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May 2009
MaDdoG Software | PlacesBar Editor
by Spone
& 1 other
PlacesBarEditor is a free utility for Windows 2000 and Windows ME that allows you to customize the "PlacesBar" that appears on the left side of the Open and Save dialogs in most applications.
The PlacesBar is a set of shortcuts to commonly-used folders, but wouldn't it be more useful if you could determine what "commonly used" means for yourself, instead of letting Microsoft define it for you? That's where PlacesBarEditor comes in.
April 2009
Dana Gordon - interaction design
by karlcow
Message Table
An answering machine that was merged into a wooden table. For each message received, a box appears on the table. To listen, open the box - and to delete, push it back into the desk. Exhibited at the Victoria & Albert Museum, at the Salone del Mobile 2005 in Milano and at the Gallery AB , Torino.
(designed with Shawn Bonkowski)
March 2009
Netvibes Appears to Be Dying - ReadWriteWeb
by greut
Popular start-page service Netvibes may be in its final days as a viable product. The service has been suffering frequent, extended downtime, hasn't been fully functioning even when up and can't possibly be making as much money as its backers hoped it would.
Znarf qu'as-tu fait?
Dinkytunes Home
by rmaltete
Shut your Mac down, don’t get up...
I bought an Apple Mac Mini to use as a media center. Apple ships OS X Leopard with Front Row, which is great, except I found an important feature lacking: you need a keyboard to shut your Apple down. Not what you want in a chique remote controlled home cinema setting. I made a Shut Down plug-in for Front Row. It appears there are a lot of people that don’t want to get up to switch off their Mac up after watching a movie!
Ma.gnolia Suffers Major Data Loss, Site Taken Offline | Epicenter from Wired.com
by kasi77
The failure appears to be catastrophic. The company can't say to what extent it will be able to restore any of its users' data. It also says the data failure was so extensive, repairing the loss will take "days, not hours."
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February 2009
Privacy international identifies major security flaw in Google’s global phone tracking system
by karlcow
One day after the global launch of Google’s “Latitude” phone tracking system, Privacy International has identified what appears to be a fundamental design problem that could substantially endanger user privacy.
December 2008
Flashback GENESIS Level 2: New Washington on Vimeo
by sylvainulg
(via)
"If you've not read the manual or figured this out on your own, this is the first of many jumps that appears impossible"
"Flashback has this handy game mechanic where if you start running, and then hold down just the RUN button, Conrad will jump and grab the first ledge he can"
virtualnotes: episodes of 2 worlds
by srcmax
(via)
what a challenging concept. and extra interesting, as Sderot is a city that also appears in the 2028 story. now it suddenly is there, just a click away.
November 2008
Flickr: Discussing Real-time Flickr analytics of any photo page in Flickr Hacks with whos.amung.us/
by decembre
By inserting the non-JS version of the widget into the comment area of your photo page, you can basically be monitoring the live visitor traffic on that photo. The tool's ability to display geographical data about the visitors makes it a great supplement to the Flickr Stats which does not disclose visitors' location. I have only placed this on my top-viewed assets since today so I can't really comment any further about its effectiveness - though I must say that I do find it interesting that while my main sites and blogs receive mostly U.S. traffic, it appears that visitors to my media assets on Flickr are fairly diverse. If that's really the case (and only time will time after I have collected enough data), it will provide a really strong case for marketing... which in turn will explain why what all those yahoo ad servers requests may really be about... (of course that's just a hunch) - but in any case, it's an interesting site to check out.
DisableDivXToolbar___MEDIAPORTAL - free media center -
by decembre
This tool turns on and off the DivX Toolbar (DivXSM.exe), which appears by the system tray when you play a DivX file and removes focus from Mediaportal.
The WordPress Icon Contest Quanundrum - Positive Space Blog
by aspyrine
It appears that in the process of finding designers, the WordPress team actually received 12 qualified candidates. Instead of choosing to base the work on the applicant’s letters of intent and portfolio, the team chose to propose a contest to the designers.
La classe...
October 2008
Animated Loading Spinner for Firefox 3 - Loading | Displays a Spinning Animated Firefox Logo (Spinfox) when loading a page in Firefox 3__Userstyles.org
by decembre
Both the Loading New Tab AND the About:blank's background image will be animated. When you open a new tab, it will display this animated image until something from that site is able to be displayed. Features: + Appears when opening new tabs + Appears when loading new tabs content + Appears within loading page contents (a loading div control containing a frame of another site) + Appears when a page transitions to external or new domain + Works in Firefox 3! + Clean and very appropriate animated default image, included with style (Firefox logo Spinning) + Makes your browser look great, and adds that "wow" factor. Additional Information: *NOTE: Please Clear your Cache and Restart your browser after installing or changing this style, your custom image will need to be cached in order for it to be displayed. * You may have to disable the following two styles for this to work: - Custom About:Blank logo - Custom New Tab Loading Image
TinEye Image Search
by cascamorto
& 7 others
TinEye is an image search engine built by Idée currently in beta. Give it an image and it will tell you where the image appears on the web.
