Apple’s iPhone started a new era of mobile internet usage:
Google on Wednesday said it had seen 50 times more searches on Apple‘s iPhone than any other mobile handset [...]
Financial Times link
Today’s iPhone software version 1.1.3 supports a feature called WebClip which lets you add a bookmark icon for a website or iPhone specific web app directly to your home screen. While doing this the iPhone asks the server for an image called apple-touch-icon.png:
84.131.nnn.nnn - - [15/Jan/2008:23:51:59 +0100] “GET /apple-touch-icon.png HTTP/1.1″ 404 226 “-” “CFNetwork/152.4″
The image [...]
Visiting Iceland this summer was wonderful. Seeing the impressive landscape lets you understand the origins of Sigur Rós’s music. Listening to their music while driving on Icelandic roads is just perfect.
On November 5th Sigur Rós is planning to release the documentary Heima (at home) about their 2006 tour on Iceland. Watching the trailer makes me [...]
The video below shows first examples of iPhone’s accelerometer used for gaming. This demonstrates — combined with the large multi-touch display — how great the potential for iPhone being a gaming device is. Wii + DS = iPhone games?
Thanks ealf for developing this. YouTube video. Source code.
tags: accelerometer, ealf, game, iPhone, iPhone accelerometer [...]
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, [...]
Simon Dale built a truly amazing Low Impact Woodland Home for his family which is dug into the hillside. The building process took nearly 1500 man hours and cost only £3000. The main tools used are a chainsaw, a hammer and a one inch chisel.
The used materials are mainly natural and the house has a [...]
Dear Steve,
I’m impressed with your recent introduction of the iPhone. Congratulations on keeping it (almost) secret for so long. Instead of sleeping I’ve watched your keynote the same night and played with all those nice animations on the iPhone pages. My current Sony Ericsson phone now feels like my granny’s landline phone.
You’ve proven once again [...]
This is a follow-up to my previous post Even Our Sun is Tiny but this time a video (via digg) shows you how small we really are and which monstrously large objects are “floating” around in our galaxy.
A size comparison1 of the Sun to VV Cephei A (the supergiant of the binary star system VV [...]
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 [...]
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 »With the introduction of the MacBook Pro line in early 2006 Apple added the innovative magnetic power cord. Alongside the upgrade to Intel’s Core 2 Duo came another tiny little — though fantastic — feature overlooked at first sight: the invisible iSight indicator.1
While the integrated iSight is recording a small green LED lights up to [...]
This spectacular “blue marble” image is the most detailed true-color image of the entire Earth to date says NASA and provides us with very high quality pictures of our planet (up to blazing 21600*10800 pixels); also night shots are available.
If you hadn’t enough download an — also high quality — eight second video of the [...]
Pluto lost its status of being a planet after the definition of planet was changed by the International Astronomical Union. “Pluto was automatically disqualified because its oblong orbit overlaps with Neptune’s” the BBC reports.
Now “the eight planets are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune,” said the IAU resolution which was passed in [...]