Sawyer Paul's Blog, page 175

Made myself a new header for my blog.

Made myself a new header for my blog.

emotionswithjonhamm:Jon Hamm displaying the air he breathes....

emotionswithjonhamm:

Jon Hamm displaying the air he breathes. It is infused with handsomeness, victory, and lavender.  

I need to care way, way less.

I should really just go back to posting random stuff on this blog. People seemed to like it then. People liked it when it was Aggressive Art. People liked it when I wasn't around much at all. These people might all be totally fictional.

Did this as a favor for an old friend.

Did this as a favor for an old friend.

Did this as a favor to an old friend.

Did this as a favor to an old friend.

"The only really necessary people in the publishing process now are the writer and reader. Everyone..."

"The only really necessary people in the publishing process now are the writer and reader. Everyone who stands between those two has both risk and opportunity"

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Amazon.com executive RUSSELL GRANDINETTI, on the e-tailing giant's foray into book publishing.  It will release 122 titles this fall, including a memoir by Penny Marshall for which it reportedly paid $800,000.

I'd love to get a take on this from traditional book publishers, some of which are right here on Tumblr.

(via inothernews)

poke

poke

Found at my local Zellers electronics section, last Thursday.

Found at my local Zellers electronics section, last Thursday.

Oh iPad, you so sassy.

Oh iPad, you so sassy.

First impressions of iCloud

I set up my iCloud account a few days ago using my AppleID, which is my gmail address. I updated my mac and iPad, and then put in my credentials on both. Online, I created an @me.com address, which a) seems totally redundant if you signed in with another, already existing email address, and b) has yet to work whatsoever.

iCloud doesn't sync at all to Windows Phone, and, I'm assuming, Android or anything other than the iPhone 3Gs, 4, and 4S.

It's impressive how fast a contact or calendar change is reflected from a portable device to the desktop. It's noticeably faster and feels more secure than Google calendar and contacts, which often feel a little janky.

I wrote a document on the subway using Pages. I opened it three times, continually adding more content. It was up to about 700 words. I checked on iCloud.com to see if the document was there yesterday, and it was. That was cool. Today, however, the document simply doesn't exist. It just disappeared. That's not ever cool. There's no backup of multiple versions, and no way to access the files themselves on iCloud. It's not only worse than dropbox in every respect for document management, it's currently worse than any backup service I can think of.

I can understand a few blips during the beginning of a service like this. MobileMe was famously useless for several months, and there's a reason Google slaps the beta tag on most new services. But until the kinks work themselves out, I simply can't trust any of the iWork apps on iOS not to kill my stuff, which means I basically can't use those apps at all right now.

It's also interesting to note that while iCal and Address Book receive iCloud support, iWork apps on the Mac simply don't. The "share" button still goes to iWork.com. Baffling.

Online syncing, backup, and social services remain Apple's ugly blindspot.