Wind map is an awesome demo of using <CANVAS> technology with realtime data, and it was very smooth on the iMac at work. Later, I tried showing someone on the iPad 2, and the FPS was terrible. I tried the page on an older mac at home and again the FPS was very low. I [...]
Plugins I install on almost every WordPress site: BackWPup – Backs up your entire site to ftp, email, or many popular cloud services. If you have a lot of files, setup the database backup and optimization separately (optimization happens after file compression and the database connection can be lost by then). Redirection – Monitors for [...]
WordPress has just added a plugin to improve the iPad experience with all WordPress.com and self-hosted WordPress blogs. Posts are displayed in a visual grid, and you can actually create a magazine-type layout that recognizes when to rotate the page, and even allows you to swipe between posts. After playing with a friend’s iPad recently, [...]
Just discovered and setup this self-hosted twitter archive called Tweet Nest. I just set it up at nest.uxjw.me with a cron job to update the archive every hour and present my tweets in a pretty interface. This app makes it easy to browse your tweets by date, and if Twitter starts hiding or deleting old [...]
One of the best-looking icon sets for building web apps. Free with a link back, or buy a licence for $59.95. They’re up to 3,000 icons, and and to help with finding the right icon, there are a few options: Keyword search form on http://p.yusukekamiyamane.com/ All icons in one large image » My own contact [...]
Far faster than the beta, Firefox 4 is out and blazing fast. On my 2.5 yr-old macbook pro, the only browser with any speed was Safari. Even the Firefox 4 beta seemed slow. The final version is really fast however, most likely due to Firefox now running in 64-bit mode. It’s already reached 5 million [...]