Author: Funtime Ben

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Web Design

IM Creator XPS

IM Creator’s XPS looks to be an interesting visual website design tool akin to Squarespace‘s visual editor. I have only used Squarespace on a handful of website and the biggest drawback is their monthly billing over buying the software outright. XPS seems to be more affordable for developers and has a great free option for students and non-corporate work. Personally I’m getting sick and tired of all this website building with code and long for the future when the tools will be more akin to InDesign than the movie Hackers.

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Everyday

Andrea Zittel’s A-Z West

Andrea Zittel’s A-Z West is a wonderful exploration of what you need to live.

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Books Design

Typophonic – Album Cover Typography

Typophonic is a site about album cover typography. It is great and an awesome place to find retro inspiration. If you are a fan of Jazz covers, might I suggest Tashen’s Jazz Covers book. The print version is very expensive, but the iPad version is cheap and beautiful!

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Everyday

Picturefill

Picturefill gets an update to make it work with newest webkit nightlies. 

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Design

Futuramo Icons

Who Doesn’t like free icons? Well Futuramo is a collection of a free and paid set to bury you in great little icons.

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Everyday

A standing desk for $22

I’ve been contemplating a standing desk for a while, but the $500+ cost for an all in one unit is a little daunting, so this $22 version looks like a possible option.

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Everyday

Vivaldi Web Browser

Vivaldi is a new web browser, built with the purpose of making your internet surfing easier. The only downside right now is that it doesn’t have the extensions I need, but an interesting project.

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Web Design

Top Pens of 2014 on CodePen

Top Pens of 2014 on CodePen are just that. There is a pretty impressive range of code and features in the selections. Definitely worth a look.

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Music

Top 10 Albums of 2014

Top 10 Albums of 2014 is a damn fine list of great alt music from 2014 by Thomas Schrijer. Most of my favorites or honorable mentions are present for sure and a few surprises are there as well. All albums provided as Spotify links so you can get to the listening immediately.

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Apple

The Software and Services Apple Needs to Fix

The Software and Services Apple Needs to Fix is an in depth look at Apple’s seemingly insatiable thirst to update their products with broken versions. I have been recently pushed to build a PC rather than buy a new Mac. Unfortunately I don’t believe this trend by Apple will end anytime soon.