Wednesday, August 31, 2005

Tuesday, August 30, 2005

particletree · Quick Start Your Design with XHTML Templates

I wonder if I can get these set-up in Text Wrangler?
That would be cool.

Ocado: Home

A nice webshop that is clear, easy to use and ... cheaper?

Sunday, August 28, 2005

Weekly Standards - Downloads.com

Quite a nice writeup which I need to read sometime.

Chalk

Looks interesting, well designed and has a cool name.

How to Build a Successful Web Startup in the UK - 15 Do’s and Don’ts

Quite a nice list.

Thursday, August 25, 2005

Wednesday, August 24, 2005

Google Talk

I never really got instant messaging but I guess now Google does it I might as well have a go. Shame they don't have there own Mac OSX client though ..

sIFR 2.0

Flash font headers. Nice.

Mike Davidson -- sIFR 2.0: Rich Accessible Typography for the Masses

Update!

Flash fonts

AIRTIGHT - SimpleViewer Download

Nice free photo slideshow viewer. Well worth a download.

SimpleViewer

Tuesday, August 23, 2005

Monday, August 22, 2005

AdBrite - The Internet's Ad Marketplace

It's just a good idea and well executed.

AdBrite - The Internet's Ad Marketplace

Internet maverick goes legit

Pud comes good: is what I would've called it.

All this creativity and inventiveness is starting to tick me off!

Friday, August 19, 2005

Steve Jobs : You’ve Got To Find What You Love

Inspirational stuff.

When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: "If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right." It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: "If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?" And whenever the answer has been "No" for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something. Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure-these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

Fucking brilliant.

Steve Jobs : You’ve Got To Find What You Love via AnitaRoddick.com.

Moxie Design Studios | Website and Blog Design

Refreshingly different with a massive portfolio.

Thursday, August 18, 2005

Deleted Domain Names

A clever little tool for finding recently expired domain names

Deleted Domain Names

Update!

This on finds domains based on keyterms. Nice

My Protopage

Clever Trevor.

My Protopage - personalisable start-up page

easy.com : new ideas

I don't get it. Basically the easygroup are saying that if you have an idea that can make money, give it to us. We won't reward you for the idea, we'll just profit from it. Thanks. Why the hell would you send it to them?

So anyway, I've come up with an idea. Niot a great idea, not a world changing idea (not even a devilishly simple idea) but an idea.
I can find nowhere that tells me how to document this idea, not for patent purposes, but for actually documenting the thing so that anyone can pick it up, read it and understand the idea.

So I've come up with my own list of questions which, if answered, I beleive will help lay-out the idea for all the see

  • What’s the idea
  • Why is it needed
    • Business
    • Consumer
  • How will it help
    • Business
    • Consumer
  • How will it be used
    • Business
    • Consumer
  • What is needed to get set-up
  • How much will it cost to set-up
  • How much will it cost to run
  • How will it be marketed

Having said all that there's some interesting info at the BBC.

Wednesday, August 17, 2005

BulletCatchers.net

You cannot be serious! Working in their personnel department must be demoralising.

BulletCatchers.net

the food loop

Think clip-n-seal.

Think devilishly simple

Think wish Id thought of that

the food loop

Orange - call barring

ideal for parental control it may be, but what happens if one number is calling you and either hanging up after the second ring (as in girlfriend clare's case) or leaving you a message of nothing but background noise (as in my case). How can we stop a single number calling and disturbing us? Is the only way to stop ourselves from being bothered to sign-up for the inconvenience of rendinering our mobile phone useless?

Orange - call barring

Another classic case of a system working as efficiently as it possibly can. Ha!

#!/usr/bin/girl

#!/usr/bin/girl was the first blog I ever read. Nice to have stumbled across it again.

Kubrick at Binary Bonsai

I don't get what's so special about Kubrick. To my mind its a template for Wordpress. Loads of wordpressers are using it which must mean that
A » they're not particularly design orientated
B » Wordpress templates aren't that easy to understand / alter.

Kubrick at Binary Bonsai

Nice title attributes

Nice title atrributes; as seen pretty much everywhere.

Tuesday, August 16, 2005

microformats

I want to understand this. Is it just adding attributes to tags?

microformats

Chiseled Flower

I like the idea but I don't know what it is.

Welcome to Chiseled Flower

Paparazzi!

Found you! At last!
Take full length screenshots of webpages - for your viewing pleasure.

Paparazzi!

Spaceworms

Addictive little flash game. Run for the hills!

Putfile - Upload Video and Upload Images

Amazon Associates $10 cap removed

Might be time to open that store!

Brad Choate: Key Values Plugin

Before I loose this again in my email.
An EXTREMELY COOL MT plugin by the Choatster.

Brad Choate: Key Values Plugin

UPDATE!

Also this post from Wayward Puppy about adding New fields to MT; you big ape.

SMS text messaging

A nice thread about SMS text messaging over the web. Good to know.

UPDATE

Rock my socks off.

Arrangement de couleurs

Creating colour palettes via And all that Malarkey

Monday, August 15, 2005

Internet Mapping Project

An interesting site (for about three minutes). Might be nice to use one of the maps as a background image for a website - almost Mark Thoms-esqu

Internet Mapping Project: Map gallery

Down To Business

A nice blog about selling web design services.

SitePoint Blogs : Down To Business

Yahoo Hubfinder 2.0

Pretty neat link building tool.

Yahoo Hubfinder 2.0

CSS Examples

It's cool to get a little CSS schoolin'.

