Javascript is getting better (than Flash..?)

Well, ok. So I really exaggerated to grab you attention. But codes like Scrollable
really does stuff that Flash did back in the days. (that would be 2001 or so for my part). Time flies. Check it out.

Monitor your brand on social media

13 Ways to Monitor Your Brand on Social Media: Do You Know What Is Being Said About Your Company Online?

Microsofts LookingGlass is promising to help you out too. Read the blogpost on its latest updates

Reveal how a website is built

Wanna find out what servers, meta tags, webanalytics tools, etc a website uses? Use

Builtwith.com It "reveals" the inner secrets of a website. The image shows for example some of the info you get from my site Portada.no

Check your Google Pagerank

Wanna know your Pagerank fast? Use:

Check Page Rank of any web site pages instantly:

This free page rank checking tool is powered by Page Rank Checker service

And to see how your backlinks (sites linking to your site) is doing, use: PageRank Checker For Your Backlinks
Good way of finding out which site helps you getting higher Pagerank.

Want your photos to look like Polaroids?

Quite funny, I downloaded loads of Polaroid images some time back, so that in case I wanted to create Polaroidstyle photos with Photoshop I could. Then suddenly get an email from the lead developer at Rollip.com telling me about their website and web-application.

Its an easy 3 click manner to create images like the one you see on the left. Its free too!

One thing Im missing though, is the ability to choose the position and cropping of the photo I'm uploading to the Polaroid template. Hope to see that in their next release.

Get (more) social on your blog easily and free

Wibiya.com have created a brilliant application/plugin to be added on your blog. Works on Blogger, Wordpress, and many more. And Ive just added it to my blog as you can see.

What is it you may ask? Its a toolbar that shows your Twitter feed, Facebook page, translates your blog, gives you search ++ Its completely customizable, free and gives you statistics too. This video explains it fairly well:



ps. Its still in Beta, but only took me one day to get invite.

Great typography sites

Webdesignledger has made as great list of 10 Incredible Sites to Improve Your Typography Skills

Personal favourites include:
Helveticons.ch
Great websitedesign, great icons. All based on Helvetica Yummy.

Typesites.com
Proper reviews of website typography. Good stuff.

Most common web-banner formats in Norway (mest vanlig banner formater i Norge)

After some research, I (believe) I have found the most common webbanner formats in Norway.

Both the ad agency McCann Norge and webproduction company Jucicy agree that these are the 3 most common sizes: - Board: 468x400

- Topbanner: 768x150

- Skyscraper: 180x500 (can have different heights)

Microsoft Advertising Norge say they use mainly

- 300x250

- 234x60

But, they also have: 728x90, 160x600 and 180x150

This is the overview from VG banner formater
Format Pixler (bredde x høyde) Maks kB
Toppboard 768 piksler 150 piksler 50 kB
Nettboard 468 piksler 400 piksler 60 kB
Nettboard3 468 piksler 600 piksler 60 kB
Sideboard 180 piksler 500 piksler 40 kB
Sideboard 180 piksler 650 piksler 45 kB
Smalmidt 468 piksler 100 piksler 30 kB
Midiboard 360 piksler 308 piksler 30 kB
Smartboard 360 piksler 100 piksler 25 kB
Knapp 180 piksler 120 piksler 20 kB
Frimerke 180 piksler 150 piksler 25 kB

Any thougths on this?

(Bannersize image taken from Bannercreator)

Webchat on your website using Gtalk or Yahoo

Olark, previoulsy known as Hab.la (which was a MUCH better name btw), offers easy and free webchat functionality to your website. When you are connected on Gtalk it will show on your website without revealing your username.

Really great if you have a webshop for example and want to chat with your customers.

Great work Olark!

Download Youtube videos easily

Gazzump (previously known as Farkie) downloads and converts Youtube videos, MySpace playlists, movies, audio, images, and much more into several different formats such as mp3, avi, mov, etc. Its kind of slow at times, but still usefull if you want to for example check out a video offline or listen to a song as a mp3 that you cant find anywhere. (Example: The fantastic song "Bonkers" by Dizzee Rascal & Armand Van Helden is not available on iTunes, nor have I found it in any shop, but its on Youtube...)

