I am amazed no one thought of this yet. I cannot tell you how much time I spend in PhotoShop or Fireworks creating placeholders for images Invariably they all come out looking poor. On a wireframe they stick out like a sore thumb and clients just cant see past them. Well, those days are over. Need a FPO for 350×250 image? Easy. Just point your browser to:
http://dummyimage.com/350×200
and viola!:
Any combination of height and width’ll work. It’s simple and elegant. And it gets better…
An even newer new video!
Their first video for this was awesome, but sadly not embeddable (unless of course you embed the Vimeo version…). This caused a bit of an uproar to fans since it was embedding which made them so popular. The Band responded, mostly that they were at the mercy of the labels. This time it looks they worked around it with a little sponsorship (note the StateFarm truck at the very beginning, and the logo at the end). So watch the video then add some collision covarge. Enjoy.
Bonus: The marching band video after the break
From Techcrunch, This is what the USA v Canada hockey game looked like on facebook:
The first big spike comes 24 seconds before the game end, when the US scored tied the game. A few minutes later, a giant spike when Canada won the gold. 3.5 million status updates.
source: [TechCrunch]
I use the fastdial extension in firefox, and love how Chrome and Safari give thumbnails of favorite sites, but I’m really digging fav4.org. It’s simple and elegant:
Assuming you have a gmail account, getting started with Google Buzz is pretty straightforward.
If you’re already logged in, log out and log back in again. if you are one of the chosen few you’ll see the following:
If not, pout a little. Get up. Take a walk. Sit back down and try Step 1 again. Google’s rolling it out over the next few days, so keep trying. And when you do see it…
On Tuesday, while the east coast was buried between Snowpocalypse I and Snowpocalyse II: Electric Boogaloo, Google announced and released Buzz, laying the groundwork for the coming war.
Wave lite.
Really, it’s Wave lite, Google’s gateway drug. The world’s not quite ready to comprehend Wave yet, so Google stripped out a bunch of features, leveraged their Wave-based AJAXy UI enhancements, and integrated it directly with gmail and reader.
What’s left is just the essence of social networking. The quickness of Twitter, the network of Facebook, power of blogging, and a versatility not found in any of those products. Read More »
From IconDock Via webdesigner wall. A pretty nice set, missing a couple of key ones I’m looking for (Picasa?), but they are high quality, vector based, and best of all, free.
check ‘em out:
[IconDock] via [WebDesignerWall]
This American Life has it’s own iPhone App. Access to all the podcasts and a handful of extras $2.99. Money well spent. Screen shots and a full review in a few.
[iTunes]
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