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Team Deathmatch on your lunchbreak with N.O.V.A. ... N.O.V.A. 3 is Gameloft’s next entry in their iOS first person shooter series. The series is tonally somewhere between Halo and Metroid Prime, but doesn’t really have the writing to match either. The s ...
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Apple Publishes New Renewable Energy Page, Tells ... Never one to take pass on a moment to moan about their politricks in as public of a manner as is physically possible, Greenpeace took to projecting quotes on Apple’s Cupertino HQ a couple of days ago. Apple ...
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Beautiful Indie Game Dear Esther Available On The ... Not all games involve jumping, stabbing, and shooting. Hell, some games even bring up the question “What is a game?” to the minds of its players. That’s something that this glorious indie game c ...
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Pixelmator Updated To Play Nice In The Sandbox ... Last year, Apple decided that going forward, applications in the Mac App Store would need to be sandboxed. Much bellyaching happened from developers, so the due date of sandboxed apps move forward a few months. T ...
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Blizzard Apologizes For Diablo III Problems ... A lot of Diablo III fans were sad pandas when, after the big launch two days ago, they found themselves beset upon by server outages and other demonic forces… and Blizzard says they’re sorry. Their on ...
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WINGStand Is a Beautifully Simple iPad Stand ... If you’re looking for a sleek and affordable stand to use with your iPad while you’re typing on a bluetooth keyboard, this is right up your alley. WINGStand is a a set of small plastic clips that can ...
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Samsung Takes a $10B Hit From Apple Rumors ... Samsung isn’t exactly in financial trouble, but no company in the world is going to laugh off a $10B drop in market value. Reuters reports that the Korean handset giant took an Old-Testament-Level beatdown ...
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Deal: Learn To Produce Professional-Looking Photo ... Do you want to take your photos to the next level, but you have no idea where to start with the whole editing process? If so, then this deal is for you. The Photoshop Elements 10 Course brings you 90 lectures wit ...
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Warner Brothers To Stream Casablanca On Facebook ... Warner Brothers is trying something rather unusual and kind of awesome: They’ll be streaming Casablanca on Facebook for today for free at 7 PM Eastern and 7 PM Pacific. Only one screening per Facebook accou ...
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Verizon Planning To End “Unlimited Data” Plan ... Verizon has decided the time for unlimited data plans has to come to an end. According to CFO Fran Shammo, who spoke at an investors’ conference today, if you already have an unlimited plan and want to move ...
TECH and APPLE News
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When a Blog grows up and becomes a Real Website ... What makes Dr. Marsha's site work, besides being built on Wordpress, is its minimalist design approach, easy site navigation, and really great content. ...
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What @Twitter *could* be doing to protect our sec ... If you're a casual Twitter user you may not find this sort of thing to be much of an annoyance. After all, you may not even pay attention to your DM's. If if you do, you may be bright enough not to click on any lin ...
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Accessibility | Zoom It & Siri ... Apple goes above and beyond when it comes to helping the visually impaired. With brilliant accessibility tools across all of their product lines, they are looking out for most everyone. In fact one could even sa ...
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Hard Drive Cleanup ... This MacLife article caught my eye because I recently went through my own hard drive and eliminated all the extra fluff I did not need. I freed nearly 100GB just by following simple guidelines like the ones presente ...
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9 Essential Resources for Mac Newbies ... Mac|Life has put together a wonderful Mac Resource guide. This guide covers everything from just getting started with your computer, keyboard shortcuts, to installing Windows with Boot Camp. ...
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The Right Tool for the Job ... One of the most important lessons I have learned from Chris here at FoleyPod is: Always bring the right tool for the job. I don’t think I can fully express how much of a difference it makes to have the right h ...
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FoleyPod Working On Two Continents ... With Chris off working in Europe, the rest of the FoleyPod Team is getting its first taste of what extreme work-shifting is like. Despite Chris’ recent disappearance, Kazdyn and I are managing just fine, we re ...
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Choosing the Right Display for your Mac ... In most cases I would disagree with the old adage “bigger is better,” but when it comes to screen real-estate I can’t get enough. I remember a day when I was happy with my 15 inch desktop display, ...
