June 2007
Blind Light
If I was in London I’d definitely be checking out this exhibition by Antony Gormley. (via Pruned)
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Livin' Large
Pacifica, CA industrial designer Dirk Dieter has a tiny house. It’s 250 square feet. The process of renovating and making the place what he wants has even led to a side business selling the furniture he designed for his own “streamlined living.” Some of the principles that have gone into his redesign and renovation: Sliding doors or curtains instead of swinging doors Flexible...
Cute babies! Amazing photos. Awesome. :D (25 pics)
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Switch Users and Save Space With WinSwitch
Since Mac OS X 10.3 we have had Fast User Switching, the feature which allows more than one use to be logged in to their accounts on a Mac at the same time. In case you’re unfamiliar with the idea, imagine the following: you are busy writing something on your iMac and your wife comes in to the room to check her email. Instead of saving your work and logging out so she can log in to her account to...
Wordpress Plugins & Tutorials: Your Pick
Depending on your needs and professional skills, the choice of an optimal weblog engine can be quite time-consuming. There are many options, and selecting the best engine, you should know exactly what you’d like to have and which level of flexibility you’d like to achieve.
Among dozens of options, Wordpress remains the most popular weblog engine out there. It is simple, powerful, extensible and...
Moving your Parallels virtual machine to another...
Filed under: Software, How-tos, Tips and tricks, AppleRecently, I decided it was time to do a clean install of OSX on my current primary home Mac — a 20” Intel Core Duo iMac named Phoenix. Ordinarily, when I first get a new Mac, I usually wipe it completely and start over with a fresh install, putting in only the things I want — but for some reason never did that with this one....
Hour-Long Spielberg Documentary
Including the charmingly unlikely genesis story of how Spielberg got his first gig at the Universal lot, simply by stepping off the tour bus as well as glimpses of Amblin’ and Fighter Squadron as well as lots of other great nuggest of gold. Warning though, if you, like me, burst into tears at the first sight of E.T., keep the Kleenex’s handy.
Web Domains: Tools To Use, Articles To Read
A thought-out domain name can save you a lot of time and bring you a lot of traffic. Search engines love topic-related domain names and they seem to be an important aspect which is being used to evaluate web-pages. Besides, if you have a popular web-site with enviable reputation, you might be willing to make sure that your visitors don’t get to some surprising web-sites mistyping your site’s...
Review: Dell 30-inch LCD Display
Last week I wrote about my first impressions of the new Santa Rosa Apple MacBook Pro, which I purchased after selling my 24-inch iMac. Since the MacBook Pro is now my main machine I had to spice it up with a larger external LCD. I bought myself an early birthday present, the Dell 3007WFPHC display.
Why Dell and not Apple?
This particular Dell display holds many, many advantages over the...
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Upstart Blogger Modicus 2-Column Version Released
By popular demand (well, a couple of people asked for it), I’ve just released a 2-column version of Upstart Blogger Modicus.
This version adds an Options tab to your WordPress admin which…
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A Simple Playlist for Tranquil Exercise,...
Every Wedneday is Simplicity Day on Zen Habits.
There are times when I want to crank up the metal and get myself pumped up.
But many times, I find that playing some mellow tunes helps me focus, calm myself, and enjoy life much more.
Your mileage may vary, but I would recommend some simple tunes if you’d like to enjoy your exercise (a quiet sunrise or sunset run is wonderful), or be productive,...
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Übermind Releases Aperture to Archive
Übermind has just released Aperture to Archive, a plugin for Aperture that allows you to export images to a compressed format. Aperture to Archive supports four of the most popular Apple and Unix compression formats including: DMG, ZIP, Bzip2, and Gzip2. The compression has no effect on image quality. Note that Aperture to Archive is a BETA product and expires on 7/31/2007.
Working Four Hours A Week
Wouldn’t it be nice to work just four hours a week and then have the rest of the time to do whatever you want? Well Timothy Ferriss thinks it’s possible and he’s got a best selling book that explains how to do just that.
