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Founder and CEO of IMDb Interview starts at 14:54 and ends at 52:50 “In 1990, if you'd have said to me ‘You know the service that you've just launched, one day you'll be able to interact with that by voice with a device that's this big in your kitchen.' I'd be like, ‘Really?' Now it's kind of like an everyday experience.” News Fire HD 10 tablet on sale for $100 - a price cut of $50 Kindle Voyage - $130 on Amazon's Woot site ($90 off) “Open road Integrated Media Shows 36% YoY Revenue Growth in January 2019” - press release March 26, 2019 Association of American Publishers stats for January 2019 Tech Tips reMarkable tablet ($599) versus Rocketbook ($30) versus MobiScribe ($214) Kindle for Mac update (1.25.2) Kindle sort by unread and read coming (Good E-Reader) Interview with Col Needham IMDb “Behind the Scenes at IMDb” by Elias Wolfberg at Amazon's Day One blog - February 28, 2018 Next Week's Guest Michael J. Sullivan, author of the Riyria fantasy series. Music for my podcast is from an original Thelonius Monk composition named "Well, You Needn't." This version is "Ra-Monk" by Eval Manigat on the "Variations in Time: A Jazz Perspective" CD by Public Transit Recording" CD. Please Join the Kindle Chronicles group at Goodreads! Right-click here and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player.

  Jim Jones, right, Associate Professor of Management at University of Nebraska at Omaha Interview starts at 9:03 and ends at 40:50 “In the classroom, I really do strongly feel that attention is so critical to actual understanding that the more that you can remove the electronic connection and the focus on inputting electronically or--even worse sometimes I think, is passively taking pictures of the screen--the better.” News Is Amazon working on another phone? https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2018/7/29/17627314/amazon-phone-studios-jen-salke-rumor How wealthy are Jeff Bezos's parents? https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-07-31/a-hidden-amazon-fortune-bezos-parents-could-be-worth-billions How Amazon dominates online retail: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-01/amazon-s-the-biggest-in-online-shopping-but-not-always-the-best Demise of the Kindle Voyage: https://goodereader.com/blog/electronic-readers/the-kindle-voyage-is-now-discontinued Tech Tip Update for Kindle app for iPhone and iPad: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/amazon-kindle/id302584613?mt=8 Interview with Jim Jones Gallup and its StrengthsFinder assessment tool University of Nebraska Omaha Microsoft Surface Pro Bloom's Taxonomy of educational goals reMarkable tablet Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman Clifton Strengths assessment Music for my podcast is from an original Thelonius Monk composition named "Well, You Needn't." This version is "Ra-Monk" by Eval Manigat on the "Variations in Time: A Jazz Perspective" CD by Public Transit Recording" CD. Please Join the Kindle Chronicles group at Goodreads! Right-click here and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player.

Author of All our Waves Are Water: Stumbling Toward Enlightenment and the Perfect Ride Interview starts at 9:50 and ends at 35:52 “All memoirs build a container that's something of a lie. (You can never say it all.) But this book gets a little closer to the truth in that surfing and Zen are just big characters among many.” (Photo by Peter Dawson) News Camino Island by John Grisham “Amazon bookstores to participate in Prime Day for the first time” by Tonya Garcia at MarketWatch - July 5, 2017 Prime Day in Amazon Books stores Echo Show Nintendo Switch (gray) Jeff Bezos's tweet with link to New York Times column by The Haggler “The Secrets of Bezos: How Amazon Became the Everything Store” by Brad Stone at Bloomberg - October 10, 2013 Tech Tip Click here to find Audible upgrades on your Kindle books. Interview with Jaimal Yogis Jaimal Yogis on TKC 236 in February, 2013 Books by Jaimal Yogis:   All Our Waves Are Water: Stumbling Toward Enlightenment and the Perfect Ride (Published July 4, 2017)   The Fear Project: What Our Most Primal Emotion Taught Me About Survival, Success, Surfing...and Love (2013)   Saltwater Buddha: A Surfer's Quest to Find Zeon on the Sea (2009) Saltwater Buddha The Film Content Standard Ebooks Comments Caseable cover for Kindle Voyage “15 first-class Kindle Voyage cases and covers” by Piotr Kowalczyk at Ebook Friendly - February 19, 2017 Next Week's Guest Alex Cabal, founder of Standard Ebooks Music for my podcast is from an original Thelonius Monk composition named "Well, You Needn't." This version is "Ra-Monk" by Eval Manigat on the "Variations in Time: A Jazz Perspective" CD by Public Transit Recording" CD. Please Join the Kindle Chronicles group at Goodreads!

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Elias and Sean talk about books—ebooks versus paper, Kindle versus iBooks, highlights and marginalia, and audiobooks. Plus an aside on podcasts in which Elias may have been talked into switching podcast apps. Links and Show Notes Knights and Merchants: The Shattered Kingdom - Wikipedia Breadcrumbs T-shirts Three Investigators - Wikipedia Sony Reader - Wikipedia Kobo eReaders (nope, not Sony) Amazon.com: Kindle E-readers: Kindle Store H.I. #26: Brady Had Dinner With Darth Vader — Hello Internet — Overcast – Grey hates the Kindle Voyage (57:45) H.I. #39: Getting Things Done Dieter Rams: As Little Design as Possible by Sophie Lovell & Jonathan Ive on iBooks The Making of Star Wars (Enhanced Edition) by J.W. Rinzler & Peter Jackson on iBooks The Making of The Empire Strikes Back (Enhanced Edition) by J.W. Rinzler & Ridley Scott on iBooks The Making of Return of the Jedi (Enhanced Edition) by J.W. Rinzler & Brad Bird on iBooks Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain Deluxe (Enhanced Edition) by Betty Edwards on iBooks Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words: Randall Munroe: Amazon.com: Books The Art of Star Wars: The Force Awakens: Phil Szostak, Lucas Film Ltd.: Amazon.com: Books The Art of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story: LucasFilm Ltd, Josh Kushins: Amazon.com: Books Star Wars: The Force Awakens The Visual Dictionary: Pablo Hidalgo: Amazon.com: Books Star Wars: The Force Awakens Incredible Cross-Sections: Jason Fry, Kemp Remillard: Amazon.com: Books Star Wars: Rogue One: The Ultimate Visual Guide: Pablo Hidalgo: Amazon.com: Books Star Wars: Complete Locations: Amazon.com: Books The Design of Everyday Things (iBooks/Kindle) PDF Expert The Focus Course Books To Base Your Life on (The Reading List) - RyanHoliday.net Trust Me, I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator (iBooks/Kindle) An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth (Audible/Kindle) Creativity, Inc. (Audible/Kindle) Overcast Castro Breadcrumbs - @breadcrumbsfm Sean - @splunsford Elias - @muffinworks Jingles excerpted from "Halo-centric Hang/Halo improvisation" by Aaron Ximm. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.

