The Duel Begins

I got back from San Francisco at about 10:00AM today. I took the red eye in, so I'm slightly exhausted, but I've got a Red Bull in hand, so I think I'll be good for a few more hours.

This weekend was great, the Hip-Hop Chess event was great, got to meet some cool …

Dueling Day 2

It's now day 2 of the designer duel event. I loved Brent's take on my first design. The detail on the paper ship especially I thought was fantastic.

I decided to start taking it in a new direction, a more modern feel. I've trade his Beryl Pfizer quote for some of my …

Dueling Day 3

It's design day 3 and this is the fifth design. I thought Brent did a great job with the sea theme, and I thought rather than continue to expand on that, I'd start taking in a whole new direction. I wanted to open it up a bit and see what Brent comes up with. And with …

Mahalo?

After hearing a little bit about it, I tried giving Mahalo a shot. If you haven't heard yet, it's a search engine run by people. In the FAQ it states "Mahalo is the world's first human-powered search engine". I guess they never tried ChaCha... But let's let that one …

Moving my iTunes Library

I just arrived home for the summer, and I decided now that I'm home with not much to do for a little while, I'd finally free up some space and move my iTunes library to an external hard drive. I figure, since I never play music from my laptop when I'm on the movie, due …

My Tumblr Theme in Use

I released my Tumblr theme a few days, and I've already been noticing it being used around Tumblr, so I've decided to take some screenshots of a few that I've found and post them right here. If there are some more that you'd like me to feature right here, feel free to …

Start the DRM Boycott

If you head on over to the iTunes website, you'll notice a headline iTunes Plus. That's right, today is the day that iTunes will start selling DRM-free music on iTunes. This music will also be higher quality.

With this first step towards a world without DRM, I say we …

Macbucks

I was having a discussion with a friend yesterday about the ultimate hang out spot, and I think I've arrived at it. It's pretty simple, it just needs to happen immediately. Starbucks + The Apple Store = Macbucks. One place where you can go to get your coffee, pull out …

Twitter Did it! Replies!

I just noticed today, that Twitter is finally starting to do something about the replies. They've added a Replies tab to everyone's Twitter homepage. Now you can easily see who's been talking to you. A simple little change, but a great feature!

Also within the last few …

10 Mac Apps I Can't Live Without

A while ago I wrote an article called Apps that make switching easy and worth it. It's definitely the most popular article I've ever written on Pixelspread, and made it to the Digg homepage and was featured on Arstechnica, amongst other places. Anyway, looking back on …

5 Reasons I Heart Flickr

It's so hard to find an application you love... or heart. I think you heart things on the internet, and love them in real life? I guess we can solidify the definition later, but let's try heart. Anyway, amongst the masses of web apps, finding the few you truly heart …

I'm blogging at you!

Sometimes blogging feels like yelling into space. Even with statistic software and feed tracking, numbers are hard to translate into eyes actually scanning or let alone reading articles. Who knows what those stats are saying? 200 people subscribe here. Okay. For all I …

My life is a feed

In response to something said by Clintus, I've decided to wrap my entire internet life into one feed. You can find it right here. So if you're actually interested in me, personally, go for it. It may be a bit overwhelming, so don't try to read EVERYTHING. Your brain …

Free Tumblr Theme

I decided yesterday that I wanted to create a Tumblr theme. I've been using tumblr a lot recently, and exploring other people's tumblelogs. I love seeing what everyone is posting, but I really don't see too many people customizing their layouts. I thought it would be …

Joost: I'm done with Cable TV

I've been hearing a lot of complaints recently about the lack of content on Joost. I have to say that I've actually been surprised about how much content they do have. I spent a long time last night scrolling through the documentaries section, and I actually found …

Sharing my Feeds

I'm always interested in what my friends are subscribing to, so I thought that today I could share what I've been reading. My recent favorites have been The Big Noob, Bokardo, and Subtraction. Of course I've got quite a few more though, so here is a list of the my …

5 Reasons I Twitter instead of IM

I'll preface this post by saying that I still use AIM from time to time, and Adium is a fantastic client for that, but as I get more and more into Twitter, I find that it starting to take the place of IM. Not that it does the same thing, but what I need to get done can …

How Google Reader Hooked Me

For the longest time I used NetNewsWire Lite for my feeds. I never wanted to drop any cash on an RSS Reader, because I thought it just wasn't important enough software to spend money on, especially when free versions are available. I was however pretty settled on the …

More Tumblr Buttons

I decided to create a few more buttons for the Tumblr code I posted a few days ago, so that it'd be a bit more appealing. Again, feel free to use these anywhere. If you'd like to mention Pixelspread too, that'd be great. So anywhere, here are some of those buttons:

Tumbl.us featured on Tumblr

I just noticed that my tumblelog, matthasa tumbl.us is featured on tumblr.com. If you haven't taken a chance to look at tumbl.us, I've given it a very colorful design, and I've been posting a lot of design related media on there recently. I've stumbled across a load of …