Occupy Flash - The movement to rid the world of the Flash Player plugin

mnmal:

Flash Player is dead. Its time has passed. It’s buggy. It crashes a lot. It requires constant security updates. It doesn’t work on most mobile devices. It’s a fossil, left over from the era of closed standards and unilateral corporate control of web technology. Websites that rely on Flash present a completely inconsistent (and often unusable) experience for fast-growing percentage of the users who don’t use a desktop browser. It introduces some scary security and privacy issues by way of Flash cookies.

Flash makes the web less accessible. At this point, it’s holding back the web.

I hate Flash. Let’s get rid of it.

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Workspace | Trent Walton

minimalmac:

I like the idea of defining certain spaces or postures for specific activities. The sit and click posture taxes my cognitive and creative faculties after too long. It’s hard for my brain to move from reading to writing, designing, troubleshooting, etc., when my body remains stationary. I need to move. Breaking up the workday by visiting different spaces in the office at different times not only keeps me fresh, it allows me to establish habit fields around certain types of activities.

I know lots of folks that benefit greatly from this idea. I too find my productivity increases by simply switching the space I’m in or the device I’m using.

(via Phil Coffman)

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mnmal: hobanpress: This is a handsome card I designed and printed for Ryan Karpowicz. He came to me wanting a simple card and loved the blind impression. I’ve printed many minimal cards, but I think this layout, as of now, remains my favorite. Simple calling cards are the best.

mnmal:

hobanpress:

This is a handsome card I designed and printed for Ryan Karpowicz. He came to me wanting a simple card and loved the blind impression. I’ve printed many minimal cards, but I think this layout, as of now, remains my favorite.

Simple calling cards are the best.

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Adobe Drops Flash for Phones and will increase its support for HTML5

createthegroup:

Adobe said it plans to stop development of its Flash player software for mobile devices, an about face and concession to rival Apple in a long-running standards battle.

Adobe on Wednesday said it will no longer push its Flash software format for use in the browser programs that come with smartphones and tablet computers. Instead, Adobe will increase its support for HTML5, a collection of technologies backed by Apple and others such as Google Inc. and Microsoft Corp.

Read more: http://online.wsj.com/public/page/news-tech-technology.html#ixzz1dJdPpLoc

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“There is something to be learned from a rainstorm. When meeting with a sudden shower, you try not to get wet and run quickly along the road. But doing such things as passing under the eaves of houses, you still get wet. When you are resolved from the beginning, you will not be perplexed, though you still get the same soaking. This understanding extends to everything.”
— Hagakure (via mnmal)
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Slider.js - Slideshow with jQuery, CSS Transitions and Canvas The canvas transitions are definitely the most interesting to me, and this provides nice wrapper code to create custom canvas animation functions. Performance appears to be a huge advantage over CSS. View demo on the project page

Slider.js - Slideshow with jQuery, CSS Transitions and Canvas

The canvas transitions are definitely the most interesting to me, and this provides nice wrapper code to create custom canvas animation functions. Performance appears to be a huge advantage over CSS.

View demo on the project page

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Badass JavaScript: Nokia Maps 3D WebGL brings Google Earth to the browser

badassjs:

Following close on the heels of Google Maps releasing their WebGL based mapping engine, Nokia has taken it to the next level bringing 3D Google Earth style maps to WebGL as well, and boy is is smooth! Not only can you spin the Earth around, and fly to places in 3D, but many of the…

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(Source: Flickr / beauhudspethphotography)

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slantback: In the first Tweet above, Bourdain says “maybe a DVD extra,” but of course that’s exactly what these are: bite-sized DVD extras, presented in real-time, that you can not only read but also reply to. Now, the commentary track is a conversation. All told, this is a small investment—an hour of focused tweeting and a graphics package. But the payoff looks something like this: (via Live-tweeting with @NoReservations – Twitter Media)

slantback:

In the first Tweet above, Bourdain says “maybe a DVD extra,” but of course that’s exactly what these are: bite-sized DVD extras, presented in real-time, that you can not only read but also reply to. Now, the commentary track is a conversation.

