The Top 6 web tools that improve my productivity

To state the obvious - things happen and change very quickly on the web. To keep up and access information that’s relevant to you it’s essential to manage the process and focus your attention otherwise you run the risk of investigating everything, yet learning nothing. Investigate new applications and sites to fill different needs until [...]

Fab Friday Find - cool website of the week - Photobox

My husband (an enthusiastic photographer) found this site a few weeks ago and started playing around with it. Photobox allows you to create and design custom photo albums online using their  user-friendly website interface - here’s the kicker though, once you’ve created your album they then physically make it up, print your pics, bind the [...]

Fab Friday Find - Cool site - Skitch.com

I’ve been a bit slack on the FFF but to be honest I haven’t found anything uber-cool to feature…until now
Check out Skitch - a super cool Mac app from plasq (sorry Windows peeps - once you’ve had mac you’ll never go back, they are planning a Windows version though) If you’ve used Comic [...]

Easy online video creation

I wanted to create a short compilation for a facebook page of the top 20 designs from last years Makhulu Polane (Big idea) t-shirt design competition we run on behalf of Big Blue, last year’s design theme was ‘AfroKaaner’. When I was with Grant Shippey this morning he mentioned animoto - I checked it out [...]

Fab Friday Find - Gramlee.com

The simplest ideas always seem to be the most successful ones, particularly when it comes to web start-ups. Gramlee offers the first ‘while you wait’ editing service, real-life editors review text for spelling and grammar errors and check overall readability.
From their site:
Step 1:
Compose your text in any text [...]

Fab Friday Find - cool sites

In each Fab Friday Find I highlight some cool websites (that are just cool) or that could make your lives easier.
My first find deserves more than a small mention. Withtank offers easy, instant, user-friendly, free website creation. I’m not a programming or design guru but I needed a functional, simple website fast, but above all [...]