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7 August 2008

Part 2 of 2
Matt’s list of must-have apps: I work with both Mac and PC for different things. While I definitely prefer the Mac, I haven’t been able to do away with the PCs in my life completely yet. Note: Jessica already summed up all of the collaborative tools that we use, Highrise, Basecamp, [...]

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29 July 2008

stuff we love: software

Last year we did a round-up of the apps that make it easy to run a design company on the fly, and it’s high time we updated that list. Some things have changed, some have stayed the same, but one thing’s for sure: we’d be lost without these!
Part 1 of 2 (Matt will post his [...]

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15 August 2007

Our first Dashboard Widget

Pretty much since Mac OSX came out we’ve been itching to try our hand at creating a dashboard widget for it. The only problem was, we didn’t have a reason to, so we just kept putting it aside.
Well, we finally bit the bullet and took a stab at it.
For our first widget, we’ve connected [...]

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14 August 2007

On the photography front

We recently picked up a Lensbaby variable focus lens (ours is a 3G) and are absolutely having a blast with it.
Could we replicate the effect in Photoshop? Well, sort of, but it wouldn’t be easy or 100% right.
There is also a random element to using the lensbaby that we love. Often we don’t get [...]

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15 June 2007

Handy Dandy Shopify Tutorial for Newbies

We’ve been loving Shopify for small business e-commerce, and it’s been great for our clients. The one thing we hear more than anything else is “Can you send a tutorial for beginners so that we know how to get started?”
We are nothing if not accommodating. Here’s a super easy, super simple guide to getting [...]

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9 April 2007

Adobe’s Lightroom vs. Apple’s Aperture: who wins?

We’ve been using Adobe Lightroom (now Photoshop Lightroom) for months now, ever since we stumbled over the beta version in Adobe Labs. We loved the interface, the integration with Photoshop, the ease of use. Pretty much the only thing we didn’t love was the new dock icon. What is up with the new Adobe icons? [...]

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21 March 2007

Who Needs to Stay in One Place When We Have The Internet?

We shuttle between a home office, an office-office, and several points in between. How do we do it? Here’s a list, in no particular order, of the apps, programs and sites that make it possible to run a business from anyplace we happen to be.

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6 February 2007

Skype: not VoIP-tastic

We spend a lot of time working at home or shuttling between home and office, so when we set up the office phone we wanted to make sure it was available anywhere. After looking into several VoIP options, we decided Skype was the way to go. It had a lot going for it: we could [...]

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11 January 2007

Blog Juggling: Keeping All Your Online Identities In The Air at Once

These days it isn’t unusual for people to have several online aliases. There’s the personal persona, hanging out on MySpace and YouTube; there’s the work persona, reading news feeds and doing online research; and there’s often a third, leisure persona, frequenting specialized bulletin boards and sites for hobbies like crafting, D&D or politics. And, of [...]

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27 November 2006

Getting Organized: We Love Ticky Boxes

Everyone knows the best way to stay organized during the holiday season is to make lists. Lots and lots of lists. (OCD? What OCD?) We’ve got lists for home, lists for work…sometimes we’ve even got lists that keep track of our lists. There’s nothing wrong with that. Why, what have you heard?
One of the most [...]