I’m seeking a add few new clients, and wanted to extend an offer to you fine people. If you refer a client to me, I’ll send you a little gift back as a thank-you. It’s pretty simple: tell me you sent them (either by email, Twitter or smoke signal), and if they end up becoming a client you’ll get your choice of:
an iTunes gift card
an Amazon gift card
a credit for design work with me
The amount you get on the card or the design will vary based on the project, so I can’t tell you how much you’ll get in advance. But I’ll make sure it’s worth it for you.
I heard this through the Twittervine that there’s a new, much easier way of selecting multiple items in a select menu. The good guys at P’unk Avenue Window have devised a nice solution by the name of pkMultipleSelect. They detail everything about pkMultipleSelect on their site and give a pretty nice demo. After giving it a go, the possibilities of this when coupled with a little CSS action really make me really, really happy. Plus, it’s been tested in all the mainline browsers like IE7, Firefox and Safari. It’s also been tested for not-so-mainline browsers, and ones designers don’t like very much, too.
I think this is a lot more usable than a plethora of checkboxes or the multiple select menus in my opinion. I’ll definitely make sure I implement this in my next project.
I love information graphics, that’s no secret. After Obama was inaugurated, I found the full text of his speech and made a Wordle with it and put it into a desktop for you.
What’s Wordle? It’s a really sweet service that makes word clouds and gives prominence to the words that appear most often. With this, you can see the words that appear most in his speech and get a feel for the overall tone and message of it. Go have a look at their site!
I came across this fun screencast video. It shows off Leopard’s features, but what’s about it is that it’s more like a nice take on a music video. There’s also a Windows version if you’re into that after the break.
I really love packaging, but it’s an area where so many companies go into excess and it becomes wasteful. That’s why I was especially happy to see Newton Running’s latest shoebox. It’s exactly what a shoebox should be: simple, minimal and green. I hope to see—and help—more companies going towards this.
The talented people at TDA Advertising made this up for the Newton folks. Bravo for both!
I’ve added support for Cooliris on my site. It’s a fantastic way of browsing images, and I thought it would be perfect for browsing through my portfolio.
Cooliris is free and works with Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, and iPhone!
Last week I was fortunate enough to get in on the fun that is Boxee.
Boxee is a free media center application that will dig through your computer (and any networked hard drives!), organize all your music, videos and photos. It even works with lots of photo sharing services like Flickr!
The real fun begins when you get to watch video—you can stream video from Hulu, CNN, Comedy Central, MySpaceTV and more! (And as of right now, there aren’t any commercials in the Hulu streams.) Mega bonus.
I ran across this fantastic collection of photographers today. Michael Ash Partners Photographers cover about every kind of photography you’d need in any kind of project—and all of them are aces.
I loved Markku and the Dennis Manarchy sets a ton. I think I could easily blow a couple hours browsing here.
