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Awesome Papervision3D experiment - 3D pixels vs. Kraftwerk video

February 12th, 2008 by Nicolas Noben

This is one of the coolest Papervision 3D experiment I have seen.

The screenshots don’t really do it any justice. It has to be animated to really get the cool effect.

Check it out here.

More information can be found in this blogpost.

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Flex app: Yahoo! launches Live - Broadcast yourself.

February 8th, 2008 by Nicolas Noben

yahoo live.pngThis is an early beta of a new Yahoo! service called Y! Live.

Yahoo live lets user create their own channel and be live on video I guess. It’s cool and all but frankly I wouldn’t do it. Some You Tube freaks might be craving for it tho, time will tell.

This early beta craps itself all the time. The app looks promising although unclear as to what it’s trying to achieve.

Check out Yahoo! Live.

Love the holycow (url) error.


Design: ★★★★☆
Usability: ★★★★☆
Execution: ★★★☆☆
Overall: ★★★½☆

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Yahoo Finance - RIA that doesn’t (totally) suck

February 3rd, 2008 by Nicolas Noben

Yahoo Finance has a new charting app in beta. It’s not too bad if you love charts, but still pretty useless being delayed by 15 min; unless you’re into the long term trends.


Design: ★★★☆☆
Usability: ★★★☆☆
Execution: ★★★☆☆
Overall: ★★★☆☆

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Henley properties - stunning flex Flash app for display homes

February 1st, 2008 by Nicolas Noben

Besides the buggy deep linking in their flash, it’s a very well done web app.

Update: it’s a Flash app, excuse the title.

Henley Properties display homes


Design: ★★★★☆
Usability: ★★★★☆
Execution: ★★★★☆
Overall: ★★★★☆

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Dominos Pizza, Better website than pizzas!

October 18th, 2007 by Nicolas Noben

The Domino’s Pizza Australia Website features a great “Order Pizza Online” system.

It has a Pizza selection, pickup & delivery options, saves your details, gives you an interactive time display for the pickup/delivery, all in a nice and enjoyable interface design.


Design: ★★★★☆
Usability: ★★★★☆
Execution: ★★★★☆
Overall: ★★★★☆

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Cameroid updates

September 13th, 2007 by Nicolas Noben

Cameroid updates with a new design, few new features and new scenes (that’s the best).

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Interesting Video of upcoming TileUI

July 30th, 2007 by Nicolas Noben

This is a really cool demo of a desktop / web app called TileUI.

I have to say, however, that I will stick to Finder for day-to-day work, huh.

More info here

Please note that the concept has already been seen in a yet-to-be-released application seen here.

(Thanks Raz-L)

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The 5 web apps you should keep an eye on

July 20th, 2007 by Nicolas Noben

In the fast changing world of the internet, it’s important to keep track of what’s going on.

Here are the 5 apps that really got my attention recently.

 

Pownce - Share everything

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Not only Pownce includes Digg’s master Kevin Rose, but it’s also a very promising app.

The basic idea behind Pownce is sharing, everything. At this stage you can send messages, links, files such as photos and events.

It’s currently under a slow expanding public beta (invite only).

 

Picnik - Powerful photo editing online

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Picnik is not the usual Flex app. It runs a kick-ass set of features for images editing and it looks gorgeous.

 

Saffron - Beautiful UML Modeler

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There has been a lot of buzz around Saffron. Pretty much any blog about Adobe AIR has featured it, yet it’s not even alpha! I think the screen grabs just look amazing and people are dying for a proper (free?) UML editor.

We keep in touch with Saffron and we hope for a public alpha, soon.

 

Warehouse - Comprehensive subversion browser

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Their tag-line says it well: “Finally, A Web-based subversion browser that doesn’t suck.”

Warehouse supports multiple repository access, makes easy to manage users and brings the convenience of browser bookmarks to subversion. A bliss for regular or amateur subversion users.

 

Aviary - Take the artists online

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Aviary is working on a set of applications that will bring “people who create” online. All types of artists will have access to creative tools, online.

The amusing part is that it’s with Adobe products that Aviary plans on reducing Adobe’s user list!

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Aviary plans on taking artists online

July 14th, 2007 by Nicolas Noben

Aviary is a new project made by Worth1000. They plan on developing flex application for online use by artists and create an ecosystem in which artists using their products also post their products.

The project is quite a big one and a hard one to achieve. Also how do you trully replace photoshop or gimp by a flex application? As a flex developer myself, I am quite puzzled about the end result. However, the few samples presented on the site look quite professional and now we just have to wait. (via Techcrunch).

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Cameroid, the Flex Photobooth online

July 6th, 2007 by Nicolas Noben

Cameroid is a great web app that makes use of your webcam. It’s very similar to Photo Booth but extends it with funky scenes. Before all, Cameroid has a lot of potential.

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FlexBook, the must have component for flex

July 6th, 2007 by Nicolas Noben

Create simple book looking applications with this full-on Flex component. The source is now available!
Check out The FlexBook component and the source. Also with Adobe Air as ApolloBook.

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Adobe opens a bug tracking application

July 4th, 2007 by Nicolas Noben

Adobe opens Flex Bug and Issue Management System.
Now that Flex has been declared open source, Adobe set up a bug tracking application. I found it amusing that it’s not written in plural.

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Matchmine - New Medias Discovery Platform

July 4th, 2007 by Nicolas Noben

Matchmine is a Flex/Air application that recommends media based on your tastes. The application seems to be an early beta and I have run into some bugs, but it looks promising.
Check it out at http://www.matchmine.com/

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Pownce: Send stuff to your friends

July 3rd, 2007 by Nicolas Noben

Pownce is a way to send messages, files, links, and events to your friends. You’ll create a network of the people you know and then you can share stuff with all of them, just a few of them, or even just one other person really fast.
Pownce is made in Adobe Air and is currently in private beta.
Check out http:// www.pownce.com/

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Scrapblog - Cool flex application

July 3rd, 2007 by Nicolas Noben

Scrapblog is a cool flex application that lets you blog your images in templates.
Check it out: http://scrapblog.com/

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