January 2012
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The Pirates Who Print Shoes
Care to download and print your next pair of shoes? Without even paying for them?
The Pirate Bay invite you to share their vision: a world in which footwear is stolen and printable. They’ve announced a new category called “physibles” — files describing physical objects that can be made with a 3D printer.
In their imagined future you do not buy the objects you desire....
Jan 24th
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August 2011
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Inkling from Wacom
Wacom just announced Inkling, a ‘digital sketch pen’ that lets illustrators and avid doodlers sketch on paper, record each stroke, and import the finished drawing as layered raster or vector artwork to their Mac or PC. All for €170 (about £150/$250). Get doodling!
Aug 30th
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February 2011
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Save the Web with Readability
Readability’s new service is a great way to support your favourite websites while making web pages easier to read. It looks awesome.
The basic service
Readability lets you visit any web page and view it free of ads, oversized header graphics, and all the crap that big websites put on their pages to distract, irritate, and prevent you from enjoying their content. Making a page readable...
Feb 1st
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January 2011
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Derren Brown The Artist
Many know Derren Brown as a thought-fiddler and thaumaturge, but few seem to know that he paints. His portraits have a twisted charm that mirror his whimsical stage and TV shows, and are a lot of fun to browse; check them out here.
Today he’s tweeting photos of his process. Watching this portrait of his father come together, live, is rather wonderful. And he’s not finished yet....
Jan 29th
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The Ears Have It
You can tell a lot about a person from their ears. If the eyes are windows to the soul, the ears are periscopes to the stomach.
The rule is even stronger with dogs. When the golden labrador pictured here arrived in our household, it took my mother, brother, sister, and me 10 minutes to choose ‘Yoda’ as a name for him.
The puppy in front of us, with his puddled skin and pricked-up...
Jan 25th
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Doing it for a living
Imagine a web publishing platform that costs $10 per month.
$5 of that $10 goes to the platform company for the boring stuff.
The other $5 gets split evenly between the writers, photographers, videographers, designers, and other creative people you follow who also pay to use the platform, up to a maximum of — say — 20 followers, hand-picked by you.
Now imagine if that platform...
Jan 18th
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Everything you need to know about email
Reading about email kind of sucks. Here, then, is enough advice for a lifetime, distilled into the only three things you need to know about email:
Email is not work.
There is no right way, only your way.
The winner is the one who spends the least time in their inbox.
Do link to this page to bring a halt to any rambling blog comments, forum debates, twitter updates, or emails about email....
Jan 13th
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The Spiffing Blog
I’ve just launched my second tumblr blog: The Spiffing Blog brings quips, tips, and interesting bits on iOS development, musings on the Mac, and other miscellany. Do grab the RSS feed and/or follow me over there if you use tumblr:
blog.spiffingapps.com
Jan 10th
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