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Month: December, 2011

Review: The Icon Handbook by Jon Hicks

For those that don’t know, Jon Hicks is a British designer who has been creating some of the web’s most noteworthy icons over the last decade. For this book – which weighs in at 330 pages – Hicks has partnered with independent publisher Five Simple Steps to present what the author refers to as a ‘manual, [...]

Combine Tweeted Times and Flipboard. It’s full of WIN!

For people such as myself – who are constantly looking for the perfect way to curate socially suggested news and articles – there’s still no silver bullet. I’ve eschewed RSS feeds of late, because I’ve started using an app called Tweeted Times, that enables you to see what articles are ‘trending’ in your Twitter stream, [...]