The Well-Appointed Desk

Redress Your Desktop

AnaMarch 2, 2013Leave a comment

Whether you spend all day staring at a computer or a mobile device, eventually the urge to “redecorate” hits. I’ve found some lovely wallpaper patterns for both.

For your desktop, check out the array of wallpapers from Design Love Fest.

From Fellow Fellow are some lovely iPhone (and various mobile devices) wallpapers like these:

(click on each pattern above to find more from Fellow Fellow)

For other GUI goodies, check out:

Pheist Monochrom on Deviant Art for grungy papers
The Fox Is Black Desktop Project for an array of patterns for both desktop and iPhone

Got a good source for great wallpapers or do you make your own? Leave a note in the comments. Thanks!

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Hyper-organize with A Bowl Full of Lemons

AnaMarch 1, 2013Leave a comment

A Bowl Full of Lemons shows off her hyper-organized home office and even offers details of the steps she took to get her office and her clutter in order. She’s got great tips and lots of inspiring photos. Oh, to be this organized!

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What’s new in the TWSBI Diamond 580?

AnaFebruary 28, 2013Leave a comment

FPGeeks did a comprehensive write-up about the changes and improvements in the TWSBI Diamond 580, the successor to the wildly popular Diamond 540 which was discontinued.

If you already own a 540, are you going to buy a 580?

(via FPGeeks)

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Link Love: Lifehacking

AnaFebruary 27, 2013Leave a comment

There are two excellent websites for lifehacks: Lifehack and Lifehacker. In amongst general information on how to get fit, eat better and be more productive are recommendations for work-related topics, zero-ing out your email inbox and app recommendations.

This week I decided to cherry pick a few of my favorite recent articles from these sites and share them here.

Workspaces:

A bird’s eye view workspace (pictured above from Lifehacker)
The compromising workspace (via Lifehacker)
Tessa Miller of Lifehacker’s tips and tricks (and pics of her home office and Gawker HQ) (via Lifehacker)
10 steps to a cleaner office in 10 minutes (via Lifehack)

Mobile apps:

NoCrop (via Lifehacker and Lifehack)
Sunrise calendar app (via Lifehacker)
Supercharged apps to replace native iPhone apps (via Lifehack)
3 Great Ways to Use Evernote on The Go (via Lifehack)
Mailbox Review for iPhone (via Lifehack)

Productivity:

Mailstrom to Zero Inbox (via Lifehacker)
10 Underhyped Mac Apps (via Lifehacker)

Misc:

Find all the free Kindle books on Amazon Prime (via Lifehacker)
Creating VoIP home phone with Google Voice (via Lifehacker)

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The L.E.A.D. 2.5 Word Processor

AnaFebruary 26, 20133 Comments

Found on one of my many adventures thrifting/antiquing in Kansas City, this is the L.E.A.D.* 2.5 Word Processor plaque featuring the ever handy pencil. Under the current circumstances, sans power in many places in the KC area, they may be on to something.

The plaque is dated 1984 from Hector Sanchez, San Diego, CA. For a larger version of the image to read all the text, go here.

(*Light, Economical and Dependable)

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Blizzard of Oz, phase two.

AnaFebruary 26, 2013Leave a comment

Snowmaggedon, dump #2 — View from my studio window. Not going to work today, clearly.

The American Midwest clearly annoyed the weather gods this year. After a blistering hot summer with no rain at all we are now being inflicted with two gigantic snowstorms back-to-back. The snow has started accumulating on the power lines and power outages are happening all around us. So… I wanted to get a post up this morning letting everyone know that I may or may not have more posts later today — power-permitting.

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3D Pen. No, seriously.

AnaFebruary 25, 2013Leave a comment

Have you heard about the pen that can create 3D drawings called the 3Doodler? For more videos and details, check out the article at the Smithsonian website or you can get more info from the company on Kickstarter.