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Link: Instant translation (The Economist)

Okay so firstly, yup that’s a pretty cool application. Amazing in fact. Instant translations, on the screen, in situ, as in right there in the camera view, of signs etc. Awesome.

Secondly, The Economist seems to be using an online application called Apture. If you highlight some text on the page, you get a “Learn more” contextual link. If you click on that you get a floating div with relevant search results from Wikipedia, The Economist and more… I’d never seen that before but I like it. A good idea well implemented.

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Posted 2 years ago (Permalink)

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I read about this on Drawar.

A great idea and nicely done. Make sure you scroll down the page.

http://benthebodyguard.com/

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Posted 2 years ago (Permalink)

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An interesting little ditty - some good ideas here about good ideas - and nicely put together too.

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Posted 2 years ago (Permalink)

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Link: 37 Signals comment on the Flickr UI changes

I noticed the Flickr UI changes a while back and thought they were pretty neat. I hadn’t noticed that they were using unicode triangles for the triangle/pointer though…

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Posted 2 years ago (Permalink)

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I’ve been playing around some more with my HTML5 Canvas Kaleidoscope experiment. I’ve made it more robust and played around with the flickr API to get more out of it (you can view other flickr users photos in it now). The main improvement is that the you can link to a particular photo being viewed through the kaleidoscope.

http://www.experiencebureau.com/toys/kaleidoscope/

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Posted 2 years ago (Permalink)

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Did I learn anything about actively listening to and talking about records? Absolutely. I most importantly learned that if there’s something you’re passionate — or at least obsessive — about, it’s worth doing every day and holding yourself to. Even if you’re not getting paid for it.

D. Patrick Rodgers, on what he learned by writing his excellent A Record a Day. (via cubicle17)

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Posted 2 years ago (Permalink)

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ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge

Charles Darwin (according to this Wikipedia entry on the Dunning Kruger effect).

I stumbled upon this after reading the blog post You suck at design (here’s why).

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Posted 2 years ago (Permalink)

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Link: Bizarre websites... (Smashing Magazine)

I spent a bit of time looking at some of these sites. It reminded me of being a student again…

I particularly enjoyed the Sounds of Hamburg site.

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Posted 2 years ago (Permalink)

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Link: Wire Molecules (on Wireframes Magazine)

I thought this was an interesting approach. The idea I guess is to focus on the important aspects of a page/interface and the relationships between them before you start laying them out on a page.

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Posted 3 years ago (Permalink)

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cubicle17:

I love things like this:

[SolarBeat is a] simple ambient musicbox, with sounds generated using the orbital frequencies of our solar system.

(via yewknee)

I agree.

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Posted 3 years ago (Permalink)

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