The Perfect Office – Das 4 Keyboard Ultimate, HTC One M8 and Office Ideas

The Perfect Office - Das 4 Keyboard Ultimate, HTC One M8 and Office Ideas

We’ve seen some great gadgets and equipment for designers. So many cool stuff, that we could actually assemble infinite perfect office spaces! Every week we’ll assemble a perfect office, and we’d like you to help us. What equipment would the perfect office have?

We’ve selected some useful items for you. There’s the Fläpps Shelving System for some good interior design and organization. Minecraft lovers will go crazy with the Minecraft Torch… just hang it on your wall and keep digging! There’s also the fantastic HTC One M8, and much more! Check it out.

Thanks to our sponsor, The Gadget Flow!

Fläpps Shelving System


The Perfect Office - Das 4 Keyboard Ultimate, HTC One M8 and Office Ideas

A modular shelving system without rules. A beautiful combination of width, height and shelves. Invisible, Wall Art shelving storage – Fläpps can be a combination of all three. Each module is a stand-alone shelf that can be combined with other modules to become a wall shelving system. (at Design Spotter)

Cravar Alpha 15 Leather Bag


The Perfect Office - Das 4 Keyboard Ultimate, HTC One M8 and Office Ideas

The Alpha 15 Leather bag is part of Cravar’s Alpha Series, designed with clean lines and rugged good looks. A narrower compartment at the back can comfortably fit a 15″ laptop while the wider one in front can carry your books, charger, etc. You can also slip a magazine in the full width back pocket. Cravar’s distinct leather body straps go all the way around the bag and also function as a fast & durable closure mechanism. The adjustable shoulder strap is removable if you prefer to hand carry. (at The Gadget Flow)

Minecraft Torch


The Perfect Office - Das 4 Keyboard Ultimate, HTC One M8 and Office Ideas

Where there is light, all things from the world of darkness flee, or at least that is how the logic generally goes. With the Minecraft Light Up Torch, you can ensure that your home, when surrounded by these, would be able to prevent nocturnal monsters from spawning and causing a ruckus in the neighborhood. Not only that, it emits a warm yellow glow, with a luminance of 14, and can be mounted on the wall, too. (at Coolest Gadgets)

The Das 4 Keyboard Ultimate


The Perfect Office - Das 4 Keyboard Ultimate, HTC One M8 and Office Ideas

If you’ve passed the point where gaming is considered ‘casual’ in your life, then you likely want some hardware that will move as quickly as you can if not faster. When it comes to precision, Das is all over it, and it’s looking like they’ve proven it again with the Das 4 Keyboard Ultimate. This has done away with any and all letter and number markings on the keys as you don’t honestly need them after a while. Much in the same way you can play a stringed instrument without frets. (at Coolest Gadgets)

T3 Thunderbolt RAID (12 TB)


The Perfect Office - Das 4 Keyboard Ultimate, HTC One M8 and Office Ideas

While priced similarly to dual bay RAID solutions, the extra drive in the T3 adds additional performance with a minimal footprint increase. For applications that require high performance drives, the T3 configured in RAID 0 can deliver up to 550 MB/s when configured with HDDs or 850 MB/s with SSDs. The T3 will do everything a dual drive RAID can and more. (at 7 Gadgets)

HTC One M8


The Perfect Office - Das 4 Keyboard Ultimate, HTC One M8 and Office Ideas

As their followup to the incredibly popular One, HTC has announced the One M8, an indisputably-gorgeous Android-powered all-metal unibody phone. At its core, the One M8 features Android 4.4 KitKat, a 2.3GHz quad core processor, 2GB of RAM, up to 32GB of storage expandable through a microSD slot, and all the connectivity options you’d expect. What’s really important are the updates to the camera, battery, and gesture control. (at Uncrate)

Office Ideas

Here are some office ideas for you! How do you like these? Don’t forget that you may suggest gadgets or ideas via twitter: @paulogabriel – I hope you enjoy these! Cheers. 😉


The Perfect Office - Das 4 Keyboard Ultimate, HTC One M8 and Office Ideas


The Perfect Office - Das 4 Keyboard Ultimate, HTC One M8 and Office Ideas


The Perfect Office - Das 4 Keyboard Ultimate, HTC One M8 and Office Ideas


The Perfect Office - Das 4 Keyboard Ultimate, HTC One M8 and Office Ideas

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11 free, must-have WordPress plugins, April 2014

thumbnailWelcome back, WDD readers! It’s time for this month’s round of WordPress plugin goodness.

As usual, we’ve got quite a variety of plugins, with a variety of potential use cases. Take note, though: some of these plugins are very new, and some might need a few more iterations before they’re perfect; that said, they’re all pretty awesome right now, so let’s jump right in…

Bump This

Bump This adds a button when viewing a post that will allow users to “bump” the post. If enough people click that button, the “bumped” post will be moved to the top of the list of posts. This is a great way for your users to help you to put popular content where others will see it.

