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Weekly Web Roundup: The Facebook Edition #21

The major news of the week centered around the launch of the new Adobe Photoshop Mobile app for the iPhone. The app offers quick and simply on device photo editing for both iPhone and iPod touch users. The program allows photos to be cropped, rotated and flipped and even saturated and tinted. It’s an extremely handy app for photo touchups and edits on the go and could be one of the killer apps of the year.

My favorite news of the week was the launch of a new app called PhotoSketch created by five Chinese Computer Science and Technology students at Tsinghua University and the National University of Singapore. You sketch the image you would like, it then finds actual photographs that match your sketch, it’s all kinds of awesome!

I’ve called this the Facebook edition after the first link which was my favorite of the week as it is a superb re-design of Facebook, giving it polish and style, if only it were the real thing!

• Facebook Facelift – Home and Profiles
  Focused on creating a more streamlined interfact, and enhancing the user experience and absorbability of content, designer Barton Smith has created a video and designed screenshots for core areas of the site.
• Methodic approach to CSS coding: Four Bubbles Model
  The model is based on four progressive phases that helps you quickly develop CSS files and maintain a better control of code you’re writing.
• 3 Powerful Ways To Make Typography Talk On Your Website
  Typography is a very powerful tool in a web designer’s arsenal. Understanding typography and implementing its usage is essential, as this article points out.
• 9 Ways to Take Your Site from One to One Million Users
  In this video from The Future of Web Apps London (FOWA), Kevin Rose, founder of Digg, WeFollow and Revision3, shares 9 things he did to increase his users to 1,000,000 and beyond.
• 50 Essential Web Apps for Freelancers
  This super useful article from Appstorm breaks down the apps into categories, including; Invoicing and Time Tracking, FIle Management, CRM, Finance and more.
• 20 Essential Infographics & Data Visualization Blogs
  All the blogs with cool data visualization eye candy in the same place courtesy of Inspired Mag. For any info junkies, this is a must bookmark.
• 40 Creative Uses Of Cufón Font Replacement
  Cufón has been growing in popularity among designers as an alternative to sIFR and this showcases some of the creative uses of the Cufón font replacement in action.
• Minimizing Complexity In User Interfaces
  A complex interface can disorient the user, this includes several techniques that can help streamline complex applications into lightweight user experiences.
• Twitterers I Won’t Follow
  Twitter has a lot of stupid people on it. If you see anybody using any of the avatars on this list, you probably shouldn’t follow them.

That’s a wrap up of the twenty-first edition. Were there any links you thought deserved a mention? If so drop a link in the comments so we can check them out.

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Grace Smith is owner of the small but perfectly formed web design studio Postscript5, in Northern Ireland. To keep up to date with the latest designalicious content, then please consider subscribing.