I’ve had a letterpress for a couple years now; I absolutely love the thing, but rarely do I get the opportunity to put it to good use. Luckily, I’ve got four siblings, and [thusfar] they’ve all asked me to (or I’ve convinced them to let me) design and print their wedding invitations.
I've been playing with MongoDB a bit lately, and have been pretty impressed both with its simplicity and usefulness. There seem to be quite a few uses for a document-oriented DB, and, as the MongoDB team mentioned on their blog, logging is one of those things that MongoDB is perfectly suited for.
After a very long [unplanned] hiatus, I finally started doing a bit of daily design again (see this post for a bit of background).
It’s been good to get back into it a bit, so I thought I would share some of my latest creations. In case you can’t tell, I’ve been going with a band / music theme. As with the first time around, this forced creativity has been easy at times, and horribly difficult at others. What follows are the past three days in this experiment.
For a while now, I’ve used (and, for the most part, loved) OtherInbox. It’s a really handy service – just create a new email address for each site instead of giving out your main address for those sites to sell and then spam. But I’ve been using it since the beta, and have been increasingly annoyed by certain features that have been removed or withheld from the free account. For example, IMAP access is only available to pay accounts, as is the ability to read any message you received more than 30 days ago.
I’m not faulting OtherInbox for this – I get it, they need to make a profit. Heck, I would probably take the same approach they have. But, I finally decided there was a better solution for me. So goodbye OtherInbox, hello to the exact same functionality (and then some) via Gmail. Let me explain…