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Fontstruct by Fontshop

April 7th, 2008 by Joseph Hallahan

Fontstruct is a font building application that lets you design your own fonts. You paint with ‘bricks’ into a grid. The interface is quite similar to pixel editing or image editing software, with quite similar but more simplistic tools. You built letters up one at a time, and it’s all very simple and intuitive to use, if a little visually flat. Once you have designed a true type font is generated and published on the site, allowing you to share your creation.

While now where near as powerful as dedicated font generation applications, the gallery of fonts made on the site is quite impressive, and it’s evident that while being simple, the application does allow you to create very unique and fun typefaces. I like xtrude myself.

Overall, it’s a fun little app for a while but not particularly useful. The execution was pretty effective, but nothing to write home about. Imagine if this site had come out a few years ago when absolutely everyone was pixel font mad!

Fontstruct interface

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Web2.0 App of the YEAR!

February 22nd, 2008 by Nicolas Noben

Check out the Automatic screen cleaner. Awesome app.

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Make montages with flash and google image

February 20th, 2008 by Nicolas Noben

Cute little flash app by Grant Robinson. Use keywords to generate montages of thumbs from Google Image.

Check out Montage-a-google


Design: ★★☆☆☆
Usability: ★★★☆☆
Execution: ★★★★☆
Overall: ★★★☆☆

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Flash Video and the love of commercials: Firebrand™

February 11th, 2008 by Nicolas Noben

firebrand.pngAwesome web app sorts all the famous video ads by client. The application itself is really well made with a sense of depth and stage.

It has, however, consistently crashed Safari on close.

Check out Firebrand


Design: ★★★★☆
Usability: ★★★☆☆
Execution: ★★★½☆
Overall: ★★★½☆

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Flash app by M&M’s - Design your own and photo studio

February 9th, 2008 by Nicolas Noben

This full on app by M&M’s lets you create your own, dress it up, and star it in a photo or movie!

It’s quite useless and frankly I doubt they got much out of it (considering the budget behind it). But when something is cool, who cares?


Design: ★★☆☆☆
Usability: ★★★☆☆
Execution: ★★★☆☆
Overall: ★★½☆☆

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Papervision 3D: Varywell - Stunning website

February 8th, 2008 by Nicolas Noben

Love how the windows wobble, the navigation and even their work is great.

Check out Varywell…


Design: ★★★☆☆
Usability: ★★★★☆
Execution: ★★★★☆
Overall: ★★★½☆

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Funny Puff seats - Cool idea, flash + web app

February 7th, 2008 by Nicolas Noben

Funny Puff Seats - flash site

Funny penis and boobs seats. Great concept! The website allow customization of the puffy seats via a flash web app.


Design: ★★★★☆
Usability: ★★★☆☆
Execution: ★★★★☆
Overall: ★★★½☆

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Digg pics - Flash app to browse visually (could be better)

February 7th, 2008 by Nicolas Noben

Digg’s newest lab experiment called pics lets you browse their images content. Looks cool, but somehow it feels a bit too basic.


Design: ★★☆☆☆
Usability: ★★★☆☆
Execution: ★★★★☆
Overall: ★★★☆☆

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Lipton tea Microsite / Viral

February 6th, 2008 by Nicolas Noben

Very close to the dodgy ladder website (which is now unfortunately offline) is the Fight the Indooritis microsite.

Visit the Lipton tea viral site.


Design: ★★★★☆
Usability: ★★★☆☆
Execution: ★★★☆☆
Overall: ★★★½☆

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Yahoo Finance - RIA that doesn’t (totally) suck

February 3rd, 2008 by Nicolas Noben

Yahoo Finance has a new charting app in beta. It’s not too bad if you love charts, but still pretty useless being delayed by 15 min; unless you’re into the long term trends.


Design: ★★★☆☆
Usability: ★★★☆☆
Execution: ★★★☆☆
Overall: ★★★☆☆

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Henley properties - stunning flex Flash app for display homes

February 1st, 2008 by Nicolas Noben

Besides the buggy deep linking in their flash, it’s a very well done web app.

Update: it’s a Flash app, excuse the title.

Henley Properties display homes


Design: ★★★★☆
Usability: ★★★★☆
Execution: ★★★★☆
Overall: ★★★★☆

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MaxHaus Virtual Apartment Builder Application

February 1st, 2008 by Nicolas Noben

Impressive web application to design your Sao Paulo apartment, the way you like it.

MaxHaus Virtual


Design: ★★★★☆
Usability: ★★★☆☆
Execution: ★★★☆☆
Overall: ★★★½☆

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Coaching your new years resolution!

February 1st, 2008 by Nicolas Noben

Make sure your new year resolutions sticks with Start a resolution!


Design: ★★★★☆
Usability: ★★★★☆
Execution: ★★★☆☆
Overall: ★★★½☆

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Food for thoughts - fat conscious viral

January 31st, 2008 by Nicolas Noben

BHF Food for Thought Viral


Design: ★★★☆☆
Usability: ★★★☆☆
Execution: ★★★☆☆
Overall: ★★★☆☆

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McCain potato parade viral

January 31st, 2008 by Nicolas Noben

Make your own parade with this excellent viral!

Potato Parade


Design: ★★★★☆
Usability: ★★★☆☆
Execution: ★★★★★
Overall: ★★★★☆

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