Alternative icon for Omnifocus

by mtheoryx on February 21, 2010 · 2 comments

in Productivity, apple, design, quicktip

I finally got my new 27″ Core i7 iMac delivered. It’s frickin’ glorious. Immediately, I set out to customize the crap out of it. The very first thing I did was install Candybar from Panic and change all the icons I could. Turns out, I’d have to do a little design work for myself. Read on to see how and why I created this.

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Statistics are f*cking with your mind, America

by mtheoryx on February 12, 2010 · 0 comments

in Opinion

Just now, on the morning CNN Headline News, I saw a quick stat in honor of, I can only imagine, Valentines day.

And it pretty much embarrasses women.

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Flash Apologists are Legion

February 10, 2010

It’s times like these that I almost hate blogging. I read what might be the most insightful article comparing and contrasting Flash and HTML5 that I’ve ever seen, yet I’m compelled to belittle the crap out of the content. Why? Because this wasn’t about HTML5 at all! It was about excuses for Flash.
In Ray Valdes’ [...]

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Mac QuickTip: Spaces AND Expose at the same time

December 7, 2009

If you’re a user of Spaces on OS X, you’re no doubt frustrated at times by having to drag windows around from space to space.
Here’s a real quick shortcut sure to save you a few milliseconds…

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Google Wave Complaints being answered

November 30, 2009

People have some legitimate concerns about Google Wave, myself included. Google posted a wave asking what people like about Wave, and what they don’t like.
It appears they’re taking the gripes pretty seriously.

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What is Google Wave? An easy explanation

November 29, 2009

If you fall into one of these categories, read on:

You don’t know how to explain what Google Wave is,
You just got a Wave invite, and don’t know where to start,
Someone just asked you what Google Wave is, or
You were just asked if you wanted an invite, but don’t know what it is

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5 Hot jQuery Plugin Roundups guaranteed to keep you busy

November 29, 2009

I didn’t want to leave my great readers out of the loop on this, so I’m going to post the day’s collection from my Twitter project here for your enjoyment.
In honor of #pluginSunday, which is my attempt at a Twitter movement, below are some great resources for some of the hottest jQuery plugins making their [...]

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Job boards suck, and here’s why

November 28, 2009

There’s a lot to be desired as a freelancer looking for short to medium term work. Many sites are crowded with junk, look and function horribly, provide little to no customer service, or have such a loose vetting process (looking at you, Craigslist) that you’d be hard pressed to find a worse waste of your [...]

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Starting a Twitter movement

November 27, 2009

Today I had the urge to try a little experiment. I wanted to start adoption of certain hashtags on Twitter, much like how #followfriday started.
I picked out 7 topics for which I would like to share resources. I then assigned these to days of the week. Some of them are too long, some don’t sound [...]

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Be thankful, be kind, be you.

November 26, 2009

I wanted to take this moment to wish all of you a happy Thanksgiving and holiday season. Be thankful for what you have, peaceful about what you don’t, and driven to get what you want.

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