AVINASH 2.0

Myoats – An Addictive Drawing Tool

First of all, Happy New Year, dear readers! May the year 2008 bring lots of happiness and success for you and your close ones!

I’ve recently been taking rest from blogging but still active on a few social bookmarking sites, including StumbleUpon. Yesterday I stumbled upon Myoats, a website that allows you to create simple or complex designs, shapes and patterns. Here is an example of what you can draw in 2-3 minutes:

See? I was just testing the tool and it took me less than 3 minutes to draw this. This tool is pretty addictive and can be pretty useful for your next design projects. Me? I’m gonna use this tool mainly to create complex patterns and futuristic designs. The designs that you create using Myoats can be:

• Downloaded as an image.
• Downloaded as a transparent png.
• Saved to your personal account, which allows for editing and re-saving.
• Made into a wallpaper

The re-saving feature allows you to edit an existing drawing and save it as a new file. The site also allows you to rate designs drawn by other designers. Oh, the site is free to use so feel free to join and draw as much as you like.

Original Design Gangsta (Design Rap!)

Yo! O.D.G. = Original Design Gangsta! CMYK!

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5000 Web 2.0 Logos in 333 Seconds [Video]

In this past June, I wrote about Simple Spark, the Web 2.0 catalog site. SimpleSpark had more than 3000 web apps in June itself. Today, Read/Write Web reported that the company now indexes 5000 Web apps. To celebrate their milestone, the folks at SimpleSpark created a video showing the logos of all 5,000 companies in 333 seconds:

Sites like Go2Web2.0 and SimpleSpark show us how rapidly the Web 2.0 industry is growing.

1 x 6 = 1, The Magic of a Coffee Table!

The pics included in this post should be enough to clear the title.

An awesome design concept, no? I read about this six-part vintage Coffee Table over at Design Milk. If someone wants to buy the table set, head over to 1stdibs.

Lovely Web 2.0 Background Stripes in Seconds

Stripe Generator is a wonderful online stripe generator tool. If you design Web 2.0 sites, this tool will surely save you a lot of time.

You can create almost any type of background stripes in seconds using this awesome tool. See the examples:

[tags]Stripe Generator, Web 2.0, Design Tools, Graphic Design Tools, Online Design Tools[/tags]

Rounded Corners (Anti-Aliased) in Seconds – Pure CSS, No JavaScript!

Spiffy Corners is a really simple way to generate the CSS and HTML you need to create anti-aliased corners without using images or javascript. An easy to use online tool that generates clean CSS and XHTML code. Use this tool to generate your desired code and later, if you need any modification, you can easily alter the code.

I find this tool a good time-saver. Using this tool, you can create rounded corners in seconds.

[tags] CSS, Rounded Corners, Web 2.0, Spiffy Corners, Anti-Aliased Corners, Web Design[/tags]

Add Reflection To Your Images Using JavaScript

Reflection.js 1.6 allows you to add reflections to images on your Web pages. It uses unobtrusive JavaScript to keep your code clean.

It works in all the major browsers – Internet Explorer 5.5+, Mozilla Firefox 1.5+, Opera 9+ and Safari. On older browsers, it’ll degrade and your visitors won’t notice a thing. Best of all, it’s under 5KB.

Benefits of Using Reflections.js:

• Fast and easy to implement. Just add class=”reflect” to the image and you’re good to go.
• Don’t need to spend time in an image editor creating reflections.
• Works really well with forum avatars. Doesn’t require additional server work.
• It’s dead easy to change the opacity and height of the reflections.
• The reflections can respond to user action.

Examples:

Take a normal image:

Result

It is also possible to vary the height and the opacity of the reflections:

Hint: Use this method only when it’s necessary. I recommend to avoid JavaScript as much as possible.

[tags]JavaScript, Reflections, Design, Web Design[/tags]

FEED Styler Plugin for WordPress: Give Your Feeds A Style!

Developed by the awesome people @ Devlounge, FEED Styler is a really really great plugin for WordPress users who want to stylize their RSS feeds!

What is Feed Styler?

Feed Styler is a WordPress plugin for WordPress users who are comfortable with CSS and would like to be able to style their feeds. Feed Styler enables you to keep your existing class and ID style declarations in your content, but allows a different style to be applied to the feed of that same content. No longer do feeds have to be stripped of style and color.

Who is Feed Styler For?

Feed Styler is for those that use WordPress, are comfortable with CSS, and would like to be able to use their existing markup to style their feeds. Feed Styler is very effective at styling images, blockquotes, and much more. If you are a hand coder and familiar with CSS, Feed Styler will be very intuitive.

This plugin is not for CSS beginners, and not for those that rely on WordPress�s WYSIWYG for content appearance. This plugin is also not for those who have the opinion that feeds should be void of style.

Download link: Here we go!
[tags]WordPress, RSS, Feed, Syndication, Style, CSS, Plugins, WordPress Plugins[/tags]

CSS, Accessibility and Standards Links (Bookmarks)

Today’s bookmark has too much for anybody who loves CSS and standards. Created by Andrew Fernandez aka Dez, it’s a highly useful CSS link resource that will CSSify your mind, nerves and all that!

Link: CSS, Accessibility and Standards

[tags]CSS, Accessibility, Standards, Web Design, Design, CSS resources, CSS link directory[/tags]

A Bowl Of Mini Icons – Download 219 Cool Free Icons

Cute and delicious mini icons are here! Sweetie presents two sets of cute and clear mini icons that are licensed under a Creative Commons license, so commercial use is fine. You are free to make derivatives with the included Photoshop documents.

Links: a). 182 mini icons b). 37 mini icons

[tags]Mini Icons, Free Mini Icons, Free Icons, Web Design, Design, Graphics, Free[/tags]

ColorPix – A Must Have Tool For Every Designer

ColorPix is a highly useful, little color picker that grabs the pixel under your mouse and transforms it into a number of different color formats.

You can use the built-in magnifier to zoom in on your screen, click on a color value to copy it directly to the clipboard, and even keep ColorPix on top of all other apps and out of the way.

Best of all, there’s nothing to install – just download the tiny app and off you go.

I’ve started to love this tool since the very moment I downloaded it. I love the way it stays quiet on my taskbar like a good baby! Just click on it whenever you want to pick a color and it’ll do its job pretty nicely. I’m sure that you’ll enjoy your experience with this highly light, yet useful tool.

Main Features:

• Minimize ColorPix to the system tray, and keep it out of the way until you need it.
• Set ColorPix to launch when Windows starts up.
• Click on any color value to copy it to the clipboard. Press Ctrl-C to copy the HEX color (without the ‘#’ sign).
• Press any key to lock or unlock the current color and the magnifier.
• Click on the ‘+’ icon to keep ColorPix on top of all running applications.
• Click on the ‘Magnifier’ button or press Ctrl-M to show/hide the built-in magnifying glass.
• FREE!

Link: Click Here (If you really wanna enjoy the tool!)

[tags]Web Design, Tools, Web Design Tools, Free Web Design Tools, Color Picker, Freeware, ColorPix[/tags]