October 2009
New Fonts: A Graphic Designer’s Perspective →
“Most graphic designers choose the fonts that best fit their projects. Brian Hennings does the opposite: he chooses the projects that best fit the fonts.” Great piece by in-house H&FJ graphic…
Dan Moren on the Tweetie 2.0 Pricing Fuss →
The two key facts to keep in mind: The App Store does not support upgrade pricing.
Many people are really dumb and/or really cheap.
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The Billion Dollar Gram →
Splendid infographic by David McCandless at Information Is Beautiful comparing the relative sizes of various multi-billion-dollar budgets/entities.
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Rock Out →
Rock Out with Rockstar!
5 weeks ago we asked you whether you wanted this on WooThemes and after 73% of you begged us, we’ve made Rockstar available for download.
This is the…
Recap: WordCamp Birmingham 2009 + Skribit Updates →
This past weekend I drove over to Birmingham, Alabama, for WordCamp Birmingham 2009. This was their second WordCamp and brought out some 180 people — three times larger than their first…
Confessions of a blogger →
My number one priority in life is my family. Their safety, well being, financial stability and happiness are more important than anything else.
And that’s why I blog.
I haven’t always…
This is…
September 2009
Show Me Your Dock Series! Part 18 →
Chad Engle is both an app obsessed blogger and mutli-disciplinary designer working in both print and interactive media, based in Charleston, WV.
Chad is a creative powerhouse, writing for…
davidkaneda:
Make your Dock list view look like... →
davidkaneda:
Make your Dock list view look like this with this quick terminal command (via usingmac.com):
defaults write com.apple.dock use-new-list-stack -bool YES && killall Dock
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Behind The Scenes: SVN & Development →
We’ve received many questions on our development and how we manage to maintain and update 40+ themes. In addition to reading about our development cycle, the below screencast should give you a…
kung fu grippe - Crash Report for “Adobe Fireworks... →
kung fu grippe - Crash Report for “Adobe Fireworks CS4”many,manyfailings:
Maybe you don’t want or need to be a hero to a bunch of portly men in Daring Fireball t-shirts. That’s…
A Pale Blue Dot →
Cool CD digipak designed by Non-Format for the Red Snapper release, A Pale Blue Dot on the Lo Recordings label.
The digipak has three swingtags, produced in various materials and…
The Brabus Viano Lounge Concept Van is a new... →
The Brabus Viano “Lounge Concept” is a limousine inside a van. This concept Mercedes van is loaded with gadgets and gear to make it a perfect vehicle for work and play. This luxurious van is a…
GPush Review: Bringing Gmail Notification to the... →
E-mail addiction is a hard habit to shake. I get more than a hundred emails every day. We’re not talking spam here — we’re talking legitimate e-mails that demand my attention. My inbox is so…
Voluntary Information →
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Alright Mum →
Male Family Members.
Last week, Tom’s teacher told me that I am a bad mother.
I own an apron, a mug, a teddy bear, a fridge magnet and possibly a pen with ‘Best Mum’…
Merlin Mann on Adobe →
Merlin Mann: Each release of the Adobe apps I use (and used to so depend on) feels less stable, more bloated, and — easy as this was to overlook for a REALLY long time — increasingly less…
Loren Brichter on Tweetie 2.0 for iPhone →
Loren Brichter on the imminent Tweetie 2.0 for iPhone: It contains a metric ton of new stuff. There is full persistence — not just caching tweets for offline reading, but remembering where you…
Monolingual is the same as XSlimmer, but free →
Get it here: http://monolingual.sourceforge.net/
XSlimmer works fine, though if you strip PPC from /System, Rosetta breaks.
It will free up disk space, but I’m afraid that any “performance…
James Chambers →
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QuickCursor →
QuickCursor: If you use Notational Velocity, Yojimbo, or even Pages. You can use QuickCursor to edit the documents in your text editor of choice (TextMate or WriteRoom,…
Stuff →
Stuff:
In industrialized countries the same thing happened with food in the middle of the twentieth century. As food got cheaper (or we got richer; they’re indistinguishable), eating too much…
Hackers pay 43 cents per hijacked Mac →
A network of Russian malware writers and spammers paid hackers 43 cents for each Mac machine they infected with bogus video software, a sign that Macs have become attack targets, a security…
Another Classy Moment At My Work.. (Pic) →
o_O, You are Mine Again →
When I first joined Twitter back in 2007, I remember seeing that famed default avatar and frowning a bit. Part of me went:
“Oh sweet! Now everybody can use it!”
