A few weeks ago I received a 20″x30″ print from Jorge Quinteros’ fine photoblog collection. I haven’t had a chance to put it up in my office yet, but I am eager to. I really love the photo, and the print itself is very high quality. (This shot is also a new favorite.)

If you’re looking for good-looking, affordable, non-stock photography for your home check out Jorge’s site. And to make it more affordable, the first 50 folks who use the discount code 9E8C5F get 20-percent off their order.

Brent Simmons:

Before OmniFocus, my iPad wandered around my desks without a real place. Now it has a place right next to my dev machine’s keyboard.

This high-level look at Jonathan Christopher’s most-used features in OmniFocus speaks true for me too. Especially: parallel vs. sequential tasks; perspectives; and iPhone / iPad support.

A cornucopia of interesting, useful information.

The section I found most interesting was Confidence. Basically, those with less education, had more confidence in their job future than those with higher education. Also, those who were part of a smaller team, or were freelancers, had more confidence than those in larger corporations.

Put another way: non-college-degree freelancers are very confident while those with doctorates working at the corporate level are less confident. (Reminds me a lot of this quote about the self-esteem of those born after 1980.)

Update: I received this very insightful email from Joshua Longbrake, which offers some great perspective on the above findings about confidence:

Almost all the greats in any field had tremendous amounts of education, whether it was from formal academia or via being tutored by another great artist. Education brings an awareness of what has come before you and what it takes to make something good, and it is often the case that that realization and realism will come across as being “less confident.”

Those who have not been educated, either by formal academia or by being mentored by a great, often don’t have the awareness and knowledge of what has come before them and what it takes to make something good, and that lack of awareness can come across as “confidence.”

However, sometimes that confidence, that absence of education, can produce something great because it doesn’t know what it takes to make something great; he or she fears no thing and no one.

My assumption is that the less-education argument will mostly, if not only, come from digital artists, such as graphic designers. I believe the reason for this is that there is no history to graphic design: its history is being made today. Essentially, there is very little to educate them on besides techniques. There are not graphic designers from 200 years ago, or 100 years ago, or 50 years ago, and because of this, there isn’t much on which to educate graphic designers. They are making history, and good on them, but I doubt you’d find the same pattern of thinking from painters, sculptors, and writers.

What nerd doesn’t love a good messenger bag? I’ve got two: a Burton bandwidth case I bought for my MacBook Pro and a beat up, small Timbuk2 I got from a friend which I use for my iPad-sized traveling. Of course, what I’d really love is one of these fine fellows from Levenger.

A jazzy way to start your Monday morning.

The best of both worlds: “[The cases] are conceived as analog-digital ultra-portable workstations for the contemporary nomad.”

(Via macstories.)

And just when we thought the PlayBook didn’t exist.

Old meets new. (Via Gedeon Maheux.)

To celebrate the 25th anniversary, AMC is showing Back to the Future on the big screen for two showings at the end of October. Buy your tickets now; I did. (Via Justin Blanton.)

New iPhone app for the indispensable file-sharing, URL-shortening, and-so-much-more service, Droplr. The iPhone app is very well designed and works just swell. It not only gives you access to all the Droplr uploads you created on your Mac, it allows you to upload, shorten, and share links and files from your iPhone as well.

If you use Droplr on your Mac, the iPhone app is a few bucks well spent. The iPhone app will work without its Mac counterpart, but if you don’t using that then perhaps this review from Chris Bowler will give you reason.

As if design nerds needed more ways to spend money. (Via Cameron Moll.)

I cannot say enough great things about Instapaper. And apparently neither can anyone else who uses it. All this this from a project Marco has developed in his spare time over the past few years? I can’t wait to see what’s in store now.

Ever notice how with an iPhone looking up a phone number (even from the favorites list) is about as distracting as texting? I should use voice dialing more often.