May 2010
117 posts
Skype to Add Five-Way Video Calling →
Sometime next week Skype will unveil a new public beta product with a Group Video Calling feature that will allow users to participate in a group video chat with up to five people.PC owners will be…
Dropbox Gets Mobile API, Android and iPad Clients →
The team at file-sharing, syncing and storage service Dropbox have unveiled new native clients for Android and the iPad to complement the existing iPhone app. The Android client has…
DIY iPad stylus →
Another great Make: Online video by Collin Cunningham.
Fingertip input is great for most touchscreen usage like typing, web-browsing — all sorts of virtual button-pushing tasks. But…
A List Apart No. 305 →
In Issue No. 305 of A List Apart for people who make websites, Jack Cheng finds creative genius embedded in our everyday tools, habits, and spaces; and Jeremy Keith offers “A…
BandCentral, a Basecamp for Bands, Launches Today →
U.K. startup BandCentral announced its official launch today. Describing itself as a “Basecamp for bands,” the service is an online tool for bands, record labels and managers to track finances,…
What is Work? →
Our jobs often interrupt our lives, but that’s not such a bad thing as long as we can get some life into the office. design mind on GOOD is a series exploring the power of design by the…
Google Redesigns Search Results Page →
Looks good, including the cleaned-up, brightened Google logo.
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Next iPhone to Record 1280x720 HD Video? →
One of the many new features provided to developers in iPhone OS 4 are new APIs that give developers full access to Video capture data. This could open the door to some interesting apps including…
Peter Merholz: The Want Interview →
The founder & president of Adaptive Path explains why they’re shifting away from “user experience” and towards “experience design.” He celebrates 360 design strategies through…
Bill Moggridge blogs →
Bill Moggridge, the legendary industrial and interaction designer, IDEO co-founder and now director of the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, started his own blog, …
Service Design Thinks →
Nick Marsh has been organising several service design ‘Thinks’ events in London: ‘Service Design at Scale’ (November 2009) and ‘Service Design from Scratch’ (March 2010).
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NEWS: VIDEO: Adobe Android tablet gets public... →
Round 2 in the Google vs Apple fight. This one could go the distance
The feud between Apple and Adobe doesn’t seem like it’s going to let up any time soon. Adobe has responded to Steve Job’s…
Personalize your own Personality Infographic →
The personality infographic generator [ionz.com.br] (you’ll need to wait ~10s) first asks several questions to analyze the unique characteristics of your personality, ranging from topics…
WAYN and Rummble unite for travel tips service,... →
WAYN and personalised recommendation engine Rummble have joined forces to add a new reviewing and tips service into the travel social network.
The Rummble system works by suggesting…
IE Market Share Falls Below 60% [Browsers] →
According to Net Applications, Internet Explorer’s market share in April was 59.95%, an F+ in total world browser domination. The last time it was that low was in 1999 when…
Dropbox Launches Android App & Mobile API,... →
Dropbox’s effortless file sharing service is going mobile in a big way: the service has just launched its official Android application, a native iPad app (which comes in addition to a previously…
NEWS: Intel: Phones with 10 day battery life here... →
Moorestown becomes Atom Z-Series promises to last a long time
Intel is promising phone makers that use its new Moorestown processor, now dubbed the Intel Atom Z-Series, that they will be able…
lara_becker: Indiemapper is the smarter, easier,... →
lara_becker: Indiemapper is the smarter, easier, more elegant way to make thematic maps from digital data. http://indiemapper.com/
gowalla: Today we're rolling out a brand-new trip... →
gowalla: Today we’re rolling out a brand-new trip via world traveller @Frideswide1 herself: London Tourist Trot http://bit.ly/9IBlbq
gowalla: Our friends at @happycog just released... →
gowalla: Our friends at @happycog just released HTML5 for Web Designers - http://books.alistapart.com. Look for it in Gowalla, too :)
Microsoft Previews Spindex, a Social Media... →
Microsoft’s Lili Cheng, who leads the Future Social Experiments Lab at Microsoft, speaking at the Web 2.0 Expo today, previewed a new product called Spindex, aka a “social personal index, or a modern…
Rumor: Apple's iTravel being previewed in other... →
Filed under: iPhone
Last week, Patently Apple got a hint of a new app/service from Apple called iTravel, an official app that would allow you to make and check-in travel reservations…
OpenTable’s $150 Million Mobile App (And Q1... →
Since OpenTable launched its iPhone app in November, 2008 it has booked restaurant reservations for 3 million diners through it and other mobile apps. With a $50 average check, that comes to $150…
Why speech recognition isn't a technological... →
Writer Robert Fortner doled out harsh criticisms of speech recognition yesterday, and today his faulty logic and false assertions are reverberating across the blogosphere. He argues that speech…
CSS3 Spiderman →
CSS3 Spiderman: Anthony Calzadilla recreated a 1967-style Spiderman comic using CSS3 animations. He’s also written a detailed account of the project’s creation.
