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25 Homescreen.me Promo Codes Giveaway

In the last article I described how neat Homescreen.me is and how it is a great service for iOS productivity nerds by motivating them in the curation and selection of their favorite apps. 

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Homescreen.me is currently invite only,  but here at Sorted Pixels we have been granted with a couple of invites to give away. 

We have precisely 25 invites up for grabs so get ready to learn how to have a chance in winning one.

To enter the contest:

• Follow @Nervo on Twitter so that I can send you a direct message with the invite you won.

• Retweet THIS following message:

Sorted Pixels (http://ow.ly/35rXK) Giveaway: 25 Homescreen.me Invites up for grabs. Retweet and Follow @Nervo for a chance to win one!

To drastically increase the odds of winning do one or more of the following actions:

- Leave a comment on this post. Share with me your iOS homescreen (iPad/iPhone) and describe how your app organization and selection enhances your daily productivity.

- Like Sorted Pixels Facebook Page and share it with your geek friends.

Start cleaning up your homescreens and Good luck to everyone! 
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Dribbble Invite Contest Winner Announced

Thank you for all your submissions, you truly are very talented, all of you.

The decision was very tough and very suffered, but at the end I managed to select a winner.

So here it goes:

Oliver Long from Essex, UK

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Congratulations for your win, we really enjoyed your minimal approach to the logo design and the great typography you choose for this logotype.

 

Enjoy your Invite...

For all of you that didn't won, I will assure you that more contest are about to come and that I will personally invite you once Dribbble offers a new wave of Invites.

Keep up the great work!

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Win a Free Dribbble Invite with Sorted Pixels

It's contest time again here at Sorted Pixels!

A couple of post earlier I talked about Dribbble the WIP sharing network for designers, developers and other creatives.

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Many of you asked for an invitation to the exclusive service and now Sorted Pixels is offering you the chance to showcast your work, giving away a special Dribbble Invitation!

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Here's how to enter the contest:

  • Follow @Nervo on Twitter, if you haven't already
  • Design a new logo* for Sorted Pixels and be featured on this blog 
  • Share it on Twitter and include the hashtags #Sorted_Pixels and #dribbble in your tweet so that it can be easily found
  • Have fun

Start dribblin' folks.

*Please don't steal others designs.

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Homescreen.me Invite Giveaway - Show off your iPhone and iPad Homescreens

My productivity workflow is all centered on the use of my devices - iPhone, iPad.

When iOs first came out I was delighted for the possibility to create folders on my Homescreen, in this way I could easly unclutter my apps organization and create a more productive way to categorize my apps following my needs.

When I finally ended polishing my apps order I felt the urge to share what I had done with the rest of the world, at the same time I would have loved too see what other people had come up with and see if I would have remained surprised by their work.

Then Homescreen.me came out.

"Homescreen is a nifty little web app that lets you share your iOS devices' homescreens with the world. When you sign up with an account, you get your own profile page similar to twitter or Facebook. Just upload your homescreens and give out the URL to your friends."

And it was great.

Here is how I have my iPhone 4 apps organized:

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I’ll start listing my favourite apps with Things, from Cultured Code, it is my most used App, my life wouldn’t be the same without it, followed by Reeder and Twitter(even though I bounce trough various Twitter clients like Osfoora, Weet, and Icebird).

NotifyMe2 makes sure I don’t forget anything important during the day with it’s cloud sync push notifications.Instapaper makes my morning route to work easier by letting me read trough all the un-read interesting articles I find during my moring Reeder scrobbling routine.

Recently I’ve downloaded Elements, it’s a text-Editor which offers Dropbox syncing, so that I can take notes wherever I am. I’m quite a big fan of this app.

For Photography I usually start using Camera+ and then edit the photos with other Apps such as Picture Show, Mill Color, Lo-Mob, Pic-Tone and so on… Sometimes I publish them directly with Instagram.

iFIles is my File System App of choice.I like to create folders to better organize my apps.In the homescreen I created three main folders: Photography, Work Utilities and Social.

In work utilities I have placed MindNode, a wonderful mind mapping app and Cloudette, a CloudApp client available for free on iPhone that I use to quickly share screenshots and links from my mac to my device.

