Archive for April 2008

Those Brits… they sure know humour!

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by Steve Palmer on April 30, 2008

Fluid is a neat Mac tool that builds “site specific browsers”. What does that mean? Well, it means if you have a site that you always have open (say Gmail, Basecamp, or Harvest) you can use Fluid to create a stand-alone app that is a dedicated browser just for that site.

Why would anybody do that? It keeps the tab-count to a minimum in your main web browser and because Fluid’s apps are stand-alone they run independently of your browser so if you’re watching sixteen …

by Steve Palmer on April 28, 2008

Yeah, its geeky. But its funny.

Poetic Prophet (aka the SEO Rapper) and his jammy jam, Design Coding…

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by Shawn on April 14, 2008

Nintendo Plush Toys with Sound

Yes, I know. Plush toys aren’t exactly a new innovation. Not even ones that spit out some sort of lame audio track on impact. But I couldn’t help but be filled with nintendo fanboy glee when i threw a novelty-sized shell across the room at an unsuspecting bystander, followed by the trademarked ’shell knocking’ noise, and a 1up sound clip. The coin block makes the predictable coin noise, but nintendo has done it again by slotting in a randomized ‘mushroom’ noise to get you going… or …

by John on April 7, 2008

I’m amazed at the subtle elegance of the Seed Conference web site. As someone who has a tendency to over-design (before, hopefully, reining it back) it’s work like this that reminds me of how elegant simplicity can be. No gradients — shocking!

by Joshua on April 3, 2008


If you’re growing old waiting for FFFFOUND to open up their nifty image bookmarking service to the general public there’s still hope. No, I didn’t hack into FFFFOUND but I did find a pretty rock solid alternative at We heart it. Like FFFFOUND, We heart it lets you bookmark images, tag them, comment, see who else tagged them and search the entire pool by tag. It’s still early on so the features are a bit limited but it’s certainly worth poking around and …

by Steve Palmer on April 2, 2008