Featuring Neil Lindsay, Amazon VP Devices and Chris Green, Amazon Lab 126 VP Industrial Design   This special episode of The Kindle Chronicles is all about the new Kindle Oasis, based on an embargoed preview of the device that I attended in New York City on April 7, 2016. The episode is divided into the following four parts: Meet the Oasis - product specs and first impressions. 2:14 to 8:4   (Note: In answer to Faith Eldridge's question, it turns out the Oasis does not have an adaptive light sensor. If that is an important capability, you may want to stick with the Kindle Voyage, which does have one.) Live from New York: It's the Kindle Oasis briefing! 8:47 to 28:37 Will Oasis be a Success? My thoughts. 28:40 to 32:06 What's next for the Kindle? 32:10 to 36:20 Music for my podcast is from an original Thelonius Monk composition named "Well, You Needn't." This version is "Ra-Monk" by Eval Manigat on the "Variations in Time: A Jazz Persepctive" CD by Public Transit Recording" CD.    Please Join the Kindle Chronicles group at Goodreads!

Creator of the I Love My Kindle Blog   Interview starts at 10:46 and ends at 44:02 If people were evolving away from reading long-form reading, we would not have series. But right now people will say, “Oh yes, that's great. It's a 200-page book, but I want a thousand pages about this character. So I think you can make an argument that people are more into long-form reading that they were in the past.   News “Mall CEO claims Amazon Books will open up to 400 physical storefronts” by Sam Machkovech at ars technica - February 2, 2016 “Amazon Plans Hundreds of Brick-and-Mortar Bookstores, Mall CEO Says” by Greg Bensinger at The Wall Street Journal - February 2, 2016 Business Insider photos of Amazon's Seattle Book Store - February 3, 2016 “Unsubstantiated Rumor: Amazon to Open as Many as 400 Bookstores” by Nate Hoffelder at The Digital Reader - February 2, 2016 Woody Allen interview in May, 2015 in which he whines about Amazon deal   Tech Tip “Amazon's Echo speaker can finally order you an Uber” at The Verge - February 5, 2016 “Amazon's Kindle e-readers are getting a big software update soon” by Sam Byford at The Verge - February 3, 2016 5.7.2 Software update pages at Amazon.com for Kindle Voyage, Paperwhite (6th Generation), and Kindle “CBS Sports app for the Fire TV expected to be released this week in time for Super Bowl 50"   Interview with Bufo Calvin I Love My Kindle blog I Love My Kindle blog subscription for Kindle - 99 cents a month The Collected I Love My Kindle Blog Volume 1 The Measured Circle blog by Bufo Calvin “How an e-book is like a treadmill at the gym” by Bufo Calvin   Content Winter Men by Jesper Bugge Kold, an AmazonCrossing translation into English. Available as a free advance download for Prime members through Kindle First if you have not already downloaded a Kindle First book for February.   Next Week's Guest Len Vlahos, new owner of The Tattered Cover Bookstore in Denver   Music for my podcast is from an original Thelonius Monk composition named "Well, You Needn't." This version is "Ra-Monk" by Eval Manigat on the "Variations in Time: A Jazz Persepctive" CD by Public Transit Recording" CD.    Please Join the Kindle Chronicles group at Goodreads!

Creator of the Evil Genius Chronicles blog and podcast   Interview starts at 10:47 and ends at 42:22 This idea that books are exempt from the rules of hoarding, that you're supposed to be happy that you have walls and walls lined with these things? I don't actually feel that. I feel that if I had one of those book scanners or if there was a program, if Google had a book buy-back program where I could trade them every paper copy I have for a digital copy, I would do that in a heartbeat with almost every book in this house. I would love that. That would be the greatest thing that ever happened to me.    News“Amazon's New Kindle Trade-In Program Includes a $20 Credit Toward a New Kindle” by Nate Hoffelder at The Digital Reader - January 7, 2016Details of Kindle Trade In program at Amazon.com“Nook holiday sales plunge 25% to $41M as Barnes & Noble falls further behind Amazon Kindle” by Todd Bishop at GeekWire - January 7, 2016 “Amazon.com, Inc.'s Best-Selling Product in 2015” by Steve Symington at the Motley Fool - January 4, 2016 Psychotherapeutic Reiki: A Holistic Body-Mind Approach to Psychotherapy by Richard R. Curtin Jr. Click here for paperback version published via CreateSpace “Ford partners with Amazon to connect cars with homes” by Marco della Cava at USA Today - January 5, 2016   Tech TipBear Motion Premium Slim Sleeve Case Cover for Kindle Voyage - $9.89 at Amazon.com   Interview with Dave SlusherEvil Genius ChroniclesThe Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing by Marie KondoSynergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking (paperback) by R. Buckminster FullerMarvel UnlimitedRock and Roll Geek Show hosted by Michael ButlerBabies Love album by Iron MaidenNational Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo)Scott SiglerNathan LowellJ A Konrath The Mad at Dad Podcast with Dave Slusher and Michael Butler   ContentAmazon profile of Donna Mabry, author of Maude   Carless in Denver: Day 8 I am posting daily at my Instagram account as my wife and I continue an experiment in urban living without owning a car. So far so good. Denver turns out to have lots of transportation options that we are learning how to use efficiently.    Music for my podcast is from an original Thelonius Monk composition named "Well, You Needn't." This version is "Ra-Monk" by Eval Manigat on the "Variations in Time: A Jazz Persepctive" CD by Public Transit Recording" CD.    Please Join the Kindle Chronicles group at Goodreads!

The Amazon Kindle Voyage was released late last year and for all intents and purpose the e-reader was a complete flop. It was the least purchased and least reviewed product that the Seattle company has released in a number of years. So what went wrong? Amazon never releases sales figures for their hardware division in […]

Over the course of 2015 there has been a number of notable new e-readers that have hit the market. Barnes and Noble released their first new model in almost three years with the Nook Glowlight Plus, while Kobo released two different units. All eyes are on Amazon right now for their Kindle Voyage 2, Kindle […]

