This is a two-for-one.
If you do any kind of design or development, you’re constantly needing to match colors (or you should be).
Nattyware’s Pixie and Apple’s Digital Color Meter (if you’re using OS X Lion, which you should be, be sure to see the new way to get Hex values) are what I rely on. Both free. Both easy to use. Launch, roll over the color you want to match, and you get your RGB, Hex and other values.
I use these almost daily for web design and elearning development.
Enjoy!
Required Reading (from Jane Bozarth)
Congratulations Typekit
Please Don’t Call Them Avatars… Unless They Are Avatars – Word.
Can I Use – Great resource. Thanks Judy!
Learning 2011 Conference Backchannel – David Kelly does a great job with these collections
Omnifocus and Siri
Human Centered Design Toolkit – For years, businesses have used human-centered design to develop innovative solutions. Why not apply the same approach to overcome challenges in the nonprofit world? (via Jason)
Designing the Invisible
How To Think And Communicate Visually
Team Treehouse – What do you want to learn today?
Now Entering the Decade of Learning – Great link from Chad
Kurt Hanks – Paradigm mapping. Awesomness (via The Beard)
Nest Labs has already received plenty of press. But I was reading their blog today, and came across this comment, showing how smart the Nest thermostat is at launch. Can you imagine where it will be with a few software updates?
Nest does use Time to Temperature – which is based on your home’s thermal profile — to approximate how long it’ll take to warm or cool your home. So, yes, if Nest knows, for example, that you want it to be 72 at 6PM and that it’ll take 40 minutes to get to that temperature, it’ll start heating up the house earlier.
I’m in for two sometime in 2012.
Samuel L. Ipsum – Awesome. (via DF and Aaron Silvers)
Instagram 2.0 – Massive update. Instant filters. Instant tilt-shift. High-res photos.
iTunes Skip Feature – Exactly the solution I was looking for. I’m creating a smart list for these so I can remove them from my library entirely. (via DF)
“While some people might find it distasteful to pay taxes. I don’t. I find it Patriotic.”
The Yoda Pie Chart – There is no try.
Hip-Checked — “For the past year HP has looked like a dog being tempted on opposite sides of the room by two treats. Constantly rushing back and forth so as to not lose either of the treats, but never actually getting either of the treats.”
Welcome to Macintosh
Charge money for your work. Don’t be a jerk to people. Repeat. (via Ben Brooks)
