Horizon lets you record horizontal videos no matter how you hold your device. Hold it upright, sideways or even keep rotating it while capturing, the video will always stay horizontal! Say no to Vertical Video Syndrome Horizon → Horizon in the App Store →
Inside a performance of the London Symphony Orchestra
View performances from a new perspective, watch up to four cameras at one time, and use the orchestra visualisation to learn more about the instruments & musicians involved. Neat! Would love to see an HTML5 based version of this, yet might not be possible at all to get the videos properly sync’d up. Hover at …
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SoundWorks Collection: The Sound of The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
In flight
To mark 100 years of passenger air travel, our stunning interactive uses live data to show every one of the thousands of commercial planes currently in the air, charts the history of aviation since 1914, and asks what comes next for the industry Neat! Pleasant narrative too. In flight: see the planes in the sky …
Video embeds for the Social
About half a year ago I’ve changed how I embed videos here on bram.us. No, I’m not embedding responsively but I’m embedding Vimeo and YouTube clips along with its poster frame (= the image you see before the video starts playing). Doing this will force Facebook and Google+ to show that image – and not …
Software in 2014
We’re at an inflection point in the practice of constructing software. Our tools are good, our server developers are happy, but when it comes to building client-side software, we really don’t know where we’re going or how to get there. Great read, by Tim Bray. Could pull a ton of quotes from this post, but …
Using ConsoleServiceProvider with Silex
use Knp\Provider\ConsoleServiceProvider; $app->register(new ConsoleServiceProvider(), array( ‘console.name’ => ‘ConsoleApp’, ‘console.version’ => ‘1.0.0’, ‘console.project_directory’ => __DIR__ . ‘/..’ )); Good writeup and code by Ken, a former student of mine. Using ConsoleServiceProvider with Silex → Want to start developing with Silex? Then check out my freely available course materials on the subject.
Responsive Deliverables
During the era of Print Design, companies would approach agencies for a brand identity system. The identity work started with a simple logo and color scheme and then scaled to business cards, product packaging, vehicles and more. The sum of these components made up the physical brand. Building webpages is not so different. Be sure …
Planetary.js – Awesome interactive globes for the web
Planetary.js is a JavaScript library for building awesome interactive globes. It is based on D3.js and TopoJSON and has built-in support for zoom, rotation, mouse interaction, and displaying animated “pings” at any coordinate. Via plugins, Planetary.js can be extended to do whatever you want! Planetary.js → Planetary.js Seismic Activity Demo →