I came across this fun screencast video. It shows off Leopard’s features, but what’s about it is that it’s more like a nice take on a music video. There’s also a Windows version if you’re into that after the break.
I really love packaging, but it’s an area where so many companies go into excess and it becomes wasteful. That’s why I was especially happy to see Newton Running’s latest shoebox. It’s exactly what a shoebox should be: simple, minimal and green. I hope to see—and help—more companies going towards this.
The talented people at TDA Advertising made this up for the Newton folks. Bravo for both!
I want a reason to visualize data like this. And then eat it. This pie chart is really made of chocolate!
Note to self: find client in chocolate industry. Right now.
Last week I was fortunate enough to get in on the fun that is Boxee.
Boxee is a free media center application that will dig through your computer (and any networked hard drives!), organize all your music, videos and photos. It even works with lots of photo sharing services like Flickr!
The real fun begins when you get to watch video—you can stream video from Hulu, CNN, Comedy Central, MySpaceTV and more! (And as of right now, there aren’t any commercials in the Hulu streams.) Mega bonus.
Anyone else a member? What do you think about it?
Daytum is a great, geeky site that lets you create fun little charts. It’s currently in private beta, and I was happy to get in on the action. I’m still figuring out how useful it can be for me, so right now lots of my charts are just fun little bits of pop culture. I’m very much okay with that.
I think it’s great that you can enter sets of data and then chart them in different ways on the fly. Nice job, Daytum!
Have a look at my site and if you’re so inclined, visit Daytum’s homepage and apply for the beta!.
After much planning, thinking and a little swearing I’m thrilled to share my new portfolio site with you. It features design work, photography and some other goodies!
In the coming weeks, I’m going to be adding more work as well as other fun enhancements. I believe you’ll be pretty pleased with it all.
One of the things I like the most about the OS X Dashboard is how it can help with your productivity. I wanted to share a three really handy widgets that can really help you get your designey things done quicker.
1) Lorem Ipsum
While I think you would do well to use actual copy wherever possible, sometimes it just isn’t an option. This widget can easily create a word, phrase, sentence, paragraph or custom length lorem ipsum phrase with just a couple of clicks. Super handy! (Download Link)
The talented and lovely Liz over at CMD+SHIFT DESIGN has a new blog post up about why she chose to freelance as a career. She also asked for answers from some other folks on why they’ve decided to freelance and I was happy to contribute.
If you’ve got a few minutes, why not crank up this interview? Jason Fried (of 37Signals fame) sits down to answer a few questions about working habits, the structure of his company and how not hiring a PR firm can be a good thing.
(via O’Reilly)