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Has RSS service Lazyfeed finally closed its doors ... Popular RSS/Feed library service Lazyfeed has been “down for maintenance” for some time now, and I hope this outage doesn’t spell the end of this service, for I quite liked it. Their website HERE h ...
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Backup your Backup on OS X Lion ... OS X Lion was likely released download only as a means of promoting the the Mac App Store. I am all for the Mac App Store, it’s yet another step towards having an awesome cloud experience, but when it comes to ...
MacWorld
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Empty the #$&@! trash already! ... You say attempts to empty your Mac's trash fail with an arcane error? Chris Breen ha ...
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TechHive: Comcast suspends data cap, searches for ... Comcast is suspending its 250 GB per month data cap while i ...
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Promsing Prospect: EdgeCase enhances multiple-dis ... EdgeCase is a unique utility that gives you the user-interf ...
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Ink-flation: Printer cartridge prices are climbin ... Epson, Kodak, and Lexmark have raised pr ...
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TechHive: How to opt out of Twitter's new email ... Twitter plans to start sending users a weekly email digest. On T ...
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Apple lets crowd-funded developers sidestep App S ... Developers of the Zombies, Run! game for iPhone say they were abl ...
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Smartphone security is heading for 'apocalypse' ... Outdated encryption standards and the inherent vulnerabilit ...
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Set parental controls on your Mac ... In this week's Macworld Video, we'll walk you through setting up an accoun ...
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Opinion: An iOS 6 wish list ... It's widely expected that Apple will take the wraps off a new version of iOS next month ...
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(Insider) The Macalope Daily: Looking for pro ... Why would Apple ship an iPhone with a larger screen? Not ...
Mac|Life
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How to Research with Google Docs ... Conducting research online has changed the way we peruse information, but it's not exactly conducive to multitasking when you're flipping between windows. Between the word processor and the ...
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Ticket to Ride for Mac Review ... The board game favorite comes to MacDespite the shift to a digital display, Ticket to Ride looks exactly as you’d hope, with the distinctive visuals pulled directly from the now-cla ...
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8 iOS Games for Word Nerds ... The process of keeping the mind sharp and punchy is a lot like going to the gym -- except instead of lifting weights and working up a nasty sweat, some of us prefer to engage in a bit of cleve ...
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MyTunes Pro HD Review ... For those who use their iPad as a central music hub, ...
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Video: Dutch Developer Runs Windows Phone 7 on Bl ... We’re big fa ...
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Organize your Finder with Smart Folders ... Smart Folders are virtual folders that, unlike regular folders on your Mac, can be organized based on criteria set specifically to the folder. The process of creating a Smart Folder is simil ...
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Free Weather Channel App Gets Swanky Update, But ... There are plenty of iOS ...
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Domain Name Squatter Surrenders iPhone5.com Follo ... While this should in no way serve as evidence that ...
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5 Best Ways To Share Files With Friends (For Free ... Cloud sharing services are all the rage these days, and there's certainly no shortage of them. But, the best ones are super easy to use and get the job done. We've done the work for you and ro ...
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Wednesday Recap: Verizon Killing Unlimited Data ( ... Still rocking grandfathered unlimited data throug ...
CNET Apple
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Judge tells Apple and HTC to start talking settle ... The order comes after two key HTC smartphones are stopped at the border as a result of their ongoing dispute. ...
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iCloud hacked, or is it simply spam? ... If you take a look at some recent complaints on the Apple discussion boards, you might feel compelled to conclude that iCloud has been hacked. Originally posted at ...
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Chow down with Woz, oh lucky winner ... A new contest from memory maker Crucial is giving one grand prize winner a chance to dine with Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak. ...
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Building an iWristwatch: What smart watches need ... If smart watches are the gadgets of the future, they need to avoid the pitfalls of the past. ...
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Best Buy cuts price of iPhone 4 to $49.99 ... The retailer joins Target and RadioShack in offering a $50 discount on the 2010 model of Apple's flagship phone. ...
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Has Apple taken control of iPhone5.com? ... Apple had complained to the World Intellectual Property Organization about the domain, which was unaffiliated with the iPhone maker. And now it seems to have found closure. ...
