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The first Tinnovation session of the Obama-era… And the first uploaded from the new Wordpress iPhone application!

Word cloud that is.  Check out the Wordle application which creates beautiful word clouds based upon data that you submit to it.  We just gave Wordle the URL of the Tinnovation blog and look what we got back - nice!

Tinnovation Word Cloud

Continuing with our research into iPhone applications we really wanted to produce an iTunes type navigation which would suit our clients with Product or Image Gallaries they’d like to display.  Our initial route was to try to emulate the functionality using the Safari browser and some Javascript magic, but this was way too slow.

Then we found that CoolIris (www.cooliris.com) had released an iPhone version of their application!

You can view the results by clicking the promo image on our Home Page.

Daves car

He’s been at it again, our David has produced what I think is a great demonstration of a browser bassed Google Earth & Google Maps (within Flash) mashup.

So please start your engines and get ready to make your own sound effects as you taz around a city of your choosing.

NB UPDATE
As it turns out, thanks to Googles servers not having a cross-domain policy file, it is not possible to analyse the image data returned by the Googls Maps API. As a result the detection method used to determine if the car is on a road doesnt work online.

We hope at some stage to either resolve this, or make a downloadable version.

(Screen shots below)

Nubbin: Desktop Widget

And its back to widgets this week with the launch of Nubbin our loveable little desktop widget.

Built using Adobe AIR Nubbin can run on the desktop of Linux, Mac OS X and Windows operating systems.

3D Glasses

Our in-house Flash guru Mr David Robinson presented us with some cool Flash demos this week.

The most spectacular was a 3D Flash demo, so fish out those 3D specs from way back when and take a look at this site! Word of warning it made me feel a little bit ick but everyone else was fine.

You can buy 3D specs here if you can’t find any at home.

Minority Report: Gesture Interface

What with the iPhone, new Macs and the next version of MS Windows including touch interface technology we thought it was only about time that we looked into this area a bit further.  And lets face it as developers “we love that Minority Report interface“! And we all want to try out Microsofts Surface Computer (that big ass table is so cool)!

Our initial investigations has remained focussed purely on the iPhone but this week we decided to experiment with Microsofts Touchless SDK which allows multi touch (erm touchless actually) applications to be developed for Windows that make use of the computers web cam for system interaction.

After installing the SDK and loading up the demos we found some primary coloured objects (a pencil sharpener, rubber and a pen top) around the office and got all interactive and personal with the technology, we then had a discussion about the possibilities of what this could enable us to develop for clients.

For demonstration videos of the technology see below, they should explain things in more detail.

• Touchless - A webcam multi-touch SDK
  
• Touchless SDK - Fair Demo August ‘08

Heres a widget (whats a widget?) based upon our xmas card.  The widegt can be distributed on Facebook, MySpace, Bebo and other platforms, and we can also track and analyse its usage!

Try it out here!

We’ll have much more widgety goodness coming soon so keep coming back.

CoolIris Image Gallery

Oooooh we’ve been playing (erm working with) with CoolIris which allows a nice way of navigating the web visually.  We liked it so much we added the functionality to our website! 

Why not take a browse through our very own CoolIris Gallery, all images are part of TheTin’s portfolio.