Yeah I also discovered the work of Hybrid in this awesome video for BASE proximity flying (don’t even make me start ranting about that). I was immediately hooked by the sound of this welsh band. There’s a perfect blend of powerful electronic music with the soft and clear vocals of Charlotte James. Their latest album, “Disappear here” is a must have. It’s packed full of great songs like “Disappear Here”, “Formula of Fear”, or “Every Word”.

The Solution: One of the most used ones is to create an iFrame with the POST data and add it to the document and submit it. But you’ll get no response back from it (like a success or failure message).

The Creative Solution: I came across this one in here and basically it relies on the fact that images are not subject to cross domain restrictions, so basically you’ll load an “image” from the server that will return a different sized image per possible result. So maybe you’ll have the possible results as SUCCESS and FAILED. You’ll just have to return let’s say a 1px image for SUCESS and a 2px image for FAILED. Then you’ll just have to check the size of the image to “read” the return message.

I’ve stumbled recently on a smart way to provide a fast way of identification for bank transfers. This is something used by my daughter’s new preschool.

They use the 2 decimal digits of the monthly fee to identify the child. So if they receive a transfer of € xxx.05, they know it’s related to child #5, € xxx.23 to child #23 and so on.

Of course this is limited to 99 (or 100) children and there could be as much as a €0.99 difference between children but it’s smart nevertheless.

Say you want to create a dynamic menu based on some live data read from a server. Maybe you want to create some HTML like this:

<nav>
<ul>
	<li id="nav1" class="btn">item1</li>
	<li id="nav2" class="btn">item1</li>
	<li id="nav3" class="btn">item1</li>
	<li id="nav4" class="btn">item1</li>
</ul>
</nav>

With jQuery you can dynamically generate clickable elements like this:

$(".btn").live("click", function(){
var elem = event.target.id;
alert("you clicked: " + elem);
});

This works well in the desktop and in every browser but on Mobile Safari it fails.

A workaround is to deliberately add an “onclick” attribute to the element you want to attach the event:

<ul>
	<li id="nav1" class="btn" onclick="">item1</li>
</ul>

The work from Ty Mattson is amazing. I love the collection of Black and White posters created for each episode of the last season of the Lost TV series. What really strikes me is how Mattson captured the essence of each episode with his illustrations. The illustration above is for episode 11 – “Everybody Loves Hugo”. You can check the other ones in his blog.

An interactive billboard created by IBM. The billboard interacts with the thing or person in front of it, capturing the colors and using that information to transform the displayed graphics. Neat.

The iPad was announced just 2 months ago. The iPad went on sale 10 days ago in the US. This is an iPad book app just released by these guys. It’s the iPad version of the classic Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland. So, are you still skeptic about it?

A really cool Status Board for the Panic Software Company

Panic is a mac software house. Creators of Transmit and Coda, well known tools for mac web developers. Their apps are great, but what really sets them apart is their User interface design.

A few days ago they previewed a picture of a internal Status Board. Gorgeous stuff, like you would expect. You can see e-mail queues, tweets from the employees, a calendar, revenue figures,project status, employees assigned to each project, etc.

Really nice information wrapped in a great visual design.

This is result of a colaboration of a German and a Swiss product designer. It’s called ‘mischlichtRGB’ and it’s a nice representation of the RGB additive color model in the shape and function of a ceiling lamp. More info and photos here.

How to get your message through loud and clear

There are occasions when you really need to put a great effort to deliver your message (on the internet we know how difficult it is with all the “noise” that surrounds us). This is a great example of this type of problem and it’s solution. I don’t know about the efficiency of the purpose of the message, but I’ve no doubt that it was transmitted in a clear, concise and fool proof way. Original here.