Prolific, bestselling, multi-genre author Hugh Howey took me on a walk through the writer’s process. Rainmaker.FM is Brought to You By Discover why more than 80,000 companies in 135 countries choose WP Engine for managed WordPress hosting. Start getting more from your site today! Mr. Howey is the well-known author of Wool, and his self-published dystopian “Silo Series,” that has sold over two million copies worldwide. His books have been optioned for film and TV by well-known Hollywood director Ridley Scott and Heroes creator Tim Kring respectively. He has been a fierce advocate for self-publishing authors and even inked a rare print-only contract with major publishers to retain the electronic rights to his early works. Hugh is a tireless proponent for the pure craft of writing, and he has built an intensely loyal following. As he prepares to sail around the globe on his catamaran, Hugh took a time out from his busy schedule to talk with me on a short walk. In this file Hugh Howey and I discuss: The Importance of Starting Each Day the Right Way Why You Need to Learn to Hit Publish from Anywhere How to Alleviate Your Natural Self-Doubts Why Writing is Like Exercise How Writers Can Fine Tune Their Creativity Where the True Magic of Writing Springs From Why You Should Be a Tourist in Your Own Town Listen to The Writer Files: Writing, Productivity, Creativity, and Neuroscience below ... Download MP3 Subscribe by RSS Subscribe in iTunes The Show Notes Hugh Howey on Amazon The Five Tibetans HughHowey.com Hugh Howey on Twitter Kelton Reid on Twitter The Transcript How Bestselling Author Hugh Howey Writes Voiceover: Rainmaker.FM is brought to you by The Showrunner Podcasting Course, your step-by-step guide to developing, launching, and running a remarkable show. Registration for the course is open August 3rd through the 14th, 2015. Go to ShowrunnerCourse.com to learn more. Kelton Reid: These are The Writer Files, a tour of the habits, habitats, and brains of working writers, from online content creators to fictionists, journalists, entrepreneurs, and beyond. I’m your host, Kelton Reid: writer, podcaster, and mediaphile. Each week, we’ll find out how great writers keep the ink flowing, the cursor moving, and avoid writer’s block. Prolific, bestselling, multi-genre author Hugh Howey took me on a walk through the writer’s process. Mr. Howey is the well-known author of Wool and his self-published dystopian “Silo Series” that has sold over 2 million copies worldwide. His books have been optioned for film and TV by well-known Hollywood director Ridley Scott and Heroes creator Tim Kring, respectively. He’s been a fierce advocate for self-publishing authors and even inked a rare print-only contract with major publishers to retain the electronic rights of his early works. He’s a tireless proponent for the pure craft of writing, and he’s built an intensely loyal following. As he prepares to sail around the globe on his catamaran, he took time out from his busy schedule to talk with me on a short walk. In this file, Huge Howey and I discuss the importance of starting each day the right way, why you need to learn to hit publish from anywhere, how to alleviate your natural self-doubts as a writer, how writers can fine-tune their creativity, where the true magic of writing springs from, and why you should be a tourist in your own town. If you enjoy The Writer Files podcast, please do me a favor and leave a rating or a review in iTunes to help other writers find us. Thanks for listening. Hugh Howey, thank you so much for joining me back on The Writer Files to update your file. Hugh Howey: Hey, it’s good to be back, man. Kelton Reid: So for listeners who may not be familiar with you and your story, who are you, and what is your area of expertise as a writer? Hugh Howey: That’s a good question. Who am I? That could be a couple hours there, and I don’t even know if I’d have an answer. People think of me as a writer, but that’s the last six years of my life. Before that I was a vagabond, a sailor and lived on the water, and spent 10 years as a yacht captain. So that’s kind of who I am. I’ve been an avid reader my whole life, always wanted to write a novel. When I finally finished a book, I got hooked on that and started writing a lot, and my seventh work, Wool, took off and allowed me to write full time. I did that for the last six years or so. I’m going to continue writing, but now, I’m moving back onto a boat to get back to my roots, which is traveling the world by water. Kelton Reid: It’s an amazing story, honestly. You’re a prolific author. You’ve got your hands in a lot of different genres as well. Where can we find your writing for starters? Hugh Howey: The best place is Amazon. I’ve put everything in Kindle Unlimited because I do write a lot, and I like for people who are paying the $9.99 a month or whatever its costs to get to read everything without paying another penny. I do publish a lot, so it works out for me. Also, major bookstores carry Wool usually, or you can get any of my books in. My website s a great just to see what’s available. It’s just HughHowey.com. Kelton Reid: What are you presently working on? Hugh Howey: I’m bouncing back and forth between a fiction series called Beacon 23 and a nonfiction series that’s kind of self-help and travel log called Wayfinding. The Beacon 23 series, it’s weird. It’s another one of those short stories like Wool that took off. I’m telling this story in discrete parts. Each one has its own arc. Kind of like a season of TV, each episode tells a story, and people are eating them up at 99 cents each. And Warren Ellis, who I love to death, a graphic novelist and author, has become a fan of the series, and my film agent’s getting calls about the film rights. So it’s having a very similar trajectory that Wool had, which is kind of weird for lightning to strike twice like this. Kelton Reid: That’s amazing, and your sci-fi series, The “Silo Series,” is amazing. That’s the one that Wool kind of kicked off, right? And now Sand, the dystopian sci-fi novel that you wrote, is actually being adapted, is that right? Did I read that correctly? Hugh Howey: Yeah. It got picked up by Imperative. They re the team behind the relaunch of the Heroes TV show, “Heroes Reborn,” and I just met with them at Comic-Con and got to spend a couple days hanging out with them. Just a great group of people. I’m flattered when someone options something for film, but Wool has been with Ridley Scott for a couple years. They’ve written screenplays for that. It’s just really flattering. But however excited people are and they say they really want to make something, I don’t get my hopes up. I don’t assume that anything is going to go into production. I’d rather be surprised when it does than sit there and think about it and hound my agent for updates. It’s just better for me to keep writing. Kelton Reid: Absolutely. So let’s talk about writing and your productivity a little bit. How much time per day would you say you’re reading or doing research for projects? The Importance of Starting Each Day the Right Way Hugh Howey: Research, I don’t do direct. My research is very indirect. I read because I want to learn. I’ve been like that my whole life. I mentioned when I read nonfiction, I read veraciously. So all of what I read ends up getting distilled, mixed up, and then ends up in my writing. So even though I mostly write fiction, I want to write about the human condition and satirize popular culture and things like that. That comes from all my nonfiction reading. Probably two or three hours a day I spend reading, and some days, I can have an eight-hour day of just reading. The same thing with writing. I generally try to do two or three hours a day of writing, and sometimes I’ll have an eight-, 10-, or 12-hour day of writing where I pound out 5,000, 7,000 words in a day. Kelton Reid: Before you get into a writing session, do you have any pre-game rituals or practices? Hugh Howey: Yeah, but I don’t know if it has anything to do with the writing. I just live a healthy lifestyle. When I get up in the morning, I have a healthy breakfast of some yogurt with some raisins in it. Then I try to do the same thing every day, so I’m not having to make decisions. I’m not taxing my brain. It’s the same reason I think that I wear the same T-shirt and cargo shorts every single day and flip-flops. I do an exercise routine called The Five Tibetans, which is like yoga. It wakes me up better than a cup of coffee. It only takes about 10 minutes, and it really keeps you in shape. Then I open my laptop and start into whatever story I’m in progress. Kelton Reid: Nice. Do you have a most productive time of day and/or locale for getting into a session? Hugh Howey: Yeah, the morning for me. I’m most creative in the morning, but it’s also a matter of getting a lot of work done before I start checking email and get distracted with the business of writing. That doesn’t just come from self-publishing. I’ve published with traditional publishers as well. Having success as a writer means doing a lot of non-writing activities, supplemental stuff. Kelton Reid: Yeah. Do you have a favorite place to write? Why You Need to Learn to Hit Publish from Anywhere Hugh Howey: No. I can write anywhere. Yesterday, I’m at a family reunion, and I’m sitting at a table with a lot of conversations, a lot going on. I wrap up a work and hit publish and published right there from a dining room table. I’ve published while up on a panel. Right before the panel started, I was putting the finishing touches on a piece. They were doing introductions, and I’m hitting publish under the table. Sitting on curbs, waiting on taxis, on a book tour — Sand, that entire novel I wrote while in Europe on book tour. I wrote that book across nine different countries without a word of that rough draft written in the U.S. That’s the dedication you have to have. You can’t have an excuse. “Well, I’m traveling today, so I’m not going to write,” or “I’m doing this today, so it’s okay if I don’t write today.” My attitude is, if you take a day off, you’re giving yourself an excuse to two, or three, or four days off. Kelton Reid: Yeah. So as a world traveler, are you a writer who can stick on headphones? Do you like to listen to music while you write, or do you prefer silence or white noise? How to Alleviate Your Natural Self-Doubts Hugh Howey: I prefer silence or white noise, even crowds like cafes or airports, but I just posted on my website a few songs that I like to listen to when I’m having natural self-doubts that come from being creative. They’re very heavy-hitting songs just to fire you up and get the adrenaline going. So sometimes I use music to motivate me to have a powerful writing session, but I don’t like to listen to music while I’m writing. Kelton Reid: Got it. I think I already know the answer to this next one, but do you believe in writer’s block? Hugh Howey: I don’t. What I believe is that our writing varies in quality depending on what we’ve consumed, our chemical state, what’s going on in our life, how distracted we are, things that we’re anticipating might happen, how well the last writing session went. All of those things increase or decrease our expectation for how good our writing is going to be if we started clicking our keyboard. Sometimes we get into a mindset where we know we’re going to write crap, so we’d rather sit there and not write anything. I think we have to embrace the fact that we’re going to write poorly at times. When we feel that hesitation and that lack of confidence, that should motivate us to really pour the words out, prime the pump, get back to the good stuff, and trust the editing process. Kelton Reid: Absolutely. Are you still working on a MacBook Air? Hugh Howey: Yeah, I prefer the Air. I might be switching to this new Dell laptop they ve got out, which is a smaller form factor. I’ve not been too overwhelmed with the updates to the Mac OS. I’ve played with Windows 10. I kind of liked that, so I might be switching. Kelton Reid: Interesting. So what software do you use most for your writing? Hugh Howey: I usually