Information Architecture television

Check out the videos from the leading managers from various companies at

http://iatelevision.blogspot.com/

Free Tell-a-Friend widget for the blogs, sites

You can use Tell-a-Friend widget that works just about any blog/website. The installation instructions can be found at http://tellafriend.socialtwist.com/index.jsp. It was easy to setup without any hiccups and now i have widget showing at the top of the every blog post.

The Slang does it

Before making it cool lets look at the communication

The color scheme softwares and sites

There are couple of sites out there which can help you in choosing colors for ur applications and also help in coming up themes for the stylesheets

• Color Schemer: http://www.colorschemer.com/
• Color Burn :http://www.firewheeldesign.com/widgets/
• Tiger color:http://www.tigercolor.com/
• adobe: http://kuler.adobe.com/
• Color blender:http://colorblender.com/
• Another Color Blender:http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/color-blend/
• Well Styled: http://wellstyled.com/tools/colorscheme2/index-en.html

Enjoy painting the website :)

Interaction Design Patterns

The design patterns can be found at

• Jenifer Tidwell's site http://designinginterfaces.com/
• http://www.welie.com/patterns/index.html
• http://harbinger.sims.berkeley.edu/ui_designpatterns/webpatterns2/webpatterns/home.php
• http://developer.yahoo.com/ypatterns/
• http://www.webstyleguide.com/index.html?/contents.html

cheers

Javascript to convert the reverse color value

Here is the small javascript code i wrote to get the reverse color for text on the colored background.

< script type="text/javascript">
function changeColor(colorval){
var colorValue='';
var reverseColor='';
if(colorval.length==4 || colorval.length==7 ){
colorval=colorval.substr(1,colorval.length);
}
if (colorval.length==3){
for(i=0;i<colorval.length;i++){
var colchar=colorval.substr(i,1);
colorValue+=colchar+colchar;
reverseColor+=reverseColorChar(colchar)+reverseColorChar(colchar);
}
}else{
for(j=0;j<colorval.length;j++){
var colchar=colorval.substr(j,1);
reverseColor += reverseColorChar(colchar);
}
colorValue=colorval;
}


document.getElementById('abc').style.background='#'+colorValue;
document.getElementById('abc_text').style.color='#'+reverseColor;
alert(reverseColor);
}

function reverseColorChar(colorChar){
var reverseColorCode=0;
if(colorChar=='0')
reverseColorCode='f';
else if(colorChar=='1')
reverseColorCode='e';
else if(colorChar=='2')
reverseColorCode='d';
else if(colorChar=='3')
reverseColorCode='c';
else if(colorChar=='4')
reverseColorCode='b';
else if(colorChar=='5')
reverseColorCode='a';
else if(colorChar=='6')
reverseColorCode='9';
else if(colorChar=='7')
reverseColorCode='8';
else if(colorChar=='8')
reverseColorCode='7';
else if(colorChar=='9')
reverseColorCode='6';
else if(colorChar=='a')
reverseColorCode='5';
else if(colorChar=='b')
reverseColorCode='4';
else if(colorChar=='c')
reverseColorCode='3';
else if(colorChar=='d')
reverseColorCode='2';
else if(colorChar=='e')
reverseColorCode='1';
else if(colorChar=='f')
reverseColorCode='0';
return reverseColorCode;
}


< /script>

< input type="text" id="colorValue" name="colorValue" value="">
< input type="button" value="change color" onclick="javascript:changeColor(document.getElementById('colorValue').value)">
< div id="abc" style="width:100px;height:100px;border:1px #333 solid;">
< span id="abc_text">here is the text< /div>

Another milestone is Music Sharing

Dekoh released the beta version of the music application (http://www.dekoh.com/music/index.html) which allows you to organize your music-and stream it to your friends. It makes it convenient for all the music lovers out there to share music from their desktop.
What strikes me most is that once i have imported the music i can access it from any mobile device which is connected through internet. Its like having your own radio station. My friends can listen the music from my desktop anytime.... anywhere which i have shared for them. However the internet speed is the only bottleneck at this point of time but on my 128kbps broadband connection it works decently well.