Tabs Have Never Been Easier !

The famous duo Alex 'Pit' La Rosa and Fabio Fidanza, the brain behind the Stripe Generator (find out more here), and introduced the TARTAN movement (find out more here) :D has done it again !


The newest addition is the Tabs Generator ! Boy, how their tag-line hit the bullseye ! Tabs Have Never Been Easier !


Although the interface is not as AMAZING as the previous stripe generator and tartan maker. The feel of easiness still there. And that is all we need ;)

Every time you change some of the value, there'll be a Refresh button to generate the new tab ;) This is good, as we don't have to wait everytime we change a value, then the picture will load again. We can just set the whole value, and hit Refresh ;) Well, maybe a minor change here and there, and Refresh again :D

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Overall this is very nice tool, if you happen to need a tab fast :D There's not much can be done on tabs i think, but it will be nicer if we can have more style for the tabs (something like Button Boost done quite well), and maybe a nice gallery to show off too like in Tartan Maker ;)

Loripscream - Generatively Delicious!

Almost every designer which include text, must've known about Lorem Ipsum :D

When I first encountered this text, I thought it was just some random Latin text. But if you dig deeper, it is a passage that came from a piece of classical Latin literature from 45 BC ;) Designers often copy-and-paste the text, to fill up some space that were later meant to be filled by real-text. This was mostly done, to just provide a mock-up, to give a general view of a layout :)

The text is more likely looks like this :

"Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum."

Now, Lorem Ipscream offers a whole lotsa new flavor for this Lorem Ipsum text ;)
Basically it was a neat text-generator :D


But while the functionality works just fine, there's a few glitch that's been bothering me. First one is in Firefox 2.0.0.6


When you choose some flavor, it will generate the text, but it seems that it was truncated, and you can't scrolled it down ! So you can not copy the whole generated text ! This is a little bit annoying :|

So, then I go and try it on IE 6.0, and it gave me this result :


The results is even worse, the generated text are on top of the image. Which make it hard to read, and find ! At first I search it on the bottom, since on Firefox, it was on the bottom, but it turns out to be on top. Well, at least the whole text can be copied on IE :P

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Well, the functionality and idea are nice, the layout is neat and pretty, but still there's some more work to do on the output ;) It will be nicer if there's a button to do the 'Copy' function to our clipboard right ;)

Another note for the geeky, all of this will not be a bother for you :P Since Loripscream provide an API which is just all you need right ;)

Anyway, Loripscream - It's Generatively Delicious to try ;) Or you can prefer the I CAN HAS CHEEZBURGER? versions :P


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My Name in Arabic

[Update 2007-10-08] There's a simple Arabic-o-matic to generate your arabic name, if you need one quick and fast ;) (Read Arabic-o-matic blog post here)

If you ever curious about how is your name in Arabic looks like, then Reem from My Name in Arabic, is the right person to do the job ;) Ever since May 2007 Reem have made lotsa Arabic name for peoples ;)





My Name in Arabic is offering you the service of writing your name in Arabic letters. All you need to do is send Reem an email, write your name, and explain how your name is pronounced. Since the writings will be based on the pronunciation of your name ;)

And Reem, have made me one, a beautiful one ;)

My name is Efendi, and in Arabic is إفندي

Nice eh ;)

And turns out, that Efendi was originated from Turki. Reem pointed me out for this, and here are some quotes from wikipedia.

Effendi or Efendi (from Turkish Efendi) is a Turkish title meaning a lord or master. It is a title of respect or courtesy, equivalent to the English Sir, in Turkey and some other Eastern countries. It follows the personal name, when it is used, and is generally given to members of the learned professions, and to government officials who have no higher rank, such as Bey or Pasha. It may also indicate a definite office, as Hekim efendi, chief physician to the sultan. The possessive form efendim (my master) is used by servants and in formal intercourse.

I never knew that before :P

So, have yourself an Arabic Name ;)

Still Using Stripe ?

Are you people still using Stripe Generator ? Heh ! Guess what ?! Those guyz behind it, tells us it's time to move on ! It's TARTAN time ^^

Yes, Alex 'Pit' La Rosa and Fabio Fidanza comes up with a new twist for stripes ! They call it Tartan Maker - the new trendsetting application for cool designers What a genius :D


There are lotsa improvement, compared to other generator tool, and i must say it was very very USEFUL ! BRAVO to these guyz !


OK, lemme show you the brilliant thing of every generator tools must have. Can you see it ?
It's the GO FULLSCREEN button !! I repeat, GO FULLSCREEN ! My gawd ! Exactly what a pattern generator tools should have ! It will save our time, to download the pattern, put some css code for it, and preview it fullscreen ourself, just to realize that it looks bad when goes fullscreen. Not anymore ! Thanks to the GO FULLSCREEN button ! Brilliant GUYZ !

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Another thing is the new SHARE feature ;) If you check back to the Stripe Generator you'll notice it has a SHARE feature too now ;)


The showcase of other people's creation will take you deeper, searching, and play with it ;) and incase you're wondering, yes ! There's a GO FULLSCREEN button too inside ;)

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All in all, being a perfect generator tool, now they have beaten' all the best idea a generator tool SHOULD have ! Can't get any better than this ;)

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Translucent Background For Your Caption

Translucent
See-through Backgrounds for The Masses

Firda Beka an Indonesia girl ^^ over at the Weblog Wannabe have created 16 beautiful Translucent pattern, which you can embed to your page ;)

The above was not a captured screenshot ! It was entirely made using the Translucent pattern ;) These pattern makes for a perfect highlight for your caption, right? ;)

Go click the pattern to download it, or head straight away for some photoshop tips on how to make it ;)

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ColorJack

ColorJack is my new inspiration source for color after Kuler. When my net connections are slow, ColorJack was definitely my choice to get some color inspirations, since it was based on javascript, and it is lightweight, so it'll load faster even on dial-up ^^


And i can assure you, that the guy behind it, has done a deep research about color. From Color Blindness, variety of Color Formats (RGB, HSL, CMYK, etc.) to the ease of use in a Spin Wheel color chooser, ColorJack is a beautiful tool ^^

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There are several tools that ColorJack provided for us, the first one is called the Studio

In this section, you can choose the color using the picker, or simply enter the value of RGB, HSC, or CMYK if you knew ;) And the good news to CS user, those color can be save into SWATCHES :D both in Photoshop and/or Illustrator ^^

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The recent tool that was added is Sphere. A very very easy to use !


On the top of the Sphere you can choose the Color from Neutral to Four-Tone, Six-Tone, Complementary, etc. along with some options for Color Blind ;)

You can choose the color to be websafe, or websmart too ^^

The nicest thing bout this Sphere is that it was VERY EASY TO USE. Simply click and drag on the color area, and there you have your color theme on the right ;) KISS ;)

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So in overall ColorJack definetely worth to be played ;)

And be sure to check out it's history page, there are lotsa goodies you can spot on ;)


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[Update 2007-03-05]: More in-depth tutorial on making Color Scheme with photoshop ;)


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