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Unhosted: separating web apps from data storage

by karlcow & 1 other

The web is not as open as it used to be: monopoly platforms formed new proprietary layers on top of it. But we create a better architecture for the web. We break the package deal »you get our app, we get your data« with remoteStorage, a cross-origin data storage protocol separating application servers from data storage.

January 2012

Fingle for iPad

by gregg & 1 other
The thrills of touching each others' hands Explore the intimate touch of each others fingers with Fingle's two-player puzzles. Break the ice or engage friends to get awkwardly close. Fingle is a cooperative two-player iPad® game about the thrills of touching each other on a multi-touch device. Two players drag up to five buttons of one color onto their matching targets; their movement makes it impossible to avoid contact, creating intimate moments with intertwined hands.

November 2011

The environment in numbers: 1992-2012 - OurWorld 2.0 | OurWorld 2.0

by karlcow

But with so many government, non-government and research organizations with overlapping but frequently competing agendas producing so much data, the task to break through a wall of numbers becomes even harder. For citizens across the world it is challenging to select what information matters and what doesn’t, especially when there are corporate and media forces attempting to distract us from the most critical knowledge.

Redesigning the Country Selector - Baymard Institute

by Spone
During our recent checkout study we found several usability issues when using a drop-down for your country selector: a lack of overview, unclear sorting, scrolling issues, inconsistent UIs, a lack of context on mobile devices, and finally, they break the user's tab-flow. So we took it upon ourselves to redesign the country selector.

October 2011

Prefix free: Break free from CSS vendor prefix hell!

by Spone (via)
A script that lets you use only unprefixed CSS properties everywhere. It works behind the scenes, adding the current browser’s prefix to any CSS code, only when it’s needed.

September 2011

August 2011

Astronaut Video/Magazine

by gregg
Astronaut offers a place for independent filmmakers to present their documentaries and other projects that were achieved in their spare time often with minimal technical support or outside help. Up and coming music acts and photographers are profiled, artists and fashion designers are shown in their studios and people who are creating new disciplines are introduced. The user has a front row seat for all of this and gets to know these protagonists on an almost personal level. The use of film gives the viewer a deeper level of insight. Astronaut lives from amazing stories about people who break rules and create new realms far removed from the commercial world. Astronaut is a platform for individualists, for the courageous, for the unflinching and for daydreamers. Prepare for ignition

Photos Are Important in Online Dating

by F&L
Quality photos can make or break your online dating endeavors

June 2011

The Crow

by alamat & 1 other (via)
I can’t help but think of the irony I found when I first read this graphic novel. I was experiencing the break up of a two year relationship with somebody I felt I loved very deeply at the time.

May 2011

Contact George

by gregg (via)
Are you ready? Meet George, a REAL guy with a really weird connection, a connection that lets you enter his world and interact with him as he tries to go on with his daily activities. What will you do next? You can be nice and just talk to him or tickle him or you can start annoying by poking him, screaming at him, squeezing him, holding your finger on him, shaking his room, making him loose balance and fall to the ground or playing tricks on him using various objects. You get to break his daily routine and mess with his mornings, while he is at the office, relaxing at home and even when he is asleep. He will try his best to make you smile.

Small steps! « kendoinfo.net

by Takwann
The principle in most martial arts is that you use your opponent’s force to defeat him. In Judo or Aikido you make him push and then use minimal effort to break his balance and throw him. Many people seem to forget that this also applies to kendo.

April 2011

Fashion | Art | Sex | Travel | Live Fast Mag » Blog Archive » Art Crush: Lissy Laricchia

by gregg
we’re crushing hard on her surreal self-portraits. Her creative use of gravity, light, texture and Photoshop transport you into her little imaginary world, a strange yet wonderful break from reality. We also really love her caption on her Flickr site which reads:

February 2011

FIND HAPPINESS *Happy Weekend*

by blackgoldfish
When you are feeling sad, frustrated, depressed, whatever, take a break from staring hopelessly at your feet and look up. You never know what you might find.

