Things We Love Thursday : Bonding
We bond with our customers on a daily basis, so we’re not strangers to nurturing relationships! But check out this trio - Spider on Frog on Turtle.
“After three days of storms and rain, we found these three floating in a pool filter, clinging to each other to survive. All of them were exhausted from the effort and were reluctant to part ways after being rescued.”
Things We Love Thursday : Muppets
Especially celebs who look like muppets. How can you resist checking them out?
Things We Love Thursday : Tacos
Specfically loaded tacos from Chipotle.
Things We Love Thursday : Panoramas
“The featured panoramas at panoramas.dk are interactive 360 degree panoramas. The links to them open in a fullscreen window. To navigate the panorama click in the window and drag in any direction.”
Things We Love Thursday : PrettyBitter.com
Our blog posts are usually a happy bunch. What about those other times that aren’t so happy? PrettyBitter.com is bittersweet. We especially like their sticky notes which give that extra push of motivation:
Things We Love Thursday : Spaceships
Not just spaceships, but concept ships and experimental aircraft. Especially really shiny ones. Check out the Concept Ships Blog!
Things We Love Thursday : Robots
Lately because of the amazing WALL-E movie (which you should really see if you haven’t yet) we have been really interested in robots. There’s actually a lot more robots around than we thought. You can’t help but ooo and ahh over robots that do silly things but have amazing designs. Sony Rolly, we’re looking at you.
Things We Love Thursday: CSS Galleries!
Web 2.0 was and still is all the rage on the internet with it’s aesthetically pleasing styles and easy clean coding, anyone who owned a website wanted to be apart of it. From left to right, website’s and their owners were slowly transgressing from outdated drag and drop WYSIWYG editors and the not-supposed-to-be table layouts to more fluid, clean, and beautiful art that the web 2.0 generation brought with it. And because of this, CSS galleries were born.
Not only do they showcase the many and wonderful web 2.0 looks out there, but its a way for your website to get honest critiques from all points of view, while also gaining extra traffic to your website. Can’t get a better deal then that! Another use they have; inspiration! Have you ever had “designer’s block” and sometimes go on a search to find amazing looking websites in order to feed your imagination? Well look no further, CSS galleries are here to help! Each day they probably get 20 or more website sign-ups, with so many to look at in one place, you’ll never have to go Googling for them again! Be sure to check out the many out there and don’t be afraid to submit your own website!
Things We Love Thursday : Naps
We never get to have any naps here at the office, sadly. There’s just no time! But you can bet we love to get our nap on when we’re not working. Did you know there’s some scientific napalysis that defines perfect napping scenarios? Well we didn’t know that either until recently.
Check out this nap guide published in The Boston Globe “Ideas Section” to make sure you’re napping correctly. Naps are important and this guide will cover (cover! blankets! get it?) everything about nappage.
Things We Love Thursdays: Digsby!
I’m sure there are tons of applications like it, but none of them have the cool name like Digsby! Now you can have your favorite IM clients, Email, and even Social Networks logins, all in one place! What could be better? You can also add a widget to your website where people can chat with you from where ever! Not to mention the tons of customizations options available to you for total personalization! Download it today: Digsby!
Supported IM Clients:
- AIM
- MSN
- Yahoo!
- Jabber
- ICQ
- Google Talk
- Facebook Chat
Supported Email Clients:
- Yahoo!
- Hotmail
- Gmail
- POP3 & IMAP accounts
- AOL & AIM Mail
Supported Social Network Clients:
- Myspace
- Facebook
- Twitter
Things We Love Thursday : Video Blogs
This could have been a post for WordPress Wednesday… but we just couldn’t wait! We love this WordPress Video Blog theme from ZoomStart. Its clean look is easy to modify into an existing site as an addition. Or you could use this theme to run an entire website based on video content from YouTube.
“Video on the internet is huge. And it’s only getting bigger. So I thought I’d put together a Wordpress theme to take advantage of that. It’s a great way to build content-rich niche sites, and use the power of YouTube at the same time.” - Shane from ZoomStart View the demo here.
The Easiest Way to Resize Images
Squash was created by Seb Ruiz, a traveler and photographer. Just like Seb, many of us take photos in large resolutions so that we can later print our favorites. But if you want to upload them to the web for regular viewing, you need them to be much smaller. If you’re not using a service like Flickr to share your photos, which automatically does resizing, Squash can save you time instantly!
Just click “Add Images” and dump an entire folder of your photos into Squash. Then with a click of the “Resize Images” button, all of your photos are resized into a specified folder. I don’t think there is anything easier or faster than this - but if you’ve got something better, let us know! Squash is currently available for Ubuntu and Windows only.
USB Flash Drive Security : Differently
Some techy art for you today. From Dialog5.
Web to IM
We’re on a roll with the letter P! I bumped into another new site called Plugoo and gave it a try. Basically you give them your screen name, such as for AOL IM, and you place a chat widget on your website. It allows anyone to chat to you, via your preferred chat program, right from your website. So if you are into that sort of thing, go Plugoo!
RSS to TXT
Have you heard of Pingie yet? It allows you to subscribe to RSS feeds using your cell phone. Yahoo has been RSSSMSing since 2005 but this idea had yet to gain cool status among the webosphere. It seems FeedBeep tried and disappeared (and what a shame, was a good name)! Pingie is the cute and hip service we’ve been dreaming of. Imagine getting all of the Surmunity updates to your phone, I am signing up right now! Go Pingie!
Inkscape: Open Source Graphics Editor
Inkscape is a really nice (and of course, free) graphics program that we wanted to showcase here. From their website:
“Inkscape is an Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, Freehand, CorelDraw, or Xara X using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format. Supported SVG features include shapes, paths, text, markers, clones, alpha blending, transforms, gradients, patterns, and grouping. Inkscape also supports Creative Commons meta-data, node editing, layers, complex path operations, bitmap tracing, text-on-path, flowed text, direct XML editing, and more. It imports formats such as JPEG, PNG, TIFF, and others and exports PNG as well as multiple vector-based formats.
Inkscape’s main goal is to create a powerful and convenient drawing tool fully compliant with XML, SVG, and CSS standards. We also aim to maintain a thriving user and developer community by using open, community-oriented development.”
W3C valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional. Document validates as CSS3.
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