I love Fantastical but missed having a quick way to find out today’s date, a feature the native iOS calendar app provides with a special app icon that changes each day. To work around this Fantastical offers a clever hack: an option to display the current date as a badge on the app icon.
Our good friends, Davey Sommers and Gwen Harley, are currently running a Kickstarter to support the opening of their locally-focused grocery and deli in Chicago.
We’re big fans of increasing accessibility to fresh and natural food products. A few months ago, Emily posted about the unique CSA benefit provided to the 37signals team. You can see this means a lot to us. Nourishing yourself with fresh, unprocessed foods translates into feeling and performing better every day. You are what you eat. /play rimshot
Part of PLENTY’s mission is to serve underrepresented diets. Sensitivity or complete intolerance to gluten is becoming increasingly common in our world of processed food. I myself gave up gluten one year ago and shops like PLENTY help take the challenge out of living gluten-free.
Just like any startup, jumping into the food business isn’t easy. Davey and Gwen can use all the help they can get to make this dream a reality. Every little bit helps in working towards their fundraising goal.
We’re long overdue on thanking our friends at Uncommon for sending over these awesome iPhone cases. If you’re not familiar with Uncommon, they specialize in custom designed cases for the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad. Check ‘em out!
Great homage to the corruption of Illinois politics from our friends at local design firm Thirst. Two different designs of these Blago inspired shirts are available at the thirstore.
Specimen Products is a custom instrument and amp company based in Chicago, IL. Everything is handcrafted to create a unique blend of high quality acoustics and innovate design. The Little Horn Speakers pictured above are based on their larger products used by musicians onstage, most notably by Andrew Bird.