Friday, May 29, 2009
Polka Dot Backgrounds-Free
My Cute Graphics
Brilliant Backgrounds
Skeedio
Polyvore
Ms Premade
Free Code Source
Rad Profile
Hope you enjoy the Polka Dot Backgrounds!
Thursday, May 28, 2009
10 Fantastically Green Sites
Modern Eco Homes has everything you could ever want for the home and the best part is they feature eco deals of the day.
Mod Green Pod is a green home store offering 100% organic cotton.
Eco Geek has the best information on everything green relating to technology there is even a story on an air quality index reading wrist monitor.
Green Upgrader has information on how easy it is to live a green lifestyle.
The Green Office which is exactly as it sounds allows us to have an easy way of accessing eco friendly furniture and supplies for the office.
Groovy Green has the most random cool green stories out there, if you are looking for something new and interesting to read about, this is where it's at.
Home & Planet has some of the neatest recycled home accessories, made out of some really interesting materials.
Wedvert provides solutions for greener weddings and other big events in a very elegant manner and great at keeping the green in your pocket.
Ideal Bite is an easy guide to almost everything green from clothing to transportation and reads easily, always a bonus.
Eco Street is the place to get your eco news and see what is going on in the world of greenery from eating green to green technology.
Garden Inspiration
The images above are from our garden and it is amazing how quickly it changes. We are getting some well needed rain and I am looking forward to seeing how much the vegetables have popped. Watching the things you plant grow is very inspiring and worth the time to take a moment to enjoy.
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Patriotic Freebie Collection
This is a great patriot example swatch of Color Burned- Stars & Stripes: Patriotic Brushes & Swatches
to downloadStatue of Liberty Vector free over at bitbox
to downloadVecteezy has this great star for download
Here is a fun star set over at Vector PortalHow to make a beveled star
Daily Dose of Inspiration
This Ain't No Disco is a great inspirational blog for anyone interested in design.
Monday, May 25, 2009
Catalogs in the mail ARE going FSC
Check out this video on FSC and Pottery Barn Kids.
What is your favorite FSC paper?
Thanks
Thursday, May 21, 2009
Twitter's New Search Might Just Change Everything
Big changes are in the works for Twitter and their realtime search features, says new Twitter VP of Operations Santosh Jayaram, changes that may spell the end of the status quo both for the microblogging platform in particular and the entire concept of organic searching in general.
Jayaram, who previously worked on Google's search quality team, spoke two weeks ago at a TIEcon 2009 preview conference about the changes Twitter is planning to implement to their search features, providing attendees with a compelling look at how the microblogging platform may rise up to challenge even Google in terms of indexing Web 2.0 content.
The most major change Jayaram spoke about concerns how Twitter indexes content. Until now, Twitter's realtime search feature has been limited to Tweets themselves; the content of each Tweet is indexed and searchable through Twitter's search engine. That, Jayaram says, is going to change - at an unspecified point in the near future, Twitter will begin crawling and indexing content linked from Tweets, not just the tweets themselves anymore.
Look out, Google - Twitter's got your number. The change to Twitter's search feature is huge, and it all boils down to analytical data, and the immense value that such information carries with it. Twitter's ability to track realtime trends already puts Google's to shame - and taking that ability off the twitter.com domain means that the microblogging platform is poised to become the internet's premiere Web 2.0 content index. Even the brief delay of a few hours in Google's search engine results represents eons in the hyperspeed context of the modern internet. Twitter can fill in that gap, and Jayaram provided us with some juicy details about how they're going to be doing that.
One of the ways that Twitter is going to increase the relevancy of its search engine is by introducing a Twitter "reputation" ranking system, says Jayaram. Currently, when searching a popular trending topic, or clicking its link on the Twitter sidebar, users are usually overwhelmed with a wealth of "hollow content" like retweets, comments, and so on. Twitter's reputation ranking system will change that by providing users with an authoritative view of trending topics and keywords on Twitter, instead of just flinging users into a chronological timeline.
That change alone will improve Twitter's search by leaps and bounds. I can't wait to find out more about when we can expect to see these changes implemented, and how Twitter plans to show users the data that it collects about off-site content.
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Daily Dose of Inspiration
Blue Blots is a great all around resource for all types of design from toys to usb drives along with a bunch of free resources.
FSC Certified Furniture
Monday, May 18, 2009
Daily Dose of Inspiration-Directories
Do you want to work faster? then check out these cheat sheets at Web Design Ledger
Friday, May 15, 2009
How to...use mustard to your advantage?
Thursday, May 14, 2009
Daily Dose of Inspiration
Logo Pond is a great inspiration when doing a logo.
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Crookers the ultimate musical inspiration
Daily Dose of Inspiration
Tutorial Blog is just that, you can find anything for mac, design, technology and advertising that you could ever want.
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Daily Dose of Inspiration
Rashell and Leo over at Doodlage are very inspirational.
Monday, May 11, 2009
New Look What do you think?
Steampunk-Game
I find that I am attrached to the gear like aspects as well as airships. I found this game Storm Winds and thought I would share it with you. It is a shooter game that you build up your weapons agains different armies that fly in. The artwork is definately a thumbs up.
Daily Dose of Inspiration
Brian Hoff over at the design cubicle rocks out some great posts a must for daily reading.
Thursday, May 7, 2009
Daily Dose of Inspiration
Design Moves Me is another great source for inspiration and different resources for designers.
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Daily Dose of Inspiration
Indesign Secrets pretty much speaks for itself