This weblog post over at ministry of type has some pretty map images which are a well welcomed alternative to the more-and-more-tiring Google maps look.

Most of you have probably heard about macheist.com already. Those of you who have not should hurry over to the site and get your bundle of software purchased right away. These apps are so incredibly cheap that you should not miss the opportunity to get your hands on them: The more people buy this bundle the bigger it gets (even if you buy now). As more people purchase the bundle more apps get thrown in. Hurry, only little time left!

A nice set of infographics on www.scribd.com/… might enlighten your next lunch break. Awesome stuff in there.

Mashable.com offers a quick read with 5 examples of social media blunders. This is only a starting point if you want to get insight into this problem, but nevertheless a good start.

An interview with Kako from São Paulo, Brazil and some of his art can be read at vectortuts. I like the style a lot and thought you might too.

Head on over to webdesignerdepot.com to get a nice collection of airline logos. Might be a nice inspiration if you are working on something similar right now.

While browsing some sites today, I came across the nice website of Squaredeye and thought I should share it with you.

If you are designing websites than this article about fluid designs by Ethan Marcotte might be a nice read and update on your knowledge.

Fluid 960 Grid System | 16-column Grid. is a nice demo of a 16-columns grid based design. The mix with mootools effects makes it a good starting point for clean designs. Everything is released under a GPL/ MIT Licenses.

If you like a nice, clean design with a touch of analogue moleskin-esque colours you should hurry to head your browser to weblog.cynosura.eu.

Over at Yankodesign you can see a great earbuds design concept by Qian Jiang: The earbuds can be recharged like a regular AA battery via the included adaptor.

A colleague of mine worked on a book about Enterprise 2.0: The Art of letting go. There is a companion website as well.

The League of Moveable Type brings you some nice fonts for web use and embedding.

I have posted other videos of such kind over here before. Today I would like to share this clip about blogging in Iran with you.

Layers is todays deal on mupromo.com and probably something you want to get a hold on when you have to take screenshots every now and then and need to work with them for presentations or so. The great thing is, that you get every bit on screen in a separate Photoshop layer.

Looking for some other speakers? Engadget has a nice set of them in an article.

Cannot leave your Creative Suite alone in the evening? Well, help is on the way: Have yourself a magnetic canvas and palettes for your livingroom: Meninos.

Nice application of Photoshop palettes to demystify the looks of some folks on ad campaign posters: pictures @ fubiz.net.

Over at the wonderful RWW you might find this article about jailbreaking your iPhone quite interesting.

artofthetitle.com is a website I just discovered on my everlasting quest to discover nice movie credits and opening sequences. Check it out!

Mercedes-Benz Viano and the chronicles of Narnia come along in a joint website which is nicely done and reminds me a bit of the „little prince“. Have a look …

I came across the website of photographer Chase Jarvis a few days ago. Now I had some time to check out the video podcast as well. Nice little behind the scenes clips (via iTunes).

I really like this LED dog lamp by Wants and Needs design from Korea.

Just found some Alka Seltzer campaign screens / ads. Really like them

Just saw this on a friends twitter feed: http://creativity-online.com/work/view?seed=49614c83 Nice one. Watch carefully …

Designing interfaces? Have a quick look at ui-patterns.com whether you find something interesting.

Just stumbled across this little video on youtube where the default boring user icon shapes are pimped with a few well done strokes to something new: user icons recreated.

I guess you should have a look at www.bigbrotherstate.com to watch a well produced and well scripted animation film with a strong political message.

PleaseDress.me is a new search engine to find your favourite new t-shirt. Try it for yourself.

I just found a nicely designed rocking chair over at Yanko Design. Designer Scott Wilson created a very nice piece of furniture here. I’d love to have a couple of these!

Over at woork you can get a list of 10 free handwriting fonts. Some feel quite fresh.

How to be a good client is a little manual to be a good client to a designer. I guess there is some truth here and there. Thanks Dennis.

Yearbook Yourself is a little fun application. The title says it all, doesn’t it?!

The iPhone GUI PSD offered for download over at the Blog of teehanlax.com is a great way quickly getting some iPhone / iPod mockups done. Grab it if you are into designing for this device. Nice one.

ART BACKWASH: Design Batting Average is a weblog post by Von Glitschka, a designer and illustrator based in Oregon, talking about the development of a logotype for a client. The sad part is that the nice designs never made it to acceptance for some reasons  which might sound familiar to someone in the same business.

iPod Paper.com is a site which I just discovered on the hunt for nice new art for my iPodtouch. Head on over and check out the nice illustrations and other wallpapers.

I just ran across a post on motionographer with some nice stop-motion commercials. Very nice and with love to detail.

