Author: engel

"toread" is an email-based free bookmark service.
You can bookmark your "toread" web pages by just clicking the bookmarklet on your browser.

Cable management is essential in our modern day lives. These multi-purpose clips keep all sizes of cables tidy and untangled. For the home, office, workshop and traveling, CableClip manages your cables in a simple and fun way by keeping cables accessible and organized. Perfect for stowing away all surplus cables.

Creating an RSS reader for iphone is a great way to learn about the language. In this tutorial we’re going to create a rss reader that can also play podcasts. Such application will require us to download and parse a rss feed, display the data in a table and play a remote podcast. In this article I assume a minimal knowledge of cocoa programming, but you should be able to follow even if this is the first time you’re coding an iphone application.

SparkleShare shines by its absence. Unlike other syncing tools it's designed to get out of your way, to make sharing documents and collaboration easier, and to make peers aware of what you are doing.

Movie★Slate is a digital slate, clapper board, shot log, and shot notepad— designed for use with film, television, documentaries, interviews, and home movies.
Movie★Slate provides an incredibly easy way to log footage and take notes as you shoot— saving you time later when you capture and edit the footage on your computer.
The entire Movie★Slate app works in either Portrait or Landscape orientations.

I’ve made a new thing, Today’s Guardian, a website that features today’s edition of the Guardian (or the Observer on Sundays). Hopefully it’s as easy to browse through today’s newspaper as it would be with the print edition. It’s made using the Guardian’s Content API. Read on for the thoughts behind it…

These are icons I drew for my personal needs. They are all in vector and drawn on this page with Raphaël (don’t forget to zoom the page). I was thinking that they could be useful for other people and, although the design quality of icons is average, I am releasing them here under MIT licence.

Video Streaming
Air Video can stream videos in almost any format to your iPhone and iPod touch. You don't need to copy your videos to the device just to watch them.
Live Conversion
If the videos in your collection are not in format supported by iPhone, Air Video will convert them on fly*. You don't need to wait until the entire video is converted. You can start watching it almost immediately!

"Zappos sells shoes and apparel online, but what distinguished us from our competitors was that we'd put our company culture above all else. We'd bet that by being good to our employees — for instance, by paying for 100 percent of health care premiums, spending heavily on personal development, and giving customer service reps more freedom than at a typical call center — we would be able to offer better service than our competitors. Better service would translate into lots of repeat customers, which would mean low marketing expenses, long-term profits, and fast growth."

Sculptris will stay small and focused at its main task, which is sculpting and painting models.