Umbrella - Rihanna (lip dub in High Definition) from TP CMM on Vimeo.
It’s amazing this was done all in one take.
Zlad leave ze senses overloaded.
I just wanted to congratulate the guys at Outbrain, the makers of the fine rating widget on this site and many more, for there recent funding. Good luck and I can’t wait to see what’s next.
It’s been more than three months since I first reviewed the Chumby and concluded with the “gotta get one” recommendation. After some time has passed and the Chumby buzz has died down; I want to make a post-review after I’ve been able to spend more time with it.
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MyBlogLog is a relatively popular service among the blogging community and it’s always been a simple service. If you don’t already know, MyBlogLog is a social networking site for bloggers to communicate and a way to promote their blogs. Whenever a MyBlogLog user visits a blog with a MyBlogLog widget, the visitor leaves a picture behind (in hopes to bring users to their blog). The old widget was very customizable and would fit with almost any blog, but the new widget is the exact opposite.
The new widget seems to go against the MyBlogLog theme. It’s not only ugly, it’s clunky. The rollover profiles are obtrusive and annoying; completely opposite from the original single linked text. What makes this widget even worse is that there is no option to use the old widget, so keep the widget code in a safe place.
The reason for this new look? In early 2007, Yahoo purchased MyBlogLog and is now giving it a new look, for better or worse. If Yahoo hadn’t purchased MyBlogLog, the widget probably would have kept with it’s simple style. Too bad money trumps user wants.
Who knew beautiful music can be made on two iPhones and a Nintendo DS.
You might have noticed that r3fresh has a new addition, the store. The store right now has a few shirts I made, and hopefully a bunch more in the near future. After doing some research (and asking a few questions), I decided to use Bountee as my shirt service. I chose Bountee because they offer the best quality prints at a reasonable price. I don’t want someone to buy one of my shirts and then find that it didn’t make it through the wash to wear again.
The only problem I’ve found with Bountee is its website. It sucks. I’ll start it off by saying navigation is near in-existent. Looking for new shirt puts you in an endless link circle; moving from one part of the site to another and back. I’m hoping a redesign is in the works.
The next problem is its homepage. Supposedly, the front page showcases most recent shirts, but that can’t be true. The same shirts have been up since last week. I have a feeling shirts are manually put on ‘most recent’, which seems old with current web practices.
The most fixable problem on Bountee is its speed. Bountee is slow, so slow it reminds me of Myspace (pre-purchase) and Myspace gets 500x more people than Bountee. Hey Bountee, if you want to grow invest in some more robust hosting.
Where the site does shine is the shirt creator. It defies the rest of the site with it’s nimble uploading and easy customization. The creator allows you to scale and position your design as well as pick colors. You can even pick the colors depending on gender and age.
Bountee will stay my shirt vendor until I find a site that offers similar quality at an affordable price. I’m looking for some alternatives. If you have a site that fits the curriculum leave a link in the comments.
There’s a new shirt in the store. Check out the little monster who has something to say. Enjoy.
