July 2009
18 posts
Apple's new ProRes codecs
Today Apple released it’s new version of Final Cut Studio which also includes a new version of the ProRes codec family. I was involved in a comparison test (analytically and subjective) with DNxHD (also a DCT-based codec for post-production by Avid) about a year ago, and ProRes won in nearly every aspect. It really has been amazingly difficult or even impossible to see the difference between...
“Vanish”: Community helps to forget data →
The Vanish system by cs.washington.edu spreads parts of the key to encrypted data over a peer-to-peer system. For decryption, peers are requested to tell their key parts. These peers are configured to delete the received key parts after a certain amount of time - so if enough peers forget their key part as they should, the entire data will be un-decryptable after a certain amount of time, too.
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“MmmmMMmMm.... Braaaiinnnsss....” →
The perfect monday-morning shirt.
The art of visualization by Kevin Van Aelst →
Fun way of communicating complex facts with simple things around us.
Multiple Selection for NSArrayController and Cocoa...
For the records:
Say you have a master-detail pattern between Playlist and Song objects, both are shown in NSTableViews. Now if you select mutliple playlists, you want all the songs from all selected lists being merged together and displayed in the songs table.
Q: What bindings do I need for that? I tried a lot during the last hour and always got exceptions or an empty song table!
A: Bind the...
“Relatively anonymous '70s studio musicians” →
Most every history-minded hip-hop D.J. has a copy, and the first few bars of its signature number, a driving cover version of the 60’s instrumental number “Apache,” can send crowds into overdrive. (NY Times) Incredible Bongo Band: “Bongo Rock”
[reminded via codesurgeon]
Show cases and inspiration for web design and... →
Why not look what others do well?
Minimal Exhibit for minimalistic design style,
TypeInspire for typography,
Folio Focus for portfolio websites and
Blog Design Heroes for blog designs
“Never delegate understanding”
– Another good one from Charles Eames. Perfect quote for the top-level-view-only software team lead.
“The extent to which you have a design style is the extent to which you have not...”
– Charles Eames, designer (for example of the famous Eames Lounge Chair) cited by his grandson in a TED talk.
Prezi →
Zooming user interface paradigm for presentations. The concept works astonishingly well - at least for the online examples (you can always drag the presentation around and zoom in and out with the mouse wheel).
Aloha Friday →
A brilliantly selected collection of yellowed photos with the aesthetics of an aloha shirt (by the anonymous collector, that also brings us threeframes.net and keggersofyore.com).
“I’m embarrassed by such a big screen - my movie was intended to be viewed...”
– Terry Gilliam at the opening of Filmfest München on “The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus”
Commercials for another planet. →
Seems to be a trend.
“How to Spot Arial” →
Helps being as cute as Gruber finding out, that the new, strange Microsoft ads for Internet Explorer are set in Helvetica and not in their own rip off. [via monoscope]