Helvetica is a feature-length independent film about typography, graphic design and global visual culture. It looks at the proliferation of one typeface (which recently celebrated its 50th birthday in 2007) as part of a larger conversation about the way type affects our lives. Helvetica has been shown at over 200 film festivals, museums, design conferences, and cinemas worldwide, and is now available on DVD. Get more info about the film...

Helvetica is a feature-length independent film about typography, graphic design and global visual culture. It looks at the proliferation of one typeface (which will celebrate its 50th birthday in 2007) as part of a larger conversation about the way type affects our lives. The film is an exploration of urban spaces in major cities and the type that inhabits them, and a fluid discussion with renowned designers about their work, the creative process, and the choices and aesthetics behind their use of type. Helvetica encompasses the worlds of design, advertising, psychology, and communication, and invites us to take a second look at the thousands of words we see every day. Interviewees in Helvetica include some of the most illustrious and innovative names in the design world, including Eri

OPS1 is an easy to use cloud infrastructure operations management tool for your ever demanding compute environments. With this application you can easily manage your VMWare vSphere, standalone ESX and Amazon AWS environments: take control of your Virtual Machine Instances, manage storage, networking and user access permissions. OPS1 application also allows you to check your environment status alerts and recent activities, thus ensuring your business critical Infrastructure is up 24/7.

As we waltz through our digital lives, we tend to accumulate files and folders, and folders full of files. While a portion of this accumulation is the kind of effluvia that we won’t need next week, much less five years from now, for many of us a large chunk of it is data that will be as important tomorrow as it is today. Think long term business projects, financial files, and databases, for example. If you’re an organized person, you’ve created a logical file structure that allows you to locate files many years from now. If you’re not so organized, you have to search for what you want.

In both my work and personal life, I regularly need to share files with others, and the best and most flexible method that I have found is through Dropbox’s excellent Public folder. There are several limitations to this method however: Files in your Dropbox folder aren’t secure, and are publicly searchable; Files in your Dropbox folder become stale and require regular deletion to not consume your space and create clutter; Getting a group of files into your Dropbox and sharing it with others is a tiresome process if done regularly.

Wenn Marcus Bösch irgendwo aufkreuzt, höre ich besonders genau hin, ich halte ihn für einen der führenden digitalen Journalisten im Lande. Gut, dass sich solche Leute auch stark um Journalistenausbildung kümmern. Zusammen mit Marcus von Jordan will Bösch nun "torial" abheben lassen, den "Webspace für Journalisten". Die Plattform will dreierlei bieten: 1. Archiv für digitale Daten (Integration von Diensten wie Dropbox oder Evernote per API, aber auch von Dokumenten, Bildern, Videos, Bookmarks), 2. Netzwerk sein (Vernetzung zu fachlich relevanten Journalistenkollegen, kollaboratives Arbeiten an gemeinsamen Projekten) und 3. Präsenz (eine digitale Visitenkarte). Für sich genommen ist jeder der Punkte nicht wirklich neu, in der Kombination klingt das für Journalisten aber spannend. Ich habe mich mal als Beta-Tester angemeldet und werde über meine Erfahrungen berichten.

Remember your first time? Maybe it was choppy, maybe it was oddly charming, but it was probably years ago. Not *that* first time. The first time you watched a webseries or YouTube video. Well, I’m going to tell you about my first time writing one. I’ve just signed on as a writer for The Lizzie Bennet Diaries, based on one of the most beloved works of English literature: Pride & Prejudice, by Jane Austin. My first episode was shot last Saturday!

Have boys bottomed out? A new TED Book says yes. The culprit: the rampant overuse of video games and online porn. In their provocative ebook The Demise of Guys: Why Boys Are Struggling and What We Can Do About It, celebrated psychologist Philip G. Zimbardo and Nikita Duncan say that an addiction to video games and online porn have created a generation of shy, socially awkward, emotionally removed, and risk-adverse young men who are unable (and unwilling) to navigate the complexities and risks inherent to real-life relationships, school, and employment. Taking a critical look at a problem which is tearing at families and societies everywhere, The Demise of Guys suggests that our young men are suffering from a new form of “arousal addiction,” and introduce a bold new plan for getting them back on track. The book is based on a popular TED Talk which Zimbardo did in 2011, and includes extensive research as well as a TED-exclusive survey that drew responses from more than 20,000 men. We recently spoke with Zimbardo and Duncan about their ideas.

