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Pocket HI-FI, The 70s Version of the iPod

Chantal — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 05:37:53 +0000

If Electronics that we have today would be made in the 70′s, they would look like this. This is the 70s iPod version. Click here to see many more example of 70′s retro stuff.

They are pretty inspiring.

Poor Font Choice of the Week

Chantal — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 03:46:20 +0000

Image speaks for itself!

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A Long Time Ago in a Galaxy Far, Far Away, Star Wars Pancake Molds

Chantal — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 04:23:51 +0000

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, a Jedi Kitchen Master created an epic breakfast to unleash the power of his Jedi Padawan. Using the Force™, he created three nonstick steel pancake molds in honor of his favorite galactic heroes and villains: Yoda™, Darth Vader™ and a stormtrooper™. If you want to please your kids or your man, this is an epic gift.

Star Wars Pancake Molds from Williams-Sonoma

Make a Image Transparent For Your Website Tutorial

Chantal — Wed, 26 May 2010 23:14:22 +0000

Sometimes you want an image on your website but it does not fit well because It has a white or some other color background that does not match your website. I will show you how to make this image transparent so It fits everywhere. Its not really hard. There is several ways to do this but this is the way I do it. You can download the original file here.

Open the file you want to fix the blow It up so It’s easier to work on (ctrl-+), then select the magic want tool (W) and click on the white area. You can select more areas by holding shift and adding more to the selection.

Then I used the “Rectangular Marquee Tool” (M) to select the rest of the Buzz it holding “shift” so only the logo was remaining unselected.

After that you can Inverse your selection (ctrl-shift-i) then select the “Add layer mark” button in the layer palette.

Image should look like this below and almost done!

All you need now is to add some text. Use the “type tool” (T) and enter your text.

Now you want to save your finished image as a .PNG , you can do this by saving for “web and devices” (Alt-Shift-Ctrl-S) and select the preset of png 24 for best transparency results.

Famous People Portraits Made Out of Type

Chantal — Tue, 18 May 2010 22:32:34 +0000

Steve Jobs

Michael Jackson

Jimmy Hendrix

The Joker

Mahatma Gandhi

Will I Am

Angelina Jolie

Blue Grunge Business Twitter Background PSD Template

Chantal — Tue, 11 May 2010 00:00:37 +0000

Here is one twitter template I made for your website/template with modifiable text in Photoshop.

Just press (T) in photoshop to get the type tool and click on the text already up there in the psd and change It to what you want. Then to save: File/save for web and devices and choose jpg and click save.

I will get more of these templates out for your convenience very soon.

Download template here

5 Free Sets of Grunge Photoshop Brushes

Chantal — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 02:03:33 +0000

Here are some nice Free Photoshop sets grunge brushes for adding dirt or texture to an image, they can also be used to age and distort images.

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So You Need a Typeface Flowchart

Chantal — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 20:01:41 +0000

So you need a font for a certain project? Here is a flow chart to help your needs!

Click here to get the full Flow Chart

Lego Table Time Lapse

Chantal — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 05:10:25 +0000

Making of a 22,742 pieces Lego table.

‘Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity.’ Charles Mingus

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5 Essential Firefox Addons for Web Development

Chantal — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 06:29:41 +0000

MeasureIt

Draw out a ruler to get the pixel width and height of any elements on a webpage. No More having to take screenshots to get a measurement.

Rainbow

Analyzer Extracts the color scheme from the current website’s images and CSS. (Firefox 3.5 +)
Picker HSV color picker
Inspector Retrieves the color of any pixel on the browser
Library Filter through saved colors by tag or the url of the page the color was found on. Sort by hue, date saved, and other metrics.

Searchstatus

Display the Google PageRank, Alexa rank, Compete ranking and SEOmoz Linkscape mozRank anywhere in your browser, along with fast keyword density analyser, keyword/nofollow highlighting, backward/related links, Alexa info and more

Coral IE Tab

An enhanced version of IE Tab which enables you to use the embedded IE engine within tabs of Mozilla Firefox. It supports Adblock Plus in IE, and can sync cookies between IE and Firefox.

FireFTP

FireFTP is a free, secure, cross-platform FTP client for Mozilla Firefox which provides easy and intuitive access to FTP servers.