Imperial Aquila, Russian Federation coat of arms and other beheaded eagle symbols evolved

Imperial Aquila, Russian Federation coat of arms and other beheaded eagle symbols evolved

Hi there, fellow designer and runner! It's rainy out there and cols and windy! It's a crap!

Stuff I love: casio g-shock G-LIDE GLS100

G-LIDE GLS100

Everybody is looking for something, fellow! So, you are a fan of ski safari, are you? You might be interested in this sleek and cute g-shock model, G-LIDE GLS100!

Tablet madness is much more trending topic then zombie apocalypse

Yeah, really! I'm sure -- its not zombie apocalypse out there, it's tablet apocalypse. Things are going that way, going along which takes us right to the death under great 1687 inch tablet with ios6, windows 8 and android 4.2 being dropped right from the sky! Sorry, but it's too much: new ipad mini and some new ipod touches which are almost like ipad mini but little bit smaler, kindle fires and asus plus google nexus 7, 10 and 4! You always can refer to warious slates or how are they called now -- windows ipads. Now, when windows 8 and windows phone 8 is here -- who knows how many new shovels will be there in our market!

I know that I know nothing!

Choice was sweet in the past and now you are surrounded by a bunch of mosquitoes which all can be of help but when compared -- every other device is just a crap!

I dunno what to do ) It's a tablet apocalypse!

Stuff I love: G-SHOCK GW7900 Navy Blue

G-SHOCK GW7900 Navy Blue

• navy blue Resin Strap
• Black Digi-Analogue Dial
• 200m Water resistance
• Alarm (Up to 5 Alarms per day)
• Yacht Timer (Up to 1 to 10 minutes)
• Stop watch
• Back light(For easy reading in dark light)
• Auto Calender
• Auto time (Including the time of all major cities)
• Shock resistant (protects from Vibration and impact)
• Awesome
• Cool! 

Android games 10.29.12: ski safari

Ski safari! Image: Google play

About this game

Typical "runner" game in two dimensions with cute graphics, sleek movements and beautiful sound (music is captivating too!). If you never met "runner" game before, then I should refer you to google and maybe you have ever seen ios game called jetpack? It's like this game, for me it's a trendsetter in this genre, but it was ios only for quite a long term. So here we have an "android strikes back" alternative. It is packed up to the top with furious yetis, slippery penguins, fast and mighty eagles, vrooming snowmobiles and wolves going down from the slope along with you, riding your super cool ski. The main idea of the game is to get as far as possible down the hill avoiding avalanche going right after you. You start your ride sleeping in your bed in your cabin at the top of the hill, when avalanche begins it's terrible movement! You have to do stunts, combine animals and taxi them on snowmobile to get more points and increase your point multiplier. Also you are going to collect coins to buy some cool stuff and enhancements. During your gameplay, you will open new track and achieve more "vehicles" at your cabin to start your ride with.

Ski safari! Image: Google play

Links to find out more

Game is as addictive as hell, so you should be careful while choosing it. It's quite cheap so here's the link to google play.

Developer's site: defiantdev.com

Ski safari! Image: Google play

In two words: crazy action!

Stuff I love: G-SHOCK GAC-100-8A

G-SHOCK GAC-100-8A

Everybody love g-shock, I assume. Here are this cute black, gray plus yellow and light green G-SHOCK GAC-100-8A. Everybody should now love g-shock by Casio, if there were heretics before!

Zombie run to struck lack of imagination!

Hi there, fellow runner! Today is Tuesday, October 23, end of our world is near, apocalypse is almost there, but Chuck Norris is still here to protect us, so let's go on. Halloween is going closer day after day and here we have some creepy madness in our beloved play market -- I've just discovered cool app (haven't tested it yet, but sure will). App is called "Zombies, Run!" and here is what it all about:

Zombies, Run! is an ultra-immersive running game and audio adventure
You tie your shoes, put on your headphones, take your first steps outside. You’ve barely covered 100 yards when you hear them. They must be close. You can hear every guttural breath, every rattling groan - they’re everywhere. Zombies. There’s only one thing you can do: Run!
Zombies, Run! is an ultra-immersive running game and audio adventure, co-created with award-winning novelist Naomi Alderman. We deliver the story straight to your headphones through orders and voice recordings - and when you get back home, you use the supplies you’ve collected while running to build and grow your base.