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Who was Steve Jobs? New kids book aims to answer ... The latest entry in the "Who was...?" series shines a spotlight on the late Apple leader for young readers. ...
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iPad mini to debut during second half of 2012? ... The latest iPad mini rumor suggests the tablet will hit the market in the third or fourth quarter as Apple has lined up suppliers for the LCD panel. ...
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Samsung loses $10 billion market value on Apple r ... South Korean electronics giant loses $10 billion in market value -- all because of a report in DigiTimes. Originally posted at ...
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Flashback makers missed out on their payday, Syma ... According to the security firm, the makers of the Flashback malware made $14,000 from click fraud last month, but can't collect on it. ...
Daring Fireball
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Lenovo Drops Classic Keyboard on New ThinkPad Lap ... The end of era. ★ ...
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Bullish Cross Initiates Rare Buy Rating on Apple ... Andy Zaky: Now here are the reasons why we believe its time to buy Apple and why we feel the valuation is incredibly attractive today. At $533.52 a share, Apple trades at 13x last year’s ...
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Rene Ritchie on the Ramifications of a 4-Inch iPh ... There are numerous ways Apple could change the physical size of the iPhone, but none of them are painless or easy fragmentation-wise. Rene Ritchie does a good job here analyzing Apple’s options. My ...
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Nielsen on U.S. Smartphone and Mobile App Growth ... Nielsen: Roughly a year ago when we summarized the state of smartphones at the Appnation conference, less than 40 percent of mobile subscribers in the U.S. had smartphones. Today, one in tw ...
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JustNotes ... Back in 2009 I wrote about a then-new iPhone notes app called Simplenote. It’s still my favorite today, wit ...
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The Worst Phones You Can Buy ... Sam Biddle surveys the bottom end of the cell phone market. ★&nbs ...
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The OS X Naming Problem ... Pretty convincing argument that Mountain Lion will be the last of the big-cat names for major OS X releases. ...
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‘High Fives All Around’ ... Arik Hesseldahl, reporting on a document drop by Oracle in its ongoing Itanium lawsuit with HP: In the emails, Intel, for its part, certainly looks like it wants out of the business of maki ...
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Samsung Loses $10 Billion in Market Value After D ... Reuters: Shares in Samsung Electronics Co slumped more than 6 percent on Wednesday, wiping $10 billion off the electronics giant’s market value, on a report that Apple placed huge chi ...
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Android Fragmentation: One Developer Encounters 3 ... Casey Johnston, reporting for Ars Technica: One developer can do business with nearly 4,000 distinct Android ROMs, according to ...
Wired
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Current: 20.06 June Issue Highlights ... COVER: How to Be a Geek Dad / with MythBusters host Adam Savage / pg. 126 WIRED serves up 14 hands-on projects designed to jump-start a lifelong love of science and technology. For all ages and levels of expertise, ...
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Apple Patent Application Lends Credence to Retina ... It looks like we'll be getting Retina display MacBook Pros sooner than later -- this based on supply chain indicators and a recently published Apple patent application. ...
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20.05 May Issue Highlights ... COVER: Marc Andreessen Knows What?s Coming Next / pg. 162? No one has done more to change the way we communicate than Marc Andreessen. At 22, he invented Mosaic, the first easy-to-use web browser. He later helpe ...
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To Warrant or Not to Warrant? ACLU, Police Clash ... A bill that would require law enforcement agents to obtain a probable-cause warrant to collect geolocation data on an individual would be burdensome to criminal investigators and prevent them from gathering the evid ...
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Capcom Reveals Cartoon Lost Planet S ... The new game will occupy the same universe as the Lost Planet games, but E.X. Troopers will drop the hard sci-fi look in favor of the comic book approach. ...
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Smile! U.S. Troops Cover Up With New 'Facial Armo ... Robert Heinlein's 1959 novel "Starship Troopers" presents a futuristic war fought by heavily armored infantry, that when suited up, makes you look like a "big steel gorilla." Today, the U.S. Army and Marines are edg ...
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Network Effects and Global Domination: The Facebo ... Mark Zuckerberg is following the example of Bill Gates at Microsoft and Sergey Brin and Larry Page at Google, in building Facebook to do nothing less than dominate. ...
