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RA: Inside the dark art of mastering – Feature / Interview

“What a mastering engineer does – and why they’re vitally important to every note of music you hear.”

Interesting way of using twitter to conduct polls, plus a debate that goes on and on (2p: main title, not logo! Otherwise you have the same h1 across all pages on a site).

A possible sIFR alternative. "Fast text replacement with canvas and VML - no Flash or images required."

geekpop.co.uk

“Geek Pop is the world’s only sci-pop festival – a free online music event featuring songs about science. In 2009, Geek Pop will take place between 6-15th March.”

A robust but compact Twitter application built on the Adobe AIR platform. It consists of a series of canvases that constantly update to keep tweets current and up-to-date using notifications that appear immediately after a new tweet arrives.

Flow makes working remotely every bit as intuitive and natural as working locally with the Finder [...] can connect to FTP, SFTP, Amazon S3, WebDAV, and MobileMe iDisk servers.

Half a second delay caused a 20% drop in traffic. Half a second delay killed user satisfaction.

A robust and unintrusive backup system for Mac OS X Leopard, which can be used either as a System Preferences pane or directly as a command line tool.

In December 2008 through January 2009, WebAIM conducted a survey of preferences of screen reader users. We received 1121 valid responses to the screen reader survey, which was conducted Dec. 2008 - Jan. 2009. The response was amazing.

A project of WideTag, Inc., a technology infrastructure company providing innovative solutions for an Open Internet of Things.

"NFO files usually contain release information about a software program. They are commonly associated with warez groups who include them to declare credit of and "bragging rights" over said release. Similarly they are often found in demoscene productions, where the respective groups include them for credits, contact details, and the software requirements."

BLEEP – Special 5th Birthday feature

To celebrate Bleep’s 5th birthday, we asked a select cast of people working in music to pick their 5 favourite releases or tracks from the entire Bleep catalogue.

To celebrate Bleep’s 5th birthday, we asked a select cast of people working in music to pick their 5 favourite releases or tracks from the entire Bleep catalogue.

I hate myself for marking this. "ASP.NET AJAX is built-into ASP.NET 3.5. It is also available as a separate download for ASP.NET 2.0."

Clever clever. Nice detail.

interesting variation of CSS Sprites has been getting a lot of play on large web sites that serve millions of users.

What a musical trip! 'Round The World In A Blu-Tac Bobcat'! Underground electronic producer Cursor Miner (Lo Recordings) in the mix.

A simple checklist that presents the principles and techniques of WCAG 2.0 in a more user-friendly, understandable format. The language has been significantly changed and simplified from the official WCAG 2.0 specification to make it more easily tested and verified for web pages.

Convinced that customers’ online-shopping behavior is now deeply colored by social-media experiences, the Richfield retailer has opened up proprietary product catalog data collected through its online store.

HAL 9000 screensaver

I can see you’re really upset about this. I honestly think you ought to sit down calmly, take a stress pill, and think things over.

...and here's the Line site, too.

Bandcamp have got their custom domains sorted out. Hurrah.

IE NetRenderer allows you to check how a website is rendered by Internet Explorer 7, 6 or 5.5, as seen from a high speed datacenter located in Germany.

Validator S.A.C. (Stand Alone Complex) is a stand-alone, easy to install, version of the W3C's HTML / XHTML Markup Validator for Mac OS X.

Freecycle starting the move away from Yahoo! Groups towards custom solution.

A web-based service that allows users to hold text, voice, and video chats on multiple instant messaging protocols. Currently supported protocols include AIM, Google Talk, ICQ, MSN, MySpace, Skype, and Yahoo Messenger.

A Free and Open Source microblogging platform. It helps people in a community, company or group to exchange short (140 character) messages over the Web.

"Allows you to use TortoiseSVN and other Subversion clients with Team Foundation Server. It converts the calls made by your Subversion client to the API supported by TFS." I really hope I don't have to use this.

Creators of socially responsible video games

Wrong but potentially useful as last resort. "CSS Browser Selector is a very small javascript with just one line which empower CSS selectors. It gives you the ability to write specific CSS code for each operating system and each browser."

cartographer:

Snowflake is an installation by arduino supplier Tinker.it. Viewers can interact with the display by tapping their Oyster travel card against it which will generate a snowflake based on the data on the card.

Made By Many ” “What Is a Social-Media Agency?”

“The old digital agency model is not helpful today. Instead, the industry can learn a lot from social start-ups (like Vimeo – who I am in love with, or SoundCloud) and work as fast as possible, being…

Transport and Property in London – Where Can I Live

We think that people want to live where they can easily get to work, so we created a simple tool to answer that difficult question: “Where Can I Live?”.

The old digital agency model is not helpful today. Instead, the industry can learn a lot from social start-ups (like Vimeo - who I am in love with, or SoundCloud) and work as fast as possible, being entrepreneurial, pragmatic, and nimble [...] People in traditional agencies - ‘old new media’ and our cousins in advertising - say they find all of the above quite challenging - which is weird because these agencies are stuffed with really smart people.

For throwing at certain designers. Surprising how poor some cta's are.

Useful reminder.

Designers Republic goes under. "I’ve never liked that agency model - it’s not where creativity lies. DR accidentally ended up there in order to service bigger clients. I’m not being ungrateful to the people who ran the business side at DR – it wasn’t their fault. I’m glad we did it - it took getting there to make me realise that it wasn’t where I wanted to be."

We aim to re-start production of analog INTEGRAL FILM for vintage Polaroid cameras in 2010. We have acquired Polaroid's old equipment, factory and seek your support.