Frenzic, is a fun and highly addictive puzzle game that only takes minutes to learn, but months to master.

This is an exceptionally beautiful game with a glowing, futuristic interface that sits right at home on the iPhone’s revolutionary touch screen.

The hypnotically jazzy music and sound effects are so dreamy that it leaves me wishing there was a version of the music that I could play when I wasn’t playing the game!

There is a dash of social networking built into Frenzic. If you like you can set up a player account at Frenzic.com. This enables you to make friends with other Frenzic players and gives you access to detailed high score statistics from players across the globe.

This gorgeously designed game will give you countless hours of enjoyment in your digital life and is the ideal application for showing off the amazing capability of your iPhone or iPod Touch!

Brought to you from The Iconfactory and ARTIS Software, Frenzic is now available for the iPhone and iPod Touch directly from the iTunes App Store for $4.99.

Tags: futuristic, bold, game, iPhone, iPod Touch, social networking, software

Today the August Issue of the Marmalade Monthly is released. This month members of Club Marmalade Moon are in for a fluttering of butterflies as the collection of Picnic Pals expands!

This month’s issue is packed with exclusive desktop goodies. There are butterfly avatars to customize your forums or social networks, your computer log in, or to use as an image for any personal project where you find use for them. A pale yellow Brimstone, a lime green Brimstone and a Common Blue Butterfly.

There is a pre-release of three butterfly computer icons that I plan to release to the public later on this month.

And finally there is a members-only desktop wallpaper with butterflies on a blue summer’s sky!

Join the Club for limited edition desktop art and get your butterfly desktop art too!

Tags: seasonal, nature, summer, bug, Mac OS X, Windows, Vista, social networking, instant messenger, forum, Twitter, desktop customization

Club Marmalade Moon is gathering momentum and it’s already time for the fourth edition of the Marmalade Monthly.

This month club members get a ladybird avatar to customise your chat programmes and computer user accounts. The avatar can be used in forums and other communities, in social networks like FriendFeed, MySpace, SocialThing, Twitter or Facebook and for the image and video sharing communities Flickr and YouTube. The image can also be used in non-commercial projects such as a personal blog or web site.

There are two Ladybug Twitter themes too, in July’s Marmalade Monthly. One of them has a repeatable background pattern with ladybugs that has many uses, it can for example be used on a computer desktop or as a background on a blog.

Do you like to customise your computer desktop? Your digital, social space? Join the Club for free, limited edition desktop art!

Tags: seasonal, nature, pattern, graphics, social networking, instant messenger, forum, Twitter, theme, desktop customization

Spending hours on your computer? How about a spring desktop makeover?

Marmalade Moon has created a new club to belong to. As May approaches, there is one more week to get the April Club Benefits!

I have designed three limited edition floral computer icons exclusively for members of Club Marmalade Moon. A Siberian Scilla. An exquisite tulip with striking, rosy apricot petals suffused with pink! A Pheasant's Eye Daffodil, or Poet's Daffodil.

April's Club Monthly comes as icons for Windows, icons for Mac (with beautiful large resources for Mac OS X Leopard and Windows Vista) and as images for personal use on your blog, website, as an avatar for your computer user account, forums, instant messenger and social networks such as Facebook, Twitter or MySpace. The images are all in png format and available in seven sizes.

Join now to get your free, first-rate, limited edition spring desktop art!

Let your desktop bloom! 

Tags: seasonal, bold, spring, floral, Mac OS X, Leopard, Windows, Vista, instant messenger, social networking, forum, desktop customization

When MacPeople Lite in Japan featured my Soon Spring icons in their Spring 2008 issue I revisited the collection and decided to update the set to include fresh new versions for Mac OS X Leopard and Windows Vista for this weeks release of icons at the Iconfactory.

But it was so much fun to work with these icons that I expanded the collection with five bold, new spring flowers! Inspiration was literally on the doorstep, with a few late Snowdrops and a sea of Scilla on the grassy slope outside the studio. Iris, Daffodils and Pheasant's Eye saluting the sun from the flowerbeds.

When I was designing these flowers I studied them and was fascinated by things I found out. That Iris, in Greek mythology, was the goddess of the rainbow and messenger of the gods. The optical phenomenon iridescence is derived from Iris' name and the fleur-de-lis is a stylized Iris...

Then I read that Pheasant's Eye daffodil, is also called Poet's Daffodil or Narcissus poeticus in latin... Isn't that just irresistable!?

And if you want to get it on paper, that spring is here, you might be interested in the Tulip card over in the shop where there are several cards inspired by spring.

Soon Spring computer icons come with a companion wallpaper: A Sea of Scilla. This desktop picture is available in several sizes for different types of monitors. There are fullscreen, widescreen, iPhone and iPod Touch versions so take your pick!

Last but not least, members of Club Marmalade Moon receive a bonus collection of Soon Spring icons and images for personal use on your blog or website or as avatars for your computer user account, forums, instant messenger and social networks such as Facebook, Twitter or MySpace! Join the club to get your free April release of limited edition desktop art!

Tags: seasonal, floral, nature, spring, bold, Mac OS X, Leopard, Windows, Vista, social networking, Shop Marmalade Moon, desktop customization

“There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” - Albert Einstein

I have been experimenting with Twitter. Poetic micro-blogging. Brief moments. A cup of coffee or bird song. Fleeting thoughts. Glimpses of my day. Often something that inspires me. Something that brightens my day. Small miracles.

If you are curious you can follow my twits, um, my tweets I mean. I hope they can inspire you!

This creative tutorial video “Twitter in Plain English” by Lee LeFever from Common Craft explains how Twitter works.



Of course you can be creative with Twitter. You don't have to report to the whole world your every move. It doesn't have to be a source of stress, yet one more thing to update, like a timesheet.

It is interesting to see how a great fear or awareness of George Orwell's Big Brother watching has been replaced by the current trend to voluntarily report one's activities! Without being too paranoid, I think it is a good idea to be aware that burglars and stalkers may take advantage of the information that people publish. Also, it might be a good idea to take into account that people like your business associates or your future employer could be following your tweets.

However, you can protect your updates so that only those you approve can follow your tweets. Maybe you only want your family and close friends to read your tweets. Maybe you are using Twitter to increase your productivity in work situations and only want your co-workers to follow your updates. You can even use Twitter as a tool just for yourself and not allow anyone to follow you. Then again maybe you want the whole world to read them! It's all up to you.

Some people use Twitter to be more productive and use it to network, promote their businesses and collaborate with co-workers. Or as a to-do-list. To ask a question. A shopping list. Or for themselves, for example to track exercises and calorie intake. Others use Twitter to report a stream of daily activities and thoughts or to vent publicly.

Some feel that answering the question “what are you doing?” is the ultimate way to use Twitter, whilst others feel that is the least interesting way.

I am experimenting with micro poetry. See what you can create with it... Maybe a small miracle!

Tags: poetry, social networking, Twitter