Nick Mutton

1. It affects your mood; 2. Colours communicate invisibly; 3. Colour has cultural significance; 4. Colour can be inspired by your surroundings; 5. Colour has political associations; 6. Religion can be linked to colours; and 7. Age affects people's colour preferences. - Nick Mutton from Bookmarklet

"Stop freaking out about security. You’re worrying about the wrong things anyways. Get this simple stuff right, and then get on with your life." - Nick Mutton from Bookmarklet

"Colors are more than a combination of red and blue or yellow and black. They are non-verbal communication. Colors have symbolism and color meanings that go beyond ink. As you design brochures, logos, and Web sites, it is helpful to keep in mind how the eye and the mind perceive certain colors and the color meanings we associate with each color." - Nick Mutton from Bookmarklet

"Research reveals people make a subconscious judgment about a person, environment, or product within 90 seconds of initial viewing and that between 62% and 90% of that assessment is based on color alone.  " - Nick Mutton from Bookmarklet

"Jorge Colombo drew this week’s cover using Brushes, an application for the iPhone, while standing for an hour outside Madame Tussaud’s Wax Museum in Times Square." - Nick Mutton from Bookmarklet

"# Being an adult can be fun when you are acting like a child. # Love has nothing to do with looks, but everything to do with time, trust, and interest. # Laughing, crying, joy and anger… All are a vital. All make us human. # The greatest truths in life are uncovered with simple, steady awareness. # Greed will bury even the lucky eventually. # Bad things do happen to good people. # Paving your own road is intelligent only if nobody has gone exactly where you are going. # Uncertainty is caused by a lack of knowledge. Hesitation is the product of fear. # Time heals all wounds… regardless of how you feel right now. # Most of the time what you are looking for is right in front of you. # Your health is your life. # Chance is a gift, so act on chance when given the opportunity. # Kindness and hard work will take you further than intelligence. # People deserve a second chance, but not a third. # Marry your best friend. # Take lots of pictures. Someday you’ll be really glad you did. # Money... more... - Nick Mutton from Bookmarklet

"An advanced driver for USB and Bluetooth mice. It also supports Apple Mighty Mouse very well." - Nick Mutton from Bookmarklet

"Is your web server using using gzip encoding? Surprisingly, many are not. I just wrote a little script to fetch the 30 external links off news.yc and check if they are using gzip encoding. Only 18 were, which means that the other 12 sites are needlessly slow, and also wasting money on bandwidth." - Nick Mutton from Bookmarklet

* Product: make a physical product, then sell and deliver it for more than it cost. * Service: provide a useful service, then charge a fee. * Shared Resource: create a shared resource that can be used by many people (like a gym), then charge for access. * Subscription: offer an ongoing subscription, then charge a recurring fee. * Insurance: write an insurance policy against some specific bad thing happening, collect premium payments up-front, then pay out claims only when the bad thing happens. * Resale: acquire an asset, then sell the asset to another buyer at a higher price. * Lease: acquire an asset, then allow another person to use that asset for a certain amount of time in exchange for a fee. * Audience Aggregation: create and distribute information that appeals to a specific set of people, then sell access to that audience (advertising, direct mail, etc.) to an interested third-party. * Commission: sell an asset you don’t own on behalf of a third-party, then collect a pe - Nick Mutton from Bookmarklet