Google

More Mobile Power

Chip on 26 October 2008 | No comments

Google Mail is accessible from mobile phones as a Java application. [video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykbMU58W08k[/video] We’re thrilled to introduce Gmail for mobile version 2.0 for J2ME-supported and BlackBerry phones. Our focus for this version was to make the experience faster and more reliable. We rearchitected the entire client to push all the processing to the background, greatly improve [...]

Graphics, Resources

Link Of The Week

Chip on 26 October 2008 | 3 comments

This week’s link is Pixlr, a free online image editor, jump in and start edit, adjust, filter. It’s just what you imagine! Pixlr is built for non-professionals, the users that have basic editing needs. It’s not for large RAW images or for printing. It is merely a tool for editing web images to be posted [...]

Graphics

Colour Schemes

Chip on 24 October 2008 | No comments

A few thoughts on colour schemes and colour associations. Colours evoke particular associations and emotions in our minds. Here is a summary of some of those associations: Yellow: cheerful, sunny, upbeat, happy, luminous, intense. Orange: energetic, cheerful, glowing, vital, upbeat, playful, happy, comedic, festive, loud, popular with children. It carries many of the same qualities [...]

Graphics

Hexagon Color Chart

Chip on 23 October 2008 | One comment

One of my recent projects involved creating some sort of a color picker. While I eventually used one jQuery for this purpose, I ran into a nice illustration of hexagonal color palette. Download the high resolution version here. In the hexagon, or hexagonal, palette color codes are abbreviated with only a single digit representing each [...]

Web

iPhone And Butterflies

Chip on 19 October 2008 | 3 comments

Yesterday I told you about my new blog iPhone compatibility. Today I asked a friend to test my blog on his iPhone. There are several tweaks to be done, but overall I’m happy with it. There are some changes to be made these days, such as the logo and the links’ colours. I’ll keep you [...]

Google

Who Wants To Work At Google?

Chip on 18 October 2008 | 9 comments

In the midst of a global financial crisis, Google, despite the whole world struggling and stock markets taking a battering, the company still managed to report excellent earnings during a conference call with investors yesterday. Google Plex is the company’s HQ where all the magic happens. Dubbed by employees “a country itself”, those lucky enough [...]

Web

Fennec (Mobile Firefox) Alpha 1 Released

Chip on 18 October 2008 | 3 comments

Fennec (Mobile Firefox) has reached milestone 9, which is also our first alpha! We’re calling this release the User Experience alpha. The last eight milestones were building up to getting a stable browser with an easy to use interface. We really want to get Fennec in front of as many people as possible and get [...]

WordPress

iPhone Compatible

Chip on 18 October 2008 | 4 comments

Butterfly Media Romania Blog is now iPhone compatible. I have some friends using iPhones and I decided to surprise them. It was as easy as installing and configuring a small plugin. It’s still in Beta as I’m testing two versions, but the end result is likely the same.

General, Resources, Speedlinking

News And Links For Me

Chip on 17 October 2008 | No comments

Since my latest post I wandered the Internet to find something interesting to blog about. The news are overwhelming. Automattic acquires PollDaddy, Firefox 3.1 Beta is now live with many enhancements, Microsoft web installer turns to open-source, Adobe is now shipping the CS4 suite and again Microsoft is no longer interested in the Yahoo merger, [...]

Blogging

Blog Action Day: Poverty

Chip on 15 October 2008 | One comment

This is both my personal tribute to Blog Action Day and to fight against poverty in Romania. During the last decades a great separation of the classes occured. It’s either the top or the bottom. I hope this initiative will raise some eyebrows and start some action.

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