Jul 30, 2009
Archive for July, 2009
Jul 30, 2009
Cool 3D Drawing Tool
Posted by Andya | Filed under Cool stuff, Design
James Paterson creates a drawing using Rhonda, a 3D drawing tool developed by Amit Pitaru
Jul 28, 2009
360˚ video demo
Posted by Joer | Filed under Cool stuff
It uses a Google streetview type camera setup, Pretty amazing!
via Karagos
The tech is by YellowBird
Jul 23, 2009
BE Broadband rebrand
Posted by Joer | Filed under Design
Be Broadband have rebranded. What a strange design, it's like an old Geocities page. You can even pick from a selection of hideous backgrounds! What does everyone think?
Their blog which still has the old brand, vs Their new site
Jul 21, 2009
Happy Island!
Posted by Joer | Filed under Cool stuff
A nice bit of flash 3D. The site is a bit nuts though!
Jul 17, 2009
3D CSS
Posted by Matta | Filed under Cool stuff, Technology
3D CSS is appearing in the latest versions of Webkit - the rendering engine used by Google Chrome and Apple's Safari browsers. It can already do some pretty impressive stuff using 3D transformations.
To download webkit (available on Mac and Windows) go here. The browser looks incredibly like Safari 4.0 but 3D CSS is not currently in Safari 4.0 or any other released browsers.
Jul 13, 2009
Happy Birthday, App Store!
Posted by Karenl | Filed under Cool stuff, Technology
This month marks the first birthday of Apples App Store with the launch of a page on iTunes highlighting a selection of the apps that have helped make it so successful.
Given how much as all love our iPhone Apps at MadeByPi, we thought it only fitting to share our top five app-related facts.
1) The App Store first opened its doors on the morning of July 10th 2008.
2) The most expensive app sold via the App Store was the 'I Am Rich' app released in August 2008, this was billed as ‘a work of art with no hidden function at all', it's only purpose being to show other people that they were able to afford it. It was priced at a staggeringly stupid price of $999.99 (£599.99). The app was removed from the App Store the day following its release, on August 6, 2008. However, six people had allegedly already bought it before it was pulled (muppets)!
3) The one billionth app downloaded was ‘Bump', created by Bump Technologies. It was downloaded by Connor Mulcahey, a thirteen year-old from Weston Conneticut, who was hailed the grand prize winner of Apple's one billion app countdown contest
4) US blog 'Busted Loop' revealed after some research that in order to buy all 55,732 apps that were available as of 7th July 2009 you would need to fork out $144,326.06 (£89,818.381) - that's an average of about £1.60 per app to you and me.
5) In May 2009 Pinch Media analysed 30 million iPhone app downloads and discovered that only 5 per cent of users will open either a free or paid app 30 days after the initial download.
Jul 7, 2009
MTV Identity Reboot
A series of cool new stings have been created for MTV. Love, joy and desire are the common threads in MTV’s international rebrand, features the work of Universal Everything, Zeitguised, Realise, Maxim Zhestkov and Tronic. Check out those fuffy dudes. Great stuff.
