Author: Lukas Hermann

Some of you may still remember the story of Tom and Dan of Studio Neat trying to make their idea of an iPhone tripod mount & stand come true. They used Kickstarter and thousands of iPhone lovers funded their company within few weeks. They thanked the community with an awesome product, the Glif. And they did not stop there. Now, after releasing their second accessory, the Cosmonaut iPhone stylus they have come up with their first iPhone app. It’s called Frames and produces stop-motion films using photos shot with the iPhone camera. A nifty trick to increase the Glif’s product…

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Web

In my opinion, music should be speaking for itself. Music critics—people who think they can define what good and bad music is and are able to promote certain styles of music are destroyers of free art and creativity. Hector Simpson (also known as Dizzyup on the interwebs) shares this same opinion and this kind of passion for music. This is probably why he carefully and loving curates a website called Post-rock Tuesday and it is, without a doubt, the most awesome music resource I have found in the last two months. The site focuses on the rather underground and special…

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Ever wanted to throw a party at home but there were too many people with too different tastes in music on the guest list? You wonder how you would manage all the songs and finally set up 20 different playlists to switch between just because some of your friends like metal music but other ones would like to have calm singer-songwriter sounds waving through the room. For that reason, iTunes party DJ, high-priced sound systems and several other small, independent app solutions try to solve the problem by automatically setting up wish lists for songs and voting procedures via local…

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Web

I doubt there’s anyone out there who’s even a teeny bit interested in expanding his knowledge and exploring new things and wouldn’t like to get complex scientific processes explained in a simple, straightforward way using beautiful graphics and visual data. If you’re reading this, I can assume you’d have a good amount of interest in beautiful design. Data visualization makes you understand complex things quickly and easily if the information presented is well-founded. With the development of the web technologies, the web 2.0 and HTML5 content presentation techniques have gotten simpler and more precise. An excellent example of what is…

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Mac

When I talk about good graphics and design in games, I am usually thinking of highly detailed 3D characters, animations and huge, complex worlds to explore. A lot of work and research is intrinsically tied to the development of games like CoD or the newest Uncharted release and is also a big reason why the games fascinate us. But then, at times, you stumble upon a small, independently developed 2.5D game with a rather short playing time of 5 hours—like Limbo and you immediately forget all of those factors, because you are left stunned with the realization of how some…

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Ever forget a christmas or birthday present and then find yourself scrambling to find ways to send it as fast as possible to a near friend or family? Both governmental and independent post/delivery companies do not not offer any decent services for such emergencies. Now, a small amount of people calling themselves ‘Postmates’ have started off with this idea of shipping goods easily and quickly within a city – and they’re making good use of the iPhone for it. The project began a while ago in San Francisco. Just download the free iPhone app from iTunes, choose one of the…

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