innovation + motivation + inspiration

Page Saver is a must-have firefox extension for anyone who does research on the web, including user experience professionals, visual designers & artists, product managers, and anyone else who takes screenshots of webpages for inspiration.

It’s a huge upgrade from Apple’s native Grab application. Rather than simply taking a snapshot of what’s visible on your screen, Page Saver captures the entire contents of the firefox browser tab as a png or jpg with the click of a button. The basic version of the extension provides a ton of custom options for free, and a few more in their Pro version.

For my purposes, the free version works like a charm. Below is a comparison chart to help you determine which version you might need.

It’s been quite some time, but in light of National Blog Posting Month (aka NaBloPoMo), I figure I have a new excuse to recommit to macroblogging (those of you who follow me on twitter know I microblog FAR too much already ). A lot has changed in the past 6 months, but I’ll get into that later For now, something extraordinary and beautiful.

You’ve likely seen the Astronomy Picture of the Day from NASA, I know I’ve linked through to it a few times, but tonight I actually started digging through the archive, and what I found was pretty awe-inspiring. Looking at photographs of galaxies and nebulas and The Grand Canyon of Mars gives me perspective, hope and humility.

Here’s a selection of my favorites so far. I’m not even halfway through 2006 yet, and the entries date back to 1995:

I came across this video on youtube the other day and I couldn’t get over how gorgeous it was.  Check out http://iikki.com/ for more!

Following SXSWi 2008 (Best. Conference. Ever.) I spent a week overhauling my portfolio for the first time in 2 years. While I haven’t broken free from Flash for this revision due to time constraints, I completely restructured the site from an organizational, experiential and aesthetic perspective, and I’m pretty happy with the result. Let me know if you agree/disagree. Since I’m launching this blog in tandem with the portfolio redesign, I figure it makes sense for my inaugural post (yes…I’m ridiculously late to the blogosphere) to discuss my process. Hopefully the assumption that anyone might care isn’t too narcissistic…hehe.

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