Yes this is my bluesy design for Miralize.com and I quite like it. Yes there are some kinks to be worked out, but this is my new design. I need to add a few things (like styling to the comments), but they shouldn’t take that long, and I wanted to get this design out as fast as possible.
I really like the ninja illustration I did for this site.I think it adds something different to the site. The whole site is designed to be fast-loading, with only two images, and a heck of a lot of CSS, I got it to look like this. Pretty impressive, huh? 
Haha I’m proud, but im not that arrogant.
Hope you enjoy it,
Sean
Its that time again where I show you some of the more interesting finds online;
Everyone in the Leitrim drug ring have been caught. I mean everyone.
The new Yahoo homepage looks nice, but is it enough? I don’t think so.
Tommy Collison is struggling in choosing both a new theme and an iPhone Twitter client.
The townie has found solace in an Apple Store in NYC.
Also I would like to mention @jimmyfallon for a wonderful 8 days of TV so far. Props for featuring Kevin and Alex and good luck to @bryanbrinkman in becoming the first Twitter rock star.
Damien Mulley is organising free schwag. I’m interested.
Also no link here, but the new Shuffle is just horrid.
More tomorrow!
Oxegen
Year after year I get a swarm of emails from the cool people at Oxegen 09, but I am seldom impressed. MCD, the organisers, lack innovation. Year after year, they do the same thing, with almost the same headliners. This year they have yet again Snow Patrol, Kings of Leon, and The Killers. We’ve seen them all before, doing their same 10-song set. While we are all too drunk to truly appreciate it, the organizers are taking our cash with open arms, and now I’m sick of it. Here are a few ways they could help spice up future festivals (more…)
Windows Live Writer
Something drastic is happening at Redmond. Microsoft are getting things right. With the recent success of the Windows 7 Beta (which I am using right now) and the 20GB storage space that has no strings attached, Microsoft are on a roll. Ever since the internet first came about, Microsoft have struggled to wow the online world. Sure they have held the top spot in the Browser market, but that was due to it being included into every Windows machine, and Windows being the OS of choice this was bound to happen.
In the past 2 years or so, Microsoft have placed a huge amount of resources towards creating feature-loaded software to intertwine the offline world and their respective online spaces. Through its rebranding of free software to “Windows Live Essentials”, they have included an amazing application. “Windows Live Writer” allows avid blog posters to write offline, and post online. I tried this out a few months ago, but as I was not that much of a blogger I hardly took any notice of it.
But now I cant stop using it. Here I am on the train writing this post, no internet, yet creating this post with ease. It has all the features the backend of WordPress’ WYSIWYG Editor, along with the added bonus of it being all available offline. You are able to upload images, video, even maps. It even has a small image adjuster, allowing you to add watermarks, crop items, change colours and linking.
One thing it does not support however is the image captioning which can be fixed if you go into source mod. You also can’t add new blogs offline, which is understandable I guess but it does look like this is for the other blog I post in. This software doesn’t just work for WordPress. It also supports Windows Live and Sharepoint (naturally), Blogger, Typepad, LiveJournal, Movable Type, Community Server, dasBlog, Radio Userland, and Metaweblog.
Overall “Windows Live Writer” is a must have for all Windows users, who also happen to be bloggers. There are some kinks to be worked out but there is time.