Being one who loves graphic design and web design. I'm always looking for new ideas and creativity when it comes to finding some new inspiration for a new project. It is also fun to search for different designers and styles to sit and try to figure out how they were able to make that or what gave them the inspiration to create their works. So today we are going to look at some creative photographers and try to figure out their inspiration.
So are you excited to find out what was chosen as 2010's color of the year? (Drumroll Please). The color of the year is ANTONE® 15-5519 Turquoise, which was chosen by Pantone. Pantone is a company that are experts in color.
Turquoise is a slightly greenish shade of cyan. The color is based on the gem turquoise and the term comes from the French for Turkish.
Choosing the color was "a very thoughtful process," said Leatrice Eiseman, executive director of the Pantone Color Institute. "This is not something where we just idly throw darts at swatches and decide. 'Well, that's the color.' We're attuned to the emotion a color evokes, what it makes people feel like."
Pantone's research shows turquoise evokes thoughts of places to escape (like a tropical beach) or a talisman that provides protection, Eiseman said. The color also was among the top 10 chosen by fashion designers for their 2010 collections.
The color of the year is chosen from what I assume is for fashion and designing trends that will most likely occur in 2010. Turquoise is a color most people view in a positive light that works well for men and women and pairs nicely with most other colors, the company said. So if your looking for a new color to paint your walls for this year than Turquoise is your color.
Turquoise succeeds 2009's Pantone Color of the Year, Mimosa, a sunny yellow hue. I for one enjoy 2010 color better than the 2009 choice.
So when I was on my trip back home. I came across a program that would come in handy for me. Seeing how I'm always working on three computers and needing to transfer files. I needed to find another form of saving my documents and having access to them on all my platforms. Then I found Live Mesh Beta.
With Live Mesh, you can synchronize files with all of your devices, so you always have the latest versions handy. You can access your files from any device or from the web, easily share them with others, and get notified whenever someone changes a file.Working on one computer, but need a program from another? No problem. Use Live Mesh to connect to your other computer and access its desktop as if you were sitting right in front of it. Live Mesh has a lot of different features that allow you to share folders with others and manage your folders within Mesh. It also gives you a live desktop that is accessible through a web browser and they provide you with 5GB of free space to save on your Live Mesh Desktop. So check out Live Mesh Beta and let me know what you think. If you have a Windows Live ID you can use that to start your Live Mesh Beta account.
ooVoo is an iChat-like video conferencing and chat tool for Windows, loaded with useful, powerful tools that make it a viable alternative for small work groups using conference calls and screen-sharing applications as well as personal use. They currently have a free plan that lets you have these features.
* 2-way video calls. * Record and send 1 minute video messages. * Create 1 video chat room to embed on a website. * Friends without ooVoo can join a call with you from their browser. * 6-way text chat. * Send files up to 5MB at a time.
If you decided that you want to upgrade your plan then it give you more options like:
* Video call with 3, 4 or 6 participants in high resolution. * Collaborate with your team, share a desktop and see everyone at the same time, and more.
ooVoo gives you many options for different plans that can fit your needs whether it is for personal use or for business. ooVoo is changing the way people communicate and connect online with its high-quality video and audio and multi-user capabilities that allow up to six people to talk face-to-face with each other at the same time. Using ooVoo is easy and fun, all consumers need is a computer, a broadband connection and a Web camera. In addition, ooVoo offers video messaging to an email or another ooVoo account, text messaging, and file sharing. Let me know if you have used ooVoo before and if you like what it has to offer.
Have a listen to the new mix by Damion. Its an ambient style mix with an upbeat and soothing sound to help you get lost in thought. As a DJ I always like to step outside of the box and try to see if I can mix different styles and sounds that I may have not mixed before. So being a fan of ambient and chill style music. I wanted to put something together for my enjoyment as well as yours. So take a listen, and leave a comment and let me know what you think.
