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The iPad Is Not Done

Apple’s numbers bounced back in this week’s quarterly earnings report, but it didn’t go unnoticed that iPad sales continue to…

All the Money I Paid to Walt Disney Last Year

When you have a young family, like I do, it’s pretty difficult to avoid paying money to The Walt Disney…

Designing Logos with Grids

When debuting new logos, designers often share a supporting illustration that superimposes a grid on top of the logo forms,…

Movies Watched, 2016

One last look at what I watched last year. First, between holidays and travel, I squeezed in eleven films in…

New Mozilla Branding

After a seven month design process that was conducted in the open, Mozilla this week unveiled their new branding. Tim…

Astropad Studio Is an iPad App That Changes Your Mac

One of the more underappreciated reasons to own an iPad is that it can change your relationship with your “real”…

Controlling a Mac with Amazon Echo or Google Home

Asking Google Home or Amazon Echo to play any song you like from the Spotify catalog is extremely liberating—but until…

Four More Years

You can read about it in books as much as you want, but in parenting their are thresholds of knowledge…

At Home with Echo and Home

I’m sure I’m not the only person who got both an Amazon Echo and a Google Home over the holidays…

Messin’ with Workflow

Among other things, the holidays afford time for indulgences masquerading as productivity. For instance, I spent an inordinate amount of…