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2011 New Year’s Resolutions

Jan

13

2011

Take more pictures
Ride more bike
Read more books
Live more healthy
Learn how to grow and prune bonsai trees
Travel more
See more live music
Build an iPhone app

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2010 Products I Can’t Live Without

Jan

02

2011

Due to the end of year coming and inspired by Kevin Rose’s list, I decided to mock up my own list of favorite products over time. Here is my 2010 list of products, tools and services I can’t live without:

MacBook Pro – My primary computer. Doing all computing work on it.
Safari – Web browser of choice. Was using Chrome before but since I have Mac Safari suits me better.
Gmail – Best email service and client on earth. Recently started using it with Sparrow desktop client.
Evernote – All my notes and todo lists sits here (or there… I mean on cloud). If you era not using Evernote start. Free plan is enough for me.
iPhone 3G – Always with me.
Gowalla – I do not want to give praise but I was first to create spot in Poland, using Gowalla since then to ‘check in’ places.
Tweetie (Twitter) – I mostly use Twitter to follow some people from web industry.
Facebook – One and only social network.
Dropbox – I’m sure there is no surprise here, but honestly if you are not using Dropbox you are surely missing out.
Boxee – Using Boxee app to watch movies and TV shows from the couch.
Coda – Doing all my coding work here.
Photoshop – After Coda my most used work tool.
0to255 – Colour problems solver.

What are some tools, services or websites you couldn’t live without this past year?

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BaseApp

Dec

08

2010

BaseApp sits in your menu bar and notifies about any activity in your BaseCamp projects. It cooperates with Growl notifications system.

Nothing less, nothing more, simple and usefull. And also beutifull due to Tim Van Damme‘s interface and icon design.

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Eliss

Dec

06

2010

I’ve bought Eliss some time ago. Simple graphic, nice music, straightforward controls and interesting idea. The goal is to group and split planets to fit them into squeesar this gives supernovas which dissapear. Each completed supernova gives you one point. Crucial is to keep planets of different colours apart. When different colours overlay part of life meter is taken away. Gameplay is a little like Twister for your fingers.

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Divvy – window(s) resizer for Mac

Nov

17

2010

Recently I’ve encountered a problem which is the resizing of window(s) on a Mac. Do not get me wrong scaling windows is very simple, what can be annoying for example, is maximizing the window in the Windows way (to fill the entire screen available). For example, maximized Safari occupies the entire height of the screen but the width has to be adjusted manually.

After ‘asking’ Google a few questions I’ve received a list of several programs whose goal was to change the window sizes. After reviewing their options and how to handle one seemed interesting.

Divvy, as the only, offered interface. To change the size you just select desired number of previously defined rectangles you want the window to occupy. After assigning global shortcut to it it is really fast and straightforward. With the price of $14 it in not the best bargain but entering coupon code I’ve been able to save 20%.

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