Matthew Buchanan (Home)

An image processing and storage service with a URL-based API for creating thumbnails and other image transformations such as squaring, cropping, resizing and rotating. The service creates and hosts transformed versions of images from originals located anywhere online, using a URL structure like this:

http://urlimg.com/resize/300x400/example.com/image.jpg

A user account is required, with the first 50MB of images processed for free, and $0.01 per megabyte payable thereafter. I can think of one or two client sites without native image resizing this will be perfect for.

Neven Mrgan:

My good friend Matt has a new iPhone app out. It’s called Pocketball and it’s a physics puzzle in the style of The Incredible Machine and Enigmo. Like every good puzzle, it starts off easy and keeps getting more challenging. The rules are always clear, but you gotta get cleverer with each level to keep going. At a criminal $1.99, with no nickel-and-diming, and in this economy, you can’t afford not to buy it.

I’ve made it midway through the game in my first couple of days, and it’s quite fiendishly simple and challenging at the same time. The game’s graphics, also by its creator Matt Comi, are minimal and beautiful and add to its overall appeal.

Last October @avon and I built an app and submitted it to the App Store in plenty of time for Hallowe’en. It was approved in January of this year (thanks Apple). The point of the app is to scare your friends and mums by concealing unspeakable horrors behind some cute swipe-activated purring kittens. It makes grown men weep*, and works even better if you can trick your prey into listening through headphones.

And now our devilish, best Hallowe’en app ever can be yours. Follow @hallowkittyftw for free promo codes this weekend, “because you shouldn’t have to pay $0.99 for this pap”.**

*Possibly with laughter. **US store only though, Apple’s rules.

Nice to have a few alternative options besides lorem ipsum. (via Tina Roth Eisenberg)