Everybody wants to be a cat!
I am not sure how much I like Duchesse and her family. Somehow the clean-cut cat image doesn’t do much for me, I do not find it to be very convincing – too cute by half… Not sure if Disney himself would have portrayed them quite like this. (Aristocats was made after his death). But Thomas O’Malley and the Scatcat gang are absolutely unbelievable…
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Tags: cartoon, Walt Disney
I was looking for an episode from Fawlty Towers which I was telling my sister about earlier today when I came across this. The funny bit starts around minute 8 and is actually just a few lines. But those few lines are worth almost the entire series.
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OCR apps
Two of these are actually online, one is a free tool from download.com:
http://www.free-ocr.com/
http://www.onlineocr.net/
http://download.cnet.com/SimpleOCR/3010-2070_4-10073196.html?tag=mncol
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Tags: OCR
Random text generator
http://johno.jsmf.net/knowhow/ngrams/index.php
Very cool! You can use various sources, such as the Bible or a cookbook or a novel by Charles Dickens to create the text.
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Tags: random, text
FaceAge, a plugin for photoshop
What this claims to do is to age a face. Not sure how it works, haven’t tried it out since there is no trial download available. Costs 39.95$, although currently they seem to be selling this at 29.95$. Could be nice, but who knows? Then again, not too expensive, if it does what it says it does.
http://abalonellc.com/faceage-10.html
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Tags: faceage, photoshop, plugin
The Proppian Fairytale Generator
http://www.brown.edu/Courses/FR0133/Fairytale_Generator/gen.html
Will generate a tale synopsis by using a list of functions based upon Vladimir Propp’s concept of narrative structure. The following was generated using the functions “unrecognized arrival”, “unfounded claims”, “transfiguaration” and “wedding”:
“When I returned home Mother was not there. Instead, there was a man leaning against our door, sipping guava juice through a straw. He told me the lady of the house had left to search for her son, and that he had taken residence. I looked down on him and winced. His feet stank of manure.
“This man,” he pointed at me, “this man killed our father. See the blood on his shirt Mother? See it? The smell is like one of our own.”
My mother’s embrace rendered the burns and boils on my skin pristine.
I was offered a place in the palace, but I could not accept. I wanted to be with the mountain; I felt it move under my skin as I knew part of me was in the mountain too.”
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Tags: text generator, Vladimir Propp
Zenfolio
http://www.zenfolio.com/
Very nice online portfolio and image storage platform. Not free, the basic plan is 25$ a year and gives you 2GB of upload space.
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Tags: photography, presentation, slides, zenfolio
Prelinger Archive
No screenshot for this one. This is the famous Prelinger archive which is a collection of over 2000 vintage videos which are opensourced:
http://www.archive.org/details/prelinger
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Tags: nostalgia, prelinger archive, video, vintage
Audio Portal
Absolutely brilliant!
Music loops. You must attribute the composer, and non-commerical only, but otherwise opensourced.
http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/
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Tags: loop, music
Nature sound clips
Nature sound effects, soundscape components:
http://www.partnersinrhyme.com/soundfx/Ambience.shtml
Nice collection in general:
http://www.partnersinrhyme.com/pir/PIRsfx.shtml
Also a small collection of music loops:
http://www.partnersinrhyme.com/pir/free_music_loops.shtml
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Tags: effect, loop, music, nature, sound, soundscape
Vector Clip Art page
http://all-free-download.com/free-vector/free-clip-art-frames-borders_page_26.html
Really nice place! Main page is here:
http://all-free-download.com/
Reminder: Got this from there
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Tags: clipart, vector
jQuery
intriguing to say the least… a java code thingy which seems to make slideshows and all sorts of other cool stuff. could be very useful for the web design class.
http://webdesignledger.com/freebies/10-useful-jquery-plugins-for-images
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Tags: code, java, plugin
Webtreats
Filed under: clipart, icons, Patterns/Textures, psd presets, Resources, tutorials, vectors, web design | Leave a Comment
Tags: web stuff, webtreats
Patterns
http://www.indrikov.com/pattern_violina/pattern_violina.html
http://www.squidfingers.com/patterns/10/
http://www.brusheezy.com/patterns (also lots of psd brushes)
http://www.deviantart.com/?order=9&q=patterns (of course!)
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Tags: pattern
