Hexcolor – Mac Color Picker as stand alone application

13 04 2009

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The Mac OSX Colour picker is simple and beautifully integrated across Mac applications. Hex color opens the colour picker as a stand alone application so you can save colours without having to open an iLife or iWork application first. Of course all of the colours you save etc will be avialable across apps.

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CLICK HERE





Isolator – Hide all the junk on your desktop for zen-like productivity…

13 04 2009

From This..

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To This..

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Simples…….Pfsssh!

CLICK HERE





Expressinvoice – Great Free Customisable Invoicing Software

7 04 2009

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Creating invoices for clients can be tedious at the best of times. Expressinvoice is a really simple, clean and easy to use piece of software for generating, sending and collating invoices that you can customise.

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CLICK HERE





Desklickr – Flickr sourced desktops…

23 03 2009

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We all like a bit of Eye-candy on our desktops. Desklickr directly feeds desktops from FLICKR to your mac desktop.

CLICK HERE





iprocrastinate – Free project and task management…

19 02 2009

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iProcrastinate is a simple and clean project and task management application thats is freeware.
Get it while its hot!




iCustomize – Change your dock, stack and icon graphics in Leopard

5 02 2009

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iCustomize is a free application that changes and updates the graphics on your Leopard run Mac. Things you can change include the dock, stacks, system icons……see the screenshot below…

Its FREE…

 

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CLICK HERE





Rulers – Measure stuff on screen…in a nutshell…

9 01 2009

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This is just a simple application to give you some natty onscreen rulers to measure different elements etc.

 

Its very useful if you need to create on screen guides or compare your work to others etc…

 

CLICK HERE






iMagePhone – Quickly create wallpaper for your iPhone

7 01 2009

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iMagePhone is an application available in Lite (Free) or Pro (not Free) versions. Its a very neat and quick way of making and loading wallpapers for your lovely iPhone or iPod Touch.

 

I, use the lite version because a) its free and b) I dont need the extra features that the pro version gives you such as quartz filters etc as I can do all that shiznit in Pixelmator which is fast becoming one of my favourite applications.

 

CLICK HERE






Opacity – Amazing Graphics Editor

13 12 2008

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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.

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CLICK HERE





Picturesque – Make stunning images for your website etc…

13 12 2008

plogoPicturesque 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…

 

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CLICK HERE





CompFight – Search thousands of FULLY FREE images…

1 12 2008

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Compfight is a search engine that references FLICKR but only returns results from images that have CREATIVE COMMONS licenses. This means that you can (mostly) freely use the images for your own purposes without feeling the wrath of  an IP lawyer!..

It has a really nice and simple interface and works relatively quickly. Check it out.

 

CLICK HERE





Graphic Generators – Automated Graphic Generation

16 11 2008

I have been working on a few of my websites lately and have come across a couple of very useful tools that are not only free but very cool.

 

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The First is BGPATTERNS, this website allows you to generate a tileable image, useful if you need a website that loads quickly with a seamless tiling background. Try it, you might like it!

CLICK HERE

 

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Next up is the TARTANMAKER, which similarly allows you to create a tileable image but this time of a tartan of your own design….

 

heres my feeble attempt…

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CLICK HERE

 

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Lastly there is the great selection of generators at subblue, my favourite being the Guilloche generator (see my attempt below)…

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CLICK HERE

 





Color Expert – Colour library in your pocket!

28 10 2008

This one is a pretty contentious issue. Can one truly work with colour on an uncalibrated screen.

Well despite my initial misgivings, yes you can and quite succesfully. Its never going to be perfect but if your a designer, work with textiles or simply want to re-decorate your kitchen you cant really go wrong for £5.99. This web app works like a charm and despite being used on a typically saturated screen, the colour matching actually isnt that bad, and goes a long way to helping choose those oh so inmportant hues.

I love that you can email the swatched you create to yourself or others as it generates a lovely image of the colours to include in the mail as well as the colour details.

CLICK HERE





freevectors.net – We all like a freebie!

28 10 2008

Just found freevectors.net, a great collection of free vectors for your designing pleasure.

There are some crackers on here, but be careful, one too many vectors and you could bring the universe in on itself and we will all be re-enacting tron (minus the lycra catsuits).

CLICK HERE





Grunge Textures – More amazing *FREE* backgrounds…

24 10 2008

Like urbandirty.com, their sister site, grungetextures.com has zillions of great background for your (ab)using pleasure.

Don’t miss this one!

 

CLICK HERE





Buttonbuilder – Make shiny buttons for your (iWeb) Website

15 10 2008

Buttonbuilder is a nice little application that helps you make nice shiny little buttons for your website – it outputs as PNG files which is perfect for all you little iWebbers out there.

 

CLICK HERE





Stunning Desktops with…Desktoptopia

20 09 2008

Desktoptopia is a great piece of software that detects your native screen resolution, and feeds desktop bacgrounds to your mac at intervals you choose, some of them being simply divine!

Check it out…you wont regret it!

 

CLICK HERE