Happy Holidays from LifeClever

I’d like to wish everyone a restful and peaceful holiday season. Thanks to everyone for helping make this a wonderful year.

Here’s what you may have missed:

How to tame your overflowing buddy list One desktop background to rule them all Better typography without (or in spite of) design school How to organize your cluttered desktop and regain your sanity Keyboard […]

MetaDesign’s website gets ripped off

Brian Clark of Copyblogger recently got his blog’s design copied, causing quite a stir. Now, it looks like it’s my turn to get ripped off. My recent design for MetaDesign’s website has just been stolen by another design agency called Spotts & Company.

Not only did they lift the layout and type styles, they also copied […]

Adobe’s new icons: Love or hate ‘em?

Adobe’s recent Photoshop CS3 beta is quenching the desperate thirst of Photoshop fanatics everywhere. But it’s new icon system is causing some controversy.

The new icons use a system of abbreviations to represent each Adobe product, a bit like the symbols in the periodic table.

Since their introduction in 2003, the Adobe Creative Suite icons have […]

I thought you should know…

Since the birth of LifeClever six months ago, I’ve written little about myself. Mostly because I’m a lazy bum who’d rather obsess about Battlestar Galactica and Nutella than write about myself. This week, however, a big change in my life happened.

After three and a half years at MetaDesign, I am leaving. In the new year, […]

Instantly open Word docs with TextEdit

Just by accident, I discovered TextEdit’s forgotten superpower to open and edit Word docs. Just drag any Word document onto TextEdit, and it opens instantly. Barely a wait. Not even a splash screen.

If you’re sick of waiting for Word’s one-billion toolbars and useless features to load, this is a step closer to escaping the clenches […]

Wanna know who reads LifeClever?

The results of the LifeClever + Federated Media reader survey are in. I’d like to especially thank all 165 people who participated. Your efforts have given me much illumination into the LifeClever community.

Since I’m sure you’re wondering who your fellow readers are demographically. Here are some highlights:

71.5% Male 47.7% Aged 18—29 61% Household income over 50k 47.9% Publish […]