August 2009
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90+ Crazy Outdoor Billboard Advertisements →
Original advertising.
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“I wouldn’t say Photoshop unexpectedly quit. I’d say it unexpectedly ran without...”
– Twitter / Pete Lasko (via chartier)
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Ad Agency Uses YouTube Video As Their Main Website
Ad agency BooneOakley uses an annotated YouTube video as their main website in order to tell their story and showcase their work. Very clever.
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Package Design: Help Remedies →
Brilliant.
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40 Creative Business Cards →
Cool.
July 2009
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Cringely – Chrome vs. Bing vs. You and Me →
I always enjoy Cringely’s spin on the technology business. He’s hard to argue with.
The vast majority of Google searches are, of course, done on PCs running Microsoft Windows and Internet Explorer. It is not in Google’s real interest to displace these products, which have facilitated so much of its success. Chrome products are given away, so they bring in no revenue for Google, and...
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File Dropper – Free File Hosting →
I am a huge fan of Yellow Mug’s Filechute ($18) to share larger files through MobileMe (or any other server). But this online file hosting service allows you to upload your files for free (up to 5 GB). Just send the the recipient a link where your stuff can be downloaded. Fast and easy to use.
Alternatively you could use YouSendIt, or Apple’s own iDisk solution, but both gave me...
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Recover Erased Photos From a Memory Card →
I mentioned Klix before, but this article gives a nice overview of other photo recovering utilities. For future reference, just in case…
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ImageFramer – The Mac Way to Frame Your Pictures →
I have no immediate use for this, but it looks like a very useful and well designed app.
Whether you are a professional artist, photographer, blogger or just want your family photos to look better, you’ll like ImageFramer.
Check out the introductory screencasts here.
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There, I Fixed It →
Funny stuff.
On this web site, we celebrate iconic images of mankind’s eternal struggle to hammer square pegs into round holes (with duct tape.)
[via Daring Fireball]
June 2009
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Flexibits – Cameras →
Cameras (free) is an intelligent preference pane, which guides your cameras, media readers, and iPhones to their correct application.
Do you have multiple cameras? Do you spend time quitting iPhoto every time you connect your iPhone? Wish you could have your DSLR open Aperture and have iPhoto launch when you connect your point-and-shoot camera? If so, Cameras is the solution you’ve been...
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Shape Collage – Automatic Photo Collage Maker →
Shape Collage (free) turns a collection of photos into a collage of practically any shape. I can think of a project or two with pictures of Laura.
You’ve probably made a few photo collages in your lifetime, whether you laid out photos with the perfect amount of messy randomness in a photo album or magnetized a grouping on your fridge. But in the digital world, there’s not a lot out there that...
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HP Releases iPhone Versions of Classic Calculators →
OMG! Best calculators ever made, now on the iPhone/iPod touch! I still use the 12c my Dad bought me more than 20 years ago. It seems that HP still sells the exact same model, their longest and best-selling product. Reverse Polish Notation (RPN) always made sense to me. Nerd in the making.
Each app uses the original ROM code and provides an exact visual replica of the actual horizontal-format...
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French Guy Discovers Hidden Feature in the New... →
If that was running Windows it would have crashed.
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Jeremy's Extreme Ford Fiesta Road Test →
And that is why we love Top Gear. You have to chew up the first five minutes though, but all hell brakes loose after that.
The smoke grenades fit perfectly in the cup holders. The windshield is heated, but not bulletproof. Let’s go! Come on Fiesta! These kids are being annoying. Shoot them!
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One Key – Function Key Assignment →
True, F13-F19 have never been touched on my watch. Set them free for $5.
I don’t know about you, but I don’t know what to do with the F5-F6 and F13-F19 keys on my keyboard. They do perform functions in certain applications, but for most part they’re lying around unused. This is the large wide aluminium keyboard I’m talking about which came with the iMac (not the new narrow one). Lucky me when I...
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Klix – Picture Recovery Software →
Let’s hope I’ll never need this.
Accidentally delete, reformat or have a corrupt camera media card? Klix is digital picture recovery software and can recover lost digital pictures after deletion, reformatting or corruption. Works with all USB or FireWire cameras and recovers all common image and video formats.
You can always try the free Exif Untrasher first, before coughing up $30...
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The Hergé Museum →
Thirty years in the making, the Hergé Museum officially opens in Louvain-la-Neuve, just outside of Brussels. The museum was designed by Christian de Portzamparc. Check out the “galerie photo”.
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What is a Browser? →
Why am I not surprised?
What is a browser? was the question we (Google) asked over 50 passersby of different ages and backgrounds in the Times Square in New York. Watch the many responses people came up with.
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DEADLINE post-it stop motion
A very cool post-it stop motion project directed by Bang-yao Liu, for his senior project at Savannah College of Art and Design.
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Bathtub V by Keith Loutit →
Watch this and similar movies in HD here. Fascinating!