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Is Office, Exchange Lock-In Microsoft's Best Weap ... With Microsoft recently beating out Google for providing cloud service to the Los Angeles Community College District, the focus of one report was that the win reflects "how Microsoft can use its lock on conventional ...
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Ready or Not, Adaptive-Image Solution Is Now Part ... Don't make a web browser? Then you don't have a voice in the future of the web. That seemed to be the message from the WHATWG earlier this week, but fortunately for web developers things aren't really as bad as they ...
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So You Think You Might Be in Love With Facebook S ... Buying what you know, especially Facebook shares, is a path to heartbreak. Here's why. ...
Mashable
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7 Companies That Could Have Been Facebook ... ...
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Disco Legend Donna Summer Dead at 63: A Digital T ... Disco Legend Donna Summer died early Thursday due to complications from lung cancer. The five time Grammy winner’s hits include songs such as &… ...
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Listen to Mashable’s Facebook IPO Spotify Playl ... Facebook officially files its long-awaited IPO Friday. To help the company celebrate, we decided to put together a playlist on ...
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Second Grader’s ‘Pirate Times’ Wins 2012 ... ...
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Facebook Timeline: 9 Best Practices for Brands ... ...
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Giant Printer Paints Political Twitter Tweets on ... A giant printer is painting 40-character life-size tweets about world hunger and poverty across roadways — it’s all part of the ONE S… ...
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Facebook Sets Stock Price at $38 [REPORT] ... ...
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Facebook’s Fools: 15 Who Missed Out on the Big ... In music, it was Pete Best, the original Beatles drummer who was replaced by Ringo Starr in 1962, just as the band was taking off. In tech, it was Ron… ...
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What Twitter’s ‘Do Not Track’ Feature Will ... ...
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How Social Media Can Help You Score Your Next Int ... More than one-third of employers use social media to research job and internship candidates before they interview — and that number’s only… ...
Creative Professional
Seth Godin
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The quickest way to get things done and make chan ... Not the easiest, but the quickest: Don't demand authority. Eagerly take responsibility. Relentlessly give credit. ...
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Digital analogs are no longer sufficient ... The parking meter was rebooting. I guess we're supposed to walk to the other end of the garage and find one that's working. We're seeing digital awareness coming to just about everything. In this case, it was the pa ...
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Hard work on the right things ... I don't think winners beat the competition because they work harder. And it's not even clear that they win because they have more creativity. The secret, I think, is in understanding what matters. It's not obvious, ...
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Worldliness ... Intelligence is the combination of knowing a lot about a little while you also know a little about a lot. Deep domain understanding helps you create analyses. Your ability to understand how a particular system (no m ...
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The reason the customer is always right... ... If you insist that they are wrong, they stop being your customer* (if given half a chance). People spend their time and attention and money in places that make them feel valued. *There's nothing wrong with asking cu ...
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Dedicating the merit ... For an author, one of the nicest parts of the traditional book is the dedication page. The dedication is far more than an acknowledgement to someone who helped you write the book, it's a permanent signpost, a capsto ...
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Naming things ... "Over there, by the fire, is that a stick or a snake?" It turns out that humans have been naming things for a long time. If we know that this is a cheetah, or a grapefruit, we can make intelligent... ...
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Free samples ... It bothers me to watch the hordes at the farmer's market, swooping in to each booth, grabbing a sample and walking away. The thin slices of handmade rye bread, or the perfect strawberries or the little glasses of ju ...
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Why ask why? ... "Why?" is the most important question, not asked nearly enough. Hint: "Because I said so," is not a valid answer. Why does it work this way? Why is that our goal? Why did you say no? Why are we t ...
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How to make money online ... The first step is to stop Googling things like, "how to make money online." Not because you shouldn't want to make money online, but because the stuff you're going to find by doing that is going to help yo ...
Workshifting
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The Downside to Workshifting ... The woman standing next to me on the platform finished checking her email, and I smiled knowingly. It was my afternoon off, all my clients knew it, but I still felt compelled to acknowledge a couple of messages myse ...
