Category Archives: Coolhunting

Neat Browser Size and Position Manipulation Trick

Posted on May 23, 2006 by James McParlane

Simple and effective comic sketch (video) in which your browser plays a role. http://www.circoripopolo.be/comicduo/

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Google "Trends"

Posted on May 11, 2006 by James McParlane

I played a little while with Google Trends. Seems that “sex” is a popular search term, especially where its hard to get http://www.google.com/trends?q=sex&ctab=0&date=all&geo=all Go figure.

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Most Impressive Technology Demo I Have Seen All Year – Logitech Quickcam Orbit MP

Posted on May 1, 2006 by James McParlane

This post with video from the Make blog makes me feel like the future is here already πŸ™‚ “I really like the new Logitech Quickcam Orbit MP – you can record videos and add live video effects and also use avatars. … Continue reading →

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Back From Watching Cory Doctorow Talk In Sydney

Posted on April 20, 2006 by James McParlane

I as I posted previously, Went to observe Cory Doctorow‘s talk tonight. It was much as I expected. He is real. I did not touch him – so you can’t be too sure. Xeni could have been hiding behind the drapes with … Continue reading →

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IPTV In Australia Could Be Dead Before It Even Starts

Posted on April 5, 2006 by James McParlane

Interesting post from Rachel Dixon’s Blog According to a recently released discussion paper on media reform, the Minister for Communications is considering introducing licenses for IPTV in Australia, to bring Internet video into line with broadcast video. … .. . Intriguingly, the … Continue reading →

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Hire'm

Posted on March 28, 2006 by James McParlane

Mr Air bribed me with a packet of potato chips, so I am now going to plug his new venture. What is Hire’m? Hire’m is powerful service to streamline and simplify the hiring process for any kind of business that … Continue reading →

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Coolest User Interface Ever – The Future Is Touchy Feely

Posted on February 9, 2006 by James McParlane

Thanks to Lela Kaunitz for sending me this link – I watched it and it just blew me away. While touch sensing is commonplace for single points of contact, multi-touch sensing enables a user to interact with a system with … Continue reading →

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Dynamic Resolution Dependent Layout Using JavaScript

Posted on January 28, 2006 by James McParlane

Its a few vowels short of a buzzword, but don’t hold that against it. There is a strong trend at the moment towards dynamic resolution dependent layout via JavaScript, that is the page rearranges the layout of its content via element-wise x,y positioning … Continue reading →

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Attention Rank

Posted on January 9, 2006 by James McParlane

Next years big web buzzword will be “Attention” AttentionRank will be the new way of measuring relevance. The poster child for Attention will be http://www.memeorandum.com/

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Using JavaScript As A Target Language

Posted on November 9, 2005 by James McParlane

Another company working with automatically generated JavaScript. Morfik offers ground-breaking Javascript Synthesis Technology (Β‘JSTΒ’) that allows developers to use a visual design environment and a high-level language of their choice to create applications comprising only of HTML and Javascript. This … Continue reading →

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