Lots of bloggers and designers are making the jump from blogging to video and podcasting. It’s always nice to put a face and a voice to the names you see on the web. Check out this list of video blogs and podcasts that cover tutorials and interviews from print to web design.
There are alot of apps out there that will help you get things done, work faster and have fun. I have gathered a small collection of the apps that I have found helpful and use on a daily basis. Enjoy!
Yahoo has a great set of design stencils that will help kickstart your website mockup process. From forms to buttons to tabs to calendar and iphone interfaces - this set is very helpful!
As designers it seems like we’re always on the hunt for new domain names, whether it’s for projects right now, or projects down the road that we may never get to. Six Revisions has put together a list of 12 Excellent Tools for Picking a Domain Name. Happy hunting :)
Creattica reader Sangeet Gyawali sent in this link to Skimmer, a new tool from We Are Fallon designed to streamline your social networking.
With so many social networks to keep track of, it can all become completely overloading. Skimmer is a tool to aggregate posts from your friends on Twitter, Flickr, Facebook, YouTube, and Blogger. Check out the features here!
So, you have slaved for hours on end perfecting the type and tweaking the symbol into perfection - Now what? Get an outside oppinion and submit your logo to Logo Critiques!
Love this new rss feed-combiner-thingy by the people over at Viget labs (aka pointless corp. ). Enter your rss feeds and BAM - combined into one sweet feed! Go check out Feed Stitch and let us know what you think!
Hands down this is the best twitter client - Spreadtweet by Elliott Kember. Why? It looks like excel - so you can hide your tweeting habit from your boss. Although I don’t think this would really work for designers. How often do we touch excel? haha.
Jay from Warm Forest has put together some quick code to save you some hair pulling when your designing animations in Flash. Check out Simple Sanity-Saving Tip for All Timeline-Based Flash Projects.
The solution is simple but I can almost guarantee that once you use this trick you will start using it every single time you are working with a timeline. The trick is to add keyboard arrow controls to the movie.
Designer Benek Lisefski recently launched a photography, travel, flash, photo sharing, etc. application called FotoMaps.
He wants the design community to give it a spin and let him know what you think. If you’re interested, I gave it test run on my blog.