Sounds like magic but new advances in printing using special inks can create electrical circuits, converting a piece of paper to something interactive. Uniform has some ideas... http://bit.ly/zrO13R
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Tuesday, 13 March 2012
The Singing Paper
Sounds like magic but new advances in printing using special inks can create electrical circuits, converting a piece of paper to something interactive. Uniform has some ideas... http://bit.ly/zrO13R
Monday, 12 March 2012
Glyphs, Icons, Pictograms, Free!
I've been a long time user of the famfamfam.com icon library but recently I've been looking for something fresh. Here are some very nice choices for your icon greed :)
Entypo by +Daniel Bruce
Over 100 icons in EPS or as OpenType font. Free with attribution (you can donate, 50% goes to wikipedia)
http://bit.ly/wEuNiE
+GLYPHICONS by +Jan Kovařík
350 icons in 16x16 PNG. Free with attribution (royalty free options available with additional AI, PSD files)
http://bit.ly/xKQ1Dw
Fugue by +Yusuke Kamiyamane
A very large icon (16x16 PNG) collection with a total of 3.346 variations! Source files provided as well. Free with attribution (royalty free option available)
http://bit.ly/w5AWz3
Enjoy! :)
In album 2012-03-12 (3 photos)
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Sunday, 11 March 2012
Advanced text-around-image wrapping
Not magic, JavaScript
Here's a small gem of #jQuery coding: jQSlickWrap is a #plugin which allows for easily wrapping your text around images, respecting the image's content, as you would do in a DTP program.
The specs:
- Client-side, Sliced and Diced Sandbags using HTML 5's new <canvas /> element
- CSS-based padding
- Sandbag "resolution" is configurable
- Written with Progressive Enhancement in mind
- Optional "bloom" mode provides ultra-precise padding
Works in Firefox 3.5+, Chrome, Safari 4+, Opera 11+, but not in Internet Explorer (degrades to "regular" wrapping). See the image below for a demonstration and get it here http://bit.ly/wSG1ou
Here's a small gem of #jQuery coding: jQSlickWrap is a #plugin which allows for easily wrapping your text around images, respecting the image's content, as you would do in a DTP program.
The specs:
- Client-side, Sliced and Diced Sandbags using HTML 5's new <canvas /> element
- CSS-based padding
- Sandbag "resolution" is configurable
- Written with Progressive Enhancement in mind
- Optional "bloom" mode provides ultra-precise padding
Works in Firefox 3.5+, Chrome, Safari 4+, Opera 11+, but not in Internet Explorer (degrades to "regular" wrapping). See the image below for a demonstration and get it here http://bit.ly/wSG1ou
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Saturday, 10 March 2012
Google+Blog for WordPress v.1.1.2
I had previously wrote http://bit.ly/yNwPxo about +Daniel Treadwell's Google+Blog plugin which imports your #GooglePlus posts into #WordPress . I've been a happy user ever since so I'm jumping to the opportunity to post about it again as it has recently been updated.
These are changes of v.1.1.0 although it has been silently been updated to 1.1.2 (bug fixes I guess):
- Support for importing from multiple Profiles/Pages
- New option to exclude posts containing a given hashtag
- Posts shared via Google Reader will now be imported
- Hashtag character set expanded and related bugfixes
- Updating your settings no longer forces import (unless specified)
More details and download link here http://bit.ly/yTIeAQ
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It's an upside down world
I know you like maps on signs so I put a QR code on your sign to open up a map...
Someone please explain the rationale for placing a huge QR code on a sign on the space where you would normally put a map, and then having the QR code be a link to the map (if you happen to have a proper device to handle it). And of course placing driving directions aligned centered :)
This distorted view that everything is better done digitally doesn't end there. Yesterday, finally the big the news came: there is now an app so that you can knock on people's door with an SMS http://bit.ly/AmVWe8
At some point we need to see that some things can also be done physically ;)
Someone please explain the rationale for placing a huge QR code on a sign on the space where you would normally put a map, and then having the QR code be a link to the map (if you happen to have a proper device to handle it). And of course placing driving directions aligned centered :)
This distorted view that everything is better done digitally doesn't end there. Yesterday, finally the big the news came: there is now an app so that you can knock on people's door with an SMS http://bit.ly/AmVWe8
At some point we need to see that some things can also be done physically ;)
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This is a psychology experiment
Also, proof that cats are smarter than dogs
I'm interested in the human nature and would like to measure the effect animals have on people's psychology. So, I'm posting the sample video below to test emotional response to human-like actions of animals. Please post in the comments how that video made you feel.
That said, every day is caturday, there's no need for lame excuses. Enjoy ;)
I'm interested in the human nature and would like to measure the effect animals have on people's psychology. So, I'm posting the sample video below to test emotional response to human-like actions of animals. Please post in the comments how that video made you feel.
That said, every day is caturday, there's no need for lame excuses. Enjoy ;)
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Friday, 9 March 2012
Want Apple-styled maps on your site?
In the new version of iPhoto announced two days ago, #Apple has dropped using #GoogleMaps in favor of +OpenStreetMap, an open-source initiative for map data.
Given that Apple was kind enough to NOT give credit to #OpenStreetMap (see more http://bit.ly/xM3YGt) I'd say it's ok to use Apple's map tiles on your website. And you can do just that if you check the source code here http://bit.ly/xCguI9
More information on OSM can be found at www.openstreetmap.org
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