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Textbooks? Digital. Teaching tools? iPad. Filing cabinet? Dropbox.
This is my simple little modern teacher home workspace. I am plugged in, connected to my work, students, and my learning network online. Plus I have space to work when I do have papers to grade. And yes, that is Mickey Mouse holding my wires.
Twitter: @mjfagioli
Blog: techwhys.wordpress.com
My desk in all its beauty! This is one of the simplest Ikea desks around, which is why I enjoy it so much. Pictures of my loved ones on the wall to my left. The MBP has the power cord on the left and external monitor on the right.
Those three prints are of James Dean and are screen prints that I made. Again, the idea came from lifehacker.
lifehacker.com/software/diy/how-to-screen-print-a-tshirt-...
This is a screen capture from Delicious Network Explorer, which is looks like the "web sites as HTML graph," but shows your del.icio.us network instead. It's built with a language called Processing.
www.twoantennas.com/projects/delicious-network-explorer/
The big circles close to me represent Joshua Schacter (big network) and Warren Ellis.
Tommy is the one who had the patience to drill down this deep into the app.
Also thanks to Lifehacker for using this image in a January 2008 post on social networking post on social networking
OS: Windows 10
Rainmeter
Skins
-MinimalOne Weather(Heavily Modified)
Modified MinimalOne Weather by misterjosh is available here.
Here's the completed desk that i made with my computers. When building it i took a lot from previous desks i've seen on the Lifehacker workplace features.
A little bit about why i have things the way i do. I love the look of raised monitors along with the fact that it clears up more space. I'm a student so having space is a necesity and something i didn't have with my old desk. My old desk only had enough room to hold my two monitors nothing else. On the right i have a spare monitor along with a mouse and keyboard that i use to tinker and fix computers with. Having that is a godsend for me because i am constantly breaking stuff. Also by the speaker on the left i have that 4 port usb hub that lays flat on the desk that was on lifehacker awile ago.
My two main monitors are both 22 inch at 1680x1050. One is an Acer the other is a Samsung that has normal tv hookups that my xbox is hooked up to. The spare one is a 19 inch Acer. My main computer and my laptop are both running the windows 7 RC. My main computer is a 2.5 ghz quad core Intel with 4 gigs of ram and 2 80 gig hdd's in raid 0. My laptop is a dell xps m1530.
Kill wintercolds:
lifehacker.com/5072547/kill-winter-colds-with-grandmas-pe...
Here's my recipe. Take a rotisserie chicken from the grocery store. Use your bare hands and peel all of the meat of the bones. Separate the skins from the breasts and thighs as much as you can. Put the skins and the carcass in a pot of simmering water. Maybe 6 cups. Maybe 4. The water should just barely cover the whole chicken carcass. Use a pot small enough that the chicken fits snugly all sides. Since it's a rotisserie chicken, you're also going to get the herbs and spices that came with it in the broth. Go with a garlic and herb chicken for maximum cold-killing power. Add more garlic for more power. Simmer for an hour. That’s going to boil out all of the chickeny goodness from the bone marrow and fat in the skin and all that good stuff that makes up the broth. Yum. After 60 minutes your house will smell strongly of both. This is good. Stand for a minute over the steaming pot and take it all in. See how whatever bits of meat that were attached are now circling in the bubbling broth. See the layer of fat floating to the top. Stir the pot to see how loose the bones have become. Use a siv to strain the broth. You're going to throw away the carcass now. Keep the broth in the pot. Continue to simmer. Add a bunch of chopped vegetables. I like to think of my chicken soup as one part pot roast, so I put carrots, potatoes, celery, and onion. You’ll also need more seasoning. Salt and pepper to taste. From there, you need to create your own spicy signature. I use Tabasco. Something extra hot will help clear the sinuses. Any good Italian will tell you keeps the evil spirits away with garlic. Don't be shy. Garlic is your friend. Simmer until the veggies are soft enough to chew but not too soft they turn to mush. When you can stab your potatoes with a fork and they are just flaky enough to crack apart, you're done. Turn off the stove. Set the table. And eat directly from the pot with a big, big spoon. Don't stop until you finish the entire pot. Colds hate a full belly. Though you may be tempted to crack open a beer or a glass of wine, resist. You must not — not least while you are ill — partake in any pleasures but the pleasures of eating. Ginger ale, if you must. Seven-up is always a welcome addition to infirm dining. And water. Never forget your hourly doses of water.
Chronodex July - December 2013 Weekly Diary Free Download Released
Chronodex friends here you go! The July to December 2013 version is released, feel free to download and plan ahead your visual scheduling for the rest of the year.
Here are some of the places you can interact with other Chronodex users:
Chronodex
Chronodex Facebook Page
Chronodex Flickr Group
The Fountain Pen Network thread about Chronodex
Lifehacker's cover of Chronodex
Yes Chronodex is kind of weird, it looks a bit too complicated, it is not like any other traditional scheduling tools, but it is inspirational and free style. I made it so as to break the rules of scheduling, most diaries/schedule books have rigid grids and timeline which limit the available space for you to write notes related to your schedule, you can use any space on the paper to link your time specific entries thus free from the traditional constraints.
Look at our beautiful cross harbour tunnel, it is a 'grid', it is 'rigid' but it works in mass transportation because it provides a system and create order. It is dull too, especially in times of traffic jam and rainy days. What you have to dissect is that there is a difference between mass order and personal creativity. Chronodex is for your personal creativity in what seems to be a rigid time system, it is for you to exploit/explore the space nobody ever made constraints of.
I've also made Chronodex a free download to share in 2011 when my father was too old and too sick lying on bed struggling, questioning himself feeling useless. We had no way to help, prayers from all of you mysteriously helped somehow IMHO, but the thing is, I wanted to prove that everything is connected, he was not and never useless, if people appreciate Chronodex, it was because of him I existed and being educated by him into a person with inquisitive mind. He should be proud of himself, even though there was no way I could convey this to him during his deterioriation. Today on the Star Ferry lower deck, I saw a grandfather holding his grandson's T-shirt looking over the harbour an European tall ship cruising by, the light tug, the togetherness and a sense of exploration made me sob inside, recalling my own exploration with Dad and his brief time with my own kid.
