libhelium, rbhelium, and the Helium API

libhelium, rbhelium, and the Helium API

leeli_cycles' Published Recipes - IFTTT

I have been fiddling about with some great new API sites recently, and have fallen instantly in love with IFTTT (If This Then That).

Basically you can easily create statements that bridge data between and trigger actions as a response to your own custom selected triggers between web apps and services, even ones that control home electronics and phone calls (the latter only being available in the US). Pretty Amazing stuff and it's like being a kid with a science or electronics kit all over again except without the Cubs and Scouts Achievement badges!

You can even use it as an app on an iOS or Android device, even utilise iOS, iCloud, and Android Apps and Services, and the list is still growing!

Sadly there's no option for using JSON or and programming languages directly, but of course if you fancy making or have your own API based Mobile App, Online Service, or Web App, IFTTT are welcoming new "Channels" all the time to extend the possibilities!


Here's a little something I brewed up, among other things as yet unpublished:

leeli_cycles' Published Recipes - IFTTT

WeMo® Switch

With celever new Home Technologies like WeMo® Switch, you can even Get told when the washing is done!

Piano

This is n amazing step into the future, showing off the the combined power and interactive multimedia capabilities oHTML5 jQuery and CSS3:

See the Pen Piano by Ben Goddard (@bengoddard) on CodePen.

This treadmill lets you walk in any direction

Wow this is pretty awesome!

As you may have though before, the problem with  and using Occulus Rift these days is walking around without staying where you are and bumping into real world objects. One company has come up with a concave floor with shoes that slide along it, and apparatus that keeps your waist in place and knows your leg, directions and crouching movements, which is great, and a newer way of walking without the loss of ground friction is this:

Tell us what you thing about it in the comments!

I really hope that facebook either liscences Occulus Rift technology or at least develops it further to integrate officially anc commercially with these body interaction devices. Computer technology has almost perfected 3D Visualisation and graphical texturing now, so it seems viable that this is the next literal step into entertainment. The biggest plus I beleive is that this will transform gaming almost into a physical sport, which is great for keeping fit. Maybe Nintendo will come up with a next gen console system to cater for this. Or maybe this will be one for the future of  Gaming Arcades and Network Gaming Conventions for now.

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This treadmill lets you walk in any direction

CSS3 Filters

• CSS3 Filters | Tech Stream
• http://davidwalsh.name/css-filters

CSS Shapes 101

by SARA SOUEIDAN April 29, 2014

Rectangles inside other rectangles: this is what our webpages have always been made of. We’ve long tried to break free from their restrictions by using CSS to create geometric shapes, but those shapes have never affected the content inside the shaped element, or how the element is seen by other elements on the page.



CSS Shapes 101

Lea Verou, "More CSS Secrets: Another 10 things you may not know about C...

Tutorial: Use Entypo Pictogram Suite As @font-face In Your Web Designs

Tutorial: Use Entypo Pictogram Suite As @font-face In Your Web Designs

Dark Code View Theme Color Scheme For Dreamweaver CS3+ - Sublime Text Skin

Dark Code View Theme Color Scheme For Dreamweaver CS3+ - Sublime Text Skin

jQuery AJAX and JSON "are awesome"

Here Sean Clark (+optikalefxx/) explains just how easy it is to use these new technologies,
saving you time on writing markup and instruction code, and saving valuable load time.

Compressing Websites

Here is an interesting article: Compressing Website | LinkedIn, it is a question somebody asked on linkedin, and has some very interesting solutions.



Also recently we have come across a very good conference talk video giving some great tweaking ideas and showing techniques for to make page loading for responsive device switching much faster, and prevent data load waste.



Check it out.

The Web Ahead Podcast

The Web Ahead



We've just had a listen to podcast episode 66, it was rather good!

CSS4

http://www.inserthtml.com/2012/01/css4-selectors/#summary