The EUScreen site is an astounding digital archive aiming to preserve Europe’s television heritage, 1900-present.
(via @dwell)
Marks + Dinnerware
Here’s a useful post over on Apartment Therapy on how to get rid of those gray scratch marks on plates.
The Single Sentence Email Project
In my desperation of finding a solution to my guilt-inducing-email-problem I am considering The Single Sentence Email Project:
“Respond to emails with as few words as possible. Aim for a sentence, but if just a word will do, use it.* It will take practice, and some might dislike it. I argue that this is a fair trade for getting more time to work (and live) productively.”
But I of course fear that my short reply will come across as rude. What is better: Getting a brief reply or none at all? Maybe Five Sentences is a good middle ground.
sherpaa
Jay Parkinson and his team just launched Sherpaa, an around the clock email and phone access to friendly, NYC-based doctors (or Guides as they call them). Whenever you have a health question or concern, they’re here for you. And they play nicely with the insurance you’ve got.
For now, they’re focusing on working exclusively with tumblr employees but will soon be signing up other NYC-based companies. If you’re interested in joining Sherpaa, let them know. I am!
Jay gave an interesting CreativeMornings talk in 2010, in which he explains how he wants to change health care with help of technology and design. Worth watching.
Finding Duplicate Files
I saw my friend Chris Glass tweet about his project of finding duplicate files on his computer over the weekend. Being the queen of multiple backups and duplicates I reached out and asked for more info.
Here’s a LONG REPLY tweet he just sent my way. He compared 3 applications to tackle the issue: dupeGuru, Araxis Find Duplicates Files and TidyUp2.
He ended up liking dupeGuru the best. Here are his findings.
Liquid Conversion Chart
Thank you Erik Spiekermann, for creating this US Liquid Conversion Chart from US fluid ounces to milliliters.
An Automatic Diet Planner
Here’s an interesting site for people want to gain or loose weight: swole.me is an automated diet planter that creates meals according to your goal calorie intake and how many meals you’d like to eat per day. Completely free.
(Thank you Dave)
Lucky Ant
Brand new Lucky Ant is the Kickstarter for your community. Instead of funding short films and art projects, you help support improvements to your favorite neighborhood hot spots. Whether it’s sponsoring an outdoor patio for the cafe around the corner or even helping a local high school build a student-run restaurant, this is your chance to help build the community of your dreams.
Two thumbs up for this idea. Hoping they’ll add my Brooklyn neighborhood soon! Luckyant.com
(via TBD)
TinyLetter
Mailchimp’s latest app, TinyLetter, makes it ridiculously easy to start your own mailing list and email newsletter. It’s a matter of minutes and you’re set to go. Pick a username and boom, you have your sign-up-page ready.
Mailchmp is fantastic service for maintaining business newsletters, but has too many bells and whistles for an individual that just wants to maintain a simple mailing list and send text email newsletter. That’s exactly what TinyLetter does best.
As Ben Chestnut, CEO of Mailchimp puts it: “You could think of TinyLetter as a “MailChimp Lite.” A more directionally accurate analogy would be, “Gmail on steroids.”
Read more about TinyLetter in this blog post.
Interested? Give TinyLetter a try yourself or subscribe to mine at: tinyletter.com/swissmiss
Onepager
Onepager lets small business owners setup a simple website in minutes. The Onepager interface allows you to easily update and maintain your website on your own. No need for a developer.
Here are a few examples built with Onepager: Northport Golfclub and Landmark Diner.
Onepager Introductory Video from Simande LLC on Vimeo.
(via this great post over at The Next Web)
Dr.Brendan | The iphone Doc
In september of 2010 I discovered iPhone Doc Dr.Brendan. After a quick email exchange and a description of my ‘patient’ we met up in a hotel lobby in Manhattan. 20 minutes later my iphone looked like new. Impressed by his story I wrote a post about him, which apparently sent a lot of new customers his way. Yay! Well deserved!
