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This post is a cry out for help. For your help as a communication professional.

Global climate change is a serious issue that can only be solved with eduction and awareness. This is where you come into the picture. You can help educate the public, so everyone can do his small lifestyle change that may result in a massive global reduction of green house gases.

I compiled here a list of advertisements that are designed to raise awareness to the issue of global climate change. Hopefully these ads will inspire you to create more ads and distribute the ones already created. Email them, blog them, share them any way you can.

Wacom's tablets operate via a sensor board in the tablet itself (which senses pressure, click, and other parameters) and a smaller sensor in the pen, which lets the tablet's sensor board know if it is being moved (and/or clicked).

However, the tablet's circuit board/CPU does most of the heavy work as far as moving the cursor around and drawing is concerned. Compare the price of a Wacom pen by itself (around $15 to $35) and the price of a tablet.

Here's the concept — move the major circuitry to the pen itself, which would be equipped with a small battery. Miniturizing the circuitry could be a a bit of a problem, but figuring as most of the electronics inside a tablet are to accomated its size, this could probably be easily solved.

The point of having the circuitry in the pen is that a pen is easier to move around (also easier to lose, but whatever...) and would work on any (relatively smooth) surface.

Almost one year of OS X 10.4, people have been making and playing with the concept of widgets as an extra layer of GUI goodness called Dashboard on top of the normal OS. Freed from the Aqua design contraints, these widgets are allowing people to alter the interface to fit the purpose and style of the widget. From ridiculous (we're looking at you Dancing Homer) to the utterly useful (WidgetMail) there seems to be a growing momentum to build new funsize applications which do increasingly cool things in new ways.

So to salute this widget sexiness we've decided to hold a beauty pageant of sorts here on creativebits for the widgets. Leaving the borrowed hairdryers and bitchy comments to one side, we want to find out what widget the CB community thinks is the finest example of design currently in circulation. Unlike those normal beauty contests, we're not remotely interested if the widget wants world peace or a career feeding orphans; we're just after looks. So brains are out and superficial, surface sexiness is in.....

I'm happy to announce that the Beta for Ads of the World is up. It's a visual advertising blog and library with ads from around the world. Bug fixes for IE are still in progress, but other than that it's fully functional and it will be updated daily from now on.

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Gmail uses a smart threading technique for viewing email conversations. If there was a reply to a message you sent or received, Gmail will automatically display it in chronological order with the original. This conversation view continues to grow as you respond and new replies arrive, making it possible for you to follow the whole back and forth discussion in one place. Also, Gmail features a very important improvement compared to other email software. Quoted emails in replies are hidden, so they don't show up repeatedly with each reply. This makes following a conversation much easier. But what about the mail.app?

Ladies and gentleman we have the results for the CB Widget Pageant 2005. We got 362 votes for 17 beautiful contestants.

Shortstat widget with 57 votes won the gold prize and the right to hold the title of Miss Widget for 1 year.

Gmail widget with 49 votes won the silver prize.

Weather widget won the bronze with 48 votes.

Congratulations to the winners and thank you all for the participation. Special thanks to afterglow for the help with the graphics and organization of the event. C'mon, Shortstat - stop crying! ;)

All you working, studying and breathing graphic design pay attention!
Last month I started a book project called Þe Búkk (The Book in phonetic Icelandic) and since it worked out so well, I decided to make it into a bigger more for everyone kinda project.
It's very simple, go to the website noted below, read the very very simple instructions and follow them. Send me the work and violá, your in a book!
You can also get the first project on the site, as well as all the other info you'd like!
Have fun, take part ... find happyness!

I didn't forget the website ... no, no I did not!!!
okey, here it is: bukk.larusson.com

The nominations for the Widget Pageant are now closed. Please check out the contestants and click here to vote for a winner. Polls are open for two weeks. After that we will announce the three winners.

It's summertime now and a lot of us ordinary CB heads is on vacation of some kind and just lying in the sun (Haven't seen much of that in Sweden) or we're just having a good time out or something else..

Ivan wrote a blog post in 2004 about finding inspiration, perhaps some people who weren't with us in 2004 read it but finds it interesting now in the summer of 2005..

Link: http://creativebits.org/node/1043

For myself I've got my own personal site to take care of.. That's my project this summer..

What's yours summer project?
Or does everyone hit the pillow late in morning after a hard night out =)

With the advent of OS X 10.4, people have been introduced to the concept of widgets as an extra layer of GUI goodness on top of the normal OS. Freed from the Aqua design constraints, these widgets are allowing people to alter the interface to fit the purpose and style of the widget. From the ridiculous (we're looking at you Dancing Homer) to the utterly useful (WidgetMail) there seems to be a growing momentum to build new funsize applications which do increasingly cool things in new ways.

So to salute this new sexiness we've decided to hold a beauty pageant of sorts here on creativebits for the widgets. Leaving the borrowed hairdryers and bitchy comments to one side, we want to find out what widget the CB community thinks is the finest example of design currently in circulation. Unlike those normal beauty contests, we're not remotely interested if the widget wants world peace or a career feeding orphans; we're just after looks. So brains are out and superficial, surface sexiness is in.....