Friday Links, vol. 42

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Friday Links

The week in Internet. Useful resources for creative professionals.

Tools

  • Expresso is a web app that will analyse your writing.
  • Worklife is an free online app to manage and schedule meetings. Looks great for teams!
  • VersionPress looks to be a nice tool to use Git version control on a WordPress site. Still in development, though.
  • Open Foundry is a collection of great open-source (free) fonts for use on the web and desktop.

Techniques

  • The Pain of Trying to Set Up a Business That Could Last Forever by Alex Bec

Habits

  • Todd Henry speaks about habits and rituals on his latest episode of The Accidental Creative

Everything Else

  • Finally, a free-to-enter competition for freelancers.
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Friday Links, vol. 41

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Friday Links

The week in Internet. Useful resources for creative professionals.

Tools

  • 10 Handy Snippets to Add to Your WordPress Site by Dustin Hartzler
  • The World’s Longest Invoice by the Freelancers’ Union is a running total of all outstanding sums owed to freelancers. Add yours!

Techniques

  • The Second Leap: How to Go from Lone Freelancer to Full-Fledged Entrepreneur

Habits

  • Paul Pierson’s 10 Commitments to a Great Work Experience
  • To ensure happiness and a healthy life, meet people in person. (Hint, online groups don’t count)
  • The Onion nails working in an office vs.
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Friday Links, vol. 40

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Friday Links

The week in Internet. Useful resources for creative professionals.

Techniques

  • Ben Willmore’s 5 Photoshop Tips to Make Your Travel Photos Pop

Habits

  • Strengthening Your Intuition: 5 Ways To Hear Your Inner Voice
  • Harvard Nutrition Researcher OKs five-a-day coffee habit

Everything Else

  • Mar 31 was International Quit Your Crappy Job Day. So what are you still doing at that crappy job?
  • Architect Dame Zaha Hadid dies, aged 65
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Friday Links, vol. 39

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Friday Links

The week in Internet. Useful resources for creative professionals.

Tools

  • A List of Great Productivity, Security, and Storage apps for Mac
  • Adobe XD — their new UI design tool to rival Sketch — is out in an early form. Take a look.
  • Lingo is a desktop app to manage/organize your brand assets. See also: Frontifty, Brandisty

Techniques

  • Become A Manipulator
  • 5 Things to be Mindful of When Returning to Full-Time Work from Freelancing
  • An explanation of Features vs. Benefits in copywriting, from Susan Gunelius

Habits

  • 11 Things Ultra-Productive People Do Differently
  • Maybe You Should Check Email in the Morning
  • 3 Time-Wasting Social Media Habits You Need To Stop Immediately, featuring this week’s guest Laura Roeder

Everything Else

  • Retro packaging designed, examined
  • A Conference Call in Real Life
  • Jonnie Hallmann discusses being a freelancer and hiring a freelancer to help build an app for freelancers.
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Friday Links, vol. 37

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Friday Links

The week in Internet. Useful resources for creative professionals.

Tools

  • Awesome Screenshot is an iPhone app to capture an entire website in Safari and save it as an image. And it works.
  • There’s an update to InDesign (now CC 2015.3) Here’s some of the bug fixes/improvements.

Techniques

  • How to Make Your Brand Cool (Again)
  • The Creative Process of an Oscar-Winning Screenwriter

Habits

  • Habits of the World’s Wealthiest People (Infographic)

Everything Else

  • The Myth of the Neurotic Creative
  • Apple’s new campus is absolutely ridiculous. See the construction in beautiful HD drone footage.
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Friday Links, vol. 36

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Friday Links

The week in Internet. Useful resources for creative professionals.

Tools

  • Noizio is a free app for Mac that plays configurable white noise
  • Slack is introducing video calls as a native feature. Goodnight Skype and Hangouts!
  • FacedIn is a Chrome extension to turn your Facebook into LinkedIn (so you can use it at work?)

Techniques

  • A Method to rip TypeKit webfonts for use on the desktop. Caveats galore, this is a hack, and a convoluted one at that.
  • Designing for AppleTV — a guide

Habits

  • Paul Boag, Marcus Lillington, and Leigh Howells discuss their daily productivity habits and hacks, especially aimed at staying motivated and productive when faced with the option of doing nothing and going back to sleep.
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Friday Links, vol. 35

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Friday Links

The week in Internet. Useful resources for creative professionals.

