (video), Flickr?, Yahoo, Facebook, Twitter? and LinkedIn and a bunch of popular Asian based services. So I can upload any image on my iPhone or iPad or Mac to Yahoo's Flickr. I can upload any video to Vimeo. I can share a web pages or image to Facebook or Twitter or LinkedIn. But Google? NOPE!

Apple even provides a tool to integrate iCloud into Windows XP/7/8 and increased it's integration with Bing.

Interesting since Microsoft and Apple are competitors. Also interesting is that Microsoft Office now also runs on the iPad/iPhone and of course has been on the Mac for years. Siri now used Bing for search instead of Google.

The only major company left off of the sharing sheet is Google. Apparently Google gets a lot of traffic from iOS and OS X user since they have been the default search engine for some time. Apple has added DuckDuckGo ( a less creepy search engine ) to the next version of iOS and OS X and it may become the default.

I think Apple is sending a not too subtle message that CREEPY advertising driven data mining services should NOT be the future of the web. Apple is slowly squeezing Google out. If you want Google spy-bots on your devices you'll have to install them yourself[^1].

Apple has provided an extension mechanism in iOS and OS X to allow for third-parties to build their own services.

The Farmer and the Chickpea

Last weekend kicked of the annual Montgomery Friend of Open Space Farmer's Market. I got some cool new photos that I'll be sharing with your over the next few weeks during the summer. Back this year was the Farmer & The Chickpea with some delicious food and dessert items.

A little background:

All of our recipes have an Italian influence, as our background (and our hearts) are in Italy. We love nothing more then taking a traditional American Dish and putting a Mediterranean spin on it.

The main store is located on main street in Manville, NJ. I've never been to the store but based on the few items on sale at the farmers' market I'm sure it must be a treat. Next time I'm driving through Manville, I'll be sure to stop and spend some time in the store. If your time is limited you can always stop in at the farmers' market tomorrow and pick up a few of the delicious items for sale.

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I bought one of the lentil cakes with maple roasted sweet potato and pumpkin for my wife for lunch but ended up eating most of it myself. It's ok to share but sometimes it's good to keep things for oneself.

The lentil cake was delicious with a glass of Villa Milagro Rosita.

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I have type 1 diabetes but these bread puddings look so delicious. I'll have to find how to eat just a small piece that works with my diabetic diet.

rice pudding, sweet potato, fig

rice pudding, blackberry, orange cream

Always Be Shooting

?The goal is to always be shooting whether you’re doing paid jobs or not. Developing your eye, and capabilities only comes from doing it constantly. On top of that, it fills that creative desire that you may not always get by shooting the paid jobs. Eventually the two will converge if you market what you love to shoot and people hire you for that.?Nick Onken

Via Jorge Quinteros