tech tools

Airtight Interactive’s Felix Turner has developed an excellent free Flash-based slideshow tool that he bills as a customizable image gallery, that is also free. SimpleViewer Download is easy to use and loads images that are specified in a simple XML file. Images are preloaded as the user views other images in the slideshow making this slideshow tool perform very nicely. If you want a Flash slideshow free definitely checkout this tool.

The basic simple viewer  can be viewed on iPhone, iPad and Android, as well as Windows, Mac and Linux. There is also a Pro version that gives you more advanced customizing options without any branding, as well as no limit to the amount of images you can upload.

Not sure how this is useful, but it is nonetheless impressive collection of commercial logos in Adobe Illustrator format. There is a rather lengthy disclaimer on the front page of the site regarding the possible risks of downloading any of these fonts, but aside from that issue you’ll find this huge collection of fonts to be amazingly rich. If you’d like to contribute or your own logo there are provisions to do that as well. I cannot recall finding any font resource that was anywhere near as comprehensive as this one is and it could be a godsend for graphic designers all over the world.