Loads of free comic fonts! Even Roy Lichtenstein style

You want to use Roy Lichtensteins comic font that he used in his speech bubbles? One was created by Albright-Knox Art Gallery: "P22 Pop Art Comic"

According to Fontshop
"The Pop Art font set was developed for the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York. The Comic typeface, in regular and bold italic, was inspired by the work of Roy Lichtenstein, whose crisp, clear caps were distinctive but legible."

You can buy it for example here:
Fonts.com

Dont want to pay? Here are loads of free alternatives:
hans.presto
Blambot
manfred-klein

"Laffayette Comic Pro" is fairly similar:
dafont

Read magazines online for free

"Read the world. Publish the world." Thats what http://issuu.com/ claims anyways. See for yourself what you think!

How to create a Roy Lichtenstein style image in Photoshop or Illustrator

Here are some great tutorials if you would like to become a pop-art artist!

http://vectortuts.com/illustration/turning-a-photo-into-lichtenstein-style-pop-art-with-illustrator/




http://www.creativepro.com/article/digital-pop-art-unleash-your-inner-warhol

http://www.melissaclifton.com/tutorial-popart.html

http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/news/index.cfm?newsid=11762

80's t-shirt and other great stuff to be a cool kid!

Transformers, A-Team, Pacman, etc etc all great stuff found at http://www.80stees.com/

Free shortfilms at Klingenberg kino in Oslo

Every day at 17.40 free shortfilms at Klingenberg. Check out the films shown: http://www.oslokino.no/kortfilm/

Organise cables

What a ingenious little plastic thingy. "Keep-A-Cable" has the overview for a cable organiser (and holder), that I have looked for so long! Just ordered one. Hope it keeps what I hope it promises. http://www.kk.org/cooltools/archives/002864.php

Save files online (and syncing) them too

There are many ways of saving files online and possibly syncing them thereby. Here are some alternatives I have found:

- Skydrive (5gb free),












- MSN shared folder,
















- Office Live (integrated with the MS Office suite)




- Gdisk (a software that turns your GMail account into a portable hard drive)


-mailbigfiles.com (not really storage as such, only another way of distributing large files rather than sending via email, but I find their free service better than YouSendits)

-YouSendit(not really storage as such, only another way of distributing large files rather than sending via email)

- Amazon S3 ($0.15 per GB-Month of storage used AND monthly trafic cost)

- Apples mobile.me (Individual One-year subscription $99)






And finally my favourite: Dropbox (invitation only, but giving you 2gb free, with cross-platform functionality and web interface too. And its just drag and drop!)

Make your blog talk!

Added a new funny feature to my blog:
Its free, and makes your blog talk. Now one can download my blog posts as podcasts too!

phoneticom.com

http://www.audiofeedcreator.com

http://feeds.readspeaker.com/podcaster/flash/xspf_player.swf?playlist_url=http://feeds.readspeaker.com/audiofeed/4131.xspf

Easy tutorials (handdrawn and simple)

Simple animations with simple explanations of mainly web stuff. Such as "what is twitter?"
http://www.commoncraft.com/

Yes! Free fresh music

Discovered this great site by chance. Its got a (daily) dose of high quality free music. Great way of discovering new bands. Ah, and I really love the music player made in Flash! www.yesyesyall.org

Paint websites gold!

Campaign site done by agency: Colle+McVoy, Minneapolis. Pretty cool tagging other sites, while listening to good music:

http://www.paintthatshitgold.com/

Read more about it here:

http://www.frederiksamuel.com

Blip TV - another Youtube?

Another alternative to YouTube: http://www.blip.tv/
The difference being that the image quality seems to be better and that one here kind of can choose between different tv channels like my friends Hootan Mahallatis Rightpedal

Cool designer font screensavers

A great Helvetica screensaver from: http://scr.sc/products/dropclock/ And its both for Windows and osX! HOWEVER: 136mb for a screensaver is rather heavy.. (And I cant seem to get it downloaded somehow...) Any help?

This wordclock is also pretty cool:
http://www.simonheys.com/wordclock/

Looking for more news on type? Check out this: http://www.typeneu.com/

Gulltaggen 2008 showing Virgin Galactic and The Reactable

Yesterday was Norways web-awardshow, Gulltaggen, celebrating its 10. anniversary in Oslo Spectrum. Unfortunately the project I worked on for Microsoft, Heroes happen here, didnt win. But you can read about it (and all other nominations) here.


Gulltaggen had a couple of good seminars, especially the one by president Will Whitehorn from Virgin Galactic. Great stuff! Sci-fi today:


Another great experience was seeing the Reactable live. The reactable is a collaborative electronic music instrument with a tabletop tangible multi-touch interface. They performed live at Gulltaggen 2008 in Oslo

Padre Paranoia sells funky t-shirts!

