Custom Cases

Case Mate is a site where you can purchase a case for you phone, but the difference with buying a case from a phone shop or one of those stands in shopping centres is that Case Mate lets you create a fully custom design to jazz up your phone.

Choose from a number of devices from all the iPhones, to Blackberrys, Samsung Galaxy etc then choose a 'Barely There' lexon or 'Tough' plastic and silicon case. Once you have chosen you can then create your case by uploading your own art or using they design tools, which are actually quite impressive.

The cost is $39.99 and they ship internationally at reasonable rates. Great for a present or just to spoil yourself


Case Mate

Subtle Patterns

A nice and simple collection of background patterns for use in designs. View them as full backgrounds and download individually or as a groupd as psd patterns.

Subtle Patterns

Stunning moving photography

The animated gifs of New York photographer are magical, more than a photo as they gently move.

From Me To You

Icon Finder

Looking for a twitter button or maybe just a volume icon? Then pop to Icon Finder. The site has allows you to search through 154,651 icons or browse 793 icon sets and then download the png or ico (although many are just free for personal use).

Icon Finder

Muppet Cupcakes

Cupcakes seem to be in fashion and there are now loads of places on the internet and lots of shops dedicated to the weird and wonderful designs of them. Although not a massive fan I do love the Muppets and these cakes Rock!

Angry Birds on your computer

I have just noticed that angry birds now has a PC version. I love this funny little app but I am not sure it really works all that well on the PC. For a start it is strange using a mouse instead of a finger to launch the birds and secondly you have to start all the way back at the beginning as all the levels are locked like on the iphone/android until you complete the one before.

Rovio has built some special levels available only for the Chrome browser and the game includes some Chrome-specific tidbits like Chrome rocks, flowers, and clouds.

Can't grumble though, it is a great time waster


Angry Birds on Computer

Karl Lagerfeld's Diet Coke Bottles

The Coke bottles have always been an iconic design, with their hobble-skirt shape that is based on its resemblance to a dress from the early 1900s. The bottle have been know to get a "fashion make-over" from well know designers from Matthew Williamson, Roberto Cavalli and many others and now Karl Lagerfeld, who confesses that he drinks nothing else has put his mark on the Diet Coke bottle for his second collection of limited edition bottles.

Available from Harvey Nichols.

CSS3 Patterns Gallery

Is the end of background images imminent? With css3 you can create fab background patterns. Here Lea Verou has created a gallery of css3 patterns with the code all nicely laid out.

Visit CSS3 Patterns Gallery

ffffound - dancing image

I love ffffound, especially when something cool like this pops up

html 5 snippets

It is always nice when someone creates some really handy little code snippets and Roberto Brevé has done just that. With HTML5 Snippets there are some marvellous little html5 and css3 code snippets along with some simple canvas demonstrations that are a great way to get started with it.

This site also allows others to share their own code snippets so that it will hopefully become a large and very useful resource.

HTML5 Snippets