zoom.js is a proof of concept JavaScript API for zooming in on DOM elements or points. Click on any element on this page to zoom in and click again, or use ESC, to zoom out. Kinda like iOS’s double-tap-element-to-zoom zoom.js →
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Radio Silence
You might have noticed the absence of posts here on bram.us the past week. Culprit were the new lesson materials I have developed for the course Rich Internet Applications (next year to be renamed to Web & Mobile Development) The developed materials consist of a set of interactive in-browser slide decks, powered by (a customized) …
Path uploads your entire iPhone address book to its servers
It all started innocently enough. I was thinking of implementing a Path Mac OS X app as part of our regularly scheduled hackathon. Using the awesome mitmproxy tool, I started to observe the various API calls made to Path’s servers from the iPhone app. It all seemed harmless enough until I observed a POST request …
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Siri vs. Scotland
Upside Down, Left To Right: A Letterpress Film
Black
Dutch ISP XS4ALL was ordered to block several IP addresses and domain names (presumably) linked to The Pirate Bay (full list here). In response, they blacked out their homepage. Roughly translated from Dutch: For the first time in history a Dutch ISP was forced to revoke access to a foreign site. The Den Haag court …
psd.js
Impressive new addition to the list of javascript codec/file format implementations: psd.js is a general purpose file parser for PSD files created in Photoshop. Given a PSD file, it can parse out information such as image size and color modes, image resources, layer info, image contents, etc. Written in Coffeescript. Works in modern browsers and …
Everything you need to know about Facebook’s IPO
Facebook Timeline Movie Maker
Here’s my resulting movie → Cool concept, needs some technical/ux work though. Some quick quirks I noticed: Can’t change the loading background image. It now shows a photo of a friend of mine, instead of a photo of me Videos can’t be saved/embedded Loading of “saved” video is slow (most likely because they’re built on …
Moonrise Kingdom
Set on an island off the coast of New England in the summer of 1965, MOONRISE KINGDOM tells the story of two twelve-year-olds who fall in love, make a secret pact, and run away together into the wilderness. As various authorities try to hunt them down, a violent storm is brewing off-shore — and the …