Facelift Image Replacement (or FLIR, pronounced fleer) is an image replacement script that dynamically generates image representations of text on your web page in fonts that otherwise might not be visible to your visitors. The generated image will be automatically inserted into your web page via Javascript and visible to all modern browsers. Any element with text can be replaced: from headers (h1, h2, etc.) to span elements and everything in between!
this post will be updated live from the Steve Jobs keynote live from the Macworld Expo starting 9am PST
7am: early risers were queued four deep for a block around the Moscone Center West waiting for entry into the keynote.
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It’s been a few months since we wrote about Startup Schwag, a service that sends users startup-branded tshirts and stickers every month.
You’ll either think this is lame (not target market) or so cool you’ve wet your pants (target market) and act accordingly. The first attempt at the model by Valleyschwag didn’t scale and folded. Startup Schwag isn’t relying on the companies to produce the stuff, though (that’s where Valleyschwag ran into trouble when they got too big), they do it themselves with the company’s permission.
The first mailing included a TechCrunch Tshirt, and one made its way to Lisa Brewster, who writes the blog Sophistechate. She posted the picture above to her blog a couple of days ago. Golf clap for Lisa, our new unofficial mascot. Another woman models the reddit tshirt here.
Founder Roddy Richards says the service is doing well and has 400 subscribers now paying $15 per month each.
Richards has also founded a startup called PriceAdvance. It was rejected by Y Combinator, but Richards used the money YC gave him to apply (travel expenses) to incorporate the company and get it going. It launched December 11 and is doing well, he says.
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Filed under: Gaming, Video, Education
The guys and gals over at our sister blog Engadget were keeping busy at the recent CES and have turned up some interesting products with a Mac angle. In the video above they're checking out a new music instruction software package called Guitar Wizard which works a lot like the Guitar Hero game (our coverage). The key difference is that Guitar Wizard uses a real guitar and actually teaches you something about playing. The kit consists of the software and a midi pickup which can be attached to your own guitar for $150, or you can get a kit that includes a guitar as well for $300. New songs will be downloadable at 99 cents each.
[via The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)]
When Lightbox 2.0.3 was just released I suddenly realised that we hadn’t posted about version 2 at all.
How does version 2 compare to the old faithful?
To group images into sets you simply put the set name in the rel attribute: rel=”lightbox[roadtrip]”.
Version 2.0.3 itself offers: “Improved keyboard navigation. Animation off toggle. Hides Flash movies under overlay. Imagemap support. Valid CSS.”
[via Ajaxian]
PhotoPresets for Photoshop Lightroom by Jack Davis
Many photographers are experiencing the power and flexibility of the recently released Adobe Photoshop Lightroom, a breakthrough image management and processing tool designed for photographers. To expand the creative possibilities we are pleased to offer PhotoPresets with One-Click Wow! a dynamite collection of development presets created by renowned Photoshop educator, author and photographer Jack Davis. And the best part is the price, free.
Call them pipes, teqlos, dapps, modules, mashups or whatever else but fact is that recently we have seen a good number of new services that allow developers and users to build mini-apps and mashups that mix and re-mix data. Here we run through 5 applications that allow you to mix, rip and mash your data, looking at the data input, output, REST support, suggested use, and required skill level:
Tingelets is a new service for web designers and developers. It provides a set of helpful bookmarklets to add a tinge of color to tags, CSS classes or ids on the site you are currently visiting, giving you the possibility to compare web layouts in a large number of different browsers on the fly. If you’re creating websites, check it out, it’s free!
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Wordpress and theme upgrades generally mean one thing to designers & developers — major adaptation headaches. Here is the simple way to futureproof your CSS mods and avoid those upgrade headaches forever.
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BusinessCards MX - program for quick and easy design business cards.
This program will help to design and print a professional business card. The interface of the program has been designed in such a way that even a beginning user will not have problems with using the program.
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