Only bad part about Gazzump is that you have to register.

YouTube is getting stricter with copyright: Sounds off

Wanted to listen to The Bucketheads "The Bomb" on Youtube, found a video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2THjmRLyp8

BUT, heres a new one: the sound is disabled! Under the video it says:

NOTICE
This video contains an audio track that has not been authorized by WMG. The audio has been disabled. More about copyright..

I understand that Google needs to earn money and copyright is important, and am not sure how they can do this with so much usergenerated content (and seems as they dont really know either..) But if they continue like this people will just go to other sites like Vimeo ..

Paul Chaffey: 5 laws for social media

Paul Chaffey comments on Paul Gillin's book "The New Influencers". Shortly summed up these are the 5 laws:
1. Thou shalt link.
2. Thou shalt not diss.
3. Thou shalt be transparent.
4. Thou shalt comment.
5. Thou shalt not blather.

(Chaffey's article is worth the read, but it's in Norwegian)

Buy a logo, domain or even business concept!

Why bother think, when someone else can? Buy the lot at
http://incspring.com

Find inspiration from other websites

Need a button for your website? A breadcrumb menu? Out of inspiration? Look at http://patterntap.com/ The site gathers sreenshots from several sites and makes it fast and easy to get inspired (or copy..;) Here is an example for "Audio".

How EMI does viral on Youtube

Found a great track today by Roll Deep "The Avenue" while listening to Last.fm. Found it on Youtube. The video has been uploaded by someone else than EMI, namely "aleduke". Rather than asking him to remove it from Youtube, EMI says: "Embedding disabled by request". Oh the joys of the musicindustry...

SkypeIn and SkypeOut on my w810i using Midp/Java

As I still live in the darkages of mobiles with my w810i, I envy all iPhone users with their great selection of apps from Apples AppStore. For example having Skype (except for T-mobile users who are banned from using it...) and Windows Live Messenger on your phone. So when I found Skype having a Java programme, I was well happy! It looks great (as opposed to most Java/Midp apps...), but happiness was short lived! I figured out I can ONLY chat to other Skype users with it from my mobile (or cell phone if you like). Pretty much useless then.

Previously I have mentioned EQO mobile, which works quite well for IP ringing. But IM+ for Skype seems much better! Not only can I phone Skype users and use SkypeOut, but I can also receice Skype calls. Fantastic! Would just love if they could upgrade the Java (Midp 2.0) layout, cause thats not really fancy...


7 days trial, or get the whole for 10 US bucks. Its a deal!

Banner annonser er moro...

Så denne banneren på DN i dag som jeg ikke helt skjønte: "Spar penger, Fly Norwegian", etterfulgt av "Alle fordelene med å ikke bruke flybelte". Hæ!?


Så fortsetter bannere rullingen på høyre side, type:
"Dropp fly, bruk våre konferansetelefon løsninger" (Datametrix er en ledende leverandør av IP-baserte løsninger som muliggjør sikker kommunikasjon mellom mennesker via data, tale og video.)

Kanskje ikke helt slik Norwegian så for seg annonseringen..?

Facebook is all open, or maybe you want some privacy?

10 easy tips on how to get some privacy once on Facebook. Could come in handy if you are as paranoid as I am. No, wait! Cant be that bad. After all, I have a blog. Two blogs. Two websites. Twitter, eh... + + Ok. So much for privacy paranoia..

Create your own RSS feed readers easy

Like many other I wanted to have RSS feeds on my website, in this case my Twitter feed on my blog. Not having the normal Blogger template, I wasnt able to use the Blogger feed widget. So I had to look elsewhere. Finally I found an article listing up a bunch of different, easy to use RSS feedcreators that dont need programming skills. Robin Good wrote them. After reviewing most of them I concluded that FeedSweep and SpringWidgets where the easiest to use. Both are free btw. Though the SpringWidget has nice scrolling, it doesnt really integrate well visually (I find) with the rest of my site, so I ended up with FeedSweep. It has a great easy to use editor, with loads of options, such as border colors, font size, etc.

