Seven Across

Here’s a neat looking colour picking website. Quite similar to Adobe’s Kuler. Never have enough of these sites. There’s so much potential for creativity when creating such web applications.

Downloaded and installed Safari 4. Some real neat features. I particularly liked the way they display the history with a flip view.

Safari 4 is out in beta. Looks like some competition from Chrome has done Safari a bit of good. They’ve come up with some really cool features such as the cover flow view. More details on features at the site. Gonna download it now and try it out. The download is just under 32 MB, so get started quick.

Querious is a new MySQL database management application written from the ground up exclusively for Mac OS X Leopard. Unlike mindless Mac OS X versions of applications made for Windows or Linux, Querious is a stunning new app that is precise and easy to understand, giving you full control without getting in your way.

And from the looks of it it looks pretty cool. All for just $25. Must try it out, I guess.

Piwik is a free and open source alternative for Google Analytics. It’s an installable application that plugs in quite nicely into an existing setup. It provides just about all that you need in terms of reporting such as visitor information, source of traffic…

MyFonts is yet another super cool iPhone application. This app uses the iPhone camera. So if you run the application and scan some text with the camera it will detect the fonts used. you can email this info or just open it up with Safari on the iPhone itself. Amazing stuff.

And it’s now free.

Boy do people have a lot of time on their hand. Nonetheless this is quite well made.

Altec Lansing’s inMotion iM600. Gorgeous, 7 hour battery-life on a rechargeable battery, and kickass sound quality and power. My iPhone will play well with this.

TwitterHawk is a recently launched Twitter based advertising service. They claim that they offer what is “arguably the most targeted marketing”. From what I understand they offer context-aware ads on Twitter. The example that they offer is if you set your TwitterHawk search criteria to “coffee near:Queens within:8mi”, the TwitterHawk engine would find tweets in the public timeline which have been posted within 8 miles of Queens and mention the word “coffee”, the TwitterHawk engine would tweet back something about your cafe to them.

Sounds like a pretty innovative marketing scheme. dunno how it will really work, if it will at all. However, with the number of GPS-enabled mobile devices out there today this kind of location specific advertisement will create a lot of room for innovation. So now we have to primary criteria to create search-based ads – context and location. Wonder what will come next.

Came across this real neat website called Pattern Tap that has a collection of a whole lot of designs from websites. the great thing is that the collection has been organized quite well which makes finding something you can use a whole lot easier than having to rummage through something random.