Color Palette Generator

July 15, 2005

Getting a little tired of your Wordpress color scheme? Not very creative? Just pass the url of the image you want to use to build your theme, and see what this site suggests.

Enter the URL of an image to get a color palette that matches the image. This is useful for coming up with a website color palette that matches a key image a client wants to work with.

Color Palette Generator

Zipster the other Hipster PDA


Christian Eriksson integrated a great idea to index card/Hipster PDA system. He uses an old zip-disk case for storing his custom cards - best of all the custom card templates are downloadable! A 5-star idea! Templates include:

via[lifehack.org]
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Advice on novel writing and the NanoNotepad

…a nice summary of a bunch of the issues surrounding writing a novel. Many of the books on novel writing don’t cover much more than this and it’s free here.

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see also the NaNoNotepad

Blogging improves your writing skills.

Blogging is as good a practice field as any. Other practice venues, for developing writers, include simply writing your e-mails in complete sentences and paying attention to your grammar and spelling. Both grammar and spelling are more fun without your school teacher watching over your shoulder.

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List of handheld brainstorming software.


This seems like a good opportunity to summarize the growing number of terrific manual (hand-held) creative problem-solving tools that are now available. This list contains links where you can find more information about each tool…

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Mac OS on Intel runs faster.

Seems like it really was Winders all along. I can’t freakin’ wait until I get my first MacIntel…Inteltosh…whatever.

AppleInsider is reporting that Intel powered Macintosh computers, recently deployed to a select few developers, are noticeably faster than the current Motorola/IBM powered variety.
The developers received an interesting set of hardware over what one would expect to see in a future Macintel. Kits included a single core Pentium 4 3.6 GHz processor mated to 1GB of DDR2 RAM and a proprietary Intel 900 series graphics chipset.

via[Neowin.net]
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