TinEye est un moteur de recherche d'images. Donnez-lui une image et il vous dira ou l'image apparait sur le web.
Wait till I come! » Blog Archive » Video captioning made easy with the YouTube JavaScript API
by sbrothier
(via)
One thing that has been annoying me for ages is that no video player on the web allows you to write comments for a specific time in the video that get displayed as plain text. Viddler allows you to comment at a certain time and it appears in the video, but the benefits of time based captioning both in terms of accessibility and SEO didn’t quite transpire to any video site maintainers yet. Edit: Darn, I hadn’t looked at Viddler for a long time, it actually does this now, well done!
TinEye___Extension ___Pour trouver d’autres versions d’une image en ligne
by decembre
Why use TinEye? There are many uses for TinEye, but here are just a few: * Find out where and how an image appears online * Find websites containing more information about an image * Attribute an image to an author or source * Find high resolution versions of an image * Research the usage and placement of editorial or stock images * Find modified or edited versions of an image * Research corporate imagery or brand usage online * Track the popularity or distribution of an image online
How To Optimize Your Site With HTTP Caching | BetterExplained
by holyver
& 1 other
Caching is a great example of the ubiquitous time-space tradeoff in programming. You can save time by using space to store results.
In the case of websites, the browser can save a copy of images, stylesheets, javascript or the entire page. The next time the user needs that resource (such as a script or logo that appears on every page), the browser doesn’t have to download it again. Fewer downloads means a faster, happier site.
jQuery listnav plugin - javascript navigation control to manage alphabetical lists
by srcmax
& 3 others
This jQuery plugin supplies an easy way to unobtrusively add a letter-based navigation widget to any UL or OL list. An easily stylable (via CSS) nav bar appears above the list, showing the user the letters A-through-Z. Clicking one of the letters filters the list to show only the items in the list that start with that letter.
September 2008
Tools of the Trade
by sbrothier
Here is my list of different bar tools you might want for your bar. When I can locate an on-line company that appears to sell a product that I can recommend, I'll try to include a direct link to that company/product on the associated page.
feedmysearch -Turn google searches into usefull rss feeds
by parmentierf
& 3 others
(via)
Turn your usual Google searches into tiny rss feeds.
Get instant updates whenever a new result appears significantly on Google
Free yourself from the noise of results moving up and down ! Only get what is new to your search.
Save time for other activities !
August 2008
Homepage MapMemo
by karlcow
(via)
MapMemo Drag any file, or folder, or webadress, ... on any map and they get linked: a red pin appears. Whenever you click on the pin the linked file/folder/website will open. Use layer, color, info windows ... to optimize your workflow.
May 2008
IVY - manipulability & customization
by oqdbpo
The product we have developed is based on the concept of the green banana and is called IVY. IVY is an external hard disk which shows the content of the hard disk on its skin. When no data is stored on IVY, its skin will remain blank. When you purchase IVY, it appears to be a normal hard disk, but when you start using it by storing data, it will alter its skin visualising the content of the hard disk, using an OLED screen. The representation of the data is abstract and personal. Over time, the content of the hard disk will change and the representation of the data will change along with this. The visualisation of the data is based on Sequoia View.IVY is customization, as its appearance depends completely on your personal data. IVY also shows that manipulability is never ending as it keeps adapting itself over time. The ideal state of IVY is not yet at the beginning of use but will evolve over time.
April 2008
Jonas Samson Product Design
by oqdbpo
& 2 others
Light-emitting wallpaper
With Jonas Samson's high-tech light-emitting wallpaper it's possible to use a two-dimentional flat surface as light source instead of a 3D object.
As long as the wallpaper is turned ‘off’, it is indistinguishable as a source of light. Instead, it is just what it appears to be: wallpaper.
Jonas Samson Product Design : Light Emitting Wallpaper
by sbrothier
& 2 others
(via)
Light-emitting wallpaper
With Jonas Samson's high-tech light-emitting wallpaper it's possible to use a two-dimentional flat surface as light source instead of a 3D object.
As long as the wallpaper is turned ‘off’, it is indistinguishable as a source of light. Instead, it is just what it appears to be: wallpaper.
Year: 2007
Material: Light emitting wallpaper
Size: 240 cm x 360 cm
Welcome to — Shotview Photographers Management
by delavigne
& 1 other
Fluid Image Rescaling Without Flash
Published March 17, 2008
I didn’t want to post this site to the gallery because it doesn’t fit the criteria for approved sites, but it does have a very cool feature that I think is worth sharing. If you take a look at SHOTVIEW, you’ll find what appears to be a typical, fixed-width image portfolio. If, however, you resize the browser window, the images rescale to fill the available space as the footer stays fixed to the bottom of the viewport. Then, when you release the browser and settle on a window size, the image rescales and is updated with a decent quality version. It’s very elegant stuff, and apparently it doesn’t use Flash at all. Check it out.
