This site has a collection of sound samples that capture and compare the sounds of different acoustic guitar pickups. The approach is to record each pickup, directly into a digital recorder, so that you can hear what the pickup itself sounds like. Most people will agree that pickups cannot compete with a good microphone for […]
Archive for June, 2006
Pickle Phobia?
Another guest gets terrorized by the Maury staff. This time the guest is afraid of pickles.
Filed in: Video Slightly Odd
Quikmaps
“Doodle up a Google map.” Draw pictures and label things on a google map using simple clicks and drags.
Launch site
Filed in: Web Design Informational Graphics Internet
One desktop background to rule them all
How to make a desktop background to help gauge how websites look on different monitor sizes. A downloadable template is provided.read more | digg story
Filed in: Web Design Wallpapers
9 Ways to Misunderstand Web Standards
Some people just misinterpret how the web should be used/designed.read more | digg story
Filed in: Web Design
New Online PowerPoint-Type Tool from Zoho
Zoho launched a new presentation tool this week called Zoho Show, for use in creating and displaying remote presentations on the web.
Zoho Show’s most important feature is that you can import Power Point (and open office) files. That’s it’s primary advantage over Thumbstacks. Unfortunately, there’s a 1 MB upload limit on those files, so substantial […]
Filed in: Internet Presentations
WordCount
Designed and developed by Jonathan Harris, WordCount™ is an artistic experiment in the way we use language. It presents the 86,800 most frequently used English words, ranked in order of commonness. Each word is scaled to reflect its frequency relative to the words that precede and follow it, giving a visual barometer of relevance. The […]
Filed in: Web Design Informational Graphics Internet

