Archive for the ‘cool finds’ Category

Awesome developer resource: CanIuse.com

Sunday, September 5th, 2010

Have you ever worked on a project and wondered what is supported by X Browser? I must ask myself this a hundred times a day. (especially nowadays with modern formats changing left and right) Well caniuse.com is a great resource I stumbled upon that helps to alleviate the headaches caused by trying to build a "stable" website while using new technologies. While it may not be the "ultimate solution," it certainly is one more valuable tool in your arsenal to combat browser problems!

Recommended for people testing the waters with HTML5!

check it out!!  http://caniuse.com/

 

 

The next "big" Cool Site: YourMindBlown.com

Friday, September 3rd, 2010

I’m making a prediction here, this site (although already large) will become extremely popular. Considering how new the site is its pulling in impressive numbers by having short "viral friendly posts" that constantly appear on sites like digg, or reddit. Then it will be like Icanhazcheeseburger and will become annoying lol (JK). Normally sites like this get pretty stale but I consistently go to yourmindblown.com and I find such interesting content. Is it accurate? Who knows… It sure is entertaining though!!

Here they are on alexa, looks good!!

In comparison to Icanhazcheeseburger.com… woah

 

Regardless of numbers Check out yourmindblown.com! if you are bored! PLUS ITS ON TUMBLR

Cool Find: Grungetextures.com

Friday, August 13th, 2010

Here’s a valuable little resource I bumped into. Honestly you may be thinking oh wow another texture site?! YES! The reason why grungetextures.com deserves a post is because there is no BS here. This site deserves a plug! No signing up, no paying for large resolution versions, no limits on downloads, no restrictions! Not only that but the textures are great! Check it out if you need some help in your next 3d, graphic, or even motion project!

Click to see view at its full, large Resolution! YES!

Free Android GUI PSD!

Sunday, August 8th, 2010

Free courtesy of smashing magazine, a full GUI of android has come out free for download. Check it out! Its 1.5 but still extremely useful (I already have the PSD open while I’m writing this lol)!

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/08/18/android-gui-psd-vector-kit/

I had to post this: NERDS WIN

Wednesday, July 28th, 2010

Dear reader, sorry in advance.

Normally I have the urge to post images like this all the time. I use restraint though because I don’t want this to turn into a tumblr lol. More than anything though is just how shocking how good some people have it… the numbers here are incredible!

 

Game Over Nerds Win

10 essential droid apps for the beginning of 2010!

Monday, January 11th, 2010

The motorola droid in all its glory!

Droid is here, and along with it comes new possibilities, experiences, and most importantly new apps!!! After getting the motorola droid and playing around with it for a month now here are my favorite apps! These are essential!

android top apps

How where they judged?

Well the apps where based on the following criteria:

  • Price
  • Wow factor (the kind that you can brag to your friends with lol)
  • GUI
  • If it has any real application (not just a gimick)
  • originality
  • how fun it is!

My Top 10 apps!

Facebook App-

You knew this one was coming. I use this program every single day… multiple times a day. It is extremely light, fast, and free!!!

Gps Navigation

This is where things get awesome with the droid. I purchased a top of the line GPS 2 years ago for $350, it is now obsolete with the droid. Not only that but the GPS app on the droid has 10x the features!!

Shop Savvy

Shop savvy in my opinion is half flare, and half functionality! What does it do? You can take a picture of a barcode and it will display the lowest prices in the area and online!! so cool!!!

Google Goggles

Google goggles takes the shop savvy concept a little further. You can take a pic of anything and goggles will scan it, and then display listings, options, or ratings. It is new so I have found it works great with logos but not everything. It does plenty more though check it out here!

Twidroid

When you first get droid you will be torn between using the browser, or using apps to access certain websites. This is one of those times, and the app wins in this case. Twidroid is a light, no bs twitter app that is amazing – go get it!

Snes/Gensoid lite

I put “lite” up because these do cost money, however the lite versions are free. I have to say that the snes emulator is a little better then the genesis emulator but still they are both great! They even allow you to search for roms within the program! wow!

Last.fm/pandora

Well if you are a last.fm fan, or pandora fan grab one of these. Both are amazing – However if you don’t have a last.fm account grab the pandora app as the last.fm app relies heavily on your music taste from your pre-existing account.

Photoshop mobile!

This is an amazing app. Its easy to use, very robust, and free! Its exactly what you think it is lol.

Sportstap

For the diehard sports fan there is sportstap. Following your favorite team was never so easy!

Rings Extended

you may think the droid can do anything.. but it really can’t. Try changing your ringtone, notification noises, etc and it will become immediately apparent. However, this program basically allows you to regain full control over your phones “noises” lol.

Valuable SEO resource: SERPS Relationships

Tuesday, December 1st, 2009

Here is something I stumbled upon the other day. It is a flash chart that shows the current relationship of SERPS between all major search engines. It even has a date feature that allows you to go back about 9 years!!! Very valuable information(and cool)!

seo relationships

seo relationships

  1. Click Here for the current (interactive) chart!
  2. Click Here for the chronological chart

The easiest way to resize your browser for testing webdesign!

Wednesday, October 14th, 2009

browser resize plugin

The Problem:

I constantly have this problem where I have to resize my browser window to check my sites/designs/etc on multi monitors. Normally I use my nvidia control panel, or just the plain windows display control panel. The problem though is that my monitors are not normal 4:3, I have a 16:9,and a 1:1. Whenever I use the graphic card based resize my monitors freak out and stretch, flicker, and give warnings etc.

The solution?

This awesome browser window resizer plugin for FF. Its so simple and has a variety of sizes:

windows_resizer

Supported Resolutions:

640×480

800×600

1024×768

1280×800

1280×1024

1600×1200

Grab it here!

Billy Mays Cube!

Friday, July 24th, 2009

Billy Mays cube

Click the image above to view it in full size! Then Print it out as large as possible! It makes a little desktop sized Billy May’s Cube Model.

Useful Tip: How to link to a time in a youtube video!

Friday, March 27th, 2009

Youtube Time seeking

Ok, so imagine you want to send your friend a video in chat, post a cool video, etc,  and its like 10 mins long and you only want to show 1 part of the video?! Well recently youtube added comment time feature, but it doesn’t show up in the URL. SO HERES HOW TO DO IT!!!!

1.Say you have this vid you would like to send to someone and the really funny part is at 2:13

2. First grab the url of the video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbGpacRp1-c

3. Take this Code #t=_m__s, and then fill in your times in the __ (blank) spots. Lets take it apart

Full Code #t=_m__s

Time (not used) #t=

Minutes _m

Second __s

4. So if the time I wanted to start is 2 minutes and 32 seconds. It would look like this

1. GO FROM THIS —#t=_m__s

2. TO THIS ———#t=2m32s

3. Easy Right?

3. Then take this simple code and slap into onto the end of your videos, as shown in red!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbGpacRp1-c#t=0m39s

4. Heres that CODE AGAIN! HAVE FUN!

#t=_m__s