In the second page I've used Emoji to categorize the Apps in a more intuitive and original way.

 

Now I'm asking YOU to show off you apple devices Homescreens for a chance to win an invite to Homescreen.me!

Do this by sending me (@Nervo) your Apple device homescreen on Twitter or by simply follow me (@Nervo) and Retweet THIS following message:

Sorted Pixels ( http://ow.ly/35rXK ) Giveaway: Win an Invite to homescreen.me. Retweet and Follow @Nervo for a chance to win one!

 

 

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Elements - Sync your notes with Dropbox

Dropbox is a text editor by Second Gear Software that stores your notes in Dropbox, so that you’ll can view, edit and share txt files no matter the device you’re using, creating them directly from your iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad. 

Wherever they are, Elements can work for you.

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It features Create, View and edit text files on your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch all Cloud based.

Elements stores all its data in a subfolder on your personal Dropbox account so you can access it via your device featuring an autosaving/Offline support.

Elements features also a great function named "Scratchpad" giving you the ability to flesh out ideas or store random bits of information.

You can email files as an attachment, sort file listings by name or modified date, customize the look of the text editor to fit your workflow and offers a TextExpander touch support.

Elements is a must have for freelance writers wanting to write your next article, students with a book report due or professionals on-the-go who needs access to their notes wherever they are.

 

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[Tip] How To Easily Send Files From Your Mac to Gmail

I recently stumbled upon a great method that allows you to drag files to a Finder folder and have them emailed to a configured email address (i.e. Gmail), simply by attaching a Folder Action to the folder. It's a great way to backup important files from your Desktop to Gmail.

To learn how simply follow THESE instructions provided from MurphyM on Macworld.com:

"To use this on your system, start by downloading the script (226KB download). Mount the disk image, then double-click the script to open it in the Script Editor. The sender and recipient are specified near the top of the script. Change the address in quotes after theSender to your email address. Change the address in quotes after recipAddress to the address you want to send attachments to. You can also set a common name and text for the email message body. If you want to change the subject, just change the text in quotes after the word subject. 

Save the file. The proper place to save it is /Library -> Scripts -> Folder Action Scripts, but you can save it anywhere. 

Now create a folder; you'll probably want it on your Desktop. Control-click the folder and click Configure Folder Actions. Use the plus sign button at bottom left to designate the folder you created. Use the plus sign at bottom right to designate the script you edited. Alternately, just click Attach a Folder Action after control-clicking the folder to attach your script. If you don't have the Attach a Folder Action menu, just Control-click any Finder folder and select Enable Folder Actions. 

There is also a script (10KB download) that prompts for a subject before sending the attachment. This would be useful for archiving files in your Gmail account. Drag files to the folder, enter a meaningful subject in the pop-up, and you can always search Gmail to find the file later. "

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Things and DropBox Syncing

This is a "how to" to keep Things in sync between Macs using Dropbox.

First we make an appropriate folder on Dropbox (you just need to do this on your first computer, and obviously both computers need to have Dropbox installed):mkdir -p ~/Dropbox/Library

Then we hop into the folder just above where Things stores its database: cd ~/Library/Application\ Support/Cultured\ Code

We now move your existing Things database onto Dropbox (again, just on the first computer): mv Things ~/Dropbox/Library/Things, OR:

If you’re on the second computer (at work, for example), you need to remove the Things folder: rm -rf Things

Now we link the Things folder to Dropbox: ln -s ~/Dropbox/Library/Things Things

Instead of doing the last two steps, another option is to invoke Things by pressing the ALT key and choose the new Library in the Dropbox directory.

Based off the longer version on my article: Synchronising Things using Dropbox

Note: This sync solution seems to work fine if you don't run both Things apps at the same time. However, the one caveat is that scheduled todo's based on iCal calendars (such as the Birthdays calendar) do not sync correctly. One Things app will have the correct calendar reference, but the other will have a ?. This is possibly because Things uses an internal reference for the calendars, not their display name.

Note: Don't make Things "Open at Login" on either computer, or it will open the Things library before Dropbox gets a chance to sync it when you log into OS X, then save over it when you quit.

iCal Note: Syncing todo's with iCal calendars and using DropBox (or USB stick, iDisk, or shared network device) will result in sync problems! When using the same Things database on multiple Macs, syncing with iCal may lead to problems!