Tonight, Mom told me her encounter with Dad on his 140th day of passing which happens to be my little brother's birthday. A cicada was standing weakly on the floor where Dad used to stay often, she picked it up with both hands and prayed the Great Compassion Mantra (大悲咒), bringing it to the window seam and left it there. Minutes later, it flew away energetically full of life. The scene reminds us of the Chao Shao-an (趙少昂)'s painting which my Dad loved so much and had been on our living room wall for the longest time, AND it is Lychee season now. Can you see all the connections and emotions?
The stuffs we hold dear of, always leave impressions for people close and around us, these things are proves of our existence painted over with emotions and mysterious connections.
So this coming week, like the last, I will be out of my home town heading Shanghai for a week of intensive preparation of a new store launch. Love the travel, hate the separation, enjoying everything in between.
Meanwhile, Traveler's Notebook fans in Hong Kong had a great time in the Star Ferry ride, after-party and small meet-ups. I hope to do it more often, feel free to drop by our Facebook group. Now, follow me for a 15 seconds tranquil journey across the lovely Victoria Harbour.
More on Scription blog: scription.typepad.com/blog/2013/06/chronodex-july-decembe...
Not running anything fancy, just creating a proof of concept desktop with Rainmeter. I'll probably keep refining this; right now it's edited down to only the items I'm interested in keeping an eye on.
The dinosaur text and lines are all in one .ini file, but each "handwritten" text is individually draggable so I don't have to fuss too much with x and y positioning if I want to change the dinosaur text to something else, or if I want to switch the placement of the RAM and the temperature.
My favorite part is that as my battery dies, so does my confidence in my pet lizard.
EDIT: !!! Thank you so much, Lifehacker!!! I'm completely bowled over with surprise!
A few notes: The pen and Mad Libs header are part of the wallpaper itself. The dinosaur body text (swiped and modified from Simple English Wikipedia) is a long, tedious .ini file; the "DINOSAURS" title is another .ini file; and each red system statistic is a separate .ini file for maximum flexibility. (Come to think of it, though, putting the body text in the wallpaper would be easier than futzing with the .ini files.)
EDIT 2: I made a pack for this. Let me know if you run into any bugs or if I forgot something!
Lifehacker inspired my wife and I to reorganize our workstations. She's a partner at an online company and I sometimes work from home We split the room into 2 and tried to "unify" the space with our unique flavors on each side of the room.
My girlfriend has been begging for me to make her a desktop so I finally got around to making it lol. She liked everything I had on my desktop but didn't understand half of it so I only put the basic Geektool scripts she would need on there. :) The text on the desktop is created with Geektool. The icons are a mix of several different packs. Finally the taskbar is changed using Magnifique and theme Milky Giaia. The links for everything is down below. The Album art is put on the desktop using Coversutra.
Geektool
projects.tynsoe.org/en/geektool/
Magnifique
magnifiqueapp.com/
Yahoo Widgets
widgets.yahoo.com/
Weather Widget
widgets.yahoo.com/widgets/widescapeweather
Battery Widget
widgets.yahoo.com/widgets/wdscp-battery
CoverSutra
www.sophiestication.com/coversutra/
Wallpaper
raindropmemory.deviantart.com/art/Night-Sky-always-Shine-...
Icons
raindropmemory.deviantart.com/art/In-Spirited-We-Love-Ico...
raindropmemory.deviantart.com/art/Summer-Love-Cicadas-Ico...
raindropmemory.deviantart.com/art/Harmonia-Pastelis-Icon-...
raindropmemory.deviantart.com/art/Red-Little-Shoes-Icon-s...
Fonts
www.dafont.com/stripes-and-bubbles.font
www.dafont.com/starguides.font
Geektool Scripts
Time
date "+%l:%M %p"
Date Number
date +%d
Month
date +%B
Weekday
date +%A
Calendar
cal
To Do List
Create a text file with TextEdit but make sure you click Format>Make Plain Text before save. Then select the file in path in GeekTool.
Weather
curl --silent "http://xml.weather.yahoo.com/forecastrss?p=XXXXX&u=f" | grep -E '(Current Conditions:|F<BR)' | sed -e 's/Current Conditions://' -e 's///' -e 's///' -e 's///' -e 's///' -e 's///' -e 's///'
Replace XXXXX with your zip code
If you have any questions please just leave a comment and I'll gladly give you all the help I can.
Thanks
Room of Shapes by RedBlackProduction
This is the studio's main audio workstation. The idea was to have an attractive and informative desktop that wasn't going to be too obtrusive or distracting . . See next image for 2nd monitor . . .
Visual Style | areao4
Dock | stardock objectdock
Icons | ecqlipse, reflections
Meters | rainmeter
- enigma | hard drives. cpu
- simplicity | net traffic
- next1 | shutdown buttons, swap & ram
- hud.vision | calender
Media Display | cd art display | CDCard skin
www.cdartdisplay.com/index.php?categoryid=8&p13_secti...
The awesome music I was listening to can be found here | www.myspace.com/astateofflux
Background | Manipulated photo of an art installation by the amazing Esther Stocker | www.estherstocker.net
The background image has been blurred and rotated to fit the monitors . . modified image available here: img43.imageshack.us/img43/2325/astateoffluxestherstock.jpg
Thanks to the original authors of the programs, Esther Stocker and to Lifehacker for the feature :D
A [slightly] improved version of before. Icon set is black-white 2 (found on deviant art).
Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex
Theme is the new DarkRoom.
Using Conky and Rainlendar2
Window on the right, corridor on the left.
