Steve Jobs and the Portal to the Invisible

This is Esquire’s take on Steve Jobs and Apple. Overall, it seems quite accurate. It’s a very long read, so you may want to sit down to read it.

Here’s an excerpt:

He is messianic, and his life stands as an illustration of the difference between the two objectives. He was never driven by a vision of a better world; he was driven by a vision of himself as a person whose decisions guide the world. He wanted to build a device that moved the world forward, that would take people further. He wanted to build a reality that wasn’t there. He wanted to be one of the important ones.

Shazam is one of those apps that solves one of life’s problems. Not only that, but Shazam does it for free.

For those of you that use Twitter, you’ll know how addictive it is. You tweet while in a queue, you tweet while you’re travelling and you tweet every other minute that you can.

Recently, i’ve been using a piece of software called Coda. Coda is a very pretty, web developer application developed by a company called Panic. It’s not open source, or free but i think it’s worth paying for.

To steal Panic’s tagline

Text editor + file transfer + svn + CSS + Terminal + Books + More = Whoah.

Welcome to Coda. Grow beautiful code.

It supports quite a few languages. For these langages it offers code completion, as well as a helpful “Hints” feature which can be seen at the bottom of the window.

Every week Apple release a free song. This can be found in the middle of the iTunes home page, usually with a “FREE” tab over it.

This song is always free, and is sometimes not DRM’d. The song is usually good, with a few exceptions, and can help you find new artists that you may not have heard before.