WordPress for Blackberry
Something good is happening at the intersection of two of the most popular tech phenoms in their category: WordPress and Blackberry. WordPress is a leading blogging and content publishing tool. Blackberry is a leading brand of handheld, wireless devices and smart phones. WordPress for Blackberry (WP4BB) is a free application for managing content on your [...]
Smashing Magazine
Smashing Magazine is one of those brilliant resources for web content developers and graphic designers. They function as a kind of curatorial resource for free graphics tools and resources such as design templates, fonts, graphics, photographs and images. I discovered Smashing while searching for free WordPress templates. Periodically, they post lists of amazing free resources, [...]
Mapping as community building
The explosion of free online mapping options is truly mind-blowing. Increasingly, mapping is becoming a popular and easy way of organizing content and sharing it. Maps give you a new perspective on things. Try looking at Google Earth for a while in satellite mode. Observe the threads of concrete that cover the countryside like chicken [...]
Image viewing, editing, cropping and resizing
FastStone Image Viewer is a versatile image management tool that should be on the desktop of anyone with a digital camera. I like this application precisely because of all the things you can do with it. It is great for browsing lots of images when you are looking for that right one. Once you find [...]
Create your own logo
Whether or not you’re a graphic designer, you can now create your own logo online at logoease.com. And it’s free. Logoease offers a simple Flash application to create and edit a professional looking logo. You start by selecting an icon or graphic element from a number of categories to help you find something suitable. Then [...]
Embed and view PDF documents
I was very excited (in my web-head way) when I discovered the code to embed a PDF document on a web page. No more links to PDF files that require the user to have the freely available Acrobat Reader installed. In fact, most users already have this and the browser plugins for viewing PDFs in [...]