99designs

Nice idea...

99designs: Leading Designer Marketplace for Logo Designs

favikon

Awesome!

favikon

(via offmessage)

Free PDF to Word

Haven't tried this yet, but fingers crossed...

Convert PDF to Word (DOC) — 100% Free!

BustAName

Two in one day? This is so us:

Domain Search - BustAName

"Bust a Name/DomainFriend is a tool to help you find domains and manage them. We have combined linguistic data with a unique interface to let you quickly search through thousands of domains and see which are available."

Balsamiq = WIN-egar

Balsamiq Mockups

Teh awesome.

Mmmmm, Pie

If Alex liked chocolate (and it wasn't $20)(not that he's not worth $20)(a lot more in fact)(but still...) I would buy this for him for Xmas.

Chocolate Pie Chart

Fold It

I really like these!

Origami Sticky Notes

Color Matching For Nerds

Deep within every geek there's an artist struggling to be heard.

Pantone Rubik's Cube

Alex & Kat-5

Reckon you could?

Geeks Gone Wild' Wedding Rings

Smile

Saw these and thought of Kat's photo of the window/vents (does that make sense?)

Smile stickers - Boing Boing

Swipe: From the guys who brought you predictive text (T9)

They reckon this means even old codgers can get up to 50 words a minute!

It is scary when you see it in action...

One to watch!

Swipe: From the guys who brought you predictive text (T9)

Down for everyone or just me?

Is it down for everyone or just me? A question often asked...

Now the answer:

http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/

Copy/Paste

Useful when you can't remember ALT+0164, etc

Copypastecharacter.com

Introducing Ubiquity

Blimey this could be awesome

Mozilla Labs / Blog Archive / Introducing Ubiquity

Lots of the things have been done before admittedly, but we're back to the "one place" argument which Google gets right so often...

Ajax Loader

What Ajax Loader actually has to do with Ajax is slightly beyond me. But it is a neat way of making loading logos.

Photosynth is Released

That photo view/merge/3D amazing thing:

Photosynth is Released

Swurl

I really like this.

Swurl

Just set it up and off it goes, recording your 'lifestream' online. Innerestin'

TubeJP: London Tube Map & Journey Planner

Finally the Google Maps / TFL mashup we've been after!

TubeJP: London Tube Map & Journey Planner

Posterous

Fancy email blogging tool. Just write what you want, attach pics (they resize) and MP3s (they make a player) or any other media and fire it off. On email. You can link as many accounts as you like to the blog. They format it and do the rest. And you get 1GB (!) of personal space to start with. Interesting. Presumably the paid-for version will allow for templates etc, but it's quite spiffy for beginners:

Posterous

Waitless

Wait. Less.

Waitless

Use The Force

Oh, Yes. R2-D2 Projector

Haikurious?

Just what it says:

It's Haikurious! / All of today's Internet / Wrapped in a Haiku

Don't talk to him before he's had his coffee

Don't talk to him before he's had his coffee

via Daring Fireball

Tag Galaxy

Pretty...

Tag Galaxy

SpEak You're bRanes

SpEak You're bRanes

A collection of the stupidest comments people leave on the BBC's Have Your Say.

Beard Font

The beard font.

It's here:

jQuery JavaScript Library

Is this of any use for our intranet???

Main Page - jQuery JavaScript Library

Drop.io

This is great. Really simple shared storage, as private as you want/need it to be:

Drop.io: Simple Private Exchange

Also view files by type: (thumbnails photos, streams music) or in a 'blog' format and a widget allows other users to upload directly from your website (without them needing to know the actual location)

Cool beans.

visualcomplexity.com | A visual exploration on mapping complex networks

Have we seen this before? Oh well, just in case:

visualcomplexity.com | A visual exploration on mapping complex networks

C-jump

Ahem.

C-jump will teach your kids how to program

Lovely Charts

Ooh, ooh, ooh, "Free online diagramming application":

Lovely Charts

(via offmessage but I wanted a copy here!)

Minesweeper: The Movie

Minesweeper the movie

Want to learn about the internets?

Gabe and Max's how to get the dreamlife of your dreams using the internet thing

Mixwit

Media playground (it says here...)

Mixwit

compfight

Weird name, useful Flickr hack!

compfight: a flickr™ search tool

Wiggidy Wiggidy Phone

Gonna get this?

MixMeister Scratch

IBM Green Optical Network

Holy f...

IBM Unveils Prototype Green Optical Network Technology

Bit like our office network. Not :)

Ribbit

Blimey. How long before we are asked to build this then? :)

Ribbit - For Salesforce

Iterasi

Iterasi

Saving the web...one page at a time?

Rumplo - Awesome T-Shirts, from around the world.

Adrian you'll need to tell Andy about this:

Rumplo - Awesome T-Shirts, from around the world.

Pixenate

Yet another online photo editor; but I do like the 'bookmarklet' which grabs all the images on any webpage, so you can choose which one to edit:

Pixenate

Neat.

Cooking by numbers

Select what you have in the fridge and it will tell you what to cook:

http://www.cookingbynumbers.com/

Stop sharing spreadsheets

This looks really useful (I know we have a humungous database at our disposal but...)

