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Friday Links, vol. 11

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Friday Links

The week in Internet. Useful resources for creative professionals.

Tools

  • Gemini is a duplicate-finder app for Mac. You probably have tons of duplicate files, actually.
  • LooseLeaves is a Mac app that lets you quickly share snippets of markdown via the web
  • Here’s a funny looking sit-stand desk. But it seems legit.

Techniques

  • Weird things start to happen when you stare into someone’s eyes for 10 minutes, so maybe don’t do it.

Habits

Everything Else

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Designer & Entrepreneur Cathryn Lavery Shares Her Personal Productivity Habits, Tactics for a Successful Kickstarter Launch - The Busy Creator Podcast 65

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The Busy Creator 65 w/guest Cathryn Lavery

Cathryn Lavery (@CathrynLavery) is an architect-turned-designer, entrepreneur, and maker. After leaving architecture, she created Calm The Ham, where she designs and sells posters and other products. Cat’s next project is The Self Journal, a printed, bound journal with templates to help you craft a productive morning routine and accomplish your quarterly goals.

Our conversation covers Cat’s productivity habits, especially as they relate to morning routines, how she leverages her passions for design but leaves the marketing duties to other people, and how she takes a systematic approach to launching on Kickstarter by manipulating her media contacts.

Catch up with Cat on her personal blog, LittleMight.com, or via CalmTheHam.com and TheSelfJournal.com

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Friday Links, vol. 7

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Friday Links

The week in Internet. Useful resources for creative professionals.

Tools

  • Product Hunt Books, a newsletter introducing you to great books for business and internet people.

Techniques

  • How to use El Capitan’s system font in Yosemite via OS X Daily
  • Copywriting is Not Just Smoke and Mirrors by past guest Susan Gunelius

Habits

Everything Else

  • Copyright-related info. The Return of Orphan Works, Part 1: “The Next Great Copyright Act”
  • 10 Archetypes of Entrepreneurs, according Chase Reeves of Fizzle.co
  • iTunes Needs to Break Up … With Itself
  • Californians are painting their dead lawns
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Programmer & Developer Ben Borowski explores the creative side of software and shares his recent personal projects - The Busy Creator Podcast 62

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The Busy Creator 62 w/guest Ben Borowski

Ben Borowski (@TypeOneError) is a software developer and programmer based in Vancouver, BC, Canada. In past years, Ben run a small studio doing web development for top agencies, but has recently made a move to create his own project, and is working on that full-time.

Ben is one half of Oki Doki, along with Designer & Digital Strategist Marie Poulin. Together, the duo are hard at work on Doki, a web platform to build and run online courses and communities. In this conversation, Ben discusses the creative side of programming, the definition of a “coder”, and the challenges of putting aside client projects for the endeavor of building your own app.

Catch up with Ben on his site, Type One Error, or check out Doki.io.

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Software Tools For Designers to Stay Organised and Focused

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Software Apps I use to stay organised

A version of this article first appeared as a guest post on Just Creative Design. The original post and its comments can be found here.

Over the years, friends and colleagues in the design industry have come to know me as a rather organised person, one who enjoyed being a systems geek. I test a lot of software and methodologies, and have become somewhat of a go-to resource. I am often asked about the tools and techniques I use to run my own design practice, Starship Design, and my podcast, The Busy Creator. […] Full post →

Pro Tip for Using Google to Compare Software Tools

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Compare using Google

On The Busy Creator Podcast, we frequently discuss the software that creative pros are using to build websites, edit videos, and manage projects. In fact, the most downloaded episode to date remains our single-topic show about project management tools & collaboration software.

If you’re researching new online software, web or mobile apps, or project management tools, don’t forget about using Google. Here’s how:

Many of us begin our discovery with another software title or company. For example, if you’re out there trying to learn the latest in word processing, you’ll likely have Microsoft Word as the standard by which to compare it. […] Full post →

The Busy Creator Podcast, episode 43 with Designer & Creative Director Bob Calvano

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The Busy Creator 43 w/guest Bob Calvano

Bob Calvano (@bobcalvano) runs the digital media & design studio for A+E Networks, and oversees the development of mobile apps, websites, interfaces, and a variety of other design elements for A+E’s brands.

This conversation discusses his origins in digital and traditional design work, how he manages a diverse team of designers and programmers, and the challenges of working in the always-changing business of television and entertainment.

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The Busy Creator Podcast, episode 39 with Online Video Producer Steve Dotto

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The Busy Creator 39 w/guest Steve Dotto

Steve Dotto (@DottoTech) publishes a variety of videos on YouTube, mainly on the subject of personal productivity and software. Following a career in traditional broadcasting, he’s strategically moved into self-publishing and has since built a business with video, coaching, & speaking under his brand DottoTech.

In this conversation, Steve shares his strategies for online community-building, his preferred sites and software, and his personal productivity habits.


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The Busy Creator Podcast, episode 38 - The InDesign Episode with David Blatner & Anne-Marie Concepción

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The Busy Creator 38 - The InDesign Episode with David Blatner & Anne-Marie Concepción

David Blatner (@dblatner) & Anne-Marie Concepción (@amarie) are veteran graphic designers and software instructors specializing in Adobe InDesign. The duo founded InDesign Secrets — the #1 Resource for all things InDesign — and host The InDesign Secrets Podcast. They also take the show on the road, organizing The InDesign Conference and the Print & e-Publishing Conference (PePcon).

Together, we discuss bad InDesign habits, underrated features, and how InDesign is evolving (or not) based on community feedback.


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The Busy Creator Podcast, episode 31 - Project Management Tools & Collaboration Software with guest Bryan Orr

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The Busy Creator 31, Project Mgmt & Collaboration Tools w/guest Bryan Orr

Bryan Orr (@BryanJOrr) is both a brick-and-mortal small business owner and software entrepreneur, based in Florida. In owning and operating a heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) installation company, he has experimented with a great variety of project management tools and collaboration software. Following this, he ventured into the software game itself, commissioning his own system to help run the business.

He also hosts the WOW Small Business Podcast and is a co-creator of MentionTribe, an online service aimed at helping local small businesses.

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Level-Up Strategy for Maintaining Up-To-Date Backups of Your Files

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Level-Up Strategy

I have come to embrace the adage of our computer age:

There are two types of people: those who do back up, and those who will back up

After losing hundreds of photos to a hard drive crash way back in high school, I’ve become religious about backing up files ever since. But too many of us still don’t have a seamless, continuous backup system in place.

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