Web Observatory

was a little flabbergasted when I saw this little nifty device which at first look made me wonder, “Is this the new iPod?”. The look was distinctly similar especially the center controls.

I do own the popular apple product but I can’t mod it enough for my jeep which is a top down restored mc arthur willy. Well if I park on a public place and forget to bring the iPod out of it’s dock on my jeep then it would be crying time. So I looked for and alternative, my criteria were pretty much simple; affordable, expandable, small, and sounds excellent!

My first option was a Creative labs Muvo Tx, so I went to the tech store with that purpose, and that’s where I found this hidden gem left alone in the center aisle. It was an a4tech brand and this was their first mp3 player the “T5″. A4Tech was pretty (more…)

t has come upon my attention that this blog dismisses the stripe generator as either an April Fools Joke, or a poor attempt to make web 2.0 sites out of the box.

Well if they consider it a joke, then why don’t they come up with something useful instead. I’m a designer by profession, and sometimes I don’t have the time to open up my editing software just to add a stripe to a site…

et me start off by saying it’s not a buzzword to define something really nice looking as web 2.0. As far as I’m concerned you can call reflections, gradients, and AJAX all together as web 2.0.

Now let me begin with the Stripe Generator 2.0, which is currently in beta stage, this is due to several refinements and updates to the usefulness of the web application that the developers are trying to fill based on the feedbacks of their users.

This is a true-blue AJAX application, though some may argue that it’s just a nifty javascript effect without actually using the http_request or the X part of AJAX (XML). Go to the Machine to try it out and see for your self. Gone are the days you have to manually edit and make these stripes in photoshop or paintshop. Some even go to lengths to copy them from (more…)