I luckily didn’t need Dr.Brendan’s services since, until 2 weeks ago, when my husband dropped his new iPhone 4s in water. Outch! I emailed Dr.Brendan and an hour later, Tony, one of his employees was in our living-room, trying to ‘revive Siri’. But there was no heartbeat! He took “Siri” with him and a few days later, we got a call with good news: Siri was alive and kicking! YAY!
During the short visit at our apartment, I learned that Dr.Brendan since has moved his business out of his living-room and opened two stores. And not only that, he has a whole army employees and they now also fix Macs. I was thrilled to hear that as my 2.5 year old iMac at work was giving me a hard time. Tony, a Dr.Brendan employee, came to promptly pick it up the next day and conveniently brought it back a few days later, fixed. Pick-up and drop-off? Yes, please!
Dr.Brendan and his team not only fix iPhones but now also repair pretty much any Apple device, do data recovery, help you set up your network and much more.
I can’t praise Brendan and his team enough. Go check out his site. And if you live either in the East Village or Park Slope, drop by their shop. And no worries, if you don’t live in NYC, you can ship your patient to Dr.Brendan.
Yay for this wonderful entrepreneurial story.
Make Your Own Fabric
Did you know you can design and produce your own fabric? It’s affordable and there is no minimum order required! Spoonflower makes it possible.
(Thank you Jodi)
five.sentenc.es
five.sentenc.es is a personal policy that all email responses regardless of recipient or subject will be five sentences or less. It’s that simple. Not new, I know, but good to remind ourselves of.
The Little Know-It-All
The Little Know-It-All Graphic is Common Sense in book form, for Designers. It covers a broad spectrum of questions that designers need to know the answers to, in order to thrive in their growing field of practice. Not currently available in the US but SOON according to the gestalten.com site. Browse the book.
tubalr
Tubalr allows you to effortlessly listen to a band’s or artist’s top YouTube videos without all the clutter YouTube brings. To get started just type a band’s or artist’s name into the search box and select only or similar. Oh, and if you’re interested in saving your favorite videos, register an account.
(via unplggd)
Scriptogr.am
Scriptogr.am is a free, new blogging tool that transforms your Dropbox into a minimalistic, beautiful blog. Hat tip to the creator Andreas Pihlström!
Check out their blog for more info.
Lighting Techniques for Video Interviews
Now that was interesting! A video tutorial teaching you Lighting Techniques for Video Interviews.
(via Cameron Moll)
Authentic Jobs 50% Off
Authentic Jobs, the fantastic Jobs Listings Network I am a proud member of is running their annual New Year’s Promotion, which means you get 50% off any job listing. Take advantage of it until january 12th by using promo code TWELVESWISS.
unroll.me
I have been spending most of my morning unsubscribing my blog submission email account from newsletters that I never signed up to in the first place. It’s simply unacceptable how companies put my submission email on their mailing list without my permission. As I was tweeting about my frustration my friend Amrit Richmond pointed me to Unroll.me:
Unroll.Me is an email unsubscribe engine that crawls through your inbox and pulls up a list of your subscriptions allowing you to choose which one to keep and which ones to unsubscribe from. After you press unsubscribe, they will take care of the rest.
Might as well give unroll.me a try! (Even though I admit, I am a bit nervous about giving out my email login information)
UPDATE: Doesn’t work on Google App hosted email accounts (yet). Bummed.
Pixel Perfect Vector Nudging
When nudging vector points, Photoshop exhibits some strange behaviour, linked to how far you’re currently zoomed in. At 100%, nudging using the arrow keys will move your vector point exactly 1 pixel. At 200%, nudging moves the point half a pixel. At 300%, it’ll move a third of a pixel.
Fantastic post on Pixel Perfect Vector Nudging in Photoshop.
(via @khoi)
Authentic Jobs iPhone App
Wow, Cameron Moll did an awesome job with the launch of his Authentic Jobs iPhone App. The app puts all of the Authentic Jobs listings (which range from design, creative, to technical jobs) within touch. It’s free of charge. More here.
Gidsy
Gidsy aims to make it easy to find fun stuff to do, whether you are looking for a private guide to show you around local art spaces, or to take you mushroom-picking in the forest. You could call it a marketplace for authentic experiences. The best part: Anyone can host activities. Interesting!
