06/03/2010
As my blog has grown in traffic I’ve noticed more and more readers coming from outside of the US, and while not surprising it does pose new issues. As more and more non-english (or non-native) speaking readers began to read my blog started looking for an automated way to translate into their language of choice. [...]
06/01/2010
Over the course of my career I’ve been asked (or have asked) “do you know what this font is?” hundreds of times. MyFonts.com has solved this problem by creating What The Font, a simple online tool that can identify fonts. You upload an image of a font, double check to make sure it recognizes the [...]
05/25/2010
EGO is a mobile application that lets you check all of your web statistics in one place, from a mobile device. It supports Google Analytics, Twitter, Vimeo, Tumblr, Feedburner, Ember, Mint and Squarespace all in one application, with new services being added frequently. While the iPhone version only lets you view high level stats, like [...]
04/30/2010
Apple purchased Lala.com a few months back and faithful Lala users have been holding their collective breaths waiting for Cupertino to let us know the fate of the popular streaming service. In my inbox this morning was the following automated message from Lala. Dear Eric, The Lala service will be shut down on May 31st. [...]
03/10/2010
Designers have a distorted view of the web. We all have huge monitors and speedy computers and it’s easy to forget that your average web user isn’t always so lucky. Testsize.com is a simple web app that allows you to easily check out how your site will display on monitors of varying size. To use [...]
03/09/2010
Notable Notable is a web and iPhone based service that allows team members to easily share feedback on all aspects of a website. To start a discussion you create a new project called a capture, or a set to hold multiple captures. Captures can be created from a url, by uploading an image, from an [...]
11/16/2008
While building a Flash Lite prototype I stumbled upon two really great resources for developers both by Kuneri, an amazing Flash Lite company based in Finland. The first is Swf Pack. It’s an online tool that lets you package up a Flash Lite application, assets and icons into a single .sis file that can be [...]
06/02/2008
Moo is a great service for custom printing of business cards, postcards and other collateral. They are higher priced than some of their competitors, but their appeal is being able to print several different images in the same run. You can even hook into your Flickr account and have a differnt image on each card [...]
05/22/2008
Infinite and instant, Zazzle is the only on-demand retail platform for consumers and major brands offering billions of retail quality, one-of-a-kind products shipped within 24 hours. It allows users to create anything from shirts to posters, hats to postage. Yes. Your face on a stamp. Items are created as orders are placed so there is no [...]