Google Chrome OS is an open source operating system designed by Google to work exclusively with web applications. Announced on July 7, 2009, Chrome OS is set to have a publicly available stable release during the second half of 2010. The operating system is based on Linux and targets specifically designed hardware. Google Chrome OS will be targeting the netbook sector for their operating system. With a strong focus on speed, the Chrome OS promises nearly instant boot times of about 7 seconds for users to login to their computers.
The first Chrome OS netbooks will be available in late 2010, It will not be available as a download to run and install. Instead, Chrome OS is only shipping on specific hardware from manufacturers Google has partnered with. That means if you want Chrome OS, you'll have to purchase a Chrome OS device. (Kinda lame in my opinion).
Chrome OS netbooks will not have traditional hard disk drives -- they will rely on non-volatile flash memory and Internet-based storage for saving all of your data.
Why Should Not Use IT?
Google Chrome OS is not for free.
Will not be available for download to run and install on your laptop or Mac.
It will only be available at the end of 2010 & you have to buy a Chrome OS netbook approved by Google only.
It requires Web access to run applications.
Chrome OS netbooks will not have traditional hard disk drives
It will depend on internet-based storage for saving all of your data.
Google encounter problems with the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) for bundling Google Chrome browser with the OS, just like Microsoft did with its Internet Explorer?
Why Should Use IT?
Google says Chrome OS is a faster and a more secure alternative to rival Microsoft Corp.’s Windows.
It’s booting times of about 7 seconds for users to login to their computers.
Google Chrome is both the browser and the OS.
All apps are web apps which mean that we don’t need to installs or update our products, everything runs online.
It’s not just operating system, it’s an advertising medium.
Google has produced a free, easy-to-use, efficient browser that pushes users to the Web, and Google’s ads, as quickly as possible.
Google said the OS is a medium, like television, radio or the Internet.
No software, just the web.
Google’s careful about saving the money you’d spend on an external hard-disk drive.
Chrome OS netbooks will not have traditional hard disk drives.
If you are a good Google Citizen and use all these services, you’ll never have to worry about having all your latest data with you, whether you have a net connection or not.
Well its that time again for a little bit of holiday cheer. So today if your in that festive mood today go to Jib Jab.com and make yourself into an elf. Jib Jab specializes in sendable content from ecards to funny videos. The funniest part about Jib Jab is the fact that you can take your face and attach it to a character in a video doing some kind of dancing or singing. This site makes it very easy for creating your own video and sharing it with others on the web via various means. So check it out and elf yourself.
I am one who enjoys looking for new fonts that can make my document or art look more attractive or stand out more. So today I thought I would share a few websites in which you will be able to start building or adding to your font collection. If you’re looking for those professional high quality fonts that you can download for free and which works for both Mac and Windows then you can try the following websites. These site will help you find what your looking for.
1. Dafont
DaFont is one of my personal favorite websites that not only gives me a huge number of fonts to download. The fonts presented on this website are their authors’ property, and are either freeware, shareware, demo versions or public domain. The licence mentioned above the download button is just an indication. Please look at the readme-files in the zips or check the indicated author’s website for details, and contact him/her if in doubt.
2. Abstractfont
Abstractfonts is one of the largest website in offering free fonts to its users. Currently they are offering over 12,933 free fonts and still growing. Each of the fonts has a customizable string preview, character map, member comments, similar fonts as well as a font info tab with all kinds of helpful information about the font.
3. Search Free Fonts
SearchFreeFonts is a website with a very simple layout. It helps you find free fonts by category. All free fonts have been manually categorized for easy navigation and best free font searching experience!
4. WhatTheFont
WhattheFont is a very cool website that allows you to upload a file on the font you’re looking for. Once done it will find you the closest match they have in their database.
I did a blog last week of some strange and funny images that used Photoshop to give it a creative and different approach. One of the last pictures of that blog was done by Romain Laurent. I thought it was an interesting concept and was intrigued to see more of his work.
Romain Laurent is talented French photographer, who has been known to work with large commercial agencies. He has interesting ideas and a deep sense and understanding of his ideas and they are captured in his work. These photos below are some great inspiration to get your mind wondering and thinking of new ideas. So enjoy the works of Romain Laurent.
