The Life Hack Poster

While the term "life hacks" has gotten kicked around a lot over the years, a new Kickstarter project by Alex Croft breathes new life into the phrase. The 24x36 inch poster is well designed, featuring white and black art over a beautiful blue. Each "hack" is told as a fun little story around a big owl. Guides on CPR, the Heimlich maneuver,…

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Apple Consulting – A Minimal Guide (Audiobook Version)

Patrick Rhone's excellent guide to becoming a Mac consultant (which we mentioned a while back) is now available in audiobook form. As with the text version, this audiobook will occasionally undergo revisions and additions, with new editions of the book being sent out to all customers. And just like the text version, the audiobook is only $5.

Nock Co. Pen Cases

Nock Co. is a new startup by Jeffrey Bruckwicki and Brad Dowdy focused on creating beautiful, functional pen accessories. Their initial Kickstarter project features numerous products. Ranging from the The Chimneytop, a mini pop-up case with a single zipper for 6-7 pens to The Brasstown, a zippered roll case for pens, pencils, small tools and more. All of Nock Co's items are…

Design Crazy

There are a lot of books about Apple's history. However, most of them end at the iMac in 1999 or the iPod in 2001, which is disappointing. This is starting to change a bit, though. The $1.99 Kindle book Design Crazy: Good Looks, Hot Tempers, and True Genius at Apple by Max Chafkin over at Fast Company includes interviews more than fifty…

ProTravel Carry-on

The ProTravel Carry-on by Minaal is a Kickstarter that caught my eye recently. Essentially, it's a backpack that was specifically designed with travelers in mind. The main pocket opens up wide enough that the bag can lie flat while you pack, and the full-length zips make it easy to retrieve any of your belongings without having to dig around for that one…

Buca Boot: Flexible Secure Storage for the Urban Biker

The Buca Boot is a new Kickstarter project designed to make biking with items easier than now. While saddle bags, cases and more exist, the Buca Boot is a new lockable, waterproof, handsome rig that's designed to be more flexible than products out there. The Buca Boot fits any standard bike rack, so no drilling is required on your bike frame. The…

Evernote Essentials 4

Evernote's a great tool, but it can be confusing. Between tags, notebooks, stacks and search, there are a lot of different ways to use the application. Over the years, Brett Kelly's Evernote Essentials has been the go-to book for how to get started and excel at Evernote. Today, with version 4, Evernote Essentials is better than ever. Chock-full of hints, use cases,…

Marked 2 for Mac

Brett Terpstra's awesome Markdown-preview app for Mac, Marked, has been updated to version 2. For those who don't already know, Marked acts like a sort of extension for any Mac text editor, allowing you to preview your Markdown-formatted plain text in its rich-formatted state, every time you save your document. The preview can be customized to look however you like, even as…

Nimble Quest for iPhone

Remember that Snake game that used to be on Nokia cellphones back in the day? Nimble Quest is an iPhone game that combines the mechanics of Snake with those of a 16-bit RPG. You choose a hero, hit Play, and it puts your character on an open field with enemies continually spawning across the map. Swipe in different directions to move your…

Pod Wrangler for iPhone

"Underscore" David Smith has just released Pod Wrangler, a new podcast app for iPhone. The UI is very focused, with only the essential features most podcast listeners will need. You can subscribe to shows (or import from an OPML file), download episodes for offline play, and toggle playback speed while listening. Since this is an iOS 7-only app, new episodes can also…

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Baking Steel

Baking pizza at home seems like it should be a simple project, but it can be a little tricky. The outer crust and the pie center don't always cook evenly, and you might even end up with some burnt zones. The Baking Steel, essentially a flat slab of steel that you use like a pizza stone, will conduct heat more evenly –…

Truffol ‘Nature Series’ Case for iPhone 5

When I think of all the wooden iPhone cases I've seen in my life, I realize that most are sold on the merits of their eco-friendliness over their manufacturing quality. Truffol's Nature Series case may be perfectly eco-friendly as far as I know, but as a company, they seem to take a more Apple-like, tightly controlled approach to their engineering process. The…

VSCO Film 01

The wonderful folks at VSCO, makers of VSCO Cam for iOS, have released an update to their VSCO Film 01 preset suite for Lightroom 4 & 5 and Adobe Camera Raw 7 & 8. This update adds support for pro-level Sony, Olympus and Leica cameras, in addition to their previous support for Fuji, Canon and Nikon rigs. To celebrate the occasion, they're…

The Runwell Watch by Shinola

I've said before that I'm not much of a connoisseur of watches. I typically don't even spend more than twenty bucks on one. But I do have an appreciation for things that exhibit a certain level of craftsmanship. The Runwell watch, hand-assembled and leather-stitched by Shinola right here in the U.S., seems to fit that bill. As you can see in this…

Velocity for iPhone

Velocity is a new iPhone app from Lickability that brings speed reading to the masses. After hooking the app up to a Pocket or Instapaper account, users can open their articles to have the words flash by at up to 1,000 words per minute. (I prefer mine set to about 340.) I didn't think this app would be for me at first,…

Fresh Apps for iOS 7: Our Favorite Picks for What’s New and Updated

Twitterrific 5: Twitterrific 5 as it existed a few days ago really wouldn't have looked out of place on iOS 7. But that didn't stop the developers from going the extra mile anyway. The Iconfactory has re-done pretty much all the UI elements and added many new features such as background fetching of tweets/sync position, several new gestures, and usability improvements. Just…

MPod Mini Stand

One of our longtime favorite camera tripods has been the Joby GorillaPod, which has flexible legs for customizing your shooting setup — even if it means hanging the thing from a tree. If you've ever found yourself wishing for a similar setup for your smartphone, you're in luck because now the Joby people have released the MPod Mini Stand. With the original…

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