Damn awesome album by E603, the mixes make want to download all of the originals and listen to them.
Download for free but you can also pay what you want. I have been listening to it so much that I paid $25 USD and Ethan is sending me a Tee-Shirt to NZ, double win!
Get your Torn Up mix from www.e-603.com
Oh I love stuff like this.
/via matthewb
Albert Exergian created this great set of minimalist film and television posters as a personal project. You’ll find these and many more on his blog, and his commercial portfolio is equally impressive (and much more ornate).
The coolest way to use Dropbox on a Mac to send file.
http://wiki.dropbox.com/DropboxAddons/Dropbox%20Service
Once installed you can simply right click on any file and copy/move it to your Dropbox public folder. The public URL will automatically be copied to your clipboard. Awesome.
My take on how the new iMac should have been designed. Even less noise than the latest iMac with “reduced” noise.
Graphed data of New Zealand fixed and 2 year floating rates from 1964 to Jan 2009
Full Size
How all stock marketing charts should be created. !=
So I wanted to setup a Snow Leopard web hosting super duper cool machine.
There are few things, if you want a fresh install, put in Snow Leopard DVD, hit Utilities on the welcome screen and it will reboot.
— Server Install
1. Erase drive. Install Snow Leopard.
2. After some time, install xcode, this will give you all the tools to build think you will need to build.
— Configure Web Server Stuff.
1. Apache, this is very good to configure your hosting files.
http://clickontyler.com/virtualhostx/
2. Get PHP going (you can google this)
3. Install MySql from DMG then add a password to root install.
4. Get Mysql Going ( you have to change the .socket setting in php.ini)
— FTP Server
1. Download the source from here
http://www.pureftpd.org/project/pure-ftpd you will need to compile it and this is why we got xcode.
2. Now you gotta compile it basically: ./configure; make; make install;
then start it with “/usr/local/sbin/pure-ftpd &” more info here http://download.pureftpd.org/pub/pure-ftpd/doc/README
3. Then simply get this http://jeanmatthieu.free.fr/pureftpd/index.html it allows you to create FTP only accounts http://jeanmatthieu.free.fr/pureftpd/index.html
— Mac Ports
Great to install a few things.
OmniGraffle ROCKS!
“Drawing a diagram with OmniGraffle is as easy as breathing; everything just works the way it should.”
Matt Neuburg - TidBITS
I don’t say this about many products. But what an amazing product. Their support is even better.
OmniGraffle (5.1) is a vector drawing application very similar to Microsoft’s Visio and even supports importing Visio documents. What they didn’t say is how good it is and how easy it is to use.
Currently I am using OmniGraffle for all my iPhone prototyping, design and icons.
What’s So Great?
The best thing is the stencils. There are 3 iPhone stencils that are very awesome for quickly dragging and dropping iPhone shapes onto the page. I bought an icon stencil for $10 bucks but you can use anything including include images/bitmaps.
Drawing is simple and quick, everything can be done on one layer, you can also quickly add further layers and even pages (hello Freehand).
Vector shapes are awesome and the big thing is that once you set the corner radius you can resize the shape without destroying the look (think photoshop and flash sometimes).
There is a huge selection of primitive shapes, stroke weights, fills and gradients with very precise control to get those awesome gradients.
The inspector tabs can also be locked for stroke or fill by simply double clicking that tab until a green lock appears, this way you can have stroke and fill on the same window. (Support told me how to do this).
Exporting and saving images is really good. One neat to trick is to exporting drawings as a PDF then importing them again. This way when you resize say an icon strokes and outline’s will scale proportionally. PNG images are very very crisp and look great on the iPhone. You can also just select one element or a group of elements on the screen and simple export these objects (love this).
What I dont like.
The basic version does not have guides (support said simple draw a box or line as a guide, fair enough).
I found it a little difficult to change the page from inches to pixels but that is pretty simple now.
Once you have draw a complex shape with curves and lines, I could not find out how to add extra points to the shape. That was a little annoying but not a killer.
Don’t drop photoshop yet. OmniGraffle wont allow you to edit bitmap images, so for any complex image editing you will need Photoshop (eg isolating images and getting you assets ready to place).
The Best.
Support! I emailed support to say I really do love this product and it really has speed up my development time and prototyping time and listed my issues. Took support 30 minutes to reply to ALL my questions and provide solid answers. Thanks Paul Palinkas, Support Ninja.
The cost for Standard is $99.95 USD and Pro $199.95 (Visio, guides, notes, SVG, Advanced Text?)
