Almost all of us listen to music. We listen at home, while working, on the subway, while driving, while running. Yet many of us don’t think of music as much more than entertainment. Did you know that you can use music as a tool? With the right music, you can increase effectiveness, create better stuff more easily, get into your creative zone quickly and kick-start a productive day…
I’ve finally found some time to update the Macchiato Social icon set. Yay!
There are 14 new icons, and are as follows:
– Yelp
– Technorati
– Skype
– Blogger
– Cargo Collective
– Dopplr
– Forrst
– foursquare
– Gowalla
– MobileMe
– PayPal
– Rdio
– RSS
– Wordpress
You can grab a new set here →
Completely free as usual. Comments and suggestions are more than welcome.
“The moment you first lay eyes on the iPhone 4’s new Retina display, you are ruined. No other display will ever make you happy. Not unless it, too, is a Retina display”
I’ve had my iPad for little over a month now and I really am surprised at the amount of use it’s getting. I thought it would fill the void between laptop and phone as many suggest. It doesn’t, it hasn’t. My MacBook is, and has been, redundant for the past 5 weeks.
My main machine is an iMac, this handles my design, development and photo editing, not to mention my music and video collections. My MacBook was always my ‘lazing around’ machine. On my lap on the sofa, reading the news at the breakfast table, maybe the odd bit of BBC iPlayer late at night.
The iPad has seamlessly stepped into the shoes of my MacBook, it now delivers the news, the tv shows, the odd bit of music I want. But at a fraction of the size and sometimes discomfort of my (now) weighty laptop.
These are all no-brainers, but… the battery life is better, it’s quicker at some everyday tasks, it’s lighter and infinitely more portable. I haven’t reached for my MacBook in weeks, but only when it comes to ‘leisure’. The death of the laptop won’t be any time soon.
The iPad just isn’t suitable for work; typing at length, editing things, saving and exporting, these aren’t simple and easy enough… yet.
If you’re thinking of getting a new laptop for your everyday use, such as browsing, photo sharing etc, should you give a tablet a second thought? Well yes and no. The limitations might be a little too much for some people, small screens, netbook speeds, software limitations. But on the other hand, if you value ease of use, simplicity and portability, then an iPad may well be for you.
19eighty7 is a collection of thoughts, ramblings and the odd freebie, collated by UK based designer and developer Dale Morrell.
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