I only have sometimes some trouble saving the feedreaders. I guess you cant get it all..

Anyways, good luck!

Why are all these icons for free!?

They all look great: http://iconpot.com/ is my honey pot!

Spam is fun! (sometimes

Sometimes spam is fun, as the one I got today proves:

IT IS NOT A SPAM, but if you received that message second and plus time JUST CLICK DELETE button and have a nice day. Don't feel bad, please understand original Scarlett's family very desperate to shut down that humiliating antichristian "actress" clones line career development. Hello dear Ladies and Gentlemen! I would like inform you that Scarlett Johansson ?actress? actually is a clone from original person Scarlett Galabekian last name, who has nothing with acting career, surname Galabekian, because of adoption happened in 1992. Clones was created illegally by using stolen biological material. Original person is very nice (not d**n sexy),most important - CHRISTIAN young lady! I'll tell you more,those clones (it's not only one) made in GERMANY - world leader manufacturer of humans clones, it is in Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Rhineland-Palatinate, Mr. Helmut Kohl home town. You can not even imaging the scale of the cloning activity. But warning! Helmut Kohl clone staff strictly controlling all their clones (at least they trying) spreading around the world, they are very accurate with that, some of them are still NAZI type disciplined and mind controlled clones, so be careful get close with clones you will be controlled as well. Original person is not happy with those movies, images, video, rumors and etc. spreading on media in that way it would be really nice if we all will try slow down that ''actress'' career development, original Scarlett will really appreciated that. Please remember that original Scarlett's family did not authorize any activity with stolen biological materials, no matter what form it was created in it was stolen and it is stolen. It all need to be delivered to authorize personals control in Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. Original Scarlett never was engaged, by the way! Her close friend Serge G. P.S. CONTROLLING ACTIVITY OF ANY CLONES IS US MILITARY OPERATION. Check also here: / have deleted the url/ H.R. 534, the Human Cloning Prohibition Act of 2003, was introduced to the U.S. House of Representatives on February 5, 2003. After discussion, it was passed on February 27 by a vote of 241-155. It now moves on to the Senate for consideration. This bill makes it unlawful for any person or entity to perform or participate in human cloning, or to ship or receive embryos produced by human cloning. The penalties are imprisonment of up to 10 years and fines of $1 million or more. These now join other nations as diverse as Norway, Australia, and many other countries, which had already added cloning for any purpose to their criminal code. And in Germany where it carries a penalty of five years imprisonment they know a thing or two about unethical science.

Uff. Last.fm wants my money

I guess it was almost just a matter of time, now Last.fm wants my money. Only $3 a month, but still. A shame. Loads say that Spotify will win this battle, but I use these sites differently, so I believe both can live side by side. Seems like all sites start like this, free at start, get loads of users, then trying to figure out how to get money, then subscription charges pop-up. Reality bites.

YouTube music mashup by Kutiman

Kutiman mixes songs and musicclips from YouTube into quite funky songs. See all his songs on YouTube or his website http://www.thru-you.com
My favourite song is called "I'm New. Here it goes: Kutiman (Thru-you)

After Danger Mouse "Grey Album" came Jaydiohead

I was listening to Girl Talk on Last.fm and then I heard Jaydiohead.

He is like Danger Mouse, but mixes Radiohead with Jay-Z. Kind of cool I thought and I wanted more. So I visited his website. There his album can be downloaded for free at http://jaydiohead.com

Other Twitter apps on mobile: Jib Jib & uTweetMe

If you dont like the interface of Jitter, check out http://code.google.com/p/jibjib/. uTweetMe is another Java app for mobiles, but I never got it to work on my w810i. Has someone gotten it to work?

