Jaw-Dropping Journalism No. 3
Marco “Instapaper guy” Arment on the new Apple MacBook Air
The new MacBook Air was released today, and it’s a hell of an upgrade. It got much better and it’s at an extremely compelling price. It’s a great computer, but it’s not for everyone. It’s like a two-seater car. Read on if you think it might be for you.
He clearly gets the point.
The MacBook Air is just a stunning piece of hardware, but I am not the guy needing it. This text is going to be the single reference for possible Air customers.
Miscellaneous Music No. 3 — Secrets
Blogging sometimes pays off. Yesterday, I got a really exciting new music tip out of my collaboration with macmylife.de. My Co-Author David (his german website) presented this week’s mm to me.
The act is called Secrets and is a four-member band from Hamburg/Dusseldorf, Germany. Though they are from my home country, their lyrics are constantly in english. Their music, sounding like Indie/New-Wave à la xx, Joy Division or Phoenix has become that popular making the band are pre-act for the current tour of the US Indie band The Drums.
To get more information about secrets, head over to their MySpace profile, follow them on Twitter and listen to some songs on YouTube.
Fabulous Fancy Fonts No. 3
This font has been especially designed for Mostardesign Studio by Olivier Gourvat. Created in 2010, this font family has been designed to serve sectors like financial services, modern industries, business and many more activities who needs a modern aspect in their communication. Its square proportions make the design very readable at a wide range of sizes. Shapes give the face a unique futuristic look and is a very practical choice for modern headlines, branding, text and web fonts work. The family contains also an alternative set with simplified letters designed especially for text and a unique stylistic set for titles and branding.
UNicod Sans is an extremely polished, proportional display font, expressing high-tech and branding on a very high level. Both companies and individual designers and authors will have fun with it using UNicod for headers, branding or as a stylistic device in designs. Get it over at MyFonts with 5 weights and corresponding original italics for just 273 $.
Blog Action Day 2010
Today, the Blog Action Day 2010 takes over. About 4.000 weblogs, big to small, have united to fight the issue of missing clean drinking water for everyone. I have signed up as well and gave up my normal content today to give you a short idea how important this issue is.
Every day, about 4000 children around the world (mainly in the continent of Africa) die because they are thirsty, but do not have the resource to get clean water. They take water from ponds and dirty rivers and it makes them sick. But the western world, which takes clean water for granted wastes this missing water in the production of food and chemicals for plastic and so on.
So, 4.000 blogs, including Mashable or Daily Blog Tips have started to fight this issues. And so you must. Help by signing the Blog Action Day Petition to the UN, demanding for reducing the amount of people without enough water to drink about 50% in the next 5 years. And donate as well some money to one of the collaborating charity organizations.
Because water the basic human need. Do not take it for granted.
Incredible Images No. 1
Now I finally can post my first real photography article. The improvised combination of image and video post last week was fortunately not the final solution. So now take a look at these two stunning images by Chris Bowler and Jason Santa Maria (images are the links).
But these two nice picture are not the only things I would like to highlight. While collecting some images over the last weeks, I found many nice goodies and wallpapers. And I am pleased to announce that there (hopefully) will be wallpapers integrated into the Incredible Image posts as well. Here comes the first one — the (inverted) Aurora.
Jaw-Dropping Journalism No. 2
7 Steps to mastering your web browser (Bridging the Nerd Gap)
Like it or not, most of us live in our web browsers these days. Because we interface with so many of our usual haunts using a browser, it’s hard to disagree with the notion that you should be really, really good at operating it. Thing is, the stock installation of any browser is only telling you half the story; it’s perfectly serviceable right out of the box, but there is a metric poop-ton of additional functionality and efficiency available. Thankfully, nerdy goofballs like myself have, mostly through trial and error, stumbled upon a host of great ways to make your browser work better and faster.
For all the unknowing out there how to use a modern web browser appropriately. Really, read through this text or use IE8 forever and die unhappy.