This Weekʼs Line-Up

I'm not sure what I'm more impressed by, the premium-quality look of this titanium pen or simply how obsessed the guy is with making it!? Either way, it's a beautiful looking writing tool that's currently closing in at £124,000 on Kickstarter.

Quip combines chat, documents, spreadsheets, checklists, and more in a simple and elegant interface that makes collaboration easy. If you need the standard set of office tools for a small-to-medium-sized team, Quip may just be what you're looking for. It works across all major devices, too. 

Previously launched on Kickstarter too, TarDisk doubles (or even triples) the onboard storage of your Macbook by adding up to 256GB of extra space. Simply insert TarDisk into your Macbook's SD slot and it mounts into OSX as an available drive, semi-permanent and seamless.

Like 99% of us, I always hated public speaking — until I started loving it. No matter how (in)experienced you are, we can all become better at it and speaking.io is a great place to do just that. Thanks to GitHubber Zach Holman for sharing his insights and anecdotes. 

Here's another project that wants you to cover your walls with maps: Project Jefferson offers beautiful, decorative maps of your city in different styles and sizes. It's a great gift idea, too. (International orders are currently not accepted through their shop, but you can email them directly to figure out a way.)

This is a beautiful example of the many free tools the Internet provides without asking for anything in return. With smallpdf you can create, split, merge, compress, unlock and do a lot of other cool things to your PDF files — all within the browser. It's a handy app to have on file.