My 'home office' is at one end of our living room and I have an Airport Express connected to the AV amp at the other end for listening to iTunes.
The shelves are some ancient ones from Ikea which I have on loan from my sister (although I've had them for about six years now so hopefully she's forgotten about them!).
The two grey boxes on the middle right hand shelf are LaCie firewire drives. One day I'll replace them with USB drives so I can get rid of one more cable ;)
I know it's unusual for me to post two shots in such a short span of time, but I was really pleased with how this little late-night experiment came out. This setup owes a lot to this one by nh0j, whose taste I really admire, and of course teknoftw's now-famous Wheat. As before, I use the Toggle button in the bottom-left to hide the bulk of the HUD, so what I'm usually looking at when I'm working is this.
Also, for those who were interested before, this is the full-size shot of my current Firefox setup. As said, I've dumped Fast Dial (it was a bad breakup) and replaced its function with a deliberately-simple HTML file on my hard drive. I've also begun using autoHideStatusbar to emulate Chrome's handy feature of showing the bar when I'm hovering on a link. Best of both worlds.
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Enigma 2.5
is coming this week. Excluding the inevitable bug fixes, this will be the final incarnation of Enigma as purely a Rainmeter skin. After this, work will commence on the Litestep project.
This update won't be adding as many new features and functions as 2.0. This is about tying loose ends: Enigma is a product, and I want to refine it as much as possible before it enters its next phase of evolution. That said, there are still some new treats that I'm a bit excited about:
- New and improved installer now works perfectly with Windows Vista, 7 and 64-bit. (You will have to update to the newest version of Rainmeter to take advantage of this; see below.)
- Finally, an iTunes plugin! You will no longer need to run CD Art Display alongside Rainmeter.
- RSS 1.0 and Atom feeds are now supported.
- Weather and Location problems will be fixed by switching to a new data source.
- A laundry list of minor tweaks and improvements, as usual.
I'll make the official announcement on LCD when it's available, so stay tuned.
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Have I forgotten something?
As before, I'm going to wait a few days before releasing it in case you folks have any last-minute requests. Large or small, feel free to post them.
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Rainmeter
This is a great time to start getting into Rainmeter. For those who haven't heard, this is a very unusual success story: a year ago today, Rainmeter was a piece of primitive abandonware full of untapped potential but showing no signs of life. A few months ago, however, several members of the community lobbied Rainy, the creator of Rainmeter (and its big brother, Rainlendar), and got permission to resurrect it as an open-source project. They now have an active forum for you to get help, post screenshots, test your skins, suggest features, and keep up with Rainmeter's ongoing progress. :)
More importantly, though:
The latest version has made a major change in Rainmeter's file system: it now stores your skins in My Documents, and your settings in Application Data, like a proper Windows app. This is going to change the way some skins, including Enigma, are built. Although it's still a beta, I encourage you to download the newest version and update. To apply the new file system, you must delete or rename C:\Program Files\Rainmeter\Rainmeter.ini. If you don't, the setup will consider it a "portable" installation and keep the current organization, which could cause problems down the road. You can read more about this change here.
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Desktop
Theme:
- NOOTO VS. Requires patched uxtheme.dll - patcher here.
- Wallpaper: Cropped from CRWS by Marius Bauer and Brian Slagenweit.
Startups:
- Autohotkey.
- Launchy.
Programs running:
- Rainmeter. Skin: Enigma 2.5, customized with Amana Icons.
- Yod'm 3D 1.4.
This is the set of wire shelves to the left. In a picture it looks quite complex, primarily because you can see through each shelf and it just looks all shiny and stuff, but it's quite effective in real life. Makes it very visible and easy to locate things on the shelf. On the far bottom left is where I set my laptop to charge, in a little grab on vertical basket to save space. The inbox is the most recent addition, although it looks quite empty at the moment. I'm using a hybrid version of a sort of GTD method, primarily because I don't have a lot of straight paperwork to cut through but I deal with needing to manage books, notebooks, and other random objects. These hanging file things work great at allowing lots of room for non-papery things that must be dealt with.
The shorter wire rack there is additional workspace, primarily for reference materials in use. Just out of shot behind and to the left is a ikea poang chair for relaxing and watching movies.
My workspace. Sorry about the cramped pictures, but the room that has become my office is tiny. I needed a desk that would be usable for design work, music, and gaming.
My solution was to build a very shallow desk (it's about 9 inches deep or so) with a sliding drawer that could be puled out when needed, and tucked away
The whole thing is bracketed to the wall, is a work in progress. The best part is 95% of the materials I had sitting around my house.
And if i need to make a modification, I don't feel bad about taking the jigsaw to it.
After creating the original mind.Depositor with clips and used it for a while, I found a small problem but it bugs me on regular basis. To insert and pull out the cards, it requires force, no matter how small it is, it creates stress. That's why superior Japanese stationery designs often put into considerations how to reduce user efforts. They call the practice "Universal Design".
So I set out to do a simpler version by using two pieces of leather only. I also have a practice to carry a small notepad or Field Notes to capture to-do inputs temporarily before transferring them to GTD index cards. So I'm adding a slit for the notepad and a slit to store extra blank index cards.
On the left hand side of the cover, I can put a notepad by inserting it to a slit, put blank GTD index cards in the pocket and insert a Field Notes.
On the right hand side I can put two categories of index cards (Personal and Work) into different pockets.
There is also a flap used as a bookmark or enclosure.
The whole thing becomes more compact and functional. It requires less effort to use, it is a simpler design with pleasant leather as the only material, I'm so happy with it. I especially like the color contrast of the outer white and inner brown. So check out the sections below and learn how to create your own.
