Fairly Useless…

Mac only. YEP is a mac app for organizing your “paperless office”. A friend of mine asked me a few months ago about the very same thing and I had suggested using gallery to scan papers and receipts and upload them to the web application. Gallery allows for keywords and descriptions, and was a better solution than iPhoto, because it was online.

YEP has built in support for scanners and has tagging. YEP is free for now, but the developers will be charging for the next version.

teleport is a simple utility to let you use one single mouse and keyboard to control several of your Macs. Simply reach the edge of your screen, and your mouse teleports to your other Mac! The pasteboard can be synchronized, and you can even drag & drop files between your Macs.

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Inkjet printers + online pdf = toy maker, ths is one of the things I like about the internet. You can convert a physical item (like an origami model) to a digital format (a pdf), transmit it electronically. Then someone across the world can download it and print it out to create a physical version of the original. It’s a matter transporter!
Paper Forest: Spooky Stuff

Here is the finished logo with colors. The toy block font came in handy for the website design, I used it as initial caps for section titles. The logo works with and without the signature. It scales well and looks good in one color. I hope you have enjoyed seeing the process of making a logo. The design that I finally arrived at might not appeal to everyone, but the client is happy and so am I.

Finally getting down to the wire. I change the layout to be horizonal, it is more of a standard ratio now. It looks good with and with out the signature. Once the client chooses, I can start with color, but again I want them to choose the design and be bias on color.

I came across this post “The Multi-Tasking Myth” on the Coding Horror. After reading and looking at the chart I now realize why I am so far behind at work, and all of my time estimates are off. I only wish upper management could understand the problem.

Now it’s coming together, I still included a simple one, just to make sure that they did not want a simple design, but the blocks won. I bought a font called Toy Box Blocks, much easier then drawing by hand. The organization of elements is still wrong. It looks like four separate elements and not a cohesive logo.

Well here is were I started getting closer to the final design. I came up with a theme of building blocks and created a quick set of mock-ups to show the client the concept. The blocks are a good idea, but it looks more like a voting ballot check box. Both the client and I are agreed that this is the right direction.

Back to the drawing board, after the initial logo idea I got some feedback from the client. Since she is endorsing products with her name, I went ahead and added her signature. I scanned it in and cleaned it up in vector format. I created a more traditional label format on the left and created a icon based image on the right. Still not quite there yet.