Dvolver MovieMaker

Here's a nice little flash app to make your own movies. Look - the plots aren't the greatest, but you can easy make a fun project in seconds. Afterwards you can include the link in your own webpage as well as email it to a friend (although I'm still waiting for it to arrive).

Here's my next box office hit:


and here's the link:
http://www.dvolver.com/live/moviemaker.html

Mike's Pic: Storms River Mouth

Another honeymoon photo. This one was taken on a boat trip into Storms river mouth, South Africa.

35 Designers x 5 Questions

I'm always on the look out for great web design and CSS tips. There's no lack of either on the web. I usually stumble over dozens of them - all claiming to be the best thing since sliced images - and they soon become very bland. Here's one that stuck out for me.

Smashing Magazine (which does look like a rather smashing magazine) asked 35 web designers five design related questions. The answers are a wealth of knowledge. The amount of knowledge in the invisible college of web design is staggering, and quite disconcerting to new web designers. The best shortcuts, tips and of course IE bug workarounds are divulged openly. It's a great place to touch up your design skills and add a couple tricks to your toolbox.

Great Icon Tutorial

Ah, the anatomy of an icon. Luckily this sneaky little webpage squirmed through the web filter at work. Yes - that's right in this tutorial you get to see naked icons, built from the canvas up. There are no holds barred - its a great tutorial for all front end developers, graphic designers and all sorts of icon admirers. Great stuff. Great tut.

http://www.simplebits.com/notebook/2004/08/23/anatomy.html

Photosynth - Unbelievable

Wow. It looks like Microsoft have some serious surprises coming up. Photosynth is one of them. By means of some dude's (although we're sure he's been outsourced from a foreign planet) absolutely brilliant research, Photosynth stitches together public domain photo's to build 3D models of real life places. The results are incredible and only a real demonstration can do the software justice. Check out the TED video here

20 bananas. Definitely.

Mike's Pic: The Nice Side of Knysna

Well, here it is: the first of the honeymoon photo's. This one I took using the panorama feature on my W800. Its situated in Knysna, South Africa. We were sitting on the pier on the eastern Head. The sunset enhances the beauty of the area and it makes you wonder how beautiful the area was before the town exploded into an overcrowded, overpriced vacation spot. Knysna may have been this beautiful once, but those days are long gone and it'll only get worse. Building is going on all over the show. I really like how the picture came out, but Knysna's not getting any of my bananas anytime soon.