And then I did a bit more work and created an alternate version! Little bit of color changing, fixed some stuff with the text, worked on the shadows a bit more, added a bit more with the grid. Hope you like it!

Sonic the Pop Star

Remember Sonic? I mean the good ol' Sonic, back on your genesis? You remember how catchy the songs were? You do? OK good.

Now lets look at Sonic 3... Some of those bad ass tune were worked on and written by none other than Micheal Jackson! Peep the kotaku article about it here.

I personally think that is just plain awesome. Just as long as no one plays that drowning music or I will have to beat them.

Also, some designer needs to be promoted for the 15 anniversary Playstation Logo, because that design is beautiful.

Usability Test

For my usability test, I figured why not do a site that has a ton of features and that most college students use every day?

Facebook!

1) Log in (I assume everyone has a FB account and knows how to log in...so not really a good question).

2) Send a message to a friend.

3) Change the bumper stickers application from publishing to your wall.

4) View your friends' phonebook.

5) Create a new Friends list and create a businesses list.

6) Edit your privacy settings to limit what that businesses list can see.

7) Upload a new photo to an existing album.

8) Make that photo your profile picture and tag yourself in that picture.

9) Make the photos page the first page your see on your homepage.

10) Go play some bejeweled blitz for taking this quiz! :D

Hope that was a good usability test. It covers some lesser know, harder to find stuff in facebook that really maybe should be easier to find, or at least in my opinion!

Free!

Free: The Future of Radical Price is a book by Chris Anderson.

And guess what, you can now download the audiobook for FREE from wired. Yeah, it's pretty awesome.

This blog post is taking the place of my kotaku one for the week

due to sheer epicness. I was linked to the article on Wired, which you can find here, off of another blog, JrockNYC. Even if you arn't into jrock, or don't even know what it is, I encourage you to check out his blog. Go, who owns the blog, is an excellent writer and posts tons of great content spanning all sorts of entertainment.

But back onto Free. The book was brought up in class once or twice and it's sat at the back of my mind for a while. Once I saw this link, I knew that I wanted to check it out. After listening to the prologue, I new I had to listen to the rest. I am currently half way through the book and enjoying every minute of it. It is a great listen and if you haven't read it yet I suggest you hit up the link and check it out.

Check out my website!

http://students.uww.edu/vonhadenar26/150

Right now I am thinking about doing a website for my friend's company, or at least work on the basic idea of it. my final idea is to do it in flash, but I have no experience in flash so far and that will probably have to wait till Christmas Break. So for now I have just come up with a simple layout. Obviously, the colors and such are not what they would be in the final, but it gives a good idea of the basic layout. The company, Theory Clothing, revolves on t-shirt and clothing design based around extreme sports. With that I will adjust the colors and pictures as such.

Team Fortess 2 for $2.49

The title says it all! Are you serious?!?
Steam had TF2 for download for $2.49 for a few hours yesterday. That's a price drop from $19.99. I don't know why you wouldn't buy this game for that price!
Since now the deal has passed, now you will probably just be kicking yourself XD