The HTML5Rocks site may be slanted toward Google’s implementation of HTML5 (and works best in Google’s Chrome browser). But it’s an impressive compendium of demos and how-to’s for everything HTML5, from 2- and 3d animations, to instant text columns, to building databases in the browser (“Web Storage”), to drag-and-drop with a single line of code. Web designers, prepare for HTML5 to rock your world.
Are you getting subliminal messages from your spam-blocker? Check out these examples of captchas gone crazy. (And no, I don’t want to enable images, thank you very much!)
“It’s not a focus on opening up restaurants… it’s re-purposing land, arable land.” Not something you hear everyday from a restaurant proprietor.
Get ready for a whole new wave of goth tattoo graffiti art, thanks to DeviantArt and HTML 5.
When the rich get richer in the digital sphere, there’s no real consequences… right?
Starting your own online business? It sounds like this open source software makes it easy.
Two bits of good news for anyone who wants to start a simple location-based game: 1) SCVNGR offers a readymade tool for creating one; and 2) you’ll have little competition, as all the games made so far sound moronic.
Another item for your checklist of what to do after graduation: change your name.
Anil Dash of dashes.com offers up this provocative companion to NMDNet’s subheading,
Have you ever wished you could use Jedi mind powers to speed up your boring professor’s PowerPoint presentation? Or force the words “Happy Birthday Jennifer!” suddenly to appear on his screen? Now you can, thanks to Dutch researcher Niels Teusink, who combined an Arduino board and Metasploit software to demonstrate how to hack a presenter’s computer by hijacking his remote.
Another DIY AR toolkit. I wonder if it comes with that sophisticated European accent built-in–it does vaguely sound computer-generated.
Another DIY AR toolkit. I wonder if it comes with that sophisticated European accent built-in–it does vaguely sound computer-generated.
Sure, it could lead to some crummy apps, but overall this is a big step toward making mobile devices about production as well as consumption.
Tired of waiting for Apple’s App Store to approve your mobile widget? Tempted to pick up HTML 5 instead of learning Objective- C? Here’s what you’ve been waiting for.
(Wired claims these Web app frameworks won’t let you access a device’s accelerometer, but I believe PhoneGap will.)
Tired of waiting for Apple’s App Store to approve your mobile widget? Tempted to pick up HTML 5 instead of learning Objective- C? Here’s what you’ve been waiting for.
(Wired claims these Web app frameworks won’t let you access a device’s accelerometer, but I believe PhoneGap will.)
People are hungry for a privacy-respecting social network. So hungry that four college kids announce they are going to make an open version of Facebook, and pocket $100,000 in donations in the first two weeks. Read on to find out why so many are steamed up about Facebook and what they intend to do about it.
I’m a big fan of the John Cage | Fluxus Happening | guerilla urban architecture mashup Frozen Grand Central. I’m also a fan of public transportation. So you can imagine my delight when I stepped off the metro at UCLA’s Westwood & La Conte and stumbled upon this:
If you have interest and experience in developing for the iPad or Web, this could be your summer job.
If you have interest and experience in developing for the iPad or Web, this could be your summer job.
No, not how to get a job *as* a Ninja. This book covers how to deal with the stress of jobhunting and also how to leverage social media to uncover recruiter information and land that interview. (Hint: time to get a LinkedIn account.)
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