Eat it.
Of all the fancy-shmancy apps that I use every day to do whatever it is that I do, SelfControl is probably one of the coolest, simplest, and most important. All it does is block you from visiting distracting sites for a fixed amount of time when you should be working. The app’s site explains it best:
Is email a distraction? SelfControl is an OS X application which blocks access to incoming and/or outgoing mail servers and websites for a predetermined period of time. For example, you could block access to your email, facebook, and twitter for 90 minutes, but still have access to the rest of the web. Once started, it can not be undone by the application, by deleting the application, or by restarting the computer – you must wait for the timer to run out.
I would literally get nothing done ever without it. Go pick it up FOR FREE here.
Yardley hates these things, but oh well I think they’re cool. Cool cases are the only thing that make me miss having an iphone. At least I can get one for my iPad.
The Get Up Kids rule all. They have a new song. Listen to it here. (There is also a big giant article about the new record and what not that you should read too.)
Yardley showed me this the other day and I thought it was worth sharing. Have you ever been trying to mock up a website real quick and needed a bunch of placeholder images? Well, Placehold.it is exactly what you should be using!
Basically you give it a URL like http://placehold.it/350x150 and then it magically gives you an image with the dimensions you supplied in the URL. “Holy crap!” you say? I know. You can even customize the image colors or text to make it match your site a little bit better.
Go on, try it out.
