Time Saver

Don’t you just love it when one of your RSS feeds sends you somewhere else that you know that never in a 1000 years would you have found that other site on your own? Better yet, this site, that you couldn’t have discovered on your own, ends up being the answer to a HUGE problem you face on a regular basis. Happened for me today!

Problem:

When I work on projects, I waste countless hours searching for resources. Most of the time, if I can make the resource myself, I will. I’ll go out there and take my own pictures. I’ll make my own brush or texture. But every now and then I have the need for something that I can’t make on my own and I have to hit the web and search through countless sites in hopes that I find the one I need. Even worse, while going through these sites, something will catch my attention and then I’ll go off on a tangent and lose my concentration.

Solution:

I found a HUGE timesaver thanks to PSD Tuts’ article on the Best of the Web March Roundup. They introduced me to the Design Ressources Search Engine made by Sacha Greif’s and found on his blog. Sacha explains:

What’s a Custom Search Engine (CSE) you ask ? Basically it’s a set of guidelines that tell Google which websites to search through and what to look for. Ever wanted a way to search for that perfect photoshop brush across multiple websites at once, but not waste time sifting through paint supplies websites ?

THIS THING KICKS MAJOR NALGAS!!! That’s ass for our non-speaking friends. This search tool scans some of the sites I already hit and introduced me to ones I never knew of. No more hours spent going from site to site and pasting my text into the search field. No more asking myself “What happened to the last 3 hours?” only to realize that I went off on a tangent…again. Started off looking for brushes and ended up reading an article on human rights depicted in art…DAMN YOU INTERESTING LINKS!

Maybe know I can actually create with going off into the nether regions of the internet.