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Things I liked this week - Monday 29th February 2010

March1

Cool FlashSite and pretty cool song.

Quality Irish song tbh.

Nice collection of Fonts perfect for logo designs.

4onDemand on Youtube. How have I not seen this before?!

Possibly the best WebDesign ever.

My new Workspace

After Effects - Something I really should to get into

February24

I was at a lecture from Mark Swaine the Creative Director of Squire today which proved to be an excellent and informative class.

One thing I came away with though was a feeling that I should really delve into AfterEffects a lot more. I’ve messed around with it but Mark says that he loves using Flash and AfterEffects and, although it might sound a bit stupid, that was a combination I can’t say I’ve ever thought of using before.

He showed us how they can be combined to make some truly dazzling websites and videos. Granted, these companies have big budgets and years of experience under their belts but this stuff is just awesome.

Ford Mustang Website

And the absolutely hilarious Viral Site for the Pomegranate Phone.
Pomegranate Phone

There is no reason not to give it more of a go seeing as there is more than enough tutorial sites to help get started such as;

If anyone has any relevant sites to share be sure to comment.

I hate my theme

February23

Two of my friends (@rosmad being one) were looking at my site today while I was beside them and I was embarrassed by the theme. You know, it’s not even good and it was chosen because of a “it’ll do for now” kind of attitude.

I mean seriously, who likes half naked ladies?! I know I don’t but I’ll leave an image of the header photo in this post as a keep safe……

Half Nakie Lady

Buh bye crap theme!

New theme is called Notepad Chaos and can be downloaded free from SmashingMagazine.

A Facebook Question

February18

Hey all, hopefully someone can help me.

I’ve a blog for a project I’m working on and I’ve a Facebook Page for the same. I’ve no problem displaying the blog posts on the FaceBook page’s wall, it’s the next step that’s gettin’ me.

I want the fans of my FB page to be able to see the latest update on their home wall’s. It’s nothing new. Lamebook.com and Komplett.ie both do it but I don’t see how they are doing it either.

Google didn’t yield anything for me and it’s something that’d be very handy.

Thanks, Sean

Things I liked this week - Monday 3rd January 2010

January2

A Christmas Story told the Dubberland way.

Free Fight Like Apes Live album. Free is always good :D

Nice little photography project over at Boards.ie.

Amazingly unique Clock Design.

2009 in photos from Boston.com. Some stunning Photos in there.

I’ve really been listening to a lot of The Beatles lately,  largely because I got The Beatles: Rockband, and I particularly love “Here comes the Sun”.

Jason Mraz takes on Winter Wonderland. Well, might I add.

Alma is a fantastic 3D short film. Really fantastic.

Oxygen from Christopher Hendryx is another really groovy short 3D film.

That’s all for this week folks. Enjoy!

Are you an Irish Twitterer?

May20

And do you lack an iPhone or one of those new fandangled phones that do everything? Fear not for this will interest you.. Enter: Ag Tweet.

This service is cool. It allows you to send a SMS or text message to an Irish number and that, in turn, updates your Twitter’s feed. If you have free texts then this won’t even cost you a dime.

It’s better than forking out for the English Number and it literally takes 20 seconds to set up (including putting the number in your phone)

And for those a bit weary, there is more info here and just to prove it actually works;

agtweet test

Have fun and happy Tweeting :)

Random Links are Fun, Fun, Fun!

April3

Random & Useful Links:


23 Amazing Free Modern and Clean fonts


The Cutest Lickle Monkey ever

http://www.livincool.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/davehill_lrg.jpg
Amazing Photographer (David Hill) with Awesome Post Production Values


KFC’s very interesting Advertising Campaign


EuroGamer’s April Fools Joke - Alpine Legend

Free Friday nights? Fancy being on the Telly?

ScribeFire

March15

I dunno if people know or not but there is a really cool Firefox add-on available which makes blogging and absolute cinch. It’s called ScribeFire and it’s home is on the bottom bar of the Firefox window. Simply click it to bring up a window and then you can simply drag images, text and link from a site that you are currently viewing to the ScribeFire window. It just makes adding images and stuff so easy.

Eg.

Scribefire: Fire up your blogging
http://www.thoughtsparks.net/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/scribefire.jpg

Slán leat.

Cool and Interesting Links

March8

Videos:

The Crisis of Credit Visualized from Jonathan Jarvis on Vimeo.

Links:

Awesome jQuery Tutorials.

FireBug Add-on for FireFox

iPhone Band (surprisingly cool)

Mr. Chi-City Kicking some Insect Ass - http://tinyurl.com/b6decq

Google - Smart Searchers Vs Stupid Searchers

Awesome WWII Photos

The Saddest Bear of All - Childrens Book


Photography: The Early March Collection

March6

Below is a collection of my favourite shots that I’ve taken and processed over the past week or so. Some of them are earlier than March but that would have just led to an unattractive title then, wouldn’t it?

Seeing as I’m taking more Photographs than ever before, I’ve decided that I’m going to have a dedicated Photography section on the site. It’s not going to be just a category like it is now. I’m thinking a way to display the images. There are a few Wordpress plugins available to do such a job (eg) but I’ll explore other options and decide again.

Toodles!

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