on 3/02/2010 | 0 comments
So, January’s gone and we’re at the second month of the year. How’s your resolutions? Well, one of mine was to entirely redesign my portfolio. I was looking for something clean where I could put some little graphic features here and there, and also make use of some CSS3 features. The result:
on 18/01/2010 | 0 comments
Everyday tons of apps are submitted to AppStore. Everyday tons of links are posted on Twitter, sites, blogs et al. We can’t filter it all, and because of that we end up missing some gems in the process: that’s what happened with me and LiveView Screencaster.
Released in 2008 (!) by Nicholas Zambetti, LiveView for iPhone is a free tool that allows you to select a portion of your screen, which will appear immediately in your iPhone or iPod touch. Continue reading…
on 14/12/2009 | 0 comments
Stéphane Massa-Bidal redesigned web services as retro books. Cool thing is that you actually can buy them – as posters, of course! Check it out at Stéphane’s Flickr.
on 23/11/2009 | 2 comments
Who doesn’t like good surprises? I’m sure you do, and so do I. Hidden messages and features add a touch of humor and/or cleverness to a work, which captivates the user. These things makes us want to show our findings to friends, thus spreading a website or a work.
And this is what I’m doing today by gathering a roundup of cool hidden features in websites and design-related software. Some of them may already be known by some of you, nevertheless I hope it provides inspiration as much as it did to me – not by the secret itself, but by the act of putting more thought on our work. Continue reading…
on 15/11/2009 | 2 comments
Do you remember when blogs gained the spotlight? If you do, then you probably also remember how it suffered from huge amounts of criticism: “it’s just a virtual diary”, “just for teens”, “futile stuff” and things like that. Not that every person on the internet hated it, but there was a strong aversion to the so called blogging. Time passed as we watched blogs gain tremendous importance. It wasn’t different with Twitter.
And it’s not being different with Google Wave – the new target of mass criticism. Some people who tried the new invention from Google are now saying it’s useless. I would like to make an invite to those people: think about a way of using it! Create your own way to use Wave’s resources and innovation. Twitter didn’t start with hashtags and RTs: it was user’s invention. We can do the same with Google Wave. It’s not only about the tool, it’s about the hand that moves it.
There’s a lot to say about that, but the reason I made this post is Mashable’s article about 5 Impressive Real-Life Google Wave Use Cases. Worth reading – and start thinking how you can work with Google Wave!
