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iPhone App Heading to Hollywood, FarmVille Movie Next?

Aug 31st, 2010

iPhone App Heading to Hollywood, FarmVille Movie Next?

The concept of “Angry Birds,” the popular iPhone and iPad game, is simple: Users slingshot evil-eyed avians at unsuspecting pigs to win points. Sound stupid? Not to the 6.5 million people who have downloaded the app and made it one of the most successful games on iTunes. Now Rovio, the Finnish developer behind the app, [...]

LED Cube Live Winamp Visualization

Aug 31st, 2010

LED Cube Live Winamp Visualization

Ok I know its geeky but there is something so eightylicious about this LED I wobbles and wibbles with great delight I want one I want one I want one

Corporate Website Design: Creative and Beautiful Solutions – Smashing Magazine

Aug 31st, 2010

Corporate Website Design: Creative and Beautiful Solutions – Smashing Magazine

via smashingmagazine.com A truly inspirational list of corporate websites that manage to get the balance right between business need and user need Posted via email from grant shippey’s hub

Aug 16th, 2010

Windows 7 Tablet vs. iPad

via konigi.com decide for yourself – but one thing is for sure the tablets commeth

Aug 11th, 2010

UX Myths – Myth #3: People don’t scroll

Myth #3: People don’t scroll Although people weren’t used to scrolling in the mid-nineties, nowadays it’s absolutely natural to use the browser’s scrollbar. For a continuous and lengthy content, like an article or a tutorial, scrolling provides even better usability than slicing up the text to several pages. You don’t have to squeeze everything into [...]

Aug 5th, 2010

Lead SA

via leadsa.co.za Stand up not later, but now – www.leadsa.co.za Posted via email from grant shippey’s hub

Aug 3rd, 2010

Digital Graffiti – great youtube video combining a slingshot and SMS

Jul 28th, 2010

European Governments Unleash Online Gambling to Help Fill Coffers

While U.S. opposition to Internet betting has centered on concerns about gambling addiction, European politicians previously objected for a different reason: liberalizing the practice, they feared, would undermine state-sponsored lottery monopolies and gambling operators. But more and more gamblers are spurning land-based casinos anyway, and logging on to Internet poker and sports betting sites — [...]

Jul 27th, 2010

Malcolm Gladwell on spaghetti sauce

via ted.com insightful, inspiring – lessons from the land of chunky tomato sauce – watch now Posted via email from grant shippey’s hub

Jul 26th, 2010

Design is about making a website look good

Myth #4: Design is about making a website look good Many people regard web design as decoration; the art of making a website look good. However, design is more about how something works than how it looks. Design is about both form and function. In contrast with art, good design is not only visually and [...]