benjamin franck

Got my MOO business cards !!!

This morning, a small package was waiting for me on my desk.
My Moo business cards arrived !! I was so excited !!

The come in a nice protected thick envelope, and inside, you get a very nice box, made out of recycled pulp board.
Cards are printed on paper sourced from sustainable forests.
Print quality is really great, and colors are perfect.

Every card has a unique picture printed on it, a picture I took.
This is really great when you’re shooting a concert, or talking about webdesign, and someone turns to be a potential customer.
You give him/her a great bizcard, totally in connected to your business.

MOO.com is gives you all the tools to create these (or another product, like mini cards).
You can connect your flickr account and retrieve your pics.
You can use a photo set, a collection, search by tag… really great and userfriendly !

I am just excited about it !!
Here are some pics of the cards (taken quickly @ work, some other will come)

MOO business cards

MOO business cards

I think I’ll be sad to give these away … I’ll have to reprint some for ME !!!
^_^

spotify fave of the week #1

I love music. I can’t play it, but I couldn’t live without access to music.
I couldn’t work without music playing in my headphones.

Spotify is one of the best things I tried in the last months.
This stream service is just what I needed. No need to rip my CD’s in mp3, no need to keep Gb of mp3’s on my hard drive.
It’s the perfect place to listen to my favourite bands, and to discover new stuff.

I’ll be posting my favourite album/artist of the week here.
And for starters, I’ll post the last album of Basement Jaxx: Scars.

Basement Jaxx: Scars

It has been released in july 2009, and I kinda like it a lot !
I used to listen to Basment JAxx, always loved the way the bringed people together on their tracks.
On this album, you’ll hear tracks featuring Kelis, Yoko Ono, Amp Fiddler and many more.

Click here to open the album on spotify !
Enjoy !

Creating a .ico favicon is no big deal !

Hey there !
Have you ever felt desperate creating a favicon ?
Not the graphical creation process, which should be even fun, but the fact of saving the favicon with .ico format ? The fact that .ico isn’t a format Photoshop supports by default when saving a file ?

Well, I found a pretty nice and handy tool to create a favicon out of a .png/.jpg/.gif/.bmp file: The favicon generator
Just select the file you created (I usually create a 64×64 pixels file, it’s easier than a 16×16 canvas) click on convert and, … that’s it !

The last steps are:

- upload the file to your images folder on your hosting
- call the favicon using the code below:

<link rel="shortcut icon" href="/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon" />

As a reminder: most mordern browsers support .png and .gif formats, but our friend Microsoft Internet Explorer is still acting oldschool, and asks for a .ico file. (.ico file format is a raster format used for icons in windows). So the best thing to do, is use this format, until all browsers support .png and .gif

I created a temporary favicon for my website wich looks like this on the 64×64 pixels version:

This will look like this on the tab bar of your browser:

favicon

flickr fave of the week #1

I spend a lot of time on flickr, most of it browsing other people’s work.
And I am amazed how much talent is on this site.
I decided to share one of my flickr faves every week.
I won’t be posting every wednesday, but once per week, that’s for sure !

The first fave I wanna share with you is a picture taken by flore, a real good friend of mine.
She’s a swiss girl, living in Lausanne, and she has a real gift capturing moments, playing with light and expressing moods.
This picture is a self-portrait she took in her garden, surrounded with some kind of banana tree leafs

Here it is !
Hope you like it !
Do not hesitate to browse flore’s pictures, she’s really gifted !

You can't catch me, by flore