Archive for the 'Recommendations' Category

Mac app bundle

Friday, January 11th, 2008

Macheist has a limited time offer for a great bundle of 11 mac apps that I highly recommend. The bundle now includes CSSEdit that I have previously mentioned as the best tool for easy and elegant creation and editing of stylesheets.
It also includes AppZapper, and if you buy the bundle, you can use it to [...]

Blogs worth subscribing to

Friday, October 5th, 2007

Eirik Solheim asked me to provide a list of five favorite blogs after listing herrklein.com as an awesome blog on eirikso.com.The rules are as follows: no community blogs, and they must be written in English. Here are the five blogs that I ended up recommending:

Information Aesthetics
The beauty of visualisation and visual communication by Andrew Vande [...]

Abduction for Dummies

Sunday, September 2nd, 2007

If you like the Alien Abduction Lamp, I am sure you will also like Pixar’s short Lifted. I had a good time watching it at Siggraph’s Electronic Theatre this summer.A high quality version is available from iTunes.

Espresso Love

Friday, May 25th, 2007

I have now departed with my ten year old Gaggia Paros espresso machine and bought a new ISOMAC Venus (recommended!). And buying the new machine has sparked my interest in making the best possible coffee. The image on the right shows a double espresso in the making.
One important parameter when making a good espresso is [...]

Working on two Macs

Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007

If you have a laptop and a desktop mac, Teleport is the tool to work on both at the same time.
This great tool makes your second mac work just almost like connecting a second display. When you move your mouse off the main screen where you set the other mac up to be, the control [...]

Designing Interactions

Sunday, March 11th, 2007

Designing Interactions is a must read for anyone designing interactive objects or services.
And I do not mean just interaction designers.
Graphical designers, gui coders, industrial designers, project managers and many others will gather valuable insight or build up an understanding for the importance of good interface design.

Fluxiom online digital asset manager

Thursday, March 1st, 2007

My company has been using a custom built web application for storing and sharing marketing material for a few years. The application was probably good at the time it was made, but as with so much other custom made software, it has never been updated. And like most other web based tools from a few [...]