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Look who’s talkn’

Typeradio is a Microfm broadcast, a MP3 internet radio stream and a podcast station. Typeradio have visited many design events around the world, to meet designers and to talk, and best of all, recorded to share with us! Some of the designers/typographers are Rob Meek, Vince Frost, Martin Majoor and many many many more. Enjoy.

Anyone for (green) tea?

Two new studies in Hong Kong and Japan universities report more benefits of tea drinking. Green tea contains 30%-40% of polyphenols which act as potent antioxidants, while black tea 3%-10%. From the Hong Kong study - people who drank an average of 3 cups of (mainly green) tea per day potentially added 5 years to their lifespan. In the Japanese study, people who drank 7 or more cups of green tea a day could...

Mobile apps to rule to world

Apple has over 75,000 mobile apps available for download, Nokia < 5,000 Blackberry less. 50% of iPhone users buy Apps – generating US$200 million per month. 19% of handsets running Google Android OS buy Apps. Given that 50% of the world pays to use a mobile phone and only 23% have internet access (according to UN’s International Telecommunication Union) it would seem that mobile apps will become as...

Switch between Flash Player 9 and 10 on OSX

So you have some old sites that you frequently use, and some of them work better with Flash Player 9, or in my instance use an uploader that has not been rewritten for Flash Player 10. You only need it now and then - what do you do? Can you have both? Yes you can and here is how I did it. Everyone is different, so to commence with I have a MacPro running 10.6.1 - you could be on 10.5 on a MacBook - shouldnt...

Action Sports Cartel

ASC - an online community for action sports photographers - aka skate and boarding phototographers. Always has updated interviews, such as Antton Miettinen who has captured some really narley skate shots. Also has a resource section on lenses and lighting. http://ascartel.com

8-bit Trip

If you only watch one 8-bit Lego animation today, make it 8-bit trip! Does 1500 hours of moving legobricks and taking photos of them sound like a crazy idea? Not to the Swedish band Rymdreglage anyway. 8-Bit Trip is a stop motion LEGO video tribute to classic video games. It was created after 1,500 hours of work. The animation paid respect to everything from International Karate on a tape drive to Tetris on...

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