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Curated.by - Tweet Curation

If you work in marketing you're most probably familiar with the term "curation". Curation is the most important part of online marketing that no one is talking about. With the rise of inbound marketing, content has become front and center in the minds of marketers. This focus on content as an important marketing tactic creates two extremely important problems.

Content creation is difficult. Having the time and skill to create relevant and interesting content is difficult for marketers who are already overloaded with daily tasks. The second major problem with the rise of content marketing is noise. Because content marketing has been proven to be a key ingredient in successful online marketing, more and more businesses are creating content. With this increase in the volume of content, it is becoming harder and harder for marketers’ content to reach new prospects.

Curated.by helps you in this process, archive and organize tweets in collections directly from your Twitter Stream.

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It's actually still in a closed beta but it is already setting the standard for this kind of online marketing platform. Curated.by offers you a Chrome extension giving you the ability to curate tweets and create bundles directly from Twitter itself.

The "bundler" interfaces is very intuitive and allows you to check your streams, lists, mentions and favorites so that you can archive them and organize them easily.

Sorted Pixels is giving away TWO Invites for the closed Beta of Curated.by.

 

For a chance to win them retweet THIS message and follow @Nervo on Twitter:

"Sorted Pixels (http://ow.ly/2TWfs ) Giveaway: Win an invite for Curated.by. Retweet and Follow @Nervo for a chance to win."

 

Giveaway ends next Friday.

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Sleep Cylce

We all know that to be productive you mustn't be tired.
Waking up with a hear attack caused by a loud alarm clock that wakes you up in the middle of you dreams also doesn't help at all.

Here comes Sleep Cycle.

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The Sleep Cycle alarm clock is a bio-alarm clock that analyzes your sleep patterns and wakes you when you are in the lightest sleep phase. 

Waking up in the lightest sleep phase feels like waking without an alarm clock - it is a natural way to wake up where you feel rested and relaxed.

Have you ever woken up feeling completely wrecked when the alarm clock goes off, despite the fact that you have slept "enough" hours? When this happens you have probably been awakened during a deep sleep phase, and your whole day can turn into one long zombie marathon. 

Other days you spring out of bed with a smile on your face, feeling completely rested even though you shouldn't. As the alarm clock goes off, chance seems to play a big role in how your day will become. But does it really have to be that way? This is where the Sleep Cycle alarm clock application comes into play.

During the night you go from light sleep to deep sleep, occasionally entering into a dream state which is called REM-sleep. These are things that your normal alarm clock does not care about, and will go off at the set time regardless of whether you are in a light sleep phase or in the deepest sleep. However, since you move differently in bed during the different phases, the Sleep Cycle alarm clock is able to use the accelerometer in your iPhone to monitor your movement and determine which sleep phase you are in. Sleep Cycle then uses a 30 minute alarm window that ends at your set alarm time and wakes you in your lightest sleep phase.

 
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"This isn't really something new. These so called bio-alarm clocks have been around for years and work very well, but they usually come with a hefty $200 price tag. I realized that the iPhone has all the components needed, and decided to make an alarm clock that works exactly the same, but sell it for a dollar or two instead."Maciek Drejak, the programmer behind the application, says. 

If you feel the need to try out a new way to wake up, download it immediately, I have used it since a couple of months now and I love it.

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ThingsVisualizer

With the thingsVisualizer you can turn your toDo-Lists into timeline charts. There will follow more visualizations. Right now it is in a very early state.

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How to use:

  1. Download the Zip-File below
  2. Unpack and put it in your things-storage folder
    (User/Library/Application Support/Cultured Code/Things/)
  3. Start using flash-player or drop it on your browser
  4. Select an area from the first dropdown
  5. Select a project from the second dropdown
  6. Then drag tags from the first box into the second
  7. Press update

So far the system is visualizing one row for each tag and shows only todos with a due-date. There will be more options in a later version.

Download thingsVisualizer v0.1 

Remember that it is still in a very early stage so it's full of bugs to fix...

via http://blog.sebastianmeier.eu/2010/04/04/things-visualizer/

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