Everyday commentary and beyond
If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat. Just get on.
(via courtenaybird)
After long development, it’s finally out. Not exactly as planned, but out it is still. Apple has approved Photoplank, my first app to enter Mac App Store. It went live straight after passing Apple’s process, nicely bypassing my consciousness on the same run.
Photoplank is a download utility for Instagram, that makes it super-easy to get all your photos to Mac. More dev stories about it coming soon, in the meanwhile check it out!
This week is the Internet Week New York. Going to follow it from Helsinki, it’s a all-digital week just before summer. GIF SHOP iPhone app celebrates it with free download only this week, grab here: GIF SHOP BLOG.
I was faced with a new problem today, namely choosing a color-scheme for this blog. Because of that painful journey, I made an interesting observation.
It’s difficult to choose a color that is not associated with a major brand. Difficult. What the heck? Try to pick a blue for example: Facebook, Twitter, FourSquare and Tumblr all feature blue schemes. And that’s just internet companies.
I was looking for a blue hue that was not taken, but those lean more into purple or turquoise. The neutral blue, color choice of many hospitals, is also very near Facebook’s blue. That’s something to avoid, at least for this little blog.
Modern computers have 24-bit “truecolor” color depth, that is over 16 million color variations. Even with that amount choice is not simple. Then some adventurous explore the less used paths, eg. orange, purple, brown, gray, dark green. Thing that unifies these experiments is also that they’re less successful.
End of story, I have twisted red for now. It has the needed contrast and aggressive attitude. Because color makes up for what’s missing from the writing, not.
Finish each day and be done with it; you have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
(Source: trevorloy)
