Kuler, the colour sampling tool from Adobe has had a update recently and now allows you to upload an image and create a colour theme from that image. Pretty cool stuff.
Nice interface too.
And a whole lot more, like; CSS based animations, client side SQL storage and more. This fills me with excitement and should hopefully increase the number of users of this great web browser*.
I look forward to this new version with anticipation.
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* Yes — that's right Neil (before you leave a comment) I said great! I really like Safari and hope that by bringing it up to scratch with tomorrows standards the browser has a great future. For me it outperforms Firefox when it comes to speed and system resources. Not sure about how it performs on a PC. But then again, why would I want to? Ha ha ha ha!
A demonstration by Sony of their 3D projection system (or something). Wild!
Thermo is a new development application by Adobe for designers to assist in the build of web based projects. Heard many promises many times for applications that can do away with the developer — will be interesting how this pans out. Looks good in my initial opinion…
Thermo by Adobe
Now this is interesting — a memory card with built in Wi-Fi allowing you to insert into your camera, take pics and broadcast to your camera or (certain) photo sharing websites. Pretty swish. Find out more…
- “Introduced on Thursday, the bill--titled the Communications Legislation Amendment (Crime or Terrorism Related Internet Content) Bill 2007--would empower the federal police to alter the "blacklist" of sites that are currently prohibited by the Communications and Media Authority.
The list currently includes pornography and "offensive material." However, under the amendment, federal police would be able to add other sites to the list, including content that the AFP Commissioner "has reason to believe...is crime- or terrorism-related content."
The definition of material that may be liable for censorship includes Internet content that "encourages, incites or induces," "facilitate(s)" or "has, or is likely to have, the effect of facilitating" a crime”
This is quite shocking to hear as it’s a small step in the wrong direction. What will be deemed offensive and unacceptable in the future? Freedom of speech and freedom to publish is the very essence of the Web. Will this movement eventually halt file sharing websites? Or, for example, would a site like StickerNation have been blocked as it promoted illegal activities?
Perhaps the most shocking part is that this is in Australia. Coming to a democracy near you real soon.
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Pretty amazing demo, follow the link to view... thanks to
Phil for the link.
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/129
I see the future… and it looks colourfull…
I can only dream of web development on something like this…
Link here
Coda is a new application from Panic Software for developers working on the OS X platform. The software gathers their exemplary software Transmit along with other tools into one fully fledged application work flow. As they put it…
Text editor + Transmit + CSS editor + Terminal + Books + More = Whoah.
From what I can gather - the application is getting some great initial reviews across the web
here's one from Daring Fireball. Sounds like a great do-it-all web development application. In the screenshot above you can see all the sites managed by Coda with a live preview of the web page. A neat little detail and from what I can gather, Coda has lots of neat little details like this.
Looking back at the FOWD conference, there was very little mention of Internet2 (not Web 2.0) and the control and legislation of the internet. This programme will heavily shape the future of web design and the community user driven focus of the web as it currently is, could be in real danger.
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I'm currently down in London at the
Future of Web Design conference. The conference is looking at topics around current and future trends within the web design realm. There's a whole host of speakers at the event and after the fold I'll be sharing some thoughts on what I’ve heard.
“Intel has come up with a form of Wi-Fi that would let a laptop in San Francisco connect to the Internet from a base station in San Jose, California.
Academics and researchers from the company's labs have created a system that lets Wi-Fi signals, which ordinarily carry a few hundred feet, instead travel 100 kilometers, or more than 60 miles.”
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