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When it’s time to find your ideal domain name it can be extremely challenging but thankfully there are some websites that offer great tools.

I happened to stumble upon bustaname.com recently. This site offers powerful tools to search millions of available domain names. Just enter a couple of keywords and let the software find dozens of possible variations.

Don’t forget you can register your domain name with us.

COLOURlovers is one of my favorite colour resources. This community website based on the world of colour, follows colour news and trends, as well as featuring interesting user created colour palettes. Recently they did a great blog post on Color Inspiration from the Masters of Painting, featuring pieces of art from some of greatest masters of painting, and how they inspire us with color.

If you’re ever struggling to define the colours of a project you need to visit this site.

Google News offer another compelling search option providing access to 200 years worth of news stories. One of the great feature is the timeline option, which will group results for a particular search chronologically, letting you see how a particular event was covered over time.

So, when you have some time, take a few minutes and surf around the Google News Archive to see what you can find.

Here is a video demonstration of Photosynth that was given at the TED conference this year.

Using a bunch of images scraped from Flickr and stitch them all together, allowing for a multidimensional space with an almost infinite zoom capability.

Its architect, Blaise Aguera y Arcas, shows it off in this standing-ovation demo. Definitely worth a view.