use Microsoft Word. Kelton Reid: Do you have any organizational hacks since you’re constantly on the move? Hugh Howey: Not really. Organizational hacks. No, I’m sloppy. I have a Word document that I’ll keep open for notes, and I just kind of pile in notes for a series in there. It’s ugly, but it works for me. I’ve used it to write book series with 400,000 plus words across them — a lot of foreshadowing and a lot of plot points and characters — and somehow it all works. I’ve tried using Scrivener and stuff that have those tools built in, but I find myself playing with the tools instead of writing. I’ve never gotten over the learning curve for those things to be useful to me. Kelton Reid: Do you have any best practices for beating procrastination? Why Writing Is Like Exercise Hugh Howey: Yeah. Sit down, and it’s like exercise. There’s so many reasons to not get down on the floor and do push-ups. Your body does not want to be taxed. It doesn’t want to feel that. As soon as you feel it, you have to say, “I’m not going to let that control me. I’m going to choose what I’m going to do with my life and not let my inherent laziness, my desire to conserve calories, or whatever is going on in our bodies that makes us want to curl up in a ball and not attack the task before us.” Open up the document, turn off the Internet, and start writing. If you’re not sure what happens next in the story, skip to the part of the story that you know is going to happen. Start writing there. Just start writing about your character, or if you know the next scene takes place in a bar, just describe the bar. You’re going to delete every bit of that, but describe every facet of that bar — what the jukebox looks like, what the street noise is, every weird detail that aren’t going to end up in your story. As soon as you start doing that, you’re going to find that you’re able to get back into the flow of the plot. Kelton Reid: Very nice. My final question on workflow stuff is how do you unplug at the end of a long day? Hugh Howey: My favorite thing is to get by the water or on the water. Go to the beach. If I can have a nice meal looking out over the water, if I can go for a swim or take a paddle board out, anything like that energizes me. Just chill out with a book and read. Kelton Reid: Just a quick pause to mention that The Writer Files is brought to you by the Rainmaker Platform, the complete website solution for content marketers and online entrepreneurs. Find out more and take a free 14-day test drive at Rainmaker.FM/Platform. So let’s talk about creativity. How do you define creativity in your own words? How Writers Can Fine Tune Their Creativity Hugh Howey: I think creativity is not so much as creating something that’s never been done before. It’s the free expression of a combination of things that we’ve absorbed from elsewhere. To be absolutely creative is almost to be avant-garde, to do stuff that’s almost absurd. There’s some value in that, absurdity for the sake of complete newness or shock value. For me, true creativity is seeing the individual human like a filter, like a coffee filter. You push all this stuff through: popular culture, life experiences, upbringing, genetic makeup. What drips out is the way they distill all that knowledge and all those experiences. It’s different for every person, and people are creative in ways they don’t even appreciate. The way they approach their work, they might think that’s not creativity. There are things that they do in their workflow, how they organize their desk space, or how they organize their day — I see those as expressions of creativity. I think everyone is creative in some ways, and we need to figure out what ways we enjoy being creative and do more of it. It gets us in tune with ourselves. Kelton Reid: When do you feel the most creative? Hugh Howey: After I’ve written something. So when I’m writing, I tend to feel like it’s kind of garbage, but when I’m done with the writing session, I go back and read some stuff. Or I’m revising. That’s when I feel like I don’t completely hate what I’ve just done. Kelton Reid: Do you have a creative muse at the moment? Hugh Howey: Not really. I’m going through a lot of change in my life right now, and some of it is very stressful. It’s sad that that’s inspiration, but the best stuff I’ve ever written has been dealing with huge losses of my life. I’m generally an upbeat, perfectly happy, even-keel person, but the best stuff I’ve ever written is when I’ve lost people in my life or lost a beloved pet. I guess that the tortured artist cliché, there’s something to that because you tap into an emotional well that’s difficult to tap into when you’re just content and happy. Kelton Reid: In your own words, what do you think makes a writer truly great? Where the True Magic of Writing Springs From Hugh Howey: Having read a lot. Actually before having read a lot, I would say having lived and experienced a lot. I think you have to fill yourself with knowledge and experiences before you have something really wonderful to write. What we end up writing is kind of a greatest hits collection of our ideas, our thoughts, and our vocabulary. In order to have a greatest hits collection, you have to have a huge body of work that you absorb. It’s somewhat like photography, something I’m passionate about. The secret to photography is learning lighting and the controls of the camera and framing and all these tricks of the trade, but the magic comes from taking thousands of photos and then having an eye that recognizes the dozen in there that are truly spectacular. When we write, we have thousands of ideas, thousands of word choices, thousands of word combinations and sentence flow options, and the quality of a writer and the skill comes from knowing out of those thousands, which handful are viable options. Kelton Reid: Do you have a few favorite authors that you’re reading at the moment? Hugh Howey: I tend not to follow writers. I tend to follow subjects. Nonfiction makes it difficult to follow writers. Rick Adkins wrote a World War II Trilogy that I really liked, and I’ll read anything that Bill Bryson writes. I just read McCullough’s biography of the Wright Brothers. I’ve really enjoyed his work, but it’s rare for me to find … Stephen Pinker is a guy who, anything he writes, I’ll pick up and dabble. With nonfiction, it’s not like with a fiction author where you’re going to get a book a year. You might be likely to get one every five years. It’s hard to follow an individual author like that. Kelton Reid: Yeah. Well, I found your original writer’s file to be infinitely quotable, but do you have a favorite quote yourself? Hugh Howey: I don’t know. One that I’ve come back to time and again — and it’s so cliché, everyone uses it — but maybe there’s a reason for that. I’ll get the exact quote wrong, but I’ll paraphrase. I’m pretty sure Hemingway said it. “Writing is easy. You just sit down in front of your typewriter and bleed.” I love that because it tells me that writing was difficult for him, and it reminds me that it’s not supposed to be easy. The same thing is true of exercise, and diet, and anything worth doing in life. We should look for the things that are most difficult and then attack those things. We tend to live the path of least resistance. That’s defined to preserve calories, preserve our energy, and find ways to not tackle long-term goals and be fulfilled deeply in life. I found fulfillment through listening to my body, figuring out what it least wants to do, and then doing that thing. That quote kind of inspires me to do that. Kelton Reid: Nice. Couple fun questions for you. Do you have a favorite literary character? Hugh Howey: That’s a good question. Maybe growing up I loved The Stainless Steel Rat. That character really resonated with me. Kelton Reid: If you could choose one author from any era to sit down and have an all-expense paid dinner, who would you choose? Hugh Howey: Oh, it’d be William Shakespeare for sure. Kelton Reid: I’m always curious about this answer, but why Shakespeare? Hugh Howey: I like to tell everybody, “Hey, it was definitely William Shakespeare’s. Stop with the theories. I know for a fact it was him.” Kelton Reid: Do you have a writer’s fetish? Any good luck charms or any weird collectibles? Hugh Howey: No. All I really need is my laptop. I do feel kind of naked if I don’t have it with me. I grab it in the middle of the night to make notes. I try to carry it with me everywhere. I will say, as a reader, that I’ve upgraded my Kindle to the Kindle Voyage, and that’s such a sexy reading device. I feel I do not like not having that thing with me. With that in my pocket, I’ve got every book that I own and access to every ebook out there. I fetishize the heck out of that thing. Kelton Reid: Nice. So who or what has been your greatest teacher? Hugh Howey: Literally, Dr. Dennis Goldsbury, my English professor at the College of Charleston. I was a physics major when I had him for a prereq and loved his class so much that I made sure I had my 102 from him the next semester. Then I asked him what he was teaching the semester after that. He was the hardest teacher I’ve ever had. Getting an A from him was the most rewarding challenge in my collegiate career. I started taking all of his classes, and soon he was like, “Look, you have to be an English major to take these 4000-level classes.” I probably would’ve written something at some point in my life anyway because it’s been a dream of mine for a long time, but I wouldn’t be the writer that I am today without his guidance. Kelton Reid: Can you offer any advice to fellow writers on how to keep the ink flowing and the cursor moving? Why You Should Be a Tourist in Your Own Town Hugh Howey: Yeah. What are you doing to have novel experiences? Without that, you’re just not going to be inspired to write. Find a way to be a tourist in your hometown. Look at towns that are a short drive away, and get out on the weekend and do something. Talk to strangers. If you see an old man with a military service hat on, sit down on the bench beside him, and ask him his story. Observe the world. Carry around a notebook. Describe strangers. Describe settings. Writing is not something you do in front of your laptop. Writing is something that you do all day long, and the laptop is just the place where you dump that out. Kelton Reid: Where can fellow scribes connect with you out there? Hugh Howey: You can find me on Twitter at @HughHowey and on my website. Once I’m on the boat in another two and a half weeks, I’ll be moving onto the catamaran, and I’ll be at sea a lot. I’ll hopefully still be able to keep in touch when I’m in port, but I don’t know how much I’ll be accessible like I have been for the last five or six years. Kelton Reid: That’s really exciting. Where is your first destination? Hugh Howey: Well, I’m starting in St. Francis Bay, South Africa, and my first port of call will be Cape Town. I’ll stay there for a few weeks, and then I’m just going to spend a couple of months total in South Africa. Early October, we’ll head to St. Helena, which is in the middle of the south Atlantic and then Ascension Island, which is where Napoleon was held captive. From there, either Brazil or Barbados and then up the Caribbean chain into the Bahamas and Florida. Kelton Reid: Amazing. Well, we wish you a safe journey, and I’m sure that will spark some more really inspiring stories and writing. So best of luck to you, sir. Hugh Howey: Thanks, man. Well, if something bad happens to me, it’ll probably boost book sales just for a brief moment with any obituary or news mention. My heirs have that to look forward to. Kelton Reid: Well, I’ll knock on wood over here, and thank you so much for stopping by. Hugh Howey: All right. Thanks, man. Kelton Reid: Take care. Thanks for tuning into the show. In the words of Mr. Howey himself, you are a startup. The next great business is you. For more episodes of The Writer Files and all of the show notes or to leave us a comment or a question, drop by WriterFiles.FM. You can always chat with me on Twitter, @KeltonReid. Cheers. See you out there.

