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Posts from April 2007

My Web Ego!

Just for a bit of fun I and courtesy of this post on


Flash Animation 2006!

Funny little flash animation that was entitled “The Best Flash Animation 2006″ not sure if that is just what the owner called it or if it was voted that. Worth a view, certainly gave me a little chuckle.


Hardcore designer?

Are you a Hardcore designer? Head over and have a look. I have a feeling I qualify as one! (via)


Tomorrows technology

Great video (which could be an advert) about the possibilities of technology. It looks pretty cool, although if it came true the reliance on it would scare me, but then I guess we aren’t that far off it now! (via)


My Quicksilver is so HOT it’s smoking!

I recently came across a new Quicksilver interface thats in development. I first came across the Fumo interface through these screenshots or mockups a while ago, but as far as I could tell they were only that, mockups. On returning to the Quicksilver forums the other day I found that not only was [...]


Happy Easter

Just wanted to drop a little Happy Easter. I also want to take this opportunity for the lack of meaningful posts recently, and also for the coming term. It’s my final term at Uni so I’m pretty flat out with work and relaxing tends to be done late at night when I’m not [...]


Type Director results

On the look out for fonts and general typography stuff, I stumbled over the results for the Type Director Awards. I particularly like Greta, Tisa and Subtil. (via)


EMI & Apple DRM free

EMI are now the first big label to make the step to DRM Free music. Great news. The label have struck a deal with Apple that means their tracks will be for sale in two formats. They will continue to sell tracks for £.079 or $0.99 with the DRM, but will now [...]