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DIY organization tool – cocoon Grid-It ripoff

Oct

23

2013

Ever since I saw the Grid-It organization system from Cocoon I wanted to own one (at least one). For Cocoon though to ship a product to the edge of the world where I apparentlt live is around $60, so buying one from the source is our of the question. So I thought … hey why not ...

Timeline jquery – APOEL Champions League 2011 – 2012

May

11

2012

I liked the jquery timeline so much that I had to do one more. This time I created a timeline as a tribute on APOEL’s Champions League adventure with links from http://www.uefa.com. Below is an embedded version in my post using the Timeline wordpress plugin, but you can also view a full screen version at APOEL Champions ...

Timeline jquery plugin

Apr

9

2012

Remember my post on news timeline… well now its even easier to implement with Timeline, a jquery plugin for displaying linear date based events. It is really easy to use and it can pull in media from different sources such as Twitter, YouTube, Flickr, Vimeo, Google Maps or SoundCloud. Timeline uses as input either a Google ...

Phone + Camera + Tablet = Laptop 4

Feb

16

2012

I love integrating stuff, either cloud like stuff (see Productivity Services 101, Multi-OS/device Task Management with toodledo), or hardware stuff (see ASUS PadFone). The trend was to have devices that do everything, like a phone that you can use to communicate with others, take photos or videos, browse the web, read news, check out a map, ...

Power by simplicity with ifttt 1

Oct

31

2011

With ifttt.com you can create tasks depending triggers from various channels on the basis of “If this then that”. Sounds very basic … and it is. Its power though comes from combining different channels giving its users the chance to automate a lot of processes done manually up to now. Classic example is when you are ...

Another phone to tablet

Oct

21

2011

Seems another company is considering a phone to tablet duo. After Asus and CMIT Fujitsu jumps in the game with this beautiful idea. Source: Yanko

Nobody’s perfect when it comes to pixels

Sep

28

2011

So it seems that even big old mighty Google makes mistakes on its UI. Take a look at this screenshoot from google calendar, you’ll see that the “All Day” lines are not aligned with the rest on the week view. Of course I had to do a full screen on a 1680 by 1050 resolution ...

Serial Progress Bar for ASP.NET 3.5

Aug

1

2011

There are many user controls in ASP.NET for a progress bar, but not so many for a progress bar that shows you how many steps are finished and how many are left to be completed. I call that a Serial Progress Bar, hence the title of the post. So since I had to go ahead ...

Promises Promises web app

Jul

22

2011

Sick and tired of politicians big talk and undelivered promises? Well they only get away with it because their statements are not properly documented, thus its not easy to verify exactly what someone says, when they say it, concerning what subject e.t.c. In the spirit of the latest events in Cyprus, where everyone seems to resist on ...

Web apps UI trends

Jul

11

2011

Google’s social initiative google+, gave the opportunity to change their main web applications (search, gmail, calendar, google +) UI considering the new trends. Even though they are still experimenting they seem to be on the right track. They are combining cleanness, simplicity and flexibility. Google say their design principles are based on focus, elasticity and effortlessness. I will try ...