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Wednesday, November 9, 2011

9 November - essentials - feedly

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Adobe reportedly will announce the end of Flash Player for mobile devices
16 Even though Adobe just mentioned it was planning to invest further in HTML5 after restructuring, a rumor from ZDNet suggests the changes could go even further by dropping development for Flash Player on mobiles entirely. According to an email reportedly received by the company's partners, its future work on Flash for cellphones and tablets will focus on enabling developers to "package apps with
ASUS Eee Pad Transformer Prime: 10-inch Super IPS+ display, 12-hour battery and quad-core Tegra 3, ships in December for $499
16 For three weeks now, Android fans have been fidgeting impatiently. Specifically, ever since ASUS chairman Jonney Shih took the stage at last month's AsiaD conference and teased the next-gen Transformer tablet. Though he only gave us a quick glimpse, he recited a laundry list of specs: a 10.1-inch display, 8.3mm-thick body, mini-HDMI output, microSD slot and an update to Ice Cream Sandwich by
Ziiiro Celeste watches tick off the hours in multi-hued fashion
20 Despite our fascination with all things high-tech and the fact that we've got a smartphone in our pocket at all times, we've got a serious soft spot for stylish and inventive timepieces. Ziiiro is one of those companies that consistently finds its way on to our wish lists with watches like the Orbit and Gravity. Celeste is its latest offering, which represents your linear travel through the fou

 
 
tech

NVIDIA says Tegra 3 is a 'PC-class CPU,' has screenshots to prove it
10 Asus can't be absorbing all those limelight photons today. Not when its freshly detailed Transformer Prime depends so heavily on NVIDIA's special sauce. Admittedly, we already know a lot about Tegra 3 from its Kal-El days, but we haven't seen much in the way of real-world performance claims. Until now, that is. Below you'll see newly released screenshots of Android games that have been souped-u
Russian and Chinese satellites going to Martian moon, plan to bring back some of the Red Planet
6 Russia just finished its Mars500 simulation, proving that man can handle the arduous task of traveling to and from the Red Planet -- or at least it proved man can live in a confined space for 520 days with dodgy internet. However, Moscow needs to know a bit more about Mars itself before shooting citizens to our planetary neighbor, so it's sending a satellite to collect soil samples from one of its
Sennheiser RS 220 wireless headphones hands-on
6 You can buy wired headphones for $600, so why not throw a pricey cordless pair into the mix? That seems to be Sennheiser's approach, which quietly launched the RS 220 wireless headphones at CES Unveiled in New York City tonight. These cord-free cans pipe analog, coaxial or optical sources from a glossy black base station over a 2.4GHz DSSS connection, which seemed to work fairly well even in th
Nokia N9 swipes fresh goodies with PR1.1 update, NFC and Swype in tow
6 Outside of snapping up an even newer handset, N9 users who are looking to score a taste of the very latest from Nokia will uncover a delicious morsel waiting in the form of a software update. Known as PR1.1, the downloadable package adds such refinements as music controls on the lock screen, new status indicators on the standby screen, along with NFC tag support and Swype's renowned keyboard. T
 
 
 
Siri ported to iPhone 3GS, likes to kick it old school 16

design

Defining The Designer Workspace
2 What defines a workspace? And how does the designer or creative’s workspace differ? I thought it would be fun to take a closer look at where some of our favorite designers, artists and creatives spend most of their time. How do they have their technology setup to help them be more efficient at their jobs (and do amazing things)?GREGORY HANGregory Han is managing editor of Apartment Therapy’s techn
Fisherman Lamps by TAF
2 The Fisherman lamps, designed by Mattias Ståhlbom of TAF for ZERO were inspired by the use of glass fishing floats once used by fisherman for about a century starting in the late 1840s.Each rope is hand-knitted by a small company on the Swedish west coast whose specialty was making ropes and netting for the fishing industry.Photos by Jonas Lindström.Share This: Twitter | Facebook | Discover more g
Spa Atrapa Árbol by LAND Arquitectos
4 A herb garden surrounds this glass-fronted spa in Santiago by Chilean studio LAND Arquitectos.
 
