Colour Scheme Generator
Good tool for generating colour schemes - mono, contrast, triad, tetrad, analogic. Thanks Bud!
Web TV / Democracy Player
The Democracy Player, touted as an open source internet TV platform allows users to download and watch all internet TV shows, video RSS feeds, video podcasts, video blogs, or BitTorrent files. At present, the channel guide has over 600 available with new ones arriving daily.
I’d imagine these ‘new’ media players will start springing up everywhere like RSS feeders have of late.
Website / News Junkie Alert (RSS Reader)
Mappedup is a visual RSS tracker that displays news feeds from sources around the world in real-time. The feeds can be customised, the application downloaded and subscribed too.
The differentiator to a lot of other RSS trackers here is the clean visual representation of the feeds. Unfortunately, as the product is only in beta mode, they allow a mximum of 25 new subscriptions a day so good luck!
Photoshop / 111 Free Photoshop Plugins
http://thepluginsite.com/resources/freeps.htm
Blog / Now thats what I call organised.
Certainly the most beautiful, and possibly the best planned, organised and executed factory in the world.
Personally I think the cars are quite average, though I haven’t driven one. If only they had picked a nicer looking car to build there…
And yes I’m sure they do time sheets!
This isn’t about cars. Its about changing peoples perceptions. Not just about this particular product but about the business behind it and what the future holds for us all. If we dont all embrace technology, think differently then we cant expect to evolve and improve.
http://forums.vwvortex.com/zerothread?id=1837641
Ad / Sony Bravia Ad
Great concept featuring massive paint explosions shot by award winning director Jonotahn Glazer. The filming took 10 days and 250 people. Beautiful and orignial result. Watch the ad.
Ad / Dove Evolution
Application / A Nifty Little App
Get rid of unwanted applications (and all their hidden files spread across your Mac) in a single click.
You get 5 free zaps then its a small outlay of $12.95.
Personally, I think its a good way of getting to know where all the files are and then deleting them manually.
Make you own mind up.
http://appzapper.com/
Website / More UGC - Nokia Color The World
Beautiful site for the new Nokia 6131 - allows users via the ‘color my world’ link to create artworks on the fly and submit them to the worlds largest tapestry. Once done, you can name your piece, submit it and even send it to your phone as a wallpaper or to friends to view.
The actual painting feature has been beautifully designed and developed allowing smooth and precise visuals to be created.
The product side to the site features great product simulations built in 3D and also a pretty solid audio experience.
Website / Renault Plug & Create
Renault has developed a promotional site based on the concept for its’ revamped Twingo model. The site encourages users to engage with this concept, titled Plug & Create, by providing original content (art based) and then sharing their vision with other users. All this matched to a pretty evocative soundtrack.
Another example of big brands taking the user-generated content challenge.