Go elf yourself



This holiday, get what you've always wanted. The miraculous ability to turn yourself into an elf... Upload a picture of your face and send it to a friend and spread the.... erm... laughter.

Start the Elfamorphosis here

Optimus Keyboard now has a price. Is it worth it though?



We all know about the Optimus keyboard (well most of us). Some new information has been released that it will cost .... wait for it..... $1200!!!

Although the Optimus Keyboard opens up to a new generation of hardware, in the end is it really worth the price though? I could understand if it cost around $100-$150 but $1200???

Anyway, for whoever is interested the first batch will be ready to by in March 2007, but the key displays will only be black and white (At the price someone will be paying for it they could at least made them in colour).

'knockman' wind up figures



I just came across these cute little things. At $15 I think they can be great little Christmas presents.

They can be ordered from UnicaHome

Design Excellence and Simplicity

I bought the new issue of Web Designer magazine today and in its website showcases it has this little gem: Chromazone-Imaging (UK)





It has everything I love in a website: simplicity, minimalism, innovation and a look of freshness.

I've come accros this: Loggr - A dead simple AJAX timesheet.

You can read how it works here: http://www.modernlifeisrubbish.co.uk/article/loggr-timesheet-logger

I've tried it out and it seems pretty cool. I have trouble everyday trying to think of what I've been doing all day at work. Loggr is designed to help you out a bit.

Colour Schemers / Colour Generators

Daily colour scheme: Not so daily because its still in beta mode but you can visit this site and be inspired by colour schemes for designs.

Online colour schemer: http://www.colorschemer.com/online.html

Yotophoto: find images to match your design, colour scheme and logo.

I use Bloglines

Do you read lots of blogs? Do you want to be notified that your favourite blogger has posted something rather than keep visiting their blog to look for updates?

I use Bloglines and it has made my browsing life much easier. Bloglines tracks the information you are interested in, retrieves new stuff as it happens, and organizes everything for you on your own personal web news page.

All you have to do is subscribe to Bloglines and enter the rss feed of the website, blog, news site you would like to keep tracks of. Whenever you login to bloglines it will notify you which blogs have been updated.

Interesting Links

Typogenerator - The user types some text; typoGenerator searches images.google for the text and creates a background from the found images, using randomly chosen effects. then it places the text, using random effects too. Shame the image is only 640x480 pixels.

Bulletproof HTML: 37 steps to Perfect Markup

Browsershots Browsershots is a free online platform where you can test your web design in different browsers.

iCapture (Similar to Browsershots)

WayBackMachine - See how your website looked back in 1999 (or any other year)

I Stumble

I've been using Stumble Upon for quite a while now. I like discovering new websites and technologies. All you have to do is install the StumbleUpon toolbar in Firefox, select your interests and start "stumbling".

What can you benefit ouf ot StumbleUpon?

Channel surf the internet for great websites, videos, pictures, games and more!
Get personalized recommendations according to your interests
Rate, review and share what you find
Keep an online history of the things you've Stumbled
No adware or spyware guaranteed

Cool eh? Now start stumbling.

"Beautifully" designed sites.

Click here to view some really cool web site designs.

The guys over at Blue Sfear have come up with a cool idea... A digital art worm created by artists with the goal of creating the largest graphics worm on the internet.



Add your image to the ever growing worm here.