I’m off to New York with my bud Rick (@Rick_Smith) see you on the flip side!

I’m always looking for quicker, easier, and smarter ways of going at my day to day tasks.. I mean if it saves me three clicks a day that’s over 1095 un-needed milliseconds of my life retrieved for doing something else lame.

ClipMenu (link) – I just came across this one a week or so ago. I’m always copy and pasting images and text. This little guy lets you record a history of those items to use over and over again.

DropBox (link) – Sick of FTP(ing) things to clients? and if your like me and work from a couple different machines, it’s nice to have all your files  your working on in one place. DropBox has been amazing! and 2gigs for free.. why not use it?

Jing Project (link) – I’ve been using Jing for a year or so. There are probably thousands of screen capture apps out there… this one is free and simple.

Quicksilver (link) – How could I almost forget Quicksilver… I downloaded this a long time ago but did not start using it till a couple months ago. and now life could not be easier! I barely ever have to search around my dock bar any more to launch the app I need.

BONUS! this one is not free but I don’t think I could live without it…

Default Folder X (link)
doesn’t look like much… but I can’t start to explain how much time and frustration this has saved me when working long days.. This functionality NEEDS to be in the next release of OS X.. Hear me apple?

So are there any apps that I need? or missing?

Good design is innovative…
makes a product useful…
is aesthetic…
helps us to understand a product…
is unobtrusive…
is honest…
is durable…
is consequent to the last detail…
is concerned with the environment…
is as little design as possible.

—Dieter Rams

I am inspired today

I have a issue with gathering tons of images that I come across online and sticking them in random folders… while doing some clean up the other day I found my stash of inspiring rooms. I’m a sucker for a clean, cool room. hmm

Sorry I have no clue where any of these came from.. If it is your room… congrats!

I’m looking forward to seeing Eryn sing this Saturday! I’m so proud of her!

I think these are beautiful… Good job LaCie

I started wearing glasses about 4 years ago.. I’m somewhat against contacts (sticking things in your eyes… ewww) I’m thinking about expanding my collection which consist of a old beat up Prada black frame and my current Ray bans.. I’m loving the the first pic (found here) Ever since Lauren Conrad has been rocking the Ray Bans it seams like everyone and their mother asks me if they are “real” … no I wear these things because i love seeing the world through plastic…

hmm

I just tweeted about my blog.. and my blog is about me tweeting… did i blow your mind yet?

I was going across some of my old bookmarks, I seam to stockpile them and forget when and where I came across them…. I’m glad I cam back across Paprika ! Either they have amazing clients with large budgets and allow them to be creative or they are just geniuses (I’m thinking a bit of both)  They inspired me… so I hope they do the same to you.

Just started working on a project I’ve been dreaming about the last few weeks. Me my wife and a few others from The reThink Group are going on a trip to South Africa with LUO. Our Main goal is to help grow the community in that area, building trust, and reaching out our hands wherever needed.

I just started designing and building sendusout.org (probably nothing up there yet) I’m hoping this site will simplify raising support ( for what we are tying to do and other organizations). It will allow people to donate to either the people going on the trip or  to the whole trip in general.

I’m hoping this won’t suck.