A few days ago one of my old professors gave a shout-out to Clipboard, which she praised as having the functionality of Pinterest coupled with superior aesthetics and a broader feature set. Now I’ve never tried Pinterest as I’m not really big into sharing webpages in general; in fact I only really use my Tumblr for images and music. But my interest was piqued when she mentioned the unique way Clipboard had of grabbing live “clips”, i.e. articles, images, or videos or even complete chunks from a site by copying and pasting the site’s code, and then taking that clip and displaying it in an aesthetically pleasing “at-a-glance” view along with other clips. Throw in a tag-based cataloguing system for these digital clipboards, and you’ve got a robust brainfart collector there. More
This dude combined a graphic novel, a rap album, and a video game. It’s like Lupe Fiasco meets Scott Pilgrim. Only less Canadian. What makes it even cooler is that the overarching story is semi-autobiographical- so it’s got that personal touch that’s always a hallmark of special projects in games, comics, and music.
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…And I’m not just saying that because I’ve applied for their developer program. The LEAP Motion system sits in front of you on your desk, plugs into a USB port on a PC or Mac, then basically functions as a knocked-over Kinect- gestures and motions are recognized from below and translated via the included Motion software.
The kicker is that instead of an expensive, top-heavy, motorized setup (the Kinect), the Leap uses proprietary technologies to achieve much more accurate gesture and motion tracking, from a much closer distance. What’s more, the Leap will retail for 70 bucks- markedly cheaper than other products on the market.
Assuming I get approved for Leap’s developer program (and I don’t need to sign any NDA’s), I’ll be sure to document my experiences working with it in my own projects, hopefully culminating in a review of the final product ahead of its anticipated release date this winter.
via LEAP Motion.
I want all of these for my new apartment.
I remember hearing about Google Web Fonts a while back and thinking, “Huh. This could be cool eventually.” Flash-forward to now, and I’m blown away by how much this pet project has progressed. Embeddable fonts aren’t just a neat trick anymore, limited to web developers with too much time and bandwidth on their hands. Now anyone with a modicum of development skill can drop unique, eye-catching fonts right into their site- not images, but real fonts.
There are over 500 fonts, free to use, and importing them is as simple as copy/pasting some code. They even threw in a handy gauge to show you how much of a strain the fonts will place on your page’s load times. I’m currently experimenting with importing some very style-specific fonts into my site’s splash page, and so far the process has been extra-simple. Anyone out there who’s into typography and web/graphic design, should immediately add this site to their bag of tricks.
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Hey! I'm Mike, this is my blog. and my dream is to use my middling tech skills to make the world a better place (not in the techno-libertarian, "the world is a better place if I get mine" sense, but in the actual, "I want to help" sense).