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On the Corner House by Eastern Design Office
4 Anna Nakamura and Taiyo Jinno of Kyoto-based architecture firm Eastern Design Office have created another sharp structure with the On the Corner house. It’s a seven-unit rental apartment complex located in an mixed use residential/industrial area of Youkaichi, Japan. The lot, which is severely triangular, remained empty for some time, as the shape made it undesirable to builders and the city did n

apple

Analyst suggests iCloud's services as important as iTunes
2 Analyst Ben Reitzes of Barclays Capital has released a report declaring iCloud as the most important service Apple has put together since iTunes. iTunes revolutionized the way people buy music and content online; Reitzes suggests that iCloud will be a similar revolution that transitions the main hub for digital content from the PC, iPad, or TV into the cloud itself. We already know Apple is p
Everybody Wins
16 Dieter Bohn: This certainly looks like a sign that Apple has won the battle over whether Flash belongs on mobile devices, as Adobe appears to be transitioning itself to an HTML5 future. Apple didn’t win. Everybody won. Flash hasn’t been superseded in mobile by any sort of Apple technology. It’s been superseded by truly open web technologies. Dumping Flash will make Android better, it will ma
ZDNet: Adobe to Cease Development of Flash Player for Mobile Browsers
10 Jason Perlow, reporting for ZDNet: Adobe is stopping development on Flash Player for browsers on mobile. I’m sure every reviewer who’s ever claimed that iOS’s lack of support for Flash is a disadvantage — the result of nothing more than spite on Apple’s part — will apologize and admit their error. Anyway: good riddance to bad rubbish.  ★ 
‘Thirteen Movie Poster Trends That Are Here to Stay and What They Say About Their Movies’
8 Not sure about the “here to stay” part — a bunch of these strike me as flash-in-the-pan trends — but it really is striking just how derivative and formulaic many movie posters are.  ★ 
 
 
 
Apple launches MagSafe adapter replacement program 16

visual design

How to Paint Clouds With Photoshop
6 Photoshop is an excellent tool for manipulating photographs but it can also be used as a means to create stunning digital art. This tutorial is part of a 25-part video tutorial series demonstrating everything you will need to know to start producing digital art in Photoshop. Digital Art for Beginners, by Adobe Certified Expert and Instructor, Martin Perhiniak will begin by teaching you how to draw
Establishing Your Grid In Photoshop
12     Creating a grid is typically one of the very first things you do when starting a design comp. After all, it provides the basic structure on which the rest of your design will lie. In this article, we’ll provide two different methods for efficiently establishing a grid.
Introduction To URL Rewriting
74     Many Web companies spend hours and hours agonizing over the best domain names for their clients. They try to find a domain name that is relevant and appropriate, sounds professional yet is distinctive, is easy to spell and remember and read over the phone, looks good on
Writing WordPress Guides For The Advanced Beginner
10     Creating WordPress tutorials is a fantastic way to help build the WordPress community and to increase your Web traffic. That’s no secret. Just Google “wordpress tutorial” and you’ll see hundreds of results. The complete novice will find scores of well-written tutorials

business

White House Threatens Veto Over Net Neutrality
2 The White House on Tuesday said it will veto a Congressional resolution seeking to overturn the Federal Communications Commission’s net neutrality rules, arguing that it would “undermine a fundamental part of the nation’s Open Internet and innovation strategy.” The pledge comes ahead of an expected Thursday Senate vote on a bill quarterbacked by Texas Republican Kay Bailey Hutchinson, which would
Scoop: The Boxee Box is getting a live TV tuner
2 Boxee Box owners will soon be able to watch live television through the device, with the help of a special USB dongle that functions as a tuner for free over-the-air HD TV signals. The live TV feature is part of a major update to the Boxee platform that is likely going to be rolled out over the coming weeks. I stumbled across the live TV integration when I was able to obtain an unreleased build of
WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg to speak at RoadMap
2 Millions of people use the software that Matt Mullenweg helped to create, but very few of them would probably know his name. He is the baby-faced founder of WordPress — the open-source software that powers more than 50 million blogs, including some published by leading news websites such as the New York Times — and Automattic Inc., the for-profit spinoff from WordPress. Mullenweg, who was named o
Google Talk and Hangouts close to go native in Chrome
4 Chrome users will soon be able to access Google Talk and Google+ Hangouts video chats through a native, open-source implementation based on the WebRTC protocol, as opposed to the proprietary plugin that’s currently bundled with the browser. This change also means Hangouts and Google Talk will be replacing the H.264 video codec with Google’s open-source WebM video format. Google has been using prop