You can find out more on this app at it's play store page here.

It looks like normal running application with GPS tracking and all related stuff, but delivers cool zombie story in which you can take part. Run through storyline, collect goods, finish missions and develop your base. It's all about motivation again -- it's autumn out there and nobody sane will ever get nose out of his or hers sweet home to get cold and unfriendly run. The only way is to add some game to your running routine and here some of us are being shocked while faced their complete lack of imagination. And for the rest of us with this lack cool game developers develop such good software.

So damn cold!!!

Awful weather for today! Here's the magic number 9

Hi there, fellow runner!

It's hard to do things when you have handcuffs on even when you are mighty and scary monster with sharp teeth

Hi there, fellow runner! How the things are going today? Mine are well, but I had no running activities for about two last weeks. It's all about laziness, I know. Lets get ready for new running season on runplusdesign.com -- it's almost here. And of course we'll get back to German language and learn it from start to finish (I hope)!

Coat of arms for those with passions like overeating or smoking and coffee-addicted pals

Coat of arms for those with passions like overeating or smoking and coffee-addicted pals

Coat of arms for those with passions like overeating, smoking and coffee-addicted pals (and as a desktop wallpaper too)

Portrait of a hedgehog man

Friend of mine have a friend with a nickname "hedgehog"

Alarm-clock icon and poster tutorial

Lets create face of our alarm clock, it all can be created with photoshop's vector primitives. Add your creative touch and lay elements out in another way.

Skin our clock's face panel this step is our backup if we are going to create an iphone application icon, few steps and it is created

let's now cteate template for our alarm-clock icon top panel. it might be skinned it same material as front panel, but can be not, choose your way.

add perspective and try to combine panels. also add a window for loudspeaker

Add loudspeaker in alarm-clock case

add some background and enhance our alarm clock icon by adding a trigger to the device -- it should be there to make an alarm clock out of just another clock

Add some test and fun stuff to create a poster

Blue UI by damn-love.com first preview

Blue ui, first preview. It is upcoming set of ui elements for prototyping and using with actually working social projects.

Transparent png here, it's almost useless, i think, but it will show the potential power of complete set, which will be released later this month.

Things I love: The new G-Aviation GW-A1000

The new G-Aviation GW-A1000

Google Chrome browser shortcut

Hi there, designer fellow! I've found beautiful shortcut for you, your life before was nonsense and now it's full of beauty, colors and free time, as you learn this simple combo! If you are using google chrome browser, of course, your life is beautiful already, but just do it and feel better. You always have tons of tabs open, yes? Closing them is a mess, and here is the shortcut:

1. press SHIFT button
2. click on first tab in the row you are going to close
3. click on the last tab in that row
4. press CTRL+W
5. feel nice as selected tabs are close

And you even can enhance this beautiful technique! Closing a row isn't the thing you always need, but closing lot of tabs in various places is that thing. To do such a trick just follow these steps:

1. press and hold CTRL
2. click on various tabs you are going to close to select them
3. get your finger off from CTRL
4. press CTRL+W
5. feel nice again as selected tabs are close

Moscow river 0310

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Handy gadgets for designer on the go

Hi there, fellow designer with a running passion in your mind! How the things are going there, where you stay today? It's quite cold here, in  Moscow, Russia. Autumn is finally here, with rains and crap of all other autumn related sort.

Today I'm going to discuss a topic of working on the go. We are surrounded with android and ios devices like smartphones, iphones and tablets with ipads -- let's find out what can we do on the go, while in transport, moving our beautiful heads from home to work and back. Some say that samsung and it's galaxy note is a best choice, I've never used it, but here is some news about second version of galaxy note with 5.5 inches super AMOLED HD display. Weather it worth buying or not, who can say.

I, for myself, have found out that there are few things I can do with mobile devices and few, I can't. With my tablet (acer iconia tab) I can draw sketches and review page templates. Comment them with picsay pro, for example. With smart office or docs to go applications I can take care of budget stuff while on the go -- it's a nice time-savior for me.

With my lg optimus l7 which features 4.2 inch display I can do much point and shoot part of work -- it's really helpful in this area. PicSay pro, camera zoom fx and instagram applications are of great help too. It's quite good for notetaking and social investigations. And it's a google in your pocket, that's the best part.

So in conclusion I can say that if you have same needs as me, you don't actually need any tablet.

