HTML 5 and digital generative art ALA Joshua Davis

Heard the name Joshua Davis? If you’ve been into any kind of digital creative for some time you might have encountered the legendary digital artist who’s inspired some of the biggest brands out there to make use of his computer generated abstract art in their marketing efforts. Some of these Brands include – BMW, Motorola, [...]

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New tools for my digital nomad belt

For the longest time now I’ve been agonising over how to manage my collaborations with partners and clients online. Many of the popular web workers swear by Basecamp, and I believe it is a great product. I’m not big on the monthly payment model for software as a service(Saas) and have instead opted for using [...]

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Twitter Power User Series – Part 1

By now most people have at least heard of twitter.com, though don’t assume that everyone knows what twitter is or how it can be used. Research has shown that most twitter users rarely tweet and usually have very few followers. Mention the word twitter in a public space and you might still get a few [...]

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Foller.me – The Sherlock Holmes of the twittersphere

As most of us know twitter has very much entered the mainstream with just about every kind of web user setting up their own account. New twitter apps seem to be arriving on the scene on a daily basis and the platform has seen it’s fair share of extension and adaptation of late. To Follow [...]

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Custom Word Cloud images, using Wordle

I’m very much a fan of tag-clouds and have noticed a trend in typographic design to make more interesting use of them in experimental typographic designs. Wordle.net is a free online tool you can use to generate a custom coloured Word Cloud using either word’s of your choice, your site’s RSS feed to pull your [...]

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Online Doc/Note storage, Google docs & Evernote

As you can tell by my last post I’ve suffered a bit of a dilemma relying to heavily on locally stored data. Sure backing up would help, but that’s one side of the story, sometimes you need more than a huge clunky usb harddrive to retrieve lost data quickly. I use 2 solutions, google docs [...]

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Does Google Friend Connect deserve a beta test?

So you might have noticed the box to the top right of this post with some friend avatars in it. I signed up to be whitelisted as a google friend connect beta tester and then as usual when signing up for these types of things forgot all about it. Google sent me a notification a [...]

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Time to refresh my GTD approach with GTDinbox for gmail

Having spoken a bit about GTD (Getting Things Done) in the past and being a fan of the personal productivity system, I seem to be making all the major productivity mistakes of late. So I made a mental note in the last few weeks to start taking steps to fix some of these problems, but [...]

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