My Spanish friend Chema has gotten his new website up and running. See (and order!) his great designs at
http://www.padreparanoia.com/

Personally, I like the flying Leika the best :)

Next years color trends

At least this is according to the Swedes at Cap&Design

http://capdesign.idg.se/2.990/1.156101

Design your own font

Easy web application to create your own font for free. They will be under Creative Commons license and hence free for all users

Test it here: http://fontstruct.fontshop.com/

Loads of Typos at ilovetypography.com

John D Boardley is from the UK, but lives in Japan. He has a great blog about fonts:

http://ilovetypography.com/

Broadcast directly from your mobile phone

New Scandinavian website Bambuser.com lets you broadcast directly and live from your mobile phone onto your website or blog.

Read all about it here (in Norwegian):
http://www.hjemmepc.no/tips___triks/article214246.ece

Or visit your website: www.bambuser.com

"Google" city guides

Powered by Google Maps, Swift City is a quite cool online city guide. Browse the web and zoom in to the place of interest. Ah, no. Acctually, as this site is quite new, there hardly are any places to read about. Shame, but maybe you want to write your own reviews for them? http://www.swiftcity.com/


Osaka on your left.

Discount again on tshirts

8. of March is the international Womens day! So being nice I give you a discount code for my webshop: “FRAU2008" That gives you 33% on all womens products. Sweet. http://www.portada.no/butikk

Sony Ericsson w810i applications

The official w810i app
Sony Ericsson PC Suite 2.10.46 (for Windows Vista/XP)

MyPhoneExplorer
http://www.fjsoft.at/en/downloads.php
THE best software to backup your SMS. AND its freeware! (but please, do pay!:)

LaSyk
http://myw810.lasyk.net/
many different applications, wallpapers, etc

Buy your tshirt now, get free shipping!

At a Minimum Order of £
35 or 50€ or 400 Norwegian Kroner. Free Shipping and a red String Thong for free! Code: Valentinus2008+
Visit my webshop now: http://www.portada.no/butikk/

Find images and photos

Sometimes you might wanna find images, photos or god forgive: even clip-arts! Well, search no further:

http://www.deviantart.com/

Just look at the beautiful "dirty paper" I found in REALLY HIGH resolution! Yummy.

Norwegian Heroes Happen here site online!

Pretty proud now! My very first big Microsoft project is finally live! The site is promoting Microsoft Norways biggest launch this year with an event taking place on the 6. of March. Its called Heroes happen hereAh, and did I mention the video idea was mine? :) Enjoy!

Internal joke for nerdy designers: Design Police

Extremly funny templates for designers who think that just because you have the tools (Adbobe CS), means that you know design.

Download template for sticker production and let people know what you think about posters, ads, etc. that you see everywhere around you.

http://www.design-police.org/

Unlock several files at once - osx

This fantastic application, LockMeBaby, does what osx should be doing on its it: namly being able to unlock several files, folders and subfolders in one go! It even works on external harddisks.

http://soramimi-works.net/software.shtml

I sent the company an email with some questions and rapidly got a reply:

Here's how to lock/unlock files on external drives by LockMeBaby:
1) Uncheck "Run in safe mode" in the preference panel.
2) Select "/ (Root)" from the popup as browser's root directory.
3) In the leftmost column, you'll find a directory "Volumes". Your
external drives should be listed under "Volumes" directory.

Hope this helps and please be careful when you turn off "Safe mode" as
many system-related files appear in LockMeBaby's browser.

How to download ebooks from Google

Apparently this is the way to download ebooks from Google Books. Good luck!

allinurl: +(rarchmzippdftgz) java basics
OR
+("java basics") +("/ebooks""/book") +(chmpdfziprar) +apache

Fantastic video website!

This website is like the BBC of Youtube! Only quality videos about art, technology, etc.
ted.com/ As they say: "Inspired talks by the worlds greatest thinkers and doers."

MSN online status blocker

Check if someone has blocked you on MSN. This website checks whether the person is online og not. And if they dont appear on your MSN, but appear as online on this site, you might have been blocked.. :) http://www.msnblockchecker.info/

Running Explorer (IE 6/7) on osX

You design websites on a Mac, but want to test them in IE 6 or 7 but cant be bothered to run Bootcamp? Well, check out:
http://macapper.com/2007/11/29/ies4osx-run-internet-explorer-567-natively-in-os-x/

http://occy.net/node/166

Download
http://darwine.sourceforge.net/


http://www.kronenberg.org/ies4osx/

PowerPoint Tip: AutoFit (automatically resize text)

AutoFit Text in PowerPoint

In PowerPoint AutoFit intentionally shrinks the size of text as large amounts are added to a slide. The top complaint about PowerPoint slide presentations is text that is too small. PowerPoint Design templates were originally created to force good design by setting font size automatically. The AutoFit feature defeats this purpose and actually encourages too much text on slides by shrinking it as you type, allowing people to use fonts too small to be seen.