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Home-Working Essentials ... About a year ago, I ran a series on my website where readers sent in photos and descriptions of their favorite bits from their workshifting kits. I find it's one of those topics that most often crop up when... ...
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Defeating Distractions: How to Workshift Away fro ... We're easily distracted. The phone rings. A co-worker drops by. The neighbors chat loudly. Unfortunately, with so many attention-grabbing interruptions, staying focused at work can become its own job. Many workshift ...
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Workshifting - The Introvert's Best Friend or Wor ... I've been dipping my toes into the workshifting pool since 2009. It's been an ideal set of circumstances for an introvert like me, as I work in a quiet space where I can control my daily dosage of interruption... ...
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Zoners ... Today we have a guest post from Erran Carmel. Erran is a management professor at the American University Kogod School of Business in Washington, D.C. His new coauthored book is titled I'm Working While They're Sleep ...
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How Workshifting Can Save a Relationship and Bene ... Today's post is from Seamus King, Country Leader for Australia, Citrix Online Services Division. I'm delighted to see that Australian organizations are ahead of the game when it comes to offering mobile work styles. ...
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5 Tips to Finding Productive Work Space ... Today we have a guest post from Liz Presson. Liz's mission is to encourage those sentenced to life in a cubicle farm to think outside the traditional office. Through her version of "Yelp for co-working spaces&q ...
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How Do We Design Software that Supports the Futur ... Today we have a post from Jon Froda. Jon is co-founder of Podio, which was recently acquired by Citrix. For several years Froda researched the field of social software, specializing in strategies and products that h ...
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Citrix Triathlete Workshifts to Train - in Hawaii ... On Wednesday, we showed you how to add movement into your workshifting routine. Read below for a more extreme version from Citrix's own Chris Latham. Santa Barbara local Chris Latham, a manager on the Citrix Custome ...
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4 Ways to Add Movement into Your Workshifting Rou ... I thought the great thing about workshifting is that you don't have to sit in an office all day. You can grab your computer-tablet-Smartphone and get to work at your favorite coffee shop, or in the park, on an... ...
Freelance Switch
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Making the Leap From Full-Time to Freelance ... ...
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4 Ways Freelancers Can Use LinkedIn to Build Thei ... ...
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Why Controversy Can be a Good Thing ... ...
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Understanding the Design Audit: Getting the Bigge ... ...
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PR Professionals and Journalists: How to Make Eve ... ...
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Getting the Most Bang for Your Buck with Shared O ... ...
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5 Ways to Write Your Way Out of the Lousy Economy ... ...
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Freelance Freedom 258: Hyperfocus ... ...
Graphic Design Blog
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Brand Logo versus Globalization ... Logo designers and brand managers have always laid paramount importance of imparting the power of their product through symbols. History has it that whether they are Mayans, Egyptian Pharaohs or Greek mythology, sym ...
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22 Amazingly Graffiti Artworks – A Creative Col ... One of the most infamous types of graphic arts is street and road graffiti. It is known for decades and have enhanced over the passage of time. In earlier times it was employed by the Romans as a symbol of expressio ...
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25 Photos of Invisible Man – See the Unseen! ... Remember the movie Hollow Man, where Kevin Bacon acquired the power to be invisible? Imagine how cool would it be in real life? Although there hasn’t been any ‘Invisibility Cloak’ developed similar ...
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5 Factors That Ruin a Graphic Designer’s Creati ... Have you ever come across a time when your creative juices stop flowing? Yes, I’m referring to that moment when you try so hard but fail to conceive a creative idea. But this doesn’t happen all of a sudd ...
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Guess the Disney Cartoons – 20 Minimalist Poste ... Cartoons are a momentous part of everybody’s childhood memories. No matter how old you are, you cannot grow too old for cartoons. Famous animation studios like Walt Disney and Cartoon Network have created some ...
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5 Downsides of Starting Your Own Graphic Design B ... Before you jump to any conclusions, let me make it clear that my intentions are not to shatter your dreams of starting your very own graphic design business. On the contrary, I wish to explore the downsides of being ...
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20 Cool ‘Oliver’ Appetizer Plates – Doodle ... Being a graphic designer, I love being surrounded by innovative and artistic objects. Right from my bedroom to the workplace, I always keep the ambiance adorned with elements of graphic design. While surfing on the ...
