u.nu "the shortest urls. period." That’s the site’s tagline, and I think it says it all. (more…)

I think we all agree that backgrounds, whether viewed on a website, a mobile phone, or a desktop, act as a key visual element that could render the viewing experience from pleasant to utterly disturbing. Of course what we are interested in is to have a great looking background, and there are many simple ways to achieve that.

Ptable is an excellent interactive periodic table that every Chemistry student or enthusiast should have as part of her/his resources and references. (more…)

In the world of web development and design, creativity does not have to come from a person who does this for a living. The beauty about this field is that it allows anyone, willing to learn and give, to turn out great websites and code that even the pros could learn something from. Today we have the opportunity to meet such a person, today we meet Ozh, creator of scr.im and of so many useful WordPress plugins.

WeatherFlash is one cool site that do one thing nicely, it tells you how’s the weather. Sure you can get weather conditions from a bunch of sites that are well known to provide such service, but you won’t enjoy looking at the results like you would using WeatherFlash. (more…)

TinyGeocoder is a nifty service that translates an address to latitude and longitude coordinates, better known as Geo-coding. (more…)

Many of us may only know Petr Stanicek trough his great tool Color Scheme Designer, but what we probably didn’t know, at least for non-Czech people, that Petr (aka Pixy) is the author of a bestseller book about CSS, and that Petr, is a multitalented, multilingual, confident man with wisdom derived from his experience dating back to the "prehistory" of the internet. Today we learn, we get inspired, today we meet Petr Stanicek.

Twtbg.me is a cute, fun, and very useful way to check how your Twitter profile page looks with bigger or smaller screen sizes. (more…)

Icons play an important part in the visual look of desktop and web applications alike. They could turn a GUI (graphical user interface) into a stunning design, or into a dull look. I think we all agree about that, and no need to go further explaining the benefits of having great looking icons.

The question is; where to find them?!

AgeDir or Age Directory is a cool site that do one thing; it lets you know the age of a celebrity. (more…)