Für die aktuelle c't haben wir Android-Smartphones geflasht, gemoddet, gerootet und gebrickt. Im c't uplink sprechen wir unter anderem darüber, warum es sich überhaupt lohnt, sein Smartphone zu rooten oder ein alternatives Android-ROM wie CyanogenMod zu installieren. Daniel Berger und Achim Barczok haben den neuen Kindle Paperwhite getestet und erklären, wie wichtig scharfe Buchstaben und schöne Schriften auf einem E-Book-Reader sind und welche Vorteile der Kindle Voyage jetzt noch gegenüber dem Paperwhite hat. PC-Flüsterer und Hardware-Experte Christof Windeck hat für c't mal wieder PCs und Notebooks aufgeschraubt. Er gibt Tipps, wie man im Fall einer PC-Panne am sinnvollsten auf Fehlersuche geht und welche Pannen man beim Pannendienst verursachen kann. Spoiler: Nein, den Staubsauger an Notebook-Lüfter halten ist nicht so schlau. Mit dabei: Christof Windeck (ciw, +Christof Windeck), Daniel Berger (dbe, @Berger), Hannes Czerulla (hcz, @Hannibal4885) und Achim Barczok (acb, @achim)

Für die aktuelle c't haben wir Android-Smartphones geflasht, gemoddet, gerootet und gebrickt. Im c't uplink sprechen wir unter anderem darüber, warum es sich überhaupt lohnt, sein Smartphone zu rooten oder ein alternatives Android-ROM wie CyanogenMod zu installieren. Daniel Berger und Achim Barczok haben den neuen Kindle Paperwhite getestet und erklären, wie wichtig scharfe Buchstaben und schöne Schriften auf einem E-Book-Reader sind und welche Vorteile der Kindle Voyage jetzt noch gegenüber dem Paperwhite hat. PC-Flüsterer und Hardware-Experte Christof Windeck hat für c't mal wieder PCs und Notebooks aufgeschraubt. Er gibt Tipps, wie man im Fall einer PC-Panne am sinnvollsten auf Fehlersuche geht und welche Pannen man beim Pannendienst verursachen kann. Spoiler: Nein, den Staubsauger an Notebook-Lüfter halten ist nicht so schlau. Mit dabei: Christof Windeck (ciw, +Christof Windeck), Daniel Berger (dbe, @Berger), Hannes Czerulla (hcz, @Hannibal4885) und Achim Barczok (acb, @achim)

