Creative Headphone Designs

Following my previous post about cool designs, this time it’s all about headphones and earphones. For all the audiophiles out there who need their music on the go and look cool about it at the same time, here are some headgear designs for you.

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WordPress Corporate Theme Update (Jul-10)

Due to popular demand, we have updated our free Corporate WordPress Theme again.

This time the change involves the drop-down menu. As users were asking about a fly-out option where they have multiple level of sub-pages, we have decided to incorporate this into the theme.

So we are happy to report that this WordPress theme now caters for multi-level drop-down menu.

To download the latest version of Corporate Theme, please use the download link in the Free WordPress Themes page.

The theme has been tested to be compatible with WordPress 3.0. But note that IE 8 renders the footer with an error message, this is due to the Javascript for the fly-out feature. Firefox and Google Chrome renders it OK.

How To Do The Taskbar Shuffle

The official music for this article is here, courtesy of The Rolling Stones. No, I am not really a big fan but strangely this great proggie by the name of Taskbar Shuffle reminds me of this long forgotten song. So turn up the volume and let Mick Jagger and gang take you back to a point in time when TVs rule and the internet was unheard of, while you read this short review. 😉

Taskbar Shuffle v2.5
Type: Freeware
OS: Windows Vista/XP/2000/NT/9x
Note: Not for Windows 7, as taskbar shuffling is already a feature.
Homepage: http://nerdcave.webs.com/
Download: http://nerdcave.webs.com/
Size: 505KB (taskbar_shuffle_2.5.zip, portable version)

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Creative & Fancy USB Drives

Sushi, rubber duckies, keys and even jewellery, it seems that almost everything and anything has been turned into a design for USB flash drives at one point in time.

With an almost infinite amount of different shapes and sizes USB flash drives have nowadays, it somehow still feels refreshing every time I see new and creative designs for them.

The same is said for the prototype designs of Onur Mustak Cobanli. A Ph.D student of industrial design at Politecnico di Milano in Italy, he has created some of the more amusing and interesting designs for USB flash drives that I have seen in a while.


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Advertisements to Turn Heads

Go out anywhere today and take a look. Unless you are in Siberia or some other remote place, everywhere around you there will be promotions or advertisements telling you to buy something, try something, or just plainly conveying information to you.

Just as the Internet is no spammed with ads, we often forget that the real world is also filled with ads and useless messages.

Advertisements are out there to gain attention. Any business or organization (even non-profit organizations) hoping to grow will need advertisements and promotions targeted at their respective audiences to achieve this purpose.

Advertising agencies have a whole host of people who work to get your message out there, from professional ad directors, designers and artists, to writers. Creating an advertisement that is cost effective and catchy is what every ad professional strive for. But what really makes advertising work is creative content.

The main idea of an advertisement is of course, to gain attention. By way of creative content, such as catchy lines, graphics and photos, all of it utilizes creativity and ingenuity, to make people take that second look.

As ads can be placed anywhere, on billboards and sidewalks, banners and posters, in printed media, or digital media. The possibilities are endless. Now we even see an allout tug-of-war between Apple and Google in the mobile device advertising space. Much of the ads out there is spam, but let’s take a look at some creative ads that work.

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Gamer Font with a Difference

For those of you web & graphic designers who want something different, there’s a unique font for you to use.

To fulfill the needs of those font loving gamers out there, designer Varun Vachhar has created the Console Font.

Each and every letter of the font set is designed stylistically based on a host of gaming consoles! From classic to current consoles, the Atari to the X-Box, and even an N-Gage is thrown in, the individual letters look almost like stand-alone icons by themselves.

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Controlling Network Traffic & Response with NetBalancer

If you are looking for a simple, free and easy to use application to control how much traffic your computer is allocating to applications, look no further than NetBalancer.

NetBalancer allows you to prioritize how bandwidth should be distributed among applications. You specify whether you want to give an application Low, Normal, or High priority and set a Limit for them, if necessary.
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Apple CEO Steve Jobs: Why Flash will not happen on the iPhone OS

Many critics have poured heaps of vile and vitriol on Apple when rumblings that they are resisting the use of Flash on their mobile iPhone OS system. For years now, the battle between Adobe and Apple raged on with Adobe playing the role of the ‘good guy’ and preaching to Apple to allow Flash to run on the iPhone OS, while Apple has stonewalled every single attempt, often not doing a great PR job of explaining why they don’t allow Flash to run on their device.

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Android finally running on Apple iPhone 2G

Just a few weeks after independent market research companies concluded that Android has overtaken the iPhone as the Number One ranked platform in terms of online mobile traffic, industrious hackers came out with an announcement stating that the Android operating system has been successfully ported over to the iPhone 2G.

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Star Wars Toys & Games Carnival

Calling all you Star Wars fans out there!

You all know that Star Wars has given the world much needed inspiration not just in entertainment, but also all sorts of technology including robotics, laser and even toy technology.

You will be pleased to know that Hasbro is organizing a Toy & Games Carnival this weekend on 29-30 may 2010, to be held at Cineleisure Mall:
Time: 12 – 9pm
Place: Centre Atrium, Cineleisure, The Curve

There will be Starship Battle Games, Lightsabre Wielding Competition and more, with over RM10,000 worth of prizes and giveaways!

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Check out Hasbro’s 70% Toy Sale – Star Wars, Transformers & Marvel Comics…

May the force be with you!