Top 10 most idiotic cars of all times
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8 Feb 2010Top 10 Geeky Christmas Decorations
16 Dec 2009- By Matt Blum
We’ve all seen the ornaments Hallmark comes out with every year, and to be fair, some of them are excellent. There are a few Star Trek ones each year, and Star Wars ones, and other somewhat geeky ones, but they’re mainstream — and while there’s nothing inherently wrong with mainstream Christmas decorations, we are geeks and geeks tend to prefer things that are at least a little outside of mainstream.
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28 Rich Data Visualization Tools
16 Dec 2009by: Theresa Neil
We’re currently working with a dozen different clients, all web application (re)designs. All of these clients have data rich applications and need equally rich data visualizations to help their end customers analyze data quickly and effectively.
What makes my job really interesting is that these clients are in different industries and are using different technologies. So we have pulled together a set of 28 tools for creating graphs, Gantt charts, diagrammers, calendars/schedulers, gauges, mapping, pivot tables, OLAP cubes, and sparklines, in Flash, Flex, Ajax or Silverlight.
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19 Amazingly Creative Mass Human Formations, That Will Blow You Away!
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16 Dec 2009Just like a well written book, every creative design no matter what it is has a story behind it., how it came to life, how it is conceived, what is it made of, how it is constructed etc. Creative people always have a knack of pulling off inspiration even on monotonous things.
The 100 essential websites
16 Dec 2009Here we go again … our latest list of the 100 best websites sees short attention spans, the rise of Twitter, more browser wars and celebrity gossip sites setting the news agenda.
Top 10 Semantic Web Products of 2009
9 Dec 2009Written by Richard MacManus / December 2, 2009 10:30 AM
2009 has seen a lot of Semantic Web and structured data activity. Much of it has been driven by Linked Data, a W3C project which gained momentum this year. According to Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the Web, Linked Data is a sea change akin to the invention of the WWW itself. We’ve gone from a Web of documents to a Web of data.
The 10 products we’ve picked out for this end-of-year review are ones that have done interesting things with data. Connecting to other data, building new applications with data, sharing data, and more. These 10 products may not be the type of Semantic Web apps that the W3C envisaged in the 90s, but that no longer seems to matter. What’s important is that the Web is becoming more meaningful – more semantic.
15 Failed Predictions about the Future
9 Dec 2009
“It will be years –not in my time– before a woman will become Prime Minister.”
–Margaret Thatcher, October 26th, 1969.
by Gracie Murano
She became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom only 10 years after saying that, holding her chair from 1979 to 1990. But she wasn’t all that wrong since she is the only woman to have held this post. Maybe she should have added the word “again.”
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25+ Useful Infographics for Web Designers
9 Dec 2009
Infographics can be a great way to quickly reference information.
Instead of pouring over figures and long reports to decipher data, an infographic can immediately make apparent exactly what a dataset actually means.
Below are more than 25 infographics that can be useful to web designers.
Some are incredibly practical, some provide information that might be of interest to designers and some just present data that might be interesting to those who design websites all day.
If you know of any good ones that we may have missed, please add them in the comments section below.
Once upon a time, designers would lug unwieldy physical portfolios from interview to interview to showcase their work. This tactic is steadily being replaced with sending out emails containing links to an online portfolio. A portfolio website is becoming an essential marketing tool for every designer and can be the single biggest impression upon which you will be judged and hopefully, hired.
This article contains several tips and examples to help you create an amazing single page portfolio.
Written by Joshua Johnson, On 28th November 2009.
Pictures Speak Louder than Words
Unless you want to showcase your copywriting skills, focus more on showing off your work than conveying your life history. Displaying only one or two designs can leave potential clients wondering how much experience you really have. Feel free to pull out all the stops and display everything you’re proud of creating.
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14 Brilliant Minimalist Ads
2 Dec 2009It’s not difficult to love minimalist ads, but to create one requires a brilliant idea. Most successful minimalist ads depend a lot on iconic brands, items, places and people.
Just an image (or traces) of it would trigger a whole chain of associations and no more than that is enough to grab the attention of consumers. What advertisers need to do is to capture that one image without overdoing it.
Now, that’s the difficult part isn’t it?
November 30, 2009 | Sarah Chong
1. Faber-Castell: Permanent Markers
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- Top 10 Geeky Christmas Decorations
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- 15 Failed Predictions about the Future
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