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Give Your MacBook a Thick Skin: Seven Laptop Skin Companies Worth Your Money

Written on March 16, 2009 by Nick Santilli and 23 people have commented

The latest unibody aluminum MacBooks are fantastic, and I truly love mine, but I found out quickly that the aluminum surface doesn’t take kindly to scratching. Within the first week of owning it, I had an inch long nick in the top cover…it mocks me daily. So finding some adhesive skin options to protect my [...]

Helvetireader Puts a New Face on Google Reader

Written on November 30, 2008 by Jonathan Buys and 20 people have commented

Jon Hicks from Hicks Design has released the Helvetireader skin for Google Reader. Helvetireader takes a minimalist approach, masking many of Google Readers abilities, creating a simple and very easy to read interface to Google’s excellent RSS feed reader.
Google Reader has been my RSS reader of choice since I made the switch from Bloglines [...]