Monthly Archive for October, 2008

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Does anyone actually these web apps? Don’t get me wrong, I am not a logo designer, but I know what I like. Some of these logos are the ugliest looking monstrosities I have ever seen (almost as bad as animated gifs).

Prototype is a JavaScript Framework that aims to ease development of dynamic web applications…20 Amazing Javascript Prototype Scripts, Elements, Widgets, Classes.

If, like me, you sometimes feel like the worst logo designer in the world, and your lacking the creative flair that is blessed to the few, then this is the post for you. A little sprinkle of inspiration may help.

This article came about after a comment from Andrew Pitchford on the article 10 Amazing Wordpress Plugins for Flickr, he had enquired about eshopping plugins. So here we are, 10 of the most powerful shopping/ecommerce plugins for Wordpress.

I simply use Firefox and Google to keep up to date with my feeds, there are quite a few other methods. But,this is not what this article is about. It is a compilation of 20 RSS web based apps that have something unique, original and helpful. Something to spice up your feeds.

There are many, many Social Bookmarking options available for Wordpress, I have tried to sift through as many as I could to give you the best 20.
My favorite is Sociable, which I use on this site. Thats not to say it is the best, the idea is to find the plugin that best fits into the theme and style of your site.

11 Free (grungy) Typography Photoshop Brushes Sets, Over 40 Brushes.

35 Easy to use Free Ajax Navigation Solutions
The article is split into the following categories: General Nav, Tabbed Menu, Tree-Style Menu and Dock Menus.

20 Amazing Vintage Brush Sets for Photoshop - Over 50 Brushes for you to play around with.

Last week I posted the article 9 Amazing Adobe Air Apps that make Twitter even easier, and quite a few of you have emailed me to say that they use Firefox to control all there tweeting via extensions.
Upon investigating, I think they might be right.

Flickr, like twitter and YouTube seems to be everywhere nowadays. And just to make things that little bit easier here are 10 WP Plugins to integrate Flickr directly into your blog.

8 Addictively Fun Background Generators for Designers.
Don’t you just love generators, even if some are not that useful, they are great for playing about with.

25 Examples of Amazingly Creative Typography Art.
What is type/text art? It is art created solely by using letters and numbers.
It is really is an amazing art.

21 Excellent Dreamweaver Extensions for CSS Productivity and W3C Standards.
15 of these extensions are freeware, the further 6 were that good I had to include them. They are worth the price.

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