Google Docs Blog: Stop sharing spreadsheets, start collecting information

A

Prince

(via Doug of the Server)

Prince

Prince is a computer program that converts XML and HTML into PDF documents. Prince can read many XML formats, including XHTML and SVG. Prince formats documents according to style sheets written in CSS.

Might be useful!!

Barcode yourself

Create your own barcode based on personal stats. Mine is worth $4.40 apparently. Ooooo.

Roomy

This looks great; we are about to try it so will report back...

Plan my room

(apparently this is the new project from the guy who started lastminute.com with that frightfully Lane-Fox woman...)

FixMyMovie

Not tried this yet, looks impressive though (and currently free...)

FixMyMovie

"FixMyMovie users MotionDSP’s patent-pending multi-frame enhancement technology which studies your video and finds the unique information present in each frame of video. It scans the neighboring video frames to match the scene (background) and objects (foreground), combining more than 5 frames of information to make a cleaner, higher-resolution video."

Manhattan Sans (ahem)

This would appear to be the perfect Alex and Kat post :)

Woody Allen's Typography

Instapaper

Instapaper

How it works

1. You find something you want to read, but you don't have time now. You click your [Read Later] bookmarklet.

2. When you have time to read, you come here on your computer or phone and get whatever you wanted to read.

Travel Times

Travel Times on a map

Sound familiar?

'When in doubt, make it big. If still in doubt, make it red.'

from "Seventy-nine Short Essays on Design."

I knew I was right about that CRM...

30 Gb Free Storage?

30 Gb Free Storage?

Lots of Blogger formatting tips

Blogger formatting tips

Pen Top Utensils

Pen Top Utensils

Splashup

Another online picture editor, haven't tried it yet, looks smoooove though :)

Splashup

Bug

One device....ok, lots of little devices which snap together to make whatever you want?

Bug Labs

Bonkers. It does have an ARM processor though!

Design Police

Excellent.

Design Police | Bring bad design to justice.

iGoats

You couldn't make it up (go on, Alex I dare you...)

iPhone + Lotus Notes suit?

A great (short) summary of the current web

A great (short) summary of the current web

Homer takes a photo of himself every day for 39 years

Google Charts API

Ever wanted to dynamically create charts on the fly?

(Um yes, until quite recently when we bought something)

Well don't worry, here's a free version of it from Google

The Page 69 Test

The Page 69 Test

Cool.

Thesixtyone

Boing Boing: Music discovery game connects indies and fans - The SixtyOne

Thesixtyone is a "music discovery game" created by two USC students who quit their jobs to build a site that helps musicians and audiences discover each other. Fans use Digg-style thumbs-up to rate the music that's uploaded, but the game is that each rating costs you points, and you get more points if you rate up a song that lots of other people rate up too.

TheSixtyOne

Mouse Cheese Spam

Mouse innovator building a better trap for spam - International Herald Tribune

MP3 Blogs -v- RIAA

MP3 Blogs Offer File Sharing Even the RIAA Could Love

"Although the term “file sharing” has all sorts of ugly connotations, it’s not necessarily a bad thing. In some cases, it’s even a win-win-win situation for the recording industry, music lovers — and Google."

Rather topical!

Edit your photos! On Flickr!

Coo.

This might just make me swap from using Gallery php 2.0 (as hosted by the lovely doug of the server)

Edit your photos! On Flickr!

Nourish

"Nourish is a next generation newsletter service which allows you to take any RSS feed from content you publish (like a blog), and convert it into an automated email newsletter your readers can subscribe to."

Nourish – RSS to Email Service – Blog Powered Newsletters

Let's get SPAMMING!

One Web MP3 Server

Er, does this sound,l like, er, useful?

One Web ASP MP3 Server

"One Web MP3 Server is a free ASP application that turns your MP3 collection into a website. It allows you to quickly access your music over a local network or even the Internet. Now you can browse, search, create playlists and listen to your files using one interface, from any remote computer. Use the built in player for ultimate simplicity or stick with your preferred MP3 player, such as Winamp."

exljbris

Free Quality Font Foundry:exljbris:

Mmmmmm.

The Beard Cap - get yours knitted now!

Great for farming in the snow. And keeping your (fake) moustache warm.

From Craft Magazine's blog.

This is not a promise to make one.

Google Share this

Not sure why this hasn't been announced but it looks like a thing that could be a very easy way of doing arblognot

Share This

Juce Analytics

Aparently a good blog about Data Analysis, but now with an added feature - really nice templates for standard charts: http://www.juiceanalytics.com/apps/

The blog is here

Dreams Of Flying

I liked these:

Jan Von Holleben

Solveig thinks his stuff was on at the V&A earlier this year too.

FE-Mittelschrift (kottke.org)

Erik Spiekermann appears again!

FE-Mittelschrift (kottke.org)

"The official typeface for our license plates is now called FE-Mittelschrift, with FE meaning it is Fälschungs-Erschwert, i.e. difficult to forge. Apparently car thieves, terrorists and notorious law-breakers had been exploiting DIN's geometric construction principle and turning E into F or 3 into 8 etc by simply using a bit of black tape or white paint."