December 2010

BIB - Greasemonkey Script) - Exemple de liens entre Un service de liste de lecture - GoodReads) et le catalogue en ligne d'une Bibliothèque - Toronto Public Libary status from Goodreads book details for Greasemonkey

by decembre
Inserts link on Goodreads book pages to check status at Toronto Public Library in a popup. Based on the beta.torontopubliclibrary.ca page so it may break. When you visit a book's details page on goodreads, it searches the Toronto public library's holdings via the book's isbn13 number in advanced search. If there's a hit, it allows you to pull up listings via a clickable link for a popup.

November 2010

Linked Data, website as API and URI fragility - fantasticlife's posterous

by karlcow

Nov 27, 2010

karl said...

You said: "URIs have become part of the furniture of the real world, like corporate graffiti tags. I'm typing this on a tube train and every poster at this end of the carriage features a URI in some shape."The metaphor is a little bit off. Basically yes you are right in the physical world (everything is real, the difference is more digital-physical), things change too. The poster in the carriage is content (aka the representation served to you), but this is not the URI. The URI in the carriage in this case is the pointer which led to this poster. It could be for example "carriage XZ345-window AXV" This is the identifier, the URI. The content can change it is no issue. Now the URI helps you to designate and draws an expectation, at this URI, I'm used to read this or that. Example in the physical world. At this address, 123 Smith Street, etc. (URI = identifier), there is a shop (representation) which sells bread. Maybe one day the shop will be replaced by a fisher place and you break the expectation of the usual person coming here. You break URIs when you do not handle it anymore. Exemple an urban architect redesign the city, and the street completely disappears, where one day the street was here, the next year no more than a big factory on what was one day a street. The important is not that the street disappeared, but that the name of the street disappeared. The History books of the city or the streets around could display a 410 Gone (Here was Smith Street).

Good Fucking Design Advice

by keusta
Break the fucking rules.

October 2010

10 Resources for Design-Challenged Programmers

by wabaus
A list of 10 resources (web sites and books) to identify your current design faults and break you out of your comfort zone.

Borders targets bloggers with new e-book publishing platform | Web Apps News - Betanews

by karlcow

Users simply copy and paste their document or import their blog into the BookBrewer Web interface. The service offers tools to edit content, add images, and break content into chapters, and documents are published in ePub format,The service, however, is not free, and Borders takes a cut from e-book sales too.

Kimiko Yoshida []

by karlcow

“I still feel difficulty saying ‘No,’” says Yoshida during her visit in Israel. “When you want to say ‘I am cold’ in Japanese, you say ‘Cold.’ You don’t say ‘I am.’ Nor can you say ‘You.’ There is nothing personal. Even the words that describe emotions are a lot more abstract than in French, which permits me to express myself with greater precision. In France, I first learned to say ‘No,’ and then to say ‘I’ and finally to do what I wanted to do. I went to Paris to break free.”

UNIX tips: Learn 10 good UNIX usage habits

by karlcow & 5 others

Summary:  Adopt 10 good habits that improve your UNIX® command line efficiency -- and

break away from bad usage patterns in the process. This article takes you step-by-step

through several good, but too often neglected, techniques for command-line operations.

Learn about common errors and how to overcome them, so you can learn exactly why

these UNIX habits are worth picking up.

September 2010

August 2010

Devour

by gregg
Around 25 hours of video is uploaded to YouTube every minute. It would take you approximately 1700 years to watch all those millions of videos. So good luck trying to find something worth watching on your lunch break. Devour is here to help. Using a scientifically technologically artificially intelligently awesomely robotically humanly system (we hand-pick every video on the site), Devour sifts out the best videos and posts the well-curated collection every weekday. Fewer cute kittens, fewer skateboarding nutshots, fewer tween heart throbs, and lots more awesome. Oh, and did we mention that every single video on Devour.com is in HD? And that every single video plays on the iPhone and iPad? Yep. We did, however, leave out one thing — comments. So enjoy the peace and quiet of not having to wade through all the brilliant critiques from this great nation's junior high masterminds.

July 2010

How to prototype interactive iPad applications in 30 minutes or less using Apple Keynote | Amir Khella

by sbrothier & 2 others
The best product presentations are the ones where less is said and more is shown. Yet most people end up describing their product in bullet points, charts, tables, or boxes and arrows. There are few who take the time to create static wireframes or interactive prototypes, but the challenge is that building and showing a prototype requires you to break the flow of your presentation to switch to a different tool. And we’ve all seen presentations fall apart because a tool is not properly installed or a wireless network is not available.

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