June 2009
67 posts
A documentary about how web 2.0 changes the world
Fight my Brute →
Settle your differences in the arena
Samparkour is a short that reveals the city of São Paulo (Brazil) under the look of Parkour. Where people see obstacles, Zico Corrêa visualize new possibilities. Shot in HD with 35mm lens adapter
Transformer Cufflinks →
fakestef:
“Transformers, robots in the sky!” as I erroneously sang back in the schoolyard. These Transfomer cufflinks from Etsy maker Finkstudio do not, sadly, soar through the stratosphere, but they…
patterns & practices: Application Architecture... →
This guide provides design-level guidance for the architecture and design of applications built on the .NET Framework. It focuses on the most common types of applications, partitioning application functionality into layers, components, and services, and walks through their key design characteristics.
10 UI Design Patterns You Should Be Paying... →
scripty2: for a more delicious web →
scripty2 is a powerful, flexible JavaScript framework to help you write your own delicious visual effects & user interfaces. scripty2 is a complete rewrite and reimplementation of script.aculo.us, with are modular structure intended to ease the development of highly customized user interface effects and behaviours.
US Patent 5255452 (or: Why Michael Jackson was a... →
OTOY In Action. You Have To See This. →
Let’s run through some of the details quickly: OTOY is 100% browser-based, and works is all modern web browsers. All it requires is a broadband connection, and that will give you 720p (HD) graphics, with no plugins and no downloads. But they key is that this is all done on OTOY’s servers and transmitted down from the cloud to run on whatever client you want, basically instantaneously.
LESS - Leaner CSS →
Less extends css by adding: variables, mixins, operations and nested rules.
New Exotic Material Could Revolutionize... →
Move over, silicon—it may be time to give the Valley a new name.
The Dawning of Internet Censorship in Germany →
smush.it! →
Smushit.com is a service that goes beyond the limitations of Photoshop, Fireworks & Co. It uses image format specific non-lossy image optimization tools to squeeze the last bytes out of your images - without changing their look or visual quality. You’ll get a report of how many bytes you can save by optimizing your images and all the changed images as a single zip for download.
Free Beats
How To Get Started With jQuery →
How can it make my life easier as a developer? How do I get started? Well, jQuery makes writing Javascript fun again and really allows you to take advantage of some of the more difficult aspects of Javascript with relative ease.Today, we will have a look at how to get started with jQuery, and writing your first script!
40+ Helpful Resources On User Interface Design... →
BREADBOX64 →
BREADBOX64 is a twitter client for the C64/128 which allows you to tweet from a real C64 and show your friends timeline.
Opera Unite reinvents the Web →
Opera today unveiled Opera Unite, a new technology that shakes up the old client-server computing model of the Web. Opera Unite turns any computer into both a client and a server, allowing it to interact with and serve content to other computers directly across the Web, without the need for third-party servers.
What Every Programmer Should Know About Memory →
A Plant That Thrives When Used as a Toilet →
Hunch →
Hunch helps you make decisions and gets smarter the more you use it.
Welcome to your user’s head! →
Clixpy tracks everything your site’s users do: mouse movement, clicks, scrolling, form inputs. You can watch and examine videos showing your users’ actions
Most Dangerous Bridges In The World →
A bridge can prove to be dangerous for a variety of reasons; either because it’s very old, narrow, too high up above the land, over a quick river or if the wooden “floor” goes missing.
Technophilia →
According to psychologist Erich Fromm (and famed biologist E.O. Wilson) humans are endowed with biophilia, an innate attraction to living things. But we are likewise embedded with technophilia, the love of technology. Our transformation from smart hominid into Sapiens was midwifed by our tools, and at our human core we harbor an innate affinity for made things.
iPhone 3GS Complete Feature Guide →
50 Fresh Useful Icon Sets For Your Next Design →
This large collection of recently released icon sets is supposed to help designers improve their designs on their web-sites and in web-applications. All icon sets are free. Please read the license agreements carefully before using the icons — the license can change from time to time.
Microsoft SuperPreview: a New Way to Test Web... →
Browser testing is much harder than it should be, but a new Microsoft tool announced today at the MIX09 Web Developer Conference in Las Vegas could be the answer to many of our problems.
Pirate Party Wins (in Sweden) and Enters The... →
In Germany the Pirate Party got approximately 1 percent of the votes, not enough for a seat in the European Parliament.
Blame Drew's Cancer →