June 2008
63 posts
Google Gears For The New Platform War →
A goog article about the power of Google Gears on TechCrunch:
With browser-based Javascript, functions in MySpace such as listing and sorting emails or filtering through a list of friends felt very slow; the loading bar would freeze as the hourglass spins while your browser makes multiple requests back to the server. With a quick install of gears, a click on a confirmation box and a couple of...
WatchNever you’ll be so happy to cross the street.
It’s coming from a LA collective named GuerilLA who have copied been inspired by Improv’Everywhere concepts which executes pre-planned “missions” which usually involve socially awkward or unusual situations.
Yahoo! Going No Where... →
Interesting resume on the lastest Yahoo! turmoil by GigaOm.
How the first real web company cans end like this? It’s remembering me of Netscape. We need a Steve Jobs to take back the reign.
My personal quest to get listed on the Tumblr...
For a while, I wish one of my post will get listed on the Tumblr Radar, but I never seen any. Once, I wrote to the editor with a polite email describing my tumbleblog and my intention and didn’t received any response. This time I decided to attract their attention (and make them laugh… I hope) with the opposite of politeness:
How the hell do we get listed on the Radar? Sorry for the...
WatchUnbelievable zoom for this Canon Digi Super Lens (9.5mm to a 700mm). Very fascinating video from the camera man Tom Guillemette who is covering the Boston Red Sox.
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UX > Nice Photographe Portfolio →
(via Michel Labelle)
Firefox 3 RC3 and Final Version June 17th →
You can download the third Release Candidate here.
(via Read Write Web)
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Film Review > Cleaner
A former cop (Jackson) who now earns a wage as a crime scene cleaner unknowingly participates in a cover-up at his latest job.
Ya! This movie sound interesting as the synopsis. What a waste. You may think because it stars Samuel L. Jackson and Ed Harris that it will make a better movie, but not at all.
My Rating: 2/5
Cleaner Trailer on YouTube
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Apple OS X Snow Leopard - Phase 2 Of World... →
According to Apple’s press release, “Snow Leopard includes out-of-the-box support for Microsoft Exchange 2007.”
Apple is bringing the same Exchange support it touted for the new iPhone to the desktop OS, making it much easier to integrate Macs into corporate environments.
First hook the kids with iPods and iPhones, then hook the parents with iChat video, fast web browsing, simple photo...
Digital Web Magazine - Why Do Web Startups Die?... →
Interesting article by Dave Goldenberg:
Internet startups are generally as successful as a nerd in a singles bar. Ventures that get off the ground rarely get knee-high. Why?
The biggest problem I’ve seen isn’t lack of talent, enthusiasm or even funding. It lies in skipping a critical early stage of development I call the “alpha-alpha” stage, or “alphalpha” for short. Alphalpha fits into that...
37Signals is Looking For A New Designer →
The most entertaining post, considering you also read the comments, since their posts about Why They Skip Photoshop and Every Designers Should Also Know How To Coded Their Mockups.
Some comments are vey hilarious.
Y Combinator diaries →
Michael Parkatti and Mike Marrone are in Cambridge, Massachusetts participating in the 2008 summer session of Y Combinator, a new kind of venture firm specializing in funding early stage startups, to begin work on their new stealth-mode Internet startup.
Starting this week, I’ll be writing a weekly diary of our experiences while participating in Y Combinator over the next three months....
I Am A Member Of The Cult Of iPhone →
Good little praise post about Apple and the iPhone by Michael Arrington (TechCrunch):
The iPhone is a closed system, with locked down hardware and platform, and rigid rules for outside developers. Android is all about open. And open is always better, right? As we’ve seen with Macs v. Windows, and then the iPod v. everyone, closed systems can work. Users will trade price and flexibility in...
jQuery User Interface 1.5 →
jQuery, the lightweight and powerful JavaScript library, has released a new edition of its UI component, which offers a wealth of ways to fancy up web sites’ user interfaces.
Make sure you look at the Explode effect one. This is Javascrip. Not Flash. Pretty nice!
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Film Review > The Kingdom
After a terrorist attack to an American housing compound in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, where families and the spy Francis Manner are murdered, FBI agent Ronald Fleury blackmails the South Arabian consul to get five days of investigation in the location. He travels with agent Grant Sykes, Janet Mayes and Adam Leavitt to revenge their friend and try to find the responsible for the bombing.
When this...
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New iPhone 3G for only 199$ available July 11th...
3G (like we didn’t know)
Thinner (I don’t know where they got that as the new iPhone is 0.48 inch compare to 0.46 inch - probably slimmer edges, but that’s it). Final Dimensions: (4.5 x 2.4 x 0.48 inches compare to 4.5 x 2.4 x 0.46 inches for the old one),
Black (or white for the 16GB) plastic back (anyway the mirror back cover was always scratched, now it will be the...
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iPhone 2.0 Sofware New Features (Live update from...
iPhone 2.0 software update (available in early for July. Free for iPhone owners, $9.99 for iPod Touch owners.)
Contact search with live searching. The contacts app incorporates lists, live search, and Google map integration.
The calendar app has the typical day, week, and month views. Color coding and drag & drop events is supported as well.
Photo gallery app allows for drag & drop...
