You must have realised by now, we’re big fans of experiments with CSS and HTML5 (when matched with tasteful UI design). They’re great not only because of beauty, but they’re also great way to learn new things. And so we came across Theatme, a submission via Twitter by Ryan Collins. I wasn’t expecting much, which probably contributed to the resultant explosion in the mind. Theatme is an online video catalog, with gorgeous tiles of film covers, and beautiful animations to unfold it for video details. It’s better seen than talked about.
Author: Milind Alvares
Designed by Adrian Kenny (with some serious coding by Adam Agnaou), Analytics is a simple dashboard widget for displaying web statistics from Google Analytics. It’s a simple window giving you a brief overview of your current stats. I’m not sure Lucida Grande fits perfectly as its font, but otherwise it’s pretty. If you’re a Google Analytics user who also uses the Dashboard, it’s a neat package. Download.
I had never heard of Shows app before, probably for good reason. But Sam Vermette has shown us what he can do with lists and tabs, and Shows 2 looks gorgeous. While the illuminated buttons isn’t a brand new concept, this is the first time I’m seeing it on iOS — looks nice. That with the dark lists with bold titles and grey buttons, it all just works super well together. Not to mention the hot icon. Shows costs $2.99 at the App Store. Before you get to the App Store, give a look at the appsite; well done.
Instagram is great on the iPhone, but it hardly has any web presence, save for single image shares on twitter. While I’m sure the team is working on building their platform, here’s a great new web app that shows you what’s currently popular on Instagram. Beautiful minimal design and animation blends perfectly with the Instagram theme. Instagre.at.
Colour Clock interprets time as a hexadecimal colour value for its background. Pretty cool, but even the OS X screensaver is Flash based, so you might want to keep an eye on that CPU. It could have looked prettier. via the strange attractor.
I published a review on SA when Writings for iPad first showed up. My one complaint: The only thing I didn’t like about the app, was how it presents documents. It’s got this cartoony wooden UI, where each document takes up a whole screen. That probably emphasises that this an app for longer articles, but it’s kind of a slow UI. The developers then asked if I wanted to test the 1.1, which has a new document list feature. I figured it would be some kind of pop-over iOS list, so I declined. What I didn’t anticipate, was the list…