July 2008
32 posts
webdesignerwall.com: 2008 Design Trends →
Glossy style is gone, vintage and retro styles rule, pencil sketches, handwritten notes, card stocks, watercolor effects, collage art, script fonts, grungy and splatter ink backgrounds everywhere.
For the records: Photoshop Secret Shortcuts →
Statler & Waldorf Collection (The Last Laugh For... →
scan-build: Source Code Analyzer →
Tried it and immediately found 5 true memory leaks. During reviewing the leaks I stumbled upon another memory leak, that hasn’t been found by scan-build. But I’d never found it without the syntax highlighted code annotations of scan-build.
Usage is simple:
scan-build xcodebuild in the folder of the XCode project,
then local HTML browsing for results.
[via rogue amoeba/daring...
Ron Mueck: Hyper-Realist Sculptor →
Amazing how the wrong size of things can irritate you.
Wide vs. Deep →
Subjective view on software development vs. management.
Film vs. Digital →
Lengthy discussion on film vs. digital photography with lots of arguments for both sides (2006).
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"Next Stop Gravity Change"
Tried to play Super Monkey Ball in the underground today and recognized, that controlling computer games isn’t context-free any more.
The Hype Machine →
This music blog aggregation site updates a ton of music, sorted by
Latest: What’s going on right now in the blogosphere and
Popular: The most popular artists, searches and blogs on the internet right now.
Nothing new (since 2005), but still getting better.
Peggy 2.0 + UART + Quartz Composer →
Hopefully you know QuartzComposer, less likely you may remember the days of serial ports, and maybe you heard of Peggy 2.0, the light emitting pegboard kit from evilmadscience.com. All together makes up a beautiful piece of nerdery, that lets you show any animated content from QuartzComposer on a DIY 25x25 LED board.
[by Jay’s Projects, “voiding warranties since 1978, one product at...
Moo prints business cards →
If you already knew, that you can print little cards from your photos at flickr.com via moo.com, you’ll be happy to hear, that you now can print even business card form factor. The front side of a 50s pack is customizable, back side is one of up to 50 different images from your flickr account.
WuChess.com →
It is as amazing as it sounds: “WuChess.com is the worlds first online chess and Hip-Hop community”. And yes, the “Wu” in WuChess.com comes from where you think it comes from [via The New York Times Video].
BTW: urls-are-totally-out →
New search feature
As I use this website as a public bookmark manager, I badly needed a search box. Jacob DeHart finally saved my day with his JavaScipt-based, life-updating Tumblr-API-AJAX-Search-Box-for-everyone.
randsinrepose.com on saving seconds →
New gridskipper.com →
It has been a few days since Curbed took over Gawker Media’s gridskipper.com, but it looks as if they finally finished the relaunch of the travel blog. Joined with content from other of Curbed’s websites, gridskipper.com is now even more a good source of tips shortly before a travel over-seas.
Fisheye Menus at the Human-Computer Interaction... →
Landscape photography that can't be done with your... →
Stunning 4x5 inch film images at 11634x9126 pixels.
Visualizing magnetic fields →
“Natural magnetic fields are revealed as chaotic, ever-changing geometries as scientists from NASA’s Space Sciences Laboratory excitedly describe their discoveries.”
Hyper-realistic 3D rendering by environment... →
“paints, materials and reflections viewed under real life lighting conditions” (render software for Windows and Mac OS X)
The work of Austrian graphic designer and... →
"Made by mammals" →
Navigate to “Images” -> “Selected Images” for critical but humorous illustrations on the believe in god.
"Introducing the New Axiom" and other Wall-E... →
Wonderful stylish posters for the upcoming Pixar movie “Wall-E”
"Protocol Buffers are a way of encoding structured... →
Maybe helpful for cross-platform development with custom network protocols.
Wired.com: "The Brains Behind the Image... →
Interview with Julius von Bismarck, the inventor of the ‘Image Fulgurator’, with interesting insights on the fact, that a patent is already pending for that device.