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“No Ideas But In Things is a library of controls, animations, layouts, and displays that might be a source of inspiration for interaction designers. Dan Saffer is the curator.”
The Monome designer says, “I’m an ultra-minimalist, and there’s an incredible draw for me towards simplified systems. When you introduce limitations it promotes more intuitive design.”
“The Blossom plant responds to your productivity! Choose a virtual plant to illustrate achievement of your goals. Create criteria that feed it and criteria that neglect it. For example, to feed it: Actively use Excel or Photoshop. To Neglect it: Actively use World of Warcraft or browse blogs on Safari. IF your plant is healthy and flowering, you know you’re meeting your goals. Consistently failing to meet one’s goals will slowly wilt the plant. Clicking on the plant can display stats of current health, graphs of app usage, and suggestions of what to work on next to meet your goals.”
“5. Don’t Do – Talk. Try to fill up as much of your day with socializing as possible. Talk about all the things you will do someday or that you were gonna do. Just make sure you don’t mess it up by doing anything productive.”
“The day before yesterday, while helping on a homework assignment, I noticed I could speak perfectly in rhyme…Then something happened. My brain remapped. My speech returned. Not 100%, but close, like a car starting up on a cold winter night. And so I talked that night. A lot. And all the next day. A few times I felt my voice slipping away, so I repeated the nursery rhyme and tuned it back in. By the following night my voice was almost completely normal.”
“Flashblock is an extension for the Mozilla, Firefox, and Netscape browsers that takes a pessimistic approach to dealing with Macromedia Flash content on a webpage and blocks ALL Flash content from loading. It then leaves placeholders on the webpage that allow you to click to download and then view the Flash content.”
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Just because it wasn’t picked doesn’t mean someone else couldn’t do it. There are lots of programmers around here. :)
Brandon26 Oct 06
Those newspapers are pretty. However, newspapers were in the information communication business then, they are in the advertising business now. Newspapers are just a commodity now.
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8 comments so far
Dave 26 Oct 06
It’s too bad that Blossom wasn’t picked to be developed at mydreamapp. It would have been a neat project.
Tyler Karaszewski 26 Oct 06
Just because it wasn’t picked doesn’t mean someone else couldn’t do it. There are lots of programmers around here. :)
Brandon 26 Oct 06
Those newspapers are pretty. However, newspapers were in the information communication business then, they are in the advertising business now. Newspapers are just a commodity now.
dennis 26 Oct 06
That video is brilliant.
Lakshan 27 Oct 06
This Scott guy is a pure example of how luck could run over the fate in life. BTW I love his post In Over My Head
Thomas Swift 27 Oct 06
Monome is one sick creation. Check out that design process.
Josh 27 Oct 06
What’s really too bad is that Whistler didn’t get picked at MyDreamApp. And application like that would have actually caused me to buy a Mac.
A cookbook, weather or file syncing app, though…ho hum.
Brian Schuliger 01 Nov 06
BlogTalkRadio only allows 5 callers and is essentially geared to a closed (BlogTalkRadio) network audience. If you like that, you should check out TalkShoe.com where you can use any telephone, cell phone or landline, VoIP client, Skype, etc. You can have unlimited callers, and you have Host control of the audio bridge (talkers) and the chat (mute/un-mute). And we record it and wrap it up for Podcasting.
It is Live, Interactive discussion (topic-based) and Podcasting to better connect with your audience.
Brian (the TalkShoe team) brian@talkshoe.com +1 (724) 935-TALK
ps. fyi, we also pay people to Host Talkcasts (since August). Cheers… hope you check us out and have fun with it!
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