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New iPhone - Live Coverage Of The WWDC2008 via... →
What could Apple possibly be announcing today that would cause a whole bunch of its international stores (Australia, Taiwan, Singapore, etc.) to go down?
Let me guess… The new iPhone is not just announced today, it will be available today ;) Update: The new iPhone will be available July 11th.
Today, Apple will announce their new iPhone at the 2008 Worldwide Developers Conference....
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Film Review > The Hunting Party
A young journalist, a seasoned cameraman and a discredited war correspondent (Richard Gere) embark on an unauthorized mission to find the no. 1 war criminal in Bosnia; they find themselves in serious jeopardy when they are mistaken as a CIA hit squad and their target decides to come after them.
It’s been a long time since I’ve seen a movie with Richard Gere that I really liked, but...
“When we launched, we launched with over a million titles. There were countless...”
– Jeff Bezos in a recent Vanity Fair article about the early days of the web.
(via Jacob Bijani)
The Big Questions →
Your daily dose of thoughtfulness desktop widget.
“Stop making excuses for why you can’t do this or that in the name of growth....”
– Finding the natural size for your company - (37signals)
Kuler on Air →
Nice little Adobe Air desktop application for designer from the user-gen color swatchs Adobe Labs Kuler. Good things about Adobe Air, no need to take car about beign cross-platform. It is by nature.
Web designers should do their own HTML/CSS →
After Jason [37Signals] post about why they skip photoshop in the creation process, now a post about why every web designers should know how to code their own mockups.
Needless to say, comments are on the rise for this post also.
Here’s the interesting position of a designer who, ironicly, do his own HTML/CSS:
Good print designers will have a strong knowledge of the strengths and...
Position Art - The world is my canvas →
Hilarious website about art done by GPS by a certain Stavros.
Take the time to watch the intro and the sections of the site. Don’t miss the litthe video in the section tools of Stavros. Hilarious!
You may also want to wait to see the random videos where Stavros say stupid things like:
“Position Art has an unique position in art.”
“The best thing about position art is...
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Star Wars - A New Hope in ASCII →
I talked about this site long time ago in my old blog.
April 2008, the creator of this popupal Star Wars ASCIImation started in 1997, so more than 10 years ago, just added another scene to is Star Wars, Episode 4 film coded in ASCII: when Luke goes on the Death Star with Han to save Leia.
He’s about at a bit more than half of the movie now. I guess he’ll finish it in another 10...
Tag Galaxy - A Space View At Tagging →
(via Pat M.)
Trulia Snapshot - Homes for sale →
I just cannot think of a better way to look for houses for sale.
(via Antoine)
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UX > Mutabor →
Nice site relauch by this Germand creative studio. The choice to select between a white or black background to visit the site is well done and amusing.
YouTube Just Add Video Annotation →
Video Annotations are a new way for you to add interactive commentary to your videos.
The annotations are sometime annoying, but at least users can turn them off. Here an example of annoted video on YouTube.
Note that annotations are available only to the video’s creator, not the viewer, and if you were thinking of adding links to your movies, only links pointing to other YouTube pages will...
Firefox RC2 Release - The last one before the... →
Update: Look like we were wrong, another Realease Candidate when out before the final version.
Alphabet Furnitures →
Waaaaaaaaa! Just like it!
(via Fubiz)
Read at Work and Fool Your Boss →
Wish to read at work, without being noticed? Nothing more simple then accessing ReadAtWork.com website.
The interface is a mimic of Windows XP loaded in Flash 9 that fill-up your entire desktop. All the novels proposed are formated as corporate PowerPoint presentations.
Just outstanding!
(via Frank)
70 Amazing Business Cards →
We are currently working on our new business cards following the relauch of our corporate site. We find good inspiration in this Fubiz post.
Social Media T-Shirt →
Like the T-Shirt? Scan Its Unique ID, ReEdit Your Edition of It and Buy It.
Nota C-Shirt shirts each come with a scannable little QR (Quick Response) code in the corner. If you see a C-Shirt that you like, worn by someone walking around town, you can scan the QR code with your mobile phone. (Especially if you’re in Japan where people scan QR codes with their phones all the time.) Your...
Color Scheme Generator From Photo or Images →
Nice tool for designer to get all the colors and derivatives from a photo or images.
(via Wired)
Trouble at eBay →
Very interesting article about the new upcoming challenges at eBay by Read & Write. Please take also the time to read the comments of readers to get a sense how eBay has a bumpy roads in front of them.
iTunes Movies Rental Now In Canada →
Yeh!
It’s the time to buy an Apple TV (only $250 CAN), and to hack it to play XVID and other medias.
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UX > Apple WWDC08 - Schedules →
Nice interface to show the conference schedules. Just pass from one day to another by clicking the morning and afternoon buttons.
Skipping Photoshop In The Process - The Debate Has... →
I invite you to read this post by Jason of 37Signals about why they decide to skip the Photoshop mock-ups in their production process. There are over 100 150 comments of readers about the pros and cons. Very interesting.
For our part we try most as possible to skip the clean wire-frame process to go from the blackboard sketches to the mock-ups. Leaving out the Photoshop mock-ups for most of our...
37Signals' Amazon S3 Stats →
Over 11 Terabytes (11 310 094 GB and raising) worth of data hosted on S3. 2.5 Terabytes in upload and 3.5 Terabytes in download each month.
Wow! I’m speechless.