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WEBSITE OF THE DAY: Your iPlayer

admin — Mon, 21 May 2012 00:00:13 +0000

TV, your way

We are probably the last generation of viewers who will ever know what it was like to have to sit down at a set time to watch our favourite TV shows. And to sit through all the ad breaks in all their shouty, garish, lowest common denominator hideousness.

More and more people are getting their telly fix online, on tablets and now even on their smartphones, so it’s not really a surprise to see this new site enter its beta phase. Yes, you can catch up at the various broadcasters individual online players – 4OD, BBC iPlayer, ITV Player etc – but youriplayer.co.uk presents the TV listings in a concise, easy to navigate format. And watching the shows you want is just one click away.

So you get the shows you want, when you want them, and all for free. Result.

In future, they’re saying, you’ll be able to personalise your home page, too. ?

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WEBSITE OF THE DAY: Your iPlayer originally appeared on http://www.pocket-lint.com on Mon, 21 May 2012 01:00:00 +0100

‘Why Wasn’t I Consulted?’

admin — Sun, 20 May 2012 00:00:12 +0000

Paul Ford:

A surprising portion of the writing about the web is actually about WWIC, about the question of who controls what territory. Here are a few random examples of how this plays out, from my WWIC folder: Michael Arrington’s “Digg’s Biggest Problem Is Its Users And Their Constant Opinions On Things.” Or the way that digital groupies claim ownership of their heroes online.

Via my pal Jim Ray.

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Behind a Press Release

admin — Sun, 20 May 2012 00:00:11 +0000

I’ve never seen Community, but I really enjoyed this refreshingly honest entry by Dan Harmon on his getting fired from the show.

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Zeldman’s Web Design Manifesto 2012

admin — Sat, 19 May 2012 00:00:17 +0000

Zeldman:

This is my personal site. There are many like it, but this one is mine.

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The Mule Radio iPhone App

admin — Sat, 19 May 2012 00:00:17 +0000

Speaking of Mule Radio Syndicate and The Talk Show, our mutual friends at Black Pixel have just launched the brand-new Mule Radio iPhone app. The interface is simple and beautiful. Free download on the App Store.

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The Talk Show

admin — Sat, 19 May 2012 00:00:16 +0000

I am, uncharacteristically, genuinely excited to announce that my Oscar-, Emmy-, and Grammy-winning podcast, The Talk Show is now on Mule Radio Syndicate. This week, I’m joined by special guest John Moltz, who was recently released from prison and is writing at his brand-new Very Nice Web Site. Topics include Mozilla’s antitrust concerns regarding Windows for ARM’s iOS-like restrictions on third-party apps, new reports that the next iPhone will sport a 4-inch display, Android device fragmentation, and dreamboat actor Ashton Kutcher.

Brought to you by Rogue Amoeba’s Piezo, the charmingly simple audio recording app for Mac; and by the all-new Basecamp from 37signals, the world’s most popular web-based project management app.

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VoodooPad 5.0

admin — Sat, 19 May 2012 00:00:15 +0000

Major update to Flying Meat’s personal wiki app for the Mac. Chock full of great new features, but my favorite is this:

VoodooPad 5 includes a new Markdown page type with syntax aware
editing and preview. And when you export for the Web, ePub, or
even PDF, VoodooPad will render your page into rich text for
display.

VoodooPad is one of those rare apps that’s in a category by itself. There’s nothing else like it.

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Taking Apart the Fuji X100

admin — Sat, 19 May 2012 00:00:15 +0000

Crazy how invasive salt water is to gadgetry.

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2001: A Space Odyssey iPhone Charger Built With Lego

admin — Fri, 18 May 2012 18:00:17 +0000

Awesome.

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APP OF THE DAY: Tom Daley Dive 2012 review (iPad / iPhone / iPod touch)

admin — Fri, 18 May 2012 18:00:15 +0000

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Yep, after all the shouting, the London 2012 Olympic Games are almost upon us. The thought will have some running for the hills, others frothing with excitement, and it is the latter that app developers are hoping to cater to with a swarm of applications, practical, whimsical and playable.

Today’s Pocket-lint App of the Day is from the playable gaming camp, but features no less than Team GB poster boy and the youngest person to have represented his country at an Olympics since 1960. It is, of course…

Tom Daley Dive 2012

Format: ipad (version tested), iPhone, iPod touch
Price: Free (+69p in-app purchase to unlock more dives)
Where: iTunes

There’s one thing you can absolutely guarantee every two years, summer and winter alternating, and that is that there will be a host of videogames that feature some form of Olympics-themed sporting events. Ever since Track and Field back in 1983, there have been button mashers and joystick wagglers that share the same gameplay DNA.

However, while Tom Daley Dive 2012 shares some of the play mechanics of such titles, it delves far deeper into the teenager’s own sport, diving, than any before it.

The game has been developed by the London-based Chelsea Apps Factory which has previously focused on enterprise applications, so comes at it from a unique angle. Its experience outside of the games industry is certainly apparent in this particular app’s presentation, and there’s plenty of content and features to explore.

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Core gameplay is a gesture-controlled diving simulation, where strokes of the finger equate segments of a dive, successful or otherwise, but splashing down into the water isn’t the only goal. To begin with, most of the individual dives in the game are locked, with well-received and executed ones needed to make others available.

There’s a tutorial to help you learn the basics, and each dive can be viewed beforehand with the virtual Tom showing you the perfect positioning and timings needed. A multitude of camera angles are on offer too, so if the timing is hard to get from one viewpoint, you can always switch to another to see if that helps.

The practice/qualification levels allow you to take on individual dives in order to unlock others. And, when you’ve opened up enough of them you get the chance to compete in championship mode too, with new locations to compete in: Beijing, Barcelona and London.

Photos of Tom Daley can also be unlocked through completing different achievements, and the whole app?links up to Game Center for you to log your scores.

Tom Daley Dive 2012 is free to download, and is a universal app, so runs on ipad, iPhone and iPod touch. Not all the dives are available in the free version, however, and to access them all, you’ll have to pay 69p as an in-app purchase (which pops up when you try to perform a paywalled dive). This is extremely cheap though, and at least by that point you’ll know whether you liked the game or not.

We certainly do.

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ipad-iphone”>APP OF THE DAY: Tom Daley Dive 2012 review (ipad / iPhone / iPod touch) originally appeared on http://www.pocket-lint.com on Fri, 18 May 2012 18:00:00 +0100