tbisaacs: It's like Mother Sabre for HTML:... →
tbisaacs: It’s like Mother Sabre for HTML: http://www.downloadsquad.com/2010/04/30/if-you-code-html-zen-coding-will-change-your-life/
A Good Problem to Have →
Terrific piece by Mike Davidson on Apple’s position in the market: Until people either start abandoning their products because of this or they do the opposite and adopt their products at a rate…
The Anatomy of a Live Site →
It seems like live sites (hosting live streams of your worship services) are all the rage these days, and for good reason: they expand your reach, are a “safe” way for people to check out your…
MacRuby: The Definitive Guide →
Speaking of MacRuby, the first few chapters of Matt Aimonetti’s in-progress book about it are available for free online.
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Apps on Wheels: Developing Mobile Apps that Work... →
When we talk about mobile apps today, chances are that we are mostly talking about apps for cell phones and - maybe - tablets. The latest trend in mobile apps, however, is apps for cars. One of the…
John Stewart on PowerPoint and infographics. →
John Stewart on PowerPoint and infographics.
Nokia’s Ovi App Wizard Magically Creates Mobile... →
Practically anyone can create a Nokia smartphone application thanks to the new Ovi App Wizard. This is a step in the right direction for Nokia, but it’s not likely to raise the Ovi Store to parity…
saykay: Does PowerPoint make us stupid? Or were we... →
saykay: Does PowerPoint make us stupid? Or were we dumb to begin with? http://post.ly/ekGK
johnmaeda: "We have to find more non-hierarchical... →
johnmaeda: “We have to find more non-hierarchical ways to solve problems in large organizations.” -Ann Willoughby
JibJab Re-Creates The Original Star Wars Trilogy,... →
The Force is strong with JibJab. The humor site, which often puts together goofy animated adventures that you can customize with photos of your friends’ faces, has really outdone itself this time: in…
Does PowerPoint make us stupid? Or were we dumb to... →
Is PowerPoint the Enemy of Productivity? By Dave Johnson May 3rd, 2010 @ 5:00 am
PowerPoint slide decks are a central tool of the business world, but they simultaneously…
Touch Target Sizes →
People interact with touch-based user interfaces with their fingers. So user interface controls have to be big enough to capture fingertip actions without frustrating users with erroneous actions…
The first augmented reality flashmob organized for... →
I’ve no idea how we missed reporting on the first Layar-powered augmented reality flashmob in the world. It happened at the Dam Square in Amsterdam on April 24th.
Sander Veenhof is the…
HTML5 For Web Designers →
When Mandy Brown, Jason Santa Maria and I formed A Book Apart, one topic burned uppermost in our minds, and there was only one author for the job.
Nothing else, not even…
iconwerk icon pictogram design symbols icondesign... →
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What is an expert in User Centred Design? →
What does it mean to be an expert on User Centred Design (UCD)? What does it require to be a User Experience (UX) expert? What kind of educational or experiential background do you require? What…
Project Cobra’s Tactile Gaming Interface →
Project Cobra is a new gaming interface which responds when a gamer bends or twists it.
Android OS Distribution Chart Updated, Inches... →
Google has just updated the pie chart on its Android Developers site that shows just how many Android users are running each version of the mobile OS. The latest stats: 32.4% of users are…
Twitter set to launch embeddable tweets →
Come Tuesday, the days of quoting tweets by pasting screenshots of them into your Web pages will be over.
iPad pulls Fraser Speirs back in to iPhone OS... →
Filed under: App Store
When I saw Mac developer Fraser Speirs’ Twitter post linking to a blog entry titled “Back In” I knew what it was about: the App Store.
Back in September…
White Castle Scented Candle: The Stink of Success... →
If they can make a pine scented candle and a cinnamon scented candle and a country linen scented candle, you’re damn well right they can make a candle that smells like Grade-D…
Who's Your Favorite Game Developer? IBM? →
At the Impact Conference in Las Vegas, IBM unveiled CityOne, a “serious game” devoted to civic problem solving. The game “can help customers, business partners and students discover how to make…
Thinking About The Next Web →
Last week was The Next Web conference in Amsterdam, and it was really a terrific event. It was held in a wonderful brick factory building which, despite getting very hot inside, was a…
MacRuby 0.6 →
Laurent Sansonetti: Since 0.5’s release, we have worked closely with a number of early-adopter developers in finding and fixing a great number of bugs, as well as improving the overall process of…
The Simpsons' "Tik Tok" Parody →
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The opening to last night’s episode of The Simpsons parodied “Tik Tok“, a song by American pop singer Ke$ha (that’s how she spells it). Featuring Groundskeeper Willy…