Pentix

Don't try to learn these in a quiet office; people will stare.

Pentix - Tricks

Sunday, August 14, 2005

HTMLtoRSS

Kinda cool but not sure how I could use it ... yet

HTMLtoRSS

Friday, August 12, 2005

Harley-Davidson New Rider Courses

Must ... Save ... Money. Must ... Learn ... To ... Ride

Beat the Meter

Although I've fallen out of love (a bit) with the easygroup (being that they are now more affiliate than entrepreneur) I still enjoy watching Stelio's portly body romp around a garage forcourt.

HTML Tidy Online

Neat

Sportster xl883l

On the way to the dayjob I passed a caravan of hog-riders on their way to 'whoi knows where'. As I overtook the rumble of the engines passed through my car and across every synapse in my body; I was infused (momentarily) with the spirit of Harley Davidson. Never have I been more tempted ...

Harley-Davidson Sportster xl883l

Thursday, August 11, 2005

Wednesday, August 10, 2005

Things that are still hard to find online (but shouldn't be) - Signal vs. Noise

Holy smokes! For the past few weeks I've been thinking about creating a site for my dad (a tiler); only yesterday I decided to actually do it.
Today, 37signals are saying how they'd like to see more sites like that; my dad is a good tiler.

Wish Id be more proactive now a few weeks back - could have gotten some free publicity. Dang!

Update!

Hire A Tiler

Clip-n-Seal

Good idea. Great blog. Nice marketing.
All I need to do is come up with a great invention like these guys.

Clip-n-Seal · Air- and Watertight Bag Clip · Keep Your Food Fresh

Update!

Marketing the mundane from Strange Brand

ColorToy 2

A nice flash based colour picker - reminisent of the 5k.org color picker.

Defence Mechanism > Developer > ColorToy 2 - The Flash Color Schemer [BETA]

CaRP

Cracking little PHP/XML feed thingum.

CaRP: Free and commercial PHP scripts to display RSS news feeds on your website

Wikis For Business

Quite a nice summary on Wikis in business

How To Use Wikis For Business

Using a Day Planner as a Life Planner

Girlfriend Clare pointed out that I've been spending quite a lot of time in front of the tube (read t.v. or iMac) recently and ... well, she's right. Getting home from work at 7pm I just feeling like chilling - out for a few hours. But what a waste ot time that is! I mean, once or twice a week is perfectly healthy but I have started to become a bit of a slob! Actually, Im reminded of Channels 4's Wife Swap programs; every once in a while a wife from a ant-tv family will be swapped with a wife from a pro-tv family and it always amazes me to see how much happier the anti-tv family is; how much more productive.

Anyways, getting to the point, now that I have a phone with a great planner built in (and the ability to sync it with iCal) Im wondering whether I should start to plan things more using my phone?

Using a Day Planner as a Life Planner

Update

Coincidence?!

Going Solo

A nice summary about the business aspects of going freelance

Garrett Dimon / About Going Solo

Diet And Fitness: Don't Learn The Hard Way

Having just wasted a year long membership at my local gym, this walkthrough couldn't have come at a better time; I particularly like point six.

Diet And Fitness: Don't Learn The Hard Way | Lifehack.Community Beta

Strongspace : Secure File Storage and Sharing

A nice idea which is executed with simplicity. Very 37Signals.

Secure File Storage and Sharing – Strongspace.com

Tuesday, August 09, 2005

Welcome to Zopa - The first lending and borrowing exchange

Love the idea; and the design.

Welcome to Zopa - The first lending and borrowing exchange

Johnnie Manzari

Nice walkthrough on the subject of preventing comment spam

Johnnie Manzari: Angelina Jolie Nude

eBay's Spoof Email Tutorial

Thankfully, the two scammers who tried to lure me into their deadly web of intrigue were idiots. But for future reference, this official guide is usefull.

Spoof Email Tutorial

Easy-peasy PHP

Goo to know.

Digital Web Magazine - Easy-peasy PHP 2

TextWrangler 2 for OSX

Finally a nice little free text editor that I can install on girlfriend Clare's iBook

Bare Bones Software : PRODUCTS : TEXTWRANGLER

Amazon Products Feed

Some sort of automated Amazon store that allows you to set-up a huge affiliate site with minimum effort. Looks kinda neat.

Amazon Products Feed

Shaun Inman's Mint

Mint: A Fresh Look at Your Site ... Intriguing.

Monday, August 08, 2005

Vanilla

Looks like simplicity itself.

Lussumo Vanilla - The sweetest forum on the web

PledgeBank - Tell the world "I'll do it, but only if you'll help"

The beauty of Danny Wallace's Join Me was that you could do something safe in the knowledge that there'd be a community of people supporting you doing it or even doing it themselves. So if you wanted to feed the homeless, it no longer becomes such a big hurdle because you know they'll be support there for you no matter what happens. Anyway, PledgeBank is a bit like that - safe volunteering for the masses.

TinyMCE

Some kinda crazy JavaScript WYSIWYG editor. Not too sure how I'd use it but interesting none the less.

TinyMCE Javascript Content Editor by Moxiecode Systems AB

Start as you mean to go on

I browse the internet way more then I should. On my trails I stumble upon an awful lot of interesting shit which I always mean to go back and visit but very rarely do. To prevent my gmail getting even more clogged with useless prompting emails I thought I'd start a blog to record these interesting finds instead.

Jamlike : interesting discoveries from the world wide web