Tag: CREATIVE

Okay, let me get this out of the way first: Pomplamoose are awesome!!! I'm a huge fan, so I was overjoyed when Jack and Nataly agreed to grant me an exclusive 15-minute interview, chock full of nerdy goodness and hard-core technical information on how they create their music. In case you don't know them, you should really go watch their YouTube channel. They're a musical duo, and they are getting ...

BitTorrent -- while loved by techies like you and me -- often gets a bad rap because of the assumption that it's only used to transmit illegal content like pirated software or cammed movies. There are, of course, loads of completely legal torrents floating around, but they're sometimes hard to find. Mininova underwent a rather forcible re-tooling last year and now serves legal content only. ...

Here's the problem with games these days: too much actual playing and not enough unlocking of achievements. Is This a Game? might not be a game, but it provides you with 100 achievements to unlock using a (mostly) blank canvas. Pretty much anything you can think of is an achievement. Clicking a whole bunch? Yep. Doing nothing at all? Achievement! The thing is, you start to run out of ...

Firefox recently celebrated its fifth birthday and decided to get a little creative in the process. A little while back, they challenged users to get artsy and create a design that reflected this milestone. There were almost no requirements for the design and people were asked to think outside the box and create a design that would rally the Mozilla community around their celebration. The best ...

Doozla is a drawing application (Mac OS X only) designed for children from Plasq, the geniuses behind Skitch and Comic Life. There are 4 main ways to use Doozla: free drawing on a plain white background, drawing on a webcam capture, drawing on one of the included background pictures, and coloring-book mode. The interface is fullscreen and child friendly since it provides large icons and a simple ...

Being an entrepreneur is hard work. Sure you made millions on your "scary aquatic toy". But how are you going to come up with your next bit of "expensive temporary furniture" to keep your empire going? No, we're not playing a game of Mad Libs. We've just been spending too much time with the Idea Generator. Need a bit of inspiration? Give the wheel of ideas a spin. This little web application has ...

Few companies inspire such wicked fanboy love as does Apple, and few have such creative 'haters'. Here's two things we've stumbled on just today that illustrate the Apple love that's flying 'round in the lead up to the iPhone. First, a history of Apple in pictures. It's all there. Jobs, The Woz, The Apple I, The Lisa -- the predecessor to the original Macintosh -- and a ton of candid shots that ...

Audacity is good, useful, and perfect for many things. It is free, open-source and has plenty of features to cover the basics. Many Mac-ites like ProTools, or another equally powerful package for audio editing and production. Adobe's new Soundbooth beta is decent, and has some potential, though it doesn't look free and most likely won't be. It is more like Audacity in that it offers very simple ...

You mean Microsoft isn't going to quit making iLife-style apps just because Macs can boot into Windows? Well, I doubt Windows Movie Maker is going anywhere. And Max, Vista's photo application, is set to be a major selling point to the consumers out there. So I can only think Monaco, or Vista's answer to GarageBand, will also be at least a bullet point on the back of the box (which box remains a ...