Opacity – Amazing Graphics Editor
Watching the video on the website of this application blew me away. For a couple of projects I needed to design an application icon, it wasn’t easy and the results weren’t particularly awe inspiring.
Opacity is so cool, it has built in effects and has many vector tools, best of all, however, is the built in ‘factories’ that allow you to export the graphic as icon presets and many other file types, even directly into your website via FTP.
I sincerely suggest watching the video on the homepage to guage the true value of Opacity.
ReadAir – Google Reader on Adobe Air Platform…
Readair is a Google Reader application created on the Adobe Air platform, which means its fast, slick and cross platform.
Its really nice and simple and is a great environment for catching up on all those RSS feeds that you have mounting up!
Vidnik – Upload straight from iSight to YouTube…
This one is a neat little app that allows you to record and upload straightaway to you your youtube account, very useful for those habitual Vloggers out there…
iTweak – Add extras to iWeb such as favicon and google search…
I just stumbled across iTweak, a free application that gives you the chance to add favicons, hit counters, google site search fields and more to your lowly iWeb website.
It seems pretty simple to use and gives iWeb some pretty nifty functionality. Guess well have to wait to see if any of this will be included in the next iteration of iWeb but until then, check it out.
Fontifier – Create your own font from your handwriting
Have you ever wanted to use your own handwriting when creating a document or producing some graphics work?
Fontifier does this for you and for a very reasonable $9 per font created!
The process is simple, you download a template, write in each characters equivalent, scan it, and email back to fontifier which will produce the font as a Truetype font usable with Mac and Windows operating system….
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Audiko – iPhone Ringtones, make, download….FREE
Audiko is a web based service where you can upload your mp3, cut it and make it into a ringtone. The bonus being that it will create a .m4r file for all you iPhone lovers out there (me included)…. Another great thing about Audiko is you can download other peoples creations….An endless source of iPhone Ringtones…..Hooorah!
Wallsaver – Screensaver as your desktop
Wallsaver – Display your screensaver as your desktop background using wallsaver.
This application is really impressive when couple with quartz compositions. Such as these ones here
iWeb SEO – Optimise your site for search engines…
iWeb SEO is a free Search Engine Optimisation tool that will enable your website for google analytics and also add meta tags as well as being able to tag images.
And of course, as (mostly) usual, its Free…
Wix – Embed widgets, gadgets, gizmos and thingameebobs on your site.
Apologies to all those who I have preached the usefullness of wix to but here I go again.
Wix has enabled me to do things with my website that I would never have thought possible without coding knowledge and expensive software. It really does allow a complete novice the ability to create content, whether its an mp3 player, a book with pages that can be turned or a bopping Obama doll (dont ask).
I cant praise it enough and, athough at times geared towards the younger user, can be really useful for adding those finishing touches to your websites.
iWeb iFrames – Embed other websites on your iWeb Pages…
This rocks…..some spriteful monkey out there on MacOSXhints.com has published a way of getting websites displayed within your iWeb website….
The page explains the process for embedding mobile me galleries into your iweb page, but to embed any other page you just replace the address between the ” ” with the address you want to display. Check out the article by clicking below…
