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GazoPa Finds Images Similar To Uploads, Links Or Drawings
12:00AM Kevin Purdy | Hitachi-powered image search site GazoPa (boy, they’re really out of web names, no?) is a fairly robust engine for finding same or similar images. Its differentiation comes in hunting similar videos, digging through Flickr and letting you draw your search. More »
Design
Creately Makes Group-Edited Charts And Illustrations Easy
9:30PM Kevin Purdy | If you’re looking to plan out a project, share code design or craft a funny flowchart for friends or coworkers, Creately is a free webapp that offers a no-software tool with a nice and easy learning curve. More »
Design
Sharpen Your MS Paint Skills
1:00AM Kevin Purdy | The Digital Inspiration blog suggests that while, yes, MS Paint can make hilarious stick figure illustrations, it can be used more skillfully than you might imagine, suggesting five lesser-known features of the ever-present Windows app. More »
Design
Model Your Home, Plan Improvements In 3D With Google Sketchup
10:00AM Kevin Purdy | My wife and I just moved to an apartment with a great backyard, but neither of us think spatially. Using Google Sketchup, it’s been easier than I’d imagined to plan our Ultimate Patio 4000. More »
Design
DoInk Makes Simple Animations A Snap
9:00AM Jason Fitzpatrick | We’ve shown you how to make your own comic strips, but what about animations? DoInk is a free and sophisticated web-based tool that brings your still images to life. More »
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Google Docs Gets Full Find & Replace, Drawing Tools
10:30PM Kevin Purdy | Google Docs takes another step toward becoming a proper document tool, adding a full-fledged find and replace toolbar, as well as a browser-based SVG drawing tool. Docs had a kind of low-powered, actually apologetic find and replace tool before that could only do whole-document, every-instance replacements. Now it’s a bit more familiar, with one box for the finding text (or regular expression), one for the replacement, and buttons and shortcuts (Ctrl+F, Ctrl+G for next) that can replace items one-by-one: More »
Design
Google SketchUp 7 Released
12:30AM Kevin Purdy | Google released this morning its seventh edition of SketchUp for Windows and Mac systems, the free 3D modelling tool that topped our list of Top 10 Google products you forgot all about. New to this edition are tools for collaborating and sharing models and objects through the 3D Warehouse, automatic tools for beginners, and lots of other tweaks. What do you use SketchUp for? Tell us in the comments. [via Official Google Blog] More »
Design
Bomomo Makes Abstract-ish Art Simple
5:00AM Kevin Purdy | Webapp Bomomo is a drawing application that’s slick enough to make random squiggles seem elegant, but also lets you fine-tune your design. Whether you’re looking for a change of desktop wallpaper, wrapping paper that’s really unique, or just an intriguing background, Bomomo’s results almost always look pretty decent. And while the colours are randomly generated, they tend to come in complementary waves. Bomomo is a free to sign up for and use. Bomomo [via MakeUseOf.com] More »
