News from February, 2008

Ever wanted to make your thumbnail images look sweet with minimal fuss? Check out Thumbscrew...

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Thumbscrew allows you to quickly and easily chew through a bunch of images, applying scaling, random rotation, border, and drop shadow to each - even resizing the original, and processing the batch as a whole afterwards.

If you've got a Mac, go download Thumbscrew - it's free! I've been using it to tart up some images for our Theme Builder overview and it's super quick and easy to use.

I needed a custom callout image for some documentation and decide to use OmniGraffle which makes Visio look silly. Here's the result...

OmniGraffle has an awesome feature that lets you merge shapes to create new shapes. Better still, it let's you save them as a new stencil which you can download here. Sweet!

I actually bought the Mac Mini specifically for software like Omni Graffle and I'm starting to like it. It'll be a while before I move over completely to the mac, mainly due to it's poor keyboard and mouse support, but for light use it's a dream.

Literally... 4.7 magnitude earthquake hit Adaptavist HQ at around 1AM London time...

• UK Map | Event Map | Google Map
• Summary of Earthquake | Another Summary
• Seismicity Information

Luckily, no damage. The wife slept through it LOL!