Original mind.Depositor
Download mind.Depositor Index Card Templates
How to create the original mind.Depositor
How to create mind.Depositor 2
Previous cover of mind.Depositor: Lifehacker.com (followup, and Japanese version of it), GTDTimes, Moleskinerie, Koloist, David Allen Co., Lifehacking.jp, Geeks Guide To Productivity
More on Scription blog: moleskine.vox.com/library/post/minddepositor-2---leather-...
Update: Enigma 2.5 is here.
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If I had to pick the thing I'm most proud of with this release, it's the fact that the user never has to get hands-on with a single file or folder. Everything from installation, to skin-loading, setting personal variables, saving and switching themes, accessing the documentation, and getting help, is 100% automated. It feels like a proper piece of software now, while at the same time keeping the total, utterly transparent customizability that makes it Rainmeter. I can't wait to release this.
There are still one or two surprises which, as a matter of fact, I'm not at liberty to reveal yet; I've been collaborating with some other developers (good and talented people all) on some particularly special features. I promise you won't have to wait long.
Enigma 2.5 is on schedule to be available sometime in the coming week. Look for announcements on Lifehacker and Liquid Crystal Discourse.
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Among, as usual, countless minor improvements and revisions:
- Fully functional on Windows Vista and 7. The new installer is flexible to support all three versions of Windows and their 64-bit counterparts, and takes advantage of a change in Rainmeter's file system which sidesteps UAC interference.
- Configuration Tool. For basic personal preferences - your feeds, Google account, weather code, etc. - you will no longer need to edit Rainmeter's code directly. With one click, the tool automatically sets variables across all skins.
- Resolution-independent. The sidebars and taskbar now adjust to your screen dimensions automatically. In addition, the default Themes will set the proper positions for their skins - for example, the Taskbar will appear on the bottom edge, no matter your resolution.
- Built-in theme switching. Using a new built-in config manager called RainThemes, you can now save and load themes through a GUI interface.
- Revamped Home screen. Aside from being cleaned up, simplified and better-organized, the Home screen now serves as your Rainmeter "center," with quick links to the Config tool, Theme switcher, Instructions and an official Support thread on www.rainmeter.net/forum/.
- Completed Music skins. At long last, an iTunes plugin for Rainmeter exists; you will no longer need to install CD Art Display alongside Rainmeter.
- The Readers have been expanded to support Atom feeds, Gmail and Twitter, in addition to the traditional RSS fetcher.
- Multiple new skins, including a compact calendar, wireless signal strength, system uptime, and even your local sunrise/sunset times.
- Improved text shadows and antialiasing.
- And, by removing redundant and unnecessary images, the whole package is now 2/3rds the size.
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Questions, comments, concerns? Post as always.
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Wallpaper: Earth Waterfall from Wallpaper Abyss.
I guess today was the first time I shot inside a coffee shop or similar places. The rain was to intense so I have decided to stop by the nearest Starbucks (as I am a Starbucks aficionados). Light was challenging so I have use my table as a tripod...
This woman habits are quite similar to mine, enjoying a good time alone, but not really as she is seating in a confortable places where a lot of people are passing by, reading a book and having a good coffee in the same time. She spent hours here, as I did.
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Im Buffer Produkt können Sie verbinden RSS-Feeds zu Ihrem Profil, so dass alle die neuesten Beiträge von Ihrem Lieblings-Blogs direkt in Ihr Armaturenbrett gezogen werden, wo Sie wählen, und wählen können, welche zur Warteschlange hinzuzufügen.
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- 1. Puffer Social Blog - 2691 Feeds 2. Mashable - 2620 3. Inc.com - 2205 4. TechCrunch - 1.886 5. Social Media Examiner - 1643 6. Entrepreneur - 1.230 7. Fast Company - 1106 8. HubSpot Marketing-Blog - 1067 9. WIRED - 998 10. Lifehacker - 846 12. Copyblogger - 835 13. Seth Godin Blog - 796 14. Venture - 699 15. Harvard Business Review 691 16. Moz Blog - 672 17. Content Marketing Institute - 590 18. The Huffington Post - 572 19. Forbes - Unternehmer - 571 20 Search Engine Land - 551 21 Forbes Echtzeit - 512 22 Schnell Sprout - 512 23 Business Insider - 505 24. The Verge - 474 25 Lifehack - 471 26 . The Next Web - 469 27. Marketing-Land - 445 28. Engadget - 421 29. Alltop -417 30. Marketingprofs - 394 31 WebMD Health - 376 32. Smashing Magazine - 372 33. Social Media Today - 371 34. Suchmaschine Journal - 340 35. Jeff Bullas Blog - 326 36. Die Kissmetrics-Marketing-Blog - 321 37. Michael Hyatt - 301 38. Small Business Trends - 300 39. Gehirn Nachlese - 295 40. Co.Design - 287 41. NYT - 287 42 Forbes Tech -. 278 43. Gizmodo - 268 44. Hacker News - 264 45. Buffer Open Blog - 263 46. MindBodyGreen - 252 47. zen Gewohnheiten - 250 48. The Daily Muse - 241 49. Forbes - Geschäft - 232 50. überzeugen und Rechnen - 226 51. ProBlogger - 218 52. Forbes - Leadership - 209 53. TEDTalks (Video) - 204 54. CNNMoney.com - 203 55. HubSpot Angebote Blog - 202 56. Apartment Therapy - 199 57. Digitale Trends - 191 58. Health.com - 188 59. Econsultancy -184 60. Unbounce -181 61. Forbes - Social Media -180 62. BBC News - Technik - 180 63. Marketo-Marketing-Blog - 175 64. BuzzFeed - 175 65 Sprout Social -1 72 66 Webdesignerin Depot - 171 67. Twitter Blog - 170 68 -169 Businessweek 69. 99U - 169 70. Online-Marketing-Blog - TopRank 168 71. Re / code - 167 72. Digiday - 167 73. PopSugar Fitness - 162 74. Forbes - Immobilien-162 75. CNN.com -158 76. Hootsuite Blog -158 77. der Blog von Autor Tim Ferriss -157 78. Die Stadt Calgary Newsroom - 157 79. Geschäfts 2 Community - 155 80. Der Smart Passive Income-Blog - 154 81. Jon Loomer - 152 82. Addicted 2 Erfolg - 147 83. Houzz- 145 84. Wählen Sie das Gehirn -142 85. {wachsen} -141 86. RazorSocial -139 87. NYT Technologie -135 88. Wall Street Journal News -129 89. Ars Technica -129 90. Peta Pixel -126 91. A List Apart -126 92. Shopify Blog -125 93. Die Positivität Blog -125 94. KeepInspiring.me -123 95. Simplifying der Markt -118 96. Feedly Blog - 117 97. CIO - 117 98. Mark und Angel Hack Life - 113 99. Huffington Post: Gesundes Leben - 113 100. Kleine Buddha - 113
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The Top 100 Blogs to Curate for Social Media Power Users
Here’s the list of the top 100 feeds used by Buffer customers. It’s a great mix of marketing, technology, news, health, and a bit of fun, too!