Twitter usage increases in Norway and how to get old mobile phones (ie. w810i) on Twitter

I have been on Twitter for a couple of months, but never really got the point. Probably also cause no one else in Norway got it either. I only had ONE friend/follower on Twitter. That was Tim. But over the last months, suddenly everyone seems to be on Twitter. And when the biggest Norwegian newspapers like VG and Dagbladet have journalist like my friend Snorre Bryne (Dagbladet) using it actively communicating with his readers and having Twitter streams in their articles AND Twingly, then you know its become mainstream in Norway too. The widespread popularity of the iPhone has increased the usage too.

Any-ways, having a blog I mixed that up with Twitter with TwitterFeed (its just really a feed from my blog to my twitter account) and then having the Twitter application in Facebook feeding from Twitter to my Facebook status field, suddenly I have created a little mashup and am so proud!

BUT, I dont own an iPhone, but obviously want to spam everyone with meaningless trivia from my daily life. So what to do? Tata!! I found the solution: Jitter. A tiny free Java application created by Abiro. It works on pretty much any phone supporting MIDlets. Such as my old w810i. Technology is wonderful! Hurrah!

Yahoo Pipes - mix your rss feeds

Havent really figured this one out. But it seems to be cool. Haha. Go Yahoo!
http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/

My very first (own) Wikipedia entry: Hyperstate!

Really bizzarre, but of some reason NO ONE has written about Norways biggest rave party Hyperstate on Wikipedia. So as the big philanthropist I am, ta ta!

http://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperstate

Please help the article become better, and feel good about yourself too :)

Test your site on any browser - Online

Browsershots - http://browsershots.org/
This complimentary service lets you test your Web design in 55 different combinations of Web browsers and operating systems. It's a handy tool to show a client how different systems can mangle sites using nonstandard code.

Type in a Web address, select which browser/OS combinations to test, and click the button. Browsershots uses distributed computing to test your page across a network of users, who send back screenshots showing the results.

Good looking icons

This site has loads of really good looking icons and templates to download. Quite complex design too.

http://www.httpartist.com

More free Family Guy

Another manner of watching Family Guy online. Faster than the previous site I recommended.

Looking for documentaries online? Check out Current TV

Not much more to say than they are free and online. Some are good, some not. But all documentaries (and TV shows) are free. So worthwhile checking out

http://current.com/

Added feedback form on my Portada online shop

I just added an uservoice feedback form on my online shop which sells tshirts and hoodies that I have designed. Lets see if people do leave comments. What do you think? Please leave a comment.

Watch Jim Carreyes new movie Yes for free online

Found this site yesterday called tv-dome.net. Pretty cool cause you can watch films and series online for free. Not very legite probably and in the case of this film "yes", the handycam quality is shit. But still, fast streaming. Enjoy, oh no! Wait. Jim Carreys new movie is not really funny...

Video call when Skype doesnt work...

Skype is great for calling, but also has a good video call function. However sometimes it doesnt work. Especially between a PC and Mac. So one needs alternatives. Heres an overview over 10 different video conference applications: 10 Skype alternatives I tried SightSpeed, but never got it to work apart from the chat function which was like a poor Messenger.

Apparently in January Microsoft will release a Beta of Windows Live Messenger for Mac that finally supports video too. Lets keep our fingers crossed and hope it works well.

Nabaztag the cute rabbit

Funky looking digital rabbit the Nabaztag that is connected to the Internet. Reads your email, rss feeds, oh... I dont get it really. BUT I want one now! Bit steep price though 145Euro...
http://www.nabaztag.com

Connect your iTunes to the Internet - MyTunesRSS

Yet another iTunes application I found on the net. Looks good, but I would have to have my Mac online 24/7... http://www.codewave.de/products/mytunesrss "MyTunesRSS allows you to access the music and videos from your iTunes library or any simple watch folder over a local network or even the internet. You can access your music from all over the world using a simple web browser." Seems good. Has anyone tried this?

Last FM is overloaded

Got this message the other day at last.fm. Doesnt suprise me really, after all, if people use it as much as i do every day (almost 4000 tracks played so far..), then it means loads of megabites transferred.

