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Is Your Username Still Unique? Find Out

Nathan — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:35:43 +0000

KnowEm

With millions and millions of users on the Internet, it’s now getting harder to choose a unique user name, especially a unique one across multiple sites.

KnowEm is an online tool that allows individuals and businesses check their user names across 300+ social media sites, spanning various topics: blogging, travel, photo storage, and health among others.

Checking for availability is free. But the service for signing up isn’t:

$99 Individual Plan
$349 Business Plan
$649 Enterprise Plan.

It’s actually a pretty expensive service, if you want to avail. If I were you though, I’d just use this tool to check availability across sites, and sign up manually, especially if it’s just a few number of sites to sign up for. But if you’re willing to pay for automatic sign-up for $99 for 150 sites, then, visit their site.

via LifeHacker

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Color Scheme Designer

Nathan — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 12:32:28 +0000

Color Scheme Designer

Creating web designs from scratch can be really tricky, especially if you don’t have a ready set of colors to choose from. I, for one, usually rely on my mental image of the final output and simply work from there, experimenting on the exact color along the way. This can sometimes be tedious.

Here’s a free online tool that can help you. It’s called Color Scheme Designer. Try it out. Just rotate the circle to your desired initial color and select from the following options:

Mono,
Complement,
Triad,
Tetrad,
Analogic, and
Accented Analogic.

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If you’re not into experimenting and creating color schemes on your own, COLOURLovers is a site where you can find user-submitted color palettes for various uses, whether for ad campaigns, web designs, etc. The site showcases colors, palettes and patterns, with a rating system for following trends.

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Visually Follow Your Favorite Sites Using Spectives

Nathan — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 12:36:03 +0000

Spectives: Follow your Favorites Differently

Have a lots of sites to follow? Tired of using Feed readers?

Then this tool can change how you follow your favorite sites, in a manner you may not have thought of before – using images with captions to summarize the recent entries of the sites you are following. Spectives allows you to have your own customized internet reading space with tabs, collections, just like having a newspaper with various news (site entries) on many pages (tabs).

You don’t need to sign up for an account to use this tool. You can scour through the existing collections and numerous tags to start surfing and reading. But if you start to feel the need to make your own custom selections and your preferences saved, it would be best to sign up for an account.

If you happen not to like how it’s organized, you can also get them as RSS feeds.

How it Works

Basically, Spectives captures the images on the posts on the sites you follow. These are organized in a collection, just like in the image above. Once a site updates, the images are automatically updated as well. View the video by the Spectives Team below, courtesy of Vimeo.

Spectives.com in one minute from Spectives on Vimeo.

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October on Martian Footprints

Nathan — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 14:48:41 +0000

October went by pretty fast, no?

I want to say thanks to my visitors this month.

Here’s a recap of this month’s posts:

Would you like to see something featured? Do you want to write an article to be posted here? Please drop me a note or write your suggestions in the comment box below. I’d love to hear them

Until next month! Wait, that’s already tomorrow.

Oh, by the way, Martian Footprints is getting a face-lift. Watch out for it!

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Create Accident Reports with Ease through AccidentSketch

Nathan — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:00:35 +0000

AccidentSketch

Ever been involved in a traffic accident? Had a hard time detailing and explaining the actual scenario of the accident? If you said yes, then this tool is for you.

AccidentSketch is a very simple yet valuable tool in describing how the accident occurred. You can also add in supporting details, such as traffic signs, license plates, witnesses and even vehicle colors, along with road curbs and road signs. It has a very simple interface, which allows you to drag and drop items on the panel. This service is totally free, and there is no registration required.

After creating the diagram, you can also generate a text report to further elaborate the scenario. You’ll be able to print the diagram and send the report to interested parties. This is helpful when filing reports and filing insurance claims.

There are some sample sketches in the comments of Lifehacker.

Anyone been in an accident lately? Share your diagrams in the comments.

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