Category: LinkLog

Have you ever been distracted by your desktop? Notifications, post-its, reminders, folders with weird names, background pictures? All this stuff can easily distract you and prevent getting focused.
If you are a writer and you need to be concentrated on the current draft, Focused is very helpful. We you run Focused you are in front of a full screen application, which shows you just a text box. This prevents you from having a look to other windows or tools that are potential distractors.
The only thing you’ll see is just your text. Try it!

Metamorphosis Alpha was the first science fiction role playing game. Struck by radiation, the passengers of the interstellar colony ship Warden have mutated into unusual and deadly creatures. With little or no knowledge of how to use the technology around them, they must struggle to survive. Metamorphosis Alpha spawned the popular Gamma World role playing games.

Farming has always been messy and painful, and bloody and dirty. It still is. This is something the critics of industrial farming never seem to understand.

"The probability of having your (health insurance) policy torn up given a massively expensive condition is pushing 50%"

Photo Gallery makes getting your photos off your camera a snap. Edit them with an array of features and effects—even create amazing panoramas—and then publish them online.

This site is the on-line companion to the book Thinking with Type: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, & Students, by Ellen Lupton (Princeton Architectural Press, 2004). The book includes essays, examples, and practical guidance that does not appear on this site.

"a thousand things like that is like using linux in a world of windows people again. No-one bothers with the little stuff. Stuff works on the iPhone because everyone tests on the iPhone. It would work on Android if anyone bothered.
Linux vs Windows/MacOS, all over again. You gain Freedom by using an open platform, making life worse for yourself in a thousand tiny ways, any one of which can easily be dismissed, so they are. But it’s still worse. "

Unpublished rules and clarifications from Apple's App Review team that can cause your iPhone app to be rejected.

"rounded rectangles are literally easier on the eye"