The Million Dollar Laptop Nobody Can Have
June 14, 2009 By T.J. Aron 5 comments
The Bugatti Veyron, one of the world’s fastest production cars. 11.5 seconds of a SuperBowl TV ad. A cardboard box in Manhattan. The Luvaglio luxury laptop. All of these items have one thing in common: their one million dollar price tag.

How to Organize Your Life with OneNote
June 6, 2009 By Schwabe 7 comments
Microsoft OneNote is easily the best note taking tool available. In this article, I'll show you how to effectively use OneNote to organize your life's information. Ideas, daily notes, business projects, clients & contacts and anything else worthy of typed notes on your screen.

Above: screenshot from Microsoft OneNote
Manifesting Results in Business & Life
April 18, 2009 By Schwabe 4 comments
It is the spice of life which sparks action, manifestation, and results. Bolstered by momentum.
What is the spice of life? To me, it's anything from which you can absorb momentum from. Your friend buys a Ferrari: that's awesome - and you too are inspired to generate the income you need to buy one for yourself. That's momentum, and it started with your friend buying the Ferrari; the spark.
Momentum can also be harnessed from negative things. You're fumbling with programming C++ applications. You present a software beta to your business peers and your own friend says, "you've ruined this concept!". Turns out, his thoughtless comment was just the spice you needed. And you apply this momentum as an inspiring wave of motivation to make the program go above and beyond, creating a product better than anyone imagined. Silencing the naysayers.
More easily defined: the spice of life is any inspiring action, thing, thought, or experience. And from these inspiration acts a great wave of momentum materializes. Which is applicable to exactly what you are trying to accomplish. I'll reveal my exact postulation in a few moments, but first let's go deeper.
My Theory of Creating Value
April 2, 2009 By Schwabe 8 comments
I don’t agree with the old sentiment that, “It takes money to create money.”
Because this just simply isn't true.
Ben Bernanke’s printing press aside, it is innovation that creates money. Via new ideas, new skill-sets, new knowledge, and new paradigms of thinking to kickstart new ways of doing old things. My philosophy is that value is created by innovating a new way to reach a current objective [dibs on trademark].
And once you achieve that objective, you raise the bar and set yet another objective to reach for. Requiring innovation once again to achieve it. And such is the nature of perpetual human progress.
Best of the "B" Fonts
March 29, 2009 By Schwabe 12 comments
The ultimate list of the greatest fonts ever made continues in this edition with 142 of the highest quality fonts starting with the letter "B".
Each font was carefully selected among countless others to draw only upon those fonts which are truly exceptional. And not only that, but I've contextualized each font for you writing the first thing that came to mind when seeing the font.
This makes for an excellent reference guide. To help you find that perfect font on your next design projects.
And now for some alliteration: be a better designer by bookmarking the Nerd Business best of the 'B' fonts!

BaaBookHmkBold

BabaevC

Babcock Normal
Vision. The Essence of Effective Business Strategy
March 15, 2009 By Schwabe 8 comments
Strategy, to define it simply, is a method for manifesting a desired outcome.
How well your strategy performs is effectively how good you are at manifesting reality. And as much that sounds theoretical, advances in quantum physics validates this statement. The law of attraction holds true.
Furthermore, it is your big, ultimate vision that is most essential to your success, not the strategy itself. Strategy is a means to and end result, and thus it cannot exist without a specific & precise result defined in advance. Your strategy is based on the results you want to achieve. Your vision.
What is the vision you have for your business in the end ? What does it look like when you get to where it is that you want to be? Specifically denominate the end results as elaborate as you can : in dollars, in time, in the impact you want to make, and in the results you want to create. And from this, you can deduce objectives...
99 Cool Fonts Starting with "A"
February 13, 2009 By Schwabe 12 comments
This in depth font review gives you the advantage of seeing about a hundred cool fonts you can quickly deploy on your upcoming design project. This first edition of my pursuit to identify the 2000 best and most coolest fonts - involves establishing a huge reference of the highest quality fonts: EVER MADE.
The process begins in alphabetical order, starting with today's posting: font file names starting with the letter "A". Followed by an upcoming post for "B" later next week.
This is an excellent reference, because not only am I providing you the names of the best fonts, but I have created for each font a unique phrase to best exemplify the emotion it portrays. So you can more effectively see the font in a relevant context.
There are literally tens of thousands of fonts out there. Having just the best and highest quality fonts installed on your system will save you time. Being more effectively able to find the right font on your project is the objective in this massive reference.
To download the actual fonts, for now you can simply Google the font for yourself and find the appropriate download page. Many of these are commercial, so not all of them are going to be free. Yet the perfect font for an important project can certainly justify the expense.
Bookmark this cool font reference and then be sure to check back soon for the upcoming "best fonts starting with the letter B. "

A.C.M.E. Secret Agent
Aardvark Cafe
Top 100 CSS Designs of the Year
February 8, 2009 By Schwabe 33 comments
Everyday and every night, throughout all far reaches of the planet, there exist artists, designers, and CSS gurus who are developing the coolest looking new websites. For your viewing pleasure. And a simple bookmark can capture their design for an eternity (or until a server issue, but that never happens).
Over the past year, I have cultivated a thorough supply of these bookmarks; entailing several hundred in fact.
Of this massive collection, I have carefully selected only the best one hundred - and have placed them in this specific order, based on a complex algorithm of nerd website standards.
Although the algorithm is closely guarded, I can reveal indeed the nerd standard comprises of impressive artistic style, clean coded CSS, well organized typography, tasteful colors, and creativity.
Herein lies the top 100 Best CSS Designs of 2008. Congrats to the skilled persons behind each of these impressive designs. You have now reached nerd status.
p.s. - wait a minute, it's February already ? Okay we are certainly we are well into 2009 for another "08" list - but better late than never. Last year you also received the Nerd Business Top 100 CSS Design award list so certainly I am true to my annual obligations, even if they are a bit late. Enjoy !







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