December 2009
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The Perfect List
My wife and I are very consistent in managing miscellaneous responsibilities around the house but the one area where we’re both fairly uneven with is the food shopping.
We keep a nice yellow notepad in the kitchen and casually jot down items that we intend on purchasing in due course but when it comes to either of us making that trip to the supermarket, neither of us have the infamous...
November 2009
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Beyond Borders: The Future of Bookselling →
Rachel Cooke on what online book retailers lack in comparison to a conventional brick and mortar bookstores that we’re use to -
Amazon does not set the synapses crackling the way the sight of a pristine shelf of books does: it does not surprise you, nor does it fuel book hunger. You click on what you came for, and then you leave. This, then, is where the independent store, with its...
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The Trump Card - Playing to Win in Work and Life →
Aside from being beautiful, Ivanka Trump has established herself now as quite the inspirational writer in her book The Trump Card which I just devoured and I could not move on to a new read without sharing this excerpt that stood out for me -
Naturally, I recognize that we can’t always be great at everything we do - if we could, we’d all be leaders and visionaries - but we can all...
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Want People to Listen? Get a Life. →
So, if you’re wondering why you still don’t have more readers, listeners, followers, fans, buyers, customers or evangelists…try this. Step away from the screen. Live a little. Hell, live a lot.
Come back to your blog when you have something compelling to say and you can frame it against the backdrop of your own personal experience in the world.
Rather blunt but beautifully put. Looking...
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“There will always be bloggers who are smarter, more perceptive, better...”
– Sonia Simone on Why Should Anyone Read Your Blog?
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qTweeter - Fastest Way to Update Your Status →
I use Twitter everyday even if my participation includes just being vigilant on what others have to say without me saying a word all day. Quite frankly checking in has become as standard as having a bowl of cereal in the morning but when you come across a new way to enjoy that same routine, you suddenly gain a greater enthusiasm for wanting to continue a process that you suddenly enjoy even more....
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More Than A Salesperson
I’ve been blogging long enough to know that disclosing confidential information about your employer is a “no, no” and while I’ve never necessarily have fought the urge of wanting to, it’s harmless to state that as a retail manager, a fraction of my work entails conducting interviews.
The process in time has become a well memorized screenplay carried out several...
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WatchEditorial and commercial photographer Robert Caplin has pieced together a stunning time-lapse of over 5,000 images he took using 3 cameras from about 25 locations, all around the inside/outside of Yankee Stadium that renders a narrative of what it was like attending a game-winning World Series during the inaugural season of baseball’s most famous stadium.
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“Let’s stop making Apple’s App Store out to be our scapegoat and let’s start...”
– Louie Mantia on Success and Jealousy
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“If you want to make great shit, you must first know what great shit is. This...”
– Rory Marinich on Making Great Shit
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QuickReply for SMS on iPhone →
One of the perks of Jailbreaking your iPhone is the ability to explore all those “what if” questions we have in thinking what it would be like if Apple implemented even more neat features to the device.
Imagine being completely immersed reading an article on your feed reader of choice and you suddenly receive a text that you want to reply to but have to endure the process of...
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Subscription Update
I subscribe to my own feed via NetNewsWire just because I’m a little vain like that but most importantly because I like to get a visual of what the published articles, links or photos look like on the reader.
Recently I noticed that nothing was being published in the last 5 days via FeedBurner so I made some minor adjustment to the get the feed back in working order. If you enjoy the...
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Nikon Help Hotline on YouTube →
Lens specifications, sample photos and actual real life accounts from users are always great to take in when doing research for a lens but sometimes you want to get that physical sense of what the lens would feel and look like on your camera before buying it online.
Renting or stopping by your local camera store is always an option but for you Nikon users, there’s also a YouTube Channel...
“The bottom line is that American Airlines has talented designers on their UX...”
– Gruber speaking nothing but the truth. The distaste I have for this company is unlike any other.
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Grounded with Focus Booster
Walking into a supermarket is very similar to launching your browser to navigate the web in that if you don’t establish a purpose before your visit, you inevitably spend more time trying to recall or stepping away from what you came for other than focusing on what needs to get acccomplished.
We’re all guilty of this and while having all the time in the world would be ideal for...
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WatchHaving taken the waterproof housing for the Canon with us on vacation, I could not have left the cruise without the opportunity of going down the slide a couple times with it. Photographing in the caribbean was incredible but extending that obsession onto video and water was refreshing.
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How I Cover the Afghanistan War with the 5D Mark... →
Video has really become quite another world especially with the added bonus of being able to record in HD with DSLRs. More video enthusiast are selecting them as equipment of choice in making something new and wonderful and Danfung’s incredible work as a photojournalist in Afghanistan is no exception.
His filming is both editorially and visually compelling – especially given the extreme...
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Magic Mouse Allure
The main selling point of Apple’s Magic Mouse is that it bares that much admired fruit logo branded on it that we all love, so immediately there’s no question ask or assumptions made about how wonderful the product will perform or look once we’ve gotten our hands on it.
From someone who hasn’t been a fanatic at all of any of Apple’s mouse units, without question...