I know, I know — tag clouds are passÉ, we’ve all seen them. That’s what I thought when I first encountered Tagxedo, but then I figured — heck, I’m already here, why don’t I click some buttons and see what happens? Once I started, I couldn’t stop! I love options, and this neat little webapp [...]
Lifeyo is an incredible content management system for someone just trying to put together their first website. The whole system is very web2.0, but they manage to pull off this design clichÉ in a way which is actually useful — all the dialogs are sensibly laid out, and the large fonts and bright colors actually [...]
For most people, it doesn’t mean anything. But for people writing the software that lets the rest of us see imaginary worlds, SIGGRAPH is an acronym for the Association for Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group on Graphics and Interactive Techniques. SIGGRAPH is dedicated to the creation and dissemination of information on computer graphics and interactive [...]
The Web Developer add-on for Chrome tries to complement Chrome’s already-excellent developer tools (Ctrl-Shift-I) with some in-page hints and tools. The garbled output you see above is the result of selecting Information > Display ID & Class Details. Not very graceful, obviously. The add-on is missing a screen ruler (I’m sure the developer will add [...]
If you’re looking for an easy way to port some of your favorite Apple fonts over to Ubuntu, here it is! I’ve just started to get exposed to alternative OSes like Ubuntu and was really excited to find a way to easily get some of my favorite fonts over to it quickly and easily. TechSource [...]
The aptly-named Paint.Net PSD Plugin is one of those pieces of software which pretty much spells it all out right in the name. It’s a plugin…for Paint.Net…(wait for it)…which lets you open files saved in Photoshop’s PSD format. Download the zip archive, dump the included PhotoShop.dll file into your Paint.Net FileTypes folder (usually c:\program files\Paint.Net\FileTypes), [...]
It’s been nearly two years since the last update to Adobe’s Creative Suite, so the designers among you will be glad to hear that Adobe has announced a launch date for the brand-spanking-new CS 5: April 12th! In less than a month, you’ll be able to play with those sweet new features we’ve seen in [...]
Developed in a joint effort by Israeli and Chinese universities, a new piece of technology that algorithmically makes photos more aesthetic might soon find its way to desktop products like iPhoto or Photoshop. The software works by applying ‘standard’ rules of ‘good’ photography, such as the rule of thirds. By dividing the image into nine [...]
Cover Browser features an enormous collection of book and magazine covers, especially retro stuff. It’s kind of cluttered, but that’s understandable for the sheer amount of covers it archives. Magazine and book covers are meant to catch your eye instantly; after all, when you go to a dead-tree bookstore, how many books are competing for [...]
It’s a bit early to start claiming that Flash’s days are numbered, but there are a few of us that are frustrated with Flash’s performance (and crashiness). If you’re starting to get frustrated about dealing with Flash, but are still craving full-featured web applications, there’s some good news on the horizon. New apps are starting [...]