data visualization

Manual data design from Stefanie Posavec
2 Designer Stefanie Posavec talks about her process of data collection, analysis, and design. There's a lot of advantages to knowing how to program, but there can also be value in meticulous manual discovery if you're willing to put in that extra time. Of course, it's still all about the data: So what inspires this level of analysis? "I'm interested in things that appeal to the really vigorous deta
Comparing Two Music Artists by their Related Last.fm Tags
2 Last.fm Viz [nextvis.com] is a visual comparison of music artists, which are characterized by social tag data collected from Last.fm in 2007. The visualization contrasts 2 individual artists by aggregating and comparing their related tags. Through a kind of attractive force, tags are located closer to one or the other artist according to the strength of the association. See also Web Seer and W
How Music Travels: The Evolution of Western Dance Music
6 The simple but interactive map called How Music Travels [thomson.co.uk] reveals the evolution of western dance music over the last 100 years. More specifically, the map shows the exact birth time and birth place of each music style (within a 5-year period), and how it influenced the ones that followed. Although 'non-dance' music genres which influenced dance style music are also included, their
How Did We Get to 7 Billion People So Fast?
4 I love the cool infographic video from NPR.  7 Billion: How Did We Get So Big So Fast? is a video that uses colored liquids to visualize the population rates of the differen continents.  High birth rates mean fast liquid pouring in, slower death rates slow down the liquid dripping out of the bottom. The U.N. estimates that the world’s population will pass the 7 billion mark on Monday. [Oct 31st

photography

Lady on Water
6 Toronto Islands Ferry.
Heavy winter by Mikael Sundberg
4 Heavy winter by Mikael Sundberg Heavy for wildlife during severe winter in Sweden. Thank you for thinking of it. Mikael Sundberg: Photos · Blog · Activity · Friends · Fav
Beach Fighters by Régis Matthey
16 Beach Fighters by Régis Matthey My friend Johannes is fighting against himself like we struggle against ourselves in the real life. Traveling is a good way to understand who we are.
grandmother & grandson by abe less
8 grandmother & grandson by abe less abe less: Photos · Blog · Activity · Friends · Favorites RSS: Popular Photos ·

deco

tech inspiration: gattaca
2 I’ve been enjoying a lot of sci-fi movies lately, particularly those with strong visual landscapes. I thought it would be fun to create a spin-off of Amy’s Living In column for MyLifeScoop, and I’m focusing on films that approach technology in interesting and inspiring ways. My first pick for this series is Gattaca, a film that remains a favorite of mine despite its cheesy narration, mostly due t
Steve & Stacey's Vintage-Inspired DIY Modern Apartment House Tour
2 Name: Steve Reidell and Stacey Marquardt Location: Humboldt Park — Chicago, Illinois Size: 1200 square feet Years lived in: 3 — rented At the risk of sounding creepy, I am enamored with Steve and Stacey and their amazing style. Not only do they both have cool jobs, theyalso live in this fabulously decorated vintage apartment. Plus, Stacey is a DIY Queen — a girl after my own heart! What is not
living in: the cider house rules
2 Not many movies portray a New England fall better than The Cider House Rules. Set in Maine among apple orchards, rambling old buildings, seaside towns and lobster docks, it’s obvious why we crave the 1999 adaptation of John Irving’s novel when fall rolls around. Toby Maguire plays an orphan trained as a doctor who struggles with the morality of providing health services to pregnant mothers who a
Use a Disposable Razor to Clean Sweater Fuzz Mommy Savers
2 It's sweater time across most parts of the country and with that means pulling out last year's wears and examining them in the daylight. Are yours looking a little pilly? We've talked in the past about how to clean them up, but what about a disposable razor? Read Full Post
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