I’ve been spending quite a lot of time getting to know my new acer aspire one and this weekend I finally feel like I’ve reached a major milestone. After grabbing a few scripts from userstyles.org for the firefox stylish addon my web browsing ux is now satisfactory. Among the other addons that have filled the gap left by this tiny, pain-in-the-ass-keyboard are Speed Dial (loads thumbnails of your favorite sites in newly created tabs) and Foxmarks for bookmark syncing. Mostly the tweaks were about cutting down on the amount of typing that has to be done and making the best use of the small screen space available. I’ve also turned auto-hide on, a feature I thought I would never use for any length of time, but it saves a good quarter of and inch of realestate at the bottom of the screen so it had to go.
I’m very proud to announce the release of my first wordpress theme, pl00. Don’t let pl00’s plain wrapper fool you - it’s meant to be a development theme that quickly gets a themer from A to B. I use it on every wordpress project I work on. One of pl00’s best features is that the homepage has 5 widget areas. It’s been tested in Firefox, Safari and IE7 and is W3C validated.
Tags: fixed width, three columns, valid CSS, valid XHTML, white, simple, widgets, widget ready, 3columns, right sidebars, SEO friendly, gravatars, h:over effects, text-only
I’m thinking of switching back to pc’s. In a way it feels like I joined an awesome cult (mac) only to find out that there is another cult (win) across the street that has an indoor pool, robots and all the gravy you can drink. Of course that gravy could kill you and those robots could severe your limbs at any moment, but what’s life without some risk? The latest HP and Dell laptops have serious hardware packed into them that the Macbook Pro just doesn’t cut it when it comes to live video processing. So after reading a lot about what gear other performers use, I’m thinking of taking the plunge and grabbing an HP laptop, something like this one. Lately I’ve been having fun with a little Acer Aspire One (warning: the Aspire One website has really annoying music)., and even loaded up Resolume to see what it could do (sort of a success, but mostly it sucked).
This video looks amazing, it’s a new 3d environment that is top secret. Apparently the video was not meant to be released for the public but it’s so god-awful awesome it needs to be shared. The concept: this virtual world is rendered in the cloud and streamed to your browser.
As raytracing becomes more and more common I’m starting to get a lot of ideas for including 3d worlds in my interactive work - not to mention the possibilities of integrating data from the web into virtual environments.
I'm Jim Olson a designer, artist and web developer. I make websites, video and other media. Besides art, design and the web I like music, gaming and live visuals. By day I make beautiful drupal websites for an agency in Victoria, British Columbia.
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