Science inspired photography by Caleb Charland who combines his passion for photography and his interest in physics. “Wonder is a state of mind somewhere between knowledge and uncertainty. It is the basis of my practice and results in images that are simultaneously familiar and strange. I utilize everyday objects and fundamental forces to illustrate experiences of wonder. Each photograph begins with a simple question “How would this look? Is that possible? What would happen if…?” and develops through a sculptural process of experimentation. As I explore the garage and search through the basement to solve these pictures, I find ways to exploit the mysterious qualities of these everyday objects and familiar materials.” explain Caleb. read more… »
A Scientific Curiosity
A Rainbow in Your Hand
An ingenious ‘old tech’ method of creating a three dimensional rainbow in your hands. Rainbow in Your Hand is book published in Japan that makes use of old style animation to generate a rainbow. “This book started as a personal project in summer 2007, and was soon published from a Japanese bookstore “Utrecht”. It’s a flipbook, but rather than seeing animation, it creates a 3D rainbow in your hand. Since being published it has been featured on Japanese TV, Newspapers, major news & blogsites like yahoo news, coolhunting and found. This book won this years NY ADC silver cube.” explains the author. read more… »
Ubuntu Identity Overhaul
A new logo, a new identity. The upcoming release of Ubuntu 10.04 and Ubuntu is set to receive a major identity upgrade, from it’s logo through to its design. “We’re drawn to Light because it denotes both warmth and clarity, and intrigued by the idea that “light” is a good value in software. Good software is “light” in the sense that it uses your resources efficiently, runs quickly, and can easily be reshaped as needed.” explains Mark Shuttle worth who along with a small team of designers who are behind the recent Ubuntu re branding. read more… »
46 Firefox Features You Might Not Know About
Firefox, an open source application that needs no introduction. A browser that has succesfully been eating away it it’s competitors market share since the early parts of the decade. Firefox with it’s theming and extenibility is an incredibly adaptible and customizable browser. As of version 3 a lot of work has gone into a set of new features, mainly for HTML 5 and CSS 3. read more… »
Death to IE6, No More Google Support
Internet Explorer 6, the thorn in the side of many web developers and designers, through its rampant internet standards defiant rendering. Many developers will agree that the elimination of this decade old browser will most defiantly be a good thing. Internet Explore 6 support was dropped by Google as of 1 March, meaning that Google docs, Google Apps, Gmail and all other Google services will no longer support the ageing browser in an effort to introduce new features to these services. read more… »
The Inevitable Firefox vs Chrome debate
With the Chrome browser gaining market share, with it’s innovative feature set and interface, it is heating up competition for the open source giant, Firefox. Firefox, initially paved the way for an alternative browser lifestyle that many internet surfers enjoy today. It’s quite easily filled a need that Internet Explorer couldn’t, mainly being security and innovative ergonomics. read more… »
Google Maps Adds Experimental New Features
The Google Maps service just recently got a ‘labs’ section, much like Gmail and other Google Services. Along with the introduction of labs to their maps offerings, Google has released a collection of nine innovative labs features the Google maps service. read more… »
Useful Photo Orientated Chrome Extensions
With Chrome recently fully supporting third party extensions the flood gates are open to millions of developers around the world to build useful and innovative extensions that both enhance or improve online browsing with Google’s Chrome browser. A large part of Firefox’s awesome success is owed to extensibility, it would seem only natural that the Chrome which has proven to be an incredibly innovative browser would follow. read more… »
Pencil Printer
Putting those unusable pencil stubs to good use? A concept by Hoyoung Lee over at Yanko Design which marries old tec with new tec with their graphite pencil printer which uses standard graphite pencils as the ink cartridge for printing documents. The concept is great aesthetically and practically. Graphite pencils are pretty cheap so running out of a cartridge is much less of a hassle then with conventional ink printers. the pencil printer concepts also includes a built in eraser which allows you to re use paper, another plus for environmental responsibility. read more… »
Download More Ram Prank
Do you curse the low ram capacity that your computer has?? Your days of frustration are over, just header over to downloadmoreram.com and increase your computer’s ram, absolutely free! A clever prank set up that will probably catch a few non computer savvy people out there. The whole website is a joke as stated in it’s footer and means no harm. The concept of being able to download and install additional ram is rather humorous! read more… »
Facebook Chat Goes Jabber Friendly
The Facebook chat platform went jabber friendly today, meaning that one can connect to the Facebook chat service from any jabber enabled messaging client. “Every day people send more than two billion chat messages to each other on Facebook. Today we’re making it easier for people to extend those conversations with their Facebook friends to instant messaging clients beyond Facebook.com. Facebook Chat now supports Jabber/XMPP, the open standard for instant messaging. Now developers can integrate Facebook Chat with their Web-based, desktop, or mobile instant messaging products.” say the Developers at Facebook. read more… »
A Collection of Inspiring Workspaces
A workspace is is a key factor in productivity, an effectively planned workspace allows for a more pleasant working experience, specifically for those who have a desk job. Lifehacker.com has taken the initiative to showcase a selection of well created workspaces submitted by their users, who have taken a pride in their space of work. read more… »
The Google Tablet Concept
Following the recent announcement by Apple to begin manufacturing and selling thier iPad tablet computer, Google decided to release some Google Chrome OS mockups illustrating how the Google tablet would look like, if it were to exist. read more… »
Facebook To Introduce Email Services
It is rumoured that Facebook will soon start offering email services which will give it’s 350+ million users access to thier own Facebook webmail account. Code named project Titan, Facebook plans to rival popular and established email providers such as Gmail with this new service. In an effort to unify and streamline thier current messaging system, the new Facebook mail will incorporate the messaging and instant messaging offerings currently avalaible. read more… »
