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He likes options, but prefers quality.

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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.

Michael on Mar 12 2013 / 20 comments

PLENTY: You are what you eat

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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.

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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.

I hope they’ll inspire you to support the cause.

Davey & Gwen

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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!

Michael on Nov 28 2011 / 15 comments
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Today the customer support team team knocked it out of the park- zero frowns in the past 250 customer ratings!

Michael on Apr 25 2011 / 15 comments
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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.

Michael on Jul 12 2010 / 17 comments