Chris Brogan
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Cloning Yourself for Fun and Profit- Guest Post ... The following is a guest post from someone I admire a great deal. Chris Guillebeau is out there doing some amazing things in the world of helping others design lifestyle businesses. His latest book, The $100 Startup ...
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Create a Setting and Connect With Emotions ... I recently moved the delivery time of my beloved newsletter to be Sunday morning (well, that’s when it launches here, though my New Zealander and Australian friends all get it on Monday). In the process, I tal ...
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Nobody Reads Agency Blogs- Or Why You Need Skin i ... Thanks to Jason Falls, I just read this post about how many marketing agencies are closing down their blogs and tweeting and Facebooking instead. “Nobody reads agency blogs, and there are so many out there it’s ...
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Constraints ... I was at a live performance the other night where Jacq sang and played with Girish, and I had a great conversation with Reggie, the drummer for the night. (I am SO sorry that I don’t know your last name, Reggi ...
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Pattern Break ... When you wake up in the morning, you check your emails, probably from your phone. First thing. Yes? Why? There’s no good answer to why. Even brain surgeons can wait until they’ve done other things before ...
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Where Should You Put Your Content? ... I’ve been asked by subscribers of my personal newsletter how I decide what goes on my blog and what goes into my newsletter. I think the answer differs depending on your strategy, but I’m more than happy ...
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Future Scratches ... Are you a collector? If so, of what? I’m not, but I know the culture. I grew up reading comic books and buying music and haunting bookstores. in all cases, there’s always a sub-tribe of collectors, the k ...
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Starting ... This post was written in April 2012. I’m just dating it so we can check in later and see if it’s still good. Yes, like a freshness date. If I were a business person looking to understand how to use vario ...
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Content Marketing Done Right ... Hats off to Bertucci’s (of all places) for shooting this really compelling pre-roll ad. Think about this. The ad runs for about 2 minutes as pre-roll. Now, because YouTube is smart, they let me click off after ...
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Earning Attention ... When I post something new to this blog, I make the effort to go onto Twitter and ask a question that leads back to the post. I also do some things to get people’s attention via Google+. It’s become part ...
Developers FoleyPod Respects – Works With – Learns From
Berchman
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Took action and actually started my own website o ... Every night for about the past year I’ve said to myself, “tonight I’m going to work on my website.” Yeah right. You all know what I am talking about. It’s the feeling that your looking ...
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Goodbye 2011—and Good Riddance. ... In all seriousness I am happy to see 2011 come to an end. The past few weeks of this year have helped crystalize a series of separate thoughts I’ve had about both professional and personal issues that have sur ...
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iSad – Steve Jobs ... There is nothing I can say that someone, somewhere will say much more eloquently and succinctly about the life and times of Steven Paul Jobs. Love him or hate him, the man was simply a genius. I think everyone who k ...
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Helvetica in HD on Vimeo ... via vimeo.com Whether you love it or hate it (Helvetica that is) you can appreciate the quality of this animation. Posted via email from berchman’s posterous ...
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The Finish Line ... Right now I am in an airplane flying back from Saratoga Springs, New York. I took a 5 day trip to visit my Uncle Nick who, a few weeks back, was diagnosed with stage 4 liver cancer. Needless to say this was a surpri ...
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Migrating a PowerPC G5 Mac to an Intel Core i7 Ma ... I am moving from my 5 year old PowerPC G5 Mac to my new Intel Core i7 MacBook Pro. Since I did not find a definitive guide on how to move your data, applications and preferences for my specific case, I am documentin ...
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A new portfolio solution in more than one place. ... Ever since I started to focus on Berchman.com I realized that my former “company” website, HamiltonBerchman Design Group, Inc., was no longer maintained, correct, or relevant. However, at the time I was ...
Instantshift
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Use an iPad at Your Trade Show Booth to Engage Co ... Have you walked into your favorite retail store, restaurant, or mall recently only to see a shiny new iPad staring back at you? Businesses around the world are starting to realize the many benefits putting an iPad i ...
