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Free stock photos from morgueFile

Thursday, May 26th, 2011

 

I just found Morguefile.com, a public image archive for creatives by creatives, as they describe themselves and thought that it might interest you. In case you need free, high resolution stock photos in your projects, like banner ads, website design or perhaps a little inspiration, this is a great resource.

Use the images in your creative work, be it commercial or not. And have a great day!

iSWiFTER – a iPad app that stream any Flash content like video, animated flash banners and even apps and games

Actualy this iPad app is not so new. It was released on September 2010 but it got some new updates recently, which made the app very useful.

The iSWiFTER iPad app uses the iSWiFTER Flash game streaming service to bring the most popular casual and social Flash games from the biggest online gaming portals on the internet, such as Yahoo! Games, AOL’s Games.com, Facebook, Kongregate and others. The iSWiFTER iPad app showcases the capability, flexibility and benefits of using the iSWiFTER platform to instantaneously enable Flash games on mobile platforms such as iOS, without any incremental work by developers!

You can download the iSWiFTER iPad app here.

Starting Monday night, we can download the Flash-to-HTML5 conversion tool codenamed Wallaby from the Adobe website.

With this conversion tool you can convert .fla files (the Flash source file format) into HTML5, but you can’t convert SWF into HTML5. So, at this moment, you must find a way to decompile the .swf files into .fla and then convert them to HTML5.

This is an experimental technology and this first relese of Wallaby is supposed to give Adobe a lot of great feedback from more than 3 million Flash developers. Finally, this conversion tool will bring more content made with Flash tehnology onto iOS devices like the iPhone and iPad.

You can download Wallaby Flash-to-HTML5 conversion tool from here and this is a video where you can see how this tool work!

Mozilla Foundation has launched it’s own free app store: Mozilla Web Applications

Unlike Apple’s App Store, Android Market and Google Apps Marketplace, the apps in the Mozilla Web Applications can be installed in any browser on any device. Right now there are only 17 apps, but soon, this number will grow really fast.

We are excited to announce the availability of the first milestone release of Mozilla’s Web Application project. Web Apps are applications that run on any device, and can be distributed through any store or directly by the developer. This release contains stable APIs, developer utilities and documentation to help you get a jumpstart on building Web Apps and stores.

Read more on Mozillalabs Blog

Photo slideshow on Tumblr

Friday, January 21st, 2011

For me Tumblr is that online place where I can put anything I want and also share it with my friends and the whole world. Photos, videos, music, links…everything I find on the internet and I like.

And I like Tumblr because it’s very easy to use. I can store and share things via email or phone. From this point of view I even like it more than Facebook. :) I can find the things I share more easly

Anyway, when I’m on my desktop or laptop and I want to keep and share something with my friends via Tumblr, I like to use different web apps from our SnackTools family. And today I would like to show you how can you insert a photo slideshow made with PhotoSnack on Tumblr.

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Bounce – share ideas about websites

Friday, July 23rd, 2010

Today I found a great and simple application called Bounce. It’s “a fun and easy way to share ideas on a website” (in their own words). Developed by Zurb, a popular web design agency that has all of our admiration, the application allows you to make a screen-shot of a site, make notes and share them with friends or customers. Simple idea, right?

I like tools like this: practical and easy to use, user friendly. This is how it works:

1. Write the URL of a website

2. They provide a screenshot in just a few moments

3. Then you can give it a name and a title, add notes (no restrictions, you can add ass many as you like)

4. Save your screenshot and notes

5. Then share them with your friends using a URL provided by Bounce or post it on Facebook or Twitter. Your friends can give you feedback.

It’s perfect for web designers that want opinions about their work  or for website owners with the same intentions. What do you think about the app?

check here to see some notes I made about BannerSnack

Best 5 sites to get color inspiration

Thursday, May 6th, 2010

Need a little color inspiration for your design projects? Or perhaps to get ideas on how to paint the room. There are a lot of websites that can help you create an awesome color palette, but from what we’ve seen, we recommend these 5 websites.

1. Colourlovers was made to inspire web designers, people fascinated by home decoration or fashion, wedding invitation designers and event decorators. In other words color enthusiasts. Filled with thousands of color pallets and patterns, the site is an endless resource of inspiration.

You can browse through the great variety of color suggestions, create new ones and discuss the latest trends with a vibrant community of people. You can also create a nice background for your Twitter page in just a few minutes, check out the application here.

One word description: rich

2. Kuler is the spot you have to go if you need color combinations. Developed by Adobe, Kuler is an application for generating color schemes for any project you can imagine. There are thousands of themes already created by members and you can browse through them using the tags that members associated with their palette.

If you want to create a new theme, you can start from a color or from an image. It’s the kind of tool that you can play with for hours.

One word description: inspiring

3. Color Combos was build to help web developers quickly select and test website color combinations. They offer tools to see how different color palettes would look on the screen and a library where users share their combinations for some inspiration.

If you have some favorite websites that look nice, just grab the url and let ColorCombos suggest some colors from those sites. Or you can just browse different categories like aqua, lemon, green, peach and others to find a color scheme.

One word description: convenient

4. Toucan is a little more sophisticated tool, compared to the others in this list. Developed by Aviary, it was made to encourage you to create and play with color pallets. You can increase up to 20 or go down to only 3 colors in your scheme and you can customize it in many many ways. The possibilities are endless.

Aviary released several more online tools, among which an image editor and an effects editor, so the palette created with Toucan can be imported and used in these tools. I think that’s a great plus for Toucan users.

One word description: customizable


5. Colorhunter is a very simple tool that lets you create colorful schemes from your images. All you have to do is browse a photo from your computer or insert a URL.

One word description: easy