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Request for Permission
Trying out the new RockMelt browser. Screenshot of the permissions to access Facebook.
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Loving Instagram
I didn’t think I needed another iPhone photo app, but turns out I did. Instagr.am mimics other mobile photo-sharing apps, but it’s captured the appeal that comes from extreme minimalism. While you…
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MUJI Apps for iPad and iPhone
MUJI, the no-brand Japanese retailer, has released several apps for iPad/iPhone. Interestingly, rather than just create a catalog app of their products, they’ve also introduced three functional apps done in their signature…
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Nielsen Survey of Connected Devices
The Nielsen Company recently surveyed more than 5,000 consumers who already own a tablet computer, eReader, netbook, media/games player, or smartphone to get a better sense of who is using these devices…
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jQuery Mobile Alpha 1 Released
Today we’re pleased to announce the first alpha release of the jQuery Mobile project. jQuery Mobile is a user interface framework, built on top of jQuery, designed to simplify the process of…
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Bit.ly Adds QR codes to Links
The popular link shortening service Bit.ly (which has billions of clicks on it’s links per month) has just announced that it will allow users to shorten links and automatically turn those links…
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The Square Grid CSS Framework
The Square Grid is “a CSS framework for designers and developers based on 35 equal-width columns. The grid is equiped with a 28px baseline-grid for a smooth vertical rhythm. Each block (DIV)…
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Google Goggles for iPhone
Searching with Google on your mobile phone can be an eye-opening experience. Now your phone’s camera can even help to find out more about the world around you. Back in December we…
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WordPress 2.6 for iOS
There’s a new version of the WordPress iOS apps announced today. Download 2.6 for iPhone or iPad (iTunes link) or just upgrade through the store. Lots of new developments, including: Record video…
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ThinkUp: Social Media Insights Engine
Since Feb 2007, I’ve been playing with different methods of importing my social network activity and data into my own database and site. I first used a plugin to import data into…
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Mozilla Labs Seabird Phone Concept
The Mozilla Seabird, part of the Mozilla Labs’ Concept Series, is an experiment in how users might interact with their mobile content as devices and technology advances. Drawing on insights culled from…
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Paper-Thin Batteries
Most batteries require some amount of bulk, making them impractical for use in flexible and lightweight objects. But a team of materials scientists at Stanford have succeeded in creating a paper-thin battery…
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Spike ball pyramid ring
Love a ring with some attitude. Spike Ball Pyramid with Rhodium plated spikes and a solid brass base. Pave stones are Cubic Zirconia. Circumference of sphere is approximately 1 inch, and height…
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Smartphones Begin to Replace Hotel Keycards
Two Holiday Inn hotels have begun using iPhone, Android and Blackberry smartphones as room keys, meaning guests don’t even need to stop at the front desk on their way in the door.…
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IDEO on the Future of the Book
Meet Nelson, Coupland, and Alice — the faces of tomorrow’s book… What new experiences might be created by linking diverse discussions, what additional value could be created by connected readers to one…
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Trespass: a History of Uncommissioned Urban Art
Trespass. A History of Uncommissioned Urban Art is a new 320-page Taschen book by Carlo McCormick (pop culture critic, curator and Senior Editor of Paper magazine), Marc and Sara Schiller (founders of…
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Minimal Folio for iPad
Minimal Folio is a simple iPad app that lets you present images and video to clients or other audiences. You add images and video from the photo album area on your iPad…
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ZGrip iPhone Kits
If you’re into shooting video and photos with your iPhone, Zacuto has a line of kits to help with stability, including the ZGrip Junior and Pro. Both are handgrip systems that let…
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Apple’s September News
Apple had one of their product announcement events today at Yerba Buena here in SF. You can see the archived live stream here. iOS updates 4.1 and 4.2, which will bring all…
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Icons of the Web
A large-scale scan of the top million web sites (per Alexa traffic data) was performed in early 2010 using the Nmap Security Scanner and its scripting engine. We retrieved each site’s icon…
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The MoMA App
MoMA has been quick to adopt online and social media practices in the last few years, and they’ve now released the first version of their free MoMA iPhone app (iTunes link). The…
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Internet consumption trends
Steve Rubel has an interesting article in AdAge, although I would argue that innovation, simplicity and utility have always been dominant trends even with PC internet browsing. I do think that the…
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Apple’s HTML5 Showcase
Interesting to see Apple putting up a section on their site to showcase HTML5 (although many of them aren’t HTML5, but CSS3). And yeah, they make you download Safari to view it…
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“Fair Trade” Electronics
From Foxconn Suicides: Is It Time For “Fair Trade” Electronics? Would You Buy A “Fair Trade” iPhone? by Tom Foremski All the large tech companies such as Apple, Nokia, Dell, etc have…
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On Staying Small
Stefan Sagmeister on being a designer and design company at 99%: The conventional wisdom in our business is that you have to grow and keep moving to survive. We never grew, always…
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More Typefaces Coming to the Web
After designing for the web for over 15 years, it’s exciting to see more typefaces finally becoming available for the web beyond the original 7-10 web fonts, or image replacement with JS/Flash.…
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Touch Gesture Reference Guide
The Touch Gesture Reference Guide is a unique set of resources for software designers and developers working on touch-based user interfaces. The guide contains: 1) an overview of the core gestures used…
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Why So Few Women in Silicon Valley?
Women own 40 percent of the private businesses in the United States, according to the Center for Women’s Business Research. But they create only 8 percent of the venture-backed tech start-ups, according…