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1. Buffer’s Social blog – 2,691 Feeds
2. Mashable – 2,620
3. Inc.com – 2,205
4. TechCrunch – 1,886
5. Social Media Examiner – 1,643
6. Entrepreneur – 1,230
7. Fast Company – 1,106
8. HubSpot’s marketing blog – 1,067
9. WIRED – 998
10. Lifehacker – 846
12. Copyblogger – 835
13. Seth Godin’s Blog – 796
14. VentureBeat – 699
15. Harvard Business Review– 691
16. Moz Blog – 672
17. Content Marketing Institute – 590
18. The Huffington Post – 572
19. Forbes – Entrepreneurs – 571
20. Search Engine Land – 551
21. Forbes Real Time – 512
22. Quick Sprout – 512
23. Business Insider – 505
24. The Verge – 474
25. Lifehack – 471
26. The Next Web – 469
27. Marketing Land – 445
28. Engadget – 421
29. Alltop –417
30. MarketingProfs – 394
31. WebMD Health – 376
32. Smashing Magazine – 372
33. Social Media Today – 371
34. Search Engine Journal – 340
35. Jeff Bullas’s Blog – 326
36. The Kissmetrics Marketing Blog – 321
37. Michael Hyatt – 301
38. Small Business Trends – 300
39. Brain Pickings – 295
40. Co.Design – 287
41. NYT – 287
42. Forbes Tech – 278
43. Gizmodo – 268
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Chronodex July - December 2013 Weekly Diary Free Download Released
Chronodex friends here you go! The July to December 2013 version is released, feel free to download and plan ahead your visual scheduling for the rest of the year.
Here are some of the places you can interact with other Chronodex users:
Chronodex
Chronodex Facebook Page
Chronodex Flickr Group
The Fountain Pen Network thread about Chronodex
Lifehacker's cover of Chronodex
Yes Chronodex is kind of weird, it looks a bit too complicated, it is not like any other traditional scheduling tools, but it is inspirational and free style. I made it so as to break the rules of scheduling, most diaries/schedule books have rigid grids and timeline which limit the available space for you to write notes related to your schedule, you can use any space on the paper to link your time specific entries thus free from the traditional constraints.
Look at our beautiful cross harbour tunnel, it is a 'grid', it is 'rigid' but it works in mass transportation because it provides a system and create order. It is dull too, especially in times of traffic jam and rainy days. What you have to dissect is that there is a difference between mass order and personal creativity. Chronodex is for your personal creativity in what seems to be a rigid time system, it is for you to exploit/explore the space nobody ever made constraints of.
I've also made Chronodex a free download to share in 2011 when my father was too old and too sick lying on bed struggling, questioning himself feeling useless. We had no way to help, prayers from all of you mysteriously helped somehow IMHO, but the thing is, I wanted to prove that everything is connected, he was not and never useless, if people appreciate Chronodex, it was because of him I existed and being educated by him into a person with inquisitive mind. He should be proud of himself, even though there was no way I could convey this to him during his deterioriation. Today on the Star Ferry lower deck, I saw a grandfather holding his grandson's T-shirt looking over the harbour an European tall ship cruising by, the light tug, the togetherness and a sense of exploration made me sob inside, recalling my own exploration with Dad and his brief time with my own kid.
Tonight, Mom told me her encounter with Dad on his 140th day of passing which happens to be my little brother's birthday. A cicada was standing weakly on the floor where Dad used to stay often, she picked it up with both hands and prayed the Great Compassion Mantra (大悲咒), bringing it to the window seam and left it there. Minutes later, it flew away energetically full of life. The scene reminds us of the Chao Shao-an (趙少昂)'s painting which my Dad loved so much and had been on our living room wall for the longest time, AND it is Lychee season now. Can you see all the connections and emotions?
The stuffs we hold dear of, always leave impressions for people close and around us, these things are proves of our existence painted over with emotions and mysterious connections.
So this coming week, like the last, I will be out of my home town heading Shanghai for a week of intensive preparation of a new store launch. Love the travel, hate the separation, enjoying everything in between.
Meanwhile, Traveler's Notebook fans in Hong Kong had a great time in the Star Ferry ride, after-party and small meet-ups. I hope to do it more often, feel free to drop by our Facebook group. Now, follow me for a 15 seconds tranquil journey across the lovely Victoria Harbour.
More on Scription blog: scription.typepad.com/blog/2013/06/chronodex-july-decembe...
Now this is what I call a work retreat - peanut butter cookies, working outside and lots of creative ideas on our index cards to help us get to the next stage of program development. Lisa B and I are dreaming of a unique spring program that covers many bases with one concept, aligning with our institutional mission of international programs.
Basically, we generated script ideas for videos about Linfield student, alumni and faculty experiences in Africa around healthcare - those monthly video stories will lead us to a spring program featuring a panel to share those stories in person.
