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Interior Design, Architecture and Contemporary Homes Magazine - HomeDSGN, a daily source for inspiration and fresh ideas on interior design and home decoration. The Artwork of Lucie Conoley - London Based Artist & Painter. 2012. 11 Little-Known Apps That Entrepreneurs Can't Live Without. When I saw this piece on apps entrepreneurs can't live without, I was delighted.

11 Little-Known Apps That Entrepreneurs Can't Live Without

As an entrepreneur, I look to others to tell me about the latest apps, time-savers, hacks, and tricks. However, no female founders were interviewed. So I decided to do one with all women. Below is just a small sampling of the great female entrepreneurs and some of the apps--business and otherwise--that they can't live without. I culled a list of some kick-butt women entrepreneurs whom I look up to and a few I'm lucky enough to know. Tina Wells: Bloglovin' Tina Wells is the CEO of Buzz Marketing, a firm that forecasts and advises upon teen trends,plus she's the author of a series of YA novels called Mackenzie Blue as well as the youth marketing handbook Chasing Youth Culture and Getting It Right. "My new obsession is Bloglovin'. Leandra Medine: Definer Leandra Medine writes the Man Repeller--a humorous site about serious fashion.

Stacy London: AHA Life "I love the new AHALife mobile app. Rachel Sklar: HelloFax. Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters. Fixed Gear Bicycles assembled in New York City. Monday IdealebertellicampagnolomksnittoGipiemme goldie NittoCampagnoloKogaWeinmann Domenica Sport Wrightsaliensr customtitannitto Mocciosa alienkeirin brakekusukiwolberconcor Performa Brakeless aliencampagnoloidealesuginoveloflexvikingnitto Domenica brookscoaster braketitanvikingvintage kalloyworkerman special Performante Classica.

Fixed Gear Bicycles assembled in New York City.

Ford's New Freeform Fabrication Technology Produces Metal Stamped Parts. Metal stamping is the quickest, most efficient way to bang millions of parts out of sheet metal.

Ford's New Freeform Fabrication Technology Produces Metal Stamped Parts

It also requires expensive dies and a big-ass press to sandwich and stamp the metal. This means that if an auto designer wants to evaluate, say, a radical new fender design, they've got to dig into the budget for new dies and wait weeks or months for those dies to be manufactured. Unless, that is, they work for Ford. The Dearborn-based auto giant has commissioned a new type of rapid prototyping, which they're calling F3T (Ford Freeform Fabrication Technology).

With F3T the sheet metal is suspended in space and lubricated while robot arms, one above and one mirrored below, simultaneously press and yield at their extremities to manipulate the sheet. Project Sentry Gun. Watch_Dogs WeAreData. In the video game Watch_Dogs, the city of Chicago is run by a Central Operating System (CTOS).

Watch_Dogs WeAreData

This system uses data to manage the entire city and to solve complex problems,such as traffic,crime, power distribution and more... This is not fiction anymore. Smart cities are real, it’s happening now. Huge amounts of data are collected and managed every day in our modern cities, and this data is available to anyone. Watch_Dogs WeareData is the first website to gather publicly available data about Paris, London and Berlin, in one location. What you will discover here are only facts and reality.

Watch_Dogs WeareData gathers available geolocated data in a non-exhaustive way: we only display the information for which we have been given the authorization by the sources. Photo Collage – Online Photo Collage Maker for Free – Photo Editing. Vertical Photo Panels Effect. Written by Steve Patterson.

Vertical Photo Panels Effect

In this Photoshop tutorial, we’ll learn how to create the illusion that a single photo is being displayed as a series of vertical panels. It may look complicated, but as we’ll see, it’s actually a very easy effect to create, with many of the steps being simple repetition. I’ll be using Photoshop CS5 here but any recent version of Photoshop will work. Here’s the image I’ll be using for this tutorial: The original image. And here’s what the final “vertical photo panels” effect will look like: The final result.

Let’s get started! Step 1: Add A White Solid Color Fill Layer With your image newly opened in Photoshop, click on the New Fill or Adjustment Layer icon at the bottom of the Layers panel. Click on the New Fill or Adjustment Layer icon. Select Solid Color from the top of the list of fill and adjustment layers that appears: Choose a Solid Color fill layer from the top of the list. Choose white from the Color Picker. The document is now filled with white. Design for death - designboom. Design for death for the results of Design For Death Architecture, go to: deadline for submission of entries : april 17th, 2013 published june 11th, 2013 theme: DESIGN FOR DEATH the jury was composed of: Richard Meier, architect Ray Ceasar, artist Birgit Lohmann, editor-in-chief designboom Alan Creedy, chief strategist, Creedy & Company Christine Pepper, Chief Executive Officer, NFDA Ang Ziqian , Founder, ACM FOUNDATION Lee Poh Wah, Chief Executive Officer, LIEN FOUNDATION organized by designboom, in collaboration withwith the LIEN FOUNDATION and ACM FOUNDATION, and supported by the NATIONAL FUNERAL DIRECTORS ASSOCIATION (NFDA) 2050 designers from 96 different countries participated ... and the winning entries are.

design for death - designboom