In celebration of this festive season, MacHeist want to put a little something under your (Apple) tree:
It’s the Holiday Season. The season of giving. You love Mac software. Perfect.
Howzabout you treat yourself right now?
Simply sign-up below to get some free, insanely-great Mac software presents. Then come back Christmas morning to unwrap them.
And as a bonus, you’ll immediately receive Santa’s Gizmo, BitClamp, and Ambrosia Software’s WireTap Pro, a combined total value of over $50, all for free!
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A heads up on loads of Hulu invites, via TechCrunch.
We’re hearing reports that Hulu has been letting lots of people off the private beta waiting list and into the site. But in case you haven’t gotten access yourself, you’ll be happy to hear that we’ve been allotted 2,500 invites to give our readers.
1914 left, folks.
csstextwrap.com
The CSS Text Wrapper allows you to easily make HTML text wrap in shapes other than just a rectangle. You can make text wrap around curves, zig-zags, or whatever you want. All you have to do is draw the left and right edges below and then copy the generated code to your website.
Works in IE 6+, Firefox, Safari, Opera, and Netscape.
Time-lapse photography is a method of producing video using still photographs as frames (similar to Stop-motion animation). It is achieved by leaving a camera in a fixed position shot at any given interval.
Photojojo have a great article that gives you more than enough information to get started.
Just to get you into the Christmas spirit, Snowfall is a Quarts Composer screensaver for 10.4+, and perfect alternative for Flurry for these long winter nights.
It is free and you can get it here.
I always hoped I’d be in Rolling Stone for my amazing guitar playing, but I suppose me substandard photography will do.
I’ve just installed Things, a GTD app from those folks at Cultured Code.
As someone who sucks at both Getting Things Done and using well designed applications, Things seems to appeal to me, if only for it’s lack of functionality.
Things is currently in Alpha, but you can request a preview at their site. Failing that, the screencast is definitely worth a look.
Web design can be deceptively difficult. Getting a design that is both usable and pleasing, delivers information and builds brand, is technically sound and visually coherent…
PSDTuts have a nice article on the nine basic elements of web design. I think most of these points come naturally to a lot of us, but sometimes it’s good to be reminded as to why something works, rather than taking these principles for granted. Check it out.
Since 2005 24 Ways have been brightening up those cold, dark, panic-filled days of Advent for us web designers with ‘24 Ways To Impress Your Friends’.
That is to say some 52 (and counting) web design tips and tricks from some of the greats, and none ‘Christmasize My Logo’ nonsense!
From the 1st; ‘Transparent PNGs in Internet Explorer 6′.
