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OMG, it’s full of cubes!
// More three.js awesomeness: here’s how to stretch test your graphics card: a three.js, WebGL demo by Ben Adams featuring up to 600.000 rotating cubes! How many frames per second do you get? (Firefox/Chrome only) See it in full screen
No, this isn’t Flash either
// Scary (in terms of the data) / awesome (in terms of the development part behind it) example of three.js, a javascript library for creating 3D scenes. See it live here
This is not how HTML/CSS should be used! Part II
// Is this getting silly? I’d say probably not, we need to push the boundaries of tech, even if it means we end up in hyperspace :) Following “Tunnel Vision 3D” by Peter Westendorp, here is another example of HTML/CSS mastery by Noah Blon. Enjoy this in full screen! http://cdpn.io/GKflw
“Cute device”
// Legendary science fiction writer Bruce Sterling tried on #googleglass on a Robert Scoble presentation at the NEXT Berlin conference. His response: “Cute device” and “There’s a very 1980′s feeling about it” :) See the video http://bit.ly/186Tqcg at 8:58′, overall an interesting discussion with the audience on the ramifications on every day life, privacy and the ways [Continue reading]
Logstalgia: Visualising Apache logs
// Argh! The moment of anger when you find a cool weekend project but realize you don’t really have a free weekend sometime soon :) Logstalgia is a website traffic visualization that replays or streams web-server access logs as a pong-like battle between the web server and an never ending torrent of requests. Requests appear [Continue reading]
Newton’s playground: Javascript physics engines
The awesome animation below is actually the recorded output of a real-time #Javascript-powered physics engine. There has been quite a lof of progress in this field lately using technologies like #canvas and #WebGL, here are some recent developments: The “dragable/tearable cloth” demo comes from lonely-pixel.com. Play with it live and get the code here http://bit.ly/15wyK0F There are more demos on the developer’s website, [Continue reading]
Look, I have a notification about… something
// The badge icon says I have a notification in the #Google+ app. So I open it, and click app’s notifications counter. And I see this. Some (specified) people did something but it doesn’t tell me what. Some other people whose names are mentioned did something else (or perhaps the same action) in probably another [Continue reading]
Blogger and the Holy Grail of unified comments
// So yesterday Google announced a further integration of Google+ comments and Blogger. If you enable the related setting, if your Blogger post is shared on G+, any comment on the G+ post with your post will also be shown in the page of the Blogger post in the comments section. This is a Holy [Continue reading]
This is not how HTML and CSS should be used!
// Some fun coding by Peter Westendorp: "Tunnel vision 3D" with CSS. As Peter writes: "This is an experiment to demonstrate the power of CSS and modern browsers. This is not how HTML and CSS should be used." :D See it live here http://bit.ly/10SvqbK
This is the Internet!
// Openly accessible data + open source development + open technologies = awesome :)The people at Teehan+Lax have developed a method to create timelapse videos using imagery from Google Street View. They call it Google Street View Hyperlapse and you can see the amazing video that you can produce as well, along with links to [Continue reading]
Full size photo uploads: G+ winning the tech war on Facebook
// In the latest #googleplusupdate, you can now upload the full-sized photos and G+ will serve them accordingly: Initially you get a reduced (but great quality) version but you can zoon and pan to see more detail! How to have this: To enable full-size desktop uploads, just visit your settings at https://www.google.com/settings/plus, and check "Upload [Continue reading]
HTC cloned Jony Ive!
// The “evidence” :) 1) Video of Jony Ive on Apple’s unibody process http://youtu.be/lJx6cF-H__I 2) Video of HTC’s zero-gap process http://youtu.be/pDjfh5mFWUc
Quora, a Google+ blogging alternative?
// I generally detest article headlines that pose questions rather than provide a definite position, but I’m undecided on this one.Recently, #Quora upgraded their Boards feature, renaming the Blogs. The standard features include: - a quora.com subdomain of your choice - set a title, logo/avatar image and #blog description - choice of set of basic [Continue reading]
How to create an infographic from your Google Analytics data
// Well, there’s not much to say here. People love #infographics for visualising information and numbers in an easy to consume manner. People also love #GoogleAnalytics for an endless amount of #statisticsabout their website.Now you can combine both with a few clicks on the free tool by Visual.ly. The process is relatively simple, you connect [Continue reading]
Does your company know what the internet is?
