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Creattica reader Chris O’Donnell was nice enough to give us the heads up on a 3D Spiral Component Giveaway that Web Designer Wall is running.
3D Spiral is a Flash gallery component that displays images on an interactive 3D rotating spiral using the Papervision3D engine.
Better be quick because the contest is only on till January 14!
Another handy generator thing-a-ma-bob generator! Ajaxload.info lets you customize several different loading animations.
Have you ever wondered how to convert pixels to em’s? You are in luck! Designer Brian Cray has created Px to Em to save the day!
If you’re looking to add to your RSS feeds then head over to Spyre Studio’s list of 160+ RSS feeds for web designers and developers.
Of course you can’t possibly check all those feeds everyday but a quick scan in your feed reader and you should be good!
Via: Twitter
Creattica reader Lachy Groom sent us a great link to Uncoverr, a site for reviewing and talking about web design and development books.
Designer Anthony Kolber gave us the heads up on a neat little tool in production for turning your flickr account into an instant portfolio page.
FFolio is a free, hosted portfolio service which automatically feeds from your photos and photosets on Flickr.
We’re still tweaking it on our end, but it should be up and running in the next few months, so drop your email in the signup box and we’ll let you know as soon as it’s ready.
Designer Lee Munroe blogs about 15 Mac Apps that web designers will want hanging around in their dock.
Back in June when I was converting from a PC to a MacBook Pro (best decision I ever made) I asked around to see what apps people recommended for the Mac. There are a lot of nice apps available for Mac OSX that aren’t available for Windows.
I’ve compiled a list of Mac Apps I have in my OSX dock that I use on a daily basis and should be useful to other Mac users and/or web designers.
Reader Daniel Bloom sent us a link to Typrechart. It’s a wonderful way to check out web typography right in your browser. They describe it as: TYPECHART lets you flip through, preview and compare web typography while retrieving the CSS.
Well worth a bookmark!
Designer Matt Williamson sent us a link to All Showcases.
The website is simple straight forward list of web design showcase sites broken down into CSS, Flash, Mixed, and Other.
Made popular by the International Typographic Style movement and pioneered by legends like Josef Müller-Brockmann and Wim Crouwel, the grid is the foundation of any solid design. The Grid System is an ever-growing resource where graphic designers can learn about grid systems, the golden ratio and baseline grids.
