We have released a helpful little utility, Font Viewer. It can be found at www.FontViewer.net. In the simplest of terms this is a program that allows you to view large portions of your installed font families with their various styles.

The application renders all installed font families in a scrollable grid view. It allows you to change the font size, color, background color and text to be displayed. It has a built in list feature that allows you to select fonts and then store the names, this acts much like a light-box on the various stock image websites. You can export your list to .txt or .fv for later use and we also added a feature that will export your list to .pdf with the all styles applied.

This tool is by no means revolutionary but as a designer you might find it quite helpful when trying to find that perfect font for a piece of copy or a new logo. Read the rest of this entry »

We have created an alternative site for mobile users, www.thinkingbig.mobi. While we don’t expect to generate very much traffic from the site we felt it was still something we should have.

We all know how popular mobile devices are, and how popular web browsing from those devices has become as of late, we felt is was time to have a mobile friendly presence.

While the vast majority of mobile browsing is for is stock information, sports scores and of course ring tones we still felt is was necessary to have a mobile version of our home page available.

It was very interesting for me to learn how to develop web content for mobile devices as I have never done it before. I will share some of the points of interest I came across while creating our mobile site. Read the rest of this entry »

Hi, and welcome to Thinking BIG Laboratories.

We decided to create this site so we could share some of our technical ideas and findings, and hopefully create some good honest discussions with people who are interested in the same things we are, technology.

While this site is labeled as a “labs” I hope it will become much more then that. My vision for this site is to be a “labs” at the core with the majority of our discussions revolving around technical issues but I also hope to have some broader discussions that may not be technical in nature.

Oh well, who knows, let’s just see and where this site leads us. No matter what it currently is or what it might become doesn’t matter at this point, I just hope at the end of the day everyone enjoys it and feels at home.

Let the posting begin!

Cheers
Chris