If you do any web design, interior design, painting, graphic arts you know the importance of using complimentary color schemes. For many this is as simple as eying a color. For others it always seems an exercise in futility. Thankfully there are applications out there to help you out with your color schemes. These tools [...]

Categories: Advice, Linux, Open Source, Software, Tutorials Basic, Web Development

Any of you that do any graphic design or web development know how important it is to have tools at your disposal to handle just about any task that might come your way. And even if you don’t have graphic design skills you will, someday, have to create something quickly to use for a web [...]

Categories: Advice, Linux, Open Source, Tutorials Basic

I’m not a huge fan of free web design stuff, mostly because its either hard to modify, or low quality, or if you can tailor it to your needs, you can probably do whatever you need yourself. I also prefer not to use others’ designs since it takes away my sense of identity, but in [...]

Categories: Online Services, Open Source

Sometimes I find a free resource wich is just so much higher quality than most paid sources it’s astounding. I mean if someone can design 9 free fonts that look this good, how does his commercial work look like? Judging from the webpage and the fonts, this person truly loves typography, and the free fonts [...]

Categories: The Web, Tools

I came across the coolest looking datacenter today, and probably the coolest looking place, bar none, ever built (thanks to Royal Pingdom). It was built by one of Sweedens largest ISP’s as a new high profile datacenter, and yes, it’s under ground, made to look like Dr. Evil’s mountain of extreme doom, with fog machines [...]

Categories: Cool

Operating Systems and web design took a turn for the better around the beginning of this century, Apple introduced OSX 10, Microsoft brought out Windows XP and CSS began to be increasingly adopted. It would be fair to say that Google and Apple have provided the most unique design directions over the last 10 years, [...]

Categories: Windows

I have spent this week struggling with colour schemes for my blog. I found deciding on a colour scheme to be an incredibly frustrating process, and what I finally settled on was fairly safe but not very original or exciting either. However here are a few of the tools that I used to help me [...]

Categories: Online Services

Windows 7 will be the Microsoft’s 7th incarnation of their OS kernel, hence the name (yep, pretty clever). As it evolved with time each successive Windows release still contained many UI elements from previous versions. You’ve all seen them, the icon from XP, the interface left over from Windows 3.1… sometimes you wonder what’s so [...]

Categories: Windows

I was always intrigued by isometric art for some reason. perhaps the simplicity of it all is the thing that gets to me, I don’t know. To create it though, you either need some appropriate apps, or some wicked Photoshop skills and I have neither. While poking around at Lifehacker today I found a post [...]

Categories: Cool, Entertainment