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Instapaper’s Copyright Infringement
Marco Arment talks about his app and the iOS App economy on NPR’s Planet Money. I have mixed feelings on Instapaper. On one hand I love it. Instapaper provides a genuinely useful service and lets me read articles on my … Continue reading
“Serving at the pleasure of the King” by Jeff Attwood
Attwood writes about how Apple puts its third-party developers at risk by incorporating their features into its products.1 Attwood cites Instapaper and Safari’s Reader as an example of how Apple rips off indie devs. Attwood argues that Apple gets a … Continue reading
Using Automator to Send Instapaper To The Kindle
You could have Instapaper do this automatically, but if you’re on a sporadic schedule (you don’t want it just weekly, or daily, but with some flexibility) you can make an Automator workflow to download the .mobi, email it to your … Continue reading
How is Instapaper still around?
I wonder why the Times et al. haven’t complained about Instapaper yet. It might not technically infringe on copyright, but magazines and newspapers can’t be too happy about an app that strips out all the advertising from their articles…as much … Continue reading
Instapaper: The Kindle Killer App
The buzz is that the Kindle will die after the iPad is released. I’m not so sure. I think there might be room for both, simply because I think the iPad will not be a good reading device. I don’t … Continue reading