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Deliver Great Service to Your Client – And See ... Great service is the pillar of every business and one can achieve success and maintain it only through quality service. A host of techniques contributes to business success but the foundation of every business is qu ...
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How to Design Awesome Infographics ... Even if information is highly out of ordinary and attention-grabbing, if your content contains lengthy plain text without illustration or images whatsoever, the entire page becomes dull and unimaginative. To sort th ...
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Writing A Creative Brief: Dragging The Right Info ... For every assignment, for every project, whether you are a freelancer or work a staff job, it’s of the utmost importance that you document every aspect of what is required to complete the project both correctly an ...
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How to Design a Clean and Modern Calendar Widget ... Calendar is one thing every House or Office or software now a day needs. It helps schedule your task and keeps you on track everywhere. Doesn’t matter where you work and what you do. Every app needs some extra wid ...
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The Complete Guide of Retouching Photos with Huma ... There are tons of magazine covers with models, females and males that amaze the onlookers with their bodies or faces. The perfection expressed by these models conducted to deviated behaviors, many young women attemp ...
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Essential Tools for Crowdsourcing Answers to Your ... These days, you can ask everyone, anywhere anything, anytime. Since the advent of the social internet, gone are the days when seeking advice required thorough investigation of forums, IRC channels, and databases. No ...
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Giveaway: Win Free Commercial License Membership ... We are again excited to present you with special, more exciting prizes. InstantShift again came up with cool freebies giveaway as promised. This is our way of saying thanks to our readers for being part of the iShif ...
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How Should Firms Frame Their Social Media Strateg ... Formulating the social media strategy for any business involves answering quite a few ‘whys’, ‘hows’, ‘whats’ etc. This article explores the intermediate decisions to be taken by ...
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Is Brainstorming Getting A Bad Rap? ... I love brainstorming! I think it’s a way of getting the best for a project. It puts all heads together and brings out the best ideas, without bruising egos and involves the team equally. I’ve seen great ...
Themeshaper
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Introducing the Monster Widget ... An important part of the theme development process is testing. As a member of the Theme Team at Automattic I can say that we like to test everything we can! One thing that we have observed is that widget testing ...
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Our very own Ian Stewart was a special guest on t ... Recently, Ian Stewart was a special guest on the podcast by Chris Coyier and Dave Rupert, ShopTalk. Ian discussed many web topics, including WordPress (obviously!) and answered questions from listeners. http://shopt ...
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Theme Options Gallery: The Best (and the Worst) T ... Man, theme options. There aren’t many more topics in WordPress theme development that inspire more discussion these days than theme options. If you haven’t seen it yet, check out Konstantin KovsheninR ...
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Let’s Talk about Semantics ... If you’re interested in HTML Semantics and are looking for a good place to start learning more about it and what it means start out with this post at HTML5 Doctor, Let’s Talk about Semantics. At the very lea ...
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Tighter and leaner WordPress templates with get_ ... If you’re interested in learning more about how to use get_template_part() in your themes and why you might want to, designer and developer, Terry Sutton, has a great post up called Tighter and leaner WordPres ...
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Next Saturday is Now Available for WP.org Sites ... Next Saturday — a bold and playful theme that adds a touch of childlike innocence to your blog – is now available in the official WordPress Themes Directory. It was originally designed by Ian Mintz and broug ...
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10 Beautiful WordPress Themes from the Official ... We are obviously theme junkies here and everyday we check the official free theme directory. It’s only March now but many free themes have already became available since the new year. To highlight the great themes ...
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Sundance is Now Available for WP.org Sites ... Sundance — a brand new free video theme brought to you by the team here at Automattic is now available in the official WordPress Themes Directory. ...
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WordPress Query Comprehensive Reference ... There are a couple of spots that I always keep handy when looking for information about WordPress’ query handling. Consider this Gist an addition to my list: WordPress Query Comprehensive Reference Which helpf ...
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Internationalization: You’re Probably Doing It ... Fun fact of the day: about 37% of WordPress downloads are for non-English, localized versions. So as a plugin or theme author, you should be thinking of localization and internationalization (L10N and I18N) as prett ...
43 Folders - Merlin Mann
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Instapaper 4: Deciding to Read ... ...
