Looking for a freee and easy to use ftp client? I was, and I found one and I didn’t bother looking any further because it did all I wanted. It’s called Filezilla and if you want it, you can have it too!

So, there it is.

I’ve been into Bowie for years and it’s his birthday today so Happy Birthday Bowie!

Probably the best resource for web design and development, Smashing Magazine is a great resource for anybody with an interest in the web.

It really is good.

An interesting video discussing the future of the Internet and modern media. Well worth a watch.

Poll Daddy is great (read free) customisable poll system for your site or blog. You can select polls from a number of different ’skins’ or play with the css of the poll to suit your site.

It’s an award winning website and quite pretty too.

This site offers a range of films from a non-traditional and sometime subversive viewpoint. It’s well worth a look and even if you don’t agree with some of the points these movies make they will certainly give you something to think about (unlike usual TV).

If you haven’t heard about Last FM, where’ve you been??

This UK based internet radio and music community website is the world’s largest social music platform with over 20 million active users based in more than 232 countries.

For anyone interested in online Project Management tools, there is a great comparison of three of the frontrunners in this article on 5thirtyone.com.

The article compares Basecamp, activeCollab and GoPlan in their features, ease of use and costs and ends with an active discussion from live users for all three. I am currently assessing which I will opt for and this article has been a great starting point.

There are other tools out there such as eProject, Central Desktop, TeamWork Live and QuickBase so if anyone has any experience of these systems I would be very interested hear about them.

If you have several instant messenger accounts to keep in touch with all of your friends/colleagues/clients then this could simplify your situation.

Pidgin offers a free, simple to use, single application that will allow you to communicate with all your ‘buddies’ (I have never liked this term) regardless of their account - gmail, AIM, Yahoo IM et al.

Click the screenshot above to visit their site and download the Instant Messenger Client and configurator.

I found this novel wooden bike on GP designpartners website and the article shows a great deal of the design process that led them to this very novel design (click on the pic to visit the site).

It is possibly the only bike that would make me want to go green and ditch my car - if it had a stereo and an ashtray…