Maybe we don't need an iPhone

Just one of these

Helvetica. Period.

"The 50s ad has too many exclamation points, lots of wedding-invitation-style script, and it's very cheesy.
Now, look at this, a few years later.
Same product. A big glass of cold, refreshing, crisp Coke. And in Helvetica bold:
'The real thing. Period.
Coke. Period.
Any questions?
Of course not."

Helvetica rocks. And Michael Beirut works for Pentagram (career profile here). He contributes to Design Observer.

Also, the film is out on DVD on 26 November. Yay :)

Songza!

OK this is rather cool. Search for artists/tracks and it 'just finds them'. I think it may pull in audio from YouTube videos but I'm not sure yet. Lovely interface though:

Songza

As they rather pithily put it:

"Songza - The music search engine & internet jukebox. Listen. Now."

Visual Complexity

A site with complex visual charts.

It has a genealogy of pop music.

Tate in aqua, olive, mustard and black

Tate's branding, including their 18 shade corporate colour scheme

Test the colour of your cooking

This company is about to buy Pantone apparently. They make colour guides for various food products, including the Frozen French Fry standard and the Frozen Cherry Colour standard.

I wonder what Pantone colour a semi-cooked chip is? I'm thinking 601C.

Android - It rocks

This is me writing

Meat Earings

I don't know why:

Buy this NOW!!!!!!

Officially the coolest thing I've seen for a while.

An SD card for you camera which not only holds 2 gigs of data but also provides you with wifi access to said data.

You can set your computer to wirelessly download the pictures whenever the camera gets into range, and you can even set it to automagically upload them to flickr when it does...

EYE-FI

Pickleodeon

Pickleodeon

Because when you think of going to the cinema, you think of pickled onions.

Mustaches of the Nineteenth Century

Yes it's what we've all been waiting for:

Mustaches of the Nineteenth Century - The Blog

MOO Holiday Cards

Go on, Kat, you must have some to enter?

Holiday Photo Card Competition!

Buy Your Cards Here!

Indexed

A collection of diagrams on index cards




http://indexed.blogspot.com/

And many more...

Gmail IMAP

Now that is going to be most useful, no?

Gmail gets IMAP from Download Squad

4Food

Another sauce* of culinary inspiration?

4Food | Channel4.com

* sorry

AutoRuns

Mark Russinovich's AutoRuns...
AutoRuns

via Xav...

Mentat

Not the best name, IMHO. But a simple interface for a task and project management tool - sound like something we may have been discussing?

Mentat

Disclaimer: haven't tried it, just looked at the screenshots!

xobni: it's inbox backwards

A inbox organising system. It automatically works out connections between your contacts, people you're ignoring, and most importantly it lets you see a list of attachments from all e-mails sent.

Watch the demo

So it looks like Yahoo! should buy Isotoma!

Or at least Sleevenotez:

Check out this post from the head of Yahoo! Music!:

Convenience Wins, Hubris Loses and Content vs. Context, a Presentation for Some Music Industry Friends

bits that should make you want to read are:

in a manner of speaking iTunes is a spreadsheet that plays music. It’s context-free. You just paid $10 for that album — who plays drums? I dunno, WHY DON’T YOU GO TO THE WEB TO FIND OUT, BECAUSE THAT’S WHERE THE CONTEXT IS.

...

But the content experience on the Web is crap. Go to Aquarium Drunkard, click an MP3. If you don’t get a 404, you’ll get a Save As… dialog or the SAME GOD DAMN QUICKTIME BAR FROM 1995. OMFG. ARE YOU KIDDING ME? THIS IS ALL WE’VE ACCOMPLISHED IN 15 YEARS ON THE WEB? It makes me insane.

...

FIX IT. Your fans are pouring their music-loving hearts into blogs, Wikipedia, etc and what tools have you given them to work with? Not much, unfortunately.

This is what I’m vowing to devote my energy, and Yahoo!’s energy to

Go tell him to buy Sleevenotez. It's the product he wants and it already exists...

WebRunner

Turn websites into applications, sort of, with WebRunner

It allows you to "can" a web application, eg. Google Reader, so that it has its own icon etc, and that all of the cookies are independent. This means two different users could use google reader on the same pc.

You Want Wi-Fries With That?

Cool.

McDonald's to offer free Wi-Fi in restaurants

Pity their coffee is so terrible :(

Wi-Fi Detector T-Shirt | Uncrate

(Nick) Hell yeah!

Wi-Fi T-shirtUncrate

8 Reasons Windows Users Don’t Switch

Succinctly put:

Apple Matters | 8 Reasons Windows Users Don’t Switch

I am still drooling over those new MacBooks though. Shinyyyy.

When Tim Curry went to the mall

I found this through a non-link on Stephen Fry's blog (somebody said "google this").

It's a sweet story of a girl working in a store, who suddenly discovers that Tim Curry has walked in. Priceless

SketchCast

Draw and record your voice, creating an embeddable video