The problem is landing to a great color combination is  a tough task. Either you can just look at the palette and decide this color combination looks good or you already have a predefined combination in your mind. However there are some tools which let you various color blends to choose from. I would be reviewing one such web service in this post.

Color Blender is a free service which helps create various color combination and mashups. The main feature of it is, that you can choose a base color and it can provide you with additional five blends. Just provide one color called the base color and it will give you 5 additional colors to form a color scheme ready to be used on your website and designs. There are two modes:

1. Auto Match
2. Direct Edit

In Automode, you just specify a single color, and it uses its algorithm to create a variation of scheme with 5 extra colors. Alternatively you can use the Direct Edit mode to manually change individual colors.

Just below that you have RGB slider options to varied the colors to your liking, along with a 7 color palette to choose little variations from the present color scheme.

Finally, you are ready to share/download the color schemes

1. You can download as Photoshop Color Table, Illustrator Colors or simply forward as email
2. Save a blend online and load it later for reference. You can also load your saved blends later

Personal Impression:

Its a great tool. Clearly a mature product. The auto color selection give some very good result provided you pick a good base color of your choice. Incase you are bored with selecting your colors it also provides you with a lost of popular color blends to choose from.

Being a web-designer, I always feel lost of color combination as I need almost a new one for every other project. Hence a service like this really helps. The send to email is a nice little addon which might be helpful to suggest colors to your clients. Overall I would give it a thumbs UP.

Links:

Popular Color Blends: http://www.colorblender.com/browse.asp

Choose a Random Color Blend: http://www.colorblender.com/?preloadrandom=yes

Share blend between multiple workstations: http://www.colorblender.com/cookiecopy.asp

How did you find the experience with the tool? Let us know via comments.

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Xfruits helps users create RSS Mashups, Aggregate multiple RSS into one and a lot of other options. Here is a short summary of what all it can do:

1.  Aggregate multiple RSS Feeds into one Single Feed
2. Create a mobile version of your website based on RSS Feed
3. Get Feeds of all emails sent to a particular Xfruits Mailbox
4. Create a PDF from an RSS Feed
5. Create an alert mail for your RSS Feed
6. Create a OPML file to manage your RSS Lists (It is a bunch of RSS Feeds identified by most RSS Readers)
7. Create a Mobile webpage from an OPML File
8. Create RSS Feed from unread mails in your Email Inbox with privacy settings
9. Using www.vocalfruits.com create a audio version of your RSS Feeds (cost money $$)
10. Publish the content of RSS Feed on your blog (read auto blogging)
11. Available in Spanish, English and French. Other languages coming soon

My Experience

My main aim was to look for a RSS Aggreator, so I could aggregate my feeds from all my blogs. I tried doing the same with Xfruits. The part was easy and my RSS Aggregated Feed was ready in seconds. All you have to do is provide a Title for your Feed Aggregator, Submit the individual feeds and save it sa public /private. In future you can edit your feed from “My Xfruits” section. Cool thing is that while you are adding individual feeds to Xfruits, it checks int eh background the validity of the feed, helping your avoid typo errors.

Once done, you can begin using your new feed URL immediately or share it on popular Social Media Sites. Among all its services i liked the following three services the most.

• Aggregate multiple RSS into one
• Publish your RSS content to your Blog
• Create a Mobile version of your website

The only problem i faced with it was, when logged in “My Xfruits” screen, I could not find a way or link to add new Feed. Placing a link would have been nice. But then this is a new service and it is still in beta version. I hope they listen to my suggestion and use it in the final version. Great Service.

If you have used other of its features, do share your experience via comments.

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