Apple has been a brand associated with class and design for a long time. For decades, luxurious Macs have been the weapon of choice for creatives, designers, musicians, visual artists – the hip, the fashionable, the famous. The slick designs of Mac computers are still winning award after award, and they are famous for their ingenious OS X, which is praised for its great user interface design and user friendliness.
In comes MacDesktops.com. Endless series of the ugliest wallpapers you have ever seen. Prepare to be confronted with the most disgusting “designs” ever, coming from a completely unexpected direction. Wallpapers so ugly, that it shakes the entire Mac brand. This is not just disturbing, it’s insulting. If you ever thought of Mac users as elitists, you were right, and this is why.
From a bright sight, revolting as it may be for some, this might just be one of the richest sources for post modern art and subjectivism you will ever encounter. Hooray for post modernism.
Just a short announcement: I have released the Wordpress Related Posts plugin version 2.0. It has a lot of cool new features so make sure you update.
Welcome to the first episode of the Nifty Design Solutions series. In each episode I will take on a certain (interaction) design problem, and try to gather a series of solutions. Some of them might be ingenious, some of them might be pure eye candy, but they will always be nifty.
Todays episode: Flash Headlines.
Lately this concept has been emerging as a solution for presenting headlines as an attractive rich media experience. It is mostly used by sites whose main focus is news or entertainment, although other branches are catching on quickly. Large visuals, semi-transparent sections, animation, video and audio are combined into an appealing impression of what the site has to offer, with the nice side effect of creating the feel of being a good quality content website. — Read on
Muharraqi studios, founded by Bahrain based 3D artist Khalid Al-Muharraqi, have an amazing gallery. Khalid’s father Abdulla is one of the most famous artists in the Kingdom of Bahrain. His paintings are equally impressive.
Interesting how father and son, although using different tools and platforms, share a lot of themes in their work.
After receiving overwhelming responses to the first release of the Related Posts plugin for Wordpress, I have tried to implement a range of new features as requested by my loyal commenters. — Read on
This Wordpress plugin lets you manually select related posts using a nifty AJAX powered search utility. A powerful tool for boosting pages per visit and SEO.
Download the Related Posts plugin
Current stable version: 2.3
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The #1 Worpress plugin to save your website from losing traffic and Pagerank after changing your permalink structure.It has been updated to 2.5 compatibility. Download version 1.3 here.
Already one of my favorite online identities, Johnny Lee’s presentation at TED of a couple ingenious Wii hacks. — Read on
And then suddenly Adobe takes the online office thing to a whole new level: Buzzword; a flash based online word processor.
After Alexanders feedback, I fixed a bug in the WP plugin “Permalinks Moved Permanently”.
Before, the plugin would not work if your old permalink structure did not contain anything between the domain and the post slug. So this would not work:
http://www.example.com/post-name/
The latest release (version 1.2) does.
If you have been experiencing this problem too, download the new version here.
Thanks again, Alexander.