Tim was nice enough to send me an advance reviewer’s copy of his book before it went to press. I was suppose to get the review out before the book hit the stores but I never got...
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Top 10 Baaaddest Emergency Services Vehicles
It’s actually a Top 9 list put together by UK blogger deputydog, but we rounded it out to an even ten; the NYPD will start messing around with the Dodge Charger, pictured above, this summer. Click here to see deputydog’s nine, from a Lambo chase car to a Porsche ambulance. …
The Easiest Way To…
Copywriting is a part of creating a web page that seems even to be neglected by many of the the oh-so-2.0 type sites and services of the new millennium. How hard can it be to come up with a short string of original prose? Too hard, it would seem. I’ve done a quick Google search, uncovering the sheer extent and overuse of a certain cliché.
There really seems to be a surprisingly large number...
"The Kids Are Alright..."
I am planning to construct a one day workshop for young photographers. This workshop, will take place on a small tropical island in the West Indies sometime in July, and will feature myself as a guest speaker. The cost for attendance is free, but you must be shorter than 4 feet to attend.
On my island in the West Indies, there is a really tiny school for the children of students who attend the...
Kiss the Chisel GoodBye: A 3D printer for wood
The Craftsman CompuCarve combines a little Bill Gates and a little Bob Vila. The etcher can carve complicated patterns into wood up to 5 inches high and 14 1/2 inches long. It maybe out of reach for the budding craftsman at $1,899 a pop but for that price you get all the software and cables you need to make all your shop mates jealous.
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Mac 101: Spring-loaded folders
Filed under: Mac 101 Dragging a file from one folder to another is one of the Great Innovations of Modern Times. It’s like the web, or sporks. But sometimes it’s a hassle: what if you want to drag a file to a folder…inside another folder? Dum dum dummm… In comes another Great Innovation of Modern Times: the spring-loaded folder. This allows you to drag a file to another...
Ingo Maurer for less
It would be weird to think of a lighting designer as big as Ingo Maurer having a clearance sale, but since the cut-rate prices at his SoHo, NYC location are being billed as a “renovation sale” we guess it’s different. At any rate it’ll be running from July 5th to 29th, and you can get 50% off of Maurer’s floor samples as they make way for some September...
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21 Fresh, Usable and Elegant Wordpress Themes
Sometimes it’s just amazing to see, how developers use creative approaches to design amazing layouts, based upon a simple Wordpress template. Every now and again we take a look around, and select Wordpress themes, which offer thought-out design, flexible template structure and conform to the basic principles of usability. The choice is big enough, but the search is worth it. We invest our time,...
Leo’s writing, elsewhere: organization, reading,...
I thought I’d share some of the articles I’ve been writing for other blogs, in case you’d like to read them:
Dumb Little Man: 7 Secrets of the Super Organized & 39 Ways to Live, Not Merely Exist
FreelanceSwitch: 10 Essential Steps to Getting to the Top of Your Field
Lifehack.org: 14 Ways to Cultivate a Lifetime Reading Habit
Web Worker Daily: 10 Free Minimalist Word Processors
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A Kinkless Desktop
Filed under: ProductivityEthan Schoonover is the creator of Kinkless GTD, the series of AppleScripts for OmniOutliner that was one of the first serious GTD implementations on the Mac. He has since contributed to the development of the forthcoming OmniFocus. Ethan’s productivity tips go beyind kGTD, however, and he has a five-part series of articles and screencasts called Kinkless Desktop,...
iPhones on the ground!
Filed under: Rumors, iPhoneThe iPhones are on the ground! According to AppleInsider the first shipments of iPhones have arrived from Asia and are under armed guard pending their release on Friday. They note dryly that such guards are normally reserved for diamonds, gold, and such. Apparently Apple is also going so far as to ban cellphones and notebooks with built-in iSights from their back...
Picnic: More Than Just Bonjour
Many Mac users are aware of Bonjour, Apple’s networking technology. Bonjour is a simple utility integrated into OS X which allows for “zero-configuration” networking; very useful for sharing files over a network. Picnic is a utility which simplifies, encapsulates and even enhances this feature into a very polished interface. The app allows you to create shared folders which are then synced between...
