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Type Tablet “Perfect typography is certainly the most elusive of all arts.” So said master typographer Jan Tschichold, and we are inclined to agree. Each of these exclusive type-themed gifts were lasercut with clinical precision by our resident expert, Wendy. - Jacob Reiff

To illustrate, when an average Twitter user gets to 1,000 followers, they move from 3 daily updates to 6. That number rises to 10 average daily updates with 1,750 followers (source). Conversely, less attention often means less production. In a study of over 500,000 users on YouTube, research showed that a decreasing number of video views resulted in a lack of contribution. In this case, to the point of making contributors stop uploading any additional videos. - Jacob Reiff

Move Your Home Folder Off Your SSD Boot Drive in OS X - Jacob Reiff

is an online tool that makes it easy for you to create, link together, preview, and share mockups of your website or application. - Jacob Reiff

inexpensive video stabilizer - Jacob Reiff

Only got to stop in briefly on Thursday afternoon at the always-amazing Virtual Goods Summit by ubermensch Charles Hudson & David Sachs, however i noticed my buddy Benjamin Joffe from Plus8Star did an amazing presentation on the state of virtual goods in Asia, and its impact / explosion in the US: - Jacob Reiff

videos available from conference speakers / conversations - Jacob Reiff

uses @font-face, one time license cost, unlimited domains, pay for bandwidth used. font files in the cloud. - Jacob Reiff

PS3 Media Server is a DLNA compliant Upnp Media Server for the PS3, written in Java, with the purpose of streaming or transcoding any kind of media files, with minimum configuration. It's backed up with the powerful Mplayer/FFmpeg packages. - Jacob Reiff

pick a size, then take the checkout quiz, they pick a shirt for you and send it sight unseen - Jacob Reiff

ask a few questions, feedbackarmy puts it through mturk and delivers the results - Jacob Reiff

tons of screen caps of login / signup forms on websites - Jacob Reiff

tiny flash audio player for the web - Jacob Reiff

This Mozilla Firefox extension creates a textual representation of a web page similar to how the page would be read by a modern screen reader. The extension and source can be downloaded from the SourceForge project page. - Jacob Reiff

A simple to learn and use, yet very powerful web extraction framework written in Ruby. Navigate through the Web, Extract, query, transform and save relevant data from the Web page of your interest by the concise and easy to use DSL. - Jacob Reiff

It all boils down to a Ruby script that runs on OS X only and uses OS X’s really awesome typography and subpixel antialiased font rendering. Why not tap into this to make those headline graphics? With Rubycocoa you can easily whip up a small app that draws some text, and save it into a PNG file. - Jacob Reiff

just in case I want to move away from Evernote - Jacob Reiff

submit your idea for $99, get a week for people to evaluate. if chosen, quirky helps you produce. - Jacob Reiff

The point that I tried to make in my talk last night was that social games are exceptionally strong drivers of consumer behavior. Zynga and other game companies have shown that huge numbers of people will come back every day to play games. The success of these games is no accident - these experiences are designed to influence behavior and drive very strong engagement. In a world where sustainable living often costs more (or at least appears to cost more given current market structures), I think there are lessons from social games that can be applied to influencing consumer behavior beyond depending on altruism. - Jacob Reiff

super cheap Xen VPS - Jacob Reiff

negative reviews were the #1 concern of prospects; we battled this by proving that most reviews are positive with research done by Keller Fay in 2006, showing that 80% of all reviews are positive. With the proliferation of social networks, today brands know that negative feedback is inevitable, and they’re learning to use negative feedback to improve offerings and build trust with consumers. - Jacob Reiff

rent rooms, vacation homes, etc from the actual owners - Jacob Reiff

convert TTF into EOT. gotta check licenses to make sure it's on the up-and-up to use this - Jacob Reiff

managed VPS hosting (only slightly more expensive than handling it all at slicehost) - Jacob Reiff

This lil Ruby-OSA script will allow you to import your "Flagged Items" in NetNewsWire as Web Archive Items in Yojimbo. Thus allowing you to save RSS articles for off-line viewing/storage. - Jacob Reiff

The Ruby Toolbox gives you an overview of these tools, sorted in categories and rated by the amount of watchers and forks in the corresponding source code repository on GitHub so you can find out easily what options you have and which are the most common ones in the Ruby community. - Jacob Reiff

Noticings is a game of noticing things in cities. Snap a photo of something interesting you happen upon, upload it to Flickr, tag it with 'noticings' and geotag it with where it was taken. The game happens in day long turns, and you have until 3pm GMT to upload your noticings from the previous day. - Jacob Reiff

Mobile Fotos is an iPhone application for browsing and uploading to Flickr. It finds photos taken near your current location, plays videos, and uploads your images with geotags and EXIF data intact. - Jacob Reiff

The 6 naming styles add context so you can see the full landscape of choices. You can use this tool throughout the naming process: analyze the competition, organize your list, or develop more names in a style you hadn’t considered. - Jacob Reiff

This stumble does not work. I'd delete it if I could figure out how. The URL is incorrect. - Jacob Reiff