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Video Review: Levenger Circa Leverage Punch

Levenger Leverage Punch Review from Patrick Rhone on Vimeo.

I review the new Circa Leverage Punch from Levenger. I include a tip for one possible use for the Circa System that might make a great gift idea.

Links to items mentioned include:

Typerighter


Typerighter is a new application that I have been testing for a while. As the developer is a close personal friend of mine and willing to listen to my, um, gentle persuasion, I have been giving active feedback since the very beginning and I hope you, like I, will find it the perfect web based writing tool.

My favorite feature is it’s complete lack of features. The only visible feature is a blank page and the occasional “save” that happens automatically. That’s it, one feature.

OK, l lied. But not completely. It has more features but the rest of the “features” are completely hidden.

Want to save your file as plain text? No problem. Just type “.txt” at the end of the url.

Oh, you write in Markdown and wish there was a way to convert it to valid HTML without an extra step? No problem, just type “.html” at the end of the URL.

Oh, and if you are a paid user, you get nifty things like your own user space and being able to create a filename URL by typing http://username.typerighter.com/filename and you will always be able to access your document directly at that address.

So yes, it has a few features but none of them, ever, get between you and that blank page. The way a writing app should be.

And, it works in the browser so, you know, everywhere is disco. iPad? Disco. iPhone? Hustle! Heck, throw it on your Chromebook.

I’m using it to write this letter. I drafted an essay of my book using it (on my iPad, naturally). It’s really neat. I keep it open in a browser window with a page I have set as my scratchpad. I can type a quick note in there if I’m working in Safari and not break my stride too much.

To get the extra goodness a personal Typerighter domain provides, and to support independent development, I recommend you pay the current $5.00+ cost. Because, you see, that cost increases by one cent for each person who signs up. So getting in now gets you the best price. But, you don’t have to pay to use it. Just use the “Try it out” link at the bottom of the sign up page and use it for as long as you wish.

Seriously, I hope you love this thing as much as I do. Just head on over to https://typerighter.com/ and play with it for a bit. Like I said, my good friend Garrick van Buren is the developer and he would love your feedback. Make any feature request you want as long as it can be completely invisible ;-).

Handful of Suns

each morning
I awake
to the sound 
of the girl
at the end 
of the hall

the sun is on
she tells me
though it’s not
not this early
or this late
in the fall

she believes
she sees light
which is enough
for me to rise
and respond
to her call

what matters
more than sleep
is these mornings
while she 
is still
so very small

in life
with a child
you have a handful
of suns
either real or imagined
that is all

Handful of Suns

each morning
I awake
to the sound 
of the girl
at the end 
of the hall

the sun is on
she tells me
though it’s not
not this early
or this late
in the fall

she believes
she sees light
which is enough
for me to rise
and respond
to her call

what matters
more than sleep
is these mornings
while she 
is still
so very small

in life
with a child
you have only
a handful of suns
either real or imagined
that is all

Scripting News: Our short attention span

Scripting News: Our short attention span

I wonder if a walk across the country in summer wouldn’t be something to do. And not directed anywhere. Not a march on Washington. We’re not taking back the country, or occupying anything. Maybe lots of people walking to completely random places. From New York to Spokane. San Diego to Bangor. Burlington to Austin. Everywhere you go, people walking. Visiting strange parts. Having a cold lemonade on a front porch in Podunk. Drinking beer from a paper bag on a front stoop in Baltimore. Talking baseball and politics. Discovering what it means to be American.

Such a lovely idea. 

Path: Introducing Path 2, the Smart Journal

Path: Introducing Path 2, the Smart Journal

thepersonalnetwork:

We’ve built a host of new features that make it easier to share even more on Path — your thoughts, the music you’re listening to, where you are, who you’re with, when you wake and when you sleep, and as always, your photos and videos.

I’ve used Path for a while and it has stood the test of time on my home screen. I liked its approach from the beginning. That was, a way of sharing moments from your life with up to 50 of your closest friends. What I love more is that hat number was not arbitrary, it was based on Dunbar’s number. Actual, research-based science on the number of close friends you can have.

With this latest version, they have taken that idea and knocked it out of the park. This is, hands down, the most beautiful app I have seen on the iPhone. And, what is more, the app has now evolved into a personal journal for the digital age. A low friction and fun way to catalog the moments in your day that hold meaning to you and share them with those closest to you or, thanks to Twitter, Facebook, and Foursquare integration, the whole world if you so choose.

As for me, I likely will stick to the science and use the heck out of this daily.

austinkleon:

HOW TO CARE FOR INTROVERTS

I’m an extravert, married to the Queen of introverts, and I too approve this message!

mlarson:

As a former(-ish) introvert, I think most of this is pretty spot-on. [via @sheatsb]

UPDATE: this is a list by Linda Kreger Silverman, most probably from the chapter “How To Care For An Introvert,” in her book, Upside-Down Brilliance: The Visual Spatial Learner.

Buying the book just so I can cut this part out for my fridge.

Secret Fed Loans Gave Banks $13 Billion – Bloomberg

Secret Fed Loans Gave Banks $13 Billion – Bloomberg

The amount of money the central bank parceled out was surprising even to Gary H. Stern, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis from 1985 to 2009, who says he “wasn’t aware of the magnitude.” It dwarfed the Treasury Department’s better-known $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program, or TARP. Add up guarantees and lending limits, and the Fed had committed $7.77 trillion as of March 2009 to rescuing the financial system, more than half the value of everything produced in the U.S. that year.

Please note the date. That 7.77 Trillion was just the beginning. So, the next time you wonder what the Occupiers at Wall Street want, perhaps just like every other American, they feel that they should see a return on their 7.77 Trillion investment that the 1% do. Seems fair to me.