thisismyurl.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/apple-business-profiles-twitter-20090501.jpg" rel="lightbox[roadtrip]">A huge thanks to TechCrunch this morning for posting a link and brilliant article to Apple’s business profile of Twitter, this is exactly the type of this I love to read while drinking a coffee in the morning and gives great insight into how big companies use technology. Essentially it’s a promo piece for Apple but it’s exceptionally well written and detailed.

These days I’m far more interested in marketing than design but Smashing Magazine consistently delivers some of the best tutorials I’ve ever seen and if you’re a young designer looking for a great place to start (or an old designer looking for a change of pace) check out the logo tutorials today, I like to download a few of these to my local hard drive and work on them while stuck in airports or sitting in hotel lobbies during trips.

Speaking of Macs and designers, CrunchGear takes a look at the latest anti Mac “if you find it you can keep it” ad, nice write up and they certainly make a few good points. I suppose that leads to the obvious question … am I a MacFanBoy? I certainly hope not but this blog is entirely written on a Mac, designed on a Mac, yada yada yada … why? Are Mac better? Nope … but, they’re lighter and after 15 years of being a Windows gear head, I decided that I wanted to stop fixing my computer so I gave it a try … I’ve never looked back.

On Twitter

If you haven’t already noticed I think I’ll have to eat my words from last month, apparently I do get Twitter but I didn’t realize that to properly use it you needed to have the right tools. I got Tweetie for the Mac, now I can use the search functions properly and I’ve cut down who I’m following to only those that I want to learn from … now, Twitter is as good (or better) than my RSS feeds. Just this morning a great piece from David Naylor popped up on a retweet and made the whole struggle to ‘get’ Twitter pay off.

Well, that’s been my morning (and most of you are still just getting up). There’s a huge military job fair across the road from me today, I’m thinking about joining the armed forces to help pay for my MBA. What are your thoughts? Airforce or Navy?