Need I say more
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.
Sunday, August 28, 2005
Thursday, August 25, 2005
Photo Gallery Templates
A photo gallery driven by Movable Type. Courtesy of Doug Bowman.
Includes many useful MT plugins.
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!
Tuesday, August 23, 2005
W3 Compliant Sites
That's a nice idea. A directory with a difference
W3 Compliant Sites: Sites designed to comply with W3C Web Site Standards
Monday, August 22, 2005
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.
Thursday, August 18, 2005
Deleted Domain Names
A clever little tool for finding recently expired domain names
Update!
This on finds domains based on keyterms. Nice
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.
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?
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.
Tuesday, August 16, 2005
Paparazzi!
Found you! At last!
Take full length screenshots of webpages - for your viewing pleasure.
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.
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
Sunday, August 14, 2005
Friday, August 12, 2005
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.
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 ...
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!
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
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
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.
Tuesday, August 09, 2005
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.
TextWrangler 2 for OSX
Finally a nice little free text editor that I can install on girlfriend Clare's iBook
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.
Monday, August 08, 2005
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.
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
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