Für die aktuelle c't haben wir Android-Smartphones geflasht, gemoddet, gerootet und gebrickt. Im c't uplink sprechen wir unter anderem darüber, warum es sich überhaupt lohnt, sein Smartphone zu rooten oder ein alternatives Android-ROM wie CyanogenMod zu installieren. Daniel Berger und Achim Barczok haben den neuen Kindle Paperwhite getestet und erklären, wie wichtig scharfe Buchstaben und schöne Schriften auf einem E-Book-Reader sind und welche Vorteile der Kindle Voyage jetzt noch gegenüber dem Paperwhite hat. PC-Flüsterer und Hardware-Experte Christof Windeck hat für c't mal wieder PCs und Notebooks aufgeschraubt. Er gibt Tipps, wie man im Fall einer PC-Panne am sinnvollsten auf Fehlersuche geht und welche Pannen man beim Pannendienst verursachen kann. Spoiler: Nein, den Staubsauger an Notebook-Lüfter halten ist nicht so schlau. Mit dabei: Christof Windeck (ciw, +Christof Windeck), Daniel Berger (dbe, @Berger), Hannes Czerulla (hcz, @Hannibal4885) und Achim Barczok (acb, @achim)

Apple has released the specifications for third party's to develop Apple Watch bands so we're expecting a flood of them, LG has a range of new Monitors and Projectors, Pizza tracking via GPS from Dominos, Vodafone doubles your data, Kindle Voyage review, Star Wars Day and Stephen's Minute Reviews

Apple has released the specifications for third party's to develop Apple Watch bands so we're expecting a flood of them, LG has a range of new Monitors and Projectors, Pizza tracking via GPS from Dominos, Vodafone doubles your data, Kindle Voyage review, Star Wars Day and Stephen's Minute Reviews

