neuro-designs

I was just browsing around and stumbled upon an article on how clients should appreciate logo designs more, for their own businesses, not the designers. This article shows you why you should really take great care when you want your logo to be designed, with good references as well.

We just love well-designed books. A few days back, we just got our pre-ordered ABC3D pop-up book shipment from Amazon arrived at our door step. As simple as this book may be (After all, it’s just about the alphabet from A to Z), it is intricately engineered as a very sophisticated pop-up book. Here are some more shots on the book, and a few of its pages:

It’s sad really, that other than our friend Andrew Shu’s wedding invitation, we never see any local pop-up books that are engineered as good as this one. So, come to think of it, this is money well spent.

Here’s a promotional video of the book:

You can find more information about the book at its website.

Simply put, we love WordPress. For the past few years, WordPress has gone through many changes and evolved into a convenient, simple, potent, and robust platform which can be used not only for blogging, but also for a highly configurable and extendable Content Management System. Apart from our own proprietary NMS (Neuro Management System), we often use WordPress for several of our website projects that require fast-deployments.

A week ago, we saw the first view of WordPress’ latest iteration’s (version 2.7) visual design. While we thought the current 2.6 dashboard is way better than anything before, I think it’s safe to say that the new one is even much better. And I’m sure, apart from the visuals, there are a lot of improvements made. So we’re looking forward to try this out when it’s out.

It’s been a few months since I had my workstation upgraded to the 24″ iMac, and since it’s been a few months, dust has been accumulating as well behind the glass screen cover. The glass screen cover, although I personally think it’s good, has its own flaws as well. That gap is a major issue, since it allowed dust to get in and stay there. Luckily, the cover is held by magnets that are easily detached, so we can clean the screen ourselves without having to take the iMac to a current Apple service center.

A while ago, we also got a good deal on a Belkin Pure AV Display Cleaning Kit. Not that we’re promoting Belkin or anything, but trust me, since it’s a low viscosity gel, it won’t drip when you sprayed it on your display, and it comes with its own micro-fiber cleaning cloth. So when it goes to cleaning the displays in our office in general, this always comes in handy.

But how do I clean my iMac’s actual LCD? That’s the reason why I also managed to get these items:

A regular household gloves pack (I prefer those surgical latex gloves, but I can’t seem to find a store that sells them in packs), and a reliable suction cup, preferably with a locking mechanism to make sure that it sucks on a surface perfectly. Why would I get those? Those are the tools I used to safely remove the glass cover and clean the LCD. I found the technique by watching this video I stumbled upon in YouTube:

Pretty neat, huh? And I’m always happy when my workstation is sleek and clean. To me, it gives a morale boost to work until the end of the day.