There has been so much talk about the iPad, but I dont think the upcoming release of Windows 7 Phones has received enough press. Anyways, here is a Windows 7 Phone Tablet concept that just great. I must admit it does seem quite similar to a big iPhone, but its still cool.
Backpack mogels Eastpak teamed up with design studio Quinze & Milan to create this catch-all, carry-all sofa that’s part of their ‘built to resist’ collection. Although at first glance it seems a little strange, we think it’s a great idea for an all in one home office. No really! Think about it!
When you’re adding a color to your web page with HTML, sometimes you can just type in the name of the color. But more often than not, you’ll need to use what’s called the hex code, which is something that the browser will be able to understand. Choose a color from the list below and look to its left to get the hex code. If we wanted our background to be red, for example, we’d type bgcolor=”#FF0000″. Try it out!
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Matt Legend Gemmell held a 6-hour workshop at NSConference in both the UK and USA recently, focusing on software design and user experience.
Predictably, an extremely popular topic was the iPad, and how to approach the design of iPad applications. He gave a 90-minute presentation on the subject to start each workshop, and he is very kind to share some of his observations of iPad Application Design.
This article is about the user interface conventions and considerations which apply to creating software for the iPad platform and touch-screen tablet devices in general. It is not a technical discussion of iPad-related APIs. This is an excellent article for designers and application developers. I am sure you will find it useful too.
This is a very interesting design that I had to write about. These Street Headphones lets you personalize your own outer shell with something custom etched.
It can be lyrics, your name, or whatever you want others to read. The only problem is the price. The headphones will cost you about €833 (or $1,140). Some people don’t spend that much on a TV. But if you are in love with the idea, then go for it. Hopefully they last longer than most headphones for that price.
via Technabob
I really dont understand the collaborations between motor sports brands and top gadget manufacturers, and this is also a little weird. Hewlett Packard has released their limited edition VR46 netbook computer designed for Moto GP world champion Valentino Rossi.
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The case design is by Aldo Drudi and features the sun and the moon as worn on Rossi’s racing helmets. And if you didn’t know, 46 is the number he races under.
Available in the UK “soon” for £449.99.
Notepad WordPress Theme is a modern theme with a subtle touch of the sketchy and texturized background. The theme is widget compatible with threaded & paged comments, social media buttons, and multi-level dropdown menus.
It has been tested on WordPress 2.9 with Firefox, Chrome, Safari, and IE7+. Users with CSS3 compatible browser will see the nice visual enhancement such as drop shadow and rounded corners.
It didnt really say much on the site or about the design, but I think this is a great concept.
Headway is perfect for both developers/designers and the average do-it-yourself-er. Easily rearrange a layout or change a setting in a jiffy. With Headway you can stop worrying about the monotonous tasks or the technical stuff, and just get down to creating great content for your blog. Headway makes designing your blog the easiest thing about blogging.
Using the Headway Visual Editor, you can do anything from a standard blog, to landing pages, to membership sites, to e-commerce sites. For non-technical folks, Headway’s “Easy Hooks” let you insert custom content at will wherever you like on any page without messing with PHP or CSS. For hardcore developers, Headway has heaps of actions and filters (or hooks) to take customization even farther.
Headway has its own built-in search engine optimization (or SEO) settings. Simply having Headway will help your search engine optimization, even if you don’t use any of its manual features. If you do use them (and we’ll show you how), you can enjoy a greater chance of moving up in search rankings.
The Seoul based Green designers, Design Hara has extended their ecological ideas to introduce a luxury green HTPC. The green HTPC features a recyclable chassis, handcrafter cypress wood or rose wood side panels and a front cover made from natural sheep leather.
Giving a deep thought to save the planet from e-waste, the internal segments of the PC are connected by a bolts and nuts to make it a lot easier to separate recyclable e-waste. Working toward the low energy consumption, Design Hara’s Green HTPC uses only a third of the energy consumed as compared to desktop computers. The unit is compatible with Mini-ITX small motherboards, and features HDMI and DVI outputs with an Intel Core2Duo processor, 4GB RAM and a 1TB hard drive.
How about a pen that’s able to scan any color and then let you use it to draw images? Introducing the Color Picker Pen. Basically, it’s just a portable scanner, stuffed inside a pen-like case, with RGB ink cartridges. No word yet on pricing or availability.
As a writer and blogger, I often need to share files with clients and many times just my friends to get feedback on things. It could be a new guide I’ve written or a new design for my blog. A new tool I’ve found makes that a lot easier. It’s called Apollo. It allows you to upload a document and share it with people.
They can then add notes and feedback to the document using the simple ‘note tool’ which involves you just clicking on where you want to add your feedback on the document.
The thing I liked most about Apollo was how you can select exactly where on the document you want to add the note instead of describing it to the other person.
The interface is very easy-to-use and has only the basic tools you need to give or receive feedback. To but it bluntly, there’s no excess fat to get in the way.
To sum up, this is a great web app for freelancers and large companies alike. It streamlines what used to be a very tedious process involving countless e-mails between all those involved.
Check it out here.
