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Apple’s iPhone 4S CSS3 animation explained
If you go to the iPhone4S product page on the Apple site, you’ll see some sweet CSS3 animations at work. John B. Hall took the birds’ eye view and analyzed what happens. The “phone stage” (blue-bordered box) contains all 6 “slides” of the animation sequence and has a transition css property with a duration and …
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Major Lazer – Original Don
How much I love the first part of this song (especially from 0:30 up to 1:00 — has some Beirut feel to it — followed by the sublime transition to the beat), how much I don’t know what to think of the last part (2:50). Oh, in case you’re in doubt: Yes, my favorite artists …
Facebook SIM
Getting Facebook working on a SIM means using the SIM Toolkit commands, which limits interaction to a cascade of text menus, but it does mean that any GSM handset can now access Facebook. Handsets don’t even need an internet connection as the service uses Class 2 SMS for connectivity (SMS messages sent and received by …
Duck Sauce – Big Bad Wolf
Paper: Selecting good still frames from a video
In this paper, we train a computer to select still frames from video that work well as candid portraits. Because of the subjective nature of this task, we conduct a human subjects study to collect ratings of video frames across multiple videos. Then, we compute a number of features and train a model to predict …
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HTML Component Model & the Shadow DOM
At Fronteers ’11, Alex Russel gave a great talk about the Shadow DOM (relevant slides starting from slide 32). Jake Archibald, who also gave an awesome presentation at Fronteers, provides us a nice writeup on the subject, along with a very practical example: This is an <audio> element, or at least its implementation in Google …