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GigaOm on how to name your startup.

Look at many of the most successful brands and you’ll notice they’re often compound names, consistently made up of two components:

1) a word that relates to the company product in a direct, literal sense, establishing a clear association between the brand and what the company does.
2) a word not literally related to the product, but rather a metaphorical adjective to evoke a differentiating characteristic or “feeling” about the company’s product.

8 hours of writing
5 permanent markers
3 baths and 2 showers to clean off

Part of a campaign to promote writing on designated graffiti walls rather than someone elses property.

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If you have Firefox 3, go to enter "about:robots" without the quotes in the address bar.

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M Cubed Software's Code Collector Pro for the Mac lets you save and organize your code snippets into a library of taggable records.

The Samson CO1U USB Condenser Mic is an inexpensive USB microphone you can use for podcasting and screencasting. As I understand it, unless the software you're using on the Mac allows you to control audio input, you're going to have a Mono signal in one channel. Some software will allow you to configure the mic for mono input. GarageBand will, for example, so you can get audio in both channels. But I'm using Vara Software's Screenflow, which doesn't yet allow that kind of control of the audio settings in the current version.

To get around this, you need to change your input settings.

1. Open Applications > Utilities > Audio Midi Setup.app
2. Select your connected Samson C01U mic in the "Properties For:" drop down menu. The "Audio Input" area should refresh to show format options.
3. In the Format field, change the channel drop down menu to "1ch-16 bit."

Your audio application show now send mono for both channels.

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Sketching Tools
1) Pentel Twist-Erase 0.7 mm mechanical pencil
2) Pentel Sign Pen
3) Sakura Pigma Micron 06

Minutes is a sweet little dashboard timer. Move an arrow around the dial to set the number of minutes. Keep spinning around for more than 60 minutes. The app displays the clock time for when the alarm will go off. Set the alarm to use one of the included tones or to play an iTunes playlist. Click on it to toggle on/off. Nice.

My del.icio.us tag cloud on Jonathan Feinberg's Wordle.

Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like.

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Victor Lombardi of Smart Experience and I begin DAKISSA, a podcast that looks at innovations in interface design. You can view the podcast on Konigi or at dakissa.blip.tv where you can subscribe via your RSS reader or iTunes.

Favikon is a simple web-based Favicon generator that takes your PNG and outputs a favicon.ico.

S3Hub allows you to view your S3 online storage, upload, download, set permissions, share with friends and more.

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Amazon starts warehousedeals.com, a site that sells open box, used, and refurbished products.

Put Mario on your wall. Nintendo at Blik.

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