Kuler – A new world of colours from Adobe

Looking for inspirations on colours, then Kuler from ever trusted Adobe is your ultimate solution. Kuler is an online colour theme generator which helps you to get the perfect set of colours for your project.

You can browse through thousands of colour themes readily available and can change them as per your needs. Kuler gives you the chance to create your own colour themes and share them with the Kuler community.  Another great advantage of Kuler is that it allows you to create colour themes from an image too; you can upload your own images and use them as a base to your colour theme. But the best news is that Kuler allows you to download an Adobe Swatch Exchange file of your selected colour theme which you can use with your Adobe software. Believe me it is very easy to use this fascinating online tool.

To do all these things you just need an Adobe ID (Which you can obtain free from https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/membership/index.cfm?nf=1 while you can find Kuler panels in Photoshop CS4, Illustrator CS4, InDesign CS4, Adobe Fireworks® CS4, and Adobe Flash® CS4 which helps you to access Kuler from the software itself.

Kuler is a great product, especially when you need inspiration on colours. You can access Kuler on http://kuler.adobe.com/ .

Go ahead and explore the world of colours and don’t forget to leave your comments on this blog.

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Wolfram|Alpha – Making the world’s knowledge computable!

If you are looking for the next generation search engine here it is. They call it as Wolfram|Alpha, computational knowledge engine which is exactly what it does. To me it is more likely an analytical engine which gives a well presented result sheet based on a query. You can access the site by clicking following link, http://www.wolframalpha.com/index.html

It is very simple; you just type what you need. I am not going to explain how it works since they have put up a wonderful intro to it which can be accessed at http://www.wolframalpha.com/screencast/introducingwolframalpha.html . So go ahead and try it! I am sure it will give you a new experience and please give your comments too on this article and the blog.

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Ubiquity for Firefox, command-line interface for your favourite browser

If you ask anyone what is the advantage of using Firefox, more than 90% will say it is because of the huge collection of add-ons it has got. After using Firefox for so long I just found out the most interesting extension for Firefox. Ubiquity is a set of natural language commands which enable quick access to various web services and activities such as search, e-mail, translation and social networking.

Once install (installation is as simple as a normal Firefox add-on) it is very easy to use. Let say you want to search on particular term you found on a web page, you can just select that term, pres Ctrl + Space to open the Ubiquity window and just type Google in the command line. It will give you Google search results for the selected term on the right hand panel of Ubiquity window. You can fine few useful commands by reading the following article, 15 Ubiquity Commands to Enhance Your Web Experience.

You can get Ubiquity at http://ubiquity.mozilla.com/ and it has help on commands you can use too. I am sure you’ll be able to enhance your web experience by using Ubiquity. Try it and please let me know your ideas on Ubiquity and this blog.

Dress up your Firefox with Personas for Firefox

Wanna give your Firefox an exciting look! Then try Personas for Firefox, easy and simple way to give your browser a new look. Mozilla labs explains Personas for Firefox as “Your browser, your style! Dress it up with easy-to-change “skins” for your Firefox.”

Personas for Firefox is treated as an add-on and it is very easy to maintain. You can select different “skins” for your browser by just selecting Personas for Firefox from Tools menu. Once you mouse over a skin name it will give you a live preview. You can click on it to confirm the change.

You can get Personas for Firefox http://www.getpersonas.com/ and you’ll be able to view different galleries of Personas available.

Just install, select your Personas and enjoy browsing! Please feel free to comment on this article.

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Web Plus: Google Insights for Search – See what the world is searching for

Ever wondered what people are searching on Google, then Google Insights for Search is your solution. It’s a great tool to analyze what people are looking for on Google.

First of all it looks so simple (obviously it is from Google) but surprised me with its features. Mainly it allows you to find out what are the top search terms by country while you can filter them by web, images, news and products. You can specify a category for the search terms as well, plus it is possible to define a time period too. For an example you can get the top search for worldwide image search in sports for year 2008 which gives you ronaldo in number one position.

World wide PC vs mac web search comparison from 2004

My favourite feature of Google Insights is the ability to compare more than one search terms at once. Simply put your search terms separated by a comma to view the trend chart, regional interest for mentioned search terms as well as other relative search terms.

You can access the Google Insights for Search by clicking on following link. http://www.google.com/insights/search/#

I found Google Insights for Search very interesting and very useful to get an idea of what people are searching for. Feel free to comment on this article.

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