本期话题包括 YotaPhone、Voice-O-Graph、苹果的新广告「The Song」、音乐开源的可能、以及科幻小说家 Neal Stephenson 加盟 Magic Leap 任「首席未来学家」。欢迎参加《IT 公论》二〇一五新年特别活动，赢取《Indie Game: The Movie》特别版拷贝一份！ 每月三十元，支持李如一和 Rio 把《IT 公论》做成最好的科技播客。请访问 itgonglun.com/member。 圣诞与新年假期马上就要开始了，不管您会在接下来的一个星期里继续努力工作，还是出外游玩充电，李如一和 Rio 都提前祝您节日快乐。为了感谢你们对《IT 公论》的支持，我们准备了特别抽奖活动。在 2015 年 1 月 1 日正午，我们会从参与活动的会员中随机抽选五位，向他们每人赠送一份《Indie Game: The Movie》特别版拷贝。《Indie Game: The Movie》系史上第一部关于游戏制作的纪录片。加拿大导演 Lisanne Pajot 与 James Swirsky 采访了《时空幻境》（ Braid ）、《FEZ》、《超级肉肉哥》（ Super Meat Boy ）等几个著名独立游戏的创作者，记录了他们背后的艰辛、快乐与荣耀。如果你是创业者、音乐家、漫画家、导演、小说家、或任何打算自己做点东西的人，《Indie Game: The Movie》都会让你产生巨大共鸣。 我们将把影片直接以链接形式发送到您的会员邮箱。您可以在线观看，亦可下载高清与标清版本永久收藏。影片为英语对白，繁体中文字幕。参与抽奖的方法请看这个页面。 本期的听众反馈（itgonglun@ipn.li）相当精彩。在 131 期里我们说过软件卖的是使用权，不是所有权。这让一位姓臧的听众想到了《哈利·波特》中妖精贩售的宝剑： 格兰芬多宝剑是戈德里克·格兰芬多在世时从妖精那里买的一把宝剑。这把剑一代代流传下去，人类天经地义地认为它的处置权属于自己，然而妖精认为当时是把这把剑的 「使用权」卖给了「那一个人」，那人死后，这把剑理应回到妖精手中（脑补妖精大喊「Your license has expired! 」）……听起来，人们对于软件应该有妖精对于所属物的觉悟。 听众 Max 指出，德州仪器出品的科学计算器和图形计算器在功能上还是远超 iOS 上的计算器 app: TI-83 Plus, TI-84 Plus 和 TI-89 等计算器不仅集成了数学和统计学等领域的常用公式/模型计算，可以数值求导、积分、解方程、画图，甚至还可以自己编写简易的程序……整个按键布局和设计也更符合复杂计算的需求。个人感觉对于专业学生/工作而言，iOS 上的计算 app 还是很难取代 TI 系列。目前见过唯一能接近 TI-8x 系列的计算应用就是 WolframAlpha，但它是一个基于网络的解决方案，所以也不能作为 TI-8x 系列的替代品。 我们发现德州仪器自己倒是有做一款名叫 TI-Nspire 的 iPad app，售价三十美元。不过如 Rio 在上期节目中所说，移动设备「不能带进考场」还是个硬伤。 法律工作者山葵酱告诉我们，App Store 的「执法模式」其实跟中国春秋时期的执法模式非常类似。 与 App Store 的「执法模式」最为相似的，可能是春秋时期郑国在「子产铸刑书)」之前的「执法模式」，即「议事以制，不为刑辟」，翻译过来是「衡量事情的轻重来断定罪行，不制定刑法」的意思。我们一般称之为「秘密法」时期。而子产将刑律铸刻在鼎上，是古代中国第一次「公开」发布成文法，开创了公布法律的历史。因此「子产铸刑书」也成了中国法制史上的重要里程碑。   法律居然可以是保密的、不公开的，这在今天看来也许非常荒谬。但是，当时的主流思想认为，法律不公开有以下好处： 一、平民会对法律和统治阶级怀有敬畏之心；不可知的法律更像一种信仰，而非规则。 二、平民不知道法律的具体内容，所以会尽量谨慎地说话和行动，以免因自己的言行触犯了法律而被惩罚。 三、平民如果知道了法律的具体内容，就可能会利用法律的空白或漏洞，做坏事却不受惩罚。 四、统治阶级可以灵活地解释和使用法律，在裁判案件时具体情况具体分析。 假如哪天苹果要出 App Store Review Guidelines 的中文版，这四条几乎可以直接拿来用了。（笑） 一台名叫 YotaPhone 的俄罗斯手机一直令 Rio 感到兴味盎然。它的卖点说来简单：除了正面的五寸 AMOLED 屏幕外，背面还有一块四点七寸的电子墨水（e-ink）屏幕，而且它可以跑完整的安卓系统。用过 Kindle 的人都知道，这样的手机让你不再担心电池续航力。不过虽然《The Verge》的测评认为 YotaPhone 的双屏不只是噱头，但 555 英镑（约 5396 人民币）的售价用来购买续航力和视力保护功能，恐怕还是要犹豫一下。Rio 那么心动不还是没有下手吗？ 说到电子墨水屏幕，我们推荐一中一英两篇关于 Kindle Voyage 的评论。龚民兄的在这里，Jeff Atwood（StackOverflow 创始人）的在这里。 你知道什么是 Voice-O-Graph 吗？Neil Young 今年的新专辑《A Letter Home》就是用它录的。那是一种流行于 1930 至 1970 年代的美国的类似电话亭的东西，走进去投个硬币，对着麦克风唱首歌或说两句话，它就能把你的声音刻录成一张黑胶唱片吐出来。在战争时期，Voice-O-Graph 成了人们互通音讯的热门工具。苹果为圣诞和新年假期准备的新广告「The Song」近日开播，在视频中他们聪明地把自家的音频软件 GarageBand 比之于当代的 Voice-O-Graph，表达了对美国优良传统价值的继承。不过 Voice-O-Graph 的使用难度可远远低于 GarageBand，它在今天的对应物难道不应该是语音 IM 吗？ 纽约 Betaworks 孵化的创业公司 Blend.io 立志要成为「音乐家的 GitHub」。你可以把自己的 Ableton Live, Pro Tools, Logic Pro, GarageBand 等工程文件上传，供其他音乐家下载。最近 Blend.io 更推出了 Blend Market，你可以把自己写出的旋律或节奏型直接卖给其他音乐家（通过 Stripe 支付）。李如一和 Rio 对于音乐究竟能否开源一事私下有过很多讨论。和很多人的想像相反，软件代码的每一次编译并不是完全相同的。虽然在很多情况下这种不同可以忽略不计，但古典音乐经典曲目的多个录音版本之间的区别又何尝不是如此？而一首爵士乐作品的两个版本的关系则可以比之于 GitHub 上的「原版」软件和「fork」出来的软件。 常识告诉我们，在音乐领域，人们对原创性的要求比软件界高。假唱和抄袭曲子的例子固然不少，但至少那是「丑闻」。而软件工程师不是总半开玩笑地说「能拷贝代码就不要自己写代码」吗？「复用」在软件工程领域不但不是丑闻，反而是被鼓励的「不重复制造轮子」的行为。另一方面，即便在人们不知开源为何物的时代，创造性地复用甚至挪用他人旋律也是作曲家们常干的事。前卫摇滚乐团 Emerson, Lake & Palmer 以及日本电子音乐先锋冨田勲重新演绎穆索尔斯基的《图画展览会》就是例子。在本期节目里我们播出了说唱组合 2 Live Crew 对库布里克电影《全金属外壳》（*Full Metal Jacket*）里越南妓女对白的采样。但采样、致敬和抄袭的界线在哪，对于法律界一直是个难题。和音乐家相比，软件工程师对于复用他人劳动成果的态度更加简单纯粹，这应该是软件开源能够获得认可的心理认知基础。 老牌程序员网站 Dr. Dobb 由于广告收入被迫关站，深度硬件测评站 AnandTech 被 Purch 收购。这两件事背后反映的共同现象是新媒体生态圈的变化。广告主对于传统的桌面网站广告兴趣渐缺已不是新闻，更有趣的是 AnandTech 主编 Ryan Smith 在博客中提到的现象：今年有越来越多经营严肃和深度内容的新媒体站获得了大笔投资，说明创业者和投资人对新媒体的想像都已经超越了那些走三俗路线的短平快产品。显然，Smith 指的是 Buzzfeed、Vox、Quartz 这些媒体，以及 a16z 这样的风投公司。 我们之前在节目中提过的超科幻虚拟现实创业公司 Magic Leap 最近把科幻小说家、《雪崩》（*Snow Crash*）的作者 Neal Stephenson 请去当「首席未来学家」。关于 Magic Leap 可以简单用两句话概括：一、他们要做的是消费者级别的全息影像生成技术，也就是「没有屏幕的屏幕」，如果需要直观的感受，可以随时去他们的网站首页看那个动画；二、这是一帮做内容、懂内容的人在做产品。打个比方，相当于一家发明了摄像技术，同时自己又拍电影的公司。 虚拟现实令人着迷的地方在于，它有潜力重新定义肉体和数字空间的关系。不用问 Ray Kurzweil 的奇点（Singularity）到来时身体怎么办，先问问牺牲身体健康、坐在电脑和游戏机前养线上 ID 的那些人是怎么想的好了。如果像 Oculus 和 Magic Leap 这样的公司成了虚拟现实 / 隐在电脑（Ubiquitous computing）时代的苹果，你是不是应该现在开始健身了？ 最近我们读的一些文章 专家犯错，通常是因为他们只是旧版世界的专家 在 Napster 之前，我们有 IUMA Ben Thompson 真是超级看好 Uber 和 Bitcoin 啊，而他的论点总是清晰有力

No guest this episode, but thoughts on my recent trip to a Lamaze class, my experience at a Harrisburg solidarity demonstration against racism and police brutality, and a review of the Kindle Voyage.

