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Buttered Cat Software

I cre­ated a new look for this pro­gram­mers web­site, tak­ing a com­pletely dif­fer­ent direc­tion than pre­vi­ous projects. I struck a bal­ance with tex­ture and light­ing giv­ing the site a fresh feel.

The but­tered cat para­dox is a joke para­dox based on the tongue-in-cheek com­bi­na­tion of two adages:
– Cats always land on their feet.
– But­tered toast always lands but­tered side down.

View the site here — http://buttered-cat.com/

Posted in Graphics, Web Site Design.


Sinbad’s Mediterranean Cuisine

Finally, one of the sta­ple restau­rants of Park Avenue area in Rochester, NY is online. The nice thing about this site is that it will auto detect mobile devices and for­mat itself cor­rectly, so look­ing up items on a menu while out and about makes life so much eas­ier! If you’ve never expe­ri­enced Sinbad’s I highly rec­om­mend it,  my wife and I have been loyal patrons for well over a decade now.

View the site here - http://mysinbads.com/

Posted in Web Site Design.


Plaseebo — it’s not what you think

Plaseebo.net the cus­tom vinyl toy site owned and oper­ated by my father Bob Conge was given a com­plete makeover bring­ing the site up to date giv­ing it more pur­pose and refined orga­ni­za­tion. Be sure to set some time aside to peruse and observe this vast unhinged col­lec­tion of toys born from the macabre region of artistry. Some of the toys are avail­able in the new store as well, be quick with your mouse how­ever, these toys sell out quick as they are made in very lim­ited quan­ti­ties. The coolest part is they they’re all hand dec­o­rated and signed, so each piece is a bit dif­fer­ent from the other.

Be sure to peruse the site: http://www.plaseebo.net/

Posted in Web Site Design.


William B.Hand

Check out the gal­leries of this amaz­ing artist! The site deserves to be explored as his works emote an awe inspir­ing sense of won­der, intrigue and macabre. I’m excited about Hand’s work finally being shown in a for­mat that allows many peo­ple to inter­act with it on such a large scale.

Be sure to check out this incred­i­ble tal­ent here! http://williambhand.com/

Posted in Web Site Design.


Ellwanger Estate

The his­tor­i­cal Ell­wanger Estate located in the heart of Rochester’s Mount Hope Cul­tural Dis­trict is your pre­miere lodg­ing des­ti­na­tion. This beau­ti­fully restored home offers rooms with spec­tac­u­lar views of the lush gar­den and court­yards. Stroll in the famous Ell­wanger Gar­dens or enjoy a cool drink on the home’s restored veranda. The nat­ural beauty of the Mount Hope and High­land Park Preser­va­tion area, com­bined with the ambi­ence of The Ell­wanger will exceed your every expec­ta­tion. The Ell­wanger will be pleased to help you plan a spe­cial event or a sim­ple week­end get-away. The Ell­wanger Estate is the for­mer home of George Ell­wanger, world-renowned Hor­ti­cul­tur­ist. The Gar­dens are owned and main­tained by the Land­mark Soci­ety of West­ern New York and the sea­sonal changes invite you to come back year after year.

Be sure to check The Ell­wanger Estate http://ellwangerestate.com/

Posted in Web Site Design.


Quickboot branding

Dig­i­tal Manip­u­la­tion cre­ated a menu icon, appli­ca­tion icon and logo for But­tered Cat Software’s lat­est release.

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Here’s a look at the icon…

Quick­Boot is a small appli­ca­tion to make it quick & easy to boot another drive-partition like Win­dows and have the sys­tem boot back to your default sys­tem after.

A pic­ture is worth a thou­sand words!

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Check out the prod­uct in detail here

Posted in Graphics.


Apple Countdown to 1 Billion Apps — Top 20 Paid Apps

As of today, nearly one bil­lion apps have been down­loaded around the globe. So we just want to say thanks a bil­lion. Down­load an app and you’ll auto­mat­i­cally get the chance to win a $10,000 iTunes Gift Card, an iPod touch, a Time Cap­sule, and a Mac­Book Pro. Just go to the iTunes Store, browse the App Store, and down­load your best app yet.

More info here: Apples web site

Posted in 3D, Game Design, Graphics, iPhone.


Cro-Mag Rally Prehistoric Flintstonian fun

Sim­ple to play and effort­less in oper­a­tion, Cro-Mag Rally dares to test the iPhone’s rac­ing pos­si­bil­i­ties in an inge­nious way…

Read the entire review here: http://www.pocketgamer.co.uk/

Posted in 3D, Game Design, Graphics, iPhone.


Product Review — CS4 The Missing Manual

The lovely Lesa Snider who authored the recently released “CS4 The Miss­ing Man­ual” received a won­der­ful review! I was lucky enough to con­tribute some work to the chap­ter “Draw­ing with the Vec­tor Tools”.

The book left me amazed and beyond impressed. This book, is not really a book, it is the Pho­to­shop pro­gram in bound form. Round­ing up to about 750 pages after you cut away intros, indexes and filler, this man­ual is hands-down the most com­plete guide to Pho­to­shop that I have ever seen. And true to Lesa’s style of not only explain­ing the “how to” but the “why” which is some­thing that I find is often left out of most Pho­to­shop books. This man­ual cov­ers every pro­gram menu, every tool, and every fea­ture from web to print and con­tains infor­ma­tion on where to down­load prac­tice files. It is also beau­ti­fully laid out with loads of images to show you what to expect when work­ing with the fea­tures of the pro­gram…” click here to con­tinue reading

Pur­chase a copy on Ama­zon by click­ing here

Posted in Graphics.


Ambrosia Macworld 2009

Come see Ambrosia Soft­ware Inc, at Mac­world San Fran­cisco 2009! I came up with a new look for the booth, t-shirts and other good­ies this year. We’ll be show­ing off some new stuff too, it should be a good time!

Here’s a sneak peek at the sticker! OOOoOOoOOOO sticker!

I hope to see you there if you can make it!

Posted in Graphics.