As soon as Apple announced iPhone 3G would feature GPS support a mental image of Nike + iPod sans the iPod came to my mind. About a month after the arrival of the iPhone App Store the first applications to keep track of your running workout are available:
Path Tracker is an inexpensive tool to map [...]
Read Article »Apple’s latest Mac OS X incarnation comes bundled with a handy feature called Spaces which is essentially a virtual desktop manager. While being common knowledge that F8 activates spaces for switching and dragging windows between them, the following is little known:
While in the overview mode (F8) you can just press the number of the space [...]
Read Article »New elements in HTML 5 — Structure and semantics is an interesting article by Elliotte Rusty Harold on the new elements introduced in HTML 5 which include
section, header, article and aside
nav and footer
video and audio
Running a blog yourself you might have noticed these new tags are exactly what you need to structure your content while [...]
Read Article »Retrofuturo — or IL FUTURO VISTO DAL PASSATO as Fabio Feminò puts it — is a 35 page series of mostly pictures and magazine covers from the past (up to 80 years old) showing how the people living then thought our world would look like today.
It includes classics like flying cars, enormous cities, moon bases, [...]
Find the solution at Scientific American: Why are snowflakes symmetrical? How can ice crystallizing on one arm ‘know’ the shape of the other arms on the flake?
tags: ice, snow, snowflakes
While looking at the System Preferences of my new MacBook Pro C2D running Mac OS X 10.4.8 I’ve noticed an option called Ambient Noise Reduction (Sound preferences) to reduce all that noise you don’t want on your recordings or in your audio/video chats.
I couldn’t remember to have seen this option before and checking my old [...]
Read Article »This article describes the preparations I made in advance to the migration from my old PowerBook G4 (Aluminum) to a shiny new MacBook Pro C2D (both running Tiger) and the steps required to migrate your data. It is intended to help you prepare some things while waiting for your new Mac to arrive and to [...]
Read Article »BoingBoing’s Mark Frauenfelder posted an article entitled “If the liquid could be explosive, why are you dumping it in a crowd?“. CNN reports about today’s events in London and how any liquid is now considered as potentially dangerous.
So why on earth is security personnel dumping “possibly explosive liquids into a garbage can in a crowd [...]
PingMag — the Tokyo-based magazine about “Design and Making Things” — talked to Joe Nishizawa who took pictures of Japan’s giant underground installations1:
A enormous underground tunnel that runs through 40metres under the Hibiya Junction Tokyo or an underground dome that lies 500metres below deep in the mountains of Gunma…? In Japan unimaginably large spaces underneath [...]
The average internet user wants information or entertainment. As long as he get what he wants it’s OK. If Google didn’t find what he was looking for he doesn’t care about your website at all.
This is why I think 99% of the internet users don’t care how a site looks. They are too overwhelmed by [...]