A blog about life amidst technology.

OpenFrame — A Simple Way to Display Prints and Photos

March 20, 2013 by

If you’re like us, we have dozens of posters that are just lying around in tubes or draw­ers. They never made it onto the wall because we never got around to fram­ing them. Cus­tom fram­ing can be expen­sive and is lim­ited to hold­ing one size of print. We designed Open­Frame as a sim­ple, flex­i­ble way to hang posters, prints, and pho­tos of var­i­ous sizes and configurations.

I really love the idea of Open­Frame on Kick­Starter. It seems so sim­ple and yet works so well. I also like how the rewards for projects like this are easy — sup­port as much as you want rel­a­tive to how many frames you want. No gimmicks.

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Check it out on Kick­Starter.

Filed Under: Design, Pictures Tagged With: , ,

So You Want to Make a Whole Bunch of T-​​Shirts

February 20, 2013 by

The folks behind Unit​ed​Pix​el​work​ers​.com give away all the behind the scenes dirt on sell­ing and ship­ping a whole bunch of t-​​shirts to nerds every­where:

We’re not Thread­less, but hav­ing grown two orders of mag­ni­tude since start­ing this lit­tle union, we know the pain of scal­ing in every part of our oper­a­tion. What’s the dif­fer­ence you ask? Everything.

They cover switch­ing from Big Car­tel to Shopify, sourc­ing a printer, and many other deci­sions (and mis­takes) they’ve made along the way.

Filed Under: Design Tagged With: , , ,

Authentic Jobs Canada is Not Authentic

February 1, 2013 by

I hate lazy rip offs and this one stinks all around.

Run­ning a job board isn’t a new idea. Nor is being inspired by the way another com­pany runs their job board. But copy­ing all the brand­ing, func­tion­al­ity and pretty much the whole web­site is wrong on every level.

Authen­tic Jobs Canada (I’m not giv­ing them a link) has copied almost every­thing about what Cameron Moll and his team at Authen­tic Jobs built up — includ­ing a Cana­dian ver­sion of the domain name and quick Word­Press based job board theme.

I can only guess that the legal has­sles involved for Cameron don’t make it worth going after these jackasses.

Orig­i­nal Version

AuthenticJobs.com

Scum­bag Rip off

AuthenticJobs.ca

The prob­lem really becomes appar­ent when I, as some­one located in Canada, does a Google search for Authen­tic Jobs. This is what I see:

Google Result for Authentic Jobs

If I’m a Cana­dian busi­ness owner look­ing to hire and I’ve heard good things about some “Authen­tic Jobs” list­ing ser­vice, I’m likely going to skip down to the .CA version.

Not only does Cameron run a qual­ity job site, he also puts a lot of effort into the charity:water ini­tia­tive which has raised thou­sands of dol­lars for the charity.

I’m just post­ing this so that hope­fully some­body who does a search comes across this and decides to use the authen­tic Authen­tic Jobs site and not the scummy Authen­tic Jobs Canada rip off.

Filed Under: Business, Design, Technology Tagged With: , , ,

Too Lazy to Blog Episode 10 with Christopher Schmitt

December 18, 2012 by
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Pod­cast: Play in new win­dow | Down­load (Dura­tion: 1:00:35 — 41.7MB)

Christo­pher Schmitt is my spe­cial guest for the 10th episode of Too Lazy to Blog. We talk about putting on web con­fer­ences, our Non-​​Breaking Space pod­cast, writ­ing a book, and Flickr’s new lease on life.

Notes and Links Discussed

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Faraway, So Close

Filed Under: Design, Marketing, Nerds, Podcast, Podcasting, Technology, Travel

Field Notes: Expedition Edition

December 10, 2012 by

Seems like a good pair­ing for this Saskatchewan win­ter. Expe­di­tion Edi­tion Field Notes note­books:

But the real inno­va­tion here is the paper. It’s maybe not even fair to call it paper. The whole book is printed on Yupo Syn­thetic paper, an amaz­ing water– and tear-​​proof paper extruded from polypropy­lene pel­lets in Chesa­peake, Virginia.

Be sure to check out the 12 “sci­en­tific” test videos on the site.

Filed Under: Design

Pixelmator on for Half Price

November 23, 2012 by

Since turkeys gave their life for Amer­i­cans this week­end, Pix­el­ma­tor is on sale for half off in the Mac App Store for only $14.99.

I keep mean­ing to do a screen­cast show­ing why Pix­el­ma­tor is so great as a Pho­to­shop alter­na­tive for 75% of what peo­ple typ­i­cally use Pho­to­shop for — so until I do that you’ll just have to take my word for it that Pix­el­ma­tor is a great deal at it’s reg­u­lar $29.99 so at $14.99 it’s a steal.

For any­one with a Retina Mac it’s also Retina ready with their recent update:

Both Pixelmator’s friendly user inter­face and its pow­er­ful image edit­ing engine are now opti­mized for the new Mac­Book Pro with Retina display.

Pix­el­ma­tor Screenshots

Pixelmator - Pixelmator Team

Filed Under: Apple, Design Tagged With: ,
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