Bonestructure

First Step

It’s my desire to post on this blog once a week. I’m going to start that intention off with a summary of what I’ve recently come across on the web.

Textures

• Bittbox Jay Hilgert’s corner of the web. All kinds of goodies for free, active community of discussion, tutorials, application highlights…
• Lost & Taken – Caleb Kimbrough’s corner of the web where he is dedicated to “Free stock textures for your graphic design and photography projects”. This is an amazing because of the quality of the textures.

WordPress

• Plugin: BM Custom Login Screen : This find bridges design and development because is it not only about a WordPress plugin but this download also includes a PSD file for easier implementation. Checkout the rest of the Binary Moon site and you will find you’ve run across their work before.

Micro-blogging and Your Process

This past week a friend was working on a “homework” assignment as part of a job interview. She needed to pick my brain about the social tools on the web and how an employee would use those to communicate to it’s haters and lovers of the product. I thought I knew next to nothing on the subject but in the end I gave her a great head start and now I have another active friend on Twitter. Good luck on the job hunt my friend!

Micro-blogging Definition

• What is your process for communicating on the web for personal or business use?
• What do you know about micro-blogging or non-traditional methods for marketing or customer service?

This past week I tested two solid applications:

• For the Twitter toolbox is a web application BrightKit. “With BrightKit, you can manage multiple Twitter profiles, pre-schedule tweets, and measure your success.” I liked the multi-user functionality and it’s in active development with awards.
• A blogging tool and desktop application Blogo ($25). Publish to twitter accounts  and blogs from one application. I’m still testing how this one fits in my daily routine. Check out the screencast to see it in action.

Management Tools

Application Things by Culture Code. I’ve bought and used this application for a month now. Enjoying the original release of just a couple of weeks ago as well as knowing there is a full development team behind it. It’s fresh. It’s great if you just want to use it for your work. I particular found the user contributed section of the wiki helpful in getting my tags set-up “correctly” from the start.

I’ve been a Palm Desktop guy for many years. Not sure what the future of Palm is and still not sold on the Mac application suite with all the syncing between applications but if that is your thing (no pun intended) this application will fit in with that process nicely… even on your iPhone!

Usability

I heart usability issues and raised my brow when I found Userfly – “Run instant usability studies for your website using your real users.” It’s in a very early development stage but I would keep my eye on this group. Could be an eyeopener of a tool in practice.

Nerd Humor

• Hilarious short movies by Mecano on why your web site hasn’t launched yet.

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