Loving this magnetic wall mounted key holder, shame they’re being made in such limited numbers!
Each embedded neodymium magnet can hold up to 220g of keys or other magnetic items. Each cloud comes supplied with a pack of screws and wall-plugs (to use where appropriate). Fix screws 60mm horizontally apart on a vertical surface, using a spirit level to get them nice and straight! Then simply hook cloud onto the wall using the stainless steel back plate.
via Duncan shotton
I love the sunken tiered fire pit, designed to contain a smokeless ethanol based fire in it’s glass surface…
It has been designed with an eye to providing a connection between you and the planet, but it will also help you to refresh the connection between your soul and your body, as you watch the colours of the fireplace merge and integrate with one another: Terragen’s colours go from red and melt into gray. The coloured layering that distinguish and make this fireplace special can be seen both from the top-view of the fireplace, and from the side.
via FLYING CAVALRIES.
Here’s a little recommendation for anyone laying cables under floorboards or through cavity walls, grab a Cable Rod Kit. The kits come as 10x 1m rods, with a screw mount at either end, this means you can attach the cable you’re trying to thread on one end (I use gaffer tape to make sure it doesn’t come off), then thread the rod, and attach another to the end when required.
It’s a simple and elegant tool, and a less than £10, is worth it just to avoid all the hassle running cables.
Gorgeous compact home office desk via Apartment Therapy Unplggd.
Lifehacker have pulled together another interesting guide, this time on how to setup Time Machine on the mac to accept a Windows share as a network backup location.
By default, Time Machine won’t write backups to just any network volume. (It prefers you but a Time Capsule from Apple, I suppose.) Luckily this is easy to get around. You can either fire up Terminal (/Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app), paste the following command…
I do have reservations about this approach, where as Windows Home Server’s backup service is elegant and seamless using any hardware running that OS, Apple’s have always been to lock down network backups to the Apple Time Capsule, which in one way is a more stable and more of a ‘known quality’, it still remains a single disk in an unventilated case, and should never be used as your only store of data.
That being said I use and like the Time Capsule, it’s solid hardware/software combination that is perfect for dedicating to Mac backups only.
I do have trepidation about using this guide for network backups, as when push comes to shove, you want to know 100% that your backups will restore, something that would need quite a bit of testing with to be sure.
The ecomo home is a compact home designed for modern, simple living in collaboration with nature. The design is based on basic sustainable, green design principles. The ecomo home offers a low-maintenance, modern, well-designed green housing alternative.
via ArchDaily.
