Lively: 3D Chat by Google

Lively is a unique 3D chat experience by Google, in which you can communicate and express yourself using avatars in your very own space. Choose an avatar and use it to make friends and chat. Create rooms, decorate them to your liking, and make sure to invite your friends over.
Lively runs inside the browser but needs a Windows installation first to work.
Visit the site to know more and download the application.

USB Modem for Mobile Wimax Communication

U100 allows high speed wireless internet connectivity and is compliant with Mobile WiMAX Standard. U100 is lightweight and the users can conveniently carry it with them wherever they travel. The U100 has a 45 degree rotation hinge through which the user can get the optimal signal. U100 provides a connection manager for PCs with an interface that is simple and is user-friendly. Anybody can easily plug it in and use it.

Disney's M player!

iRiver and Disney launch this cute little music player called the M-player. The Mickey Mouse design music player is sure to make a good impact in the market. The player has a mini USB 2.0, a volume up and down buttons with the next and previous buttons to navigate through your favorite music. It has a storage capacity of 1GB and also provide a 1 year warranty.

It weighs about 17grams and has a continuous playback capability of approximately 9 hours. Plays the following formats, MP3, WMA at 8kbps ~ 320kbps. The player is powered by a built in lithium battery which is re-chargable and the software that conectes the device to the pc is also provided with the player.

The player retails for about $69.

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Webdesign Trend: Hand Drawn

"Hand drawn" is the most discussed web design trends these days. This article sums up the links and resources that could make your understand the trend and equally inspire your creativity.
"Hand-Drawn" trend pattern: This article from smashingmagazine gives the detailed analysis of what’s new about hand drawn trend, how the fonts, are handled, common usability issues, Logos, header, input fields, pre-loaders and more.

Tutorial: webdesignwall really created the momentum to this design trend with his awesome blog design. Adding to it he provided tips and tutorials in his own site for creating hand drawn web designs.

Showcase:

• smashingmagazine
• Inspiredology

Resource: Collect all your free brushes, vector, shapes, textures and fonts from the article listed below:

• designreviver
• bittbox

Foxmarks Bookmark Synchronizer

Having trouble accessing your bookmarks from different parts of the world? Here is a relief to your trouble and the savior is none other than our very own Mozilla with the addon for the Firefox browser, its called the Foxmarks Bookmark Synchronizer. So if you are using Firefox at home and at work then install the Foxmarks on the machines that you use and the application will take care of synchronizing your bookmark data from a central database over the internet and its secure as the data reflects based on your login.

Here are some of the mind grabbing features of Foxmarks

• Backup and Restore
• Share
• Web Access
• Sync Profiles
• Seamless sync
• Mobile Access
• Import & Export

IPhone 3G to arrive!

The iPhone 2.0 OS is unlocked as well and the lauch of the phone is just a few hours away.
More updates on the launch to follow.... Watch this space for further updates.

Tutorial9 Rocks with 99 Free Canvas, Paper, Paint, and Metal Textures

Tutorial9 has come out impressive free resource. The latest article "99 Free Free Canvas, Paper, Paint, and Metal Textures" proves to be a great collection of photoshop textures, canvas, paper etc. Most from the list are high res textures which are awsome and great resource for any designers. Chk out this link