Minimal Mac Menubar (November 30th, 2009 - 3,673)

For the last few weeks I have been working without the clock in my menu bar and it has been awesome. By taking something away you realise how often you pay attention to it, and as a clock changes every minute I was paying a lot of attention! Time is a very useful thing but [...]

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It’s got the internet inside it (June 22nd, 2009 - 2,152)

I have been thinking a lot lately about the concept of the internet as something that can come in a box, and that an item can have inside it. The megatrend of connectedness is continuing and with it more nodes are being connected to the web. As the internet becomes a standard piece of infrastructure [...]

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Revisit Your Old Flickr Photos with Time Capsule (December 2nd, 2008 - 3,327)

Photographs have an amazing ability to induce nostalgia. We capture them without regard for how we will view them in the future. They are sharper than our memories, something to rely on. Why are they so often abandoned afterwards? Flickr and Facebook and the numerous other photo-sharing websites available today all help us distribute our [...]

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