Controlling an iPhone or Android phone with just your voice and a noise-cancelling headset is doable, but frustrating.

I usually enjoy making fun of people who walk around wearing Bluetooth headsets, seemingly talking to themselves. So of course I felt like a hypocrite last week wandering around downtown San Francisco doing exactly that.

Every week we tweet a lot of interesting stuff highlighting great content that we find on the web that can be of interest to web designers.

The best way to keep track of our tweets is simply to follow us on Twitter, however, in case you missed some here’s a quick and useful compilation of the best tweets that we sent out this past week.

Note that this is only a very small selection of the links that we tweeted about, so don’t miss out.

To keep up to date with all the cool links, simply follow us @DesignerDepot

This is what “hanging punctuation” is http://depot.ly/uCilX

How to do more stuff by giving yourself less time http://depot.ly/uBVft

Using Sass & Compass Vertical Rhythm to set up typography defaults in a project http://depot.ly/uBVdi

Are We Thinking About Digital All Wrong? http://depot.ly/uBVbo  via @smashingmag

Using Embeddable Getty Images http://depot.ly/uyrYG

6 Famous Brand Logos Adapted to Chinese by Stephen Wright & Niek van Wigerder http://depot.ly/uyrq4  via @thelogosmith

Mobile emulation in Google Chrome >> http://depot.ly/uyrau  via @hongkiat

The 36 best tools for data visualization http://depot.ly/uviTD  via @CreativeBloq

Meet the Ipsums http://meettheipsums.com

Forget the film, @WatchTheTitles: Holiday http://depot.ly/uvg3m  via @BrushLovers

Tennis gets quirky in USTA’s new ads from the director of Napoleon Dynamite http://depot.ly/uvfx0  via @Adweek

5 Essential Marketing Skills Every Person Should Know http://depot.ly/uvfq5

A behind-the-scenes look at the chilling opening credits of “True Detective” http://depot.ly/utNNo  via @FastCoDesign

Shake up your site design with this clever CSS tool http://depot.ly/utNHv  via @CreativeBloq

5 Design Techniques to Incite User Emotion: http://depot.ly/utNqe  #UX via @uxmovement

Nice: Telescope, an open-source app, built with Meteor, to set up your own online community. http://telesc.pe  via @smashingmag

Livr wants to be the social network for drunk people http://depot.ly/ur4ft  via @DigitalTrends

30 things at 30 http://depot.ly/uqaba  *A nice little video by Fabricio Lima and the things he learned about himself

Want more? No problem! Keep track of all our tweets by following us @DesignerDepot

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We are proud of our alums and their constant achievements. Recently, four of UMBC’s alumni, in particular, have made it in the news and we thought you should know! 

Greg Cangialosi ’96, English, was recently profiled in the Baltimore Sun’s Take 10 column. The article celebrates Cangialosi’s success on the tech scene, from the 2011 sale of his company, Blue Sky Factory, to his current roles as co-founder of Betamore and CEO of MissionTix. Cangialosi had this to say about his recent success:

“In 1996, right after college [at UMBC] I was a music promoter for about two to three years. I promoted concerts and nightclubs – everything from the 8×10, Lithuanian Hall, Recher Theatre, UMBC – all that kind of stuff. It was a brutal, cutthroat business. I got burned out on it. But that’s where I [gained] my marketing chops. That’s where I learned how to hustle.”

The Sun also talked with Cangialosi about his 10 favorite things, which include his watches, a collection of awesome caps, and tickets to great concerts. Find out the rest of Cangialosi’s favorite things.

Steven Gimbel ’91, philosophy, was recently featured in the Baltimore Jewish Times about his new book, Einstein’s Jewish Science. Gimbel will present his ideas from the book and lead a discussion as part of the Odyssey Program noncredit liberal arts offerings at Johns Hopkins University on March 13 at the Homewood campus.

Gimbel had this to say of about the book:

“The big questions now are at the intersections of things, and that’s what Jews have always done. This book began talking with someone in religious studies, but I’ve collaborated with people in physics, in the chemistry department, in health sciences, economics, in our education department. Being Jewish lets you look for insight wherever it is, knowing there are other routes to it.”

Read the full article from the Baltimore Jewish Times.

Melanie Harrison ’11 Ph.D., Marine Estuarine Environ Science, recently appeared on KQED, an NPR-affiliate station in Northern California, where she discussed her upbringing and how it led to her career as an environmental scientist. Here’s a sneak peek at what she had to say:

“In those Alabama lakes, I learned to swim, bait a hook and catch catfish, bream and bass. I caught my first hook in the jaw, too, and saw my great grandmother clean and cook the fish she had caught for dinner that night. She was a great fisherwoman and gardener and my first teacher in life. She taught me the wonders of nature and the bounty it can produce, and that by doing, you can be whatever you want to be.”

Listen to Melanie’s story.

TEDx Talks recently published a talk by Andrew Sherman ’83, political science, on the importance of harvesting intangible assets. Sherman is a Partner in the Washington, D.C., office of Jones Day and a recognized international authority on the legal and strategic aspects of business growth.

In this talk, he challenges us to find ways to better use the many assets that already exist in our communities and companies. You can watch the full TEDx Talk by Sherman below:

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