Adobe UI

I’ve been spending a lot of time in Photoshop lately, so this site made me chuckle:  Adobe UI Gripes.
And Garrett pointed out a similar site called Dear Adobe that is equally as hilarious.
You kind of have to know your way around Adobe’s Creative Suite to really appreciate some of them but I’m a novice and [...]

December 20th Web Picks

Well the trend since the beginning of school is that my blogging has decreased in frequency…so it seems the my Web Picks is becoming more of a monthly occurrence…so for the future, I’m just going to plan on getting in the groove of irregularly timed Web Pick lists that happen to be about a month [...]

September 29th Web Picks

This edition of my Web Picks is quite the hodge-podge of interesting/useful sites across the internet…

Yuxt is a social video-sharing site that makes for a really easy way to share and host your own video clips or those that you find on other sites. A simple drag-n-drop uploading feature effectively eliminates any learning curve [...]

September 4th Web Picks

Well, after quite the weekend in Las Vegas and the recovery period that followed, I’ve managed to stop planning my return trip long enough to compile this edition of Web Picks. A couple of good sites plus a facebook application and a Google Earth ‘easter egg‘ round out this week’s list:

Natuba is a social [...]

Microsoft’s Tafiti Brings Back The Revolution

UPDATE: 1) Embedded video and added citation 2) Added to described feature set (Tree View) -ac
Microsoft has released a beta version of its newest search feature: Tafiti. Essentially, this is a visual search tool built on Microsoft Live Search and Microsoft Silverlight technology: rather than just listing out our search results, Tafiti creates an [...]

Christmas in August

After months of scouring the internet and posting on numerous message boards, I have finally gotten an invite to 8apps! (As it turns out, Mashable has a pretty awesome system set up for beta invites) So, I’m just getting myself acquainted with this incredible online productivity suite, but within the first five minutes, [...]

August 21 Web Picks

UPDATE: This post title has been updated to include the date. -ac
This week, I’ve come across quite a few high quality sites, but I’ll only go in depth on a few of them here and perhaps detail others later in the week.

Ziki is a new take on a personal homepage, with [...]

August 17 Web Picks

I haven’t really run across any high quality ‘functional’ sites in the past weeks (most likely due to the fact that most of my past two weeks has been inside a car!), but I’ve hit a couple excellent ‘content’ sites!
I am delineating a ‘functional’ site from a ‘content’ site, because most people use them for [...]

August 5 Web Picks

When I use del.icio.us I try and limit it to articles or subsections of webpages, rather than just a general link to the homepage of some web service, etc…. So in order to chronicle the best overall websites that I discover in any given week, I’ve decided to just post them here with a quick [...]