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Bucknasty, indagatore dell’incubo e blogger di rango, mi segnala il VIDEOGIOCO DI LUCIGNOLO. Cioè, dico: IL VIDEOGIOCO DI LUCIGNOLO.

‘Il protagonista è un giornalista d’assalto a cui viene presentata una possibilità per emergere nel mondo dell’informazione: dovrà entrare nell’intrigante mondo notturno dei giovani e documentarlo, filmando, travestendosi e agendo come un vero paparazzo.
Il giovane reporter, avrà a disposizione una rete di informatori, con la quale potrà realizzare reportage su situazioni particolarmente surreali, piccanti, trasgressive.’

Cioè, dico solo wow! Qualcuno ha qualche notizia su questo coraggioso produttore (Twilight Games) di cui non esiste traccia online e il cui altro gioco previsto pare essere un altro capolavoro basato su Cultura Moderna?

Quello che mi rassicura è che robe del genere fanno fugaci apparizioni in edicola, vendono qualche copia e poi scompaiono nel nulla. Perfino Lula the Sexy Empire sarà ricordato tra vent’anni da qualche ex adolescente brufoloso. Mentre il gioco di Lucignolo io me lo sono già dimenticato.

P.S. se avete partecipato in qualche modo alla realizzazione di questi.. prodotti, venitevi a scusare pubblicamente nei commenti (anche anonimamente va bene!).

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I think these custom printed M&M’s are worth mentioning. Admittedly, the only DIY part is choosing the color and adding the message, but that’s more power over a candy than I’ve ever had before and frankly, I think it is very cool.

You could propose, break-up (okay, that would be bad), congratulate, thank, do just about anything that can fit on the back of an M&M. With a huge variety of packaging options and a decent color selection you can make it fit any occasion. I’m sure they will be a hit as wedding favors or shower favors. What fun messages would you dream up?

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If you had the chance to touch and play with the new iMac, you must agree they are gorgeous, and the glass and metal mix is simply astonishing. The display looks great, and one would like to know how Apple could install a glass plate in front of the LCD panel, and keeping them together (no glue, no screws!).

Apple engineers designed a series of 14 magnets to hold the glass plate, allowing it to stand in front of the LCD while allowing the panel to be repair when faulty. However, they had to design a new tool to remove the glass plate, costing USD100 and necessary for all Apple certified repair centers. It includes 2 suction pads required to be able to counter-balance the tightening strength generated by the magnets.
But that’s only the beginning of the misery for repair tech support:
- The glass plate is made of normal glass, and not of ’securite’ type, so it is very fragile…
- You do not want to see finger prints on the glass, so the technician performing the operation is asked to wear gloves.
- Last but not least, you should not trap dust between the glass plate and the LCD panel, so silicone must be applied to avoid dust and water condensation to be sticking. Apple is even offering a UV lamp to check the surface of the glass plate before reassembling.

Knowing the ridiculous price paid by Apple to Repair Centers for changing a LCD panel, let’s hope the iMac is not facing a massive problem with its new gorgeous display. According to our sources, so far so good.

[translation by Linathael]

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A few months back, we wrote about reader Dylan’s iSight autocapture project– he rigged up the code to have his iSight on his MacBook Pro snap a photo every time the lid was opened (and even released all of his work as open source). At the time, he mentioned eventually combining all of the photos together into a timelapse video, and seven months later, here it is.

Unfortunately, he says the Sleepwatcher daemon he was using doesn’t work as of 10.4.10, so the project is over until it gets updated, if ever. But he did share with us how he compiled the images together into a timelapse– he punched out a Perl script (which is reprinted after the jump) to rename all of the pictures into sequenced filenames, and then squished them together with Quicktime’s ‘image sequence’ feature. Very nice.

Continue reading Timelapse of iSight wakeup captures

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Most web developers create links to PDF files so that Adobe Acrobat or the Adobe Reader takes over the entire browser window. Few people leverage the fact that you can display a PDF file in a web page just like any other graphic by using the embed tag in your HTML file. You can also use PDF Open Parameters in the src property to make the document look better on that page but those don’t work the same way in all browsers.

Careful attention to crafting the HTML page, setting the embed tag parameters properly and setting properties in your PDF correctly can make a PDF embedded in an HTML page work just as seamlessly as a SWF file.

Below is an example of simply adding the PDF file name to the src property of the embed tag; it doesn’t look that great.

<embed src=’FullScreenEmbed.pdf’ width=’500′ height=’375′>

In the example below, I’ve added parameters to the URL that suppress the toolbar, navigation panes, and scrollbars of the Acrobat or Reader user interface. This looks much better. You can navigate the PDF by clicking on it (to activate the embedded PDF) and then use the arrow keys on your keyboard to scroll through the document. The other advantage of this method is that you don’t need to change the PDF to provide a better experience; you simply adjust the way it looks by adding parameters to the URL.

<embed src=’FullScreenEmbed.pdf#toolbar=0&navpanes=0&scrollbar=0′ width=’500′ height=’375′>

The example below demonstrates the solution that, in my opinion works the best. Here, I used Acrobat to set the PDF to ‘Open in Full Screen mode’ in the ‘Document Properties’ dialog box.

<embed src=’FullScreenEmbed.pdf’ width=’500′ height=’375′/>

Setting the document to open in full screen mode will cause the PDF to fill the entire area specified in the width and height properties of the embed tag. The PDF page size is 10 inches by 7.5 inches so I use a width of 500 pixels and a height of 375 pixels so that the aspect ratio of the embed object window and the PDF match. The PDF will not stretch to fill the area in the same way that an image file would. Instead, the PDF will display in the center of the area and fill the rest with the ‘Full Screen Appearance Background Color’ which is an Acrobat user preference but their color choice may not fit with the style of your web page so it’s best to keep the aspect ration the same. Of course, your document can change the background color setting through JavaScript by adding, for example, ‘app.fs.backgroundColor = color.white;’ as a document level JavaScript. You can read about how to use the built-in color arrays and create your own on page 193 of the JavaScript™ for Acrobat® API Reference.

Setting the document to open in full screen mode will also cause the document to ‘play’ in the browser same way that it would if it were in full screen mode in Acrobat or Reader. All of your animations and page transitions will display properly.

(Via Adobe Blogs.)

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Mammoth Crocs, originally uploaded by sabor.tijuana.

crox suck!

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Matt Tovey made this really slick table using 434 Itanium CPUs on the way to the trash can. Rather than waste some perfectly good hardware (list price as of last year for all those chips: over $800,000), he made a striking and unique desk for himself. Check out his detailed step-by-step, with plenty of photos, over at his blog. Nice work, Matt. I’ll take two. [Matt’s Projects via Neatorama]

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