Monthly Archives: November 2009

Creating digital art via touch

robinna/ November 29, 2009/ Technology, Culture, Design, 3D, Blog posts/ 0 comments

Touch screens aren’t the only way of doing this. Shillito is leading a team that has developed software that allows artists to receive physical feedback when designing virtual 3D objects. The team’s approach uses a haptic device called Falcon, which vibrates and moves to allow users to “feel” virtual objects. Originally developed for 3D gaming, Falcon is a cross between

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w3c cheat sheet

robinna/ November 25, 2009/ webdesign, tools/tips, web 2.0+, training / tutorials/ 0 comments

http://www.w3.org/QA/2009/11/w3c_cheatsheet_for_developers.html “This cheatsheet aims at providing in a very compact and mobile-friendly format a compilation of useful knowledge extracted from W3C specifications — at this time, CSS, HTML, SVG and XPath —, completed by summaries of guidelines developed at W3C, in particular the WCAG2 accessibility guidelines, the Mobile Web Best Practices, and a number of internationalization tips. Its main feature

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What’s up with wolfram alpha?

robinna/ November 23, 2009/ Search engines/browsers/ 0 comments

Interesting little post about wolfram alpha and plans for the future: But Alpha may yet confound the sceptics. Last month, Wolfram released an application programming interface, or API, that allows anybody to build software or websites that use Alpha’s abilities. “Alpha is a technology platform that allows one to inject computable knowledge into any application or computer system,” says Wolfram.

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Blue beanie day — support the semantic web

robinna/ November 21, 2009/ software, social media, semantic web, Design, that's cool, web 2.0+/ 0 comments

Arches @ noon. Nov. 30.The 3rd annual Blue Beanie Day will be celebrated on Monday, November 30th, 2009see http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=136079874938 On Monday, November 30, 2009 thousands of Standardistas (people who support web standards) will wear a Blue Beanie to show their support for accessible, semantic web content. Join the fun! The 2009 event page is here:http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=136079874938 It’s easy to show your

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