ABSTRACT: This document is an introduction to Open Learning. It examines briefly what "Open" means and the different facets of the open movement and what "Learning" means and how it is different for every person. Attention is brought to the issue of the digital divide and ways to reduce or eliminate barriers to education. We look at how to get started with Open Learning if you are fortunate enough to have access to the technologies, and possible ways of obtaining access if you don't. We then go over how to map out a personalized learning strategy that works for you. The core of the document goes over many of the different types of Open Learning resources available, and possible ways to organize and structure your learning. We will also looks at the issue of accreditation and how to receive recognition for your learning in a way that allows you to demonstrate your newly acquired skills. Finally, it finishes with ideas on how to start solo or collaborative projects as well as possible ways to get them funded.

Here’s a macro to take advantage of the new Keyboard Maestro 5.3 Image actions. This macro processes an image (or several) selected in the Finder. If the image is larger than 600px wide, a new scaled copy is created that is 600px wide. But the trick is to scale both dimensions relatively, not just squash the image on the X-axis.

How can we manage our energy and attention for peak performance? How does a constant barrage of information affect our decision-making skills? How can we build better habits, embrace risk-taking, and truly realize our creative potential? We're not saying we have all the answers, but this Best of 2011 collection does attempt to provide insight on these questions - and to empower you to work with more smarts, more purpose, and more results.

Yes, the phrase ‘text expander’ may sound as boring as mud, but as a blogger and regular computer user I maintain that text expanders are essential bits of software for anyone who spends more than an hour a day typing in to the computer and in the video below I’ll attempt to show you why. A good program, like TextExpander for the Mac will be intuitive and easy to master, and with very little set up it can save you hours of toi

I’m just catching up on my Keyboard Maestro reading. There’s some good stuff happening with it these days. Eugene Gordin has been evolving some really nice macros to fit some unique use cases. This one zips a group of files and shares them on Dropbox for a limited time. Hazel does some file clean up at a set interval to remove the shared files. A really nice way to do it. This entry was posted on Thursday, May 24th, 2012 at 6:53 AM and is filed under keyboard maestro, Link. You can follow any comments to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a comment, or trackback from your own site.

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Wer noch auf der Suche nach einem Manager für seine Snippets ist, sollte sich CodeVue genauer ansehen.

Nettes kleines und kostenloses Tool von MacPaw, um externe Laufwerke im Blick zu behalten und die von Mac OS X oder Windows generierten Dateien wie DS_Store, Thumbs.db, Spotlight, hidden trashes und so weiter zu löschen.

Bootstrap, from Twitter
Simple and flexible HTML, CSS, and Javascript for popular user interface components and interactions.

If you’re using the ReadyNAS for file sharing and backups, you already know the convenience of having a low-power-consuming, always on, easily accessible sharable device on your network. But there are so many more ways in which you can use the ReadyNAS. Take a look at the How-To links below — they’re written in a no-nonsense style with easy-to-follow step-by-step instructions and many screenshots. You’ll be able to go through each one in a minute or two! And if you encounter any problems, friendly folks on the ReadyNAS forum will be there to help you out.

There are several iSCSI initiators available for OS X, but we’ll limit this example to using the globalSAN iSCSI initiator which appears to be popular. It’s a simple 3-step process to setup access to the iSCSI target on the ReadyNAS. So, let’s get started.

Experience your media on a visually stunning, easy to use interface on your computer or Home Theater PC. Your media has never looked this good!

How to make money online

The first step is to stop Googling things like, "how to make money online." Not because you shouldn't want to make money online, but because the stuff you're going to find by doing that is going to help you lose money online. Sort of like asking a casino owner how to make money in Vegas...
Don't pay anyone for simple and proven instructions on how to achieve this goal. In particular, don't pay anyone to teach you how to write or sell manuals or ebooks about how to make money online.
Get rich slow.

We can now use our mobile devices for many of the tasks that once required a computer. Unfortunately, for the longest time, printing documents didn’t feel like one of them.

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Printing from the iPhoneThe situation improved when AirPrint became available, along with a gaggle of compatible printers from the likes of Epson, HP, Canon, and others. Yes, there have been improvements, but we still have a ways to go before printing becomes as ubiquitous and as easy on our devices as it is on our Macs.

Today I want to tell the Internet about a fun little hack I found for the Omni group's excellent task management application, OmniFocus. In fact, this is a hack based on one of the methods that Kourosh Dini outlines in his ebook, Creating Flow with Omnifocus.

Dini outlines two different ways of keeping track of tasks you need to do today:

Filtering by flagged status: pick the tasks you want to do, and flag them. When you view your flagged tasks, you're viewing tasks you want to do today.
Filtering by start date: pick the tasks you want to do, and set their start date to today. When you view your tasks grouped by start date, you'll have a group ("Start today") with all the tasks you want to do today.

Have you ever viewed a website in Safari and wanted to automatically download all linked PDF documents instead of manually clicking onto the links? Or get the embedded web videos and images? For me, the answer is definitely YES. Unfortunately, most (free) Mac web browser simply don't feature advanced AppleScript support. Of course, they let you create new documents and tabs or even execute Javascript with Apple's unique language of automation. But as soon as your script gets mature and wants to grab all GIF images of a website, you will be deeply disappointed about the few available AppleScript commands most browsers offer.

DuckDuckGo enables you to search 100s of other sites directly. Just use this dropdown next to the search box. As you use it, your most frequented sites will automatically be displayed at the top. Or you can type in a command like '!amazon bags', which will take you to Amazon.com and auto-search it for 'bags'. We call these commands !bangs, and this syntax works for 100s of sites: Most big sites work, e.g. !youtube (see full list below) Most generic keywords work too, e.g. !images There are also shorter versions, e.g. !g (google) !i (images) !yt (youtube) !ducky or '! ' or '' will take you to the first result. !safeoff will run a search with safe search off.

Prompted by the recently released Bang On iOS app1, I decided to make a macro for Keyboard Maestro that could accomplish the same thing with Safari. This macro is really just a series of scripts, so it could easily be converted to a LaunchBar plugin. The macro grabs the current URL and looks for a query string. It then converts the query string to one of several DuckDuckGo bang searches.

Are we born to be optimistic, rather than realistic? Tali Sharot shares new research that suggests our brains are wired to look on the bright side -- and how that can be both dangerous and beneficial.

Tali Sharot studies why our brains are biased toward optimism. Full bio »

It seems like everyone from your friends to climbers at Everest base camp are using the popular social photo sharing app, Instagram, to edit and share their photos. Instagram’s recent move of going from an iPhone-only based app to now being available for Android has nearly doubled the user-base, and now Facebook has just purchased the app, guaranteeing even more popularity. I’ve been asked often by clients if I can edit their photos “like Instagram”. Well, now you can do it yourself.

For this purpose, I’ve created Lightroom presets for all 17 of Instragram’s filters for easy editing of your photos in Adobe’s Lightroom application. Simply install the preset, and with one click your photos can look like you applied your favorite Instagram filter on your phone. At just $5, these filters are well-priced and cost no more than a latte or an app on your phone. Any money that I make from these sales will fund my travels to photograph beautiful places around the world.

Learning at a prestigious college is an opportunity possible for very few. From Harvard to Stanford, the admission criteria for most of those colleges prevented many from attending. However, would you ever believe that you could learn from the professors of many of these colleges straight from your Mac and iOS device, as if you were in person? It’s possible with iTunes U. Despite iTunes U being available, not everyone takes advantage of this educational gift from Apple. Today, we will take a tour of iTunes U, showing you who’s teaching, and how to make the most of your learning experience.

This is kind of a “duh” tip but still one I use every day. I have several DuckDuckGo site specific searches in Launchbar. For this site, I just used the html parameters that show my own custom search results.

As a writer about Mac, iPhone and iPad applications you sometimes think you’ve seen it all, apps being very similar, especially when they perform basically the same tasks. I should know better – it’s the details that can make all the difference and I tried to highlight that fact in an article I wrote a couple of weeks ago in which I compared five outlining apps for Mac.

These days, there’s literally an app for everything: keeping recipes, managing projects, invoicing customers, and managing one’s finances. Money management is an especially popular app category now that people can simplify budget tracking and analyze both earnings and expenses all in one window.

Time management is incredibly important for many people. We all have busy lives and the more we can get out of our time working, the more time we have for other things. With there being only twenty-four hours in a day it really comes down to being as efficient as we can with the time we have.

PDF has become a worldwide document type standard and you no doubt deal with these documents fairly regularly. Because the file tpye is so common there is a plethora of applications available to work with them. It can be a bit tricky to wade through the large number of choices though, so I’ve attempted to pull out ten of the most useful apps for performing various functions. Everything from simply managing your PDF files to editing, extracting and more.

Keeping track of the time you spend during certain activities can be useful for many reasons. The most obvious one that comes to mind is if you are a freelancer that needs to bill by the hour, and therefore need some proof of how much time you spent doing certain tasks. But that’s certainly not all, even if you don’t charge by the hour, it’s still useful to know how much time you’re spending doing certain tasks so that you can then refine your workflow or be aware of how much time you are investing (or wasting).

I use this macro to quickly center my mouse cursor on my main screen. I have two large monitors and embarrassingly, I lose my mouse cursor occasionally.

This macro is also a good demonstration of some of the calculations with Keyboard Maestro variables.

Remember my homebrew macro for prepending a file with the current time stamp? Here’s the old version with all of the shell scripting:

Boots is a command line utility for Bootstrap. It will let you build a custom instance of boostrap without leaving your terminal.

Video content is readily available online for you to download, but the download process isn’t always as simple and automated as using something like a TiVO to simply schedule the content you want to watch. Fortunately, there are some great tools to help you do that with both BitTorrent and Usenet. Here’s how to set them up and turn your computer into an internet PVR.

Note: Note: This tutorial is going to mention Usenet. We’re aware that a lot of you have a problem with that. We’ve discussed this issue before (see “Regarding the First Rule and Other Issues”) so we’re not going to discuss it here.

BitTorrent and Usenet are tools that allow you to download files easily. Some of those files are TV shows and they’re not necessarily legal to download. What you choose to download with the software described in this tutorial is entirely up to you. You accept responsibility for your actions if you choose to download content you are not legally authorised to download. We’re going to provide you with the information necessary to set up and use the described software, but your ethical and legal decisions will be left up to you.

You know how sometimes you come across a tip that is so clever you are both happy to have learned it and annoyed that you didn’t think of it yourself at the same time?

That’s how I felt sitting in Katie Floyd’s Going Paperless presentation at Macworld 2011 (more on my Macworld roundup here).

It is well known that I love a little Mac app called Hazel that allows you to create rules to perform almost any function on your computer. One great use of Hazel is to move all the PDFs that you are downloading from the web now that you are going paperless.

Katie’s tip is to use the Source URL of the downloaded PDF as a basis for doing the processing. Brilliant! Have no idea what on earth I just said? No worries, I’m about to go through it.

Puppet is amazing. It changed my career (thanks to Luke , and before him Mark). However, I have some itches. I have attempted to write about these before, but haven’t felt like pushing the ‘publish’ button.

I’ve been running Puppet in a atypical way for some time now.

No Puppet Master
No distribution packaging
No commit until I know something works
Only test from the outside
The only thing I feel I need to

This week we’re going to begin our coverage of the Puppet Module Tool (PMT). The PMT is the command-line interface to the Puppet Forge—an online repository for re-usable Puppet modules. As of Puppet 2.7.14 and Puppet Enterprise 2.5 PMT is no longer a separate product; it’s now part of Puppet Core. What this means for you is that PMT is ready-to-go out of the box.

New features
The latest version of PMT offers a few new features over the previous stand-alone tool:

Search the Puppet Forge from the command line
List, upgrade, and uninstall modules
Automatically resolve and install module dependencies
In this post we’ll take a look at the new search and list commands.

PMT Search
The search command searches a repository for modules whose names, descriptions, or keywords match the provided search term. For example, if we search for the term “tomcat”, we would get the following output:

B.R. Hook, a media development and consulting firm, was founded by Brian R. Hook at the start of this century. Hook filed the required paperwork in St. Louis on Jan. 2, 2001.