Casio GA100 and GA110: my g-shock choice

Hi there, fellow runner. Today I'll tell you about two g-shock models of watch which I own for now. I use them both for my regular running activity and have no preference. Why do I use them? It's a habit and a piece of something else. I have endomondo and runkeeper in my smartphone and most of the time i just run, never even start one of this programs and don't look at my wrist, but I do really love my Casio GA-100 and GA 110 watches and always take one with me for a run.

Theese are not mine, but they look nice and similar,

They are completely identical by technical characteristics but features different cases and layout of information blocks on face side. Cases are similar too, but color scheme is different: GA-110 have orange case with green buttons and blue face with orange and light blue hands, while GA-100 have completely white case with gray buttons and dark violet (maybe not violet, but really dark) information bits on it's face.

Functionality, as I've said above, is similar -- I use stopwatch and timer and nothing else. Buttons are easy to find and have soft deep click. Operation manual for this watches looks awesome and really astonishing, but it's quite simple to use this gadget. I have fossils and diesel watches too and they are an example of the complexity here.

This g-shocks are massive and lightweight, they seem to be designed right for my not too big and not to small hand, there were days, when I got to work in the morning and put other watch aside till evening to put them back on my wrist. With casio g-shocks I can wear them all day long and never feel tired. Sometimes I think they work like an energetic bracelet on some deep psychological level. With G-shocks I always want to do more and from time to time I do!

Have a nice day, fellow runner!

Starship daily #3: fantasy strawberry kingdom

Starship daily #3, 10/1/12. Mark Zuckerberg is set to meet with Russian prime minister Dmitry Medvedev on Monday during a trip to Russia, where Facebook use is growing

Hi there, fellow runner with gadgets and warhammer 40k fan and apple iphone related stuff interested in guy! Here you go with new comic strip, Starship daily #3, 9/21/12. Mark Zuckerberg is set to meet with Russian prime minister Dmitry Medvedev on Monday during a trip to Russia, where Facebook use is growing! Have fun!

Gadgets for a runner's weekend

Hi there, fellow runner! This weekend brought me a couple of topics. First of all is about powerballs. If you don't know what it is yet, then I'll redirect you to google search, but in two words it is a gyroscopic exercise tool, a device which one can use to exercise the wrist as part of physical therapy or in order to build palm, forearm and finger strength. It can also be used as a unique demonstration of some aspects of rotational dynamics. The device consists of a tennis ball-sized plastic or metal shell around a free-spinning mass, which is started with a short rip string. Once the gyroscope inside is going fast enough, a person holding the device can accelerate the spinning mass to high revolution rates by moving the wrist in a circular motion.

So here all scientific part is finished.I've bought one as it costs quite cheap -- about 10 bucks, looks nice and as I heard, it can help people, who spend most of their lives with computer keyboard to stay healthy much longer -- it prevents some finger and palm diseases. So it works nice, but it's too loud while in use, I can't use it in office or while watching tv -- it ruins all other sounds and breaks idea of non disturbing exercises. But it still feels good and I'll use it for some more time. Recommend. I've got the entry level model, it has no counter and can rotate something about 8000 somethings per something. Interested in upgrading, but cant't say why. Will use this model fot some time and decide whether it is still interesting in long run.

The second story is about wireless mouses. I've used to work with blue-tooth mouses for about 4 recent years. My favorite was V470 Cordless Laser Mouse for Bluetooth by Logitech. But this Saturday it dropped from the table and died. I really loved it and was some sort like addicted to it -- it was designed for my hand perfectly and it weight felt really good. And it featured laser technology. I thought that it matter, but how terribly I was wrong -- this Sunday I went to local hardware store and got Wireless Mouse M325 by logitech -- it is almost the same, but works with radio module, not bluetooth, got only one AA sized battery inside and feels really nice, though cheaper. But it works and cost four times cheaper -- just 15 dollars in our cold northern country. Recommend it too.

By the way, going back to my LG optimus L7 1 year of use experiment, it is still on -- I've bought picsay pro and camera zoom fx this weekend. Prices on them during the sale on google play were magnificent. And applications are not complete crap, you can even do some photoshop like stuff when on the go with PicSay -- it is really useful. They only had a discount on runtastic, but I've already got runkeeper and terribly fond of this application. Can recommend this too.

Have a nice day, fellow runner!