Flowplayer is an Open Source (GPL 3) video player for the Web. Use it to embed video streams into your web pages. Built for site owners, developers, hobbyists, businesses and serious programmers. Flash technology enables that 98% of all Internet users can see your videos. Highly skinnable. No other software makes it easier.
Adobe has secured a deal to put its Flash software into many of the chips that go inside TVs and set-top boxes.
It will enable developers and content providers to create applications to deliver web-based content such as news, weather and share prices to TV screens.
Every month Smashing Magazine take a look around and select some of the most interesting web-development-related web-sites. You’ll find useful references, tutorials, services, tools, techniques and articles Smashing Magazine have found over the last 30 days.
Make sure you check:
- Vintage Logotypes
- jQuery Tutorials for Designers
- CSS Message Box collection
- Most used CSS tricks
- Feed Analysis v1.1
- Acid3 Test Released
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/03/27/best-of-march-2008/
Siafu is a PC designed to give people with vision loss or impairment a more intuitive computer experience. It lays flat like a tablet and allows the user to fully interact with it by way of touch. The surface utilizes a conceptual material called magneclay or magnetized liquid. This material has the ability to morph upward into any shape via a controlled electromagnetic field enabling the device to create a braille surface for reading and even pictures in 3D relief.
The technology behind Siafu – Magneclay, is an oil based synthetic agent that possesses limitless morphing capabilities. Its loose molecular structure but can be infinitely rearranged when acted upon by electrical and magnetic charges. As long as the charges acting upon it remain stable, the magneclay will hold its structural rigidity, allowing it to be touched and groped without deformation.
This is one of the most impressive features:
Siafu utilizes 2-D to 3-D image conversion technology to process screen images. It then generates a 3-Dimensional digital wire frame which is then process through electrical currents into the magneclay. The end result is a highly accurate 3-Dimensional representation of the image.
What is the difference between these two new online tools, what is their offer, what can you do with it?
I have tested the two tools and they are both very cool… It looks like another wave of technology is coming on the internet!
Tabbed browsing plugin for firefox, the effect is like switching account on your mac, or alt+enter on parallels.
You can download the plugin here. It’s fun for a while, but i have disabled the plugin because when you are working you don’t need all the animations.
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This web 2.0 service makes your own preloader, change the colors, animation and hit generate. You can download your *.gif file.
With mosaickr you can create beautiful mosaics from your flickr pictures. And if you want, you can print them on a big poster!