Useful Websites

Adobe Kuler AIR Application

Thursday, January 22nd, 2009

Adobe Kuler is a web-hosted application for exploring, creating and sharing color themes. You can experiment quickly with color variations and browse and use thousands of themes from the Kuler community.  I just want to say I really love this site and I use it all the time.  If I have a new client, I create a color theme, save it, and then I can show the client the theme from anywhere in the world as long as I have internet access.

Something else really sweet that I just found out is that they have created an AIR application that runs locally on your computer.  Also, it allows you to import themes directly into Adobe Creative Suite 3 (Illustrator, Indesign, Photoshop).  Pretty sweet, huh?

Cya

31 Days of iPhone Apps

Thursday, January 15th, 2009

iPhone App Store

I just found a new site today that wrote 31 iPhone applications in 31 days, its called AppsAmuck.  And I think its a good place to start to create my own iPhone App.  I have been thinking about doing this for a little while now because my wife got an iPhone for Christmas.  I want to see what I can do with it, because I really love the interface and motion controls of the iPhone.

There have been a few hiccups I have come across already while researching this. First off, the iPhone Development Center says that the SDK to develop the apps in is only available for the Mac OS X Leopard.  This is quite a big hurdle for me since I don’t have a Mac, but my brother (Adam) has already started trying to figure out what to do about this. So Adam and Mark, a co-worker of ours, have gotten Leopard to work on his a virtual machine running on Windows, now we just have to replicate his process.  The second hiccup is that to publish these apps to the actual app Store on the iPhone, you have to pay a licence fee of $99.  I guess this can come later if actually do come up with some cool apps. So it may take a little longer than I thought it would to get started but it will happen.

I will post an update once I know more.

Cya

WhatTheFont Font Recognition System

Monday, December 8th, 2008

What the font?

One of my friends Jeff found this website that allows you to upload a scanned image of some font and instantly find the closest matches to that font in their database. I have a hard time figuring out what fonts people use in their projects and this site allows me to do that, easily.

Here is the link, WhatTheFont.

Cya