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Cranking ... 1. Nothing wrecks your living room decor quite like a giant, rented hospital bed. The one my Dad laid in for a couple months in the fall of 1974 was an alarmingly stiff and sturdy affair, the f ...
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Scared Shitless ... Merlin Mann - "Scared Shitless: How I (Mostly) ...
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Nerdiest Interview Ever: MPU Workflows Part II ... MPU 046: Workflows with Merlin Mann II « Mac Power Users ...
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Fear ... So, yeah. I'll be ...
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Video: John Roderick on String Art Owls, Copper P ... ...
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"Back to Work" - Merlin's New Thing wit ... [update 2011-01-18 @ 16:07:40: We're up!] ...
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No One Needs Permission to Be Awesome ... Steve Jobs' 2005 Stanford Commencement Address No one wants to die ...
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Resolved: Stop Blaming the Pancake ... In a classic bit from an early Seinfeld, Jerry and Elaine are at the airport, trying to pick up the rental car that Jerry had reserved. As usual, things go poorly and get awkward fast: ...
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A Sandwich, A Wallet, and Elizabeth Taylor's Cous ... Being a Parable for the Edification of Indepen ...
Green Living
Inhabitat
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Galveston’s Green Revival House is a LEED Plati ... Historic houses can become energy-efficient without losing charm – just look at the Galveston Historical Foundation‘s Green Revival House at 3101 Avenue Q in Galveston, Texas. The project started when GH ...
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US Consumers Willing To Pay Higher Utility Bills ... According to a study published in the journal Nature Climate Change, Americans are willing to pay for slightly higher electricity bills for clean energy. The survey, led by researchers from Yale and Harvard, asked t ...
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WTO Panel Rules Against Dolphin-Safe Tuna Labelin ... On Wednesday the World Trade Organization ruled against the sale of cans of tuna labeled “dolphin safe,” arguing that the practice discriminates against Mexican fishermen and that the United States̵ ...
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Rossignol’s Mountain-Inspired Headquarters Mini ... Read the rest of Rossignol’s Mountain-Inspired Headquarters Minimizes its Environmental Impact Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "sustainable architecture", eco design, eco headquarter ...
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6 Awe-Inspiring Designs Made From Food! ... Read the rest of 6 Awe-Inspiring Designs Made From Food! Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: 6 best, agricultural waste, Alison Knowles, Andrea Trimarchi, Art, arti performance, biodegradable ...
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Geoengineering Experiment in UK Canceled Over Pat ... A controversial geoengineering experiment that would have simulated the cooling effect of a volcanic eruption was canceled this week over a patent dispute. A team of scientists in the United Kingdom had announced la ...
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The Enessere Hercules Wind Turbine Generates Wind ... Wind energy is one of the cleanest, most reliable sources of renewable energy out there, but there’s one strike against it: Most wind turbines aren’t exactly the most attractive sight. But for anyone who ...
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Harvest Pavilion Collects the Bounty on an Eco-Fa ... Read the rest of Harvest Pavilion Collects the Bounty on an Eco-Farm in China Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: china, eco design, eco farm, farm, green architecture, Green Building, green d ...
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Could Solar Satellites Be the Key to Infinite Ene ... While solar energy has long been touted as the key to solving the planet’s energy demands, the problem of efficiency has always hampered it. However, a team of engineers from the University of Strathclyde in ...
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Thomas Wold’s Quirky and Unique Creations Made ... Read the rest of Thomas Wold’s Quirky and Unique Creations Made From Upcycled Furniture Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "green furniture", eco design, eco furniture, Green Building, ...
Humour
The Oatmeal
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There's a duck in my coffee ... I added a new print of a duck ...
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Why Nikola Tesla was the greatest geek who ever l ... An ode to the ...
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Handmade wearable art by LaRu ... A friend of mine makes awesome stuff and y ...
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This is the web right now ... The State of the Web ...
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Horrible Cards - Birthday Edition ... Happy Birthday greeting cards fro ...
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The primary difference between North and South Ko ... ...
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How to get more likes on Facebook ... More tanks. ...
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Pelvic Thrusting Cats ... Hee-hee! ...
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Winter is coming ... Direwolves and such ...