ManMeng's Lifepad

[Inspiration] Inside Steve’s Brain

Inside Steve’s Brain

I have been reading a lot in the past few month, particularly at those books like the one on top. Partially motivational and also practical, it’s really even a miracle for me to pick up a book and spend some time in understanding it. It’s definitely a great book for those whole is lost in what they are doing or wondering if they are doing good enough compared to the rest. The cliche about this part is that tuckloong is reading the translated chinese version of it in the recent month! That’s really funny considering I have been looking for this book for a long time and finally bought it in Taiwan. I hope you would really enjoy it much as a I do, would definitely do more book recommendation in the future.

[Inspiration] Get Equipped With Hacker-ism Knowledge,

Stop H*Commerce

At first when I went into the site, I thought it’s a movement by Symantec or equivalent, and didn’t notice the McAfee brand until later, and though that the brand died off in the early 2000. They were a bunch of great dudes back in 90’s but slowly overshadowed by Symantec’s Norton Antivirus. It’s nice to see them making a lot of positive comeback in this industry. However, aside from a damn fine professional job at the site’s transition and interface design. It’s really :

• Usable, from all the visual indications on what you can do and click next.
• Slick, no-nonsense site
• VERY informative towards mainstream audience that NEEDS to know about basics in avoiding scams, hackers and jargons that they always bumped into the internet world.

So this is a MUST visit for those that has no idea what a backdoor means, no it’s not your house’s back door. Please.

Thanks Eugene.

p.s. -<sarcasm> site’s aside, I really get f*cking fed up of receiving random spam message from my contact list that messaged me less than 1 alphabet per year, telling me how I can earn more moneys. So please, do yourself a favor and learn to get protected. </sarcasm>

[Inspiration] Human Touching Interface

Human Interface
Sometimes the sweetest idea comes from things that is close to us in our daily lives, or actions. There should be one big prop to the groups that did this, lots of nice touches done on the frame-by-frame animation, illustrating how the future, computers would work, literally. Touching human…andriods.
via engadget

Guten Touch
Another great feat from the same group (Multitouch Barcelona) that did the videos above are their other experiment with multitouch medium. It amazes me how smooth they have figured out for the multitouch application demos.

[Inspiration] Surreal Works

Ryohei Hase
The illustrations produced by this artist is so vivid that it looks almost unreal.

The original Microsoft family.
Really a piece of nostalgic article about how all of them came together as Microsoft employee and 23 years after that.

Vote For Hope – MC Yogi
Thought it’s tad bit old, but serves as a good reference for motion graphics designer looking into incorporating speech/lyrics as part of their work.

So Many A Seconds
Though there might be tons of infographics (information visualisation) in the form of graphics design, it’s pretty rare to see it presented interactively. However this is a nice depiction of information from World-o-meters. And there’s even an updated statistics on Swine Flu death!

Geocoding with RSS / Papervision3D
This got me started in geocoding for some of my experiment using both geolocation and papervision. Demo is at : Globe.  (I think the geo location thing screwed up somewhere)

[Inspiration] A look into the past years

Was digging through my old archives of draft again, but I found some of the events posted were pretty amusing nevertheless.

Secrets of Google Earth

You will find the 10 minutes of your life spent on this video will be really noteworthy. Perhaps the world has a lot more secrets waiting to be unveiled by us.

Perfect Macbook Holder?
I’m not sure if IKEA is still selling this?

Wired : How the Iphone blew up the wireless industry

A quick look back to the past.
SteveNote Expo
This was a great game with a great touch on the design and art direction, pretty neat to a point I thought it’s a game from Apple themselves. Generated quite a lot amount of buzz when it was launched, and launched at the right time before the annual Apple’s Conference.