Browser wars are nothing new. One new contender, however, is advertising quite smartly and might shove my more superior browser off the table if I don’t tell you to use it! Social web browsing is seeing feeds, media, video and RSS updates from one screen. Flock and Rockmelt has it. Flock, though, has it better.
9 November 2010
Flock, not Rockmelt for social browsing Software
26 October 2010
Meet a blogger and make a blog. Pictures
I’m a happy and passive member of a Washington D.C. foodie community and get to meet a lot of great people when I go out places. I bring with me tech knowledge and an interest in how these bloggers work and what tools they use to chirp and tweet and blog and post about food and other things edible.
It doesn’t happen often, but sometimes, I meet someone to whom my rants and tech rabble are meaningless. I love it.
More...19 August 2008
Wallpapering Bigger Desktops Smarterly For-Computer-Users
Unfortunately, nothing says, “this is who I am,” like a Desktop wallpaper. Leave the factory default entact and you’re admitting to a fear of exploration and creativity. Pick a Jessica Alba boobie picture and you’re labeled a perv for life; use a picture from a movie you liked and you’ll be explaining the movie for the rest of your life and defending your choice to the death since even the best movies have detractors. So why not rub the on-looker’s face in your choice of wallpapers?
18 September 2006
Reciprocal Art Online Special-Section
9.18 – After a few days off, we present you with some delicious art online. Art is one of our most favoritest things next to computers. Combining the two loves makes us euphoric. The Favorite Website Awards is a great, long-time site highlighting sites that illustrate creativity and cutting-edge design techniques.
RayFormDesign.com’s WEB gallery submission leads us to what is perhaps the most irritating site we’ve seen in ages. Pixel 101.com Great logo. Use RayFormDesign to get there and click the logo. Pixel 101 opens in a sliver of a window measuring one hundred and one pixels wide. Ha ha. Maximize it; no navigation of any kind. WORK AROUND: press [F11] in cases like this to activate ‘full screen mode.’ You’ll now knock out the top navigation of the site, but it might not even matter. Your BACK button can be replaced with the [backspace] key.
Often times, you can stumble on to excellent artists who are known in industry circles, but haven’t yet broken out into the mainstream light. E-creative.net launches a newly recognized site about once every four days. By slipping down to logos of Supporters, we found illustrator, Jean Sebastien Rossbach image. If he links back, these back and forth links are said to be ‘reciprocal.’
DesignIsKinky pushes Rossbach to the top leading to his profile which in turn leads to his blog based in France in which he leads us to an image he worked on for Jason Felix’s work. Jason’s gallery is a little sparse considering he make a book, but the Links option takes us to a select few sites friendly to J.
ConceptArt.org highlights artists who actually have a large sway within Hollywood. At the time of this article, every single thumbnail we clicked resulted in, “home/concept/public_html/showimage.php on line 22,” which means they’re having some temporary trouble. So back to square one we go…
E-creative.net offers up a random site and our good luck swung us to DinoDream.com where very attractive shapes and colors and sites are presented in some strange language. Total eye candy is found here thankfully. Another Supporter is res72.com where a blog-style layout boasts yet another grand collection of links like Elephante.com where ink illustration lives on in bold strength. And now a word on hacking…
The image above is from one of the sites you can hop to in the network of links. They set it as a background making it nearly impossible to view in its entirety. It’s set as a background to a blank HTML page. When right-clicking, the ‘copy’ option isn’t there because it’s not formally listed as an ‘image’ in HTML with ‘img’ tags. But what is available is the [Hacking Butterflies] Source (View Source). This gives a very short HTML code showing you where on the server the background image is coming from. The ‘../extra’ is an extension of the address you’re already at. So copy/paste the image name and stick it in the web browser address bar AFTER the address that you can read at the moment. Viola! Impossible-to-copy image appears before your very eyes. Excellent (though not perfectly hack-proof) security of images rests with using Flash.
RayFormDesign.com’s WEB gallery submission leads us to what is perhaps the most irritating site we’ve seen in ages. Pixel 101.com Great logo. Use RayFormDesign to get there and click the logo. Pixel 101 opens in a sliver of a window measuring one hundred and one pixels wide. Ha ha. Maximize it; no navigation of any kind. WORK AROUND: press [F11] in cases like this to activate ‘full screen mode.’ You’ll now knock out the top navigation of the site, but it might not even matter. Your BACK button can be replaced with the [backspace] key.
Anyway, get back to work and happy hunting!
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