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

More Online Writing Tips ...

I posted a note about writing for online content a while back. At the time I couldn't find any articles specifically for Web and online writing. Here's a nice site that I found stumbling.

http://www.useit.com/papers/webwriting/

Wii have a problem

Nothing really special about this site, it just gave me a good laugh. Check it out here. Its a site solely dedicated to the injuries incurred to household furniture at the hands if butterfingered, over enthusiastic Wii players.

For those who don't know, Wii is Nintendo's latest game console running in competition to Sony's Playstation 3 and Microsoft's XBox 360. The console comes with a remote that you can swing around to control your player. Wiihaveaproblem is a collection of what happens when the remote flies OUT OF CONTROL and the strap breaks. Its very funny.

Custom Mouse Pointer in XNA Tutorial

Its been a while since my last pick - I've been really busy at work preparing for a new release so there hasn't been much time for browsing.

Today I came across this tutorial on getting a custom pointer texture in XNA. Granted, its not rocket science to get this right, but Mykre's Space does it so nicely. I have become quite a fan of Mykre's blog over the last couple of weeks, there are some great articles for all you game developers.

Brabys maps and Shell Geostar

Ever been looking for directions? Here are two fantastic sites worth having a look at:

www.brabysmaps.co.za/brabys/directions.asp

and

www.shellgeostar.co.za

Both give you step by step directions to your destination with distances. Braby's gives you the speed limit as well. It also provides you with the option to change your route, but I couldn't for the life of me get it right. That feature would have been nice because both sites sent me down some extra roads. For example, for my trip down to Plett it sent me off and on the main highway a couple of times.

Either way the maps did end at the right place, and they even started pretty much from my house.The distance and time feature is also really handy for calculating long trips.

Updated: Found a lot more bugs with these sites. Still quite handy though (especially if you're trying to clock up kilometers on your car allowance :D) for generating maps to functions and emailing them.

Lately I have found Google Maps quite handy. I used it to find my way out to the last church camp out past Magaliesburg, and it was great. The roads were all there - well until we got to the dirt road, but I had no pie-my-eye dreams of seeing that so it was fine.

Knocked it down a notch as promised. Got you're spice weasel? BAM!

neatfonts.com

I found this catch on blendernation.com. Neatfonts.com is a free online font library. I always find it hard to find a good font and usually end up going with something plain, so I am always looking for good font sites. Neatfonts.com is nice and easy with a ton of really nice looking fonts and quick and easy download.