Style It Share It Win It
St Vital Centre's Spring Share contest was so popular last year that they asked Fusion Advertising and us to put together another one for this year. We've worked feverishly over the last couple weeks, looking over what we built in 2011 and putting together an even better version. The contest offically went live earlier this week on the St Vital Centre site and it's Facebook page.
The contest hooks together with Open Graph functionality, allowing us to log participants in through Facebook and, given permission, personalize their contest entries with their names and profile picture. This also allowed us to build the contest as a small Facebook application, allowing St Vital Centre to add the contest as a distinct tab on their page.
This year's contest is proving as popular as last year, with over two hundred people already participating and building their own Spring Style boards. Give it a try while you can!
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Canada Post Claims Copyright Over Postal Codes
Canada Post is claiming that it is the exclusive copyright holder of all Canadian postal codes, and has filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against geocoding services. Craziness.Mozilla may make Flash click-to-play by default in future Firefox
If you haven't uninstalled Flash from Safari yet, you should. I keep Chrome handy for when I need to see Flash, since Chrome uses a sandboxed version of Flash that comes bundled. Uninstalling Flash makes browsing most news sites in Safari about 100% faster, I kid you not.Daily Links
Perpetual Ocean by NASA
A timelapse of the world's oceans, brought to you by NASA.Daily Links
Google+ is Getting a Redesign
Interesting. I didn't realize people actually went to their google+ pages at all. I just assumed everyone aggregated everything to them from their other social media accounts.Walt Disney World in Minecraft, with working rides
Not sure if this is a good thing or a sign that humanity needs more meaningful creative outlets. Pretty unbelievable nonetheless.Media Query and Asset Downloading Results
We were just talking about ways to make responsive design work a little better and not fire out all images all the time. Worth reading if that last sentence made sense to you.First week awesomeness
I have just completed my first week of a work placement at Visual Lizard, and i am delighted that I get to work with such a great team of web developers. During my Digital Media Design program at Red River I walked by their new Princess Street studio all the time and watched as it came together, never expecting I would have the opportunity to go inside.
In my short time at Visual Lizard I have had the opportunity to learn about web standards, a lot about sweet sweet 8 bit style art, web usability, and I’ve even had the chance to spend some time styling with CSS. I am really enjoying learning about their personal Content Management System called Catalyst 4. It has been created so that it can be customized to every clients wants and needs (pretty awesome). The team has also been really helpful by giving me an ongoing supply of useful information for my future in this industry.
Last week I got the chance to get to know the team when we went for lunch where I was introduced to Scotch eggs (a mind blowing experience for those who are wondering).
Tonight, I have been invited to join the Visual Lizard team at the Winnipeg Comedy Festival. I am so pumped for some good laughs and good times. The Comedy Festival is one of the many organizations that Visual Lizard sponsors along with the Winnipeg Art Gallery, Ronald McDonald House, Aboriginal Music and Manitoba Music. I also can't wait to be involved with a possible new app design this week as well. I am excited for my second week at Visual Lizard. Bring on week two. I am ready!
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What you need to know about the Flashback trojan for Mac OSx
This is a good thing to read if you own a MAC. It is not often that there is any significant malware for OS X, but you should be armed with some knowledge in the event that you or someone (read your parents) needs to deal with this.Microsoft To buy AOL Patents
AOL is planning to sell 800 technology patents for over a billion dollars and pass on a "significant portion" of that money to their unhappy shareholders.An Invocation For Beginnings
Ze Frank's show has returned, and already, the first episode is a mantra that every creative person should wrap themselves in.Facebook Buys Instagram
This is surprising. And maybe a little disappointing. We'll have to wait and see how much this does or does not affect the individual mobile apps.Daily Links
How To Remove Flashback Trojan From Your Mac
Supposedly, about 20,000 Macs in Canada have been infected, connecting them to a botnet network. Though Apple have recently patched the java vulnerability responsible, it might still be work your while to go through these instructions. Just in case.Mobilize Your Site with GoMo
Google has launched GoMo to promote mobile best practices.MorpHex - A transforming robot
Here's MorpHex, a 6-legged transforming, walking, rolling robot.Daily Links
Fine-tune OS X with Terminal commands
originally from https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles/blob/master/.osxWhat is the best way to make your site pop?
Follow the link to get a helpful advice to make your site pop with easeFICO
A font with fifty-two simple, commonly used icons and glyphs, served on the web via @font-face.Daily Links
Startups, This Is How Design Works
A guide for non-designers by Wells Riley, with a format inspired by Jessica Hische. And, naturally, its also a beautifully designed site :)Layer Cake
Name your Photoshop file layers and drop them into this app to auto-create a series of files, like magic. If you do a lot of design work, this light-weight tool might save you a little time.Archifon I. - Interactive Installation on Vimeo
It's a chapel, turned into a musical instrument that is controlled by lasers. Awesome.