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So if you like COLOURlovers.com, you’ll probably like the iPhone Palettes App. It allows you to use a photo from your iPhone library or take a new photo and it will create color palettes for you.

You can also “browse, seach, and import palettes from COULOURlovers.com. There are a lot more features and I’m not going to go into details. You can check them out for yourself at the developer’s site.

At $9.99, I thought it was a bit steep but thought I should get it just to see what it does. There is a lite version you can try out for free, but as with any free tryout app at the app store, it usually isn’t as good as the full version. The thing I wish it had was a thumbnail of the picture I took to create the swatches. As a designer, sometimes I like to reference to something I’ve seen and how the colors are used, not just having some colors on the screen. So yeah, I hope the developer can improve that. I know images from libraries can be deleted thus they won’t be available, but if there is a way to auto create an album or some sort just for the Palettes App, so you won’t delete that folder, then that should work. But anyway, like I said, if you like COLOURlovers already, then you’ll like this app for your iPhone.

If you don’t have an iPhone…what are you waiting for. Seriously, run out and get one!!! I can’t imagine life without one now….

A List Apart + An Event Apart + 33,000 web professionals + 37 questions survey = The Web Design Survey 2007. The survey showed stats based on age, gender, ethnicity, job title, geographic region, education, and etc. The raw data from the survey were translated by statisticians Alan Brickman and Larry Yu.

“We did not learn everything we hoped to. Ambiguities in some parts of the survey yielded ambiguities in some data. After an analysis of the survey itself, we now possess detailed recommendations for improving future surveys.” –A List Apart

I’m sure as a designer, it is still something fun to look at since it’s been translated into graphic charts even if it’s not perfect.

So the Apple iPhone is out. I know this doesn’t have much to do with Web Design…shame on me, but any designer can learn from Apple. In anything they do basically from the design of their website to the way they package their products. Even the way they designed their stores make people want to just go in and hang out. Their user interface for the iPhone is also cool and sets a new generation of phones/wireless devices.

I would love to get the iPhone and I thought I wasn’t going to at first just because it might be an overkill for me (I like basic phone), but I think I’ll wait for the next one since the first release “might” be not as good as the next (like my laptop that was the first version I got right when it came out, now this version does not work with the new airport extreme) The iPhone is just so cool though, so I think I’ll just have to get one eventually. Plus I’d have to change to AT&T since that’s the only provider that you can use for now. You can order it online now at the Apple store. $499 will get you the 4GB and $599 will get you the 8GB (Free Shipping too!). Remember that it is also an iPod, so the price isn’t that much if you think about it.

Oh yes and the Apple website has gone black, but so has google. The blackgoogle says “We provide you with a ‘Black Google Search Page’ to REDUCE EYE STRAIN and SAVE ENERGY while conducting Google searches. This search engine is 100% Google, it’s just black. All searches from this portal will take you directly to google.com with a black background.” Though I thought the black version strains my eyes more. For google, I still like the black version. For Apple, I think I’ll like any version they have!!

Tumblr is a new form of short quick blog tool. You can use text, photo, quote, link, chat, or video. The point of it is that it’s just quick and simple. Kinda like Twitter but it’s still more of a blog and you can also add friends and have followers…well, yeah…again kinda like Twitter.

“To make a simple analogy: If blogs are journals, tumblelogs are scrapbooks.”

Anyway, they will basically host it or you can use a custom domain name. You do have to point your A record to “72.32.231.8″. I’m not sure if every host will have this available. If you want to set up a free subdomain to point to tumblr through webdesignstuff.com such as tumblog.webdesignstuff.com or whatever.webdesignstuff.com, then use the contact form and write down the subdomain you wish to use and once it’s set up, you’ll get an email and all you have to do is put it in your tumblr setting like this:

and you’ll be ready to tumble!!!!!!

The 11th Annual Webby Awards Winners have been selected and the Webby Awards Celebration will be June 3-5, in NYC. David Bowie will be accepting the Webby Lifetime Achievement Awards June 5th. Flickr of course won a few and congratulations to Jonathan Yuen who received multiple awards for his peronal web site including Best Use of Animation or Motion Graphics, Best Visual Design - Aesthetic and Personal Web Site.

I’ve just tested the Del.icio.us widget out from yourminis.com. It’s pretty cool and of course that’s not the only widget available. There are widgets for blog like techcrunch or searchable widgets for things like Craigslist and eBay. Anyway it’s just fun looking around for different widgets. I even had fun just changing colors, fonts size and window sizes for the widget. Yeah, it doesn’t take too much to amuse me! =)

The MAY 1ST REBOOT for 2007 has inititated and all participants has launched their new sites. If you’ve missed this years reboot, you can always try for next year. It’s an annual event where participants take down their sites and redesign it and all relaunched on May 1st. Participant must have a before and after screenshots of their site.

The reboot will be judged by 8 selected judges and the popular vote will guide the Judges with their decisions. Voting will start on May 7th, so you can still participate in this event by voting. It’s just fun and you might find some inspiring sites and most of the site are very well designed!

Having a favicon for your site is easier than ever. Back in the days, you had to find a program that did it or download a plugin for photoshop to create your own favicon. Now there are sites that let’s you upload an image you want to create the .ico with and click, you have your favicon to download and use.

You can try it here on html-kit site:

If you still want to do it your own way because you have more control, then you can use the icon plugin for photoshop which allows you to create .ico extension. Then head here for more info on the “how to”.

This is unbelievable - a court in Texas…Dallas no less ruled against a website operator for linking to a ‘audio webcast’ from his own site. It’s stating that the site is liable for copyright infringement and that the site owner had no permission to link to it.

The site owner did not host the ‘audio webcast’ on his own site, he only linked to it. I’m not sure what’s going through this judge’s mind when he made the ruling, maybe he was just too hungry for lunch and didn’t want to really think too much about it or may it’s true with what most people are saying. He may not understand the internet.

The site owner obviously didn’t intentionally let people think that it’s his clip or he didn’t use frames to make it look like it was on his site. On the other side of the argument is that by deep linking, user may by pass advertising that would have been seem if entered through the homepage and any other pages you may need to click on before getting to that webcast, but golly…shouldn’t they ban guns instead?

Anyhow, you can’t see anything on the site Supercrosslive.com anymore since they had to take it off, and I can’t see much on SFX site (if it’s the correct one, it just has errors on most pages) but it could have been that they were linking directly to a source file. So say if you were to take someone source .mov or .gif and instead of linking to their page with the content on it, you link to to the source. Well, even if that’s the case, there are things you can do using server settings to protect that OR you can put interstitials in the clip itself if you are truely wanting advertising dollars. The thing is is this really banning all deep linking? That just creates user unfriendly situations on the web. If everyone had to only link to the homepage, can you imagine that you have to then look for the page that someone might be referring to that is deeply linked? What about google search result. If google were to display a page that’s deep linked, which is of course most of the time, then does google run the risk of deep linking? Up to a certain point, it’s the site owner that should control what people can and cannot have access to.