Keith Loutit is a true master of tilt-shift –miniature faking– photography.
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MakingOf - Front Row. Behind the Scenes. →
Movies about making movies. Love it.
MakingOf.com is a behind-the-scenes Web portal that provides an intimate, fresh look into the process of making a movie by the insiders themselves. MakingOf’s mission is to champion the art and craft of entertainment creation.
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Google Street View – Introducing The Pancake →
Google is adding a “less annoying” way to move through Google Street View. Check it out in the embedded interactive Street View and watch the video. Cool!
Moving around in Google Street View is not always intuitive. You always end up clicking aimlessly a few times before you can really figure out how to move about. Well, now navigating within Street View is easier thanks to the...
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The Plot to Take on the iPhone →
An interesting read; Josh Quittner for Time writes about Jon Rubenstein’s leaving Apple and then heading Palm to launch the Pre.
The industry sets a blistering pace, and Palm is already late to market. But if anything worries the famously secretive Apple (which, it goes almost without saying, declined to comment for this story), it has to be Rubinstein. He wasn’t merely once an Apple insider; he...
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(Mostly) Free Design Resources List →
Great list of free graphic and web design resources: free images, free vectors, free fonts, templates, logos and more…
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The Karelia iMedia Browser →
Why is this not build in OS X? Very handy.
Do you like the media browser that Apple includes in some of its applications, but wish you could use it from any application? Now you can. Download the free Karelia iMedia Browser and use it whenever and wherever you need to access your library of photos, music, videos, and bookmarks.
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Licensed - Managing Sofware Licences and Passwords →
I use and like Steel ($9) from Gravity, but this looks like a nice (free) alternative.
Licensed offers a place to put [your software licenses], and because it does nothing else, it does it very well. Every effort was taken to make entering details as quick and painless as possible. After all, software licenses aren’t really something you should spend much time worrying about.
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20 Inspiring Uses of Data Visualization →
Data is boring, information is interesting! I’ve always used this statement whenever the issue of data is being discussed. No one is really interested in looking at a large number of data rows, or even a small one. As humans, we tend to better understand a particular issue when it is presented to us in a visual way, and in this roundup you will find 20 sites using data visualization that deliver...
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Star Wars: The Old Republic →
Looks better then the last three movies combined.
New Star Wars video game trailer. No idea if it’s a good game, but it’s a hell of a trailer.
[via Daring Fireball ]
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15 Essential Sites For Free Stock Images →
A compilation of 15 essential sites for sourcing free stock images.
May 2009
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MacUpdate Promo Spring Bundle →
This is really a fantastic deal. I already own most of the apps though. The combination of RipIt, DVDRemaster and Multiplex makes a killer home theater starter kit.
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Evom - Convert and Transfer Movies From Your... →
An alternative to CosmoPod.
Evom makes grabbing and converting videos a breeze. Do you want to convert those pesky AVIs or WMVs into a useful format? Had an urge to watch LOLcats on your iPod touch? Evom converts videos for breakfast and does it with Apple style and the ease of drag-and-drop. Put your videos where they belong — your iPod, iTunes, or Apple TV.
[via Daring Fireball ]
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Smart Scroll - Smooth and Easy iPhone-Like... →
I installed this utility the other day and I really like it. Scrolls like butter.
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20 Sources To Get Logo Design Inspiration →
More about logos. Design inspiration around the web.
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66 Creative Logo Designs For Design Inspiration →
Great collection of cool logo designs.
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“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you...”
– Mark Twain
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25 New Business Cards - May 2009 →
Some very nice designs. Links to more collections in the post.
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GlimmerBlocker Blocks Web Ads →
I succesfully use AdBlock, but GlimmerBlocker looks like a nice alternative.
GlimmerBlocker is an ad blocker that is safe to install because it doesn’t hack Safari. You’ll be able to update Safari without a problem. The utility works via a proxy server (a Web server go-between) to intercept your browser’s calls for some ads.
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Preserving Analog Video Tapes
Three products recently introduced to transfer your old VHS tapes. No more excuses.
Elgato Video Capture
Roxio Easy VHS to DVD
Blackmagic Video Recorder
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Osocio - Social Advertising and Non-Profit... →
Interesting collection of eye catching –sometimes shocking– advertising.
Osocio is dedicated to social advertising and non-profit campaigns. It’s the place where marketing and activism collide. Formerly known as the Houtlust Blog, Osocio is the central online hub for advertisers, ad agencies, grassroots, activists, social entrepreneurs, and good Samaritans from around the globe.
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Philips - Carousel →
Check this out, an amazing still video created to promote the new Philips Cinema 21:9 TV.
Since the television’s 21:9 frame lends itself so readily to film, Tribal DDB, Amsterdam commissioned us to create a piece of filmed content that could hold its own with Hollywood’s best. Director Adam Berg responded with an idea for an epic ‘frozen moment’ cops and robbers shootout sequence that...
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