If you ever wanted to have better looking post-it notes, How About Orange has a DIY waste-time-in-the-office project for you! Download the template, adhere your own post-it notes to the template and then run it back through your printer. Be sure you know how your printer feeds so you don’t jam it up. Nothing gets you busted for goofing around at work like gluing post-its to the inside of your printer.
Go forth and while away your Monday morning!
You never know where inspiration might strike. Modcloth had a great idea for jazzing up those plain silver or brass thumbtacks. Grab some old nail polish colors and paint those caps to be something that you want to see rather than something you’re trying to ignore.
A tip for paint thumb tacks is to pierce them into a piece of corrugated cardboard so you don’t have to hold them or balance them as they dry. Paint them solid, stripey or with dots. Voila! Crafty project that makes your office look fancy or so you know when someone steals your supplies.
(via Modcloth)
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:
Got a good source for great wallpapers or do you make your own? Leave a note in the comments. Thanks!
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!
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)
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:
Mobile apps:
Productivity:
Misc:
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)