Del.icio.us has released the new interface version which was a subject to rumors and lots of talk for ages as it seems. My first impression is that a few glitches have really been optimised and ironed out. See for your self: the new Delicious.

I just discovered this little service placing tweets on a 3D globe: twittearth.

A wonderful little clip can be found over at collegehumor: If fonts were people is a hilarious short film with the most commonly used fonts as the main characters discussing whether Zapf DIngbats should be treated as a font as well.

After a long time this nifty little usability testing app has finally arrived for everybody: Silverback — guerrilla usability testing. Once again the goodness only comes to the Mac.

Now that is dedication: Love of type on skin. Watch the video.

Digsby might be a solution to get all the things under control again. All your typical services (IM, email and social networks) in one little app. Windows only so far, Mac and Linux apparently coming up soon. Of course you could use something like Flock as well which even gives you blogging and browsing as well … all build upon the Firefox / Mozilla Goodness.

Just before the weekend you might consider to indulge in wonderful artwork with lots of spectrum use. Very nice indeed …

Usually I don’t post these but today is an exception: Adobe Photoshop CS3 for iPhone. You just have to see it in Action!

I just found some nice artwork on Leandro Demetrius’ flickr page. Have a look and get inspired.

The first winners in Cannes have been announced already, tomorrow we will see the winners of the Cyber Lions 2008. A great place to see what the design / advertising / multimedia industry has been up to recently: www.canneslions.com/winners

Are you using Mac OS X 10.5? In case you do not like the iCal print-outs that come standard with the app you might want to check this little helper here: Colendar. It gives you a lot of settings for your prints and might be just what you were looking for.

Over at spreadfirefox.com you can pledge for your download of Firefox Version 3 on 17 June 2008. Loads of new features are waiting for you and by downloading you support the attempt to achieve a Guiness Record in downloads. Pledge and fetch!

A little birdy just told me about a fairly new CSS/HTML/WYSIWYG editor with JavaScript and Ruby On Rails support called flux. The application is available for the Mac and requires some time to get used to it. It looks very leopard-ish and is priced at just below 70 USD. Give it a spin, it might just be what you where looking for. An additional review can be found over at the IT Enquirer.

You own an iPhone? Great. You like music? Great. Why don’t you head over to ringtonefeeder.com to subscribe to great ringtones produced by Geoff Smith. Fresh new ringtones and the latest 5 releases for fairly low prices. Well worth checking them out …

I have not mentioned this useful resource before but you might want to check out the webdeveloper’s handbook. Sorted by genre and type Vitaly Friedman lists a variety of good reads and resource websites.

I have tried loads of little egg timer applications. Some of them just stopped working while the Mac OS moved on in version numbers, others where just badly done, some are just too much. I will try this one called minutes for a while and hope to be as good as the first impression that I got from it.

You might like this fine collection of data visualisation examples over at designlabel. Get inspired and take it further if you can.

You might be just as frustrated to not be able to upgrade your print-workhorse-mac to leopard because you are in need of a non-crashing InDesign. In case you have a Leopard install at hand a post at creativetec might help you to get leopard installed and still be able to work. But still this issue is a shame … whoever might be to blame.

So, your parents get a printed newspaper? You read RSS-feeds and surf the web? Well here is a little application which gives you almost the feeling of reading a printed newspaper: Times. Get your RSS-feeds in a layout that tries to be just like on Dad`s breakfast table …

In case you develop websites and your client asks you for that nifty iPhone icon for his website you should read the article over at fontblog before getting into crafting your icon. It would have saved me quite some time. Thanks Dennis.

While researching the opportunities for laser engraving of a MacBookPro I discovered this little shop for custom-made laser-engraced moleskine books. So,go and engrave your book!

After some long months of waiting for this version the release is finally here. With lots of new features, an vastly improved back-end and many developer functions this looks like the best Wordpress release yet. In case you are running older versions or other software you should definitely consider upgrading or maybe even changing your software. More about this release at wordpress.org, which is redesigned as well. Enjoy 2.5!

In case you are interested in buying german books from independent publishers you should definitely check out TUBUK. They have wonderful books and great customer reviews.

Adobe just started the online version of Photoshop. When registering you get basic functionalities to edit and improve your photos. Storage is provided by Adobe (a nice 2 GB per user) and uploads to the major community sites are possible directly from your Photoshop Express library. Currently missing: layers, text tools and flickr upload, which is promised for the very near future as some sources report it.

As Matt Mullenweg describes it best when writing that wordpress.com is moving to a gmail-like space offering: From now on you can host your blog over there and upload up to 3GB of space for free. Make the best out of that!

The current season has started at the end of September already but I simply forgot to mention it here: Go and watch some layer tennis.

I just stumbled across these 360°-videos on immersivemedia.com. A nice experience although you might miss important things when scrolling at the wrong moment.

