Written on November 29, 2008 – 9:57 pm Zee M Kane, Internet Marketer, Design Connoisseur & Web App Devotee
FluidTunes is a new Mac app which lets you control iTunes using only your camera, hands, head or feet. Swipe your hand from left to right or right to left over the screen center to breeze through your collection. Wave quickly at buttons to activate them. Without using a keyboard or mouse, you can navigate through your music and play or pause songs.
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Written on October 24, 2008 – 4:06 pm Zee M Kane, Internet Marketer, Design Connoisseur & Web App Devotee
pic via spacedive on flickr
Poladroid is a really classy little desktop app which lets you convert pictures instantaneously into awesome Polaroid style shots like the ones you can see to the right. The program is currently Mac only with a Windows version in the works so it’s worth keeping an eye on.
All you need to do is download the app, launch it, drag n drop your photos into the Polaroid icon and let the app work it’s magic. The beauty of the tool is sitting back and watching the app “develop” your photos, you’ll see what I mean once you’ve given it a shot. The application is completely free although they are accepting donations.
There’s a flickr group with a great selection of Polaroids that people have uploaded which is worth checking out. Here’s a video giving you a run through of the app, really cool stuff.
Thanks to Matthew Packer for the heads up and the both interesting & entertaining video! :)
Written on October 5, 2008 – 9:07 pm Steven Carrol, Next Web WebTipr France
Following on from Patrick’s wish for a specific tool to edit the theme of Wordpress blogs, I want to introduce a company that I would love to use and have been drooling over but can’t because it is PC only and I am strictly a Mac man. However, they do solve a very real problem that I am constantly grappling with, they make money, and they could make a ton more if they designed a Wordpress plug in that solved Patrick’s problem and pain.
To edit a website’s design is currently a real hassle, as a developer you have to constantly fath about in a sort of trial and error mode, adjusting one color or parameter at a time. Of course once you change one, that changes everything so you often end up going around in circles for hours until you no longer know whether you’re coming or going (in my case it’s mostly the latter).
Styling is a very time consuming task which generally causes many arguments and frustrations between developers as they try to attain a unique, fresh and interesting look for their projects. With a product like Stylizer this pain is alleviated and the cream works in minutes. One can control the styles in a live fashion seeing how they change the overall look while simply turning knobs and watching the changes take place before your eyes.
As a nuts and bolts developer I personally struggle tremendously with creating a fresh clean look for my own projects. Only after attempting to create graphics yourself do you really gain respect for graphic designers. Earlier in my design carrier I have been constantly disappointed with graphic designers thinking they overcharge, are slow, produce substandard work, etc. In many cases it is often true and one area where I struggled to find a outstanding professional artist. Though I did eventually it is clear to me they are few and far between.
What is now also clear to me is how frustrating and difficult this task really is, I am certainly in the market and will pay good money for an elegant solution to this personal pain, hint, hint, Stylizer Mac version please!!! It is also a little odd that there is not a Mac version of this software (unless there is by someone else and I dont know of it?) given all graphic designers I have ever worked with only ever used Macs.
So if your in the same boat, struggling with creating a shit hot look and feel for your own sites and you use PCs, give Stylizer a shot and let me know if this software is really as good as it looks! Do also do let me know if there something out there similar for the hardened Mac users.
P.S. This article was written by a human not a machine and following on from last weeks huge outcry about the automatic article generating software, we at The Next Web have pledged never to use such software, but the question remains! are the top blogs actually using it? As many sources I have spoken to still think they are :).
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