April 2009
45 posts
“Demos, not memos: 1. Ideas are cheap and plentiful. Execution is hard. 2....”
– 37signals - Pulitzer winner’s key lesson learned
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UX > Carousel: A Cinema 21:9 Production →
To celebrate the imminent arrival of the groundbreaking Cinema 21:9 LCD TV, Philips has launched a new website which will act as the dedicated online home of the world’s first cinema proportioned television screen.
The site is host to an exclusive ASTONISHING fully interactive movie, entitled Carousel, directed by Adam Berg with music provided from Michael Fakesch.
You can watch it on...
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Practice Your Writing Skill
Not getting the email? Did you check your spam filter. You did. That sucks. Email us from the email address you have on file on FetLife and include your nickname in the email and I will forward you your login information.
You using Hotmail? You might want to consider switching to GMail. Hotmail is evil.
I already praised my friend John for having created, in a single year, Fetlife, a very...
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WatchBar-Bé-Kiù au Châlet (Boufon épisode 1 - pilote)
Nous avons créer, je l’espère, la première wepisode d’une série sur les plaisirs de la cuisine et de la bonne bouffe.
Le tout c’est fait, d’une manière entièrement improvisée, autour d’un bon souper au chalet avec ma copine et mon bon ami Michel.
Nous avons filmé le tout en HD (720p) avec mon minuscule appareil...
Accessing Hulu Outside Of United States →
Simply mask your IP with AnchorFree HotSpot Shield plugin (for Windows and OS X) and watch your favorite movies or tv shows on Hulu.com.
It works like a charm.
UPDATE May 25 : It doesn’t work anymore, Hulu is detecting that you are accessing their network trough a Proxy. You may want to check the James Golick’s geeky way to access Hulu if you are willing to pay $20 a month for a...
“Focusing on just the newness of something is usually a pretty weak selling...”
– David @ 37Signals - There’s nothing new about all-new
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Wakoopa - Track Your Usage Of Softwares and... →
he Amsterdam-based startup Wakoopa, a software-oriented social network, offers a small download client that’s installed on the desktops and track the usage of more than 75,000 users.
Here is interesting report of the overall usage and popularity on the Windows, Mac OS X and Web platforms.
GE New Optical Disc Offers 500GB Storage →
“The Micro-holographic discs, which is the same size as existing DVD discs, can store more data than DVDs (5GB) or Blu-ray (25GB) because they store information on the disc in three dimensions, rather than just pits on the surface of the disc.”
3D TV is coming… I’m telling you.
Les Mappes...
Fred: Oublies ça man, j'ai pas besoin du data si j'utilise le GPS en France. Le GPS c'est le GPS.
JiPé: Les mappes?
Fred: Ahhh ouin, les mappes... Oublies ce que je viens de dire.
JiPé: Pouette pouette pouette....
Fight Club
Octavian: Top shape, bring it on!
JiPé: Wanna fight moth'rfuk'r? ;)
Octavian: I'm the final boss. Make sure you win the other castles first :)
Guide And Tricks To Better Embed YouTube Videos →
It goes from how to:
embeding higher quality video,
jumping to a time frame,
embeding only part of the video,
looping,
to bypassing regional filtering…
Very useful.
(thanks Fred)
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UX > We Are Hunted - The Online Music Chart →
Nice simple user interface to browse and listen to the most popular songs of the moment.
We Are Hunted is the Online Music Chart. We aggregate social networks, forums, music blogs, Torrents, P2P Networks and Twitter to develop a daily chart of the 99 most popular songs online.
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“How do I change this JPG to a PDF? I imagine that I simply change the file...”
– File Conversion by Christina B. - This would be nice for sure…
Ça Boot...
Email de Fred: Notre serveur Ganesha subit un pontage ce matin. De retour bientôt.
JiPé: Pourquoi tu dis ça?
Fred: Ça fait 2 heures que la machine boot!
JiPé: Quand tu penses la déclarer cliniquement morte?
“I do not thank you for turning me onto this game. I installed it on the way down...”
– Ted found Flight Control. On my side I missed my bus stop and found myself 3 km away from home in the middle of no-where ;)
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WatchAn Internet Watered Down, or how to save the mobile web
Very interesting presentation that John Pettengill, interaction designer at Rezorfish, gave in Memphis at the IA Summit 2009 on what a mobile experience should/could be.
