Helen invokes Andy Rooney to nail the Distraction Culture meme: "Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done."

The Curmudgeon Coder: "The second problem with going higher and higher with abstractions is that, well, sometimes they leak. If your abstraction leaks and something breaks, will you be prepared to fix the problem? For example, Hibernate is an abstraction for mapping a database table row to an object. Is there anyone out there who has NOT pulled their hair out because of a leaky Hibernate abstraction? Its okay to admit it, really it is."

SeisMac: "SeisMac is a Mac OS X Cocoa application that makes your MacBook or MacBook Pro into a seismograph. It access your laptop's Sudden Motion Sensor in order to display real-time, three-axis acceleration graphs."

Via Andrea, MobUp: "Once installed it gives you the possibility to shoot your photo and add title, tags and description, manage sets and groups from the same applications with optimal user experience and to post the shooted photo on your blog."

Helen has some excellent tips on mobile content and video...