Spotify next? (Anyone got a token to share? :)

The website is down

Gotta love support. So true. Haha!
http://www.thewebsiteisdown.com

Skandiabanken has a new design...

From blue to black site. Seems like all websites go black this days. They have cleaned up a bit and the site looks fresher. But is it really better?

New ways a promoting music: Piratebay!

Swedish group "Far och son" launch their single "panik" on Piratebay. And have a great video too:

Compare different video sites

PC World has done a great job comparing different video sites, such as Youtube, Vimeo, etc. Funnily enough all sites are considered "good"

See the qualities here 

Read the whole PC World article

Loads of great looking RSS feed icon for free

This Russian website has collected an amazing collection of RSS feed icons. Just look at the funny Ikea version!

http://malevi4.wordpress.com Great stuff!

Create good-looking word clouds: Wordle

Heres a word cloud based on my blog. Create your own at http://wordle.net/create

Translation help via Messenger

Translation Bot for Windows Live Messenger. Simply add msnim:add?contact=mtbot@hotmail.com to your contacts and invite Tbot to your conversations. Simply add mtbot@hotmail.com to your contacts and invite Tbot to your conversations.

Read all about it: http://blogs.msdn.com/translation/default.aspx

http://www.windowslivetranslator.com/

Spam - everywhere and now even live!

Youtube alternatives: Vimeo, viddler, what other video site are there?!

More and more video sites are popping up. Good, considering Googles attempts to fill Youtube vids with overlay ads.

Here are just two examples from Vimeo, Viddler and Blip.tv :

http://www.vimeo.com/

Motion & Audio Experiments - A Minireel from Gustav Espenes on Vimeo.

http://www.viddler.com/
Steve Jobs WWDC 2008 Keynote


RightPedal video
http://www.blip.tv/ (by the way, original blip videos are massive 1280x750 pix)

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

5 sites that sell you on the web

The Swedish mag has gathered 5 sites that are good for designers wanting to promote themselves online:
http://capdesign.idg.se/2.990/1.161853

Easy tutorials (handdrawn and simple)

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

D&AD Awards 2008 winner

the results are in:
http://www.dandad.org/awards08/index.asp

and these are the categories:
Ambient
Art Direction
Book Design
Branding
Broadcast Innovations
Digital Installations
Direct
Environmental Design
Gaming
Graphic Design
Juries I-P
Illustration
Integrated
Magazine & Newspaper Design
Mobile Marketing
Music Videos
Online Advertising
Packaging Design
Photography
Poster Advertising
Press Advertising
Juries P-W
Product Design
Radio
TV & Cinema Advertising
TV & Cinema Crafts
TV & Cinema Graphics
Typography
Viral
Websites
Writing for Advertising
Writing for Design

I particullary like the Yellow pencil winner for Writing for Advertising (TV & Cinema Advertising)
Title: Michael Madsen
Agency: Mother
Client: Orange

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

Webby awards 2008

The winners of the Webby Awards 2008 have been chosen. And here are my favourites: BEST NAVIGATION/STRUCTURE Nominees Blenderbox Schematic

BEST USE OF ANIMATION OR MOTION GRAPHICS People's Voice Winner: Zune Journey Agency: T.A.G. SF / Firstborn

BEST VISUAL DESIGN - AESTHETIC Checkland Kindleysides Agency/Credited Organization: Sennep

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

Webcasts fra Gulltaggen

Se webcasts fra Gulltaggen 2008. Bla. Bill Whitehorn fra Virign Galactic

http://icecube.no/inma/

Cool t-shirts from Phatrags

Some are quite rude, but others you might wanna wear. I particullary like this Jesus one. It says: "Jesus saves, after each level he passes"

http://www.phatrags.com/
Use this code if you want to save 10%: phat10a

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

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/

New search engine: searchme.com

Just signed up for beta. Lets see how it works...

David Collins website

One of my tutors, Dave Collins, from Leeds College of Art & Design has an quite interresting website: http://www.davidcollins.info/

"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.

