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Ovyian Photography

My wife has launched a wedding photography venture called Ovyian Photography . Her goal is to bring her love of fashion and photography, to the world of weddings. I had a debate with her about whether being fashionable is only in the realm of the wealthy, but she made the point that with retailers like H&M, Topshop and Zara, fashion has become available to the masses. More importantly, she said, fashion is more than what you see on magazines...it's your personal style and money cannot buy style. Her final point was that in a wedding, the couple are technically models for the day as they will look the best they have ever looked :P I couldn't argue with that. She also started a blog  by the same name on Tumblr. Check it out!
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Wunderlist

Stumbled across task management tool called Wunderlist that really stood out in the way the created their interface/user experience. Very Apple-esque in their design but with their unique twists (perhaps an Apple acquisition target). Maybe because for a seemingly small startup, they do have a lot of artists on board .  Or maybe because that's how to they do in Berlin :P (it's nice to see some unique start-ups from other than North America) I probably won't switch from Remember The Milk  (an Aussie start-up), since they (still) support syncing with BlackBerry, but when I do, I will consider Wunderlist. Check it out if you are in need of a good task management tool!
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Design + Nature: ARC's International Wildlife Crossing Infrastructure Design Competition

A video on a design competition to build the best wildlife crossing for a highway in Colorado. It's 12 min long but definitely worth a look. This can definitely apply to many parts of the world (including large parts of Canada). I especially like the multi-disciplinary nature of how the different design teams came up with a potential solution. Ecologists, engineers and landscape architects (just to name a few), came together to propose a design. More of the world's problems need this type of design collaboration. ARC: International Wildlife Crossing Infrastructure Design Competition from ARC on Vimeo . To learn more about the competition visit ARC
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Gmail's Smart Labels

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/03/09/google_gmail_smart_labels/ You can say a lot about Google (good or bad), but one product where they got it down pat is Gmail. Priority Inbox was the killer app for email, and now Smart Labels will build on that. Looking forward to play around with it. For those of you with Gmail, enable Smart Labels in Labs.
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Send a Webpage with GmailThis

A quick way to email links to ppl via Gmail:  http://lifehacker.com/#!128451/send-a-webpage-with-gmailthis Saves you the hassle of opening Gmail, and copying and pasting the link and subject.
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Economist caption competition

I know this is not ground-breaking as user-contributed content is a staple of the internet (and is also found in the physical world: Jones Soda anyone?), but I found it pretty amusing that the Economist would actually have this. Check out the entries in the comments section. Some of them are pretty funny! http://www.economist.com/blogs/newsbook/2011/01/return_caption_competition
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Opera is pretty smart

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/11/06/opera_feted_for_apple_iphone_play/ kudos for them still surviving in the land of Safari, Chrome, FF & IE
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