Issue 58
  1. A solar-powered phone charger
  2. An ambient sound menu bar app
  3. A clip to extend your laptop screen
  4. A simple About page builder
  5. A cable manager for your power adapter
  6. An image organiser for Mac

Hi everyone!

And a warm welcome to almost 1000 new subscribers since last week. Looks like this Quartz article brought you here. I hope you stick around for a while!

Since Easter is fast approaching and this week is especially short, I'll keep this email snappy too. Enjoy this week's line-up below.

If your reading list needs some fresh fodder, here are two short reads you should add: Our Economy Is Obsessed with Efficiency and Terrible at Everything Else and This Is What I Do Before 8 AM.

Have a great week!

Kai

 
 

This Weekʼs Line-Up

A solar-powered phone charger
01

The Ginkgo from XD Design is a solar charger station for your mobile devices. The built-in rechargeable lithium battery stores more than two full charges and automatically replenishes itself if you leave it in the sun/daylight. Even the material (a mix of plastic and bamboo) is eco-friendly!

 
An ambient sound menu bar app
02

Activate that coffee shop feeling or the sound of a rainy day right from your menu bar: for a few bucks, the Noizio app lets you play (and mix) a range of different ambient sounds – works without web connection too.

 
A clip to extend your laptop screen
03

Mountie is a simple clip that attaches your iPhone or iPad to the side of your laptop screen. Coupled with an app like Air Display you can use it as an extension screen to, say, watch videos or read instructions.

 
A simple About page builder
04

Remember when About.me sounded like a great idea? I now find myself swearing at that service every time it wants me to sign up just to email the person. Well, gladly there are lots of alternatives to build a simple, one-page online 'business card'. Carrd is one of those.

 
A cable manager for your power adapter
05

If the cable of your Apple power adapter always ends up unravelling inside your bag, this lovely cable manager made from leather is a great alternative to the collapsible 'cable wings'.

 
An image organiser for Mac
06

Whether you have a ton of photos or a huge collection of screenshots to organise, Pixave seems like a very fast, efficient tool to do just that. It also allows you to take screenshots of websites in various responsive sizes from inside the app. Is Pixave perhaps a worthy successor of the (retiring?) Ember App

 
The best way out is always through.
— Robert Frost