Mint, the online money management application, is now released to the public. For several months Mint was available only after recieving invitation. Mint is aimed at helping people (like students) to get a hold on their finance. Several US based banks and credit cards are supported. Mint owners are planing to support banks around the … Continue reading Mint is released to the public
Category: Web 2.0
Introduction to XML
XML (eXtensible Markup Language) is a meta-language built on SGML. XML can be used to describe data (for example database data) and can be also used for creating other markup languages. HTML was rewritten in XML and the result was XHTML. With HTML tags, users can format or style pages. With XML users can only … Continue reading Introduction to XML
Firefox Campus Edition
Mozilla released recently a new version bundle of firefox browser: Firefox Campus Edition. Campus edition is not a new version of Firefox. It is just the common firefox browser with some add-ons (extensions) for better music management and social networking. The add-ons that come pre-installed with Campus Edition are: Zotero, FoxyTunes and StumbleUpon. Zotero helps … Continue reading Firefox Campus Edition
Flock 0.9 Review
Flock is a browser based on Mozilla Firefox. Flock creator call it "the social browser" as it enhanced multiple automations for social networking and web 2.0 services like Flickr, Blogger, Twitter etc. Flock comes with a built-in RSS aggregator for keeping an eye on your favorite feeds and works with almost any of Firefox add-ons. … Continue reading Flock 0.9 Review
Iconfinder: Searching for icons
Recently we made a post about fun small icons. Small icons though are not only funny icons. Here is where Iconfinder comes. Iconfinder is a search engine that searches only for icons, that are free for download and licensed under GPL or BSD licenses (most of them). Search results are developer oriented (searching for "pirate" … Continue reading Iconfinder: Searching for icons
Web 2.0 is here. What about Web 3.0?
As you probably know, we live in the web 2.0 time. Social websites are everywhere and users are now part of the Internet world and not just readers that read information. Now they express themselves (through blogs), they are part of social sites like digg, slashdot and so on. Broadband connections gave the ability for … Continue reading Web 2.0 is here. What about Web 3.0?
We love small icons :-)
As anyone who is in graphics and web design, we love small icons. There are many resources for such icons out there (like FamFamFam which has great collections), but the icons are few and all of them illustrate the sames: arrows, feed icons and in general anything that is needed for making a web site … Continue reading We love small icons 🙂
Create a Web 2.0 logo using Abobe Photoshop part 2
Here is a second tutorial (here is the first one) for creating a Web 2.0 logo like the one above using Adobe Photoshop. Create a new Photoshop file (File>New). I made it in a 4500x4000px file with RGB color and 300dpi resolution, but you can do it in a smaller one. Create the talk bubble … Continue reading Create a Web 2.0 logo using Abobe Photoshop part 2
Create a skype-like logo using Adobe Photoshop
It is much easier to create a skype-looking logo than you imagine. Create a new file in Photoshop (File>New) and type anything you want using the type tool. Apply Bevel and Emboss, Color overlay and Stroke as you see them in the screenshots below and your logo is ready. Note that stroke size depends on … Continue reading Create a skype-like logo using Adobe Photoshop
Gradients for shiny web 2.0 logos
Here are five shiny gradients to use for your web 2.0 designs. Note that colors used in these gradient are in RGB mode. The color codes are written in the screenshots. We used Adobe Photoshop CS3 to make the gradients, so if you use a different program, colors may be a little bit different due … Continue reading Gradients for shiny web 2.0 logos