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I thought that the Audible.com web site was very nicely designed and that the writing and flow of the site was straightforward. In fact, I felt like the buttons answered specific questions I had at each moment.

Software review: Object Dock is a very cool app in beta that does the Mac dock better than the Mac does. “Out of the box” it has many more features than the Mac’s – even when OS X’s dock is customized with all available 3rd party hacks! Not only can this one show current running apps, preferred shortcuts, and the recycle bin, but you can add “docklet” extensions like the one installed by default which shows the current temperature and weather conditions. Mostly fun, but could actually improve productivity and help you transition to OS X

“red alert” a short film by zefrank (QuickTime) is one of the funniest short interviews I have seen in a while. It’s filled with funny little jokes and comments.

I think my favorite line might be: “Shows a per-person statistical chance of getting killed by a terrorist attack.” when he’s talking about the color code of current terrorist threat level.

Talk about technology – NASA Develops Subvocal Speech Detection! – also known as ‘talking to oneself.’ When speaking inaudibly, the brain sends signals to the tongue and vocal chords which can be detected, even if no sound is actually produced. Right now the system only works with a small set of words

My thought is that if this is true, imagine the applications governments could use to interogate spies.

If you really want to see the stuff we’ve done… (more…)

Bigshot Media
Sells looping flash animations/movies that you can use in your projects. Sweet idea!

SoundRangers.com
A great resource for all kinds of sound effects for your Flash files.

Shockwave-Sound.com
Just a good site if you need sound f/x.

Pesky Bitmap Imagery Got You Down? (Thanks to WireTree.com)
By following a couple simple steps when authoring in Flash you can avoid the ripple effect that is sometimes caused when you pass a vector element over a bitmap image.

Bratta.com & DHTML Central This guy has a great site. The CoolMenus script is probably his most popular… it is easy to implement pull-down menus with his script. Highly customizable.

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We find neat little apps all over the place and use them in our work, so we thought we’d share some of the best ones with BrainFuel readers. (more…)