Tools

  • The Must-Have Tools Set for Every Apartment or Dorm
  • TunesToTube is an easy way to upload an audio track with a static image to YouTube. (Seriously, this should be way easier).
  • Google Resizer is an online tool showing multiple screen sizes for your site
  • Logo Evolve shows a quick glance of large companies’ original logos

Techniques

  • A Maker-Hacker’s Method for creating a 118 GB Floppy Disk

Habits

  • 10 Podcasts to Spark Your Creativity

Everything Else

  • Etsy has “office hackers“.
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Friday Links, vol. 33

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Friday Links

The week in Internet. Useful resources for creative professionals.

Tools

  • This to That is a website that recommend the exact type of glue you should use to adhere substrate A to substrate B (e.g. Wood to Leather)
  • Buy Me Once is an online retailer with the simple aim to only sell things built to last

Techniques

  • Why you shouldn’t include a carousel on your website
  • What to do when your design company fails
  • Using Medium to gain 20,000 in six months

Habits

  • The Daily Habits of Creatives, visualised with cheeky cartoons and statistics.
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Friday Links, vol. 32

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Friday Links

The week in Internet. Useful resources for creative professionals.

Tools

  • PC Part Picker is a website where you can check your custom-built PCHackintosh’s parts lists for compatibility & price.
  • Siftery, an online software tool that lets you showcase what online software tools you use, and browse those used by other companies. (no joke, this sounds very useful)
  • Overpass is a free, open-source typeface based on Highway Gothic. Looks great on-screen, and works on the web as well. (see also: Clear Sans, Input)
  • World Market, Lumens, Shades of Light — Places to shop for lighting fixtures (Thanks Betsy Helmuth)

Techniques

  • Use these “hidden” Instagram features for better experience in the app
  • Marie Poulin offers answers to the question “Why should I hire you?”
  • How Allen Brouwer used Instagram Promos to drive traffic and sales.
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Friday Links, vol. 31

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Friday Links

The week in Internet. Useful resources for creative professionals.

Tools

  • Find hard-to-uncover Netflix categories using NetflixCodes.me
  • Pew Research Center has some good statistics about podcasts and podcast listeners (updated Apr. 2015)

Everything Else

  • Finally, a definition of Creative Director by Daniel Mall. (Following an earlier definition of Art Director)
  • The next evolution for the sharing economy — turn your home into a co-working space when you’re not there.
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Friday Links, vol. 30

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Friday Links

The week in Internet. Useful resources for creative professionals.

Tools

  • A great list of tools for modern storytellers (which mostly means writers)
  • Solid list of designers, illustrators, lettering artists, etc., from my pal Jillian Adel
  • TheRight.Fit is a site to connect with models, actors, dancers, etc. if the big agencies won’t take your call.
  • Tiny Hardware Firewall is an idiot-proof gizmo with a VPN service built-in. Great for frequent travelers.
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    Tiny Hardware Firewall VPN device

  • Need a membership plugin for WordPress? See which of these 30 scored best.
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Friday Links, vol. 29

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Friday Links

The week in Internet. Useful resources for creative professionals.

Tools

  • Ecamm, makers of Call Recorder for Skype have released Call Recorder for FaceTime

Techniques

Habits

  • How to Master the Habits of Successful People
  • 6 Mistakes Every New Freelancer Makes according to the community at Domino
  • Don’t forget to Update Your Footer to show the year 2016. Better yet, make it automatic.

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Friday Links, vol. 28

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Friday Links

The week in Internet. Useful resources for creative professionals.

Tools

  • Share Link Generator helps you easily generate share links for social media sites.
  • Paul Pierson describes the Three Books That Changed [His] Professional Life
  • A great list podcasting resources from Aaron Dowd
  • Refresh Finder is a little add-on that allows you to refresh the Finder on your Mac. Useful in the case of Dropbox and other syncing stuff.

Techniques

  • RGB vs. CMYK explained in 60 seconds
  • How to Throw An Office Holiday Party That’s Actually Fun

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