New mobile site blends Breathing Places with BBC Weather data. The BBC's Learning Innovations department has unveiled a new mobile internet site called Open Air. It identifies a user's location, then serves up a blend of event listings from its Breathing Places site, and local weather data from BBC Weather.
Found this neat little development last week that's growing by the day.. Apple seem to be green lighting more and more apps developed using this framework!
Android, Blackberry and iPhone are supported. So if you're into apps and know how to use html, css and javascript... get yourself over to phonegap.com and download the sdk for whatever platform you want to develop and start playing with Eclipse (A netbeans based IDE) for java EE and jave ME etc.. sounds confusing eh.. time to do you research and dig into the world of mobile.
Creative Cow how an article running on how Chris Heuer helped to re-imagine Nosferatu into 3D.. Get your 3D glasses out and enjoy a few clips of creative masking!
Orlok the Vampire in 3D
If you need a video converted quickly, this is a good place to start!
Conversion on the fly from local or online videos to common formats is a pretty good little tool.
The animated capers of Robby Bluetooth- a cartoon character created and distributed by greenfield mobile on behalf of South Wales Police- has been short-listed for the national Guardian GC awards.
Now in its 13th year, the GC Awards reward excellence in the use of technology to raise awareness in the public services. They were established to highlight the excellent work done by public servants across the UK, and to disseminate the projects' contributions to best practice.
Andrew McCarthy from South Wales Police who with the help of greenfield media has spearheaded the use of mobile technology within the police force has been shortlisted for the prestigious Innovator Of The Year award.
"The reaction to Robby has been very positive with his ability to reach all levels of the community, deliver a message and form a talking point around the table to discuss some of the issues Robby does. I’ve seen Robby being delivered at events and watched closely as friends swap and watch the message over and over again. At our Christmas lights turn on 2008 we used Robby to deliver a burglary message and I was quite surprised when I had young people come and ask me what extra bits they could do to make sure that Robby stayed away from their homes and kept the Christmas presents safe under the tree." Andrew McCarthy.
Link to mobile work:greenfieldmedia mobile
Link to GC awards: Guardian Awards
Link to BBC: BBC News
Hi all, moonoo have been flat out on stuff and things recently and have been delving into action script and flash video players. Javascript is also a biggie on the agenda, especially jquery functionality. jqueryfordesingers is a website that introduces javascript to the designer in us all. For those who find code daunting.. this is a good place to start!
This is very nice - comedy in jail is what you need. Dreary place and this is what happens
Watch more cool animation and creative cartoons at Aniboom
Whoever thought that a zoetrope could exist in the digital realm! Check out the link to try the illusion. Stripes
A dark piece of CG animation that was stumbled upon today! nice camera and layer work
Just Saw this on the news and thought it was amazing. Puppetry truly does give you a different experience. Check out the clip for a spectale worth watching. Advanced ticket sales of 2 million pounds I think. ITN News Item on War Horse
Here's a look at a Knitted Animation technique used to spread the word of world polution and it's effects on our planet. Knitted Animation
Here's another one for the successful campaign we've been doing with South Wales Police. Robby is on the prowl and everyone needs to be vigilant to the opportunist thief. Watch Out - because Robby's about! Watch Out - Robby's about
Discovered a nice service via the flv player we use on video sites.. JW FLV Player Longtailvideo called bitsontherun. There is an API for php, ajax and others as wel as a simple html and flash uploader.
Check it out, trial the free account and upload some videos to see streaming vids that could then be posted to your site but served from the bitsontherun systems. Bitsontherun
Don't waste time opening Photoshop to batch resize images... Just use this little gem from the Adobe AIR marketplace.
Shrink O'Matic is an Adobe AIR application to easily (batch) resize (shrink) images. It handles JPGs, GIFs and PNGs.
Simply drag and drop images and they'll be resized as you wish! Options allow you to choose the output sizes, names and formats.
Get it it here... Shrink O Matic
see the link to read more... Bluetooth in the news
See Davids work David Lewis Moon
As a major fan of Henry Selick and Neil Gaimans work.. here is what I have been waiting for all year.. Since seeing WB's Corpse Bride and the style adopted to create such a film... Selik and Laika embark on an amazing looking film..
You can even invite friends to share the same folders and work on the files remotely. What's also good it that the system keeps a backup of all files. Your work is archived for every instance of a change you make. So this means if a version of your file gets corrupted, you can just revert to an earlier verison.. check it out Dropbox
Take a look at the animation produced for the project.. The later half of the film involves live action integration from the kids during the workshops and is therefore missing in our sequence for security purposes Watch Citizenship Troopers
If you are catering for web browsers and come accross the png transparency issue with the wonderfull IE6 (yes it still exists, so we sort of have to cater for it.. sort of..) then the tribulations of using a .htc file hack for behaviour state of png image.. maybe this is a good place to start thinking again about what you really need. PNG8 can actually solve the need for hacks. Check out the link to see what I mean PNG8 solving transparency in IE6.
Cheers: Andy Moonoo
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