Apologies for the lack of updates at 1983! I’ve been beavering away at Whitespace to create some pretty interesting work! I’ve recently completed our portfolio www.whitespace.hk, incorporating SEO techniques and usability for Flash (back, forward, bookmarking!). And it’s all managed by XML. Pretty exciting stuff and theres more to come!
Also check out www.kushliving.com, and www.johnferdinand.com some other sites i’ve been working on.
I am proud to announce the recent launch of John Ferdinand, a luxury men’s lifestyle brand specializing in mens jewelry and all things nice. If you’re looking for a touch of sophistication and major wow factor these goods are definitely for you. John Ferdinand is the brainchild of Mark Armstrong and Perry Josito and i’m thrilled to be part of the Whitespace team to bring this stunning brand to fruition.
The launch collection, titled ‘Dreamer’ offers an escape from the urban jungle and sanctuary for all city dwellers. Each individual piece tells a story of its own, and is hand crafted and nurtured in Indonesia using Ebony wood from a sustainable source in Sulawesi.
Check out the site we laboriously worked on and reward yourself with some über unique bling that your conscience, friends will love you for. It’s worth it, trust me.
Finally!
SWFAddress is a small script that sits on top of SWFObject and provides deep linking for Flash websites and applications. In other words it enables the Back, Forward and Reload buttons of the browser and creates unique URLs with page titles that can be sent over email or IM. SWFAddress uses the ExternalInterface functionality introduced in Flash Player 8 and comes with a technique that enables search engine indexing for deep Flash links.
Excellent. Will definitely be trying this for a few upcoming projects!
Check out SWFAddress here:
http://www.asual.com/swfaddress/
Just a quick post for loyal readers of 1983 - I’m at the Macau International Airport and waiting to board! I’m off to Bangkok for a few days before I officially start working with the team at Whitespace next week.
The Daily Catches will be back the 2nd April.
In the meantime, check out my new studio, http://www.whitespace.hk! I’m so excited to join a talented, creative and dedicated team.
Time to board, take care fellas!
So I finally made the decision to upgrade my wireless network at home to the fancy new Airport Extreme released recently by Apple. What’s the big deal you say? Well, for starters it supports the draft 802.11n protocol which means a more reliable, increased range, and faster wireless experience. And, this beauty has the exciting Airport Disk function which lets me hook up any amount (yet to be tested) of USB drives and share them over the wireless network. It’s like an el cheapo NAS for dummies.
I am having problems though (gasp!) with Airport Disk. Shock! Horror! Folders were not showing up, and files magically disappeared - thank god after reconnecting them directly to my Macbook they were still there. My drives are currently formatted in the FAT32 file system and are over the 32 gigabyte threshold which seems to be causing problems. I did this initially because I wanted to be able to read/write to my external hard disks in both Windows and OS X, and the latter does not support writing to NTFS drives (uhum which brings the question, Apple, why not?). Since Airport Disk uses SAMBA, i’m thinking the most logical thing to do is convert my FAT32 drives to HFS which is my mission over the next few days.
Oh, I also picked up this funky Belkin USB/Firewire hub to go with the thing. Fits perfectly all snug and sexy beneath the base station!
A wireless iTunes library for my MacBook Pro? Bring it on!
I’m dead with the flu at the moment. A bit too buggered to catch any fish.
Back later fellas!
I’m a little bit confused.
The IKEA Catalog is a marvel, reaching over 200 million people annually (according to Wikipedia).
But there is definitely an obvious fault in it’s design.
Why is it that the customer service did not have a clue what I was talking about when I called them to ask about a specific product? Because, in this marvelous catalog, the lovely products within do not have serial numbers in their description. Hmm?
Now maybe I’ve got it all wrong, as we all know IKEA have these cute Swedish names for their products. But wouldn’t it better to also include a distinct product serial number as well? I’m sure they all have them.
Well anyway, I asked for the powder-coated steel PS series of lockable cabinets which come in silver or red. And you know what she said? All they had in their computer was a piece of glass under this name.
Cough, computer says no. Not impressed.
A special trip for you all, presenting the brilliant video for The Test, The Chemical Brothers. Directed by Dom & Nic.
I’ve been setting up another Wordpress site on an IIS server (which is proving a definite nightmare, with permissions and all that jazz…). When I discovered my favourtie file/image manager plugin by by Per Soderlind is a dud on IIS, I decided to implement a WYSIWYG editor for the client instead, using Dean’s FCKEditor plugin complete with it’s own file/upload manager.
The FCKEditor plugin by Dean is fantastic. The only snitch I ran into was that the filemanager in FCKEditor did not let you delete uploaded files (which is a bit naff, no?). A few clicks on trust Google lead me to bram.us’s nifty delete hack tutorial for the filemanager in FCKEditor, allowing you to *gasp* magically delete files! Rock on! Problem one solved!
Problem two involved IIS and ‘pretty permalink’ urls. Since IIS doesn’t do mod_rewrite like our good friend Apache, IIS people were basically screwed with urls looking like cat vomit… until Binary Fortress came up with this funky WordPress URL Rewrite plugin/ISAPI filter for IIS. You’ll have to have either VNC or Remote Desktop / Administrator access to your IIS server to run this filter, but indeed it works damn well.
Thanks fellas!
I was curious whether such a thing existed for web developers/designers, and it does! Oh the joy.
WOS Portable by CH Software is a free portable Apache/PHP/MySQL server package which runs and fits on any USB/portable drive. The fantastic thing about this package is, it is totally customizable, and created on the fly; you can choose the exact configuration of your server, as well as preinstalled modules like Drupal, Joomla, Mambo, OS Commerce, Wordpress etc etc..
Very nice indeed!
Check it out here.
A tale of a tale, by one of my most favourite artists Björk, Bachelorette. This is one of my most loved videos by the legendary director Michel Gondry.
