David Emery OnlineNearest Tube Augmented Reality App for iPhone 3GS
It looks a bit shaky, but as a working proof of concept it’s startling – we are living in the future (how exciting!):
Visit ➔Social Media Icons
A set of standardised icons for popular social networking services and tools.
Having had to make a couple of these only a week ago this is very timely – lovely work and very useful…
Visit ➔Modernizr
Modernizr is a small and simple JavaScript library that helps you take advantage of emerging web technologies (CSS3, HTML 5) while still maintaining a fine level of control over older browsers that may not yet support these new technologies.
How handy – I’m using assorted CSS3 features all over the place these days so this goes straight into the toolkit. Although, I’m not too keen on the HTML5 enabler functionality – it’s not really good enough to require JS to be able to style certain tags, is it?
Visit ➔Fix Outlook
Microsoft have confirmed they plan on using the Word rendering engine to display HTML emails in Outlook 2010. This means for the next 5 years your email designs will need tables for layout, have no support for CSS like float and position, no background images and lots more. […] Let’s use Twitter to send a clear message to Microsoft.
The campaign itself I’m not too fussed by (although we do send HTML emails at work, but if those emails don’t look nice in Outlook – and they work in Gmail/Hotmail – then that’s Outlook’s problem), but the site itself is pretty nifty with its real-time aggregation of Tweets. It reminds me of what we did on the Albert Hammond Jr. site, although doing via Twitter is pretty cool and something I’ve been wanting to do for a while now (probably using Twivatar just to make it easy).
(Via Ben Ward)
Visit ➔Folding Plug
This is mighty clever; the only plug I ever actually carry is my MacBook plug so if Apple would buy this and integrate into their cables asap that would be lovely…
Visit ➔Girls - Hellhole Ratrace
Such a good song – it sounds ‘classic’ from the very first time you hear it.
Visit ➔Nearby on Your Phone
We’ve always liked the idea of showing you photos taken in a particular place […] Today we’re bringing that ability to the smartphone mobile site. For those devices that support it (currently Android and the iPhone with the new 3.0 software), the Mobile Nearby page will figure out where you are in the world and show you photos that have been taken in the same area.
I had forgotten that the version of Safari that ships with iPhone OS 3 has location services built in, which is pretty darn awesome. Location services are the next big thing, and this is one of the key enablers.
Visit ➔Fever° Red hot. Well read.
Your current feed reader is full of unread items. You’re hesitant to subscribe to any more feeds because you can’t keep up with your existing subs. Maybe you’ve even abandoned feeds altogether. Fever takes the temperature of your slice of the web and shows you what’s hot.
I’ve been waiting for Fever for a while now as I’m very much still in a RSS reader wilderness, and Bloglines is definitely getting worse not better. Sadly though Fever doesn’t quite look like what I’m after, although it does look beautiful – I’m not too interested in the ‘Fever’ Digg-style personal recommendation thing, and the rest of the reading experience looks like it’s not quite what I’m looking for (see the link above for my rather particular feature set I’m after).
However, I’m not 100% sure that it’s not what I’m after but I can’t tell as there’s no live demo, and there’s no way I’m going to put down $30 without having a go first. I have absolutely no problem with adopting a desktop-app style model (pay upfront and install yourself) for web software but a key part of that is being able to try it first. Can anyone who’s bought Fever tell me whether it meets the list of criteria here?
Seriously considering writing my own one at this point, but that’s probably more hassle then it’s worth…
Visit ➔Olympus E-P1
The first Micro Four Thirds camera from Olympus pays unabashed homage to the Pen F; from the classic styling to the long running teaser campaign running in print and online, the E-P1 doesn’t just wear its influences on its sleeve; it shouts about them from the rooftops (and is referred to in some parts of the world as the ‘Digital Pen’). There’s even a subtle engraving on the chrome edge of the top plate that reads ‘Olympus Pen Since 1959’.
Like I really need another camera. Thanks guys.
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