Apple Macworld 2008: Keynote final predictions (comments roundup)

4 comments Apple Blogosphere

People are more than excited about today Steve Jobs' keynote and the term MacBookAir is blogged about everywhere. I'll be following the event via Engadget.com life blogging as I did last year (this year they even have Spanish). If you want to follow it here's the schedule: 07:00AM - Hawaii 09:00AM - Pacific 10:00AM ...

Smashed iPhone touch screen still working (pic)

No comments Apple + Interface + Photography + The real world

Here's my photographer friend Voro Sendra's iPhone after he dropped it and stepped on it all by bad luck. The picture looks impressive but the touch screen still works! Wouldn't this picture look nice in today's Steve Jobs Apple Keynote?

iJam: Apple flavored ham

One comment Advertising + Apple

My friend Quim Massana sends me the latest iOnline viral campaign: iJam. BTW the site is done in flash so don't expect too much of the interface. Watch the video to the end if you want to see the upcoming iJam nano.

Yadogg » Vinyl Sleeve Heads

No comments Design + Photography + Why didn't I think of that?

Take a vinyl sleve with a face on it, pose to match it, take a picture and send it to Yadogg. More pictures at Yadogg » Vinyl Sleeve Heads

Wii remote: Redefining Human Computer Interaction

No comments Games + Interface + Usability + Why didn't I think of that?

If you thought that the spring horse + Wii Remote + Need For Speed was the coolest thing you ever saw on videogames wait until you see this. Via hackaday.com I land on Johnny Chung Lee's website and a brave (and cheap) new world opens before me. In his page he has ...

For web designers only

2 comments Design + Programming + Typography + Web 2.0 + Wordpress

An excellent pick of resources for web designers. Blogs, tutorials, fonts, themes, stock photos, CSS templates and many more for you to choose from. Not the usual free-for-all crappy stuff you find around. Head to forwebdesigners.com (the name says it all, doesn't it?) and start browsing and downloading. A word of ...

Extending the Wii: Need For Speed + Spring Horse

One comment Games + Interface + Usability + Why didn't I think of that?

Reading X de Xavier's post about using the Wii remote to enable disabled people to interact with computers, I remembered a video of a boy using a spring horse and a Wii remote to play Need For Speed. Yet another case of popular use of tecnology that it's creators never foresaw.

Flash is evil revisited

No comments Interface + Usability + Why didn't I think of that?

In my previous post I talked briefly about fair use of flash in websites and this led me to review an old article entlitled Flash is Evil written in 1999. I remember reading it when it came out and I couldn't agree more with the author. The article reviewed in ...

Web killed the video star. Interactive videoclip by The Arcade Fire

2 comments Animation + Interface + Music

If you know me or followed this blog, you know how critic I am with the (mis)use of flash in the www. But far from being someting evil flash is a great technology if used in the right place. Here's a gem by a band called The Arcade Fire (never heard ...

Three things you (probably) don’t know about the iPhone

No comments Apple + Interface + Typography + Usability

By now, everything has been written, reviewed, praised and criticized about Apple's iPhone. But there's three features that don't hit the highlights too often. Helvetica everywhere!!! Yes, Helvetica is the font for the iPhone. No Verdana nor pixel fonts but plain old Helvetica in decent readable sizes of up to 20px ...

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