Since Flickr has a public API, people can create all sorts of fun applications to go play with the extensive photo website. The Multicolr Search Lab by Idée Inc lets you search the entire Flickr library by color. You can pick up to 10 colors. Above I did a search using primary colors: red, yellow, [...]
Kiosk
I ran across Kiosk’s website tonight and was amazed with what I found. It may be old news to some, but it’s new to me so I’m going to share it.
The idea behind the website is so simple, and yet so perfect. They travel across the world and find products that make you “why don’t [...]
Pixel Buildings in Brussels by Lab[au]
Lab[au], a design firm based out of Belgium, has installed windows with advanced lighting technology in a building in Brussels. Every night there are light shows at the Dexia Towers, where 4,200 of the 6,000 windows on the building are lit up with the help of 150,000 leds.
CR Blog explains how the lighting techology [...]
Newstoday Mini Widget
QBN.com, more formally known as Newstoday, is my first website pit stop after launching my browser. I go there to check on new designers, design related news, portfolios, and critique.
Both the Public Voice Network (PVN) and Public Choice are always being updated, and I mean constantly. You can actually see updates happen while browsing the site as [...]
Microsoft Icon Quiz
While Apple continues to push the limit of simplicity and usability, Microsoft just never seems to progress. Yes, Microsoft has started to give their icons a futuristic look, but that doesn’t change mean the message is any clearer.
Mental Floss has setup a Microsoft IQ Icon Test to prove how difficult the icons are to understand. [...]
Word Clock
I’ve never been a fan of the default screen savers that come included with new computers. Photos of generic beach scenes and flowers bore me. I usually scour the web for something that will set my machine apart from the rest and make my friends glance over at my monitor when it turns on to protect my screen from [...]
dot.dot.dot
We’ve all navigated through websites ending in .com, .net, .org, .gov, and .edu, and in recent years been to a few sites ending in .biz, .us, .tv, and more. This is all soon to change. The internet body, more formally known as The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), voted today to allow [...]
The Dynamic Tower
Incredibly creative architect Dr. David Fisher is the creator of the crazy new “Dynamic Tower”, an eco friendly apartment building said to be the “world’s first building in motion”.
The Dynamic Tower comes with a voice activated device allowing each tenant to rotate their floor independently at different speeds. This “results in a unique and ever [...]
Barcode Plantage
One can find it on almost all products: the bar code. Everyone knows that the bar code is used to facilitate the cashing and recording of goods in stores. But which information is actually encoded within the bar code?
Barcode Plantage by Daniel A. Becker, visually renders the data hidden within a barcode. Once a bar [...]
Blogging Agency
Has the Internet swept away the world of publishing and hard copy books??? Does light reading now mean opening your computer and scrolling thru the bookmarks to check if your fave blog has been updated. Ask Kate Lee her opinion on the topic. Kate Lee got a write up in the New Yorker with a [...]
Herman Miller Aeron
If you are reading this post, you probably spend hours a day staring at a computer screen. You are probably also 20-something, in pretty good shape, active, and care about your well-being. Like myself, I also work long hours, at the office, home, or wherever myself and my laptop are. I have recently decided to [...]
Streaming Videos: Bending the rules
It’s no secret that you can download streaming video from sites like YouTube.com or Google Video. But did you know that you can also download other streaming video, as well as convert that video into a format that can be played in iTunes? I’ve written a little guide on one of the ways that you [...]
YouTube link hack
I just learned a cool little trick for playing YouTube videos. By doing this super simple hack you can produce a clean page with just the video content.
1. Copy the YouTube URL
Ex. http://youtube.com/watch?v=5Zf7wMDufoI
2. Erase the “WATCH?“
3. Change the “ = ” for another “ / ”
Ex: http://www.youtube.com/v/5 Zf7wMDufoI
In other words, do this:
Youtube´s url + dash, v, dash + alphanumeric video [...]
Flash in your PDF
My friends know that I’m not a big fan of Flash, but when I heard this news it did make me tingle a little bit inside. Adobe’s release of Adobe Acrobat 9 will allow you to embed Flash SWF’s into your documents. This will certainly change the way we think of presentations.
“Adobe Systems on Monday [...]
Android Scan
While surfing the net today, I came across an amazing mobile application called Android Scan. The name may sound super geeky, but it’s actually pretty amazing, and I cannot wait to give it a try for myself.
