Thursday, November 30, 2006

Quick Embed Code to Add Comments To Any Site

JS-Kit A neat little snippet of Javascript that allows you to easily add comments functionality to a page. The javascript calls the form. Form data is posted to another server and stored for you. It's not for enterprise but if you need something quick, easy and neat give it a try. From Techcrunch.

Interaction design - in the real world

"No Ideas But In Things is a library of controls, animations, layouts, and displays that might be a source of inspiration for interaction designers."

Tuesday, November 28, 2006

The Colonel gets a pinny...


The Colonel gets a pinny...
Originally uploaded by hobart65.
Taken from an interesting blog commmenting on corporate and brand identity. The simplicity of presenting before and after makes the topic very accessible.

Wii design decisions

"Our goal was to come up with a machine that moms would want" - Miyamoto The Big Ideas Behind Nintendo's Wii

Friday, November 24, 2006

KFC's New Logo Visible From Outer Space

Visible on google maps here the 'making of' video:

Most popular cameras in the Flickr community

http://www.flickr.com/cameras

Cannon EOS 350D (in pink) is the camera of choice. Although the K800i is reputed to be the best camera phone on the market, it's share is dwindling, whilst the Nokia n73 looks like everest in terms of uptake...

Tuesday, November 21, 2006

Counter cold calls

Information graphic providing counter-attack strategies when faced with unsolicited phone call.

Monday, November 20, 2006

Architectures of control in design

Interesting blog about how design is used (in products, as well as architecture, town planning and services) to enforce a certain kind of behaviour on the user. http://architectures.danlockton.co.uk/

Thursday, November 16, 2006

Windows font survey

Indispensable information about which fonts are installed on what percentage of windows systems: Windows Font Survey

Tuesday, November 07, 2006

State of the Blogosphere

David Sifry gives an annual report on the Technorati statistics.

Dominoes at home

It was always a bit of a Guiness Book of Records favourite of mine when they did the dominoes. Apparently now a bit of a think in Japan: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJlAQyE6ppk

Monday, November 06, 2006

The Ultimate Blog Post

Lore Sjöberg has written this humorous article (no, really) describing what would be the ultimate post for several well-known blogs. He also recently did an awesome two-parter on how to set up your first Myspace page - "Myspace avoidance fails miserably". Worth reading.

Thursday, November 02, 2006

SyncBack

Another good sync software. Very useful.