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&Else! news goodies from the DT&G Online Newsletter
- &Else... August 2002
- 01 Creative idea sources we've seen
- 02 Costumes in history
- 03 A must for anyone in advertising...
- 04 Speaking of advertising
- 05 IVillage cuts out pop-up ads
- 06 Add Voting to your site
- 07 New Search Engine?
- 08 Easy URL organization
- 09 Online training for online topics
- 10 Help with Public Relations
- 11 Create harmonious color schemes
- 12 Cool new tool for astrologers
- 13 Java based Database Server
- 14 A revolution in runtime development
- 15 Ten for Ten from Aladdin
- 16 New CD Catalogger
- 17 Been ripped off?
- Creative idea sources we've seen
- I always try to pick up some interesting idea starters, or creative idea sources to pass along each month, and this month we've got several ...
How about some Puppets?
I ran across this entire site devoted to puppets. Their free Puppet Scripts could prove an invaluable source of ideas for ads, commercials, and other multimedia concepts. It's a huge archive and it's all free.
http://www.puppetresources.com/ [top]
- Costumes in history
- Another real idea starter is the Timeline of Costume History. Visit this web site and follow through the years, the types of dress people wore in their times. You'll see some pretty amazing stuff.
http://www.costumes.org/pages/timelinepages/timeline.htm [top]
- A must for anyone in advertising...
- This one is super, and should be among your bookmarks:
Advertising Age magazine has been the most read industry pub for a long, long time. This new addition to their web site, the "Century", examines all the ways in which advertising has entertained, moved and motivated us over the years. For idea starters check out: 100 best campaigns or 100 most influential people of the 20th century."
http://adage.com/century/ [top]
- Speaking of advertising
- Just for laughs, try the "Retromedia" Web site where you can relive the classic television and commercials clips from the 60's, 70's and 80's. It's stronger than dirt -- and it's the taste that satisfies!
http://www.retromedia.tv/ [top]
- IVillage cuts out pop-up ads
- You remember I said all along pop-ups days are numbered. IVillage Inc. has now announced it will eliminate pop-up advertisements from its network of sites by Oct. 1. Feedback from readers has pushed iVillage to look deeper into the long term effects: Research has shown 92.5 percent of women visitors to the site considered pop-ups to be the most frustrating feature of the Web -- says Nancy Evans, editor-in-chief of iVillage! http://www.CBS.MarketWatch.com
Thanks to www.CBS.MarketWatch.com for this news item iVillage is at: http://www.iVillage.com [top]
- Add Voting to your site
- With "Dream Tools" you can easily add a free Voting Polls or Message Boards to any website in minutes. After first look, it seems to work like a charm.
Web Design and Dev http://www.dream-tools.com/ [top]
- New Search Engine?
- 3BP claims to be the most powerful metasearch engine yet. You'll also find an interesting collection of clippings, photographs, and road signs from all over the world. These are actual photographs and clippings from articles, newspapers, and products.
Web Design and Dev http://www.3bp.com/ [top]
- Easy URL organization
- MyLink is a program that organize Internet URL links. Using context menu from current browser or presing a button from toolbar you are able in a handy way to manage all links directly from browser. Features: Add new links or import all favorites links from Internet Explorer. Search for a specific key or you can browse through links in an explorer style. Preview the selected link in the preview panel or you can view it in a new window.
* PC: Windows specific versions (see author docs)
Sent in by: Liliana Jescu For: Internet Web: browsers, utilities, bookmarking, archiving, etc (Windows only) Get more info at: http://www.redrival.com/bluesoftware/applications.html [top]
- Online training for online topics
- On-line Learning Series of Courses from NETN may be what you need! They've got courses in Introduction to the Internet and On-line Learning, Eudora Pro Level 1, Eudora Pro for Business, Outlook & Outlook Express, Outlook for Business, How to Search the Internet, Creating Web Pages, Creating Business Web Sites and others. These courses are fee based.
Home and School, Education Check it out at: http://www.netn.org/course.htm [top]
- Help with Public Relations
- Just about everyone these days needs to know at least a little bit about public relations. Here's a site with a good collection and resource of links to all kinds of public relations media.
http://www.ectag.org/ec/marketing/pr.htm [top]
- Create harmonious color schemes
- Niels Lau of Abitom software has sent us the latest version (4.1) of Color Wheel Expert, a Windows XP/2000/Me/NT/98/95 color utility, and it looks pretty cool.
Based on the color wheel and color harmony theory, Color Wheel Expert enables users to select a color, and then have 12 harmonious colors displayed on a color wheel. With Color Wheel Expert, it's easy to find analogous colors, triads colors, complements colors and split-complements colors. You can create harmonious color schemes to use in website or working object -- best of all, you can can save their scheme for future use.
Color Wheel Expert makes it easy to select colors from a 216-color web safe palette, and slider adjustments help you fine-tune the color selection, as well as pick colors from anywhere on the screen and make colors web safe. You can also convert color values with RGB, HSL, CMY, CMYK and YCbCr using sliders. The RGB Sliders can be locked so they move synchronously to quickly generate a range of tints or shades of the working color. You can copy color code to the clipboard in RGB, HTML, Delphi, C++, VB and Java format.
