The space between code and business. 20+ years of experience in digital entertainment, writing about engineering, product thinking, and whatever I'm learning right now.https://jeff-sawyer.com/https://jeff-sawyer.com/blog/7-things-i-keep-in-mind/https://jeff-sawyer.com/blog/7-things-i-keep-in-mind/It's been a little nuts not having a normal day job lately. The unemployment checks are now steadily flowing in and it's great that I have enough comi...Fri, 06 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMThttps://jeff-sawyer.com/blog/a-fresh-start-with-astro/https://jeff-sawyer.com/blog/a-fresh-start-with-astro/Why I rebuilt jeff-sawyer.com with Astro and why I'm getting back to writing about software, side projects, business, and investing.Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://jeff-sawyer.com/blog/apple-undercuts-palm/https://jeff-sawyer.com/blog/apple-undercuts-palm/The Palm Pre was just released on Saturday at $199. Reports seem to be consistently saying that Palm was successful in selling the quantities that the...Mon, 08 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMThttps://jeff-sawyer.com/blog/backup-that-console/https://jeff-sawyer.com/blog/backup-that-console/I recently took my PS3 over to my parents along with the whole Rock Band get up to play with my family on Christmas Eve. Everyone had a great time pla...Wed, 31 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMThttps://jeff-sawyer.com/blog/brite-view-cinematube-1080p-hd-review/https://jeff-sawyer.com/blog/brite-view-cinematube-1080p-hd-review/I've grown tired of hooking up the laptop to the HDTV whenever I want to watch anything from the computer. The remote never cuts it and even though I...Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMThttps://jeff-sawyer.com/blog/casual-gaming-the-end-of-the-60-pc-game/https://jeff-sawyer.com/blog/casual-gaming-the-end-of-the-60-pc-game/You hear it from XBox 360 and Sony PlayStation fans all the time. 'If you're spending $60 for a game that's not on a high-end XBox 360, PS3, PSP, or i...Wed, 02 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMThttps://jeff-sawyer.com/blog/co-op-now-on-revision3/https://jeff-sawyer.com/blog/co-op-now-on-revision3/I was disappointed when I heard that 1up.com laid off the guys that put together The 1up show. It really was one of the only reasons I ever went to [1...Tue, 10 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMThttps://jeff-sawyer.com/blog/goodbye-analog/https://jeff-sawyer.com/blog/goodbye-analog/Today marks the end of Analog TV broadcasting and the final switch to digital only broadcasting in the USA otherwise known as the DTV transition. The...Fri, 12 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMThttps://jeff-sawyer.com/blog/goodbye-netflix/https://jeff-sawyer.com/blog/goodbye-netflix/## February 2013 Update I felt like I should update since I originally wrote this in 2011... I am back as a happy Netflix customer now (for a few mon...Wed, 13 Jul 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://jeff-sawyer.com/blog/hello-netflix-hello-ota-goodbye-subscription-tv/https://jeff-sawyer.com/blog/hello-netflix-hello-ota-goodbye-subscription-tv/It's been a long time since my last blog post. So much so that I have another blog in draft mode that is completely irrelevant (discussing how the Mac...Wed, 06 Aug 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://jeff-sawyer.com/blog/iphone-30-day-challenge-day-1/https://jeff-sawyer.com/blog/iphone-30-day-challenge-day-1/### Setting a goal For the last several days, I’ve mentioned to a few close friends that I have been reading and learning a little bit about iPhone d...Fri, 30 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMThttps://jeff-sawyer.com/blog/keep-old-stuff-interesting/https://jeff-sawyer.com/blog/keep-old-stuff-interesting/In the world of blogs and news aggregation, people are accustomed to several updates every day from sites they frequent. Some of these sites just aggr...Thu, 04 Nov 2010 00:00:00 GMThttps://jeff-sawyer.com/blog/managedmarks-goes-live/https://jeff-sawyer.com/blog/managedmarks-goes-live/In an effort to avoid too much feature creep and in an effort to get something else web related done for my resume, I've decided to release http://www...Thu, 28 May 2009 00:00:00 GMThttps://jeff-sawyer.com/blog/my-comcastic-experience/https://jeff-sawyer.com/blog/my-comcastic-experience/Comcast and their @comcastcares reps on Twitter have been mentioned as being one of the more progressive at dealing with customer service. Now more an...Sat, 24 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMThttps://jeff-sawyer.com/blog/palm-pre-thoughts-from-around-the-web/https://jeff-sawyer.com/blog/palm-pre-thoughts-from-around-the-web/The Palm Pre was just announced at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) yesterday and there's already been a flood of discussion about the product on t...Fri, 09 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMThttps://jeff-sawyer.com/blog/playstation-home-beta-for-everyone-in-720p/https://jeff-sawyer.com/blog/playstation-home-beta-for-everyone-in-720p/If you know me or have been following me on Twitter for any amount of time, you have most likely noticed that I'm passionate about a few industries an...Fri, 19 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMThttps://jeff-sawyer.com/blog/rollerhome-spots/https://jeff-sawyer.com/blog/rollerhome-spots/### On The Web My friend [Lawrence](http://www.lawpower.net) and I finally launched the [Spots feature](http://www.rollerhome.com/spots) on Rollerhom...Thu, 05 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMThttps://jeff-sawyer.com/blog/the-auto-follow-conundrum/https://jeff-sawyer.com/blog/the-auto-follow-conundrum/To Follow or Not To Follow? If someone follows you, should you check out their profile or ignore it? Should you just follow them regardless of who the...Mon, 11 May 2009 00:00:00 GMThttps://jeff-sawyer.com/blog/the-power-of-convenience/https://jeff-sawyer.com/blog/the-power-of-convenience/As a result of being born in 1979, I've had the pleasure of seeing many of the ups and downs of video games over the last 30 years. I was in Jr. High...Sat, 02 May 2009 00:00:00 GMThttps://jeff-sawyer.com/blog/the-top-ipad-apps-and-accessories-youll-need/https://jeff-sawyer.com/blog/the-top-ipad-apps-and-accessories-youll-need/Apple's updated their website with the simple words, 'iPad is here' and I wanted to welcome in the iPad to the computing world here as well. The Apple...Sat, 03 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMThttps://jeff-sawyer.com/blog/think-different-or-not-so-different/https://jeff-sawyer.com/blog/think-different-or-not-so-different/It's been over a year since this commercial about Windows running on a Mac was all over televisions, but I've yet to walk into an Apple store and see...Mon, 22 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMThttps://jeff-sawyer.com/blog/time-extension/https://jeff-sawyer.com/blog/time-extension/### +72:00:00;00 or however long it takes... So, it's day 31 and my app from the previous post has not yet been submitted to the AppStore. However, I...Mon, 02 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMThttps://jeff-sawyer.com/blog/twitter-and-facebook-phishing-attempt/https://jeff-sawyer.com/blog/twitter-and-facebook-phishing-attempt/The [Twitter Status Blog](http://status.twitter.com) announced today that there is someone trying with a [Twitter.com phishing site](http://status.twi...Sat, 03 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMThttps://jeff-sawyer.com/blog/will-it-blend-3-steps-to-online-marketing-success/https://jeff-sawyer.com/blog/will-it-blend-3-steps-to-online-marketing-success/When you're standing in the store or searching online for a new blender, one company hopes you'll ask yourself 'will it blend?'. Their web video serie...Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT