I recently met Erica Reitman, the marketing director of Squarespace, and I'm very impressed with what the company is doing. Based on their info page, Squarespace has been around since 2003, but it’s only recently that I’ve been reading about them and hearing their sponsorship of various podcasts I ...
Personalized travel guides, thanks to the wonder of the internet
I’ve been playing around with Offbeat Guides, an online travel site that aggregates data from a number of websites to create your own personalized guide to a specific city. They say they can make a custom travel guide for over 30,000 travel destinations. You put in the following info: • The city ...
Online custom palette generator
Pictaculous is a color palette generator. You upload your image to their site and it creates a custom color palette based on the image. And it's free. (The image you upload must be less than 500k and must be a PNG, JPG, or GIF file.) Great idea. Simplifies matching colored text or background to a ...
Make your own font–it’s easy and cheap
I just created my own personalized font with YourFonts. It’s incredible what technology can do—not so many years ago, you had to forge pieces of metal to create your own font face. And now anybody can do it, in 10 minutes. Here’s an example of the font I made, using my own handwriting: Here’s ...
Giving your assistant access to your calendar and contacts
If you’re on the Mac, and using Apple Address Book for your contacts and Apple iCal for your calendar, how do you give your assistant/partner/spouse/best friend full access to this information, so he/she can add, change, and delete entries? With iCloud If you have an iCloud account, it’s easy to ...
Tech consultant = motorcycle mechanic?
The New York Times Magazine had an article this past Sunday, May 24, called "The Case for Working with Your Hands," by Matthew B. Crawford. It's an excerpt from his new book Shop Class as Soulcraft, published by Penguin. Crawford is a motorcycle mechanic in Virginia, even though he has a Ph.D. in ...