HP iPrint Photo – Print Photos direct from your iPhone

 

 

This free iphone app is brilliant. It allows you to print directly to an HP printer via wifi.

 

Check it out…Its Free

 

 

 

CLICK HERE

Mac Giving Tree – Free Apps Under the Tree!…

Those lovely peeps at Macheist have released the MAC GIVING TREE. Sign up to their mailing list and you get access to two free apps. Come christmas morning there will be a load more free ones (no idea what they are yet!) and if at least two of your friends sign up you get another two.

 

Enjoy!

 

CLICK HERE

YourFont – Make your own handwriting into a font (free this time)

A few posts back I talked about fontifier, which in itself is very good. Thanks to the wonderful Doreen, it turns out there is a very similar service that is free! yes free!…

 

As with fontifier you print and fill in the template send it back and shablaaaaam…..your writing in font form….

 

Exquisite freebie!

 

CLICK HERE

Great Website Tutorials – Learn HTML and many others…

 

 

I never thought I would be saying this, but I actually found myself excited about this website…….its very dour and plain exterior doesn’t reflect its eternal usefullness. Now I dont know much about anything web designery, and that means all of my websites are made in iWeb (which I simply love by the way). Now normally an iWeb website requires no coding knowledge, but to leverage all the funky extras that I have talked about over the past three months, some HTML is very helpful.

 

This website has tutorials for nearly every web technology. Its arranged in small sections so you can head straight for what floats your boat.

 

Fill your brain!

 

CLICK HERE

VenueM – Convert your site with RSS into an iPhone Site…

Venue M Have unceremoniously decided to terminate everybodies account with very short notice and citing that they are “concentrating on native apps”….Poor form VenueM, POOR FORM!

 

I was looking for a way to optimise bigmacblog for iPhone and Android users, hopefully to make it load quicker and give a generally better viewing expeirence.

I think I found a way.

VenueM is a free web service where you enter your RSS feed address, fill in a few fields etc and Schblamo! An instant iPhone styled website……most excellent!

CLICK HERE

Abduzeedo – Great Blog, Great Tutorials…

 

 

Hey all, 

 

Just thought I would point you in the direction of Abduzeedo, a great blog with tips, tricks and tutorials for photoshop, fireworks and (my fav) Pixelmator…

 

Some of the effects covered are stunning. I just made the ones below in 3 minutes…..and I know NOTHING!

 

 

 

 

CLICK HERE

Opacity – Amazing Graphics Editor

 

Watching the video on the website of this application blew me away. For a couple of projects I needed to design an application icon, it wasn’t easy and the results weren’t particularly awe inspiring.

Opacity is so cool, it has built in effects and has many vector tools, best of all, however, is the built in ‘factories’ that allow you to export the graphic as icon presets and many other file types, even directly into your website via FTP.

 

I sincerely suggest watching the video on the homepage to guage the true value of Opacity.

 

CLICK HERE

Picturesque – Make stunning images for your website etc…

Picturesque is an image editor tailored to those who want some of those snazzy mac effects such as reflections, 3d perspective and rounded corners etc.

 

It is not free like most of my posts but because of its ease of use and general coolness I thought I would post it anyway…

 

 

CLICK HERE

ReadAir – Google Reader on Adobe Air Platform…

Readair is a Google Reader application created on the Adobe Air platform, which means its fast, slick and cross platform.

 

Its really nice and simple and is a great environment for catching up on all those RSS feeds that you have mounting up!

 

CLICK HERE

Vidnik – Upload straight from iSight to YouTube…

This one is a neat little app that allows you to record and upload straightaway to you your youtube account, very useful for those habitual Vloggers out there…

 

CLICK HERE

iTweak – Add extras to iWeb such as favicon and google search…

 

I just stumbled across iTweak, a free application that gives you the chance to add favicons, hit counters, google site search fields and more to your lowly iWeb website.

It seems pretty simple to use and gives iWeb some pretty nifty functionality. Guess well have to wait to see if any of this will be included in the next iteration of iWeb but until then, check it out.

 

CLICK HERE

Fontifier – Create your own font from your handwriting

 

Have you ever wanted to use your own handwriting when creating a document or producing some graphics work?

Fontifier does this for you and for a very reasonable $9 per font created!

The process is simple, you download a template, write in each characters equivalent, scan it, and email back to fontifier which will produce the font as a Truetype font usable with Mac and Windows operating system….

EDITOR UPDATE: THIS TIP HAS BEEN SURPASSED BY YOURFONT – CHECKOUT NEWER BLOG ARTICLE ON YOURFONT FOR A FREE FONT CREATION SERVICE….

CLICK HERE

WideMail – Enable Widescreen Mail and other features

 

Widemail is the answer to many a mac users mail woes. Most of us these days use a screen that is Widescreen and as such the traditional way of using mail on a mac isnt that suitable. Widemail places the mail list and the mail selected side by side as well as giving you many customisation options.

 

Of course its also FREE.

 

CLICK HERE

Audiko – iPhone Ringtones, make, download….FREE

 

Audiko is a web based service where you can upload your mp3, cut it and make it into a ringtone. The bonus being that it will create a .m4r file for all you iPhone lovers out there (me included)…. Another great thing about Audiko is you can download other peoples creations….An endless source of iPhone Ringtones…..Hooorah!

 

CLICK HERE

Wallsaver – Screensaver as your desktop

Wallsaver – Display your screensaver as your desktop background using wallsaver.

 

This application is really impressive when couple with quartz compositions. Such as these ones here

 

CLICK HERE

iWeb SEO – Optimise your site for search engines…

 

iWeb SEO is a free Search Engine Optimisation tool that will enable your website for google analytics and also add meta tags as well as being able to tag images.

 

And of course, as (mostly) usual, its Free…

 

CLICK HERE

Wix – Embed widgets, gadgets, gizmos and thingameebobs on your site.

Apologies to all those who I have preached the usefullness of wix to but here I go again.

 

Wix has enabled me to do things with my website that I would never have thought possible without coding knowledge and expensive software. It really does allow a complete novice the ability to create content, whether its an mp3 player, a book with pages that can be turned or a bopping Obama doll (dont ask).

 

I cant praise it enough and, athough at times geared towards the younger user, can be really useful for adding those finishing touches to your websites.

 

CLICK HERE

Sprout – More Embed Enabled Flash Fun…

Sprout – Like a previously mentioned service, wix, gives you the ability to make flash based objects and animations and embed them onto your iWeb website, myspace, facebook, blog, whatever, etc.

 

Its pretty Funky. And Free!

 

CLICK HERE

FluidTunes – Control iTunes with gestures via iSight….pointless but Fun!

 

FluidTunes….perhaps the most pointless iTunes application but also perhaps one of the most interesting and fun.

 

Fluid tunes is a bit like the eyetoy games on Playstation in that it detects your movement through the isight on your mac and allows you to flick through iTunes coverflow and select song, its very basic, but certainly worth a look. This could be the start of something good.

 

CLICK HERE

iWeb iFrames – Embed other websites on your iWeb Pages…

 

This rocks…..some spriteful monkey out there on MacOSXhints.com has published a way of getting websites displayed within your iWeb website….

Click here to see an example.

The page explains the process for embedding mobile me galleries into your iweb page, but to embed any other page you just replace the address between the  ”              ”  with the address you want to display. Check out the article by clicking below…

 

CLICK HERE