Well Wallpapers aren’t really a necessary resource or anything, designers always like to have a pretty desktop(well at least i do). Heres a roundup of a bunch of great wallpaper sites and lists! If i’m missing anything, let me know in the comments.

50 Remarkable Nature Wallpapers - Smashing Magazine

(Really) Stunning Wallpaper and More (Really) Stunning Wallpaper - Smashing Magazine

Space and Nebula Wallpapers - Smashing Magazine

Mandolux

Breathtaking Photo Sets Guaranteed to Inspire - Design Reviver

49 Amazing Wallpapers - Paint Bits

Flickr Wallpaper Pool

Aviation Photo Flickr Set

Top 10 Gaming Wallpapers - Digital Battle

It’s amazing, simply amazing. It took me about two minutes to get downloaded and installed (most likely due to my slow internet), and then I was up and running! Web pages load extremely fast, it’s pretty insane honestly. Anyway, let’s run through some cool features:

Interface. The Chrome interface is amazing, extremely minimalist, very tab focussed, with some neat little animations, but they’re not too overdone. It’s both beautiful and usable, it just works! Another thing I noticed was the address bar, check it out, highlights the url you’re on, with the actual sub-directory greyed slightly, genius, so simple, so good. Also, I immediately noticed a lack of a status bar, but soon realized it does exist, but it only exists when needed (nicely fades in, and out).

Speed. This browser is simply amazing, webpages are basically instant to load and be displayed, and when you’re using Tiscali internet, that’s a pretty amazing achievement. Not only this, but Chrome is using just 44mb of ram! Compared to FireFox (also running) which is taking a whopping 197mb. Now that’s amazing.

Features. Chrome boasts an “incognito” mode which basically records nothing, so yeah, that’s got a pretty obvious use, but I currently can’t see many other uses than that really, unless you’re buying gifts perhaps? The homepage is also different, showing your most commonly visited sites, but I simply set it to reload my tabs from last time.

The problems. It may be in beta, but it’s pretty good. I did notice a few things though, which are particularly annoying:

1. Checkboxes don’t seem to appear anywhere? (extremely annoying)
2. It doesn’t always offer to save password (didn’t on digg anyway)
3. No good bookmarking method, only a simple toolbar.
4. No mousewheel click scrolling, something I really, really need.
5. Update, found another error: Chrome doesn’t seem to support overflow: auto; in CSS OK, looks like this is now working, but not always for me. I’ll have to take a deeper look into this. My test file which is working is here.
6. No design on direct feeds. Also, the FeedBurner xml link doesn’t appear in Chrome (perhaps Google want to hide the fact it won’t display properly?). Direct viewing redirects to the original FeedBurner page.
7. Update 2: another, submit <inputs> backgrounds style don’t always work properly like they do in FF and  IE.

However, from what I’ve seen, it’s fast, it’s simple, it’s beautiful. I can’t wait for it to come out of beta, I can assure you, the final product will be amazing.

On a final note, this might be bad news for FireFox however, even if they can survive without Google’s funding, such an amazing browser like this might win-over many, many FireFox users (especially when we consider that a lot of FireFox users are more… tech savvy).

Update: one more annoying thing (not Google’s fault) is the lack of StumbleUpon for a while!

I’m sure almost everyone reading this site has something they have copyrighted, so i’ve decided that i should probably clear up the proper(and most legally binding) method of displaying copyright on your website(or artwork, music etc. etc.).

“Designers should always assert that their work is protected by copyright by using the © symbol on their page, in the format ‘© YEAR OF PRODUCTION, AUTHORS NAME’. This educates the public that you’re asserting your copyright over the work.”
Via: Sam Brown

The quote above is from Stephanie Burns of Withers & Rogers and was in the article ‘Thwart the design thieves’ in this months .NET magazine.

So basically the proper format is “© PRODUCTION YEAR-CURRENT YEAR, AUTHORS NAME”. If you are doing this in PHP you can make it update the current year automatically, using the string below.

&copy; 2007 - <?php echo date("Y"); ?>, Your Name.

After a few last-minute fixes (like actually setting the title correctly) and a few other modifications, Square Splatter is finally ready for release.

Before you read on, go and download it!

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Quarkbase is a really cool way to look at all the states of a website. It takes a look at all the regular stuff(Blog Rank, Traffic Rank, Alexa Ranking) but also takes a look at a lot of new stuff, such as the amount of articles on digg, the amount of people who have twittered about it and the amount of people who have bookmarked it on Delicious. Overall it works very well, at least in my preliminary tests.