Hook then launched BizBlip.com, which tracked business news in St. Louis until 2004. BizBlip.com, along with GovBlip.com, are among numerous news websites under development.

BRHook.com, which provides news and commentary about the media industry, is the flagship website for the business.

In addition to providing resources for those within the industry, the site will also be a place to experiment with various revenue models, bolstering the consulting-end of the business.

Therefore, expect BRHook.com to be continuously evolving as the business and industry changes.

A rolling launch, similar to the rollout for B.R. Hook, is underway for Missouri Journal, which will explore the economy — including everything from business to politics — around the Show-Me State.

For Missouri news, sign up for a newsletter and follow Missouri Journal on Twitter and Facebook.

For media news updates, sign up for a newsletter and follow B.R. Hook on Twitter and Facebook.

Interested in advertising or consulting services? Contact info@brhook.com or call (314) 482-7944.

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Terminology is the perfect tool for anyone interested in honing their language. From writers working on the next great novel, to marketers crafting the perfect tagline.

Terminology is a browser for the English language. Part dictionary and part thesaurus, Terminology is designed to make it easy to explore words and phrases, diving down to more and less specific terms -- accessing the web and other apps for more detail and sharing.

### Terminology also available for the iPhone! ###

Gollum is a simple wiki system built on top of Git that powers GitHub Wikis.

Gollum wikis are simply Git repositories that adhere to a specific format. Gollum pages may be written in a variety of formats and can be edited in a number of ways depending on your needs. You can edit your wiki locally:

With your favorite text editor or IDE (changes will be visible after committing).
With the built-in web interface.
With the Gollum Ruby API.
Gollum follows the rules of Semantic Versioning and uses TomDoc for inline documentation.

CouchPotato (CP) is an automatic NZB and torrent downloader. You can keep a "movies I want"-list and it will search for NZBs/torrents of these movies every X hours. Once a movie is found, it will send it to SABnzbd or download the torrent to a specified directory. Features: Automatic downloading and sending of NZBs to SABnzbd Automatic downloading of torrents files to a specified directory Easily add movies via IMDB UserScript Movie sorting & renaming Trailer downloading Quality options to download best available. Overwrite if better is found. A "Coming Soon" page with soon to be released DVD and Theater info. Support for NZBs.org, NZBMatrix, Newznab.com and ThePirateBay.

Simple
No-nonsense NZB download manager.

Runs everywhere
Windows, MacOS X and Linux versions.

UNRAR & PAR
Handles RAR and PAR2 files

Unbeatable price
Free!

Streaming
Preview media files while you download.

Secure
Supports SSL encryption and IPv6

Vor einiger Zeit schrieb mich ein Leser wegen eines Problems mit DEVONthink an. Er wollte für jeden neuen Kunden in DEVONthink eine Ordnerstruktur anlegen. Im Ergebnis sollte es so aussehen:
Kunden
Ordner 1
Ordner 2
Diese Struktur für jeden Kunden immer wieder manuell anzulegen ist natürlich auf Dauer lästig. Deshalb wünschte sich der Leser eine automatisierte Lösung.
Mein Vorschlag war, dies mit einem Template zu lösen. Außer reinen Dokumenten-Templates erlaubt DEVONthink schließlich auch den Einsatz von AppleScript in Templates, was die Möglichkeiten erheblich erweitert.

Google Chrome was a fairly latecomer to the browser wars but was an overnight success that instantly became the favorite of Mac and Windows users alike. Everything about Chrome, from its minimal and highly practical interface to its solid Webkit Core and robust extension system, makes it hands down one of the best ways to access the web.

For all you Chrome lovers out there, we’ve got an awesome collection of 25 extremely useful Google Chrome Extensions for Designers and Developers. Whether you’re looking for a quick way to validate your page or create a custom grid overlay, we’ve got the tool for you.

Connect devices and apps on the Cosm platform, exchange data and ideas with developers, and bring smart products to the world.

Map tasks and timelines
Turn brainstorming into action plans using an interactive environment that shows overviews and details in a clear format. MindManager helps validate priorities, get buy-in on goals and strategies, and map out timelines.