3D Cubes using CSS Transformations

“The impression of a three dimensional cube can be created using modern CSS techniques, without the need for JavaScript, imagery, canvas or SVG. Using the proprietary transform property to skew and rotate shaded rectangles, individual cube faces can combine to form a 3D object. Currently only supported in recent WebKit and Gecko based browsers, most importantly Firefox 3.5+ -moz-transform (documentation) and Safari 3.2+ -webkit-transform" Check It!


Dynamic Content Injection with Canvas and Video

Frikkin awesome stuff the Mozilla team is doing with Canvas.

Just check the video out here.

More here.

10 Cool Things We’ll Be Able To Do Once IE6 Is Dead

“Use child selectors”, “Make full use of 24-bit PNGs”, My favourite is “Enjoy ourselves again”.

Full details after the break.

How to Scare IE Users into Upgrading

Add this line of code onto your website.

“<!–[if lt IE 7]><style type=”text/css”>@import url(http://www.jinjadev.co.za/topBar.css);</style><div id=”advBrowserWarning”><a href=”http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox”><b>WARNING!!!</b> Your version of Internet Explorer has known security issues! To protect your computer please correct this now. Click here to upgrade…</a></div><![endif]–>”

Stolen from here.

Ford Bets the Fiesta on Social Networking

“Ford is betting the success of the Fiesta subcompact on the blogs, tweets and Facebook updates of 100 people who will live with the cars and share their experiences online. It’s a hell of a gamble, but if it pays off, Ford just might recast itself as a cool company with a great product — no small feat for an American automaker. ”

Which is a very good idea, but if the Tweets/Posts are boring or average, it could make the Fiesta look boring.

View more here.

Beautiful Design

Saw this on my eyes-half-closed-early-morning-web-trawl. One of the very few designs that you just stare at for a few minutes, just to take it in.

Website: www.sensisoft.com

Data Visualisation of a Twitter Search

“If all Twitter searches were this fun, I’d probably do little else than stare at them all day. This experimental Twitter search engine is made with Processing; it lets you choose keywords for a Twitter search, and results are displayed in the form of petals which turn into tweets when they reach the destination. I haven’t been able to find the actual application, but you can see a demo in the video after the break.”

Stop Procrastinat…

You’ve got a lot of work to do, you sit down to do it, but then realise, to your horror, that the books above desk are just alphabetically ordered, not even grouped by continent, colour, weight and font!!!!!!

So you immediately set out to fix this, then once you done that, you go have a snack… Just in case you get hungry. Then you sit down and decide your lawn could do with a cut.

Procrastination… We all do it… After the break are some steps to break the cycle.

Essential Checks Before Launching Your Website

You’ve done the sweetest Ajax site this side of the Vaal. Your client loves the way the text flashes red->black->red->black. The brighter the better right?

So you’re ready to go live… Or are you?

Some essential checks before launching your website after the break…

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After death do us part…

What happens to your online accounts after you die? Have you ever thought about it? Do you care??? The Jehovah Witness that visits me three times a day knows that I don’t.

But ye, if you DO then Legacy Locker is for you. After you peg, it passes all your logins onto a beneficary…

Wes, I’m leaving my Facebook account to you. Please don’t put a porn as my profile pic… Nah, only kidding, go for it.