Biro Sketchbook

Movie Player for Mac OS X based on QuickTime & FFmpeg.

YAK is an open source shopping cart plugin for WordPress. It associates products with weblog entries, so the post ID also becomes the product code. It supports both pages and posts as products, handles different types of product through categories, and provides customisable purchase options (cheque or deposit, basic credit card form, basic Google Checkout integration, standard PayPal integration, PayPal Payments Pro, and Authorize.net).

A simple FAQ plugin where you can create Categories and put Questions in them. You can easily insert them in a page with the WYSIWYG editor. Able to turn JavaScript on or off. This plugin is designed to be easy for you and your clients. Easy for you to create a FAQ on a page, easy for the client to manage questions and categories.

The history of the visual design of user interfaces can be described as a gradual change towards more realism. As computers have become faster, designers have added increasingly realistic details such as color, 3D effects, shadows, translucency, and even simple physics. Some of these changes have helped usability. Shadows behind windows help us see which window is active. The physicality of the iPhone’s user interface makes the device more natural to use.

kozuka* is a free wordpress theme made specially for photographers.

Moshcam is a site for music fans, created and run by music fans. Conceived in Sydney, Australia in 2007 by three friends united by their vision to bring music to the masses. Our aim is to make live music accessible, enabling people around the globe to see quality, live footage of their favorite artists online and for free. Partnering with the cream of Australia's top gig venues, Moshcam has invested heavily in state-of-the art production facilities to capture the best live music out there. From blistering rock and electro grooves to psychedelic folk and blues, we bring you only the highest quality recordings, in both sound and vision.

At Pubcon this year Google announced page load time was going to become a ranking factor in 2010 (see video below). Shortly after this announcement, Google started showing load time data in webmaster central. Being a bit proactive, I decided to start looking at ways to speed up this site.

I have thought a great deal about giving and receiving advice. Below are 14 thoughts to add to the mix.

StartSSL™ Free The StartSSL™ Free (Class 1) certificates are domain or email validated and mostly referred to as the free certificates. Because the checks are performed mostly by electronic means, they require only minimal human intervention from our side. The validations are here to make sure, that the subscriber is the owner of the domain name, resp. email account.

As 2009 rolls out and the new year comes in, we will see new ideas being born and some old ones leaving us. This is the circle of design life. What will be trendy in the new year? Why should it matter? 2010 doesn’t mean that all new trends in design will pop up; rather, it just might be that the current trends will slowly evolve. Here are some of my design predictions for the coming year.

Details of analysis to identify photoshop work on an image

LaunchBar is a smart and powerful, keyboard driven productivity utility that lets you access and control every aspect of your digital life. Whatever you want to get done on your Mac – with LaunchBar it’s only a few keystrokes away.