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How To: Rapidly Restart Mac Firefox
I am not going to lie, Firefox for OS X is horrible reliability-wise. It crashes all the time, uses exorbitant amounts of physical and virtual RAM, sometimes won’t let you use the address bar… you get the point. The best fix is to restart Firefox whenever it begins acting sluggish, selfishly uses a lot of your CPU, etcetera. Unfortunately, that seems to happen more often than I’d like.
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Google Adsense now do Rounded Corners
Just then I was in my AdSense setup and I noticed that Google now allow rounded edges/corners on their ads. Check it out
And that’s it from me! I did also started the PhotoshopStar Forums though, if you want to go and check them out.
2008 CLK63 AMG Black Series - Know Your Target...
To commemorate the 40th anniversary of AMG-tuned Mercedes, the German automaker has introduced a special edition of the CLK63 call the Black Series. Based on the official Formula 1 safety car, the Black Series CLK63 is powered by a 500HP 6.2 liter V8 capable of propelling the coupe from zero to 60 mph in less than 4 seconds. Top speed is electronically limited to 186 mph. The new AMG coupe...
Cool camper with a garbage truck exterior
Check out the Unicat Terracross, a modular camper rig that looks like, well, a garbage truck. The website for the Klaus-Darr-designed vehicle was clearly written in German and translated into English, leading to sentences like “The optimum layout of the bodies interior was created by the experts for indviduell vehicle manufacturing” (sic), but that doesn’t detract from the...
Printing Light Tables
Printing a Light Table is a great way to knock out a quick printed proof of a layout idea or presentation. Just select File > Print Light Table and the contents of the current Light Table will be printed to fit your specific page size. But Light Table printing is also a way of delivering annotated electronic proofs, thanks to Aperture’s ability to output Light Tables as PDFs.
Say, for example,...
Chair that holds books
You’ve only got room in your studio apartment for a bookshelf or an easy chair. What to do? Pick up one of Nobody&Co’s Bibliochaise chairs, which hold up to “five meters” worth of books. Click here for their site, and check out some of their other innovative products while you’re there; we dig the Piola shelves and the Comfort table. via genartpulse …
OS X: Fandango Movie Theaters widget
Fancy adding a surprisingly useful Dashboard widget to your arsenal? The following looks somewhat familiar (demo’d on Leopard). A little birdie tipped us to let us know the download for the widget can be found here. Input your local zip code and receive instant theater info for movies playing in your area. —- Related Articles at UNEASYsilence: Free screening of Spider-Man 3 at...
NewsLife: News, blog and RSS reading simplified
Filed under: Software, Internet Tools, Blogs In a world of RSS readers that are unveiling major new features and power beyond our wildest dreams, it’s nice to see a new app that’s getting back to basics. NewsLife (beta) from ThinkMac Software (previously the makers of what looks to be the retired NewsMac Pro) is just such an app, as it strips down to the simplified basics of reading...
Backup solutions shootout
Filed under: Software, Internet ToolsThe folks at MacZealots have posted an article that compares several Mac backup solutions, including SuperDuper! (my personal favorite), Synk Backup, Apple’s Backup, iBackup and Crashplan, as well as some speculation on Time Machine. In the end, SuperDuper! and Crashplan came out on top as the bookends of a comprehensive plan: SuperDuper! for a full...
Mini file folder Folderix USB flash drive by Art...
Leave it to Art Lebedev to come up with the most kick-ass USB drive—simply hilarious because it is what it holds. The designers at AL gave themselves a problem: “Flesh out a metaphor.” And so Folderix was born…a nice score for electro-tchotchke collectors and great visual reminder for those who forget exactly what flash drives are supposed to do. via gizmodo …
Alien abduction lamp
You have to love designer Lasse Klein’s Alien Abduction Lamp, currently just a concept. Get this thing into production, Klein! You could probably sell scads at the souvenir shops outside Roswell alone. Our favorite part is that the cow clearly isn’t going to fit into that hole, but they’re sucking him up anyway. via geekologie …