Google's latest innovation has seen them file a patent to house their data centers offshore where they will harness wave power to generate electricity and cool their servers! All very honourable, but there is also a great business case, as taking to the sea will mean that the company can avoid property tax.
One for the designers really, but this article on Mark Boulton's design blog makes good reading and is worth checking out for all the "dos and don'ts" of typography. Even when laying out copy in a webpage there are some fundamental rules that are there for a reason.
I just came accross this very well executed Flash simulation of a spider. You can drag it around, change its size, etc. Click here to check it out.
How well are you able to distinguish between different colour hues? Take the Colour IQ Test and find out.
While undertaking some late night internet browsing I came across an interesting jQuery plugin called jParallax.
The plugin's website describes it best.
"Parallax turns a selected element into a 'window', or viewport, and all its children into absolutely positioned layers that can be seen through the viewport. These layers move in response to the mouse, and, depending on their dimensions (and options for layer initialisation), they move by different amounts, in a parallaxy kind of way."
Seeing is definately believing with this plugin, so head on over to their website and see it in action.
I've recently been testing out some of the new features available in FlashPlayer 10, building with FlashDevelop+FlexSDK (FD beta8 makes it easy to build for FP10 - yay) and running swfs in the standalone FP10 debug player.
All was well, but I soon found myself maxing out the cpu with some simple audio operations...
After a coule of tests I found the currently available debug players will execute code a lot slower than non-debug players, even hanging or crashing in some cases.
So, use the FP10 release candidate plugin from adobe labs for faster code execution - but no debugging...
Yesterday saw the first beta release of Google's new internet browser Google Chrome.
Being a Google product, it is naturally packed to the brim with new technology with an interface that makes it effortless to use.
Head over to the website and download it now. (Currently Windows XP/Vista only)
Came across this cool flash site for Panasonic. It's got a real nice Explorative feel to it, with cool use of Flash to access some pretty interesting/engaging content.
