Creative Community Bulletin 5 December 2013

Great con­tent found by Pariah and shared to the design and cre­ative com­mu­ni­ties on social media.

  • Build an Attractive, Informative Mac Desktop with GeekTool
    “It may be cov­ered with appli­ca­tions and win­dows most of the time, but your Mac’s desk­top can also be an excel­lent source of infor­ma­tion, includ­ing the time and date, avail­able hard dri­ve space, bat­tery sta­tus, sys­tem per­for­mance, and more. Wit…
  • Go “Back to the Future” to Make Better Decisions
    “When you are fac­ing a dif­fi­cult choice, take a moment and imag­ine your­self in a suc­cess­ful or failed out­come to gain some clar­i­ty, sug­gests Robert Sutton, author of Scaling Up Excellence: Getting To More Without Settling For Less.”

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  • Pinboard, a Private Bookmarking System with­out Pomp — Social Bookmarking for Introverts

    “Pinboard​.in is an anti-social book­mark­ing ser­vice. It start­ed as an alter­na­tive to Delicious book­marks with one major dif­fer­ence. By default, book­marks were pri­vate. It was not intend­ed to be a place to explore, but rather a place to reli­ably keep book­marks with a minu­mum of pomp and cir­cum­stance. Their tag-line is “Social book­mark­ing for introverts.””

  • How to Customize Your Favorite Web Sites to Your Exact Preferences
    “What are user­scripts (and user­styles) exact­ly? Userscripts​.org calls them “power-ups for your brows­er,” but more specif­i­cal­ly they are pieces of JavaScript that are used to change, add, and alter func­tion­al­i­ty on a giv­en site. You can think of…
  • The Period, Our Simplest Punctuation Mark, Has Become a Sign of Anger

    “The peri­od was always the hum­blest of punc­tu­a­tion marks. Recently, how­ev­er, it’s start­ed get­ting angry. I’ve noticed it in my text mes­sages and online chats, where peo­ple use the peri­od not sim­ply to con­clude a sen­tence, but to announce “I am not hap­py about the sen­tence I just concluded.”

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  • A Photog’s Guide to Year-End Tax-Deductible Purchases

    “As the year end approach­es all small busi­ness own­ers should start think­ing about tax deduc­tions! Depending on the busi­ness struc­ture and tax lia­bil­i­ty some income tax­es may already have been paid, for oth­ers they haven’t paid a dime. This is where your busi­ness sav­ings and tax deduc­tions come in! Take a gan­der at the top tax deduc­tions you don’t want to for­get about and eval­u­ate your bud­get, busi­ness plan and needs for 2014.
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  • App design Dos and Don’ts: What to keep in mind when design­ing for a glob­al audience

    “Designing an app takes a lot of cre­ativ­i­ty, plan­ning and inten­sive labor. However, the game gets hard­er when you’re design­ing for a glob­al audi­ence. We spoke to some of the hottest glob­al apps and got their top tips to share.”

  • The Design Thesis — A mod­el for help­ing peo­ple become bet­ter designers
    “Recently, I start­ed pilot­ing a con­cept called The Design Thesis that focus­es on exact­ly that. But let me take a few steps back and lay down some foun­da­tion­al per­spec­tives that helped me get there.

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  • What’s On YOUR Gift List? 33 Amazing Gifts for Designers and Creative Pros by Pariah Burke

    Designers can be a difficult-to-buy-for bunch, so I scoured the Web (and my own wish list [hint, hint]) for gifts that help design­ers do their work, cel­e­brate cre­ativ­ity, and express them­selves as cre­atives. I came up with 33 amaz­ing design­er gifts, and anoth­er 50 in two addi­tion­al arti­cles [linked from the main article].

  • Questions Marketers are Taught to Ask When Hiring Graphic Designers
    “During your career as a mar­keter, you will have to work with a wide range of graph­ic design­ers in order to design a num­ber of graph­ics pieces. If you have worn a graph­ic design­er hat before, then under­stand­ing the per­spec­tive of a graph­ic desi…

Curated by Pariah Burke