Although we don’t know when is the actual release date of Windows 7, but there are some Windows 7 wallpapaers around the internet. Some of them are taken from the leak version, while some are made by designers around us.
Today i browse through HQ Wallpapers and found some Windows 7 wallpapers which i feel quite nice. Here, i will share some of them. You may view HQ Wallpapers for the full content.
Source: Windows Seven HQ Wallpapers and Windows 7 HQ Wallpapers
Pixlr is a new web-based image editor. Its interface is pretty simple, and the loading speed is very fast. There are some other similar services which i introduce before, such as Sumo Paint, Photoshop Express, Splashup, and Picnik.
There are a lot of tools which you can use. For example, they provide marquee tool, stamp tool, blur tool, filter, and even add new layer to the image!
The entire application is based on flash and contains almost all features of a basic image editing sotfware. You may give it a try if you want a simple yet fast web based image editing tool.
Google had creates a lot of different logos for different holidays and events. They actually store these logos in a “museum” and everybody are allow to view these logos from their official site.
For example, this site contains Holiday Logos that used by Google from 1999-2008, while this site contains logos design by Google’s users.
Users are not allowed to use these logos elsewhere, so plese don’t download and use them.
Do you think that it is possible to edit and modify website within your browser, just like editing a wiki website? Yes, it is possible!
Edit current website is a bookmarklet button. When you press the button, you can start edit the website, within install any other plugin or extension.
The modified website will stay until you press the refresh button. It is very useful when you want to take a print screen of certain website, but you want to modify the content. Instead of edit the content thrpugh image editing software, you can now do it within your browser.
In the example above, i had modified the radio button’s text to “Search this planet?“. Cool? So, how to add this bookmarklet to your browser? Simply drag this “Edit current website” and drop it to your browser’s toolbar.
Enjoy!
Bookmarklet: Edit current website
Sumo Paint is a powerful web based image editor, which looks similar to Adobe Photoshop.
Sumo Paint was built using Adobe Flash and it lets users to create and modify image online. It even lets users to upload image from their own computer.
Sumo Paint offers simple but powerful tools for users to create image online. The final results can be saved into your computer or store online. You can share your image to other users through the gallery feature.
Although the entire website (including its main page) was built using flash, but the loading speed is quite fast, which is an advantage compare to other flash-based application.
There are some other similar services such as Photoshop Express, Splashup, and Picnik.
The Color Picker is a free tool for designer to quickly grab the color code from anywhere on the screen.
Suppose you are a designer, and you found a color which you may use it in future. So what will you do? Print screen and paste the screenshot in any graphic editor and then use the color picker tool to grab the color code right? But, it is very troublesome that you need to repeat so much steps each time you want to save a new color.
Here comes a handy tool which will makes the job easy. The Color Picker, which is a free but powerful color picker. Whenever you found a color, just open the application, point your mouse to the color, and left click it. Thats all, the application will automatically save the color into the color palette and you can use it anytime.
The application provide both RGB and HEX code. The color palette will save your favorite colors and you can retrieve the color code anytime.
If you are a web/graphic designer, i think you may need this great tool, as it simplified the color capture process and it store your favorite colors also.
WaveMyPic is a free service which can apply lake effect to your picture.
There are a lot of online tools which can edit/modify/add special effects to your pictures. WaveMyPic is one of the example which can add lake effect. Simply upload any pictures and wait for the output to come out.
After you add lake effect to your picture, you will be given a link which point to the output. You can then embedded the output to your social media account using the provided link. Below is an example output from WaveMyPic:
The generated output image’s size is quite large. So i would recommend you to use the direct link to the output picture from WaveMyPic, instead of store it on your hosting account. It will save you a lot of bandwidth.
For a limited time, SitePoint is giving free copy of Photoshop ebook called “The Photoshop Anthology”. This book will cover different web design techniques by using Photoshop.
What you need to do is just provide your email address, and they will send you the download link. There are two format of ebook (high resolution and low resolution). I suggest that you download the high resolution version, although it may take longer time. But it is worth as you get higher quality of graphics and images.
I had use my yahoo mail in the email form, but unfortunately it take few hours before i can get the download link. You can direct download the ebook from sitepoint without register (Thanks labnol for sharing the link).
download high resolution version | download low resolution version
Source: labnol
mooColorFinder can search through the CSS files for any color used in that website, as long as a website specifies its CSS styles W3C conform.
Simply type in the website address and hit enter. After that you will get a screenshot of the website, including all colors used and its color code.
The above screenshot show the result of colors used in this page. mooColorFinder also provide an API for users to display the color cloud on their page.
Deyey is a Hong Kong based company which provide service on creating free name card using their online tools.
How to spell Deyey? Well, Deyey should be splited in 3 words D-EYE-Y. The meaning is “Do some visuals that are related to your businesses by yourself”. They aim to provide service for small bussiness and individual to save their cost to run and promote website.
Every user will get around 100MB after sign up. Users can use the storage to save their name card, find and save others name card, or even as a personal online storage.
Create a name card using Deyey is extremely easy for a beginner. First, choose your background from the galleries, then proceed with your logo. After that, you can add more information such as your Company name, address, and phone number to it. It is a flash-based application, which is very user-friendly.
After you create your name card, you can save it so that other Deyey users can search it. This is how Deyey help you to promote your company.
As a personal inventory, i don’t think 100MB is enough. Perhaps they will increase their storage or maybe add paid package which will have bigger storage.