Although this might be a late link some of you might still find it helpful: MacSanta brings software deals for the mac at discounted prices. New apps appearing daily so check back often.

I think it would be a shame to not mention the site telling us the story about stuff. Have a look, read the 10 recommendations and act up!

For only 10 USD this is a must-have: threadless shirt “The internet was closed”. Hurry, I guess stocks won’t last for a long time.

Just in case you are listening to german-language podcasts and are looking for an advent podcast look no further: AdventsNetcast.de. Subscribe via iTunes or via Websitelinks.

Isn’t this the perfect thing to kick-off the holiday season? At iyule.tv you can purchase and download a nice 30 minute video of a fireplace in all different kinds of formats. The score is by one of my favourite artists Geoff Smith. Go and get it while the fire burns!

Those of us who have to deal with the IE and its “twists” but work on a mac might be interested in this: ies4osx gives you the chance to install IE 5/5.5/6/7 on your IntelMac without having to run Parallels or something similar. Give it a spin and let me know what you think.

On the 27th and for a short time only givegoodfoodtoyourmac.com will give buyers the chance to get their hands on software at reduced prizes. A bit like what you can find daily over at mupromo.com.

Each click increases the beauty-level a bit: Monoface

I just found this nice post on the inflation of speech bubble usage oder at blog.eachday.com when reading about the thoughts of a new Photoshop logo at John Nack’s blog.

Ars technica brings us a great and thorough review of Mac OS X 10.5 aka Leopard. Worth the read!

You might find this article about OpenType over at the relaunched typography.com quite interesting as it gives a good and quick overview. Just in case you have wondered which type of font to purchase. Browsing the Fonts is actually a good idea as well … you’ll be in for a treat!

I love Inbox as my GTD application. What I love even more is the fact that I might be able to take it with me very soon! Hopefully in not only with .mac but with macbay as well.

I am thinking about creating a few Wordpress themes to be given away for free while studying some of the new versions features. I would be delighted to get some wishes from you in order to try to implement them. Please use the comments function as a wishlist.

Following yesterdays post here is another fine article: A showcase of big typography. Enjoy.

Over at IloveTypography you can find 15 nice webdesigns with a strong focus on the type setting. I did not know all of them, so a good little inspiration feed.

FontShop Int. offers a free download of Revalo on their site. This download might be there for a limited time only. So hurry over there and see whether you like it.

Acquisition 2 is out now. A slick and elegant P2P-Client for the Mac. You might like XTorrent as well. Compare and test for yourself.

Apple has introduced a webapp category on their website which lists applications suitable for the iPhone and the iPod touch.

A very nice write-up of the creation process for an application icon is over on the Cocoia Blog. It is for a new FTP-app called Flow which looks quite promising as well.

When it comes to inflight-entertainment I couldn’t agree more than a friend said it on his tumblr log.

On November 12 2007 you will be able to donate a laptop to a child and receive one for yourself. The price is $400 for both machines. All the details about the campaign at xogiving.org.

You might like rememble: a service to create a timeline-based project like a script or a diary. Collaboration within the service is possible but strongly connected to the community.

A little video treat for your lunch break: internet people on Channelfredarator.

A new image editing software for Mac OS X named pixelator is waiting to be tried out. All the details about the release in the pixelmator blog. 59 USD seems to be a reasonable price.

Blaugallery offers some limited edition prints of various illustrators on canvas. Some nice examples over there. I am very tempted!

You might be interested in this post over at readwriteweb.com summing up some essentials about current and future web trends.

The upcoming collaboration software activecollab is about to be released (October 5th). Pricing sounds reasonable and Basecamp might not be the only kid in town anymore.

neophilia is featured over at CMSshowcase.com. Feel free to vote… Thanks!

BoingBoing has a story about the virgin flight of VA. They offer Google Maps instead of the boring old inflight-maps. I’ve been longing for ages …

I was able to resist installing an RSS-reader for ages (probably because I used Flock to surf the web and read news). But I just fell in love with the new, clean, simply, no-frills Vienna version which is free.

Personally I use dodgit.com quite often when in need of a disposable email address to avoid spam. If you want to choose another service here is a list of 20+ other services. A great collection for your bookmarks.

Jos Bulvenga is giving away a nice free font called Anivers. More information on the font’s page. While you are there feel free to check out his other fonts.

Just discovered these over at uxmag.com: Checkout the Jealous Computers Warning Website and the older campaign introducing Great pockets. Both of them very nice indeed.

I have just discovered a very nice font: Metroscript by AlphabetSoup. The OpenType features are wonderful!

Photoshop Express, a light-weight online version of Photoshop (Elements) was presented at Photoshop World last week. Some info and a first screenshot is available at John Nack’s blog.