//_UPDATE_: The situation has been sorted out, the project is back online normally http://bit.ly/chartjs // Yesterday I wrote (http://bit.ly/g-chartjs) about Chart.js, a new library for javascript/canvas-based charts. A day later, the site is down with a note shown in the screenshot, basically explaining how the developer’s employer doesn’t like the idea of #OpenSource. Here’s the outcome [Continue reading]
Text editing on the cloud: Draft
// I’ve been using Dropbox for some time now to access work files from home or when travelling. But when I’ve recently had to work on a closed down Windows PC that I couldn’t install anything, I had to get further "deeper" into the #cloud. :) I’ve been keeping quick notes in text files stored [Continue reading]
Google Reader is dead, long live Feedly
// As I was writing (http://bit.ly/YvRWmi) when the #GoogleReader death was announced, the race is on for a new king of #RSS readers. Of the 4 that I tried the last 2 days, here’s the outcome: - The Old Reader: imported everything (but only current copies of the feeds, not the Google #Reader archive (which has [Continue reading]
Google Reader's death is an opportunity, but for who?
// So #Google is killing Google Reader, messing with the image they have been building for years that "Google can do everything for everyone". #Reader has been the definitive #web-based #RSS reader service for years. That said the race is one for it’s replacement. And things are not looking good in terms of instantly responding [Continue reading]
The waiting line game of Mailbox
// #Mailbox , the latest attempt at improving mail #productivity , might work or it might fail. But they’ve handled their launch strategy in an innovative and smart (in terms of #marketing ). Instead of the classic "give us your e-mail to notify you" and then just launch for the entire world, they adopted a [Continue reading]
Must download: Best of Quora
// If there is a site that you could say "let’s convert this into a book", it is probably #Quora . So it’s great that they just come out with a collection of 100 of their best responses form the last 2 years. The 400-page #book is available for download as a free #PDF [Continue reading]
Does writing in the WSJ mean anything?
// Short answer: probably not. A bit longer answer: I just had the pleasure of reading this article by +John C Dvorak on the Wall Street Journal’s Marketwatch http://bit.ly/WfVf1V In it Dvorak determines that #crowdsourcing will soon be over and provides 3 examples: 1) He went on a site and got a popup (which he didn’t know if [Continue reading]
Behold the Beauty of Bash
// This dangerous and #fun piece of #code (called a "fork bomb") would make a great t-shirt :)You can try to find out what it does, do a backup first. Or read the analysis here http://bit.ly/VYACFcVia +Geek Humor Google+: Reshared 1 times
The Internet of Buzzwords
// The Next Web explains "Why 2013 will be the year of the Internet of Things" http://tnw.co/TmTcZl According to WikiPedia, the term describes "a system where the Internet is connected to the physical world via ubiquitous sensors". But at the moment I think there is a confusion on what "the Internet of Things" actually means, or [Continue reading]
The universal translator is coming
// Speech recognition + instant translation + speaker like speech synthesis! Watch the demo:
How-to: Torrents on your iPad
// How to download/watch torrents on your #iPad:1) Go to www.put.io and make a free account2) Get a #torrent link from your regular legal source3) Paste the torrent link to put.io. 4) You’re done. Very soon you’ll have a download link and a stream option Enjoy! :)
Awesome Google Maps fail
// Maybe we shouldn’t be so hard on #Apple’s #map failures… :) Link to the see it for yourself http://goo.gl/maps/4bh3mAnd Bing getting it right http://binged.it/QQMkkf Reshared post from +Sharon Strandskov I am usually pretty pleased with Google Maps, but surely there has to be a faster way… I know there were border issues, but I thought they [Continue reading]
Dailymotion opens up Publisher Network – kind of
// #Dailymotion has been doing revenue deals with big sites like Yahoo! and The Huffington Post, but recently they have opened their platform for smaller sites as well. The basic idea is that you embed Dailymotion videos in your site, ads are server and you get 30% of Dailymotion’s net ad revenues. A "Curator tool" [Continue reading]
SoftLayer considered spam by Google
//If you are a #SoftLayer client, be sure to check your #junk folder often as #Gmail is now considering it as a source of #spam . This is probably a recent development as I never had this problem before. As a result all mails from Softlayer of the last 10 days have ended up in [Continue reading]
The Apple Manual on being a Human
// A big scoop for Gizmodo yesterday, with what appears to be the Apple manual on their Genius staff training. It’s a full instructions set on how to talk to customers in a civilized, friendly and empathic way, while at the same time not admitting that there might something wrong with an #Apple product and [Continue reading]
Penises on Salad Super-Delegates
// Oh Google automatic #transcribe feature, you’re always an instant source of fun! :-) It’s like magic: "We’re enjoying a tasty lunch with Athenos feta in our salads, it’s super delicious" is transcribed to…what i’m saying it’s a steel into the penis that on our salads super-delegates More fun on the video link here http://bit.ly/OIVAHI [Continue reading]