Author Archives: Clay Newton

Launched the new dimlights.com

I am super excited about this: today we launched the new dimlights.com – The Cowboy Boot Webpage. I’ve been working with Jennifer June on this for a couple of months now, and I am really proud of what’s come out of it. In addition to making a new friend in Jennifer, who is probably the [...]
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Why I stopped using Typepad

Typepad has been good to me. Back in 2005, I used to argue with people that Typepad was the best way to go. I had an issue with people who were caught up in WordPress and some of the other platforms. What I saw, overwhelmingly often, was that people went down a rat-hole of theme [...]
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Photojojo examples of the full spectrum of Hipstamatic awesome

Hipstamatic is probably the most amazing photo app for the iPhone. Per their site, “The Hipstamatic for iPhone is an application that brings back the look, feel, unpredictable beauty, and fun of plastic toy cameras from the past.” It truly delivers, with the range of lenses, films and flashes you can use, it’s a little [...]
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Modern • Postmodern

My dear friend Debra Pughe passed this along to me. Modern The movements (of Modernism) are the products, at the first historical level, of changes in public media. These media…arose in the new metropolitan cities, the centers of the also new imperialism, which offered themselves as transnational capitals of an art without frontiers. Paris, Vienna, [...]
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Jason Fried: Why you can’t work at work

I really appreciate Jason Fried’s perspective on what’s wrong with the modern workplace.
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I’m looking for free software to export a user’s screen to video as they perform tasks

I'm helping to build a "model office" for AAA, so that we can test new tools and processes in a fully simulated office environment with the goal of preventing failures before deployment to our representatives. Beyond direct observation and recording of the test subjects, we'd like to be able record what's happening on their desktop [...]
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How do you turn on Safari developer tools?

Safari has a great set of developer tools built into it, but they are turned off by default. Here's the trick to turning them on. Open Terminal Paste this at the command line: defaults write com.apple.Safari IncludeDebugMenu 1 DONE, enjoy.
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UX Job!

If you are an interaction or user experience designer with visual design or prototyping skills looking for work in the SF area, ping me!
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Omaha bitch – orgasmic trooper

I ♥ seeing ballet treated like this. We need more, and with shinspikes + leather. Watch this video on Vimeo. Video created by Thomas Beard. 
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Uke kiddo

Wow this little kid on the uke is pretty amazing. Very enjoyable watch!
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