Sam’s random musings

Color Palette Generator:

Generate a color palette from an image—one you upload to the site, or ones already there: Color Palette Generator

This is the way this color idiot does initial color palettes for sites

(Via 2020 Hindsight.)

Open Web Design - Home /\^/\:

Open Source Web Design is a community of designers and site owners sharing free web design templates as well as web design information. Helping to make the internet a prettier place!

Great Resource

PNGCrusher: Make Your Web Graphics Smaller:

PNGCrusher will provide significant compression your PNG files and can save you a lot of bandwidth (and therefore, money). I’ve been using the PNG format more and more (abandoning GIF and JPG) for my web work. This software gives me another great reason to use only PNG.

(Via The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW).)

Welcome to Jacuba - Free Online Spellchecker:

Jacuba is an online spell checker that you can apply to any text area.

This is actually kind of cool. Might be worth playing with…

(Via .)

CocoaDialog:

Filed under: Odds and ends, Open Source

How many times has thing happened to you? You’ve just put the finishing touches on a sweet shell script that you want to roll out to your entire enterprise, but you know that most of y our users aren’t going to want to launch Terminal to input the answers that your script requires. If only there was some way of’ accessing commonly used OS X GUI elements’ with your shell script without having to use Applescript.

Enter CocoaDialog, which let’s you do exactly that. This opensource project looks like it has been languishing a bit, but hopefully development will pick up soon.

I like this just don’t have the time to wrap stuff I use all the time

XML.com: Introducing SPARQL: Querying the Semantic Web:

This tutorial, the first of a three-part series, introduces SPARQL — a query language and data access protocol for the Semantic Web. SPARQL is defined in terms of the W3C’s RDF data model and will work for any data source that can be mapped into RDF. The specification is under development by the RDF Data Access Working Group (DAWG) and has recently reached Last Call Working Draft.

Another day another ’standard’

(Via .)

Rene Descartes:

“It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well.”

(Via Motivational Quotes of the Day.)

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This is just sick; some people get way too into the holiday spirit. Click the link to see what we mean…

[Thanks, Scott]

(Via Engadget.)