Some small issues: currently, only logged-in users can “bump” posts. Worse, one user can bump the same post over and over again by navigating away from the post, coming back, and just hitting the button again. That said, I’m interested to see where this idea goes once the plugin gets updated a couple of times.

11 free, must have WordPress plugins, April 2014

 

Video Capture

This plugin brings video capturing to your WordPress installation. Place a shortcode into any page or post, and users will be able to record short videos, up to three minutes in length.

Once the videos are recorded, you can access them from the WordPress admin panel. You can download or delete them… and, I imagine, embed them elsewhere.

The videos themselves are rather low-quality .flv files, and are stored on a third-party server. (Boy does that ring a few alarm bells!) Still, if you need a simple, free way to get webcam video from your users, and you’re okay with the terms and conditions, this plugin can do it well.

11 free, must have WordPress plugins, April 2014

 

LeadIn

LeadIn is one of the more polished plugins on this list, and incredibly useful. It integrates with a number of form plugins for WordPress, and anytime someone submits a form (ie. a contact form) on your website, they are added to a database of contacts.

The page view history for each contact is listed in their file, so you can see what parts of your website interested them most.

The plugin also comes with a simple, optional newsletter sign-up form that only appears when a user scrolls all the way to the bottom of any page on your site. Signing up, or simply closing the “pop-in” sign up form keeps the user from ever having to see it again.

11 free, must have WordPress plugins, April 2014

 

Gmail Comment Approval

Gmail Comment Approval takes a bit of set-up to make it work, but the end results are pretty awesome. Once the plugin is installed, your WordPress notification e-mails are DKIM signed, and you’ve registered your e-mail address with Google for doing this kind of thing, you can approve new comments on your WordPress site without ever leaving Gmail.

11 free, must have WordPress plugins, April 2014

 

Flaunt Your Clients – Free

While it was originally designed with photographers in mind, this plugin could be used for a variety of scenarios. Essentially, it creates a new custom post type designed to accommodate client stories and testimonials. These “client pages” can be sorted by category, linked to blog posts, and more.

 

Google Web Fonts Customizer (GWFC)

Not happy with the fonts in your pre-made theme? GWFC adds a section to the “theme customizer” in your admin panel. This will allow you to choose any font from Google Web Fonts for your headings, paragraph text, blockquotes, and for some unfathomable reason, list items.

 

Meet My Team

Ever seen one of those websites where they have pictures of their team members, and you can click on them to load more information in a lightbox-like modal window? I can tell you from experience that those can be a pain in the rear to make from scratch (though it is doable).

If you can’t make one from scratch, this plugin will provide you with a custom post type designed for displaying team members and their info. A shortcode displays the team members in a responsive grid on any page or post you like.

There aren’t any settings as such. Any visual changes you wish to make will need to be done via CSS. If you have to do that, might as well just roll your own. However, if all you need is a plug-and-play solution, this’ll do it!

11 free, must have WordPress plugins, April 2014

 

tinyfier-wp

tinyfier-wp optimizes your CSS, JS, and (if you want) HTML assets, removing all unnecessary data to make your site load faster. I tried it out, and well… it works. The code gets minified.

I didn’t see a huge increase in speed, probably because I’m using a basic WordPress install with the default theme as a test environment. Still, if counting bytes is your thing, give it a try.

 

WP Club Manager

Here’s one for the sports geeks. Simply put, WP Club Manager is designed for managing sports club websites. I’ll let their feature list tell the rest of the story:

  • Can be used for almost any team sport
  • Manage multiple teams
  • Player and staff profiles
  • Player ratings
  • Player stats for each season
  • Fixtures and results tables
  • League tables
  • Match reports
  • Sponsors
  • Fixture, results, player, table and sponsor widgets

 

Firefox OS Bookmark

Firefox OS Bookmark may be a newcomer to the market, but the reviews are glowing. If you want to register your WordPress-based site as a “hosted app” on their marketplace, this plugin will give you everything you need to pull that off.

11 free, must have WordPress plugins, April 2014

 

Zethos for WordPress

A mobile app that has recently piqued my curiosity is Spritz. Basically, it makes speed reading easier by allowing you to focus on just one word at a time.

Zethos has re-created this functionality with JavaScript, allowing anyone to embed it in their web pages. This plugin embeds Zethos in every post, enabling readers to choose how they want to read your article.

The plugin needs work because, currently, there are no configuration options whatsoever. In addition, the Zethos embeds currently show up in posts in the main loop. If there is more than one post on a page, each instance of Zethos will “play” them all.

With time, though, I could see this plugin becoming a useful and fun addition to text-heavy blogs.

11 free, must have WordPress plugins, April 2014

 

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