Book Review: The Photoshop Anthology

101 Web Design Tips, Tricks & Techniques (Corrie Haffly, Sitepoint)

Photoshop is a deceptive beast. You can use it day in, day out, to the point where you consider yourself an expert – only to discover some basic functionality or keyboard shortcut that you really could have used some months ago. Perhaps it’s just me – but, for instance, having recently discovered that pressing the Tab key hides the menus, I wonder if there are any more nifty tricks that I’m missing out on. [read more...]

Colour Lovers - Colour Trends and Palettes

For some inexplicable reason, the Web 2.0 Colour Palette post I wrote back in August 2006 has been perennially popular – over 150,000 pageviews since the posting, and phrases like ‘web 2.0 colors’ have been consistently top in my search engine keyword referrals. That suggests two things to me – first, the five minutes I spent back in August putting that post together was definitely worth it, and secondly – there are a lot of people interested in colour palettes. [read more...]

Tracking hot trends with Trendio, Web 2.0 style

I love statistics. Whether it’s my Techorati ranking, web server log files or my FeedBurner subscriber numbers, the numbers that shape my work are a fascination. I’m sure it’s the same for a lot of bloggers out there too – surely most must have obsessive-compulsive like desires to keep up to date with figures? [read more...]

Review: LG Shine

Successor to the Chocolate - for release on the 7th February 2007

The latest in LG's series of 'Black Label' high-end mobile phones is about to hit the streets - dubbed 'Shine', it's a slider phone, much like it's popular predecessor, the LG Chocolate, and has a fully reflective front screen that acts as a mirror when the screen is off. [read more...]

Test Driving Text Link Ads

For fun and profit

The service offered by Text Link Ads is a little different to other advertising solutions - rather than pay per action, click or impression, payouts are based on an allotted value per month for a text link placed on a given site. [read more...]