GTD!
We're trying to do our taxes before Kragen leaves for Brazil.... Why can't this be easier....
Million Dollar Journey Blog Post
A Windows concept/mockup if you will, all made in Rainmeter and Launchy. Its something that I would like to have in a default desktop.
UPDATE I released 8Bar, the concept skin to this desktop. Get it here .
Update 2
So I just found out that my desktop was featured in a lifehacker post, and I'm really proud of that, but I have to clear some things up now. I was reading the comments and people are saying that its too cluttered, and I know why. I didn't point out when the widgets ended and where the actual taskbar icons for windows started, so I shall clear it up now. After the weather widget, is where the actual taskbar starts for all open windows, and it ends where launchy is. All the icons in between are just basically a filler and mockup for open windows, just to show where they would all open to. You of course can add more widgets to the taskbar but the base design is very minimalistic. I hope that cleared a lot of stuff up :)
Start Menu/Area
As you can notice in the tasbar, it retains a start button (which actually works, to my suprise some useful computer specs that flow with the design of the start orb., followed by a weather readout. After that is the start of the extra information that is available for customization. Basically customizing the Superbar to make it truley super. Instead of having desktop widgets, why not put them in the toolbar? Reasons for that would be that first we have more than enough on the taskbar on WIndows 7 to add widgets, and second that the desktop is almost usually 100% of the time covered by either a web browser or other programs, but most people still have their taskbar visible, so its almost perfect.
Programs List
Nothing special here since Windows 7 really improved it with the superbar. Thumbnails for programs open is already implemented, so thats nothing that can be improved.
Launchy Taskbar Integration
I was looking around for Launchy hacks, and apparently Launchy 1.* had taskbar mounting capabilities, that they got rid of in version 2.*. I have no idea why they would get rid of this feature, since most people don't want to have to set a keyboard combination. Sure its faster but honestly, some people like to point and click, and integrating Launchy into the taskbar would be perfect. Once again, their would be enough room, so its nothing to worry. Of course for people that prefer the keyboard combination, it can be unmounted from the taskbar, and just used like it is today. It could also be mounted in the taskbar, and be brought into focus through a key combination. Either way, on desktop search is something that would be nice.
Tray
Since the tray is a smaller version of the superbar, that means that you can put more stuff their in the same amount of room. So why not put a media monitor their. Today's latest media players like Winamp have tray icons that work, but you can only access the controls by right clicking. With my concept, hovering over the tray icon would bring up basic controls.
conclusion
Its something random. I was just randomely playing around in rainmeter, and I thought of this. Its my idea, please preserve that notion, but critisism is also something that is accepted. This is just a concept, a mockup of things. Keep that in mind :)
*** The scribbled notes are *on* the desktop, they're not explanations - it's a Tablet PC. ***
A screenshot of the desktop of Moog, my Toshiba M200 Tablet PC, for the Lifehacker Desktop Show and Tell pool.
It's a bit on the self-referential side, because I only got the idea to do this after browsing the other desktops in the group.
It's using the internal LCD panel, 1400x1050 resolution.
See notes for most info.
Main software used...
Windows XP Tablet PC Editon 2005 - catchy name. The only choice on a tablet, really. I'm a wannabe geek, so I really *want* to be a Linux user, but Windows does work pretty nicely, really.
Outlook - 2003 at the moment, but I may end up switching back to 2002 at some point, as it's all I'm really licensed for these days. Running NewsGator at the moment to put all my RSS feeds in there too, but I usually end up switching back to Bloglines pretty soon after trying anything else.
Internet Explorer. I know, I can't be *any* kind of geek if I'm not using Firefox, but 1.5 was using over 370Mb of physical RAM - I've only *got* 512Mb, and it wouldn't give any of it up, so I've had to dump it again. Shame, really, it had just got going nicely on the tablet, with the new extension for tablets.
(Screenshot was converted and compressed with The GIMP - I use it for all my photo editing.)
Workflow...
The idea is this - keep anything relating to an active project or action (GTD style stuff) in the Outlook task for it, as attachments. When starting to work on something, drag the attachments out into one of the three numbered areas in the middle, and work on them. When done for the moment, drag 'em back to where they came from and erase any scribbled notes relating to them.
How well does it work? Dunno - only just set it up, not tried it yet.
OS: Windows 10
---Rainmeter---
-Enigma Skin
-DuckDuckSearch Skin
-Radial Skin
-Radian Visualizer
-Simple53 Skin
-Soul Skin(Custom)
--Background--
Circle Colorful Dark Background
hdwyn.com/circle_colorful_dark_background_hd-wallpaper-61...
Custom Configuration for Soul Skin:
Or the .rmskin Package:
www.dropbox.com/s/a4wsgglpnqn852f/SoulSkinCustom.rmskin?dl=0
The Lifehacker Article
My dual display Linux KDE Plasma 5 Desktop.
Manjaro Netrunner Rolling edition.
Posted for forum use.
Featured in Lifehacker Desktop.
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This one took me a couple of tries before I really figured out what I wanted to do with it. I knew I wanted something with bright colors - something I've never really done before, not counting a few Mac clones I put together - and with a higher image:text ratio on the taskbar. But the rest took an unusual amount of trial and error.
I'm really surprised by how much I'm liking the double-height taskbar. I'll probably go back to the single eventually, but it's nice to discover the flexibility. What I've done here is created artificial space for a few Rainmeter skins by adding the Quicklaunch and Links toolbars, which are, of course, empty. I suppose this could easily be mistaken for a Windows 7 taskbar; I'll have to try and duplicate it once I've made the switch. (If anyone knows how to center the taskbar tabs when there's only one row, please let me know.)
