ajb{log}: learn something new each day

Dear PHPUGPHer, Is your name here? If it is here, then congratulations! You are one of the most active members of PHPUGPH. If your name is not here, then I urge you to be active.

Update: The above was truncated to 150 users only. Below is the 500 users.

Create your own like this at Wordle.

What is Wordle?

Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends.

Ok, that was the long explanation. It’s basically a cool way to play with words and display them with awesomeness!

Go and make some of your own here.

Grab the new Web 2.0 style 24×24 icons from the Icojoy team. These icons are free to use in any kind of project unlimited times.

Download the icons

Not sure if red is the “in” design nowadays or is the new lucky color. But I love CNET’s red-colored/darker redesign better than the current (yellow) one.

Check it out below. (click the images for a bigger version)

CNET says it’s still a work in progress and will continue to update it as they see fit. Looking forward for the big push.

Where the Hell is Matt? (2008)

Ok… Let’s pretend we all don’t know…

Hmm… I wonder what it is…

Maybe it should be “Something really thin, long battery life, 3G, Maps with GPS, App Store… um what else… MobileMe integration… Push email, push contacts, $199 (MAX), blah bleh blih…”

BuddyPress is a set of WordPress MU plugins that adds distinct features and basic modifications to the WordPress MU interface.

The standard features of BuddyPress are as follows:

    * Extended Profiles
    * Personal Blog
    * Private Messaging
    * Friends
    * Groups
    * The Wire
    * Status Updates
    * Albums

Each one of the above is a separate plugin to that site admins can pick and choose which components they want.

Some more screenshots here:

Download and try it over here.

–aj

Meet the new Last.fm killer (I still love you Last.fm) - Lala.

Cool interface, nice use of screen estate, awesome dashboard, all-in-one page actions, and yeah free to listen to music.

DRM free music starts a dime. Isn’t all of those cool?

I haven’t gone through every single thing inside Lala but obviously, I’m impressed!

Some suggestions to add:
* Radio station
* API
* Widgets

Great stuff guys. Keep the features coming.

–aj

By the way, I know people don’t like the word “killer”. For me it basically means a “very good competitor”.

Rulers, Guides, Grid, Snap, Curves, Color Balance, Auto Enhance, Polygonal Lasso, New Automator Actions, New Help and much, much more are included in the latest and greatest update of Pixelmator 1.2 Draftsman!

It’s free for you if you already own a license. $59 if you don’t have a licence.

Download now

–aj

Found a site containing a lot of RSS icons for your site, blog, whatever. There are hundreds of FREE RSS icons on this site than anywhere in the whole wide web.

Don’t believe me? Well, you just have to see for yourself.

Check it out!

–aj