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The Trend of Subscription Based Services
This article shares 8 great subscription based services that will make your life easier.
The 7-Step-Paul-Rand Logo-Test
Do you have a strong logo, or a weak one? Take this test and find out. (And it’s Paul Rand, not Rand Paul!)
Airbnb Pricing Recommendation Tool For Renters
This pricing recommendation tool suggests how users should price their rent based on an algorithm. People who are within 5 percent of the suggested price are way more likely to rent their rooms.
Get a Book a Day for Free
Every day, Packt Publishing has one of their software-related books available to download for free. Someone wrote a script that runs in the background on your computer that will automatically download the day’s freebie.
Art Installation: Paula Scher’s, “Philadelphia Explained”
Paula Scher collaborates with students at her alma mater, the Tyler School of Art, to make a handpainted map which spans the floors and walls in the school’s 2,100 sq. ft. gallery
Handwriting in a Digital Age
Handwriting.io is an api for rendering handwritten copy. It has many uses for both developers and businesses alike.
Easy on the eyes
This mobile reading app automatically filters out blue light in the app as it gets later in the night. “Studies show that nighttime reading on devices that emit blue light can suppress our bodies’ production of melatonin, keeping us awake and making us less alert the next morning. Lumin reduces the blue light coming from your screen as the day turns into night.”
What is Code? (The condensed version)
This article is a summarization of a 38,000-word article on Bloomberg that attempted to explain code, but took too long to do it.
Drones and Cheating Students
They will be using drones to detect students that are cheating on China’s national college entrance exam.
World’s Largest Vector Icon Collection
Streamline version 2.0 now includes 4000 vector icons.