Often people ask me: “Where can I find a simple preloader”, or “Where can I get an xml image gallery”, well, after poking around the net, I found this website called FlashDen, it seems to have a vast array of little applications that can make the life of both a non-flash and flash oriented people a little easier. Some of the stuff they have are:
- Animations
- Menus
- Preloaders
- Applications
- Utilities
- Videos
- Fonts
They are reasonable priced, so if you’re looking for a quick way out, this might be a good option.
(By the way, I have absolutely no affiliation with them in any way, I just bookedmarked their page for myself and thought i’d share)
http://www.flashden.net/
OK… so I watched the video, saw all of the features (at least what they showed) and to be quite honest… I wasn’t impressed… I may have a biased opinion on the phone since I am an iPhone user, but, I remember the feeling when I first saw the iPhone, it truly looked like the future. After seeing the Google Phone, I don’t doubt that it will be a worthy competitor to Apples counterpart, but Google has always been known for innovation, and I think they fell a little short on this one. I guess, I’ll have to see the phone to really know what it is all about.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RuT0G5XEII
Posted on: September 22nd, 2008 Crappycat!!!
Wow, this is a fun website, you get to take a weird journey into what seems like a dream/nightmare where everything seems to come to life. Knowing what it takes to build sites, I can’t even begin to image how many hours it took to animate… check it out!
http://www.crappycat.com/
Experimental research into sound and character animation.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCO3jIbuq78
Ok, I watched this commercial a few minutes ago and i’m still moved… this is a cruel reality.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_9mjBUSDng
This site commemorates humans innovation in technology, construction and engineering. Its website lives up to the construction marvel. Utilizing the concept of height, the websites display its vast content in a “tall” scroller that plays with virtual vertigo for the visitor of the site. Awesome work…
http://swfc-shanghai.com/
Posted on: September 19th, 2008 NikeiD
The people from R/GA and Nike launched the NikeiD. It features an awesome customization tool which lets you create your personal shoe and actually buy it. If you ever wanted to have your own, personal, and unique show, here’s your chance 
Check it out here: http://nikeid.nike.com/nikeid/
I saw these two technologies a while back and I was equally impressed by both of them.
Here’s a little about the Reactable:
“reacTIVision is an open source, cross-platform computer vision framework for the fast and robust tracking of fiducial markers attached onto physical objects, as well as for multi-touch finger tracking. It was mainly designed as a toolkit for the rapid development of table-based tangible user interfaces (TUI) and multi-touch interactive surfaces. This framework has been developed by Martin Kaltenbrunner and Ross Bencina at the Music Technology Group at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Spain as part of the the reacTable project, a novel electronic music instrument with a table-top multi-touch tangible user interface.”
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0h-RhyopUmc&feature=rec-fresh
Find out more here: http://reactable.iua.upf.edu/
And the Microsoft Surface:
“Microsoft Surface turns an ordinary tabletop into a vibrant, interactive surface. It’s the first commercially-available surface computing platform from Microsoft. The product provides effortless access to digital content through natural gestures, touch and physical objects. Today, it’s a 30-inch diagonal display in a table-like form factor that’s easy for individuals or multiple people to interact with in a way that feels familiar, just like in the real world. In essence, it’s a surface come to life for exploring, learning, sharing, creating, buying and much more. Today consumers can interact with Surface at select AT&T retail locations and at the iBar located in the Rio All Suite Hotel & Casino. Other Surface deployments will continue in restaurant, retail, leisure and public entertainment venues in the coming weeks and months.”
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zxk_WywMTzc&feature=related
Find out more here: http://www.microsoft.com/surface/index.html
Both of these pieces of technology represent a change in the way we interact with machines. As computer technology evolves, it’s only a matter of time when the keyboard and mouse are a thing of the past. All that we see today, from the Web to your word processor will be surpassed by a new wave of software and hardware that will make us think, how did we ever live without it. I hear it now from people that get the iPhone and say “now that I have it, I will never go back”. Not to endorse Apple or its products, but it is a perfect example of how improved interactions with machines changes people’s lives.
Maybe this is a little too deep for a simple technology post, but my mind wondered…
Enjoy the great photography from Lee Towndrow. His site features a multiple side scroller which you can drag around to navigate through his portfolio. In addition, his images can be enjoyed entirely as the site takes advantage of of Flash’s full screen capabilities…
Check it out here: http://www.towndrow.ca/
Wow! what can I say, it seems like great guitar players are just growing on trees… or maybe they have always been there, but now we can see them – enjoy!
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARIFSdJx0cI
