Countering The App-Based Web
Far too little do I visit websites, these days. I mostly stay within the comfortable uniform walls of Google Reader, clicking j or k to navigate from one item to the next, in a carefully mixed personal newsstream. Which means webdesign is usually lost on me. Not only that, but with very few exceptions, I [...]
An Early Look At Google Chrome Web-Apps
It’s no secret that I’m a fan of Googles Chrome browser. Which is why I followed Google’s instructions on enabling web-apps in the newest dev builds of Chrome. Here’s what I found out: Making a Chrome web-app is as simple bundling a few icons with a URL in a .js file. Which incidentally is also [...]
Color Scheme Designer 3
Color Scheme Designer 3 is a web-app that helps you pick colors for your next webdesign project. It looks great!
Mockingbird, For Wireframes
Mockingbird lets you quickly create wireframes for websites, right on the web. Drag in common visual HTML elements such as push buttons, pulldowns and videos. The resulting wireframe will look like a mockup, not confusing clients that it represents the final design.
Ricardo Cabello's Canvas-Based Harmony Sketching WebApp
Harmony is a fun little web-app that uses HTML5s Canvas element and JavaScript to allow you to draw little, simple, sticky drawings. Read up on it and give it a whirl.
Google Webdrive Launched, Kinda (Update: Desktop Integration)
Excellent news for fans of the cloud. Posted on the official Google Docs blog is this announcement: We’re happy to announce that over the next few weeks we will be rolling out the ability to upload, store and organize any type of file in Google Docs. With this change, you’ll be able to upload and [...]
Drop Stuff In A Box With DropBox
I’m now officially a DropBox fan and it took only one tryout for me to decide. DropBox is a cloud storage system, which means that you get an Internet harddrive you can access from any Internet device you have. You get 2 GB for free when you sign up, but you should sign up using my referral [...]