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Tiny Chat

March 11th, 2009

tinychatTiny Chat is a web service that offers ready to use chatrooms for quick and easy conversation. There are times when you need to discuss or chat with someone online, but it turns out you don’t have compatible messengers, or you can’t meet on IRC, for some other reason.

With TinyChat you can create your own chatroom and invite people through one simple link. Simple and easy to use and set up in just a few seconds. The best part of all, it’s disposable.

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Hymmnos and Fonic Symbol Fonts

February 6th, 2009

hymnosRole-playing games often make use of symbols or writing in a completely different language, to really bring the story alive. It gives depth and adds more realism to the story envisioned by the creators. These often invite curiosity and interest, especially for one such as myself. These writings  reveal a mysterious aura, and a message unknown to many.

Two such games are Ar Tonelico and Tales of The Abyss. Both games include symbolic fonts that are very much alike.

Finding Truetype Fonts for these symbols is quite rare. So it is somewhat fortunate to obtain these fonts.

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Ajaxload – Loading Icon Generator

January 28th, 2009

ajaxloadMost web 2.0 sites nowadays have loading icons to load some of their content.  Animated loading bars and icons  are becoming more and more frequent in web 2.0 design, and you may want to incorporate them in your own website.

Of course, making a loading icon requires more work, and maybe creativity, on your part, so for those who don’t have the time and effort( or patience) to make a loading icon, Ajaxload offers automatic generation of animated loading bars and icons in .gif format. It offers several different commonly used preloaders images, and allows color customization for your visual preference.

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Typechart , Web Typography CSS Reference

January 17th, 2009

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Typechart is an excellent way to check and browse web typography. It uses some of the more common web-browser fonts that are included in PC’s and Macs, and provides the css code for it. Not to mention a very fitting and elegant site design and scheme. If you ever find yourself puzzled on how to style your html text, Typechart is the way to go!

“TYPECHART lets you flip through, preview and compare web typography while retrieving the CSS.”

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Japanese Fonts

January 9th, 2009

japanese-fontsJapanese fonts  span a small scale when compared to the available library of English fonts. And the default installed Japanese typefaces that Microsoft provides, such as MSGothic and MSMincho, are barely enough for variety. Well, not surprising, as very few people really have the need for it… but for people like myself, who want to make use of Japanese fonts in their graphic work, having a wide array of Japanese fonts can be quite useful.

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