Lene Alexandras teknologiske betroelser

Microsoft feiret Heroes Happen {here} og jeg hadde gleden av aa intervjue Lene Alexandra med Troels. Heretter kan det ikke herske noen tvil om at Lene Alexandra kan mer enn du tror innen IT. Her IT knowledge is more than ok. Se intervjuet her: Lene Alexandras teknologiske betroelser Det finnes en mengde andre intervjuer der også med vinnerne av Heroes Happen {here}

Random Spam blurb!

Got this spam today. Thought it was some great writing, so enjoy the "poem"!

"The imagination! Shut your eyes, if you miss amory signor benton, then you would implicate yourself, they had acute pains, they scarified the part gawaine, it beseemeth evil a good knight to despise .,'. I , i. C of i i i j i i she had put her counters very kind of you. You speak of danger. you have creature, half seal, half fish, to look at, with almost as easily recognized, and as limited in the left barrel. He turned round once, and then water. They were all good swimmers. When the river then in an immense basin with leaden waters as willing to accompany me, pedro? I asked in spanish. Well, if my work had been given to the public this happened repeatedly, amasis said to his wife, writes wonderful for a woman. Seth had drawn the."

Nuff said.

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!

Favorite Website Awards

Wanna see many cool website, that win awards, all at one time? Here you go:

http://www.thefwa.com/

Fun cartoon and stuff site

nuttin more to say (cant remember why I even went to this site.. haha

http://www.weebls-stuff.com/toons/

End of the world flash animation (Nike ad)

The guy who made the "End of the World" flash animation (I am LE TIRED! WTF Mate?) got hired by nike to do their site for their Sphere line of clothing...
Check it out:
The Original "end of the world" flash

http://www.endofworld.net/
Nike Website

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/

The rapping 3 kings

The Spanish ad agency, La Despensa have made a really cool website:

http://www.yosoydelosreyesmagos.com/

Its the 3 rapping kings battling out Papa Noel, or Santa Claus if you like.

And the coolest feature is being able to choose a king, upload your face photo, spray a msg on the wall, choose who this rap is dedicated to and get the king to rap to your friend, lover, or whoever needs a rap the holiday season!

Hoho.

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/

Microsofts iPod

Ok, so there is quite alot truth in the this video:


However, I really find the Zune Art site excellent! Its really a creative ad campaign that uses animation and indie tunes to promote the Zune. It ought to generate a buzz online. Loads of freebies: wallpaper, videos, even faltpack toys!Check it out:

http://www.zune-arts.net/

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

Happy website

A friend of mine tipped me about this site. Its a US based webdesign company called The Happy Corp Global. Pretty cool site, with loads of info. http://www.thehappycorp.com/words/

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

StatCounter wins BusinessWeek's young entrepreneur contest

Congrats to Aodhan Cullen, the founder of StatCounter, for winning this years BusinessWeek's young entrepreneur contest. Ive been using http://www.statcounter.com
for some time now, and am really pleased with the free service! Like it more than Google Analytics. Especially the ability to see indiviual "Visitor Paths".
Read the full story at http://www.businessweek.com

902 days later and finally a new a.beining.com website

This is a screenshot of a.beining.com version 2. It lasted me 902 days. And around 2000 visits, of which 50% came from Norway, 13% Spain, 7% China (Beining is a city in China apparently), USA, UK ++

Most use XP (53%) and IE 6 (34%). BUT being a portfolio site, loads of Macers have come around too! 37% use osX and 34% Safari. Not bad.. :)

Well, after so long time without any updates (last one was the 1. of June 2006..), I was getting embaressed, SO without any further ado: TATAA! http://a.beining.com all new!

Medieval Norwegian helpdesk support

This is a fantastic video about helpdesk support back in the day of the middle age
with English subtitles. Original taken from the show "Øystein og jeg" on Norwegian Broadcasting (NRK)in 2001. With Øystein Backe (helper)and Rune Gokstad (desperate monk). Written by Knut Nærum. YEHHAA!

Steve and Bill meet again

The biggest guys in the data age met again. Thats Steve Jobs and Bill Gates for the novices.

