bouncingsoul

I consider Digg Reader a perfect web app. It's simple, free, featureful and has a stark beauty to it

Like everyone else, I had to find a replacement for Google Reader, so I tried a lot of them (even paid ones). Digg Reader was the only one that exactly matched how I used Google Reader — and in fact, I like it even better now.

Not looking forward to finding a replacement.

ATMs have the same problem with viewing angles. It's funny with those too because that interface will always be used at extreme angles: From above (potentially) when a person is standing at an ATM, from straight on if they happen to match the ATM's screen height, and from below if someone is sitting in their car.

A good case for touch screens, where the label is the interaction point.

I will miss this one. Used it for at least 4 years.

Other than wanting a highlighting feature, I've been completely satisfied with this abandoned product (last update at least 2 years ago?). They nailed it for me, especially with design aesthetics.

And it had the absolute best send-to-Kindle parser: It sent an actual personal document, not a Kindle magazine, and they even managed to include article images most of the time (which other services struggle with).

:'(

The whole pricing/platform debate seems like a red herring.

> Brent took a job at the excellent Omni Group in September 2014, and from that point onward the writing was on the wall. We could have, and probably should have, shut Vesper down a year ago. But we loved it too much. Or at least I did.

> I even cheat, personally, and run Vesper on my Mac in the iOS Simulator

1. There was only one developer in the company.

2. That developer got a day job (quit).

3. Gruber and the musician partner are stranded with an app they can't update and a Mac app they can't finish on their own.

Gruber clearly loves Vesper. He runs it in the freaking simulator. I really doubt he needed to see huge financial returns to keep at it.

It sounds like the real lesson is: It sucks when your technical cofounder quits.

Yes! I did notice there wasn't a "This app will have access to…" screen when I signed up (I've never seen that before), but that just made me assume they were asking for like the absolute minimal permissions possible or something.

"[random game on a whim] has Full Access to your Google Account" is scary

I interpreted that not as he's going against lawyers' advice but rather that he's speaking now in case the near future involves a gag order settlement

I suggest Arq. You're incorrect about not backing up the whole computer: You can tell Arq to back up an entire drive.