Evening Reading: 4/4/14

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Mamas don’t let your babies grow up to be Wake fans.  A profoundly uninspired hire by the most frustrating Athletic Director in the history of college sports.

David Sparks writes about  Dictate+Connect.  It looks very promising.  I also need a mobile solution that will let me send dictation to my secretary and/or Dragon Dictation.  Sounds like this app may do the trick.  On the other hand, David loves him some Omnifocus.  I think Omnifocus is about as fun as digging ditches.  Here’s my rule on apps: if I can’t immediately see at least the potential of an app, it’s either not useful or poorly implemented.  You shouldn’t need to watch a degree worth of screen casts to use a workflow application.

Everybody’s crowing about the 12 million downloads of Microsoft Office.  What matters is the number of people that will stick with it.  What matters more is the number of new subscribers to Office 365.  I remain gymnastically unimpressed with it.

Hey Macworld, how can you not know how completely LAME it is to auto-play videos on your web page?  What’s next, flashing text?  Should we all move back to Geocities?

10 Bigfoot-Type Cryptids You May Not Know About.  Honey Island Swamp Monster, FTW.

All you whippersnappers have no idea how much Netscape Navigator dominated the web back in the day.  I went from Navigator to Firefox to Chrome.  Even though I’m a Mac guy, I don’t use Safari much on the desktop.