The other part of…
Bell →
Designed by Industrial Facility for Japanese design brand IDEA, Bell is an alarm clock with a back casing that is formed by one large, loud bell.
Via Dezeen.
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Yauatcha →
Beautiful identity and packaging design by MadeThought, for Yauatcha, a high-end Chinese tea house and dim sum restaurant.
Via Design Year Book.
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COMBO a collaborative animation by Blu and David... →
I favorited a YouTube video: a collaborative animation by Blu and David Ellis year 2009 http://www.blublu.org http://www.davidellis.org produced by studio cromie…
View online files using the Google Docs Viewer →
Last year, we added PDF upload and view to Google Docs, and the “View” link for PDF attachments in Gmail. We also added support for viewing PowerPoint and TIFF files in Gmail this April….
What we believe in. →
What we believe in.
I discovered this site a few days ago and it has... →
I discovered this site a few days ago and it has pushed my minimalist tendencies to the maximum. This is the result and a tribute to your site and efforts that you might enjoy.
On screen:
-…
Alternative Mac software - AlternativeTo.net →
Alternative Mac software - AlternativeTo.net : AlternativeTo is a new approach to finding good software. Tell us what application you want to replace and we give you suggestions on great…
Mojito shoe →
Mojito, designed by architect Julian Hakes, is an ultra minimal shoe consisting of a single piece that wraps around the wearer’s foot, forming support for the heel and ball, with the foot…
8 Bizarre Real Estate Deals →
(polymath blues)
Let’s face it – the typical real estate transaction is pretty boring. Few of us can get all that excited about yet another “three bedroom, one and a half bath” changing hands…
I have no special talent, I am only passionately... →
I have no special talent, I am only passionately curious -Albert Einstein
Metadata Madness →
If you have any interest at all in the debate and discussion regarding Snow Leopard’s abandonment of creator code metadata, this piece by John Siracusa is a must-read. It’s not about what should be…
Timbuk2 T-Pack →
Loving the Timbuk2 T-Pack, “a teensy laptop bag for netbooks that is loved by elves and gnomes. Includes zip-tight storage for your power brick and backpack straps. (Mini) yeah!”
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Shoulder Sweatshirt →
I’m pretty sure muscular guys that constantly work out try to find the most ridiculous clothes to wear in public so they can beat up a smart-ass like me who would ask him for my aunt’s…
Backwood →
I’m sure Chevrolet is pumped for the free marketing you’re giving them. I’m thinking about buying one right now just because your truck spells quality.
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jQuery Visual Cheat Sheet →
jQuery Visual Cheat Sheet is an useful and practical reference to jQuery 1.3 for web designers and developers designed by me. This cheat sheet (6 pages) contains the full jQuery API…
The Comcast Two-Step:
Comcast now has a two-step... →
The Comcast Two-Step: Comcast now has a two-step login process: submit username first, then password on the following page. This is attributed to “security improvements”, which I can only…
Add the Eurocopter EC155 to complete your... →
As the latest in nautical technology is improving with every passing day, we can’t ignore the aviation, especially when you’re going to the middle of nowhere in your luxury yacht. Edmiston,…
Once in a lifetime $1 million shot of an amateur... →
Secretly, every one of us has dreamed of becoming a millionaire overnight as a first step toward a fuller richer life. These sorts of things generally happen in movies or in fairy tales….
Rare black Ferrari Enzo spotted on eBay for $1.3... →
Named in honor of the Italian auto maker’s founder, the Enzo, Ferrari Enzos were built for a total of 399 in 2003. Enzo is in itself a rare Ferrari and a black Ferrari is even more so. This…
Hermes Defines Silhouette of Wally’s latest Island... →
While the yacht lovers are still drooling over Roman Abramovich’s “Eclipse,” the Monaco-based yacht maker, Wally has quietly gone into bed with the prestigious luxury brand Hermes to give…
Brian Eno has a follow-up to Bloom, Trope, that... →
Brian Eno has a follow-up to Bloom, Trope, that you’re gonna want to download: I love these immersive, algorithmic audio apps.
Fatal Infection →
A few people asked for this. And I was curious about it too. So here it is. Case fatality rates for well-known diseases.
This was very hard to research. The AIDS/HIV figures are…
Census Worker Found Hanged →
Census Worker Found Hanged: The important thing to remember here, of course, is that Nancy Pelosi must be living “in another world” when she suggests all this anti-government rhetoric could lead…
Picturing Burj Dubai in midtown Manhattan →
Picturing Burj Dubai in midtown Manhattan.
Trials HD - 360 GamePlay Trailer [ HD ] XBLA →
I favorited a YouTube video: Race race!