Category Archives: hacks

Hide Completed Items on BackPack Comments Off

I’ve been using Backpack for a few months, it’s clean, fast and simple - it epitomizes the 37 signals philosophy, which I generally agree with, but they’ve made a few interface decisions that irk me. The inability to show/hide completed items is at the top of that list, luckily in Firefox it’s easy to fix;
Step […]

Retro Webcam 2

So I’ve decided to sacrifice one of my vintage video cameras to convert it into a totally cool webcam (I’ll also be sacrificing an existing webcam - my goal is to minimally impact the vintage camera (at least that’s the plan)), maybe one of the plastic vintage cameras would be a better choice (the one […]

9 Diet Hacks Comments Off

I’m not pro-diet, I think diets suck, and in general any weight you DO lose, you gain back two-fold, the reason is simple, the concept of a diet is to eat less and burn more until you reach a certain goal, that first part is good - the second part is the problem. A diet […]

(9+2)*5 a slightly more productive hack 1

It’s been one of those weeks, 16+ hour days, nose to the grindstone, no time to think about anything but the work that’s due RIGHT NOW kind of weeks, but thankfully it’s Friday - I think I’ve discovered one of those personal productivity gem that only surfaces when you’re busy.
All week I’ve whittled away at […]

Unprotected PDFs 1

So aggravating, I had a fellow illustrator do some artwork for a project, and he sent it over as a password-protected PDF, and of course, neglected to provide me the password, to further piss me off, he wasn’t reachable by either email or phone from 9am to 7pm - so in a deadline induced frenzy […]

Seamless Ipod Playlists Comments Off

So now that I kind of have a decent playlist, I decided to ‘kick it up’ a little bit, by eliminating the annoying gaps between the songs — of course Itunes can do this automatically, just switch on ‘crossfade between tracks’ & ‘gapless playback’ and you’re all set, but sadly this seemingly obvious feature isn’t […]

The Color Of Fame Comments Off

I’m writing a how-to-hack-yourself-famous handbook, here’s idea number one.
Produce eight 80 x 80 canvases of flat colors that represent the original eight colors of a box of crayons. Sign them hugely in Black sharpie and hang them in a trendy NYC gallery each with a 20k price-tag, name the whole show ‘Chroma of Youth’. Capitalizing […]