Instacalc – Instant Calculator

18 03 2007

Another cool online tool – Instacalc.

instacalc-sample.png

Ideal for embedding it next to your article or for immediate useful simple calculations.

Here are some sample calculators: BMI, Unit conversion





Swedish Self-Cleaning Toilet

18 03 2007

Swedish Self-Cleaning Toilet

“Say no to dirt.” Good idea!





FREE! Tree Wallpaper

18 03 2007




FREE! Icon sets from Blurburger.com

17 03 2007




How to DIY your own carbon fiber wallpaper?

11 03 2007

What you need to have: Adobe Photoshop
PS: ⌘ key for Mac users / CTRL key for Windows users

Prepare the texture pattern

(Download the ready made texture 1 and texture 2 if you are too lazy to create your own.)

1. In Photoshop, create a new document by pressing ⌘N / CTRL-N. Set the size at 20×20 pixel.

2. Zoom in (z) few step so that you can work on it easily. Choose Rectangular Marquee from the toolbar (m).

3. Make the selection of 5×10 pixel

4. Set foreground and background colour as different tone of gray:
Foreground: #171717
Background: #3a3a3a

5. Select Gradient Tool (g), then choose ‘Foreground to Background’

6. Fill the selection with the colours chosen by dragging across the selection area.

7. Make another selection of 10×5 pixel, fill with the gradient of:
Foreground:#282828
Background: #0d0d0d

8. Select all (⌘A / CTRL-A), copy selection (⌘C / CTRL-C), paste selection (⌘V / CTRL-V), then use Move Tool (v) to arrange the new layer into position:

9. Paste the selection into new layer again and arrange until it looks like this:

10. Combine all the layers: Menu > Layer > Flatten Image

11. Define a new pattern: Menu > Edit > Define Pattern…

Making the actual wallpaper

12. Create a new document by pressing ⌘N / CTRL-N. Set the size of your screen resolution. Eg: 1600×1200

13. Fill with the texture pattern: Menu > Edit > Fill… ; Use ‘Pattern’ and choose the last pattern that you just created from the Content section.

14. Apply effect: Menu > Filter > Render > Lighting Effects…

15. Adjust levels (⌘L / CTRL-L): Menu > Image > Adjustments > Levels…

Save!

16. To preserve the detail quality of the wallpaper, save it as PNG or BMP.

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FREE! Carbon Fiber Wallpaper

11 03 2007

This is just for fun.

Carbon fiber desktop
Carbon fiber desktop – Learn how to create this.

Download carbon fiber wallpaper

Carbon fiber texture 1
Texture 1
1024×768 new
1280×1024 new
1280×800
1440×900
1680×1050
Carbon fiber texture 2
Texture 2
1024×768 new
1280×1024 new
1280×800
1440×900
1680×1050

You can also download texture 1 & textrure 2 to fill up you desktop.

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