Archive for June, 2008

Hicks Design – the blog 0

Hicks Design

Quality site and great blog…Hick Design/Journal

Design Trends 2008 – Web Designer Wall 0

Design Trends 2008

Great article and screenshots of web design trends and how they are changing.

Read the full article on 2008 Design Trends, here…

Powerset another way to search 0

Powerset, another way to search

Powerset’s goal is to change the way people interact with technology by enabling computers to understand our language. While this is a difficult challenge, we believe that now is the right time to begin the journey. Powerset is first applying its natural language processing to search, aiming to improve the way we find information by unlocking the meaning encoded in ordinary human language.

www.powerset.com

Vanilla Spilts – VW camper site 0

Vanilla Spilts

As I’m into VW campers I came across this site, very cool flash site and nice to see an html version too!

www.vanillaspilts.com

Resize those images – batch resize 1

Resizer

Ever need to batch resize images or photographs, this handy free app is what you need.

www.kstudio.net

BrainJuice – blogging App 0

BrainJuice Blogging App

If you write for, or maintain a blog, you know how tedious it can be to fiddle with the online interfaces while writing. If you write for multiple blog, this tediousness is compounded. For this reason, developers have created desktop blogging clients.

BrainJuice can be found here

Camourflage – hide your OSX Icons 0

Do you have way too many items on your desktop? Do you hate cleaning up that mess? Camouflage is the right utility for you. It hides all the icons and leaves nothing but the pure wallpaper.

briksoftware.com/products/camouflage/

Writing an Interface Style Guide – A List Apart 0

Take a look at any CSS-based website design gallery, and you’ll see it’s obvious that beautiful interfaces are being designed and developed in amazing quantities. I frequently look to these sites for inspiration and, beyond a nice design and beautiful code, there’s usually something common about these sites: they’re new.

Unfortunately, it’s also common that beautiful interfaces don’t stay beautiful. An interface’s design disintegration can be frustrating to deal with, especially for the designer and developer of that interface; it can be particularly frustrating for the designer and developer who can no longer access the site to fix the issues.

Read more of this article here at ‘A List Apart’.

New iPhone – Mobileme 0

Mobile Me

As I have just got back, I see Apple have a new 3G iPhone coming and more importantly for me they have finally made .mac useful again, or should I say ‘mobileme’. It looks like the iPhone and mobileme will be a great combination!