The Andoid Scan official website describes the software as an “application that finds pricing and metadata for anything [...]
Add-Art for Firefox
AAA (A nti A dvertising A gency) has created a new add on for Firefox entitled ‘AddArt‘. This interesting add-on replaces advertising on websites with curated art images. The art shows are updated every two weeks and feature contemporary artists and curators.
Many people already have plugins that replace ads with blank space. “AddArt attempts to [...]
Video conversion made easy and on your ipod
Finding your favorite shows online and getting your DVD’s onto your computer can sound complicated, but fear not, for many applications and a little reading can get you far.
Here’s how to get DVD’s onto your computer and iPod:
Thanks to some great programmers, this has been made very simple. The first step to getting your DVD’s [...]
Glow in the dark paint
How about a glowing light source that lasts for 15 years instead of the typical 15 minutes of a glowstick? GlowPaint’s newest product does just that and is also non-toxic and inexpensive and doesn’t require a recharge via solar or electrical sources for its entire lifespan. According to the company, “This has potential to save [...]
Firefox 3 is fast
“Now that Mozilla’s locked down Firefox 3’s final feature set with Friday’s push of release candidate 1, it’s official: while Firefox 3 boasts some great new features like a smart address bar and better bookmarks manager, the best reason to upgrade will be for the performance improvements. Firefox 3 is noticeably faster and more stable [...]
4 beautifully toxic Google Maps screenshots
We’ve all used Google Maps at some point in our lives for directions, street view, or to take a look at a famous landmark. Sometimes when your browsing the Earth, you run across a landscape that is simply jaw dropping.
The four images below were taken on May 19th, 2008. They were not altered in anyway [...]
Optimus Maximus Keyboard Finally For Sale!
After anxiously waiting for a few years I can’t believe the Optimus Maximus keyboard is now for sale! If you haven’t seen this before, it is the coolest computer peripheral to hit the market since the mouse. Each of the 113 keys on the Optimus keyboard contain a 10.1×10.1mm OLED screen capable of displaying 10 [...]
Apple iMac Aquarium
The iMacquarium is a fresh water aquarium made out of a used Apple iMac computer. When I first heard about this I thought it was a “build it yourself” project, but I was very wrong. Jake Harms builds these unique aquariums and sell them for $199.99. I would imagine they would make a great home [...]
Tenori-On
The Tenori-On, by Yamaha, is a unique 16 x 16 LED button matrix performance instrument with a stunning visual display. For DJs & producers it is a unique performance tool enabling them to perform using MIDI and load the TENORI-ON with samples to ‘jam / improvise’ within their set BPMs.
The odd machine’s 16 x [...]
The BlackBerry Bold
Research in Motion has finally unveiled its much-anticipated next BlackBerry, called, now, the BlackBerry Bold (aka the 9000). Only a few people have had the chance to play with one, and I hope I can be added to that list sometime in the near future.
Bonnie Cha of CNet said the following about the phone:
I can [...]
Muxtape
Muxtape, the online mixtape creation service, has been streaming free, user-generated playlists since its launch in late March. The idea is simple enough: Upload 12 MP3s and share your new playlist with friends.
I personally don’t use Muxtape to create playlists, although I easily could. Instead I use it when I don’t have access to an [...]
Star Wars R2-D2 DVD Projector
New limited edition hi def projector, dvd player, ipod dock, sound system, card reader and entertainment system in an authentic R2D2 that you can control. He has hook ups for computer, gaming systems, sattelite, cable. Can even plug in your ipod to play movies up to 260″ diagonally on wall or ceiling.
Below are the specs [...]
Two Tone MacBook
My friend Cooper broke his screen on his white Apple MacBook… so he ordered a black MacBook screen on ebay that fit his 13″ laptop, disassembled his old screen and hooked this one, giving him the coolest MacBook on the block. Geeze, I wish my screen would break (and I had the skill to hook [...]
Biggest monitor… ever!
9XMedia offers their multi-screen display systems that are expandable and customizable.
Their catalogue (featured here is a 15 screen multi-display) includes up to 30-screen triple row scalable ergonomic multi-monitor display solution available with customized Multi-screen servers and optional upgrades and software.
Can you even imagine working on something like this?
