George Brocklehurst makes things for the internet.

Some things I’ve made

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  Choosy lets you open the right link in the right browser with a simple, unobtrusive and elegant interface.

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  Iconic creates beautiful custom folder icons for Mac OS X that fit in perfectly with the standard icons.

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  Spacelog brings NASA transcripts to the web in a searchable, linkable format. We built it at a /dev/fort.

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  Just Buy This One helps people get over choice paralysis & buy the best stuff. Built with the team at Reevoo.

Back in 2008 I built an OS X app to create custom folder icons. The built-in OS X icons feature a simple, textured folder with an engraved image for special folders like the Applications folder, or a user’s home directory. My app attempted to replicate the look of these icons by taking the user’s own image and engraving it onto the standard folder icon. More…

Elsewhere

• Twitter for bits and bobs.
• Github for the code I’m writing.
• Last.fm for the music I’m listening to.
• Delicious for the things I want to find again later.
• Instagram & Flickr for photos.