Check out the awesome font I made tonight. It’s so awesome that I’m giving it away FREE for personal use right here! Download MarcusFont and watch all life’s troubles melt away.
If you do download it and use it for a project, please please please let me know, I’d love to see what you do with it.
Before I was even out of the door at my last agency, I was getting phone calls from people offering me freelance work. I was planning to take the next month off to relax and build the Modest Innovation identity, but one more week wouldn’t hurt – so I accepted work for that week only and turned down the jobs fell outside of that week.
Done. Bring on the weekend!
Monday rolls around with nothing out of the ordinary planned, aside from meeting up with a couple of old friends for coffee and a ‘chat’. Whilst out for coffee, we started talking and within the hour I was thrown into an impromptu interview. Long story short, I start a new full-time job in January.
I wasn’t looking for a job and wasn’t particularly interested at first – I was starting my own company after all, it was going to be amazing! However, the offer was perfect; small team, big growth and I’ve enjoyed working with the people at previous agencies, so I know exactly what I’m going in to.
I’m excited.
This isn’t to say that Modest Innovation is dead. I made it clear that this will still be something I’m giving attention to. I’m still going to get everything up and running as planned – I just won’t be actively going after new business as I was planning to.
Today is the first day of the rest of my life. I am my own boss. BOO YEAH!
— Marcu$ (@marcusmichaels) December 1, 2012
The biggest issue with the iPad, for me, was the inability to download various filetypes from the web. I don’t mean PDFs and other easily readable files that iPad can handle – I’m talking about .tff (fonts), packaged .zip files and various others.
My previous process for, lets say, importing a new font into the Inkpad app was this:
Get on laptop > download font.zip > extract font.tff > upload to Dropbox > Get on iPad > open Inkpad > import font.
You get the idea. Menial tasks like this shouldn’t warrant the need a computer at all.
Then I found out about Filer! This app is like a key that unlocks some serious iPad potential (It also has a free version which is just as great minus a few features).
Filer simply allows you to download whatever you like, unzip (if necessary) and upload it to your Dropbox making it instantly available for use by all the other compatible apps you may have.
With the release of Apple’s iPad Mini, and my purchasing of one, I find myself asking the question – how useable is the iPad, mini or not, as an actual stand alone work unit?
I just wrote a full blog about the type of business cards I’m going to print, the launch email and how I’m going to use the User Manual as a nice mail out piece… But WordPress crashed and I lost it. So instead, here’s a quick sketch that I did on Paper for iPad.
If you read my last post, you’ll have noticed that I didn’t really go into too much detail on anything. This post will.
This post was inspired by Rhett & Link’s Good Mythical Morning.
To sound like an idiot, you’ll need to hear your own voice speaking with a very short delay after you’ve actually spoken. This is what tricks your brain and messes up your speech.
You’ll need headphones (preferably noise cancelling), a microphone (can be attached to headphones) and garageband.
Open Garageband and select the voice option. Then you’ll want to click the little ‘i’ in a circle to open up the inspector.
Now you’re ready to set up the voice delay.
Make sure, at the bottom, that the ‘Monitor’ option is set to on with no feedback protection. This is what lets you hear yourself through your headphones.
Select ‘Vocals’ (1.) – you’ll probably want to select ‘No Effects on that.
Now click the ‘Edit’ (2.) tab.
Double click on an empty grey box and select ‘AUDelay’ (3.) – Manual.
To bring up the options to set the delay – double click on the image (4.).
You should be looking at the below window (5.) on Garageband now. Except you’ll probably be hearing yourself echo. Click and drag the little yellow ball on the tallest bar all the way down so it’s just the ball.
Drag it left and right to set the Delay Time 0.15 – 0.20 works pretty well.
Set ‘dry/wet mix’ to 100% and ‘lowpass cutoff frequency to 22,050Hz’
Now you’re all set. Put them on yourself or try it out on a friend. Just try and talk in long sentences about something you know a good deal about.
Let me know if this works for you in the comments below or if there was anything different you’ve done that’s produced a better effect.
Modest Labs; a new stem from Modest Innovation. It’s not just a website – it’s a holder of the hosting that I’ve devoted to demonstrating & experimenting new things. This, and it will also hold websites such as the ones I’m intending to make for deserving small and local businesses that don’t have a web presence (such as bakeries and barbers).
It also has a section I’ve aptly named the Boneyard. A place where projects go to die… or be archived, however you want to look at it. Currently it’s a dead link (how ironic), but it does hold my old blog.
