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Designer/developer Jon Hicks blogs about a new $22 OS X application, Color Decoder. Put simply, it converts on-screen colour (RGB, CMYK values) into easy to understand colour names.

It watches the color underneath the mouse pointer, displays the color’s name near the mouse pointer, optionally speaks its name using speech synthesis, and flashes areas where the same color appears on the screen.

Worth downloading the trial version and having a play with it if you can, but I’m afraid not worth the asking price for me. Interesting just to think about how it works – purplish white, vivid reddish orange?

I could be completely wrong with this, but when Facebook says prevents this application from retrieving any information about you, could that include the fact that you even exist? I say that because I’ve been getting three or four invitations for both "Human Pets" and "PetrolHeads" every day for the last few weeks now, and since blocking the applications I haven’t received any.
What can I say, I’m a happier Facebookian for it.

I’m liking the homepage for Warwick University quite a bit.

Just another small feature in OS X that I noticed today – it might not be entirely new to Leopard, but the icon for a .ics event shows the event date, name and time.

Facebook’s adverts (banners down the left hand side) are now targeted at individuals based on their interaction with friends and other users on the site.

Ads should be getting more relevant and more meaningful to you.

That’s great, except I’m getting ads for clothing. Ugg boots, seriously? Is there something you’re trying to tell me about myself, Facebook?