All of our tools are based right in your browser or as downloadable AIR applications. Our tools all communicate and relate to each other. To illustrate an example: You can import a swatch from Toucan into Phoenix, while doing complex bitmap processing of a 3D object developed in Hummingbird. Finally, you can take your finished artwork and lay it out in Owl as the DVD artwork for a music CD you and your friends put together in Roc and Myna and offer it for sale in our marketplace, Hawk.
New York based Worth1000, LLC, have created (and are still developing) a suite of Internet based creative applications. Intended to allow online collaboration between creative types as well as providing a useful alternative if your away from your desktop suite.
While its not going to be able to replace something like adobe suite for now (who knows what the future holds for Internet based applications) its certainly very impressive. With more and more people working away from the office it could prove really useful.
Its in beta at the moment so if you want to try it sign up for and invitation on the site.
"We Heart It" is my favorite new "web toy", a bookmarking site for images (and video)
Its neat little bookmarklet (for Firefox) allows you to capture images embedded in a web page. Your images then appear on your own profile page for you to look at when ever the mood takes you. You can of course peruse the homepage to see what other users are bookmarking and there's an option to hide the more risque images if your at work or a prude. Great for art and design types looking for inspiration or those that just like to while away the time starring at interesting imagery.
Yes, every day’s a school day when I have a crush, and the current object of my affections is the wonderful world of StumbleUpon. Thoroughly unpredictable and yet unflinchingly dependable, this is one love that can withstand even my fickle desires. Since the internet’s become so jolly ginormous, it’s become harder and harder to come across random site’s of peculiar interest. Well fear not, surfers, for StumbleUpon is here to help you while away the hours with time wasted on facts, fiction, and general nonsense. Like any first time, your first Stumble might be a bit of a fumble, but you’ll be Stumbling all over the shop like a mofo in no time at all. Just install the Stumble button in your toolbar and fire away! You even get to give the cheesy thumbs up (or thumbs down if you so wish). So far I’ve discovered Tom Thumb was a real person, a sweetly playful stop motion vid (there’s just never enough stop motion in the world), a guy with sadly pointless but utterly amazing skills with a ping pong ball, unexpected animal buddies, a crazy sandstorm like something Hollywood cooked up, and some strange deaths through history. Don’t waste time getting to waste your time, join up now and be my Stumbling buddy – fiwilson.stumbleupon.com. It really is a must for addictively scanning the World Wide Web for the wealth of oddities out there. You might Stumble but you definitely won’t fall.
