We usually don’t pay much attention to advertisement because in the end of the day, they are just trying to promote their products. However with some creativity into the recipe, not all advertisements are boring. Some can even make you look twice.
Here’s a compilation of several creative ads from leading companies from different industries, included are Sony, Durex, Adidas, Forbes, etc. All images after jump.
Here’s a quick heads up for those of you who encounter this error when you upgrade your wordpress (especially for those who upgrade to WordPress 2.3.1). If you see this error after replacing the old wordpress files with the new ones:
Call to undefined function: _make_cat_compat() in /home/hongkiat/public/blog/wp-includes/category-template.php
We use the "Remember Me" feature in most form logins to help the signing in process faster. But taking advantage of that sometimes makes us forget what our real passwords are. If you often stare at the asterisks and wonder what’s your actual password, try this trick. It uses Javascript alert popup to reveal you the password behind the asterisks.
Friendster has definitely felt the heat from Facebook, especially when many their active users (including me) had migrated over. One of the main addiction in Facebook is their apps, and Friendster is not going to denied that.
If you are using Mac’s Mail client to send/receive mail, here’s a really quick way how you can attach an web page and share it with your friends.
With WiFi support and Safari browser installed, iPhone is not only a cell phone but also a gadget for entertainment. If you are on a WiFi zone and feels bored having nothing to surf with your iPhone, here’s 10 most popular iPhone web games you can kill time with.
Swiss photographer and graphic designer Enrique Pardo wants to teach you how you can make your own iPhone or iPod Touch stand with a piece of paper, or any money notes. Play the 4-minutes video below and see how Enrique flip his own iPod Touch stand with $100 dollar note. Video after jump.
Google has recently released some pretty neat API for it’s Google Chart. It allows you to create charts on your browser dynamically, on the fly and free. Here’s all you need to do:
Rounded corners are something very cool for a Web 2.0 design. RoundPic is a site that help you to round up the corners of your image. You can either upload your own image or type in the image URL in the text field, then click Round It!
RoundPic provides 12 different radius of rounded corners to choose from, you can also set your own image quality, background color and image dimensions. Just click on Preview every time you made a changes. Finally, rename your filename and download it. It’s really that easy.
You might not be happy to be labeled as “geek” but your personality might just be reflected in Scott Johnson‘s 56 types of geeks. These photos can be downloaded separately (check out my facebook for full collection), or in a one-piece-poster.
Digg.com’s model – User submits content, other user votes, if the content gets popular it goes to the front page where it will get most of the spotlight. As much as most of us like to vote for good submitted stories, there are some of us who enjoy creating this kind of sites of different niche.
If you want to create a site similar to Digg, here are six scripts/programs that allows you to do so.
Mac users (web designers and developers in particular) listen up, here’s an option to preview your web project with Internet Explorer within Mac OS itself without 3rd party OS applications like Parallels, VMWare, Bootcamp, etc. ies4osx is a Mac OS application that, upon installed allows you to open IE in Mac, and it supports 4 different version of IE at the moment:
Almost any windows user can tell you how bad their experiences with BSoD (Blue Screen of Death) is. Reason that causes it – plenty. Even if the message in the blue screen says “Press any key to continue”, but most of the time it will not work. Users end up pressing the reset button instead.
BSoD is so famous that even Mac GUI designers use that as a symbol for PC in Mac. In Mac (Leopard, in this case) when you connect to a PC, the icon that represents this external machine is a PC with BSoD on its monitor. Maybe it just look like one on a typically small icon view, but when you zoom the icon up, it’s definitely the same nightmare Windows users are seeing occasionally on their PC.
Funny thing is, why would Mac developers wanna do that :-)
MacOSX comes with tons of hidden keyboard shortcuts. It’s hard to find out if you have not explore throughly. Here are some of the odd, and yet funny tricks you can do on your friend’s new Mac just for the sake of fun.
Here are some keyboard shortcuts that allows you to perform these effects in split second. You’ll be surprise how many Mac users do not know how they are done.
Full list after jump.
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