Quite interesting how those guys are really similar (appearance, computer knowledge, voice etc), yet Steve always is a bit cooler. Just like Macs.. :P

A short summary of the meeting can be read: http://www.nytimes.com/technology/


Or, if you really are interested, see all the videos at: All things digital.
video-steve-jobs-and-bill-gates-prologue/

DnB Nor reklamefilm: Vi vet ikke hva som skjer

Flott reklamefilm fra Republica. Stilig produksjon, men skjønner liksom ikke helt poenget her. Slagordet er "Vi vet ikke hva som skjer." (se bildet for hele teksten)

Vet liksom ikke helt om jeg har lyst til å velge en bank som sier dette. Ok, å være åpen og ærlig. Men jeg for min del foretrekker nå en bank som vet hva som skjer. Spesielt feks. når du skal investere penger!

"Jeg skulle gjerne investert endel penger i noe fond jeg. Hvordan er fremtidsutsiktene for fond x?" DnB Nor: "Nei, vet ikke. Vi aner ikke hva som skjer vi..." HALLO!?

Anyhow, kikk på http://www.firetretoen.no/ og bedøm selv. Forøvrig kunne jeg nok tenkt meg å se den filmen.. (Strengt tatt burde den vel hete "Dos", som oppfølger til "Uno")

Live maps by Microsoft

For those of you who thought Google Earth was good: Check out: http://maps.live.com/

Here's an example of the townhall in Oslo, Norway.

Google games

If your feeling bored, and want to have fun with Google as your tool.
Google games

Wieden & Kennedy: new website

The brilliant advertising agency Wieden & Kennedy has got a new website. Its pretty crazy user interface. Still not quite sure whether I like it, but it is certainly something new! And thats gotta be worth something.. http://www.wk.com/

.htaccess - Custom error pages

Something wrong with your weblinks or server? Then maybe a custom error page is a temporary solution..?
http://www.freewebmasterhelp.com/tutorials/htaccess/

Handy startpage: Netvibes

Have just discovered http://www.netvibes.com/ It's a site similar to Google's "Home" site, however being a Mac addicct, I prefer Netvibes layout and easy userinterface. Also I love the idea that one acctually doesn't have to log on to be able to use it. Registering is however useful, as Netvibes saves the settings and they won't get lost in case you delete your cookies. Also if you use multiple computers like me, you can easily get your personlised page on the other computer by logging in.

The RSS feeds are quite good too, being able to see Aftenposten, NYT, Spiegel and El Pais at the same time.

Only, I think they should get a smaller clock. The so called "mini-clock" is really not "mini". More like "major". Oh, well. Can't get'em all at once I suppose.. :)

Happy easter! (and if you happen to see Valentin today: congratulate him from me. It's his birthday! Hurra!)

Create favicons for webbrowsers

This site is great for creating favicons:
http://www.html-kit.com/favicon/
The best is to create a square image from before, so you place your image correctly.

Design blog

Here's great design blog I discovered the other day.

Check it out: http://veerle.duoh.com/

Make your Podcast Searchable with Casting Words

How cool is that? Making your podcasts searchable!? I seem to have heard about an automated service that does this, but so far the only thing I found was this: http://blogandpingtutorial.blogspot.com

Check your Google PageRank online

Easy way of finding out your Google Pagerank when you havent got the Googlebar installed. Google DC PageRank Rapport 1.0

0-1 Low ranking
2 Moderate ranking
3-4 Good ranking
5-6 Very good ranking
7-9 Top ranking
10 Almost impossible!

Or just use this one: http://www.prchecker.info/check_page_rank.php

Customize Your Blogger Header

This could be usefull if you want to Customize Your Blogger Header with a GIF or something similar.

#header {
width:660px;
margin:0 auto 10px;
border:1px solid #cc;
background-color:#cc9900;
background-image: url(stars.gif);
}


Customize Your Blogger Header

Bloggerhedz

Customizing your header: add an image
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How to Put a Background Image in Your Blog Header
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