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- The Definitive Guide to Springpad Alternatives
If you’re as sad as I am that Springpad is shutting down, you’re probably looking around for alternatives that don’t necessarily end in “note.” This spreadsheet, put together by members of the Springpad Google+ Community, is packed with alterna…
- 30 Mind-Blowing Photorealistic Artworks
These artists were chosen because each has the ability to create artworks so realistic that they look like the original pictures. There are some critics that only recognize their technique and skills, saying that creating stuffs from photos isn’t “true art”. I disagree, how about you?
- 30 Mind-Blowing Photorealistic Artworks
These artists were chosen because each has the ability to create artworks so realistic that they look like the original pictures. There are some critics that only recognize their technique and skills, saying that creating stuffs from photos isn’t “true art”. I disagree, how about you?
- 5 On-Camera Tips to Look Like a Pro on TV
From tucking your jacket under yourself to making a quick fix and sallying onward, here are some smart tips for making the most of your fleeting moments in a TV interview.
- Want to know what other freelancers charge?
Something interesting is starting to happen: freelancers are sharing how much they earn.
- You Can Paint With All The Colors of The Universe In This Stunning Hubble Image
This new 2014 image (click above to embiggen) is a composite of separate exposures over 824 orbits of telescope viewing time, from 2003 to 2012. It contains something like 10,000 galaxies in it, even ones that go as far back as just a few hundr…
- How to be More Assertive
Assertiveness isn’t going to solve all your problems and it’s not appropriate for every situation—context is key. What it will do, is help you feel more confident and communicate more effectively when you need to. Expressing your true self and sticking up for your rights is empowering and it’s something that the majority of us, should do a lot more.
- The Platform Wars Have Begun, Says TechCrunch
When you don’t compete on all fronts, you relinquish part of your end-user experience to a competitor, and you cede buy-in for your other services.
- Twitter’s CEO Says You Should Always Pronounce the @ in Twitter Handles, Here’s Why We Think He’s Wrong
Last month, the Twitter account for On The Media, an NPR-affiliated radio program and blog devoted to discussing current trends in media coverage, ran a tweet that contained the phrase “an @Guardian article.” Apparently, this usage is supposed to be grammatically correct. We still have issues with this idea, and we bet some of you do, too.
- Personalized TV and Content Marketing
The Internet is changing the way we watch TV, as well as the way we interact with a host of other content. Planning for the future of content consumption must include content promotion, and a personalized experience has already become valuable. What TV viewers demand now may have a profound effect beyond the screen—and marketers need to be ready for it.
- The Golden Age of Helvetica Ends – But Not at Apple.
Ironically, on Monday Apple announced the next version of OS X (Yosemite) would drop Lucida Grande — a fixture of the OS since 1999 — in favor of Helvetica Neue.
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- The survival of the newspaper in a digital age
Amidst the statements of ‘newspapers are dead’ comes an article from Vanity Fair’s Michael Kinsley, who believes that the newspaper will live on forever. He says there will always be a demand for high-quality news – enough at least to keep a few national newspapers going.
- It’s Time to Turn Your Back on Amazon
For the first time since Amazon began, ordinary people are talking about the company not like it’s a magical blowjob-dispensing internet genie, but like it’s a common playground bully.
- 6 Simple Reasons Why Paper Can Still Be Your Killer Productivity App
No, it’s not 1960. So, why the hell am I calling paper a “killer app”? I mean, this is a technology that first came into being in 200AD. That’s almost as old as the Nokia 3310.
- The Designer’s Guide to Working with SVG – Pt 1
The real power of SVG becomes clearer when you’ve got a readable, manipulatable document — and not a dense, arcane document ejected from a graphics app.
Today, I want to give you a speed guide on the basics of SVG, and how to get files that you can work with.
- Posterize Edits with Lightroom 5 by Orchard View Color
“I stumbled into this style of posterized Lightroom edits after doing a daily photo edit for a month and a half. Perhaps I was getting a little bored with my daily edit challenge. From the beginning I was hoping to discover something new…”
… - The 7 Habits of Highly Overrated People
A lot of people mistake activity for productivity, and you can capitalize on that. If you send one or two emails a day, summarizing what’s going on with a project in excruciating detail, people will start to think of you as that vaguely annoying person who has his fingers on the pulse all of the time. This is an even better strategy if you make the rounds, calling and talking to people to get status updates as to what they’re doing before sending an email.
- These 6 Awesome Terminal Commands Will Boost Your MacBook
You can only cram so much into a graphical user interface before it becomes cluttered, so it should come as no big surprise that you can do some really cool things using the Mac Terminal.
After you’ve learned the basic Terminal commands and geeked out with some funny Terminal easter eggs, you might wonder what else this slick beauty can do for you. - 7 Ideas From Ancient Thinkers To Improve Your Modern Life
That said, we know there are things that were better in the past, ideas we can learn from or reclaim.
What’s interesting is recently science and experts have validated many of the lessons ancient thinkers knew but could not prove.
Here are 7 new ideas from the old world that can make your life better: - The 10 Most Common Myths About Adobe’s Creative Cloud
With over 1.4 million customers having already signed up the eighteen months since it launched, Adobe’s Creative Cloud offering has been a success exceeding even the company’s own expectations. Still, there are a lot of misconceptions out there that we see from time to time, or that some folks seem to believe… (do you?) Here below we dispel and debunk the top 10 most common myths we’ve heard – and hopefully even if you already know the scoop or use Creative Cloud you’ll pick something up… read on!