White Drake :: Web Design and Development :: Indiana

Aside from more terrorist airline attacks, today wasn’t all that eventful. The other day I created a header (the thing at the top with the sports equipment) for Joe’s website that you can check out at:

www.sportscardfreaks.com It’s Expandable … ooooooooo!
Other than that, I have been putting the finishing touches on:

Specialized Composition
and
Mud Puddlz

Me, Matt, and the Dan’s went to B-dubs for 50 cent boneless wings… mmmmmmmm

Today was great. To celebrate the hiring of another new Media Designer, Doug, all of the employees went to lunch at Bravo in Indy (Castleton to be exact). Well, except for Rob .. who is on his honeymoon and Karlene, who has been on vacation or something. Bravo is a nice Italian place and I ended up trying gazpacho for the first time and calamari for the second time. I didn’t much care for the gazpacho as it seemed like I was just eating cold salsa. Everything else was really good though. Thanks Mike. Anyway, I got to officially meet the other half of the company. Everyone that works for SpinWeb is really laid back and down to earth and I really like that about the company. Hopefully, they will keep me for a while.

Electronic Paper, epaper, eInk… whatever you want to call it. It is cool. This is the stuff you always see in futuristic movies. A digital image displayed on something as small as a piece of paper. It is still in the developmental stages as of right now, but there have already been a few companies that have taken advantage of E Ink Corporation’s technology.

The coolest thing I have seen done with it so far is Seiko’s E-Paper Watch:

Unfortunetly, only 500 of these have been made and they will cost over $2000.

They have also implemented E-Paper into such things like a Lexar JumpDrive:

A Weather Wizard:

A Sony Reader:

And several others.

Philips and Polymer Vision have created a Rollable epaper device.

In the future, they say that the device will have animation and a full color display. Here is a future vision of their “Dream Phone”:

Other Links to check out:

Polymer Vision’s Rollable ePaper Device Videos
E Ink Products
More Pictures

mudpuddlz.com

One of the websites that I am currently working on at SpinWeb is Mud Puddlz (a store for baby clothes, toys, gifts, etc.)

The more and more I work on these cart sites, the better I am getting with CSS. I was skeptical about using CSS at first, but I am beginning to realize the great possibilities that can be achieved with it.

I have been wanting a Mac for so long, but didn’t want to spend the extra money. I was waiting for the ability to run OSX natively on PC parts. Now that Macs are using Intel chips, it is easy to run OSX on regular PCs using OSx86. Supposedly, it is even faster on the PC parts. The nice thing about this is that I can dual boot to either OSX or Windows and I can upgrade my hardware easily.

Here is a way to build your very own Mac for $200.

I already have some of the parts in my current PC, so I am going to go with a bit more of an upgraded processor.

Some more links to check out:

UNEASYsilence article
OSx86 Project
OSx86 Wiki
Wired Article
InsanelyMac (Pics of PCs running OSX)

The ability to project a working keyboard onto any flat surface I want to?! I want one! For about $180 (or less on ebay) you can get one too. It’s here now. I don’t even care about using it with my pda, I would just hook it up to my PC for the sheer coolness factor.

Other links to check out:

More Pictures
Virtual Keyboard on ThinkGeek
Get one on ebay