I came across this cool program IOGraph last week that turns your mouse movements into a work of art. I let the program run for most of the day on Monday and it came out with this visual representation of my day in front of the screen. There are a few too many large blobs where my mouse was left idle but I blame that making the tea and coffee.
CSS3 has amazing potential to give your sites that awe and wonder factor. At first glance, CSS3 gave you rounded corners, image borders and shadows. Ok, thats good news for all those developers that had to use ugly workarounds for every modern browser and IE6. But you then look a little deeper and find the animation ability. Check it out:
So you’ve designed a fantastic site that everyone loves, don’t make people wait to see it. We’ve come up with this quick fire checklist, which is the first of what will be a series of posts on optimization for the web, to make sure you’re doing all you can to improve your users browsing experience.
I stumbled upon this pretty amazing website this morning (with a bit of direction from Jonathan) and thought it was worth sharing…
It is currently the largest picture in the world (above is cropped), and here are a few stats about it…
• Taken with a Canon 5D mark II and a 400mm lens
• Consists of 1,665 full format pictures – each of which are 21.4 megapixel
• Recorded by a photo-robot in 172 minutes
• 102GB of raw data
• Data conversion by computer took 94 hours
• 297,000 px x 87,500 px (26 gigapixel)
Don’t see what all the fuss is about? Go and take a look at it yourself!
I have just discovered the Four Square application and I must say I am pretty excited about it!
For those that haven’t heard about FourSquare, you can check it out here.
Basically, it is a mobile application which enables you to “check-in” to destinations around your city, leave comments, offer suggestions, redeem discounts, earn points, unlock badges and even become the “mayor” of certain destinations.
Sorry for the late update… been mega busy here at We Love.. hence the reason why we are looking for another Dev guy/girl 
Check out the job spec if your interested >
Thanks to all the guys at Stack Overflow (presented by Carsonified) for a great and highly inspirational day. We particularly enjoyed; Remy Sharps talk on jQuery, Christian Heilmann’s Yahoo Developer tips, iPhone tips by Phil Nash and Jon Skeet’s hand Pony!!
Love this pic below- This is sooooo NOT true!! 
I have been keeping an eye on the development of Photoshop CS5, and although it is still a fair way off (expected release is April 2010) there is a few exciting features that are looking like they will be included -
I apologise for the corny commentary, but I think the new features looks pretty cool. It seems they have incorporated the Puppet tool from After Effects which I have always thought would be a nice little feature to have in Photoshop. Though I do cringe at the thought of some of the new Photoshop disasters we will see once the hacks start “having a go”!
On the photoshop disaster note, I recommend checking out Photoshop Disasters for a smile or two to see exactly the kind of mistakes that should be avoided when doing any creative re-touching!
We are super excited to be attending the Stack Overflow Dev Day at Kensington Town Hall tomorrow. It will give us developers at We Love a chance to mingle with other coding masters and pick up a few hints and tricks.
See you there…
After a busy few weeks working on this project, ‘The Pier’ is now live and bouncing… It showcases properties at Ingress Park (a new Housing Development by INplace), situated in the beautifully regenerated area of Greenhithe. The website has a pop-up, papercraft look and feel, combining the old with the new, highlighting some of the key features the development has to offer. With Ebbsfleet round the corner and bluewater on your doorstep, this development helps open doors and create opportunities for people from all walks of life – a key differentiator in an over saturated market
The launch party was a great success and although we couldn’t have bouncing space-hoppers scattered around London as part of the guerrilla marketing campaign (mainly for legal reasons…), we were able to sneak it in on the website! Already this campaign has generated plenty of interest and the properties are selling almost as quickly as the ones for Grand Ocean.
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News just in from MAX conference in LA that Adobe are nearly ready to release Flash Player 10.1 for smartphones. This has been a longtime coming and is a big step forward for the future of smartphones, with promises of fast rendering, low memory consumption and less battery drain.
We should be seeing the first examples on the following platforms: Android, Symbian, Windows Mobile, webOS, and Blackberrys in early 2010.
One noticeable absence from this list is the iPhone, so it looks like us iPhone owners will have to just keep waiting. We can’t have it all I guess?!
