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Swype is Looking Good 0
It’s a bit old news that Dr. Cliff Kushler, inventor of T9 predictive texting, was creating a sucessor for touch devices, but I hadn’t seen the demos till today after reading an excellent article on Ars Technica : http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/reviews/2010/07/hands-on-swype-keyboard-for-android-is-sweeptastic.ars I’m pretty amazed by the speed, but what really enthuses me is the possibility that, like T9, Swype could [...]
Categories: Professional
BP Spill Inspired AR and What it Does Right 0
I have to give a big two thumbs up to the iPhone App, “The Leak in Your Home Town” created by Mark Skwarek and Joesph Hocking. In summary, after grabbing their iPhone App you can head off to any BP station, point your camera at the iconic British Petroleum logo and voila! You’ve got yourself [...]
Categories: Design,Development,Professional,User Experience
Transition to Embedded Web Fonts 0
Recently I’d read an article by Richard Fink at A List Apart entitled “Web Fonts at the Crossing” which is an excellent summary of where browsers and standards are regarding embedding fonts in HTML pages. This is a technology that I haven’t read up on recently, mostly due to the fact that working in Flash [...]
Categories: Design,Development,Professional
4th of July 2010 Volpe BBQ Poster 0
Special thanks to my friend Anders Andersson over at Helpful Strangers for once again designing an amazing poster to advertise my annual 4th of July BBQ! Make sure to also check out the great one Anders did last year : http://blog.untitledfornow.com/2009/07/06/4th-of-july-bbq-in-london-2009/
Sign up for Beta and it Will Start Sooner 0
From time to time I sign up for a Beta testing of a new game, it’s a free way to have some fun and can feel very rewarding, if you are actually participating and giving feedback! So when I got a mail from Ijji today about a new beta, I clicked through to the website to [...]
Categories: Professional
Video Solution for the HTML5 Brave New World 0
Need to show the same video on your site to people on an iPad as well as Firefox 3.6, IE7? Want to support HTML5 Video but don’t know where to start with which browser supports which video format and how to detect properly? If so I’d suggest taking a look at the solution by Camen [...]
Categories: Development,Professional
Bon Voyage Luke Ritchie 1
My friend Luke and his Portugese girlfriend will shortly be moving to start a new life and company in Brazil on a nice sunny beach somewhere. Because Luke is English though, he will need some help fitting in to the foreign culture. To that end Joana, his girlfriend, purchased the book “Live and Work in Brazil” I [...]
Make Me Enjoy Crashes, Give Me Personality 0
It’s an odd thing to say, but when my Chromium browser (the beta of Chrome) crashes, it atleast gives me a smile to see… I know mister tab, I’m sad you crashed too. But you tried your best, and that’s what counts. It’s nice to have a product that has a bit of personality to [...]
Categories: Design,Humor,Professional,User Experience
A Lovely Short – Second Wind 0
I find the style of this animation alone to be very beautiful, there’s something so wonderful about traditional media being composited digitally (when done lightly that is). The story is lovely and quirky and the music is great – by James Mark.
Categories: Animation