I like the content of the presentation, but also its simple and dynamic look and feel. I know the prensentation is pretty long (128 slides), but bare with him and keep...
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UX> Timerline Lodge - Nice UGC Integration →
A nice overall user experience with a nice integration of user generated contents hosted on other popular social platforms like Flickr, Vimeo and Twitter.
Why having all the tools on your site, when other are killing time and dollars making a exquisite experience of collecting user materials? Use them instead of replicating those functionalities on your site. Your active users, who wish to...
The Pain Of Apple Store Application Approval... →
Some interesting theory by Marco Arment, developer of the miraculous Instapaper read later app) about the approval process of iPhone and iPod Touch applications in the Apple App Store.
Nearly all of developers’ complaints about the App Store, including my icon snafu yesterday, are caused or exacerbated by one root flaw: the long approval process.
If approval took 24-48 hours, rather than 7-10...
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iPod Touch: The New Weapon →
According to Newsweek, both the iPod Touch and to a lesser degree the iPhone are increasingly being used by the U.S. military because of their versatility, ease of use and comparative low cost.
Snipers in Iraq and Afghanistan now use a “ballistics calculator” called BulletFlight, made by the Florida firm Knight’s Armament for the iPod Touch and iPhone. Army researchers are...
The State of the Smartphone: iPhone is Way, Way... →
Few weeks ago I wrote a post: Is the App Store changing the game industry?. It looks like, from another study conducted by Flurry, that the iPhone is way ahead in the Smartphones war considering the number of developers, applications available and consumers who use those applications with respectivly 72%, 64% and 87% of market share.
In less than a year, the Apple App Store is closed to 1 billion...
WatchAviary - Phoenix Image Editor
I always doubt that the image editing software Photoshop can be port online someday. With Aviary Phoenix we are very close to it.
Google Labs New Home →
Google just launch their new Google Labs home page. Not sure it’s better than the earlier version, but certainly more in line with their search results.
Augemented Reality For The New BMW Z4 →
Nice augmented reality experience for the new BMW Z4. If you own a camera on your computer and have access to a printer, try it.
I also wrote about augemented reality for the new baseball Topps collection card.
(via Etienne)
“Spring, Skirts, Smile ;)”
– 3S by Jonathan B.
The Road to Area 51 →
Area 51. It’s the most famous military institution in the world that doesn’t officially exist. If it did, it would be found about 100 miles outside Las Vegas in Nevada’s high desert, tucked between an Air Force base and an abandoned nuclear testing ground. Then again, maybe not— the U.S. government refuses to say. You can’t drive anywhere close to it, and until recently,...
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The Pond →
A very interesting article from Rands about management and remote employees.
There is a constant flow of information in your company. That means there are constant drips in the Pond, creating various-sized ripples traveling every which way, bumping into each other, and transforming each other into slightly mutated ripples.
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A remote employee is not in the Pond. Yes, he’s on the mailing...
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Watch Prototype of what Ubiquity might look like in Firefox, also known as TaskFox
One word: God!
(via ReadWriteWeb)
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Google Announces the GoogleBar →
My friend Steph at No Margin For Errors just got the latest news: After Digg launched its DiggBar, Google decided to annouce quickly their latest megalomaniac project: The GoogleBar. Hilarious! Go check it out.
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Flight Control iPhone Game →
Flight Control from Firemint Mobile Games Studio is probably the most addictive game in the Apple App Store. You are so compelled to beat your own score that you cannot let the game down. You find yourself playing over and over.
It’s a very simple game where, as a flight controller, you are in charged to indicate the path each of the aircrafts (big transporter, small transporter, biplane...
“Your stuff weighs you down. Life is generally easier with less stuff.”
– Marco.org - Benefits of environmentalism
Rumor: Google In Talks To Acquire Twitter →
If it’s the case, it will be the second sale to Google by Evan Williams and Biz Stone. They found Pyra Labs and sold their Blogger platform to Google 5 years ago.
Not bad for guys who start Blogger and Twitter as side projects!
TweetDoubler - Twice the bird →
From RazorFish lab: TweetDoubler, when 140 characters is not enough. They use a compression algorithm to compress your tweet; giving you twice the space to write what you want.
For me it’s removed all the poetry of micro-blogging, but I find the exercise interesting.