New iPhone Ad: “The Great Thing”
Apple has begun airing a new iPhone commercial this evening. This ad focuses on the mobile Safari capabilities of the phone by showing the trail map of a mountain, a restaurant finder, and an airline ticket purchasing website.
Apple has also posted this commercial on their website for your viewing pleasure.
Give Your Computer an InterfaceLIFT
Has your wallpaper stayed the same since you bought your computer? Have a widescreen monitor with an ugly, stretched wallpaper on your desktop? Perhaps you would like to give your operating system a makeover with a new theme and new icons. If this sounds like you, then head over to InterfaceLIFT for an excellent collection of wallpapers, icons, and themes. They have absolutely beautiful high-resolution wallpapers for widescreen monitors and almost any resolution (even iPhone sized). Icons and themes are available for Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux so everyone is covered.
If you are on a Mac, be sure to check out InterfaceLIFT’s great widget (pictured above) to keep up with their latest content.
Stop the Presses! CNN Using Wordpress
If you’re keeping up with U.S. politics and the media coverage of the 2008 presidential election, CNN.com is an excellent place to read professional opinion and to be on the bleeding edge of what’s going on. On CNN.com, you can find the Political Ticker with 24/7 updates from CNN’s political team. Interestingly enough, the blog is using Wordpress, a great piece of blogging software (which My Own Skin proudly uses). Even more notable, however, is their great job at theming the blog to seamlessly fit into the overall look of CNN.com.
On his blog, Matthew Mullenweg (founding developer of Wordpress) acknowledges that CNN is, in fact, part of Wordpress’s VIP program which allows them to “serve millions of pageviews with no problems.” He also mentions that CNN has launched dozens of these blogs for divisions such as CNN Money and Fortune.com.
Make Your Mobile Shine with Mobile9
Mobile9 is a top-tier mobile phone customization site. There you will find themes, ringtones, wallpapers, videos, screen savers, operator logos, and more. Easily find your model and you’re on your way to an endless supply of customization. Their active forums are a great place to find other goodies as well. A phone database is also available with thorough details and photos for every brand and model. Review your phone and read others’ reviews. All in all, Mobile9 is a swiss-army knife for mobile phone customization.
Customize.org: A Classic
Customize.org takes us back all the way to 1998 when it was first founded. Its great collection of skins, themes, and wallpapers makes it one of the most well-known customizing websites on the web. Its creative community is currently 100,000 members strong. The site features a unique color palette tool that helps you keep a consistent color scheme across all of your skinned elements. If you’ve somehow missed this one, be sure to check it out.