November 2009
22 posts
Scenes from Afghanistan →
The German dresscode guide →
(In German)
Pretending to read a book campaign →
“Wir sind ja etwas verschlossener und haben eine harte Schale wie eine Kokosnuss....”
– Dr. Andreas Görtz at e-fellows.net on cultural differences between Germans and Americans
Thesaurus online →
FreeThesaurus.net is a large synonym database. To find words in German (and more languages) check out Woxikon instead.
Beautiful code manifesto →
“In the business world, people are proprietary - they’re afraid to share.”
– Jason Fried of 37Signals on Inc.com
“In the software world, the first, second, and third versions of any product are...”
– Jason Fried of 37Signals on Inc.com
How to sync your Mac's address book with Google... →
Make sure to backup your Apple Address book and export all Gmail contacts first. Then change the Family ID value to 10001 (at least for the file located in a subfolder of your home directory), launch Address book again, check “Synchronize with Google” and fire up iSync to complete the process. By the way, if you’re on 10.6 already, you do not need to get your hands dirty....
“Here’s a little drawing trick from a professional illustrator: You can...”
– Kevin Cornell on Bearskinrug
Font Viewer →
myFontbook should definately be the best (free) online font viewer (for all platforms). Give it a try!
“Five years from now the internet will be dominated by Chinese-language content.”
– Google’s Eric Schmidt on ReadWriteWeb
Tools for finding, registering and managing domain... →
Make sure to check out the amazingly fast Instant Domain Search from Beau Hartshorne powered by Y Combinator, too.
The Slow Movement →
21 iPhone optimized themes for your CMS of choice →
iPhone Photoshop design template →
“Gegen Abend bekommen wir Besuch von einem Mann namens Richard Reynolds. Er...”
– ZEIT Online über die School of life
The mortal sins of chart design →
Making money from your startup's web service →
How to draft your startup's pitch →
If you have the chance to try your fresh pitch in real life, probably make sure to read this first.
