• Lasf.fm Wallpaper Generator
  Makes you a wallpaper based on what you listen to in iTunes. OSX already does this, but it generates a screensaver, not a jpg.
  (tags: wallpaper)

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Mint – the US web application that lets you manage your finances intuitively online – just got support from nearly all the major financial institutions in the US and will, on May 6, launch a tool which offers the ability to track your investment accounts as well.

Lifehacker has a nice tour of the site, with annotations layered on top of the screenshots.

Nothing… Read the rest of Mint.com launches investment tracking, gets support from financial institutions

Filed under: Web Applications on April 30th, 2008 | 1 Comment »

• U.K. Cracks Down on Word-of-Mouth With Tough Restrictions
  It will soon be a criminal offense in the UK for brands to misrepresent themselves online as consumers.

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Just set up newrelease as my OpenID identifier. It was fairly easy in the end..

1. First I registered for free with ClaimID – an OpenID provider
2. Then I clicked on “help using OpenID” and got to this page
3. Which gave me the two <link> tags I needed to set up my blog as my OpenID identifier
4. Then I opened up my wordpress

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This is something that applies not only to the digital world, but more and more to the physical world, and rightfully so.

To be truly great in the world of product design, you need to transcend the mere object, and be an experience designer. Think about how your product will weave its way into the life of the person who adopts it.

A great man once said of… Read the rest of Experience is the Product - Peter Merholz

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Vimeo is an incredibly well designed video sharing community. This vid shows the genesis of an illustration commissioned for their recent redesign.

The music is “We Carry On”, off the new Portishead album

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Noticed this morning Facebook have launched a native chat application – something that occurred to me a while back as potentially killer module for the site, and sorely needed. Wall posts suck. Yes, they really suck.

This new chat direction might be quite a killer app, closing the communication loop for them. Unfortunately it only runs in the browser window at the mo, with… Read the rest of Facebook Chat Launches

Filed under: Social Media on April 23rd, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Been reskinning, or rather adding a decent skin for the first time.. I’m not done yet and the site is probably totally knackered in IE at the moment, but I don’t have time to sort it right now, its gonna have to wait for the weekend.

I also want to build out the formatting styles and sidebar a bit more, maybe add some icons too… Read the rest of New Release reskin

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