To turn AutoFit off:

	Choose Tools from the pull-down menu
	AutoCorrect Options
	Click the tab for AutoFormat As You Type
	Uncheck the 2 options under the Apply as you type section: AutoFit title text to placeholder AutoFit body text to placeholder.
	Click OK. The change applies to active and future PowerPoint presentations, old presentations are not affected. from: http://www.createthefuture.com or check out: http://office.microsoft.com

Mail big files for free

Got big files you say? Outlook or Thundbird inbox gets filled up too fast? Well, sending files via websites are a good solution. I usually use mailbigfiles.com for sending big files. However that site has a restriction of 100mb (the free version of the site, that is)

This site is free too, but has a 2gb (!) limit. Though you have to register and tried it once and it just stopped. So I guess its not that good after all...?
http://skickafilen.se/

Free too, 2gb limit. Havent tried it yet. But both are worth a shot.
http://www.filecentral.se

Free shipping in November!

This month I have free shipping at my t-shirt webshop. Just enter this code when you order: XMAS07

Gratis frakt på t-skjortene mine i november! Bare skriv inn kode ved bestillingen: XMAS07

Portada.no/butikk

Martin Slaatto is weird...

...and really loads of fun!

Went to see Martin Slaatto´s new show/installation/act at Maridalen Skytebane in Oslo. It was one 1h of strange experience. A man dressed in a red track suite, jumping around, climbing trees, flying a remote controlled helicoptre and suddenly reciting Hamlet. Everything without irony, but not without humour! 1hour fun with free coffee and rolls for 100kr. Well recommended!

Check out his website: http://www.slaattosloyfa.no

Here is a review of the show: Slaattos lek på alvor (its in Norwegian)

Free fonts and other free things...

Quite dumb name for a site "Hacking Ballz", but they have quite nice free fonts (for testing purposes only of course!...)

http://www.hackingballz.com/fuentes/a

Skjema og blanketter Turistsalg - tilbakebetaling av merverdiavgift

Hvis du bor i utlandet og vil ta få tilbake momsen / mva ved utreise fra Norge å dette gjøres innen 1 måned fra kjøpsdato.

Varen kan (iflg tollmannen jeg pratet med) være utpakket, evt. ring Tollvesenet Gardermoen utland

Dette skjemaet må fylles ut før avreise: "Turistsalg - tilbakebetaling av merverdiavgift, RD 0032" kan lastes ned hos http://www.toll.no

History of branding and companies

Brands, brands, brands! Here's a great site that tells you the history of loads of brands.

http://www.historyofbranding.com/
and while this linkhas more articles, etc. on brands: historyofbranding 2

Changing a XP folder's name text colour

One day I came to work and suddenly all my folder texts were in ugly blue, rather than black. Being intolerant to changes (that I have not done on purpose), I eventually figured out how to fix the problem:

You can then set your folder view to display compressed folders in blue (Tools, Folder Option, View, Show encrypted or compressed NTFS files in colour)

It will only slow things down a little as the operating system has to decompress the data when accessing it. Never seen it corrupt data.

Thanks to toms hardware for making me sleep better at night.. :)

Easily download YouTube movies via Safari (osx)

YouTube is great for finding all sorts of video clips, but wouldnt it be nice having them on your computer? And when I say computer, I mean Mac (it might even work on PCs, now that Safari is available on Windows too). So after some googling, I found the following tip at MacOSXhints.com:

If you're using Safari, there's an easy way to download YouTube videos. Open the page with the movie and press Command-Option-A (or Window - Activity), which shows the Activity window. If you're also loading other sites, you'll see a list of them: scroll until you find the YouTube page and click on the arrow to show details about what is being loaded.

You will certainly notice an element whose size is over 0.5MB (most of the time, over 5MB). Double-click on it (even if it is still loading), and Safari will download it. When the download is over, navigate to the file in the Finder (which will probably be called get_video) and add the extension .flv to its name. Now you can play it with VLC or with QuickTime (only if you have Perian installed).

Fantastic!

Read the original post at:
MacOSXhints.com

Vector logos in EPS: Its Brands of the World!

At some point you need a companies logo vectorized, because you have a presentation to do, your client hasnt supplied you with a logo, or if do do have, its a crappy jpg. BUT help is near! Loads of logos can be found on: http://www.brandsoftheworld.com/

Mainly US logo, but hey! Give globalisation some time and all logos are here...

Cap&Design 20yrs present

The brilliant Swedish design magazine Cap&Design is celebrating 20 years anniversary. And they are so nice, so they let us download 23 PDF backissues for free. Go to www.capdesign.se/jubilar20 Username: Läsare Password: jubileumsläsning

Happy birthday Cap (and to all readers: enjoy the PDFs.. :)!