Rollover the notes for more details; I've added plenty, including some sneak previews of the new skins I'll be slipping into the Enigma 2.6 patch release. :)
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Liquid Crystal Discourse
I proooooomise, I still plan to start posting regularly on my customization blog. It's just a matter of finding the time; I'm fortunate to have been kept busy working on Enigma, Rainmeter 1.0, and a few other projects. But there are a couple desktops in the Lifehacker pool that I'm interested in featuring in the near future, so I hope you'll keep an eye on it. :)
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Desktop
Theme:
- H.E.A.V.E.N.. Requires patched uxtheme.dll - patcher here.
- Wallpaper: unnamed, from learntolikeit (third row from the bottom).
Startups:
- Autohotkey.
- Launchy. Skin: RooLa, customized.
Programs running:
- Rainmeter. Skin: Enigma 2.6 Beta, customized with Amana Icons.
- Yod'm 3D 1.4.
Enigma
I'm going to work on another update to Enigma, either next week or the following. The feedback on 1.1 was overwhelming. Which is good - you guys know what you want, and thus, I know what to give you.
On the to-do list:
- .EXE Installer. (You'll still need Rainmeter itself as a base, of course.)
- GUI Widget Manager. Inspired by Vista Rainbar. It'll be crude at first, but better than clicking through six menus every time.
- Templates. Basically, a couple alternate versions of Rainmeter.ini with prepackaged arrangements. Just to make it easier to get started.
- Inverted colors. Taking a cue from HUD.Vision, I'd like to provide for a black-text version. I'm not sure if that will be in the form of separate .INIs, though - that always seemed really messy to me. At the very least, they'll be in the same folder as the originals.
- Collapsible Notes, Reader and MoxaWeather. Either show/hide buttons or mouseover display; haven't decided yet.
- Individual story links for Reader.
- Solid backgrounds for ecqlipse2's icons, so it's ok to click the space between the lines.
- Some of you wanted the Gmail widget to simply tell you if you have new messages, rather than how many, so I'll provide for that.
- Getting rid of the "Tray" set and just expanding Taskbar with one-line versions of each widget. Accordingly, you'll now have the option of the usual 33px taskbar, or a compact 22px, which is the same size as the Windows taskbar in most of lassekongo83's themes.
- NET icon will show WiFi in addition to Ethernet activity.
Also: I'm going to remove the Samurize version and offer it as a separate download. It's old, obsolete and redundant, and based on the IMs and emails I've gotten, it's just confusing people.
(I'll still keep Arcs, though. :)
Do post a comment if you've got another request.
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Desktop
Theme:
- NOOTO VS. Requires patched uxtheme.dll - patcher here.
- Wallpaper: Dsngr.
Startups:
- Autohotkey.
- Launchy.
- D-Color.
- Start Killer.
Programs running:
- Rainmeter. Skin: Enigma, experimental build.
- Yod'm 3D 1.4.
this is my first geektools desktop! it's been fun playing around with it. leave a comment if you have any questions
the background is from deviant art I think. I'll try to track down the link.
whats on:
1. geektool - projects.tynsoe.org/en/geektool/
2. bowtie - bowtieapp.com/
3. subtile (mod) theme for bowtie - www.mediafire.com/?zyt40axtzmn
4. menubar: caffeine (http://lightheadsw.com/caffeine/), tweetie (http://www.atebits.com/tweetie-mac/), dropbox (http://getdropbox.com), google notifier (http://toolbar.google.com/gmail-helper/notifier_mac.html), evernote (http://evernote.com/), awaken (http://www.embraceware.com/products/awaken/)
geektool specs:
1. calendar: cal | sed "s/^/ /;s/$/ /;s/ $(date +%e) / $(date +%e | sed 's/./#/g') /"
2. date: date +%d
3. month: date +%B
4. day: date +%A
5. am/pm: date +%p
6. time: date +%I:%M
7. weather (note: substitute your zipcode for ZIP): curl --silent "http://xml.weather.yahoo.com/forecastrss?p=98109&u=f" | grep -E '(Current Conditions:|F<BR)' | sed -e 's/Current Conditions://' -e 's///' -e 's///' -e 's///' -e 's///' -e 's///' -e 's///'
8. top cpu processes: top -orsize -FR -l1 | grep % | grep -v Load | grep -v COMMAND | cut -c 7-19,64-69
9. harddisk space left:
#! /bin/bash
diskutil info / | grep "Free Space" | awk {'print "HD: " $3 "GB free."'}
exit 0
10. todo list (leaves out things tagged with @done): grep -v @done /Users/sunny/Documents/todos.txt
**note: I also use quicksilver (http://www.blacktree.com/) to append text files so I can add to todo list without breaking my flow.
**** for some reason the weather one is not displaying properly. if anyone knows how to html off in the description box please let me know
I think I got this tip from Lifehacker a few years ago, but now I'm using it again having just bought an iPad with 128GB storage.
Instead of having apps arranged arbitrarily or by the date of download, how about grouping the, by what you do with with them? There's other approaches to this on iOS - for example, you can swipe down and search for the app you want. However, I really dislike horizontal scrolling which you have to do with screens and screens of installed apps. This approach means I have a single home screen, which is a press of the physical hardware button away.
Original: discours.es/2016/everything-in-its-place-how-to-use-verbs...
UPDATE: Starlight Rainmeter Package A more comprehensive package containing my modified Launchy and CD Art Display skins, among other things, is coming. I just need permission from the original authors first.
UPDATE: I just posted a preview of my latest Rainmeter project - Halo HUD. Starlight Rainmeter Package coming momentarily...
UPDATE: I just added TweetScan to the list of Rainmeter configs below. Eurostile font included with it. Enjoy!
UPDATE: Thanks for the feature Lifehacker! If you want to read more about my methodology, check out my last desktop Faded and Desaturated
After adding my new Twitter config, my desk looks quite different. So, this is A Different Starlight.
Changes:
I just added my new TweetScan config that I finished this week to my desk; I'm using 8 of them, but I'll probably take off a few. I just wanted to show it off. :)
You can click on the icon below the username open or close them. I also have a config to track the amount of "hits" left for your Twitter account, as you are limited to 100 hits/hr. This is invaluable for testing and figuring out how often to update each one.
