Two weeks ago, I was convinced the new MacBook was the best computer out there. It is thin — ultra thin. It’s light and super compact. It rocks a beautiful 12” screen. When Tim introduced the new MacB
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Photos for OS X is here , and the transition from iPhoto and Aperture has begun. While Photos definitely resembles its predecessor iPhoto, it’s also definitely a 1.0 product. Here are a few interestin
Last week, Ben Brooks wrote about his recent struggles with packing the right bag for a short (but intense) work trip. It was an enjoyable read for a bag enthusiast like myself, and Ben ended the piece by making a call to other frequent travelers to post their own methods of choosing which bag to…
Pretty much every notes, journal, to-do app, and writing app has a tagging system now. With it, you're supposed to be able to easily organize everything so you can find it instantly, but tags are a bi
Fascinating critique of the idea that drugs cause drug addiction (I'm quoting at length because this section sets up the whole rest of the piece): The experiment is simple. Put a rat in a cage, alone,
A Winter in Maine Posted by on Feb 17, 2015in Projects | 66 Comments For Christmas and New Year my wife Rebecca and I traveled to New England in the United States to spend time with our family. We wer
This question would have been really easy to answer a decade ago: "A pixel is the glowing little dot on your CRT screen." Unfortunately, we don't have these screens anymore, and pixels don't really mean that anymore; at least not the kinds of pixels you're entering into a Screen component property.…
Posted on: September 28, 2014Posted in Mobile , Social When Tim Cook was interviewed by Charlie Rose after Apple’s mega launch event a few weeks ago, he scoffed at any mention of competitors, highligh
It has been said that to buy cheap is to buy often. There is much wisdom in this, as well as the opposite. Buy quality and you will find yourself not having to repeat the process. And quality items no
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How to Install Lucida Fonts On a Mac - 1) Move the downloaded font to your desktop or a convenient folder. 2) Double-click on the font icon, which will pop open a Font Book window with the name of the font and a sample. 3) Select (Install Font) in the Font Book font window, which will install the…
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This paragraph in Marshall Kirkpatrick’s Why I’ll Never Redirect my Personal Blog to Google Plus scared me a bit: Google Plus doesn’t have RSS feeds, or email subscription options. Both are important
Loren, thanks for taking the time to talk to us — especially during the holidays. What are you up to these days? I’ve been pretty busy over the holidays, mostly with family stuff. I’m finally getting
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Twitter clients used to be a UI design playground . The growing popularity of Twitter, an open API, and the rapid takeoff of the App Store contributed to the creation of a defining genre of mobile sof
“Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.” — Robert Louis Stevenson * * * Like many of you, no doubt, I spent some time t
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We picked OmniFocus as our favorite GTD app earlier this week, and we wanted to share some our favorite and most-used tips on this powerful suite of apps. Several of us here at The Sweet Setup have be
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《Design Research Unit 1942–72》，文字是文末宣言。（图 / 设计： APFEL ） 英国设计研究部（Design Research Unit，DRU）在二战时期建立。其建立宗旨充满了道德目标和理想主义：结合设计的新思想和实践的新方法，建立一个更好的战后世界。时至今日，在英国仍然可以看到他们的印记：铁路的标志，伦敦中心 Westminster 区的路牌，地铁 Distri
How To Stop Procrastinating: 4 New Steps Backed By Research I don’t wanna. I don’t wanna. I don’t wanna. It’s awful and horrible. I hear it causes cancer. I’ll do it when I feel better. I’ll do it tom
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long tail ofmeanness that had previously been hidden. And yet while there are clearly a lot of mean people out there,there are next to none among the most successful people I know.What's going on here
Mike Alvstad shot the above photo of downtown Dallas enveloped in fog through the window of an airplane on Tuesday morning. The American Airlines mechanic told NBC News he snapped this photo just befo
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