How Lazy Are You At Work?

Whether you work in IT Support, you’re an Architect or a Lawyer, here is a look at how lazy we can be at work!

Create an iPhone App using HTML5

Alexander Kessinger has put together a rather handy guide on how to make your own iPhone App by writing it in HTML5 and saving as an icon on any iOS device.

You’ve been depressed for like a year now, I know. All the hardcore Objective-C developers have been having a hay-day writing apps for the iPhone. You might have even tried reading a tutorial or two about developing for the iPhone, but its C—or a form of it—and it’s really hard to learn.

I don’t want to say that you should give up on the objective: you can get it eventually. But in the meantime, there is something else that you can do.

You can create a native app that lives with all the other apps, and for the most part, it’s going to be a pitch-perfect imitation.

You can do this with the skill set you probably already have: HTML(5), CSS, and JavaScript.

I’ll show you how to create an offline HTML5 iPhone application. More specifically, I’ll walk you through the process of building a Tetris game.

Offline?

What am I talking about when I say “offline”? Well, it means that we have a custom icon, a custom startup screen, a native look-and-feel, and you can use the app even when the phone isn’t connected to the Internet.

The app should be as functional as it can when it is offline, just like normal native mobile apps.

This is a tutorial specifically for iPhones but most of these techniques apply to all phones that have HTML5-capable browsers.

You can read the full article here.

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Beautiful use of HTML5 – The Wilderness Downtown

So here’s something very cool.

The Wilderness Downtown

You’ll need Chrome to view it properly, but it is a very nice showcase of what HTML5 is capable of rendering.

They use choreographed windows, interactive flocking, and 3D canvas rendering to produce an amazing example of interactive web browsing.

From the localisation of Google Maps’ views to a very distinctive typeface that is partially user generated, it really showcases how much more interactive the web could become. It’s brilliant.

You can find more information out about it here.

But, I have to admit, I just spent ages just playing with the flocks of birds as they fled my mouse.

The Essence of the internet – really funny cats!

So after much office discussion regarding what we look at on the net, turns out the most popular topic is…funny cats!

No, you didn’t read incorrectly, I wrote cats and currently there is the noise of a very loud, crying (?) talking (?) cat coming from one of the office computers – we spend our time wisely you understand.

Apparently if you add the tags ‘cat’, ‘funny cat’, ‘talking cats’, and any other tag of this theme you can increase the web traffic to your site.  Now granted the web traffic may not actually always be that relevant but in the end isn’t all traffic to your site positive?

Now please don’t get me wrong, I do not suggest that you drop the word cat into your website 100 times in an attempt to get more internet users to accidently find your website, this is more just an interesting little fact…well fact-ish!

Now we’ve got you all intrigued, we wouldn’t forget to leave you with a little video to watch – our personal favourite!

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