Mini Me Website

Here is a little gem that I came across today, which I find both intriguing and a little creepy. For a small fee of $70.00 bucks, you can have them make a cartoon stuffed animal of you. It reminds of those caricatures that you see at the carnival only in 3-D form.

Check it out here.

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5 Useful Apps Worth Downloading

Here is a small collection of some useful and free applications I have used and like.

Avidemux - This handy free application allows you to edit, filter and encode various video file formats. Granted it is no Final Cut Pro or Adobe Premiere but it will get the job the done.

CDBurnerXP - I have used a number of CD burning software over the years, but this one is light and works great for all my needs.

CCleaner - Here is an awesome tuneup application for windows. It can clean out the registry fragments, as well as, get rid of your browsing history and internet demons.

Dropbox - This little app gives you 2 gb of online storage for all your pictures, music, and docs that you can access from anywhere online. You can sync the files across multiple computers.

Comodo EasyVPN - This application sets up a virtual network between any computers you install the program on. It is like being in front of each one remotely.

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Websites That Help Pass The Time.

Have some time to kill between flights, on your lunch hour or that boring meeting with HR on fork-lift safety training. Well here are some sites that can capture your attention for awhile. Most of these are a real time sink but allot of fun to play around with.

Bubole - This little site lets you create a monster and fight other monsters that users have created.

Safety Graphic Fun - This little gem highlights some of the funnier signage we need in lack of common sense.

Virtual NES - Ahhh the joys of 8-bit. This site lets you play all the original NES games online for free and in your browser. Game on!

Answerbag - Post a question about anything and have it answered within minutes. Hmmm....what is the meaning of life? or Why does it hurt when I pee? could be useful ;)

FailBlog - A website that highlights the finer Epic fails in life. There are photos and videos that will keep you laughing for awhile.

Songza - A site that allows you to search the nets for songs and play them as much as you like. You can create playlists and share them with your friends.

Monoface - Think of this site like a real Mr. Potatohead. You create crazy mashups of people using any number of combinations of body parts.

There, I Fixed It - Not being very handy myself I can relate to some of these homemade solutions on fixing things.

Let me know if you have any others you would like to share?

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It's Been Awhile

Well it has been awhile since I have posted anything, sorry for the lack of information flowing from the blog. I have been busy with work, life, and a devout addiction to video games :) But now I have some time to get writing again. I will be writing about things I find across the nets on a more regular basis.

Stay tuned for more goodness!

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Awesome Photoshop Tutorial Websites

Adobe has done a great job in bringing us applications that are amazing for both print, video and web. One of those applications is Photoshop. I have used this program since the first version came out, and it just keeps getting better and better. Here is a great little collection of tutorial websites that will show you just what this baby can do.

Adobe TV
Adobe Design Center
PSD-TUTS+
Good Tutorials
Photoshop Tutorials
Tutorialized
Photoshopstar
t-tutorials
Graphic Reporter

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Interesting Sites of the Week

Here is a little collection of interesting websites that I have come across in my journeys this week:

TweetParty - tweetparty lets you organize your twitter friends into parties and send direct messages to them.

EveryCall - A free service which allows you to track down telemarketers and find out who's behind that strange number.

Diddit - This service lets you create a "to-do list for your life". You can build a list of things that you've always wanted to do and share experiences you've had.

GrooveShark - This website combines social networking, personal playlists and a library with thousands of songs for the ultimate music experience.

UrgeMe - This is a new service still in beta, that takes your e-mail address, something you want to remember, and the date you want to be reminded, and will ping you by e-mail until you've completed the task.

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More Cool Resources for Web Designers

These are a couple of cool websites that have helped me in my web design projects. I am constantly looking around for good resources to make my creative life easier.

CSS Layouts - Great collection of CSS layouts. The layouts are designed to work in all browsers and use pure CSS without tables.

Color Pallette Generator - A clickable pallette generator, which makes a website color pallette based on the primary colors of the image you supply.

Website Launch Checklist - A nice list of items that should be checked against before any website is launched.

PDF Magazines - Free resource of hundreds of PDF magazines on a number of topics, including design.

1001 Free Fonts - Awesome website for all things font related.

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Online Resources for Web Designers

Here are a couple of online resources for all you web designers out there. These are all free to use and have become quite useful in my day to day weaving ;)

Adobe Connect - Adobe ConnectNow is a great way to share ideas, discuss details, and complete work together — all online. Reduce travel costs, save time, and increase productivity with a web conferencing solution that is easy to access and simple to use. Best of all it's totally free!

Taggify - Taggify is a web widget which allows bloggers and publishers enhance their sites by adding visual tags to any site's images.

PDFescape - PDFescape is your free, online PDF reader, editor, form filler, & form designer.

Blue Vertigo - Huge design resource that includes stock images, fonts, textures, icons, etc.

CSS Mania - Tons of links, references and educational content on CSS.

Typetester - The Typetester is an online application for comparison of the fonts for the screen. Its primary role is to make web designer’s life easier.

Web Developer/Design Project Estimator - The Web Development Project Estimator is a simple tool that allows web designers and site developers to quickly and thoroughly estimate the time and materials required for a proposed web project.

Preloaders - An awesome collection of preloaders for all your development projects.

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