In episode 020, Mark talks about his Fujitsu ScanSnap, which enables quick and convenient archival book scans, and Jason reviews Amazon's latest e-reader, the Kindle Voyage.

Naoya Itoさんをゲストに迎えて、iPad Air 2, Kindle Voyage, Google Computing Live, AWS re:Invent, Aurora, GitHub Enterprise などについて話しました。 Show Notes Please welcome Skype for Web (Beta) - Skype Blogs Apple - iPad - Compare iPad models dankogaiメソッド AnandTech | Apple A8X's GPU - GXA6850, Even Better Than I Thought Nexus 9 vs. iPad Air 2: A (Mostly) Subjective Comparison Kindle Voyage A Voyage to 2009 - Marco.org New ニンテンドー 3DS Google Container Engine - Google Cloud Platform GoogleCloudPlatform/kubernetes Managed VMs - Google App Engine - Google Cloud Platform Amazon EC2 Container Service (ECS) - Container Management for the AWS Cloud Amazon Aurora - New Cost-Effective MySQL-Compatible Database Engine for Amazon RDS Aurora lets you simulate failures using SQL The Netflix Tech Blog: Introducing Dynomite - Making Non-Distributed Databases, Distributed AWS Lambda - Run Code in the Cloud New AWS Tools for Code Management and Deployment .NET Core is Open Source - .NET Blog Mobile App Development & App Creation Software - Xamarin .NET Foundation Welcome, New Emacs Developers | Random Thoughts GNU Emacs、プロジェクトのソースコード管理ツールをBazaarからGitへ移行させる Go team member here. I've used five different code review tools, and Github is ... | Hacker News Reviewable - GitHub Code Reviews Done Right GitHub Enterprise - The best way to build and ship software Octocat Ad

Continuing the trend of starting the show off with some sports talk, Ryan and Carlos discuss life in the post-baseball world and the Lakers’ dismal start to the season. They do also talk about some technology news (that is what the show is about, after all) with conversations about Ryan’s broken Kindle Voyage, Nintendo creating games for mobile devices, the Xbox One price cut, Office going free on iOS, the future of Microsoft, the feasibility of a convertible laptop, Carlos’s continuing struggles with Apple Pay, the new Google Maps iOS app, deregistering iMessage, and the fallout of Taylor Swift pulling her music off Spotify.

In the finale of their second two part epic episode, Ryan and Carlos discuss of whether or not the iPhone 6’s bigger screen is an improvement, Ryan’s first impressions of the Kindle Voyage, Google Inbox, Fantastical’s iOS 8 update, Newsify, Instacast 5, the Giants’ World Series matchup against the Royals, and Bose’s relationship with Apple and the NFL. Carlos also finally admits Ryan is right about something.

Naoya Itoさんをゲストに迎えて、Kindle, 計算理論、開発環境、iOS 8, RubyMotion などについて話しました。 Show Notes きゃんちのギークガールになりたくて（KAIZEN platform編） Kindle Voyage アンダースタンディングコンピュテーション Understanding Computation Welcome to the SICP Web Site Ruby嫌いがアンダースタンディングコンピュテーションを読んで はてなキーワードを高速に付与 Aho Corasick 法 - naoyaのはてなダイアリー Apple, Amazon Offer Family Sharing For Digital Media 開発環境のデータをできるだけ本番に近づける | クックパッド開発者ブログ winebarrel/ridgepole Running beta in production by David of Basecamp GitHub db seeding rtomayko/replicate Infrastructure as Code 現状確認会 HBFav 2.7.1 をリリース。iOS 8 に対応しました Average App Store Review Times - iOS App Store - Rolling Annual Trend Graph BugshotKit: Development and Beta Tests Only! Rebuild: 29: Rate My App (Naoya Ito) golang: Where is my favorite helper function for testing? Announcing the public Beta of RubyMotion for Android RubyKaigi 2014 | Inside RubyMotion for Android Genymotion

Topics this week include the arrival on BMW Connected Drive in NZ, tech on the farm, Kindle Voyage, Huawei Ascend P7, Oculus Crescent Bay Virtual Reality prototype, Asus G750, DisplayPort via USB connection along with iOS 8 and iPhone 6 and 6 plus. Running time : 1:01:41

DigitalOutbox Episode 222 DigitalOutbox Episode 222 - Minecraft, iOS8 and U2 Playback Listen via iTunes Listen via M4A Listen via MP3 Shownotes 2:26 - Microsoft is buying Minecraft developer Mojang for $2.5 billion 4:45 - Im leaving Mojang 7:27 - Android One Is Launching in India, but Its a Big Deal for Everyone 10:50 - Heartbroken Phones 4u team braces for up to 5,600 redundancies as company goes into administration 13:30 - Apple reveals 4m pre-orders for iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus in first 24 hours 14:38 - iOS8 launch 25:59 - Amazon unveils the £169 Kindle Voyage, a premium e-reader with haptic page-turning 29:16 - Amazon introduces the next-gen Fire HDX 8.9 tablet with the latest Fire OS 4 Sangria 31:37 - Destiny becomes UK's biggest ever new game launch 32:45 - People hate U2 Picks Ian Humble Indie Bundle 12 - Pay What You Want - SteamWorld Dig - Hammerwatch - Gunpoint - Beat the Average - Papers, Please - Luftrausers - Gone Home - More to come... - Pay at Least $10 - Prison Architect (Alpha Access)

Vendas do Android One; Amazon confirma novo Kindle Voyage; Nova versão do Office já está em testes; Alta demanda dos iPhones 6; Fusão da Oi com a Portugal Telecom; Microsoft confirma demissão de 2,1 mil funcionários

Apple’s fall event may have been a week ago, but news related to the event is just getting started. In a jam packed episode, Ryan and Carlos discuss NFC only being available for Apple Pay, Apple Watch battery life and pricing, iPhone 6 wi-fi calling and VOLTE support (or lack thereof) on US carriers, the U2 album fiasco, and iOS 8 first impressions. They also chat about the problem with Samsung’s new ads, Microsoft’s $2.5B acquisition of Mojang, Windows 9’s new desktop UI, and the Kindle Voyage.

Apple libera iOS 8 gratuitamente; Microsoft deve demitir mais 5 mil funcionários; Big Data deve crescer 6x mais que TI; Valores do Apple Watch; Kindle Voyage; Google pode cancelar Android Silver.