Design

DoInk Makes Simple Animations A Snap

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.


March 26, 2009
Work

Google Docs Gets Full Find & Replace, Drawing Tools

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:


November 18, 2008
Design

Google SketchUp 7 Released

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]


June 15, 2008
Design

Bomomo Makes Abstract-ish Art Simple

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]


October 11, 2007
Uncategorized

Design Web Site Icons at Favicon.cc

Create an address bar/tab icon for your web site instantly with Favicon.cc, a web-based paint application and image converter that creates favicons. Draw your icon and preview the results in actual size while you work. Publish the finished image for personal use or licence it for reuse under Creative Commons. Favicon.cc’s interface is sleek, fast, and extremely fun. Don’t forget about previously mentioned Favicon from Pics where you can also import an image to favicon, but Favicon.cc offers the same functionality and more.

Favicon.cc