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.
Famed science fiction author Neal Stephenson has unveiled a digital novel platform created with a cabal of interactive fiction / martial arts enthusiasts. To judge from initial glimpses of their first interactive novel, The Mongoliad, this “new” platform is more of a combination of older ideas: part interactive CD-ROM (Voyager in the 1980s), part paid subscription (the New York Times in the 1990s), and part user-generated content (Wikipedia in the 2000s). At least the authors have given up on DRM from the get-go.
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!)
Get ready for a whole new wave of goth tattoo graffiti art, thanks to DeviantArt and HTML 5.
Blogs, wikis, videoconferencing? “No thanks,” say most professors; “PeopleSoft and PowerPoint will do.”
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.
Alberti would have had an aneurysm if he had seen this Augmented Perspective.
Just look at that slimy software. It’s as though this Softimage researcher, Eric Mootz, is reverse-engineering the work of biologists who are looking at how slime molds resemble computer networks.
Fred Brooks: design starts with scarcity.
Looking to reduce your water and grocery bills simultaneously? Follow these three steps to thinking outside the box–er, pool. Via Bruce Sterling and William Emory.
Is David Pogue setting the bar too high for easy-to-use programming tools, or too low for nonprogrammers?
The controversial practice of “reconciliation ecology” tries not to restore old habitats, but to create new ones–by bringing nature back into human spaces. Its proponents think innovative software may help people get along with their new neighbors. Capstone, anyone?
Flash and 3d vector overlays would seem to be a no brainer for the AR market. If Adobe had pushed this out the door sooner it might have contributed pressure on Apple to enable Flash on its handhelds.
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.
Looking for ideas to inspire a new media capstone? How about turning a problem into a solution? The software keyboard has been one of the biggest stumbling blocks to using mobile devices such as the iPad for real work rather than just media consumption. But that may soon change. Thanks to soft keyboards like BlindType, the words smart and keyboard may start to be used in the same sentence.
Might be helpful advice for anyone looking to beef up a resume or portfolio.
Might be helpful advice for anyone looking to beef up a resume or portfolio.
Why you still should master Photoshop even if you’re planning a life of crime.
Why you still should master Photoshop even if you’re planning a life of crime.
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