Simplicity in productivity through technology.
Email:
joshua@jshmllr.com // Knoxville, TN
Why I do What I Do.
I want to give entertainers, from the artist to the screenwriter, an opportunity to change the relationship they have with their audiences through technology and media.
Playing Angry Birds is a waste of time (but fun), but writing some worth reading or figuring out how to cure cancer are far better uses of those CPU cycles.
Clear Brings Simple, Color-Coded To-Do Lists to the Mac
The Mac version looks and works much like the iOS version. Your to-dos organize themselves based on the priority you set, but all of that happens behind the scenes—you’re only presented with a list of things you have to get done, from most important to least, in a neat windowed view. Your to-dos also sync with iCloud automatically, so if you use Clear on another Mac, or an iPhone or iPad, you can access them anywhere.
(Source: Lifehacker)
The Mighty iPad
Windows 8 isn't really cut out for tablets?
Microsoft is telling both users and hardware manufacturers alike that to get the most out of Windows 8, you’re going to need a keyboard and a pixel-perfect pointing device. Touch alone just doesn’t cut it.
Managing Email Realistically - Matt Gemmell
To effectively manage our email, we have to accept a few basic truths. They’re hard truths, but that only makes them even more valuable. Here they are:
1. What’s important to other people is not (as) important to you.
2. You are inherently lazy and egocentric.
3. Ruthlessness is a hell of a time-saver.
I’m a big believer in item #3.
If only the Mac OS X Dashboard weather widget could tell us the weather in distant galaxies far, far away from famous science fiction movies… wouldn’t that be nice? If you enjoy Star Wars, you’ll probably enjoy these images from Cristian Kit Paul, a graphic designer who also must be a Mac user and Star Wars fan.Star Wars Weather Widget
Next level pull-to-refresh
from Dribbble
How to Design for Apple’s Retina Displays
It’s no secret that the majority of web browsing is sliding quickly over to mobile devices.
Thank You Sir, May I Have Another?
Brian X Chen:
The iPhone with a two-year contract on AT&T, for example, costs $200 for the handset and then upward of $90 a month for the plan; over two years, including the cost of the phone, customers pay at least $2,360. With a prepaid plan on Virgin Mobile, which is owned by Sprint, the iPhone costs $650 for the handset, and then $30 a month, including unlimited data (the type of data plan that people are happier with, according to J.D. Power). Over two years, that would cost about $1,370.
It’s a tactic that has worked for decades: trick people up-front and screw them in the rear. Short-term gain, long-term pain. Etc. The carriers thrive on this.
But it’s still pretty jarring to see it laid out in such simple terms: if you’re willing to pay $450 more upfront, you’ll save about $1,000 over the next couple years.
