We call this workhorse “ū—” in tribute to an untranslatable Inuit word meaning, “the moment when Family Leader finds himself sweeping yak hair from the [ice-covered lean-to] while his angry wife screams heavily-distracting criticism of Family Leader’s time use.” Since it’s untranslatable and we don’t speak a word of Inuit, we’re not sure what that word would be. But, we definitely thought “ū—” sounded cool and a little Eskimoey. Also, we had to come up with a name that wasn’t already on the App store. So. ...

Due is the perfect app for repeating tasks and quick little reminders for things that you would otherwise forget within moments. Aside from offering a quick way to enter reminders, Due also stores preset timers that you can flick on and off as needed, and the logbook of past reminders allows you to reset a reminder with a single tap. I purchased Due yesterday, and it has already earned a spot on my iPhone home screen. Get it here. ...

I have just begun reading Mark Sisson’s book, The Primal Blueprint, and I’ve decided to take The Primal Blueprint 30-day Challenge – which began two days ago, eek! – to coincide with my reading. It will involve some dietary changes and some minor adjustments to my current workout regimen, but overall, it seems like a good fit for me at this point in time, especially since I’ve hit my weight loss goal and now need to look toward lowering my body fat percentage and adjusting muscle mass upward. This would be that proverbial last 10% that is always so difficult to complete. ...

This is an excellent little iPhone application that has made its way on to my home screen. It allows you to save text messages – and even the recipients for the canned message – for those frequently sent items so you can access them with a single tap. You can also expand upon a canned message quickly and easily when you select it or add additional recipients on the fly. It’s also handy if you just want to store groups of recipients for text messaging at a later time. Check it out. ...

According to this article on a British study of music and cycling, participants were willing to work harder when the tempo of the music was increased during their workout. As the researchers wrote, when “the music was played faster, the participants chose to accept, and even prefer, a greater degree of effort.” Note that even though they put more effort in to their workout, the riders did not say that it felt easier. The workout was more difficult overall, but not unbearable. ...

We have submitted a design concept to a competition being run by New York designer Richard Smith. The Dollar ReDe$ign Project hopes to bring about change for everyone. We want to rebrand the US Dollar, rebuild financial confidence and revive our failing economy.

A beautifully designed site takes a “through the years” look at a beautifully designed magazine.

An experimental film in tribute to Ridley Scott’s legendary film “Blade Runner” (1982). This film was made as a unique picture with a resolution of 60.000 x 60.000 pixels (3.6 gigapixels). It was made with 167,819 frames from ‘Blade Runner’.

Well, not exactly Farmville, but rather the makers of the game, Zynga. Together with a couple other developers, they created Membase, a NoSQL database to power the back-end of their game. The beauty of it is that it is available as an open source product. Powerful tools like this aren’t always cheap, but it’s great to see companies making excellent technology and sharing it with the rest of us.

calvetica is a sparse and beautiful iPhone calendar application. It oozes elegance and simplicity on the screen. The best feature – aside from Helvetica? Speed. calvetica integrates with the built-in calendar database, so any external links, such as Google Calendar, are maintained and synchronization happens immediately. The focus on typography makes it look like it belongs on Windows Phone 7. Interesting…