Erik Collinder

Expanding Smart Objects (Script) • Captain Awesome

Tue, 07 May 2013 17:20:12 +0200

Expanding Smart Objects (Script) • Captain Awesome:

So good. Go get it. Thanks, @darkwark for saving my hair.

How to Start Blogging

Fri, 03 May 2013 18:37:13 +0200

I’ve had a lot of ideas recently. They’ve been grand, small, complicated, abstract. All of them hard to explain. All of them forming a huge barrier of performance anxiety.

The urge to write, to concretise, is making my hands itch and my head hurt. This meta-writing won’t stop that but it’s a start. Now there’re some words put down on the surface of the internet; something for me to latch on to.

Defining a clear starting point is essential to even begin – At least that’s the idea. I hope it works. Fingers crossed, except when I’m typing.

Scratch

Fri, 12 Oct 2012 21:47:16 +0200

Scratch is a brilliant application tailored for quick text capture. It does it better, faster and more well thought through than any other note taking app I’ve seen. “Append to Dropbox file”: sick.

If this was a review site I’d give it 4/5. Would have been 5 if they didn’t infect both the interface and the icon with this horrible turquoise gradient.

See the website.

Warming up.

Thu, 11 Oct 2012 17:25:55 +0200

Warming up.

I got a present from my brother a few days ago. It’s a pen, made for writing and not drawing....

Sat, 06 Oct 2012 18:57:36 +0200

I got a present from my brother a few days ago. It’s a pen, made for writing and not drawing. The last object I was this excited about was the toy revolver I got when I was six.

The Phone & the Gaps

Fri, 28 Sep 2012 03:44:31 +0200

Way too much of my life seem to be passing me by as a blurry background behind the sharp, black edges of my iPhone.

A lot of people seem to have lost all of their respect for conversation or physical presence. People that begin to compose a new text message while I’m in the middle of a sentence throws me off. It makes me want to say something that hurts their feelings.

I’m not afraid to become that careless. But the gaps. Those darn gaps. In the queue at the grocery store, in the park, at the airport, in the car, by the bus stop, on the underground, on the overground, waiting for a loading bar, waiting for food, waiting for a friend. I fill in the gaps.

In these situations my body instinctively executes the oh-too-well practised manoeuvre of pulling up the phone out of my left pocket while pressing the home button and letting the feedback catapult my thumb into a slide across the bottom of the screen. My eyes stick.

This isn’t as much of a problems as it is a suspicion. A suspicion that there is more. More peace, more thought and little bit more life in leaving these gaps alone. To do nothing about them. Not to be bored (that’s overrated) but to find something interesting in your own head. That’s why we retreat to the screens in our pockets in the first place, isn’t it? To be amused. Dance monkey, dance.

If I go to the bathroom and I don’t find you staring down the eternal universe of a smartphone, you shall be asked: Are you out of batteries or are you in it for the extra life?

Such a depressing ad.

Wed, 26 Sep 2012 13:30:43 +0200

Such a depressing ad.

Book

Mon, 17 Sep 2012 15:47:02 +0200

I want to write a book. Just a short one but enough pages to mean something. Enough pages to hurt someone if my book was used as a weapon in a fight.

I’ll skip the years of patience, pain, laughs and experience required to write such a thing.

Jotting this down makes me realise that this will never happen unless I pursue this in my native language. It probably won’t happen anyway but why intentionally decrease the odds.

Turns out this wasn’t the beginning of a book but a blog post instead.

Things 2

Thu, 09 Aug 2012 21:29:00 +0200

Today we are happy to announce the release of Things 2 for Mac, iPad, and iPhone – a free update for all existing users. And we are introducing a new service, Things Cloud, which keeps your to-dos updated across all your devices – also for free.

Took some time. Very good software, very good developers.

View from B-reel NY. (Taken with Instagram)

Fri, 03 Aug 2012 02:29:51 +0200

View from B-reel NY. (Taken with Instagram)

This is Jacob (Taken with Instagram)

Thu, 02 Aug 2012 02:17:03 +0200

This is Jacob (Taken with Instagram)

Photo

Wed, 01 Aug 2012 02:59:22 +0200

Plan Your Night Out on the Hoof with Vamos | Silicon Allee

Sun, 15 Jul 2012 03:54:26 +0200

Plan Your Night Out on the Hoof with Vamos | Silicon Allee:

Start-up I’ve been working on for a while.

Okay. Test. (Taken with Instagram at Cafe Grumpy)

Sat, 19 May 2012 23:07:52 +0200

Okay. Test. (Taken with Instagram at Cafe Grumpy)

Stroll

Wed, 04 Apr 2012 21:57:21 +0200

I just designed a very simple navigation app called “Stroll”. Get it, use it, and tell your grandfather.

Beach

Tue, 27 Mar 2012 00:10:24 +0200

Beach

Screenshots of Despair

Sat, 24 Mar 2012 21:01:41 +0100

Screenshots of Despair

Soho house Berlin

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 15:33:14 +0100

Soho house Berlin

Just saw these “sneak peeks” of Photoshop CS6. This worries me. The videos that are supposed to get...

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 02:11:44 +0100

Just saw these “sneak peeks” of Photoshop CS6.

This worries me. The videos that are supposed to get people excited about the latest and greatest version of Adobe Photoshop shows of the following:

Background save (sweet, but mildy exciting)
A dark interface (just mildly exciting)
A faster liquify with keyboard shortcuts for changing the brush-size. (just random)

Disappointed.

Don't really listen to this kind of stuff...

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 16:53:51 +0100

Don't really listen to this kind of stuff...:

…but pretty impressive for a 16-year old, no? Friend of mine: be nice.