Another take on the yellow arrow, and grafedia ideas

Polaroids on street corners: "Blockies allow camera phone users to post pictures on any public surface, using special stickers.

See something cool on the street? Take a picture and a Blockies sticker. Each sticker has a unique code on it, so any place you put the sticker gets tagged with that code. Whenever you send pictures to Blockies.com from your cameraphone, you put the code in a message to nyc@blockies.com, and they link your picture to that location.

Other people can see your picture on their phones by texting Blockies the sticker code, or they can add photos to any sticker, making a photo album of that spot, and all pictures are archived on Blockies.com.

To retrieve a photo message, just send an SMS to nyc@blockies.com that says ‘get UNIQUE CODE.’ Your phone will receive a picture message that someone else left on that sticker, or a link if your phone cannot receive picture messages.

Via del.icio.us.

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(Via we make money not art.)

freeSTYLE: "Sana Karwas' cell.SPACE application allows users to make a short live music video using SMS as lyrics and camera phone pictures as graphics.

Users can send text and picture messages from their mobile phone to the freeSTYLE and have their written text messages show up on the screen with a voice accompanying the text. Simultaneously a hip hop instrumental is creating and guiding the voice and graphics so the text becomes the lyrics and the pictures from the phones form the graphics.

The application has 21 different voices to choose from including male, female, creature, robot, and even human laughter. Instead of just being read back to the user, the voice is controlled by the beat of the music.

Video.

The work will be at the Interactive Multimedia Culture expo, on April 14th - 23rd, at the Chelsea Art Museum, in New York.

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(Via we make money not art.)

Post It Lamp: "The Post It Lamp is great. Why ship a lamp in bulky packaging when you can make a lamp from the packaging itself? Pop open the tube, flip out clip and roll-out shade, and unfurl the cord. The lamp base will still have the stamps and your address on it, but that‘s even better. It’s on sale for about 23 bucks.

Post It Lamp by 2pm [TreeHugger]

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(Via Gizmodo.)

A number of different sites with techniques for solving those CSS layout blues

1. glish.com : CSS layout techniques: “CSS Layout Techniques: for Fun and Profit”
2. The Layout Reservoir - BlueRobot: Please feel free to borrow, steal, abduct, and/or torture the documents contained in the Layout Reservoir. Though you need not give credit to BlueRobot.com, a comment in your source code would help other developers to find this resource. Enjoy.
3. Ruthsarian Layouts: Building CSS-based layouts can be a pain in the ass. In an attempt to save the sanity of myself and others, I offer these layouts that I've put together. Everything here is royalty-free, copyright-free, and warranty-free. Enjoy!
4. Layout-o-Matic: "We‘ve already been through the pain of making our layouts cross-browser compatible, so you don’t have to! In the spirit of the wonderfulList-o-matic, here‘s the first of InkNoise’s toys for the Web designer crowd."
5. Little Boxes: Different Layouts

Just so that you can keep tabs on what is me and what is quotes, I‘ve implemented a little styling … me is like this (10pt Courier if you’re interested and didn't already know).

And quotes are like this (italic dontchaknow) - basically if someone else said it, it'll be like this!

So there you have it.

As I see it there are some really cool applications for this little beast; sure the Media Centre idea is going to happen (and there are some spiffy looking designs beginning to appear), but check out all the companies out there that are looking at them as servers. Mac server without having to go for a big ole xServe - beautiful. I‘m prolly gonna get me one as backup to said ’big ole xServe'.

Anyhoo - here are the links:

MacMinServers
MacMiniColo

— SteamSHIFT

Secure wireless email on Mac OS X: “Know what happens to your usernames, passwords, and personal email messages when you use public wireless networks? Know that this data often travels freely through the air in clear text? And do you know how dead simple it is for anyone else on that same network to intercept your information and use it against you? On the flip side, did you know you can scramble this data to make it completely unintelligible, even if someone else does intercept it?”

macosxhints - Get the most from X!: If you are a mac user and don't know about this site … well shame on you! It really is the best repository of useful mac tips there is!

BluePhoneElite

Excellent piece of software linking mobile phone and mac. Between this and Salling Clicker, (below) they really do make your mobile phone tons more powerful (as long as it has bluetooth!!). I just wish that BPE supported SMS via my Sony Ericsson P900 (although it's apparently all the fault of the Symbian OS and the developer is working on a fix).

Here is how to create a 100MB drive image, backup data to it, and then burn it onto a CD (directly in the commandline, with only the built-in tools). One possible application: This could be easily modified and incorporated into a script that will backup your Entourage mail databases every week, good for up to six uses (6x100MB) depending on the size of your mail data…

bob$ hdiutil create -fs HFS+ -volname Backup -size 100m ~/Desktop/backup.dmg

bob$ hdiutil mount ~/Desktop/backup.dmg

bob$ ditto -rsrc -V ~/Desktop/datatobackup /Volumes/Backup >> /Volumes/Backup/backup.log

bob$ hdiutil unmount /Volumes/Backup

bob$ hdiutil burn ~/Desktop/backup.dmg -noverifyburn -noeject

It will prompt you for a disc, insert one and it will burn your disc:

Code:

<div style="text-align:left;" dir="ltr">

Please insert a disc: 

Starting

Initializing

Saving temporary image

Opening session

Writing track

..................................................  ..........................

Finishing writing

..................................................  ..........................</div>

Posted by gatorparrots on Mac-Forums.com