John Gruber notes that the Youtube mobile uploads are up by 400% since the iPhone 3GS came out. With that in mind, you shouldn't be surprised to see Flickr's camera popularity tracking page showing similar positive results for Apple. While I think part of this is the ease in which submitted videos and pictures directly [...]

If you want to set Google Notifier to check for new mail by your own setting, instead of some magical arbitrary preset that isn't revealed in the preferences, follow these directions, If you click on the mail icon, then hold down command and option keys while clicking on preferences in the drop down box, you [...]

I've always maintained that eventually, I will end up designing my own house. This recent design by Wallflower Architecture + Design featured over at Archdaily is fantastic and a step closer to what I have imagined in my head.

If you haven't read Jeff Vandermeer's recent article/interview of a woman who has a capybara as a pet, it's a must read.

If you're thinking about starting a business, or you've already got a business and you're trying to come up with a model for making money, Chris Anderson has an excellent resource up on his blog The Long Tail.

Late last year, Jake Dahn wrote about wanting a local design team to work with and around on different projects. I've been following Tina Roth Eisenberg's blog over at Swiss Miss for a bit now and I've been fairly impressed. What I didn't know until today was that she shares her design studio with several [...]

This past few week I have been reading and thinking about David Seah's recent posts about creating new beneficial habits, more specifically waking up early. The common wisdom is that it takes about two weeks to form the foundation of a habit, assuming you are practicing it diligently. Armed with this belief, I have been [...]

Rule number twenty three is: throw away useless junk before it becomes sentimental useless junk. This rule is fairly straightforward. If you regularly organize your things, you will find useless junk that you have kept as something for which 'there must be a use for' but it's just collecting dust in a pile on your [...]

43things.com is a glimpse into the desires of people. They've published a zeitgeist that includes the all time most popular goals as well as the most achieved goals. Of the people that want to fall in love, only 38.9% actually achieved that goal. If you're out there looking for love, chances are someone else out [...]

Neil Gaiman writes, When I was a young writer I would come up with stories, and then put characters into them. And the character would often feel like, in Thurber's words, "a mere device". I think the breakthrough for me came when I started writing comics -- because I believed in them. Because sometimes I [...]