Dense Discovery – Issue 67  
I think the hardest thing for anyone is accepting that other people are as real as you are.  
That’s  
it.  
Not using them as tools, not using them as examples or things to make yourself feel better or  
things to get over or under.  
– Zadie Smith  
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Welcome to Issue 67!  
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Yesterday I officially launched the  
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22nd issue of Offscreen  
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Through some of the most far reaching conversations we’ve ever had in Offscreen, we covered a lot  
of topics that are pertinent to the big issues of today.  
I particularly enjoyed talking about the  
concept of species interdependence (how humans interact with and rely on other species to survive),  
and how our focus on designing in a way that benefits only one species – us – is causing that  
natural balance to spiral out of control.  
I shared some of my thoughts on this in my editor’s note  
of this issue, which you can also read  
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Even though we’re running a little behind schedule and therefore won’t make it to most readers  
before Christmas, it was important for me to end the year with a new Offscreen issue that perhaps  
sets a theme and raises important questions for the year ahead.  
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Harvest  
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A simple and intuitive time tracking tool.  
We all want more time to do the work that matters, but if you and your team don’t know exactly how  
you’re spending your time it’s hard to change your habits.  
Enter Harvest, a simple and intuitive  
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Apps  and  Sites  
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Hummingbird  
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Window modifier  
Easily drag and resize windows on Mac OS by holding modifier keys and moving your cursor to adjust  
size and position. No more hunting for the window edges or title bars.  
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Teux Deux  
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Weekly to do app  
Teux Deux, the  simple, designy to do app  is turning ten years old this month! Happy birthday!  
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you’re after a very basic to do list app (web and i Phone) with a weekly overview layout, look no  
further. And it’s just $24 for the whole year.  
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Cocoon  
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Private social space  
I really like this idea: Cocoon is a mobile app (currently i OS only) for just you and your closest  
friends slash family – no strangers or advertisers allowed.  
A range of features encourages you to share  
intimate moments that make you feel connected.  
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Free for Dev  
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Freemium dev tools  
An extensive list of Saa S software tools for developers that come with a free tier to get you  
started. Created via Git Hub pull requests.  
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Indie Mag of the Week  
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The Bézier Method Zine  
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A guide the Bézier curves  
This looks beautiful and useful for anyone working with vectors: a twenty page printed zine  
designed and written to help explain  
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Bézier curves  
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Pop Tone paper by French Paper. Limited Edition.  
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EDK V 2  
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Compact machined pen  
The EDK V 2 is a small footprint click pen designed for a range of liquid refill options.  
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manufactured and assembled in Mesa, Arizona, with materials and components sourced primarily from  
the United States and Germany.  
Available in Tumbled Aluminium, Matte Black Anodize, Tumbled Brass,  
and Tumbled Copper.  
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Overheard on Twitter  
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My design process is: me thinking for days about what I’m gonna do and finally doing it in 13  
minutes and 42 seconds between two bathroom breaks.  
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at syswarren  
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Food For Thought  
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Building a More Honest Internet  
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Using the radio as a comparison, the author imagines an internet that runs more like a publicly  
funded service. Hard to imagine today, but one may still dream, right?  
If the contemporary  
internet is a city, Wikipedia is the lone public park; all the rest of our public spaces are  
shopping malls – open to the general public, but subject to the rules and logic of commerce.  
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A public service Web invites us to imagine services that don’t exist now, because they are not  
commercially viable, but perhaps should exist for our benefit, for the benefit of citizens in a  
democracy.  
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It’s Time to Get Personal  
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Indie advocate Laura Kalbag with a great reminder to bring back the  personal web’:  We can still  
build alternatives and work towards technology that values human welfare over corporate profit.  
We’ve got to take control back bit by bit, and building our own personal websites is a start.  
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Vegans vs omnivores  
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A thoughtful, balanced essay dispelling some of the trite arguments for and against a vegan diet.  
We need to move away from the false dichotomy of vegan vs omnivore.  
We are asking the wrong  
questions.  
It would be better to ask  How can we create food production systems that best meet  
human needs while increasing ecological health?   (h slash t Jon)  
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Aesthetically Pleasing  
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This little  
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guide to the city of Boulder  
uses algae based ink, replacing the petroleum based  
pigments used in conventional offset ink.  
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Made me chuckle: a photographer spent days waiting for museum visitors to  
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Elgoc  
is a serif display font with a beautiful form, strong contrast, and elegant look.  
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Toraya  
makes wagashi (traditional Japanese sweets) that started in the early 16th century in Kyoto.  
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