Archive for the ‘General’ Category

Music you should be listening to

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I just put together a fairly comprehensive list of albums (15 of them to be exact) that you should be listening to while working.

The article is over at one of my new sites: Music to Work By: 15 Albums Necessary for Any Designer’s Playlist

Posted at 8:19PM by Josh Pigford in General and Music
May 31 2008

Twitter

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Well, I’ve finally caught the bug and have become a tad obsessive with Twitter. We’ll see how long this lasts.

Oh. And happy new year. :)

Posted at 10:52PM by Josh Pigford in General
Jan 25 2008

Hot Diggity Dogger…I love you

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Hot Diggity Dogger So Unclutterer made a post today about a kitchen gadget that doesn’t pull its weight in relation to the space it demands. In other words, it takes up WWWAAAYYY to much space for doing such a minimal task.

And what task might that be? Freaking grilling hot dogs!

The Hot Diggity Dogger might be one of the most pointless, yet amazing gadgets to ever exist…period.

My gosh I want one.

Posted at 7:15PM by Josh Pigford in General
May 16 2007

Are you on IconBuffet?

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I’ve been quite obsessed with IconBuffet for quite some time now and this is my quick little post to try and snag myself more points there. :)

So, if you aren’t a member of IconBuffet, you should be. And you should go signup using my referral link.

/end selfish iconbuffet promo

Posted at 7:16AM by Josh Pigford in General
Apr 12 2007

Are you a webmail only user?

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For ages I’ve used Apple’s Mail.app for all my mail needs. But over the past year or so I’ve consolidated a lot of things and only have a few email addresses now. I’ve even, for the most part, started using Gmail for business email as well.

Do you tend to use a local app or a web based client like Gmail? Have you found any real benefit of it over a local app?

Posted at 7:02PM by Josh Pigford in General
Feb 26 2007

SpottedWalrus: Annihilator

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So the little hamsters have been hard at work designing the new site that you now see. There are still quite a few rough edges and I know some browsers (specifically IE 6) just plain don’t work with this site. But do know that I’m working on it.

One major thing to make note of is the change in link structure. I’m dropped the usual blog structure of year, month, and day and just went with a simple post id and article title. Make for much neater URLs. The negative side is that all previous links are dead…but since there aren’t a ton of incoming links to specific posts at this point…it shouldn’t be a big deal.

Hope you like the new goods!

Posted at 12:57PM by Josh Pigford in General
Feb 22 2007

PowerMac & iSight for Sale

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This month I finally made the leap to the Intel side of Apple and snagged myself a juicy little MacBook Pro (little = 17″).

Now that I’ve got the MBP, I no longer need my G5 or the iSight (since Apple laptops have cameras built in).

So, I’ve put both items up for sale on eBay.

The PowerMac G5 is a beast with a Dual 2GHz processor and 5GB of RAM and the iSight is in mint condition.

Get your bid on.

Posted at 8:47AM by Josh Pigford in General
Feb 19 2007

Changes ’round here

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So it’s been a bit of a whirlwind the past couple of months and as you can tell, I haven’t posted in about a 3 billion days. And by 3 billion days I mean about 90.

I’m moving business towards the content creation side of things…meaning I’ll be writing more here.

Most of my writing has revolved around Apple stuff at The Apple Blog but I figured I really should start posting non-Apple stuff and here seems like the perfect place.

So stay tuned to more ranting on business, design, lifehacking, coding, and just plain awesomeness.

Booyah.

Posted at 8:43AM by Josh Pigford in General
Feb 19 2007

The New Goods

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Well, as the 9 of you who read this blog can probably tell, I’ve redesigned the site. There are still a few small issues to fix (and I honestly haven’t even opened it in IE/Win) so hopefully all those little things will get taken care of by themselves…

Posted at 6:37AM by Josh Pigford in General
Aug 11 2006

Tops of 2005

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So everybody’s got their top whatevers of the year…and I’m a sucker for bandwagons. So here we are.

Top 6 Albums

  1. Chasing Victory - I Call This Abandonment
  2. As Cities Burn - Son, I Love You At Your Darkest
  3. Fall Out Boy - From Under The Cork Tree
  4. Acceptance - Phantoms
  5. Emery - The Question
  6. The All-American Rejects - Move Along

Top 2 Books - Note…these books were released prior to 2005…but I used them the most in 2005…and that’s what counts

  1. Sonic: Visuals for Music
  2. Taschen’s 1000 Favorite Websites

Top 1 Personal Computing Device

  1. Dual 2.0Ghz Powermac G5

Top 4 Significant Events

  1. Marriage
  2. Moving to Denver, CO (from Mississippi)
  3. Getting a dog…not just any dog…a pug…you can hardly even consider them a dog
  4. Going full-time with Sabotage Media

Top 3 Beverages

  1. Mountain Dew
  2. AriZona Green Tea
  3. Starbucks Caramel Macchiato

Top 6 9 Apps

  1. Adobe Photoshop CS2
  2. Adobe Illustrator CS2
  3. Macromedia Dreamweaver 8
  4. Adium
  5. CocoaMySQL
  6. Quicksilver
  7. Macromedia Flash 8
  8. Mail 2.0
  9. Studiometry
Posted at 4:44PM by Josh Pigford in General
Dec 20 2005