Interesting and unexpected facts can emerge from daily news stories and the Magazine picks out such snippets for its weekly feature, 10 things we didn’t know last week. Here’s an almanac of the best of 2011.
87. Jimmy Savile and Margaret Thatcher celebrated New Year’s Eve together 11 years in a row.
Yearly Archives: 2011
The ‘trouble’ with Android
So why the incredibly wide range in Android screen sizes? What we in fact are seeing is a classic case of unintended consequences. In this case, the consequences of a wide ecosystem coupled with some of Android’s more user-friendly design decisions.
Introducing ALAC.js: An Apple Lossless Audio Decoder in JavaScript
Recently, Apple open sourced the original encoder and decoder for the Apple Lossless audio codec which is written in C/C++. ALAC is, as its name implies, a lossless codec, which means that it is compressed but does not lose any quality. When decoded, ALAC audio files are bit-for-bit identical to the original uncompressed audio file.
When our team at ofmlabs saw ALAC open sourced a few weeks back, we thought it might be fun to try to port it to JavaScript so one could listen to ALAC files in the browser. After all, some of us were also on the team that brought you JSMad, the JavaScript MP3 decoder a few months ago.
Badass JavaScript: Introducing ALAC.js: An Apple Lossless Audio Decoder in JavaScript
Iconic Icon Set
Iconic is a minimal set of icons consisting of 177 marks in raster, vector and font formats free for public use.
The Colour Bookmark
Drag the Colour Bookmark link to your toolbar to find out the colour palette of the website you’re currently on. Then simply: copy, paste and use the colours you choose. Alternatively, enter a website into the form to retrieve its colour palette.
Mobile App Usage
As the number of native mobile applications keeps growing, it’s worth looking at how they get used. To that end, here’s a few stats about people downloading apps and what what they do with them afterward.
A Guide To Heuristic Website Reviews
In this article, we’ll explore a scoring system for rating and comparing websites, we’ll visualize those ratings using infographics, and we’ll see what data and structure this method provides for reviewing websites.
Happy Cloud Coasters
Ever wanted something irresistibly cute to accompany you and your friends for an afternoon drink in the sun? How about something natural and soft to guard your table top!