This Week on The List

posted on July 28th

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List members, if you haven’t already got it, this weeks edition should be landing in your inbox very soon.

This week the premium download was Dark Nav – a sleek black navigation menu.  The supplied gradient and layer styles can easily be applied to buttons, banners, other design elements.  Enjoy!

If you haven’t already done so, make sure you sign up to receive the weekly mailing.  At less than the cost of a cup of coffee its a really good deal!  You’ve got less than 7 days to signup, if you want to receive the next mailing which is a big one – the Write.fm base source code!

P.S – I’m off to Singapore (and then up through South East Asia) this Sunday.  If you’re in the area, let me know as I would love to organise some meetups

Introducing The List

posted on July 27th

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Today I’m announcing my new mailing list.  If you don’t want to read about the why, you can jump straight to it here.

A Premium Mailing List

I wanted to try something a little different – create a really high quality weekly newsletter and pack it full of premium downloads and content.    And I’ve done just that, with the new Feint.me mailing list – created especially for designers, developers and entrepreneurs.

Building Blocks For Entrepreneurs

My inspiration for the list was Lego.  What I’ve done is created a whole series of “building blocks” that entrepreneurs, designers, and developers can use in there own projects.    Each and every week, you’ll be sent a new building block – here is what’s coming up over the next few weeks:

Premium Downloads and More

Each week you’ll receive a new premium download (sometimes more than one).  But its not just the download – you’ll discover the story behind each element — design trends, the latest scripting technologies,  marketing techniques.   Each download has been created for you to plug into your own business.  And there is something for everyone:

  • Source Codes – PHP, Ruby on Rails, HTML5
  • Photoshop Designs – banners, buttons, logos
  • Info Product Templates – Ebook designs, Covers
  • Worpdress – Themes, Thesis Skins, Plugins
  • Minisite Templates

But its not just about the downloads.  You’ll also be getting:

  • Exclusive Discounts – to software and services for entrepreneurs, designers and developers
  • Great Content – my advice on building your own apps, info products and web sites
  • First Access – I’ve lined up some sweet beta invites to upcoming web app releases
  • Your Requests – Want a script or a design?  Just ask.

Sign me Up

Head on over to the List Page to find out more and to put yourself on the list.

Your Idea Rocks

July 20, 2010

Naysayers come with the territory! When you put your ideas out there and show them off to the world, without a doubt, no matter who you are or what you’ve previously done – people are going to say “no”. “No that’s a silly idea” “No way am I going to recommend this product” “No, I [...]

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File Hosting that Doesn’t Suck

July 13, 2010

When I announced Write.fm, I said I would be pushing new updates to the site every week.  Well this week a fairly big update came along. You can now upload and share files using Write.fm This is purely a selfish feature — I wanted a way to share files with my team.  There are of [...]

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Doing Nothing

July 7, 2010

Just stop doing. Spend 15 minutes doing absolutely nothing.  No reading, no brainstorming.  No TV or even any music. There doesn’t need to be a purpose — this really is “nothing”. But just because you’re doing nothing, it doesn’t mean “nothing” has been achieved.  In just 15 minutes your thoughts will have unravelled, stresses eased [...]

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Introducing Write.fm

June 28, 2010

I’ve been working on a little project that I would like to introduce you to: Write.fm Write.fm is a dead simple application that allows you to share text between computers and in the cloud.    I really focused on ease of use with this app – there are hardly any elements on the page and the [...]

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While You Were On Facebook

June 16, 2010

Facebook sucks It doesn’t suck in the sense of privacy issues or terms of service (I’ll let someone else debate that), rather it sucks in the sense of time.  Quite literally its sucking up your time. I’ve haven’t logged onto Facebook for a good month or so now, and I’m not missing it one bit.  [...]

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How to Live Anywhere — A Review

June 9, 2010

I was lucky to get in early on Karol Gajda’s book How to Live Anywhere, and posted a quick review of the beta version back in March.    Well fast forward a couple of months and its time to give full version a run down. Karol is an awesome guy.  I’ve been following his blog for [...]

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Simplify Your Existence in 3 Easy Steps

June 4, 2010

My guide to cutting through the bullshit and making things simple. Why make things hard on yourself.  Over the past year, I’ve been dramatically changing the way I approach life.   To be honest I was confused.  The world felt like it was sitting on my shoulders and I was slowly being dragged down.    And then [...]

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Nothing But Normal

May 31, 2010

Back in high school, we were each given a big thick career guide.  The guide listed all our possible career choices.  There must have been thousands of them.    Flicking through the guide, your mind would flicker with inspiration – the choices seemed endless.  Surely all the choices meant nothing but freedom. Yet there was something [...]

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