HAPPY NEW YEAR 2008 TO OUR READERS!

Copy CD/DVDs on the go

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DVD Coach Single Target is a portable and slim CD and DVD cd copier. Its a simple to use device connect it to the computer or use it as a standalone unit. IT writes a DVD at 8x and a CD at 16x and features an external USB 2.0 and also plays Audio CDs with repeat mode and finally wth the a one year warranty and technical support.

Flickr Groups on UI Design

Flickr Groups are becoming a source of inspiration among Creative Professionals/Designers and not restricted to just being another photo sharing application. Listed below are a few notable Flickr groups that are contributing to the UI design and Web Design trends.

Design Patterns:
factoryjoe collections
jibbajabba

Web2.0 Interface:
webui

Interaction Designers:
Interaction Designers

Web design:
web_design
webdesign-inspiration

Design:
http://www.flickr.com/groups/brushfruit

Adobe’s 25 years of innovation

Adobe’s commitment to revolutionizing how the world engages with ideas and information is as strong today as it was when the company was founded in 1982. Over the years, Adobe has helped to re-define industries with revolutionary technologies and products, such as:

• PostScript and PDF for the print industry
• Dreamweaver and Flash for the web
• Premiere and After Effects for film and TV
• LiveCycle and Flex for the enterprise
• Adobe AIR for extending rich Internet applications to the desktop, and award-winning software applications like Photoshop and Acrobat that span all industries, serving customers of every size.

Visit Adobe for more details.

Blog : 10 years and going strong

The word "weblog" or popularly known as “blog” celebrates the 10th anniversary of it being coined on 17 December 1997. While many people maintained regular journals or diaries before the word was coined, 1997 marked the point when they started to become a particular online pursuit.

The word was created by Jorn Barger to describe what he was doing with his pioneering Robot Wisdom web page. For some time after Mr Barger coined the term, the numbers of people who could be said to be actually writing one was small.

Official numbers are hard to find but some estimate that the size of the blogosphere in late 1998 encompassed only 23 sites.

In 1999 the phenomenon took off as easy to use tools started to appear which made it much easier to write and maintain these sorts of websites. Also in 1999 the word "blog" was coined as a shortened form of the original term.

The word was an abbreviation for the "logging" of interesting "web" sites that Mr Barger featured on his regularly updated journal.

illuminated Shower Head

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A shower head that has light built ito them. What is special about it? Well it has an in-built thermostat which controls the color of the lights based on the temperature of the water. The color of the light is White when its less than 32 and 33--41 blue and dark blue, 42--45 pink and violet when greater then 45 hot red.

The device powers itself up by running water and does not need any battery or any other power source.

image source: Baronbob

With Christmas just around the corner, we have an interesting gadget to hang on the christmas tree. Its an LED lit Christmas tree ornament. The light scrolls text messages across at all times. The pre-loaded messages are as follows

1. Merry Christmas
2. Happy Holidays
3. Happy New Year
4. Peace on Earth
5. Seasons Greeting
6. Home for Xmas
7. Joy to the World
8. Feliz Navidad

Quick Ribbon a Web 2.0 tool

With the trend of Web 2.0 designs floating around, the ribbon design element is increasingly being used on many websites. The Quick Ribbon, a Web 2.0 tool helps users to create nice looking ribbons for websites in minutes. The tool lets you format text, font color and a list of presets and pre-defined styles of ribbons. Generate the ribbon, preview it, copy the javascript and paste it on your website. Very simple and easy to use tool

image source: Yanko Design

Its always about cars and motorcycle isn't it, make life easy for the Drivers and Riders with whole lot of gadgets and devices for these fuel burning machines. What about the cyclist/bike riders, well dont let my hype take over your imagination. Its nothing complicated but a very nice and unique Type pressure gauge for a Bicycle. John Wrightson is the designer who came up with the idea and design of this nice device.

Ahem! you might need some sort of Anti-Theft device to have this device not disappear.

LM959 Bluetooth vibrating bracelet

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Have trouble with phones ringing at the wrong place or else you never feel the vibrating phone in your pocket while on the go or for some reason. No problem at all with the Vibrating Bluetooth Bracelet around on your wrist. LM Technologies launch the LM959 Bluetooth vibrating bracelet. When the cell phone rings it triggers the bracelet and it vibrates around your wrist alerting of you of an incoming call or short messages.

Unzip compressed files Online

Have you been in situations where you had to unzip a file on your computer and you did not have the unzipping software on your machine? These are desperate times and situations and you are helpless. Wobzip comes to the rescue letting you uncompress files online and on the fly. The application supports almost all comressed file formats. Its a very easy and simple to use application just log onto Wobzip, click the browse button, select the zip file and press the Uncompress button. The files are listed on the page and all we need to do is click on the file and download the same. Its fast, simple and easy to use. Try out Wobzip.

Creating Portfolios - Marking your online presence

Creating online portfolio for showcasing work samples has become inevitable these days. Though Flickr is an easy and effective place to build portfolios, there are more professional webspaces were the industry professional and projects providers search for the talent pool.

“Behance” has become popular like colorofolt by showcasing the projects, collaborating like minds and projects. The site provides easy interactions to customize the portfolio pages, that gives the uniqueness of user’s portfolio.

Apart from comments the site provides the concept of “Project Appreciations”, were users will vote against show cased project. It has usual functions for collaboration of other uses like inviting to your circle, messaging, Job Opportunities, Sharing Tips and watch-list.

More Portfolio tools:
http://www.creativebinge.com/
http://www.coroflot.com/
http://www.portfolios.com/
http://www.ifreelance.com/
http://deviantart.com/ ( Art)

Zigview S2 Digital Viewfinder

The ZigView S2 Digital viewfinder is a real cool and neat Idea of having a extendeable viewfinder screen. With a 1.5 meter extension for the screen, this contraption is very cool for taking pictures in difficult angles, and for survelliance photography. The device also carries motion sensing feature.

NASA.gov 5.0

Nasa has decided to revamp their website on account of completing 50 years since NASA's inception. The NASA.GOV 5.0 offers their visitors with their improved Information Architecture with plans of introducing Web.2.0 features for better user experience on the website.