Color Wheel Expert requires Windows XP/2000/Me/98/95/NT4 and it costs $19.95 (US). There's a fully-functional trial version of Color Wheel Expert ready for download.
Thanks to Niels Lau for sending this one in. Graphics Download the trial version from: http://www.abitom.com/ [top]
- Cool new tool for astrologers
- AstroQuick is an Astrology software for Mac OS. Students and professionnal astrologers can get charts with accurate calculation, interpretations, fast transits search. Log into their web site and download a free trial version for your MAC: all versions of OS
This is a great addition from Daniel Vega for our Home Hobbies: collecting, activities, leisure, sports, etc. department. You can grab it at: http://www.astroquick.net/ [top]
- Java based Database Server
- Daffodil Software, based in India is an emerging provider of Java based Database Technology, Reporting Solutions and advanced EIS applications, pursuing both system and application programming simultaneously. On one hand, Daffodil aims at creating the development tools with ultra-rich features, ease of use and flexibility, meant to reduce development time significantly and equip the application developers with all what they had been asking for. On the other hand, Daffodil wishes to carve out a unique position for itself in IT market as provider of immensely useful EIS applications of highest standards, developed in Daffodil’s own tools.
An interesting piece from Atul Sharma, Daffodil Software Ltd Programming Dev at: http://www.daffodilwoods.com [top]
- A revolution in runtime development
- Since its launch in July 2001, Revolution has joined the ranks of leading development tools. Revolution's powerful programming language, easy-to-use interface builder, and built-in Internet and multimedia features all combine to make it the tool of choice for writing cross-platform software. Among available development environments, Revolution stands alone in enabling developers to write a single application that targets Mac OS, Windows, and Linux (and other popular Unix flavors), supporting each operating system's native look and feel with no code changes needed.
Interested users and developers can preview Revolution by downloading the free Starter Kit edition which can be used to build applications for any supported platform; the only limitation is on the length and complexity of code.
This is fromRod McCall with Runtime Revolution, LTD. , Edinburgh, Scotland. File this one under: UG NEWS - Events, Issues, Successes, etc. To get the full story, go to: http://www.runrev.com> [top]
- Ten for Ten from Aladdin
- Aladdin Systems has rolled out Ten for X(tm), a software suite of Mac OS X utilities to enhance the Mac OS X platform. The Ten Utilities for Mac OS X:
* Alarm Clock S.E.(tm) 2.4 - by Humongous Elephants and Tigers - Advanced scheduling of mp3's, calendars, scripts and more
* FruitMenu(tm) 2.0 - by Unsantity - Customize and enhance the Apple and Contextual Menus
* iClean(tm) 5.0 - by Aladdin Systems, Inc. - Protects privacy by clearing history, cache, & cookies from your Mac
* ideaSpiral X(tm) 1.0.3 - by Midnite Liteman - Creativity aid to organize notes & ideas in a single file
* LaunchBar(tm) 3.2.2 - by Objective Development - Open files, URL's, & email addresses simply by typing an abbreviation
* Limewire(tm) Pro 2.4.6 - by LimeWire, LLC - Gnutella peer-to-peer file sharing client
* piPop(tm) 2.0 - by piDog - Pop-up hierarchical navigation and launching application
* Pseudo(tm) 1.2 - by Brian Hill - Launch Applications as an administrator even if you're not logged in as root
* PrintMagic X(tm) 1.1 - by MacEase - Print utility fine tunes print options and conserves ink, toner, and paper
* WindowShade X(tm) 2.0 - by Unsanity - Adds Window Shade features to OS X
* ** Bonus Application: Xounds(tm) 1.2 - by Unsanity - Brings Appearance sounds to OS X
The Ten for X package also includes dozens of trialware, demoware, and freeware software products from companies like: Adobe, Bare Bones Software, CE Software, Microsoft, Neon Software, and Power On, as well as innovative new titles from independent developers.
Ten for X has introductory promotional pricing of $29.99 US at Macworld Expo. Suggested U.S. street price is $49.99
Thanks to Shannon Rose OS: Enhancements (Macintosh) Get more info at: http://www.aladdinsys.com/tenforx/ [top]
- New CD Catalogger
- To catalog/manager/list/storage/search your CDs (cd/data cd/vcd/dvd etc) CD Catalog is a kind of strong-function, ease-to-use software to manage CDs. It can catalog and manage many type of CDs, such as data CD, audio CD, VCD and DVD. It have strong and flexible engine of searching CDs which you can ease to find out what you want in your CD collections. PC: Windows specific versions (see author docs)
Sent in by LiuMing from File dot com PC File Management: backup, disk utilities, rescue, security, etc. For info: http://www.fiie.com [top]
- Been ripped off?
- The Rip Off Report allows you to enter complaints about companies and individuals who have ripped you off. You'll see every category imaginable from Auto Dealers, Retail Stores, to Corrupt City and State Governments, Politicians, Police, Funeral Homes, Senior Citizen Homes, and nore.
http://www.ripoffreport.com/ [top]
...have fun
Fred Showker
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