September 2nd, 2007
by Gerrit Tebrake
As you may noticed, we have a small button on the right sidebar which shows the number of recent visitors. It’s a service of amung.us, called whos.amung.us. When you click on the button it used to show a list of what sub-sites your visitors are surfing on and you could see hourly, daily, monthly and yearly graphs (graphs.amung.us). At the beginning of this week they re-designed the page a bit and added a handy feature called maps.amung.us. It enables you to see where your visitors are from - on a map.
The maps have a clean design and if needed they can be customized a little. The cool thing about amung.us is that you only have to insert one of their widgets to make all of the three services work for you!
similar services: clustrmaps, gvisit, frappr
September 2nd, 2007
by Gerrit Tebrake
Over the last few months a lot of photo editing services launched. To name a few popular sites: Picnik, Fauxto, Phixr, picture2life. And now a new startup wants to beat’em all - FotoFlexer.
With FotoFlexer you can easily import and export pictures from social networks (Flickr, Picasa, Facebook, MySpace) and edit them on the go. It seems as if FotoFlexer combines all the great functionalities of other existing sites and bundled them into one masterpiece! I don’t want to say that desktop photo editing is dead, but it has another big competitor. Professionals will probably stick to Photoshop or GIMP however normal people can make use of this sites to edit,share and store photos with ease.
August 29th, 2007
by Gerrit Tebrake
A few weeks ago, the startup Anywhere.FM opened it’s gates for the masses. It’s a service where you can upload single music files or your whole iTunes library (they offer a good tool to manage this) .
You can listen to your uploaded songs, through their intuitive and well-designed online player. Upload, create playlists or find friends and see/hear what music they prefer. I spend a lot of time using their service. I added a few friends to my buddylist, compared our likings and just listened to wonderful songs for hours 
. Until now the site has about 2.7Million uploaded titles and is still growing.
So I warmly recommend you to at least have a look at their beautiful and useful service. Listen to your music from ‘anywhere’ was never easier!
Update: A user called attention to other sites flying out there and offering similar services. If you like Anywhere.FM also see: MediaMaster, Imeem, Streampad, Maestro
August 26th, 2007
by Gerrit Tebrake
Quite everyone who wants to create a website or blog needs icons. But what if you haven’t got enough skills to make them on your own? Or maybe you haven’t got the time to think of good icon designs? - Get Free Icons! You can find a lot of free icons on the internet, but you just need to know where to look!
Free Icon Sets:
FamFamFam’s legendary free Mini Icons and Flags
Over 320 mini pixel icons designed at 14×14px, given away by the N.Design Studio
Sweetie Base Pack 182 free icons for your web applications
Get the standard feed icon with customizable color
Mini Icons V2 more than 100 free 10×10 greyscale icons in .gif format
The Drunkey Love Iconset a great pack containing over 100 mini (16×16) icons
