Girls
This Esquire Photoshoot demonstrates why I love men’s magazines (more specifically, why I love Esquire).
The 60-picture photoset illustrates four key ages of a woman’s life, with an array of beautifully average models between the ages of 18 and 53. The pictures are associated with a quote (sometimes witty, sometimes wise), a name and a job: [...]
apple
Apple is both like China and like Disneyland, according to internet entrepreneur and journalist Tristan Louis, who has an essay on the subject up on Business Insider.
According to the thought provoking and provocative piece Apple is like China, based on its arguments in the Adobe vs. Apple war, and Apple is like Disney(land) because it [...]
google
It is worth noting that after a long period of rumors, expectations, and guessing, Google now officially announced that it takes site speed into account when assigning rankings to potential search results while crawling web pages.
According to Google, making faster websites is beneficial both on the cost end (by reducing operating costs) and from the [...]
games
If it was that simple, everybody would create instant gaming hits, like Bejeweled, Farmville, Tetris and their likes, but really: the secret of highly addictive computer games is simple: simplicity.
Simplicity in rules, and a wide range of complexity in levels, from a no-brainer rookie level to an astonishing world-cup stage for professionals (with gazillions of [...]
Web design
Made by Many has just featured an interesting piece on the history of wireframes (1999-2010), and their possible uses by actual designers now (read: their future).
Wireframes have changed a lot from the early days, when application functionality was lightyears away from design elements. As the two got closer, both the function and the making of [...]
Uncategorized
In this thrilling interview (made by Economist’s Martin Gilles) Pixar founder and chairman Ed Catmull talks about how a creative company should work to produce the success story Pixar is today.
My Favorite Quote: “I don’t like hard rules at all. I think they’re all bullshit”
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carreer
Follow our tips to stay motivated during the most difficult period of your carreer!
Layoffs, nowadays, can happen anytime, to anyone. In the times of crisis and recession, you don’t have to be a second-class employee to wake up one day and find yourself losing your job. Even worse, it can happen totally unexpectedly.
How to [...]
bloggers talk
Ben Barden is a versatile guy, busy with blogging, coding and occasionally composing. The 28-year-old blogger, who is the mastermind behind the increasingly popular Top Ten Blog Tips, and the Zen Working productivity blog tells us about moving to a different continent, his new venture of launching an advertising network for bloggers and why IT [...]