After acquiring Instagram for 1 Billion dollars, Facebook has released a clean instagram clone that works in same way and improves your Facebook experience. Square photos and quite the same filters. In the long run, I guess both apps will eventually become one. Download Facebook Camera App an Instagram Clone → Facebook Camera (App Store) …
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Yahoo! Axis
Yahoo! Axis redefines what it means to search and browse the Web. Comes as a browser plugin (tested in Chrome) which adds a search bar layed over the bottom of your browser window. As Chrome already offers searching via the address bar (FYI: In Chrome Canary it already searches as you type), the true benefit …
Leap Motion
Leap represents an entirely new way to interact with your computers. It’s more accurate than a mouse, as reliable as a keyboard and more sensitive than a touchscreen. For the first time, you can control a computer in three dimensions with your natural hand and finger movements. And only $70! Leap Motion →
CSS 3D Earth
lolcommits
Takes a snapshot with your Mac’s built-in iSight/FaceTime webcam every time you git commit code, and archives a lolcat style image with it. UPDATE 2017.01.03: Jelle Vandebeeck has written down some instructions on setting this up. Since this was originally posted, lolcommits now apparently supports recording video (yielding a gif) 🙂 lolcommits →
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Grand Theft Auto Classic WebGL
Before you get too overly excited by the title, no this isn’t a full recreation of the 1997 DMA classic. Instead it’s a WebGL tech demo put together by Niklas von Hertzen as an experiment, to test out the creation and performance of large static environments. It works by loading in the original GTA map …
How Yahoo Killed Flickr and Lost the Internet
As a result of being resource-starved, Flickr quit planting the anchors it needed to climb ever higher. It missed the boat on local, on real time, on mobile, and even ultimately on social—the field it pioneered. And so, it never became the Flickr of video; YouTube snagged that ring. It never became the Flickr of …
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Descent of ESA’s Huygens’ probe at Titan
This movie, built with data collected during ESA Huygens’ mission at Titan on 14 January 2005, shows the operation of the DISR camera during its descent up to touch-down. The almost 4-hour long operation of DISR is shown in less than five minutes – 40 times the actual speed up to landing and 100 times …