Friday, April 23, 2010

Slate: Linsky and Lammer Love Long-Form

Two writers curate a Web site devoted to feature-length journalism.

Slate profiles the creators (and creation) of Longform.org, a great site to contribute content to your Instapaper account.

Posted at 5:35pm
Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Put This On:

Put This On, Episode 2: Shoes

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This is the debut of Instapaper’s first ad! (At the end. But watch the show. It’s good. Make a “Watch Later” folder on Instapaper and save this there if you don’t have 10 minutes to watch it now.)

And it’s made by Jesse Thorn and Adam Lisagor, who are both awesome.

Posted at 12:19pm Reblogged via putthison
Monday, April 19, 2010
Updates from this weekend: Moved the site to a new, high-end server. It’s now much faster. Improved the Unread page to be even faster, and clarified the existence of direct-to-folder bookmarklets. (Nobody ever knew.) Added a new export-to-CSV feature for backups and data portability if you want. Added iPad-specific Safari bookmarklet installation instructions and redesigned the iPhone app product page to include the iPad. More coming this week.

Updates from this weekend:

  • Moved the site to a new, high-end server. It’s now much faster.
  • Improved the Unread page to be even faster, and clarified the existence of direct-to-folder bookmarklets. (Nobody ever knew.)
  • Added a new export-to-CSV feature for backups and data portability if you want.
  • Added iPad-specific Safari bookmarklet installation instructions and redesigned the iPhone app product page to include the iPad.

More coming this week.

Posted at 12:49am
Friday, April 16, 2010

Reshaping the Night With Instapaper for iPad

Creatively written review.

Posted at 11:31am
Thursday, April 15, 2010
Send to Instapaper for BlackBerry (SMALL PRINT: This is made by a third party, and I neither offer support for it nor accept any liability as a result of you using it. I don’t even own a BlackBerry to test it on. And even if I got a BlackBerry to test it on, I’d have no idea how to use it. I think it’s a bit sad that the point of this is to send pages from your BlackBerry to your computer for later reading, since people with iPhones and Android devices usually want to send pages in the other direction, but I guess reading on the BlackBerry is unappealing. Anyway, if you love your BlackBerry more than I would, this guy made a send-to-Instapaper command for it. Thanks, jemerick!)

Send to Instapaper for BlackBerry

(SMALL PRINT: This is made by a third party, and I neither offer support for it nor accept any liability as a result of you using it. I don’t even own a BlackBerry to test it on. And even if I got a BlackBerry to test it on, I’d have no idea how to use it. I think it’s a bit sad that the point of this is to send pages from your BlackBerry to your computer for later reading, since people with iPhones and Android devices usually want to send pages in the other direction, but I guess reading on the BlackBerry is unappealing. Anyway, if you love your BlackBerry more than I would, this guy made a send-to-Instapaper command for it. Thanks, jemerick!)

Posted at 12:14pm
“Instapaper makes me more productive, everywhere. On my desktop it dismisses distractions. On the go it transmutes idle time to knowledge. It remembers things I forget, but it has never become a new todo entry on my list. If all my apps had this power, I would be utterly unstoppable.” dschoon’s customer review of Instapaper Pro in the App Store
Posted at 8:52am
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
My current server, photo courtesy of Kevin Hazard at The Planet. It’s just the middle one with the label (other people’s servers are pictured above and below), but I just ordered a second one to handle Instapaper’s growth. (I love The Planet. If you need dedicated servers, you should consider hosting your stuff there.)

My current server, photo courtesy of Kevin Hazard at The Planet. It’s just the middle one with the label (other people’s servers are pictured above and below), but I just ordered a second one to handle Instapaper’s growth.

(I love The Planet. If you need dedicated servers, you should consider hosting your stuff there.)

Posted at 5:30pm

Give Me Stuff I Starred

A jQuery plugin to get and embed your starred Instapaper items in your blog theme, by Bill Israel.

Posted at 4:25pm Reblogged via cubicle17
Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Macworld: The eight best iPad apps so far

Names Instapaper as the second one. Thanks!

Posted at 4:13pm Tags: press
Sunday, April 4, 2010

iPad update

Now that I’ve had a brief time to use the iPad, there are a number of interface and behavioral changes I want to make. Specifically:

  • There are a few bugs with installation and the bookmarklet that I’ll fix shortly.
  • The next version will be compatible as far back as OS 3.0 for iPhone users. I mistakenly thought that universal binaries required OS 3.1.3. Fortunately, I’ve been told this isn’t the case.
  • Pagination will support left/right tap zones on the iPad, and the toolbar’s functionality will be redesigned in the interface. (ongoing, not all in the next version)
  • The white interface is too bright, and the text is too bright in Dark mode. It needs a brightness control and more color and/or texture options. (ongoing)
  • The default margins are too small, especially the top and bottom margins in pagination.

Rest assured that I’m working quickly to get these working and will release a free 2.2.3 update shortly. Thanks for your patience. 

Posted at 6:50pm