All told, this is a small investment—an hour of focused tweeting and a graphics package. But the payoff looks something like this: (via Live-tweeting with @NoReservations – Twitter Media)

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Infographic: The anatomy of an agency

Infographic: The anatomy of an agency

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“Je n’ai fait celle-ci plus longue que parce que n’ai pas eu le loisir de la faire plus courte.”
— Blaise Pascal, 1657

(Source: en.wikiquote.org)

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marsbot: I love patterntap.com and ui-patterns.com for looking at UI and design inspiration for websites. However the majority of my work revolves around mobile now and I haven’t found anything quite like these sites for iphone and Android apps. There are countless blog entries about best practices, but no full libraries. The best thing to do is just look at the actual apps, hold them in your hand and see how the interaction works. I take a ton of screen shots of apps every day, but there isn’t an easy way to access those screen shots in my photo album and from various computers later on. “Where was that really good screen shot of the new user EDU in that one app?” Suddenly I’m scrolling through hundreds of photos.   To solve this problem I’ve created a mobile pattern library of all my screenshots (well most of them). This is only halfway complete and mainly just for myself, but I thought I would share for any UI designers stuck on a particularly tricky problem and looking for inspiration. Take a look: mobile-patterns.com

marsbot:

I love patterntap.com and ui-patterns.com for looking at UI and design inspiration for websites. However the majority of my work revolves around mobile now and I haven’t found anything quite like these sites for iphone and Android apps. There are countless blog entries about best practices, but no full libraries. The best thing to do is just look at the actual apps, hold them in your hand and see how the interaction works. I take a ton of screen shots of apps every day, but there isn’t an easy way to access those screen shots in my photo album and from various computers later on. “Where was that really good screen shot of the new user EDU in that one app?” Suddenly I’m scrolling through hundreds of photos.  

To solve this problem I’ve created a mobile pattern library of all my screenshots (well most of them). This is only halfway complete and mainly just for myself, but I thought I would share for any UI designers stuck on a particularly tricky problem and looking for inspiration.

Take a look: 
mobile-patterns.com

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Genki Sudo /Takashi Watanabe/Yu Imai

(Source: drunkenmister)

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mnmal:

Another example of complexity and simplicity. They took something that can be complicated - thermostats in this case - and made them simpler to use; however behind that simplicity there’s a lot of complexity.

(video via jxnblk

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mnmal: The coffee. To me there are only three ways of making coffee: An espresso machine, a macchinetta coffee maker (in the picture) or a french press. There are more ways of course, but these listed are the ones I prefer. The one thing these methods have in common is that they require a bit more attention to details than, say, a normal filter coffee machine. Making coffee the ways I mentioned usually means grinding the coffee before making the cup and not just use off the shelve ground coffee, waiting for the water to boil or making sure the amount of water per coffee quantity is right. All this might some gratuitously complicated but it is part of my morning routine. A routine I’ve had for years and one that allows me to focus on the new day and the things I need to do. While I’m preparing the coffee, usually as early as 4 AM, the house is silent, everyone is still asleep and this lets my mind wonder. I have very useful thoughts while making my first cup of coffee. I often find solutions to problems I’ve been thinking about, or I find new ideas. In his terrific post about how to make a great cup of coffee with a french press Shawn Blanc wrote: After I pour the water over the coffee grounds in the french press I let it sit for a few seconds and allow the coffee to bloom. I then give it all a really good stir, place the lid on, and set a timer for 4 minutes. This forces you to be patient. If you want a good cup of coffee you have to be patient. Waiting also means more time to go inwards, or time to prepare breakfast for your family, or finish the book you were reading, or folding the laundry. The list goes on. I prefer to use a macchinetta when possible. I bring one with me even when I go climbing. Coffee. Part of my morning routine. Complexity and simplicity.

mnmal:

The coffee.

To me there are only three ways of making coffee: An espresso machine, a macchinetta coffee maker (in the picture) or a french press. There are more ways of course, but these listed are the ones I prefer.

The one thing these methods have in common is that they require a bit more attention to details than, say, a normal filter coffee machine. Making coffee the ways I mentioned usually means grinding the coffee before making the cup and not just use off the shelve ground coffee, waiting for the water to boil or making sure the amount of water per coffee quantity is right.

All this might some gratuitously complicated but it is part of my morning routine. A routine I’ve had for years and one that allows me to focus on the new day and the things I need to do. While I’m preparing the coffee, usually as early as 4 AM, the house is silent, everyone is still asleep and this lets my mind wonder. I have very useful thoughts while making my first cup of coffee. I often find solutions to problems I’ve been thinking about, or I find new ideas.

In his terrific post about how to make a great cup of coffee with a french press Shawn Blanc wrote:

After I pour the water over the coffee grounds in the french press I let it sit for a few seconds and allow the coffee to bloom. I then give it all a really good stir, place the lid on, and set a timer for 4 minutes.



This forces you to be patient. If you want a good cup of coffee you have to be patient.

Waiting also means more time to go inwards, or time to prepare breakfast for your family, or finish the book you were reading, or folding the laundry. The list goes on.

I prefer to use a macchinetta when possible. I bring one with me even when I go climbing.

Coffee. Part of my morning routine. Complexity and simplicity.

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