This update of Wide Mail Keyboard allows you to enable and disable the auto save function, which stores your text in a cookie. Also the loading speed has been improved.
Read Article »Plasma Pong is a very interesting and fun variation of the video game classic PONG. The basic rules are the same and also the controls aren’t that different. As a quick reference (so you can instantly start playing) a list of the additional mouse controls:
Hold the left mouse button to shoot plasma
Hold the right mouse [...]
Found via digg because of its 3D menu Screenvader’s flash-based site had a lot more to offer: Interactive graphics and random audiovisual animations using vector graphics, images and short video sequences of Looping Housewife’s Duties. If you thought The Ring’s video sequence was scary take a look at Easy to Open; fullscreen, in the dark, [...]
Read Article »Introducing a clean, non-permanent and — more than anything else — geeky way of tagging buildings, the Graffiti Research Lab presents a project named L.A.S.E.R. Tag.
Using a “blinds-your-eyes-forever”-grade laser, a bright beamer, a security camera and some open software (complete list and instructions) you can virtually tag any build you like (and can park your [...]
Quartz Composer — the groundbreaking graphics development environment that allows you to explore the incredible power of the graphics stack of Mac OS X Tiger as Apple puts it — can also use your iSight camera’s input and manipulate it in different “groundbreaking” ways.
Although older than a year this manipulation technique is still very cool [...]
For some time now I’ve been using a custom version of Did You Pass Math together with Bad Behavior and ever since my WordPress blog has been spared from comment and trackback spam. Now the comment spammers strike back!
Did You Pass Math is a WordPress plugin that asks the poster of a comment to answer [...]
onAirNow 1.4 — released today. onAirNow 1.4 is a simple WordPress plugin for displaying information about your currently playing song which is even more flexible than it’s predecessors and has some neat new features:
onAirNow 1.4 (August 22nd, 2006): changes since version 1.3
If no artist and title info was found inside the pseudo XML of the [...]
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 [...]
A »Now Playing« Plugin for WordPress
onAirNow is a WordPress plugin for displaying information about your currently playing song on your blog. It reads the track information from a file and displays it where you want it to appear (usually your sidebar).
I’m using it on my website since a few days and it’s really great and [...]
onAirNow is a simple but functional WordPress plugin. It reads information about your currently playing track from a file uploaded via FTP and displays it on your blog. It includes an options page and template files for your theme.
Read Article »By now you should have found out about the secrets of Diet Coke and Mentos. It was and still is all over the internet.
If you don’ know what I’m talking about take a first look at this: a basic reaction.
Now you’re ready to watch the fun clip at eepybird.com and see what happens when you [...]
I like optical illusions. When I first saw the Big Spanish Castle (via BoingBoing) I was really impressed because I’ve never seen this kind of illusion before. So I created my own versions using pictures I took about a year ago.
All you have to do is:
Make sure the picture changes when you move your [...]
Read Article »Apple likes to think different. And so they did in 1984 while introducing the Macintosh.
Apple not only hired Ridley Scott after he finished filming “Blade Runner” to produce the famous 1984 commercial but Apple also bought the whole 39 pages of Newsweek’s advertisement space in late 1984 to introduce the Macintosh.
A funny thing happens [...]