January 2011
1 post
“The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor. It is the one thing...”
– From Aristotle’s De Poetica. via Lapidarium (via viafrank)
In the web design and consulting business, this is absolutely the most important skill you can have. Great communication is far more important than knowing how to design or program well. If you can’t explain your ideas, you have made...
September 2010
2 posts
WatchAs a former sound engineer, this made me laugh like an ass inside Starbucks. Sorry folks.
theradness:
sometimes you just can’t contain your rock!
The drummer is pure magic. This might beat the little girl’s inspirational speech
July 2010
1 post
“Technology is a big destroyer of emotion and truth. It doesn’t do anything for...”
– Jack White, It Might Get Loud (via christmasgorilla)
June 2010
2 posts
iPad TV
I’ve felt much the same way about where all of this is going. Let’s hope.
lonelysandwich:
Warming up
I won’t lie to you—it took two weeks with my iPad before I knew whether I loved it (or, to be more accurate, why I would inevitably love it). There was this uncomfortableness after the purchase. I’d known for weeks that it was to be a miraculous addition to my life. I’d enumerated...
May 2010
1 post
Selling why →
bobulate:
Simon Sinek on selling to people who believe what you believe:
People don’t buy what you do; they buy why you do it. The goal is not to do business with anybody who needs what you have. The goal is to do business with people who believe what you believe.
Here’s the best part:
If you look at a cross-section of the human brain, looking from the top down, what you see is that the...
April 2010
4 posts
WatchBeck has put together a group called the Record Club and they have recorded some wonderful, unique interpretations of cover songs. The New Sensation by INXS cover is great.
Adding an Email to Things from Mail.app by Hot Key
I’m really enjoying the Getting Things Done system (more on that later), but I needed a way to put actionable emails into Things — my to-do list program of choice.
Here is a little AppleScript that I trigger from Mail.app using Mail Act On. Go to Pastie and click download on the top right, then save the file to /Library/Scripts/Mail Scripts/message_to_things.scpt
I then setup a Mail Act...
March 2010
14 posts
A Better Way to Take Notes
Let’s step back in time a bit so you can understand some pain…
As a creator of websites and applications, I spend a significant amount of time listening to the needs of my clients, taking notes and researching solutions. While I’ve love the tangible nature of notepads, they just do not work for me. I can never find anything and my desk just becomes a cluster fuck.
Some 10...
Since I've Been Loving You
Jimmy Page is on another planet. The sonic energy in this film says so much about why I love Led Zeppelin.
It all starts at about 1:20. Don’t worry, I’ll take you there.
Huffduffer - RSS for Audio
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I listen to various audio clips, especially podcasts, all the time. The only issue is getting them on my iPhone is a pain in the ass. Enter Huffduffer.
It gives you an RSS feed that iTunes reads as a podcast and automatically pulls the clip you want. It even has a handy bookmarklet to add to your feed.
Having them on my iPhone is huge. I’m constantly on the go and I can listen at double...
Edit any Firefox Textfield in Textmate →
This is just mind blowing to me. I already use Textmate to take notes, draft posts, etc., so this just speeds up my workflow.
You can also edit any Mac text field in Textmate using the an input manager that comes with textmate.
Here are a few things to make it better.
Go to Tools -> It’s All Text! -> Preferences
The default path is /usr/bin/open. It will use the default editor...
WatchMerlin Mann on TextExpander 3
The new features to use variables in forms are great.
Content Consumption, Sharing and How I Plan to Use...
After the announcement of the iPad, I spent quite a bit of time thinking about how it might change my workflow. I’m always looking to be more efficient and gain time back.
Let me shock and few people here. I don’t like my MacBook Pro for reading or watching video. It’s awkard, heavy, tough on the eyes and not in the right form factor. It’s great for design and programming,...
September 2009
1 post
“Design mimics the bureaucracy it was created in.”
– Edward Tufte