What’s the problem here?
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It still amazes me that there are large companies that still use IE6. Is it really that hard to update to a new version of the browser or train your employees to do normal system updates? Blame the IT dept?
Venting….
Social Networking Getting out of Hand
An interesting site was just sent to me from a co-worker and shows just how much social networking is being, in my opinion, over used. The site is skittles.com and what they’ve done is used their Facebook, Wikipedia, YouTube, Twitter and Flickr accounts as their main content. Weird, but an interesting approach to completely loosing your brand in a social networking black hole. There are a few links that actually have the Skittles brand but are hard to find and not very informative.
Anyone not paying attention would definitely be confused as to where they landed!
Kuler Inspiration
Needing a tool to quickly find a color inspiration, I stumbled upon kuler.com (pronounced cooler) from Adobe. The tool has a large collection of color themes that you can contribute to and edit others themes on the fly. The Flash based UI is easy to navigate and provides plenty of options such as:
- Upload an image and use selectors to target specific colors within the image
- Use a color wheel that dynamically changes your selections
- Enter individual color values for HSV, RGB, CMYK, LAB and even a HEX code
Another great feature is the extension or Photoshop CS4. Once you’ve created an account (use your current Adobe login) you can export your themes from Photoshop to the kuler website. The panel allows you to browse themes from the site and add themes to your swatch library.
