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What’s Cooking Steve? Apple’s new patent applications

January 21st, 2010 Mitch Brisebois No comments

Fresh off the press at the US patent Office are some interesting filings by the Cupertino Cult. 1. POWER MANAGEMENT CIRCUITRY AND SOLAR CELLS - Are shiny solar cells going to be the 'new aluminum'? This invention describes a clever mechanism of virtually re-ordering cells to produce constant voltage in the case that certain cells ...

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Zombify: Photoshop made easy (for zombies)

January 19th, 2010 Mitch Brisebois 2 comments

This has been around since the launch of the Zombieland web site promoting the movie. The flash app buried inside the site is a brilliant execution of UI. It takes many complex / abstract concepts of graphic tools and makes them usable - for the masses. The first improvement - the controls ...

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Geo Surfing the Twittersphere with TrendsMap

December 27th, 2009 Jobe Roberts No comments
trendsmap

Real time mapping of twitter keyword trends mapped out around the world. Small oddities to consider with these maps, the tweets seem to be identified by internet service providers, so there are groups of words around major cities such as Montreal but zooming down to small towns or neighborhoods won't provide more detail.  These are high ...

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Photo Wall for Wakefield Québec

December 17th, 2009 Jobe Roberts No comments

Flickr Photos tagged 'Wakefield Quebec'. Enjoy and happy holidays to all the good folk in Wakefield! If you have difficulty viewing this page, you can try this alternative link: http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=wakefield%20quebec&w=all

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Adsense: Flooded by Weight-Loss Ads

December 11th, 2009 Jobe Roberts No comments
fat-chick

Update: *editorial corrections marked in brackets [as such]. It has been decided by the SensoryMetrics marketing advisory sub-committee (SMMASC) that Google Adsense will be turned off on this site.  Um, that is, turned off and deactivated, (just as soon as we figure out how to close our account). I know, so many of you will miss our ...

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Wordle Innovation: Build your own Christmas party game

December 10th, 2009 Mitch Brisebois 1 comment
WordleXMAS1

Ages ago we wrote about the wonder of a little java app called Wordle - which creates stylized word clouds from text or urls. This year we got the idea to use Wordle to create a family game for our upcoming Christmas gathering. Simply search the lyrics of your favourite xmas tunes ...

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Email will never die!! Long Live Google Wave ;-)

November 25th, 2009 Jobe Roberts 4 comments
Mitzie-moo

Ok, so Wave is either the ultimate replacement for email or just a new tool to use for communication; not that different from instant messaging, Skype or Facebook. Truth is it depends on what you use your email for. If you like writing emails now, you will no doubt continue on using email. On ...

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Ottawa Photo Wall

November 21st, 2009 Jobe Roberts No comments

The above photo wall (Flash plugin required) will show all images being posted live on Flickr that are tagged 'Ottawa'. Click / scroll to the right to see the more photos taken in Ottawa.

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Apple Winning the Mashable Wars

November 18th, 2009 Jobe Roberts 1 comment
mashup

Hopefully by the time you read this, you will be able to download your iTunes play-list as an XML file then embed an interactive Flash animation that displays your songs on your Facebook page or website.  Um, you probably won't get this mashable app from Apple, but instead from some clever basement developer doing it ...

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