Monster chose the weekend to launch another in its line of artist-influenced Beats headphones, this time unveiling the Diddybeats. As suggested by the name, they take their cue from Sean Combs and are a more masculine counterpart to Lady Gaga’s Heartbeats: the in-ears are housed in aluminum and wrapped in leather that gives them a relatively upscale design. They also draw on the signature flat cables that cut down on tangles or breaks….
Ken Smith has announced that the first beta release of FreeBSD 7.3, a new version of the project’s legacy branch, is now available for testing: “FreeBSD 7.3-BETA1, the first test build of the 7.3-RELEASE cycle, is now available for amd64, i386, pc98, and sparc64 architectures. For now we….
Apple is dramatically rethinking how applications organize their documents on iPad, leaving behind the jumbled file system and making file access between the iPad and desktop computers seamless.
It is now been just over a week since we launched Design Reviver Answers. And what a week it has been!
We have simply been overwhelmed by the response from the design community, it has more than beat our expectations and we very much appreciate the support from everybody.
Color is the integral element with design. It can bring a bland idea to life, it can revitalize a boring and dreary web site and can bring lifeless art to, well, life. Why is it so powerful? Because different colors can invoke different emotions with different people, thus altering our perception of how we see art.
In today’s news round up we have collected some color related articles, some tools for your inspiration and learning.
Color in design is very subjective. What evokes one reaction in one person may evoke a very different reaction in somone else. Sometimes this is due to personal preference, and other times due to cultural background. Color theory is a science in itself.
This is the first in a three-part series on color theory, were the author discusses the meanings behind the different color families, and gives some examples of how these colors are used.
Color Theory for Designers, Part 1: The Meaning of Color
There are a lot of online tools to help create a beautiful color combination. They all vary slightly to suit each designers with different preferences on how they work. In this article they collected together 25 of the best color tools, with a quick overview on each to help you decide which is best for you.
25 Color Combination Tools for Designers
The first version of Colorgorize was published in 2007 as a project at the University of the Arts Bremen, Germany. Back then, Colorgorize was a Firefox add-on that could display similar colored websites to the website currently opened. Colorgorize has since changed to a website recently to allow it to reach a bigger audience. Today, thousands of websites are already analyzed and can be searched by colors.
What If Computer Graphics Ran Under Crayola's Law?
By Paul Andrew (Speckyboy and speckyboy@twitter).
A discovery that Apple’s promotional materials for the iPad show properly-displayed Flash content while Web browsing in contrast to the “broken plug-in” icon observed on-stage at Apple’s media event has generated a great deal of interest and discussi…
Go to Source
Steve Langasek has announced the availability of the fourth update to Ubuntu 8.04 LTS, the current long-term support Ubuntu version that is supported with security updates until April 2011 on desktops and April 2013 on servers: “The Ubuntu team is proud to announce the release of Ubuntu 8.04.4….