I'll be hosting it, somewhere, on Monday if you're interested in using it.
Again...
Font:
Eurostile LT Extended
Programs Used:
CD Art Display Skin:
Launchy Skin:
RocketDock Icons:
ecqlipse 2 and various matching sets
Rainmeter Configs:
Samurize Configs:
Arcs Original (also included with Enigma 2.1)
Wallpaper:
Windows Vista x64 Theme:
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**Lifehacker Featured Desktop**
Windows 7 Shine 2.0 Theme
Rainmeter
Omnimo 3.1
iTunes Player 2
ToxxWeather
I'm preparing for university beginning in September and with that comes Autumn, so I picked brownish-warm colors, and my university building is quite modern-looking, so I felt inspired to do a minimalistic Rainmeter setup to match my coming surroundings, so without further ado here are the skins that I've used to setup this "non-intrusive" theme (took me around 30 mins.):
Enigma [included with Rainmeter]:
- Launcher (under Taskbar) [tweaked via the "Enigma\Options" skin]
- Music (under Taskbar)
Macro Love's Obsidian skins:
- Drive
- Calender
- Clock
- Taskbar (under TextItems\Topbar\BG) [and this one has been tweaked to not fill the entire screen = "Edit skin", bottom part "h" = 80 and "w" = 1100 for my 1080p resolution]
- Wireless signal indicator (under Topbar\Addons)
- Weather (under Topbar\Addons)
- RAM (under Topbar\Addons)
- CPU (under Topbar\Addons)
- Recycle Bin (under Topbar\Addons)
- joanake has been so kind to share a link to a 1680 x 1050 version of the wallpaper, which I had no link for originally - Thanks!
Also if anyone wondered how I would be launching programs without breaking the immersion and showing the Start menu, I use a brilliant app called Launchy which shows whenever I press Alt+Space and hides again after launching the app that I type in its search bar - Works flawlessly :)
Update 2
It seems I got featured on Lifehacker again with this theme so I just wanted to say thanks for that, I'm glad someone likes it ^_^
Now that I'm getting back into photography as a hobby/obsession, I've set up a "photo lab" desk.
For some reason I'm always more comfortable using older, "proven" hardware. So for photography stuff I've eschewed my Macbook in favor of an old PowerMac G5.
Check out the notes for more goodies.
Update: This workspace made Lifehacker. Awesome! Thanks LH.
Also 日本ハロー！
Howdy! I created this set-up from a scratch that has no destination or whatsoever. Well, I was actually working over something else, but I didn't like how it turned out. I started randomly with browsing and stumbled upon many things. But at the end, I ended up liking this set-up. It's nothing special, but I find it cute.
There are some flaws, I guess. But either way, things works the way I want it - they're basic rainmeter configs. Honestly, I was aiming for a simplicity desktop. I didn't want to add things that I don't even use or care about - To Do's, RSS Field and Calendar. Also, as you can see, I removed the Power, CPU, RAM and HDD configs. I even intended to remove the weather, haha.
Honestly, the reason why I haven't submitted anything was I reformatted nearly a month ago, and I forgot to back up my rainmeter configurations. I was planning to re-write but I lost the motivation somewhere along those gaps. Well here, I guess I could start again. I'm seeing a lot of people at the Lifehacker Show and Tell group, but nothing seems to be new - same configs, same ideas and same overalls (don't get offended, I do love the old works, that's where I learned). So I intended to create something different, browsing on different similar-as-this-Lifehacker-group-like-websites to pick up ideas and I did saw a lot of interesting things.
Running:
-Windows Vista (Terminal)
-Object Dock Plus (MNML)
-Rainmeter (My own so called Project Nine - it's a messy folder with a lot of things in it)
-CD Art Display
Here's a follow up link - www.flickr.com/photos/33771027@N08/3706116647/in/photostr...
Ah--- Feels nice to be back. Questions and or suggestions are always welcome. Kudos.
---UPDATE---
Wohoo - Another featured on Lifehacker, thanks a heck lot =D It's a great honor once yet again, especially when you just woke up and this is the first thing I see.
Anyway, here are some links -
Wallpaper - Evolutionary Odyssey by Enkera-2005
enkera-2005.deviantart.com/art/Evolutionary-Odyssey-57956034
Dock Icons - WRMZ for PC by Enkera-2005
enkera-2005.deviantart.com/art/WRMZ-for-PC-61886840
You really ought to look through his deviations, he has more wallpapers that would match his dock icons.
;;;;;Download Config Here;;;;;
Cliche Saturday
I've always known that washing dishes in your sink uses an extreme amount of water. We have a washing machine that can sense how much water it needs to wash a load. Here's a very interesting article that says using a dishwasher is a better choice.
Most people drastically underestimate how much water their taps put out. Energy Star-certified dishwashers must use less than 270 kWh per year and 3.5 gallons per cycle, but most kitchen faucets move one to two gallons a minute. In other words, running the tap for just four or five minutes can use more water than an entire dishwasher cycle. Older dishwashers do use more water, but it’s still probably less than you think; unless yours is more than 10 years old (and somehow still working), there’s a good chance that it’s more efficient than hand-washing a sink full of dishes. The exact amount of water and energy you can save depends on a number of factors, so whoever pays the utilities should probably look up the usage stats for your dishwasher and faucet to see what they’re working with. What they find might just be the push they need to finally spring for a new dishwasher.
Switching over to a fully-automated dishwashing lifestyle may take a load off your energy bills—not to mention your feet, back, and cuticles—but it won’t save the world. Certain items will always need a hand wash, and anyway, your shower and washing machine use more water than anything in the kitchen. Still, it’s an easy way to save water with basically zero drawbacks. I think they call that a “win-win.”