iPhone App: Lego Photo
Jan 18, 2010 1,310 Comments
To all Lego and iPhone fans: Lego just released a free app that lets you generate Lego brick mosaic images from any photo. The app is fun and easy to use. Tab to select a photo from your photo library or take a new photo with the camera. Then you can tab again to generate a different color theme. Visit the site at legoclick.com or download directly from iTunes.
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Article Link: Process of Redesigning N.Design
Jan 13, 2010 9 Comments
The Process of Redesigning N.Design (article) is finally published on Web Designer Wall. It explains every detail about the redesign as well as shows you the process images. I’ve also talked about how other web sites inspired me. Read the article now to find out how I recycled my old illustrations and created something new.
Site: Art in My Coffee
Jan 11, 2010 21 Comments
Art in My Coffee is a site by Jina Bolton and Meagan Fisher where they showcase coffee art from around the world.
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WordPress Short URL for Twitter
Jan 08, 2010 6,852 Comments
You may have noticed that Twitter no longer automatically shorten URLs in the tweets. The great thing is now you can promote your own domain in the tweets. If you are using WordPress, you can take advantage of the default permalink structure to shorten URLs. Instead of posting the "pretty" URL, you can shorten it by removing the "www." and using the post ID in the URL (e.g. "?p=1204").
Advantages of Using Your Own Domain URLs:
- Promote your site (branding): when people retweet, your domain will fly around.
- More meaningful: readers at least know the link goes to your site. Shorten URL (e.g. bit.ly/buSzh) is meaningless because readers don’t know where the link is directing to.
- Build trust & increase click rate: people tend to click on the links that they trust rather than unknown URLs (ie. bit.ly/buSzh might be a spam link).
How to Find Post ID?
- Go to Admin > Edit Posts, hover over the post link, look at the status bar, the number at the end of the URL is the post ID.
- When you are editing or previewing a post, the number in the URL (on the adddress bar) is the post ID.
Parrot AR.Drone: iPhone-Controlled Helicopter
Jan 07, 2010 170 Comments
Wow! It is a helicopter that connects via WiFi and uses your iPhone’s display as controller. It has built-in cameras and ultrasound sensors that lets you take full control of the helicopter. You can even play reality games with it. Visit ardrone.parrot.com for more videos and info.
Creative: McDonald’s Steaming Bus Shelter Ad
Dec 31, 2009 3,571 Comments
A steam machine was built inside the bus shelter and periodic bursts revealed a message “Your Free Coffee is Ready”. Creative!
Layers App Giveaways
Dec 22, 2009 112 Comments
Layers is a Mac software that allows you to capture everything on your screen (such as cursor, application windows, palettes, menus, dock, desktop icons, etc.) as a layered Photoshop file. This tool is extemely useful for creating tutorial screen captures. I have 5 licenses to giveaway. Enter a comment in this post before Jan 3rd, 2010 for your chance to win one free license. For more details about the app, visit LayersApp.com. Follow @layersapp on Twitter for updates.
Update: The winner are: 22, 51, and 86. more
How a Web Design Goes Straight to Hell
Dec 21, 2009 43 Comments
LOL: comic strips about how a web design goes straight to hell. Most freelance designers have probably suffered this before.
